• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.470-476
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• 2016

This paper proposes a practical algorithm for the reduction of measurement errors due to drift in a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) gyros that are used for a mobile robot. Any drift in a MEMS gyro will cause an unbounded growth of errors in the estimation of heading, which makes it nearly useless in applications that require high accuracy over a long operating time. In proposed method, maneuvers of a cleaning robot are observed through encoders' measurement process and a decision to correct bias drift will be made if necessary. The method used in this paper is called the "heading estimation filter". To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method, a comparison was made between the estimation of the heading of the cleaning robot and one from a motion capture system.

• Product Safety
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• s.246
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• pp.44-47
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• 2014

(주)대신전기산업은 인천광역시 남동구 간석동에 위치한 주방기구 전문제조업체로써 최신형 NCT 등 장비를 보유하고 자외선 살균소독기를 비롯하여 전기식소독고, 전기온장고, 전기튀김기, 칼도마소독기, 피자오븐, 장화건조기, 핫바, 식판 및 접시건조기, 장갑소독기, 우|생복건조기, 행주건조기, 수저소독고, 청소도구함 등을 생산 판매하고 있으며 제약회사와 음료회사에 쌍화탕 등 건강음료 보관 온장고를 납품하여 좋은 반응을 얻고 있다. 또한, 전 품목을 소비자가 원하는 대로 주문생산도 가능하며, 소비자의 불편을 최대한 해소하기 위하여 부산, 대구, 광주, 제주에 지사 겸 대리점을 두어 A/S를 신속히 처리하기 위해 노력하고 있다. 이번 제품안전 6월호에서는 전 직원이 한 마음으로 품질개발과 신제품개발에 노력을 다하여 주방의 위생과 환경 개선에 최선을 다하고 있는 (주)대신전기산업을 방문해 보았다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.228-230
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• 2019

일상생활에서 빈번히 사용되는 주변 생활 제품은 기술의 급속한 발전과 더불어 지능화 정도가 가속화 되고 있는 추세에 있다. 일반적으로 LED 조명이나 실내 에어컨을 자동으로 조정하거나 자동청소로봇 등은 이미 일반화된 제품들이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 우리 생활에서 가장 필요한 용품인 거울에 대한 지능적인 제품은 비교적 고가이어서 소비자가 쉽게 접근하기 어려운 생활용품이 되고 있어서 지능화 제품의 보급이 더딘편이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Raspberry Pi 3B+ 를 기반으로 하여 음성제어가 가능한 스마트 미러를 설계하고 구현하였다. 이를 위하여 저렴한 raspberry pi의 WiFi를 통해 네트워크에 연결하도록 하여 미러가 시간, 날씨 및 뉴스 정보 기능을 자동으로 업데이트 할 수 있도록 하였고 기상 조건, 사전 시간 또는 음악 재생과 같은 음성 제어가 가능하기 위하도록 Google Asistant 음성 인터페이스를 적용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 제품이 실용화될 경우 저가이면서 고기능 사양을 제공하고 있어서 스마트 미러 보급에 많은 기여가 예산된다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.357-366
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• 1993

Background: Lung clearance of inhaled $^{99m}Tc$-DTPA reflects alveolar epithelial permeability and it had been reported as more sensitive than conventional pulmonary function tests in detecting lung epithelial damage. However, measuring lung clearance of inhaled $^{99m}Tc$-DTPA by gamma camera may not always reflect alveolar epithelial permeability exactly because it is influenced by mucociliary clearance depending on the site of particle deposition. Moreover, this method takes much time and patient's effort because he has to sit or lie still in front of the camera for a prolonged period. Most of the absorbed DTPA is excreted in urine within 24 hours and the amount of excreted DTPA in urine during the first few hours after inhalation is influenced by absorption rate which is correlated with the alveolar-epithelial permeability suggesting that the urinary excretion, especially in first few hours, may be an alternate index for lung clearance. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of ratio of excreted $^{99m}Tc$-DTPA in 2 hour and 24 hour urine as an index of alveolar-epithelial damage. Methods: Pulmonary function tests including diffusing capacity and lung clearance of $^{99m}Tc$-DTPA measured by gama camera ($T_{1/2}$) and 2hr/24hr urine excretion ratio (Ratio) of inhaled $^{99m}Tc$-DTPA in 8 normal subjects and 14 patients with diffuse interstitial lung disease were compared. Results: 1) In the normal control, there was significant negative correlation between the $T_{1/2}$ and the Ratio (r=-0.77, p<0.05). In patients with diffuse interstitial lung disease, there also was significant negative correlation between $T_{1/2}$ and Ratio(r=-0.63, p<0.05). 2) In diffuse interstitial lung disease patients, the $T_{1/2}$ was $38.65{\pm}11.63$ min which was significantly lower than that of normal control, $55.53{\pm}11.15$ min and the Ratio was $52.15{\pm}10.07%$ also signifantly higher than that of the normal control, $40.43{\pm}5.53%$ (p<0.05). 3) There was no significant correlations between $T_{1/2}$ or Ratio and diffusing capactiy of lung in both patients and controls (p>0.05). Conclusion: These results suggests that 2hr/24hr urine excretion ratio of inhaled $^{99m}Tc$-DTPA is a useful simple bedside test in assessing alveolar epithelial permeability and that it may be used as an additive follow-up test in patients with diffuse interstitial lung disease complementing conventional pulmonary function tests.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.165-181
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• 2011

