• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.37-52
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• 2019

Despite its success and wide application, base isolation system has been challenged for its passive nature, i.e., incapable of working with versatile external loadings. This is particularly exaggerated during near-source earthquakes and earthquakes with dominate low-frequency components. To address this issue, many efforts have been explored, including active base isolation system and hybrid base isolation system (with added controllable damping). Active base isolation system requires extra energy input which is not economical and the power supply may not be available during earthquakes. Although with tunable energy dissipation ability, hybrid base isolation systems are not able to alter its fundamental natural frequency to cope with varying external loadings. This paper reports an overview of new adventure with aim to develop adaptive base isolation system with controllable stiffness (thus adaptive natural frequency). With assistance of the feedback control system and the use of smart material technology, the proposed smart base isolation system is able to realize real-time decoupling of external loading and hence provides effective seismic protection against different types of earthquakes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.280-294
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• 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and millimeter-wave frequencies play key roles in supporting 5G wireless communication systems. They expand the field of wireless communication by increasing the data capacities of communication systems and supporting high data rates. However, short wavelengths, owing to the high millimeter-wave frequencies can cause problems, such as signal attenuation and path loss. To address these limitations, research on high directional beamforming technologies continue to garner interest. Furthermore, owing to the mobility of the UAVs, it is essential to track the beam angle accurately to obtain full beamforming gain. This study presents a beam tracking method based on the unscented Kalman filter using hybrid beamforming. The simulation results reveal that the proposed beam tracking scheme improves the overall performance in terms of the mean-squared error and spectral efficiency. In addition, by expanding analog beamforming to hybrid beamforming, the proposed algorithm can be used even in multi-user and multi-stream environments to increase data capacity, thereby increasing utilization in new-radio multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.338-351
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• 2013

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication may provide high spectral efficiency through the deployment of a very large number of antenna elements at the base stations. The gains from massive MIMO communication come from the use of multi-user MIMO on the uplink and downlink, but with a large excess of antennas at the base station compared to the number of served users. Initial work on massive MIMO did not fully address several practical issues associated with its deployment. This paper considers the impact of channel aging on the performance of massive MIMO systems. The effects of channel variation are characterized as a function of different system parameters assuming a simple model for the channel time variations at the transmitter. Channel prediction is proposed to overcome channel aging effects. The analytical results on aging show how capacity is lost due to time variation in the channel. Numerical results in a multicell network show that massive MIMO works even with some channel variation and that channel prediction could partially overcome channel aging effects.

• 산업공학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.725-737
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• 2000

This paper deals with the design and the development of user interface for a high speed linear programming solving system. The general users' educational and practical requirements are analyzed and the functionalities that should be implemented for the requirements are designed. The user interface of the system consists of various carefully designed built-in commands that perform the functionalities. The names of the build-in commands are chosen to enhance the users' convenience. We also address the various factors that should be considered in the design of the linear programming solvers when integrated with the user interface. As one of user-friendly environments, data input system that can understand user-written arithmetic form is added to our user interface system. Finally, we compare our system with other user interface systems.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2014

The number of manufacturing companies that demand the ability to assess sustainability in their manufacturing system is rapidly increasing. However, there are still difficulties in assessing their sustainability in manufacturing for decision-making since it is not easy to determine a single index of sustainability in an operational way. To address these difficulties, this paper proposes an operational guidance and system to assess sustainability of production plan as a single index. The IDEF0 model was defined to explain processes and their input, output, control, and mechanism for sustainability assessment. A prototype system was developed based on the concepts presented in the IDEF0 model, and applied to a case study. To conclude, the prototype system proposed in this paper can help manufacturing companies assess sustainability of their production plans and make a decision using a single value resulted from that assessment.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2009

