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Sound Absorption Performance of Korean Traditional Window Papers (창호지의 흡음성능에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Choi, Eun-Seok;Lee, Tai-Gang;Kim, Hang;Kim, Sun-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.17-20
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    • 2006
  • Korean traditional houses have been developed in sympathy with natural environment and formed comfortable indoor condition by properly using surrounding natural resources including building layout, space construction and material our traditional wooden windows adjusting ambient temperature and humidity have both the functions of window and door, although they are clearly divided in the West. While window paper is attached from the outside in China and Japan, it is attached from the inside in Korea. The opening and closing mode of windows is similar and their dimensions are shown not to he standardized but diverse in terms of the characteristic of wooden furniture and that of components placed between columns. Thus this study is to look into the performance of band-lattice door of a typical traditional one by observing changes in sound absorption characteristics according to difference in thickness and finishing method of window paper and those in sound absorption characteristics with the changed thickness of air layer in traditional windows and doors.

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A study on the Sound Insulation Characteristics of Korean Traditional Windows (전통창호의 차음 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hang;Lee, Tai-Gang;Kim, Sun-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1147-1150
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    • 2007
  • Korean traditional houses have been developed in sympathy with natural environment and formed comfortable indoor condition by properly using surrounding natural resources including building layout, space construction and material. Or traditional wooden windows adjusting ambient temperature and humidity have both the functions of window and door, although they are clearly divided in the West. While window paper is attached from the outside in China and Japan, it is attached from the inside in Korea. The opening and closing mode of windows is similar and their dimensions are shown not to be standardized but diverse in terms of the characteristic of wooden furniture and that of components placed between columns. Thus this study is to look into the performance of band-lattice door of a typical traditional one by observing changes in sound insulation characteristics according to difference in thickness and finishing method of window paper and those in sound insulation characteristics with the changed thickness of air layer in traditional windows and doors.

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Overview of anthropogenic underwater sound effects and sound exposure criteria on fishes (어류에 미치는 인위적인 수중소음 영향과 피해기준에 대한 고찰)

  • PARK, Jihyun;YOON, Jong-Rak
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.53 no.1
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    • pp.19-40
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    • 2017
  • A scientific and objective sound exposure criterion for underwater sound damage on fish has been required since there has been many disputes between an underwater sound maker and a fish damage receiver. The existing criteria are still incomplete scientifically owing to a degree of variability of underwater sounds, diversity of fish hearing sensitivity and damage types, etc. This study reviews existing studies on a hearing mechanism of fish species, manmade underwater sound characteristics and sound exposure assessment parameters, and recent sound exposure criteria. A governing equation for damage coverage estimation and damage coverage dependency on sound source level, ambient noise and transmission loss are also reviewed and interpreted based on sound exposure environments. The foreign and Korean (National Environmental Dispute Medication Commission) criteria are reviewed and compared based on scientific aspects. In addition, the deficit and limit of Korean criteria are presented. The objective of this study is to give a direction for related researches and legislation of sound exposure criteria on fish.

Development of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Device and Experiments (압전체를 이용한 에너지 수집 장치 개발 및 실험)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Kwak, Moon-K.;Kang, Ho-Yong;Kim, Nae-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 2008
  • This paper is concerned with the development of the piezoelectric energy harvesting(PEH) device for ubiquitous sensor node(USN). The USN needs auxiliary power to lengthen its operational life. In this study, the piezoelectric energy harvesting system consisting of a cantilever with a tip mass and piezoelectric wafer was investigated in detail both theoretically and experimentally. The dynamic model for the addressed system was derived using the assumed mode method. The resulting equations of motion were expressed in matrix form, which had never been developed before. The power output characteristics of the PEH was then calculated and discussed. Various experiments were carried out to investigate the charging characteristics of electrical components. Theoretical and experimental results showed that the PEH was able to charge a battery with ambient vibrations but still needed an effective mechanism which can convert mechanical energy to electrical energy and an optimal electric circuit which dissipates small energy.