In 2005, Yuhan Kimberly found interesting points in the existing customers' U&A survey on the kitchen towel. The usage of Korean consumers is usually restricted to getting rid of the oil from the fans and the fried food. This usage limits could be the barrier to the diffusion of kitchen towel. Although consumers were worried about the hygiene situations about the dishcloth, they also percieved that the existing paper kitchen towels were short of something to soothe their inconveniences. As a result, the company made a decision to seek out the solution for the consumers' worries. The relative shortage of the paper kitchen towel compared to that of the unhygienic and inconvenient dishcloth was its lack of water-endurance. The dishcloth could be reliable in the wet environment which is very common in Korean kitchen, whereas the paper kitchen towel was perceived as very weak and unreliable in removing water form the dishes and the sink. To overcome the common sense of the consumers, it is important to shift the consumers' perception of the kitchen towel category. It is needed to expand the usage time from one time to several times in a day. So it is needed to redesign the customers' kitchen life. The company adopted the brand "Scott^®" to meet the global brand strategy of the parent company, Kimberley Clark. This brand was also adopted and made a succesful launch of the similar product lines in Latin America. Furthermore, to make an emphasis on the differentiation from the existing paper kitchen towels, the company made the slogan, "Scott^® washable kitchen towel." This slogan was designed to expand the familiar product image of convenient paper towels to water-resistance. As a result, consumers show the changes in usage behavior of paper towels and apply them for more various purposes such as cleaning the decks and tables. This change results in the rapid sales increase of "Scott^® washable kitchen towel."

• Archives of design research
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• v.18 no.3 s.61
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• pp.219-222
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• 2005

This study is for the design developement of wall mount air purification device used for pleasant and clean resident environment. As more people have the high standard of living, they are interested in the air quality of indoor environment, since it is believed its relationship with human health. Now the social demand of air purifier is increasing. Its market is growing and there are various design products in the market. However, dominant current products are floor-based standing type, it needs much spaces to install for the air inhalation and exhaust. Therefore, this product provides the space-saved design. Its concept comes from existing wall mount type air conditioners. The effect of wall decoration is another merit of this proposal. It has an easy filtering change and cleaning system and a simple operation of multiple functions. This product also has the perfect-matched slim design that is consist of natural curves with rectangle for any indoor spaces.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1-8
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• 2018

This paper describes new communication methods for transmitting torque commands between the vehicle controller that determines the amount of power generation in a range-extended electric vehicle and the engine controller that performs it. Generally, vehicles use CAN communication, but in this case, the hardware and software of the existing engine controller must be modified. For this reason, it is not easy to apply CAN communication to small and medium sized automotive reorganize companies. Therefore, this research presents a pin-pin communication method for applying the existing mass produced engine controller to range-extended electric vehicles. The pin-pin communication method converts the driver's demand torque control map inside an mass produced engine controller into a virtual accelerator opening position according to the target speed and target torque of the engine, and converts this to a voltage signal for the existing mass produced engine controller to recognize it. The virtual accelerator opening positions are mounted in the form of a control map in the vehicle controller through the reverse conversion process in an offline environment and are determined by the engine generating power requirements and engine optimal operating point algorithm. These algorithms and signal conversion circuits for engine torque transmission have been mounted on the vehicle controller to conduct the virtual accelerator opening position conversion process according to the engine target torque and to establish the virtual accelerator voltage signal using the signal converter.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.25-31
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• 2009

In this paper, the implementation of a production control system based on RFID has been studied in order to obtain an exact Cost Center data such as the name of workers included a process of work and a time period to finish the process. The cost center of a worker will be correctly obtained by checking the work time using RFID tag data and by transmitting the data to a server of ERP or POP system. And also warming up time, cleaning time, power failure, and out of order sign will be checked and calculated using the data stored in RFID tags attached in workers and machine facilities. Therefore, exact Cost Center data will be obtained by the production control system with touch screens entering the data according to the situation in real time.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.113-124
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• 1982

We have investited on the efficiency of the electric vacuum cleaners for household use. On this experiment, we have used the Expired Gas Analyer IHO6(SAN-EI, K.K) to get energy expenditure of house cleaning. The testing items are, (1) The difference of energy expenditure of cleaning for the each types of the test floors: Which are P-tile, Tatami, and 4 kinds of carpets. (2) The energy expenditure of cleaning for the room with a given quantity of furnitures: The volumes of furnitures are 0, 3, 10, 20% of the room with 2 kinds of chair. The results of the experiments are as follows. 1. The energy expenditure of cleaning for the types of test floors: Setting the energy expenditure on the basis of P-tile, Tatami needs 20~24% energy expenditure than P-tile, and carpet needs 60~64% energy expenditure than P-tile. 2. Cleaning time: The more the room has many furnitures, the more it takes longer. The types of vacuum cleaners, the Shoulder-type cleaner needs 1.19 times of the Upright-type, and the Cylender-type needs 1.08 times of the Upright-type. 3. The energy expenditure of cleaning for a given quantity of furnitures: The more the rooms has many furnitures, the more the energy expenditure increase. A 10% (20%) increases in the volume of the furniture causes a 100% (200%) increases in the energy expenditure of vacuum cleaners.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.56-62
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• 2019

This paper suggests the necessity of design education to engineering majors through qualitative research on the characteristics of intelligent artifacts. Robot cleaner is one of intelligent artificial objects that can approach people's life without awkwardness. How do people think of robot cleaners and define their personality, these days? In this experiment, subjects use and observe four different robot cleaners that have different appearances, behaviors and sounds in an experimental setup where is similar to actual use environment. We measure subjects' preferences and assessments for four different robot cleaners' personality. The test subjects were 11 designers who frequently collaborated with engineers and were able to express and express opinions about products. Experimental results showed that robot cleaners with the highest scores in appearance, behavior, and sound had the highest preference. In contrast, robot cleaners with low scores in three factors showed different results in the preference ranking.