의학기술의 발달과 건강에 관한 관심도 증가가 투자로 이어지면서 사회 평균 수명이 늘어나게 되었고 이로 인해 노인층이 증가하게 되었다. 노인의 여가 활동으로 컴퓨터를 이용한 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 활용도가 증가함에 따라 실버 세대의 디지털 문화 정착에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 노인들의 디지털 콘텐츠 활용을 위해 노인용 문자 입력 시스템을 제안한다. 문자 입력 관련 인터페이스는 전통적으로 키보드에 의존하고 있다. 하지만 노인들의 사용에 있어 많은 키들의 분산된 형태 때문에 인식에 오래 걸리게 되고 모니터와의 분산을 일으켜 집중도를 떨어뜨리는 문제점이 발생한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 콘솔 게임에서 자주 사용하고 있는 그립형 컨트롤러 인터페이스를 사용하였으며 이에 맞는 문자 배치 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 이를 검증하기 위해 시뮬레이터를 개발하여 20명의 노인들을 대상으로 실시한 테스트에서 그립형 인터페이스에 대한 만족도와 편리성이 증가했음을 나타내는 결론을 도출하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.128-132
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• 2004

This paper proposed a control strategy for flywheel energy/recovery system with induction machine. The system is based on a vector controlled induction machine driving a flywheel and address the problem of regulating the DC-Link system voltage against input power shut-down. And we proposed the method to damp the oscillation of DC-Link. Experimental results are presented which verify the performance of the strategy.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 1th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.564-568
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• 2005

Recently, Knowledge Management (KM) has been applied to construction industry. Surprising, there is few studies that address the most fundamental problem in KM: people may prefer not to share their knowledge so as to preserve their intellectual or unique values in the organization. Without the premise of each individual's willingness to share knowledge, there will be no valuable input for the IT system and, thus, no knowledge management at all. This paper aims to model the behavioral dynamics of knowledge sharing and to design an incentive system that may facilitate knowledge sharing for construction companies. In this paper, a game-theory based model will be developed, and the framework for designing an incentive system will be proposed according to the model.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2001

음성인식의 고속화를 위한 저자들에 의한 기존의 연구에서는 탐색이 진행함에 따라 시간방향의 탐색공간 문턱치를 가변적으로 적용하여 인식률의 저하없이 인식속도를 개선시켰다. 이 방법은 탐색 공간을 효과적으로 줄일 수는 있었으나 문턱치를 결정하기 위해서 여러 번의 사전 실험을 수행하여야 하는 번거러움이 있었다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 이전 탐색구간에 대한 최대우도와 후보들의 우도를 이용하여 현재 탐색구간의 문턱치를 탐색이 진행하는 과정에서 자동적으로 구하는 적응 프루닝 문턱치 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘의 유효성을 확인하기 위해 국내 행정단위 시 (도), 구 (군), 동 (읍, 면), 번지를 구성하는 단어로 구성된 주소 인식 시스템에 적용하여 기존의 방법과 제안한 방법을 비교 검토하였다. 인식실험 결과, 연결단어 인식률 96.0%, 단어 인식률이 98.7%인 경우를 기준으로 하였을 때 제안된 방법이 기존의 고정 프루닝과 가변 프루닝 문턱치에 비하여 인식률 저하없이 각각 14.4%와 9.14%의 탐색 공간을 상대적으로 줄일 수 있어 제안된 방법의 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 6th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.637-638
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• 2015

There has been growing interests in life-cycle project management in the construction industry. A lot of attention is given to Building Information Modeling (BIM) which stores and uses a variety of construction information for the life cycle of project management. However, due to the additional workload arising from BIM, its expected effects versus its input costs are still under discussion in practice. As an attempt to address this issue, one of previous studies suggested an automated linking process by developing Standard Classification Numbering System (SCNS) and Geometry Breakdown Structure (GBS) to enhance the efficiency of integration process of BIM objects, cost, and schedule. Though SCNS and GBS facilitates identifying all different dataset, making object sets and linking schedule activities still needs to be manually done without having an automated tool. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a fully automated integration system for 3D-objects, cost, and schedule. A prototype system for single family homes (Hanok) was developed and tested in order to verify its efficiency.