• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.547-553
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• 1999

A new multi-step voltage source inverter is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme is composed of t the double-connected 12-step inverter with an auxiliary circuit. The auxiliary circuit includes two voltage d dividing capacitors, two switching devices and a low KV A autotransformer. The resultant system is shown to b be a 24-step inverter suitable for medium power level SVC applications in which the PWM method can not be e employed. A 36-step operation can also be 이)tained by the addition of a bidirectional switch to the ProlXlsed I inverter. The design parameters are derived from the analysis of voltages and currents by means of switching f functions. The validity of the proposed scheme is confirmed by the simulated and experimental results.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.69-76
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• 2015

Although traffic information has been actively analyzed using big data, it has not been used as much with the consideration of driver characteristics. Among the various types of information, road signs can directly affect the driver. Road signs must provide the optimal information that enables drivers to reach their destinations with ease as well as information suitable for navigation systems. However, present road sign rules provide standardized information, regardless of the road type or size. This study suggests a method for providing road information that will help drivers determine their behavior. First, the minimum character size that can be used on a road sign for each design speed was obtained with respect to the visibility and decipherability of a road sign. Instead of conventional diagram-based direction guidance, a scenario using split-based direction guidance was created. To verify the effectiveness of the provided information, a three-dimensional simulated road environment was constructed, and a driving simulator was used for the test. At a simple plane intersection, the driver was not greatly influenced by directional guidance, but at a complex, three-dimensional intersection, the driver preferred summary-based directional guidance, which is instinctive guidance, over diagram-based guidance. On the basis of the test results, a secondary verification test that applied split-based guidance at a three-dimensional intersection confirmed that the driver had no problems in making decisions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.8A
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• pp.1126-1132
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• 1999

In this paper, we consider the superposed 16-QAM CDMA system for subband coded (SBC) image transmissions. We divide the SBC image bit into two group according to its significance. First, we investigate the average bit error rate (BER) of the overall system when the significance of bits is ignored. Next, we investigate the optimal signal constellation and processing gain that maximizes the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of SBC image, subject to a fixed power and bandwidth constraint. We examine the performance improvement over the conventional equal distane, equal processing gain system, and the equal error protection (EEP) system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.548-553
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• 2004

In this paper we propose modified LBG algorithm to minimize quantization errors. When we apply conventional LBG algorithm for speaker verification system, problems that result from small amount of training data can be generated. That is, quantization error comes from fixed-sized codebook without any consideration for speaker characteristics and splitting vector in the wrong direction worsen performance of speaker verification system. So, we propose modified clustering method that has variable sized codebook according to speaker characteristics and makes right splitting direction by finding the farthest member away from mean and then find another member from the member. Simulation results show effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.215-221
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• 2012

In this paper, we introduce an optimization method to improve pursuit performance of a pursuer in a pursuit-evasion game (PEG). Pursuers build a probability map and employ a hybrid pursuit policy which combines the merits of local-max and global-max pursuit policies to search and capture evaders as soon as possible in a 2-dimensional space. We propose an episodic parameter optimization (EPO) algorithm to learn good values for the weighting parameters of a hybrid pursuit policy. The EPO algorithm is performed while many episodes of the PEG are run repeatedly and the reward of each episode is accumulated using reinforcement learning, and the candidate weighting parameter is selected in a way that maximizes the total averaged reward by using the golden section search method. We found the best pursuit policy in various situations which are the different number of evaders and the different size of spaces and analyzed results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.33-39
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• 2019

The improvement of emissions, fuel economy, and combustion noise is a primary target in the development of heavy-duty diesel engines. Multiple injection has been introduced as one of the most promising strategies for this goal. In this research, various multiple injection methods were applied to achieve the optimal strategy in terms of emissions, fuel economy, and combustion noise. In the case of one pilot injection, the smoke emission deteriorated, while the NOx emission was reduced. In the case of 2 pilot injections, the NOx and smoke emissions were reduced by 73% and 84%, respectively. In this case, the combustion noise was analyzed with the maximum pressure-rise rate, and the fuel economy was evaluated with the help of the indicated specific fuel consumption. A 15%:15% 2-pilot injection strategy accomplished improvements of 32.9% for NOx, 60.4% for smoke, 1.95% for fuel consumption, and 19.4% for combustion noise compared to the case of single injection. Based on the data, an optimal injection strategy will be developed for a greater operating range in future work.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.9A
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• pp.712-718
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• 2009

This paper proposes the optimal transmission parameter selection method for an energy efficient Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) system which is applicable to the Maritime Telematics targeting for various ship models. Since the transmission parameter selection is an important factor for WPAN system to decide its energy efficiency, we propose an energy consumption model for ship area network (SAN) employing IEEE 802.15.3 based TDMA HR-WPAN model and analyzes the effect of transmission parameter selection on the performance of energy consumption. In particular, the main performance decision parameter of the SAN applying HR-WPAN is path loss, since it is very varied according to the material of shipbuilding such as steel (large ship), FRP (medium size ship) and compound wood (small ship). Thus, we analyzed and demonstrated that the proper transmission parameter selection among transmit power, PHY data rate and fragment size for each ship model guarantee the energy efficiency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10A
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• pp.769-775
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• 2009

This paper proposes the optimal transmission parameter selection method for an energy efficient Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) system which is applicable to the Maritime Telematics targeting for various ship models. Since the transmission parameter selection is an important factor for WPAN system to decide its energy efficiency, we propose an energy consumption model for ship area network (SAN) employing IEEE 802.15.3 based TDMA HR-WPAN model and analyzes the effect of transmission parameter selection on the performance of energy consumption. In particular, the main performance decision parameter of the SAN applying HR-WPAN is path loss, since it is very varied according to the material of shipbuilding such as steel (large ship), FRP (medium size ship) and compound wood (small ship). Thus, we analyzed and demonstrated that the proper transmission parameter selection among transmit power, PHY data rate and fragment size for each ship model guarantee the energy efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.64-70
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• 2003

Current growth of VLSI design depends critically on the research and development (If automatic layout tool. Automatic layout is composed of placement assigning a specific shape to a block and arranging the block on the layout surface and routing finding the interconnection of all the nets. Algorithms Performing placement and routing impact on Performance and area of VLSI design. Channel routing is a problem assigning each net to a track after global routing and minimizing the track that assigned each net. In this paper we propose a genetic algorithm searching solution space for the netlist partitioning problem for 4-layer channel routing. We compare the performance of proposed genetic algorithm(GA) for channel routing with that of simulated annealing(SA) algorithm by analyzing the results which are the solution of given problems. Consequently experimental results show that out proposed algorithm reduce area over the SA algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.64-73
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• 2011

The problem of Euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMST) is to connect given nodes in a plane with minimum cost. There are many algorithms for the polynomial time problem as EMST. However, for numerous nodes, the algorithms consume an enormous amount of time to find an optimal solution. In this paper, an approximation scheme using a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) algorithm with dividing and parallel processing for the problem is suggested. This scheme enables to construct a large, approximate EMST within a short duration. Although initially devised for the non-polynomial problem, we employ naive PTAS to construct a vast EMST with dynamic programming. In an experiment, the approximate EMST constructed by the proposed scheme with 15,000 input terminal nodes and 16 partition cells shows 89% and 99% saving in execution time for the serial processing and parallel processing methods, respectively. Therefore, our scheme can be applied to obtain an approximate EMST quickly for numerous input terminal nodes.