• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.49-54
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• 2016

The large scaled lead-acid battery is widely used for efficient operation of the photovoltaic system in many islands. However, lithium-ion battery is now being introduced to mitigate the fluctuation of wind power and to replace lead-acid battery. Therefore, hybrid ESS (Energy Storage system) that combines lithium-ion battery with lead-acid battery is being required because lithium-ion battery is costly in present stage. Under this circumstance, this paper presents the optimal algorithm to create composition rate of hybrid ESS by considering fixed and variable costs in order to maximize advantage of each battery. With minimization of total cost including fixed and variable costs, the optimal composition rate can be calculated based on the various scenarios such as load variation, life cycle and cost trend. From simulation results, it is confirmed that the proposed algorithms are an effective tool to produce a optimal composition rate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 1999

Rectangular waveguide slot antenna which has simple structure, high efficiency, high trust and small size, is extending in a field of application such as many Radar and Microwave communication. A slot cut into a wall of waveguide is propagated electromagnetic wave to free space it interrtupts the flow of current inner conductor of waveguide. Therefore incident of slot, cutdepth, width, length, i.e. are important parameter of characteristic change of the slot antenna. Result from difficulty of theoretical analysis about slot frequently experimental measured data useful design and manufacture have been accomplished. In this paper, we find the suitable method of analysis that compare two analysis results with measured result of established literature - admittance of slot be solved by propagated power from electric field distribution of slot and mode current computation and accomplishment of computable chart which hasresonant length and cutdepth, incident of slot, i.e. and use the HFSS which applyed finite-element method obtain equal slot analyed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.5B
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• pp.326-333
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• 2008

In wireless sensor networks, a sensor node with in-network aggregation adjusts the timeout which is a waiting time to receive messages from child nodes. This paper proposes a novel timeout scheduling scheme for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks, which adaptively configures its timeout according to changing data patterns in order to improve energy efficiency and data accuracy during data aggregation. The proposed scheme decreases the timeout when the temporal difference of collected data(data variation) from children is lower than a pre-defined threshold because there is no occurrence of critical events. Conversely, it increases the timeout when the data variation is higher than the pre-defined threshold in order to fulfill more accurate data aggregation. Extensive simulation reveals that the proposed scheme outperforms the cascading-based scheme in terms of energy consumption and data accuracy.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1081-1085
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• 2010

In the wireless sensor networks, power consumption and interference among the nodes can be reduced by using the transmission power control. Because link quality is changed by spatial and temporal effect, link failures are frequently occurred. In order to adapt to link quality variation, existing transmission power control schemes broadcast beacon messages periodically to neighbor nodes and control the transmission power dynamically. However, it can effect on the time and energy overhead according to period of transmission power control. In this paper, the dynamic method of transmission power control by the link quality variation and variable period are proposed. When a link quality is unstable, the control duty cycle is reduced and the link quality is agilely maintained. In contrast, when link quality is stable, the control period is increased and control overhead is decreased.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2011

In this paper, we develop a speaker gender classification technique using collaborative sensor fusion for use in a wireless sensor network. The distributed sensor nodes remove the unwanted input data using the BER(Band Energy Ration) based voice activity detection, process only the relevant data, and transmit the hard labeled decisions to the fusion center where a global decision fusion is carried out. This takes advantages of power consumption and network resource management. The Bayesian sensor fusion and the global weighting decision fusion methods are proposed to achieve the gender classification. As the number of the sensor nodes varies, the Bayesian sensor fusion yields the best classification accuracy using the optimal operating points of the ROC(Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves_ For the weights used in the global decision fusion, the BER and MCL(Mutual Confidence Level) are employed to effectively combined at the fusion center. The simulation results show that as the number of the sensor nodes increases, the classification accuracy was even more improved in the low SNR(Signal to Noise Ration) condition.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.62-62
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• 2018

