• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2017

Heartworm disease (HWD) in dogs is a life-threatening mosquito-borne disease resulting in right-sided congestive heart failure and inflammatory pulmonary disease. Due to complications from adulticidal therapy with melarsomine, slow kill protocol either with preventive dose of ivermectin or combined with doxycycline has been proposed for an alternative adultcidal therapy in dogs with HWD. Therefore, this study evaluated the clinical outcome of adultcidal therapy in dogs with class II stage of HWD after treating either American Heartworm Society (AHS) or slow kill protocol for 10 months. Clinical outcome after therapy was evaluated by clinical, radiographic and echocardiographic examination along with hematology before (D0) and after therapy (D300). Although clinical signs associated with HWD were all resolved after therapy in both groups, the infection was not cleared out 67% of dogs treated by slow kill protocol at the end of therapy. Furthermore, pulmonary arterial flow of acceleration time to ejection time ratio (AT/ET) and the right pulmonary artery distensibility index (RPADI) have been firstly used for detecting pulmonary hypertension in this study group. The pulmonary hypertension was more common in dogs with mild clinical signs, although tricuspid and pulmonary regurgitation were not detectable in most dogs in this study. Our study findings suggested that the slow kill protocol might not be efficacious enough to clear out HWD in dogs and more attention on the presence of pulmonary hypertension might be necessary for effective management of HWD in dogs.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.34-44
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• 1996

IVHS(Intelligent Vehicle Highway System)는 현재 개별적으로 움직이는 차량들을 도로의 상황과 연계하여 종합적으로 통제하는 시스템으로서 차세대 차량 주행기술의 핵심이 될것으로 믿고 있다. IVHS는 운행중인 차량 또는 차량군의 위치, 속도, 목표점 등과 도로의 상황, 교통상태 등의 정보를 수집하고 필요한 조치를 실시간으로 시행하기 위하여 GPS(Global Positioning System), 차량-차량간, 차량-중앙 통제소간 또는 차량-도로간 센싱 및 송수신 기술을 필연적으로 활용하여야 한다. 이를 위하여 자동차 선진국들은 막대한 비용과 시설 투자를 하고 있으며, 실용성 검토를 위하여 1997년경에는 미국서부에 시험용 자동화 고속도로(AHS) 도로 건설도 계획중이다. 그러나 IVHS를 추구함에 있어서 중요한 사실은 완전 자동화된 고속도로 시스템을 구축하기까지 기술적으로, 사회적으로, 문화적으로 해결해야 될 많은 문제점들이 남아 있고 이들의 현실화까지는 수십 년이 소요될 지도 모른다는 것이다. 본 기고에서는 우선 IVHS 연구에 대한 포괄적인 설명에 이어서 단기간의 연구를 통해 부분적으로 상품화되고 있거나 될 수 있는 기술들을 몇가지 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.38-47
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• 2014

This paper describes the application of discrete event systems theory to the design of an automated laboratory system. Current automated laboratory systems typically consist of several interacting processes that must be carefully sequenced to avoid any possible process conflicts. Discrete Event Systems (DES) theory and Supervisory Control Theory (SCT) can be applied together as effective methods of modeling the system dynamics and designing supervisory controllers to precisely sequence the many processes that such systems might involve. Classical approaches to supervisory controller design tend to result in complex controller structures that are difficult to implement, maintain, and upgrade. In this paper, a new approach to designing supervisory controllers for automated laboratory systems is introduced. This new approach uses a modular controller structure that is easier to implement, maintain, and upgrade, and deals with "state explosion" issues in a novel and efficient way.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.77-87
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• 1997

This paper describes the developement of a Design Issue Management System (DIMS). Although human factors engineering has been recognized as one of the critical activities in the design of man-machine system, it has been hardly successful nor effective in practice to cope with the hyman factors requirements by regulations. For supporting the human factors engineering in nuclear power plants, DIMS ahs three major modules : Design Requirements Data Base, Design Issue Tracking System, Issue Evaluation Support System. These modules function as formal verification architects that the licensing authority requests for verifying the safety of the equip- ment and facilities in nuclear power plants. An example application to an operator support system, named Critical Function Monitoring System, during its independent review of the human factors shows the usage and the benefit of DIMS.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.518-521
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• 1998

