• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.354-360
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• 1999

PCN-PZT piezoelectric acceleration sensors of annular shear mode voltage type were fabricated and their characteristics have been investigated. Field tests are also carried out. To avoid noise problems from the environmental conditions, acceleration sensors employed solid state micro-electronics for pre-amplifier. The calibration procedures based on the principle of the comparison method were adopted for investigating the characteristics of fabricated acceleration sensors. The voltage sensitivity and resonant frequency of fabricated acceleration sensors were 83mv/g, 23kHz, respectively. The lower and upper frequency limit were 4Hz and 9kHz, respectively. The variation of the voltage sensitivity showed 10% at $-406{\circ}C\; and\; 9%\; at\; 121^{\circ}C$ compared to that of reference temperature at $40^{\circ}C$.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.146-153
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• 2006

Acceleration sensors have widely been used in the various fields of industry. In recent years, micromachining accelerometers have been developed and commercialized by the micromachining technique or MEMS technique. Typical structure of such sensors consist of a cantilever beam and a vibrating mass fabricated on Si wafers using etching. This study investigates the feasibility of powder blasting technique for microfabrication of sensor structures made of the pyrex glass alternating the existing Si based acceleration sensor. First, as preliminary experiment, effect of blasting pressure, mass flow rate of abrasive and no. of nozzle scanning on erosion depth of pyrex and soda lime glass is studied. Then the optimal blasting conditions are chosen for pyrex sensor. Structure dimensions of designed glass sensor are 2.9mm and 0.7mm for the cantilever beam length and width and 1.7mm for the side of square mass. Mask material is from aluminium sheet of 0.5mm in thickness. Machining results showed that tolerance errors of basic dimensions of glass sensor ranged from 3um in minimum to 20um in maximum. This results imply the powder blasting can be applied for micromachining of glass acceleration sensors alternating the exiting Si based sensors.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.545-559
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• 2010

This paper presents the results of a pilot study and verification of a concept of a novel methodology for damage detection and assessment of water distribution system. The unique feature of the proposed noninvasive methodology is the use of accelerometers installed on the pipe surface, instead of pressure sensors that are traditionally installed invasively. Experimental observations show that a sharp change in pressure is always accompanied by a sharp change of pipe surface acceleration at the corresponding locations along the pipe length. Therefore, water pressure-monitoring can be transformed into acceleration-monitoring of the pipe surface. The latter is a significantly more economical alternative due to the use of less expensive sensors such as MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) or other acceleration sensors. In this scenario, monitoring is made for Maximum Pipe Acceleration Gradient (MPAG) rather than Maximum Water Head Gradient (MWHG). This paper presents the results of a small-scale laboratory experiment that serves as the proof of concept of the proposed technology. The ultimate goal of this study is to improve upon the existing SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) by integrating the proposed non-invasive monitoring techniques to ultimately develop the next generation SCADA system for water distribution systems.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.431-432
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• 2018

인간은 행동을 인식하는데 가속도 센서를 많이 사용해왔다. 관성력, 전기변형, 자이로의 응용 원리를 이용한 이 센서는 3차원 축에 인가되는 힘을 통해 간접적으로 움직임을 측정한다. 여기에는 같은 방법이라도 소지하는 센서의 위치에 따라서 다른 결과가 나올 수 있다. 대중적으로 많이 쓰이는 스마트폰에도 탑재되어 있는 이 센서는 오늘날 현대인들이 자주 사용하는 형태인 손에 들고 있거나 주머니에 넣은 상태에서 가속도 센서의 값을 측정했을 때 어떻게 다른지 비교하였다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.409-419
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• 2023

Tracking the motion of tennis balls is a challenging task in using cameras around the tennis court. The most important instance of the tennis trajectory is the time of impact and touch the court which in some cases could not be detected precisely. In the present study, we aim to present a novel design of tennis balls equipped with nano-sensors to detect the touch of the ball to the court. In the impact instance, tennis ball receives significant acceleration and change in the linear momentum. This large acceleration could deform a small-beam structure with piezoelectric layer to produce voltage. The voltage could further be utilized to produce infrared waves which could be easily detected by infrared detection sensors installed on the same video cameras or separately near the tennis court. Therefore, the exact time of the impact could be achieved with higher accuracy than image analyzing method. A detailed dynamical property of such sensors is discussed using nonlinear beam equations. The results show that within the acceleration range of tennis ball during an impact, the piezoelectric patches of the nano-sensors in the tennis ball could produce enough voltages to propagate infrared waves to be detected by infrared detectors.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2008