무선영상취득시스템(WIA 시스템, Wireless Image Acquisition System)은 라즈베리 파이에 전용 카메라와 WiFi 모듈을 장착하여, 하천의 영상을 실시간으로 촬영하여 무선으로 서버로 전송하는 시스템이다. 이 시스템이 갖는 가장 큰 이점은 시스템을 구성하는 비용이 매우 저렴하다는 점이다. 라즈베리 본체와 카메라 모듈, WiFi 모듈 모두 매우 저렴하고, 또 사용하는 전력이 작아서 상용 전원이 아닌 태양광 발전이나 배터리 등을 이용할 수 있다. 따라서 비용과 장소에 구애받지 않고 손쉽게 어디든지 설치하여 하천의 상시 감시나 계측에 활용할 수 있다. 또한, 상용 전원을 이용하지 않아도 되기 때문에, 산간벽지나 오지 등의 소하천 관리에도 적합하다. 본 연구에서는 이 WIA 시스템을 경상남도 김해시의 대청천에 적용하여 홍수 시 하천의 수표면을 촬영하고, 촬영된 동영상을 분석하여 수위와 유속을 동시에 계측하여 유량을 산정하였다. 라즈베리 파이에 $640{\times}480$ 화소의 카메라를 장착하여 10분 간격으로 10초간의 동영상을 촬영하고, 이를 WiFi 모듈을 이용하여 무선으로 서버로 전송한다. 전송된 동영상을 분석하기 전에 설치 지점의 3차원 좌표 변환 자료와 횡단면 좌표를 입력하여 대상 지점의 측정 매개변수를 설정한다. 즉, 이들 자료에서 영상 내의 표정점과 측정선을 설정해 둔다. 그 다음, 전송된 동영상을 시공간 영상으로 만들어 수위를 분석한다. 비슷한 방법으로 동영상에서 유속을 분석하고, 분석된 수위와 유속, 그리고 미리 설정된 횡단면 좌표를 이용하여 유량을 산정해 낸다. 설치된 WIA 시스템을 실제로 운용하여, 2017년 9월 11일의 06:10~19:00의 호우 사상 전체를 분석하였다. 10분 간격으로 촬영된 10초간 동영상 중에서 적절한 분석이 가능한 영상 77개에서 수위와 유속을 분석한 결과, 최대 수위는 0.746 m(간이수위표 기준), 최대 유속은 0.962 m/s, 최대 유량은 $12.977m^3/s$에 이르렀다. 지점 특성상 다른 유속계를 이용한 검증은 사실상 불가능하였다. 또, 하폭이 넓어서 일출 전과 일몰 후의 촬영 자료는 분석이 어려운 점이 있다. 이러한 기술적 문제들을 보완하면, WIA 시스템을 이용한 소하천의 수위와 유속 측정 시스템은 경제성이고 효율이 높은 관측시스템으로 유망할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.51-59
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• 2020

In the case of cubesat, a PCB-based deployable solar panel advantageous in terms of weight reduction and electrical circuit design is widely used considering the limited weight and volume of satellites. However, because of the low thermal conductivity of PCB, there is a limit relative to heat dissipation. In this paper, the thermal gap pad is applied to the contact between the PCB-based solar panel and the aluminum stiffener mounted on the outside of the panel. Thus, the heat transfer from the solar cell to the rear side of the panel is facilitated. It maximizes the heat dissipation performance while maintaining the merits of PCB panel, and thus, it is possible to improve the power generation efficiency from reducing the temperature of the solar cell. The effectiveness of the thermal design of the 6U cubesat's deployable solar panel using the thermal gap pad has been verified through on-orbit thermal analysis based on the results, compared with the conventional PCB-based solar panel.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.59-66
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• 2011

Lifeline Damages induced by earthquake loading brings not only a structure damage but the communication problems by the interruption of various energy utilities such as electric power, gas, and water resources. Earthquake loss estimation systems in USA and Japan, called as HAZUS (Hazard in US) and HERAS (Hazards Estimation and Restoration Aid System), respectively, have been established for the purpose of efficient responding to the earthquake hazard. Sufficient damage records are required to establish these systems. However, there are insufficient data set of damage records obtained from previous earthquakes in Korea. In this study, according to the construction specifications of the pipelines in both Korea and USA, the behavior of both ductile and brittle pipelines embedded in dense sand overlying various soils, such as clay, sand, and gravel were examined with respect to the pipeline characteristics under various earthquake loadings. The applicability of pipeline damage prediction used in HAZUS program to Korea has been investigated.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.565-573
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• 2019

An optimization model of water intake planning is developed based on a linear programming (LP) for the intelligent water purification plant operation system. The proposed optimization model minimizes the water treatment costs of raw water purification by considering a time-delay of treatment process and hourly electricity tariff, which is subject to various operation constraints, such as water intake limit, storage tank capacity, and water demand forecasts. For demonstration, the developed model is applied to H water purification center. Here, we have tested three optimization strategies and the results are compared and analyzed in economic and safety aspects. The optimization model is expected to be used as a decision support tool for optimal water intake scheduling of domestic water purification centers.

• Composites Research
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.412-420
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• 2018

In this work, phenolic resins containing conductive carbon fillers, such as, petroleum coke, carbon black, and graphite, were used to improve the surface heating elements by impregnating a pitch-based carbon paper. The influence of conductive carbon fillers on physicochemical properties of the carbon paper was investigated through electrical resistance measurement and thermal analysis. As a result, the surface resistance and interfacial contact resistivity of the carbon paper were decreased linearly by impregnating the carbon fillers with phenol resins. The increase of carbon filler contents led to the improvement of electrical and thermal conductivity of the carbon paper. Also, the heating characteristics of the surface heating element were examined through the applied voltage of 1~5 V. With the applied voltage, it was confirmed that the surface heating element exhibited a maximum heating characteristic of about $125.01^{\circ}C$(5 V). These results were attributed to the formation of electrical networks by filled micropore between the carbon fibers, which led to the improvement of electrical and thermal properties of the carbon paper.