This paper describes a 3.3V-65MHz 12BIT CMOS current-mode DAC designed with a 8 MSB current matirx stage and a 4 LSB binary weighting stage. The linearity errors caused by a voltage drop of the ground line and a threshold voltage mismatch of transistors have been reduced by the symmetrical routing method with ground line and the tree structure bias circuit, respectively. In order to realize a low glitch energy, a cascode current switch ahs been employed. The simulation results of the designed DAC show a coversion rate of 65MHz, a powr dissipation of 71.7mW, a DNL of .+-.0.2LSB and an INL of .+-.0.8LSB with a single powr supply of 3.3V for a CMOS 0.6.mu.m n-well technology.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.160.4-160
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• 2001

Many physical systems today are modeled by interacting continuous and discrete states that influence the dynamic behavior. Hybrid system models, suitable for describing the essential dynamics of a fairly large class of physical systems in control engineering applications, contain both continuous dynamics and discrete dynamics. We discuss the design of efficient hybrid controllers for the platoon maneuvers on an AHS. For the modeling of a hybrid system including the merge and split operations, we introduce the safety distance policy for the merge and split operations. Then, the platoon system will be modeled by a hybrid system. In addition, the hybrid controller for the proposed merge and split operation models will be presented. Finally, we will demonstrate our scenarios ...

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.4
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• pp.18-23
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• 1998

Approximations inherent in the Cohn synthesis theory, which is generally perferree as a convinient design technique for direct-couple waveguide filter, results in considerable devications from the required responses as the design bandwidth increases. In this paper, two main deviations likely to occur in practice are examined using the mode-matching technique. They are a shift in couoff frquencies and large return loss occuring near coutoff frequencyles. Using the power loss ratio, the first effect is corrected to the resulant filter structure from cohn synthesis. In order to show the validity of the intorduced approackes. Ka-band waveguide filter ahs been designed and manufactored. The experimental curve follow the expected curves after corrections fairly closly.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.181-184
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• 1999

Leading vehicle states are useful and essential elements in adaptive cruise control (ACC) system, collision warning (CW) and collision avoidance (CA) system, and automated highway system (AHS). There are many approaches in ACC using Kalman filter. Mostly only distance to leading vehicle and velocity difference are estimated and used for the above systems. Applications in road vehicle in curved road need to obtain more informations such as yaw angle, steering angle which can be estimated using vision system. Since vision system is not robust to environment change, we used Kalman filter to estimate distance, velocity, yaw angle, and steering angle. Application to active tracking of target vehicle is shown.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.112-112
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• 2000

The aim of this paper is to design a two degree-of-freedom H$_{\infty}$ controller for lateral control of the vehicle. The object of this controller is to track the centerline of the reference lane. The controller is splited into two parts, feedback and prefilter. The feedback part is for both robust stability and disturbance attenuation, while the prefilter is for improving the robust tracking properties of closed loop system. This paper is consist of preface, background theory, dynamics of vehicle, controller design and computer simulation.ter simulation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.240-248
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• 1999

This paper presents a lane-change collision avoidance control algorithm for autonomous vehicles that will be used in AHS(Automated Highway System). In the proposed control algorithm, nominal control inputs are generated by solving the inverse vehicle dynamic equations of motion for a lane-change maneuver. In addition, a corrective steering input from preview as well as DYC (Direct Yaw Moment Control) may be included to reduce unpredictable errors and to insure yaw directional stability, respectively. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated with an ABS HILS system which consist of 17 DOF vehicle model and real ABS hardware parts. The HILS simulation results show that the proposed algorithm may be used for emergency lane-change maneuvers for autonomous vehicles.