In this paper, a small and effective attitude estimation system for a humanoid robot was developed. Four small inertial sensors were packed and used for inertial measurements(3D accelerometer and three 1D gyroscopes.) An effective 3D pose estimation algorithm for low cost DSP using an extended Kalman filter was developed and evaluated. The 3D pose estimation algorithm has a very simple structure composed by 3 modules of a linear acceleration estimator, an external acceleration detector and an pseudo-accelerometer output estimator. The algorithm also has an effective switching structure based on probability and simple feedback loop for the extended Kalman filter. A special test equipment using linear motor for the testing of the 3D pose sensor was developed and the experimental results showed its very fast convergence to real values and effective responses. Popular DSP of TMS320F2812 was used to calculate robot's 3D attitude and translated acceleration, and the whole system were packed in a small size for humanoids robots. The output of the 3D sensors(pitch, roll, 3D linear acceleration, and 3D angular rate) can be transmitted to a humanoid robot at 200Hz frequency.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2008

The ARS(Attitude Reference System) calculates an attitude of a vehicle using inertial angular rate sensors and acceleration sensors. The attitude error of ARS increases due to the integration of angular rate sensor output. To reduce the attitude error an acceleration of sensor is used similar to leveling method of INS(Inertial Navigation System). When an acceleration of vehicle is increased, it is difficult to calculate the attitude error using acceleration sensor output. In this paper the estimation method of acceleration due to the attitude error only is proposed. Two methods of the attitude calculation depending on vehicle dynamics and the integration method of these two methods are proposed. To verify its performance the monte carlo simulation is performed and shows that it bounds attitude error of ARS to reasonable level.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2023

Organic ferroelectric material found vast application in a verity of engineering and health technology fields. In the present study, we investigated the application of the deformable organic ferroelectric in motion measurement and improving performance in tennis players. Flexible ferroelectric material P(VDF-TrFE) could be used in wearable motion sensors in tennis player transferring velocity and acceleration data to collecting devises for analyzing the best pose and movements in tennis players to achieve best performances in terms of hitting ball and movement across the tennis court. In doing so, ferroelectric-based wearable sensors are used in four different locations on the player body to analyze the movement and also a sensor on the tennis ball to record the velocity and acceleration. In addition, poses of tennis players were analyzed to find out the best pose to achieve best acceleration and movement. The results indicated that organic ferroelectric-based sensors could be used effectively in sensing motion of tennis player which could be utilized in the optimization of posing and ball hitting in the real games.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2020

한반도에서 점차 증가하는 지진으로 지진을 빠르고 정확하게 감지하기 위한 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 기상청에서 운영하는 기존 관측소는 설치와 운영에 많은 비용이 요구되어 오늘날 저가의 센서를 사용하여 지진을 감지하기 위한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 논문에서는 스마트폰에 설치된 저가의 MEMS 가속도 센서를 활용하여 지진 관측자료 생성 및 지진 감지 체계를 구축할 수 있는지에 대해 평가한다. 가속도 센서 분석을 위하여 국내의 여러 위치에 설치하여 가속도 데이터를 수집하였으며, PSD 계산을 통하여 각 센서의 바닥 잡음 수준을 파악한다. 분석 결과를 바탕으로 기존 MEMS 가속도 센서의 바닥 잡음 수준과 지진 감지를 위한 노이즈 모델과 비교하여 MEMS 센서가 감지할 수 있는 지진의 규모를 파악한다. 다양한 종류의 건물에 부착된 280 여 개의 가속도 센서 중 200 개의 센서로부터 데이터를 지난 수 개월 간 수집 하였으며 PSD 계산을 통하여 설치된 스마트폰의 MEMS 가속도 센서는 10Km 이내에서 발생하는 규모 3.5 이상의 지진을 관측 할 수 있음을 파악하였다. 지난 몇 개월간의 운영 기간 동안, 스마트폰 가속도 센서는 2019년, 12월 30일 밀양에서 발생한 규모 3.5의 지진을 기록하였으며 지진 감지 기법 중 하나인 STA/LTA 기법에 의해서 지진이 감지됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 제안하는 MEMS 가속도 센서를 사용한 지진 감지 체계는 점차 증가하는 지진을 더욱 빠르고 정확하게 감지할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.476-482
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• 2014

The stress analysis of the pipeline is required in any kind of plant for its safe operation. For this, the displacement vibration data measured at many locations of the pipeline should be provided. In reality, the installation of the non-contact type displacement sensors such as laser displacement sensors or eddy current type proximity sensors in a narrow and confined region in the vicinity of the pipeline is almost impracticable. In this work, the general purpose piezo-ceramic accelerometers were attached on the measuring points on the pipeline and the acceleration vibration signal was acquired. The measured acceleration signal was low pass filtered and then downsampled. The resulting acceleration signal was transformed into both the time-domain and frequency-domain displacement signal utilizing the fast Fourier transform techniques. All the procedures are presented in detail. It is demonstrated that the measurement of the pipeline acceleration by using contact type accelerometers can be made for the purpose of providing the required displacement data for the stress analysis of the pipeline.