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Dynamic Modeling of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Device and Experiments (압전 에너지 수집 장치의 동적모델링 및 실험)

  • Kwak, Moon-K.;Kim, Ki-Young;Kang, Ho-Yong;Kim, Nae-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.632-641
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    • 2008
  • This paper is concerned with the development of the piezoelectric energy harvesting(PEH) device for ubiquitous sensor node(USN). The USN needs auxiliary power to lengthen its operational life. In this study, the piezoelectric energy harvesting system consisting of a cantilever with a tip mass and piezoelectric wafer was investigated in detail both theoretically and experimentally. The dynamic model for the addressed system was derived using the assumed mode method. The resulting equations of motion were expressed in matrix form, which had never been developed before. The power output characteristics of the PEH was then calculated and discussed. Various experiments were carried out to investigate the charging characteristics of electrical components. Theoretical and experimental results showed that the PEH was able to charge a battery with ambient vibrations but still needed an effective mechanism which can convert mechanical energy to electrical energy and an optimal electric circuit which dissipates small energy.

Development of Classification System for Material Temperature Responses Using Neuro-Fuzzy Inference (뉴로퍼지추론을 이용한 재질온도응답 분류시스템의 개발)

  • Ryoo, Young-Jae
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.440-447
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    • 2000
  • This paper describes a practical system to classify material temperature responses by composition of curve fitting and neuro-fuzzy inference. There are problems with a classification system which utilizes temperature responses. It requires too much time to approach the steady state of temperature response and it has to be filtered to remove the noise which occurs in experiments. Thus, this paper proposes a practical method using curve fitting only for transient state to remove the above problems of time and noise. Using the neuro-fuzzy system, the thermal conductivity of the material can be inferred on various ambient temperatures. So the material can be classified via its inferred thermal conductivity. To realize the system, we designed a contact sensor which has a similar structure with human finger, implemented a hardware system, and developed a classification software of curve fitting and neuro-fuzzy algorithm.

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Prediction and Evaluation of Power Output for Energy Scavengers using the Piezoelectric Material (압전 재료를 이용한 에너지 변환 시스템의 출력 파워 예측 및 평가)

  • Oh, Jae-Eung;Kim, Seong-Hyeon;Sim, Hyoun-Jin;Lee, Jung-Yoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.827-830
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    • 2006
  • With recent advanced in portable electric devices, wireless sensor, MEMS and bio-Mechanics device, the new typed power supply, not conventional battery but self-powered energy source is needed. Particularly, the system that harvests from their environments are interests for use in self powered devices. For very low powered devices, environmental energy may be enough to use power source. In the generality of cases, these energy harvesting systems are used in the piezoelectric materials as mechanisms to convert mechanical vibration energy into electric energy. Through the piezoelectric materials, the ambient vibration energy could be used to prolong the power supply or in the ideal case provide endless energy f9r the devices. Therefore, the piezoelectric power harvesting cantilever beam is developed. Also, the output voltage and power are predicted in this study. We also discuss the developing system of the piezoelectric energy scavenger. An experimental verification of the model is also performed to ensure its accuracy.

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Speech Reinforcement Based on G.729A Speech Codec Parameter Under Near-End Background Noise Environments (근단 배경 잡음 환경에서 G.729A 음성부호화기 파라미터에 기반한 새로운 음성 강화 기법)

  • Choi, Jae-Hun;Chang, Joon-Hyuk
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.392-400
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose an effective speech reinforcement technique base on ITU-T G.729A CS-ACELP codec under the near-end background noise environments. In general, since the intelligibility of the far-end speech for the near-end listener is significantly reduced under near-end noise environments, we require a far-end speech reinforcement approach to avoid this phenomena. In contrast to the conventional speech reinforcement algorithm, we reinforce the excitation signal of the codec's parameters received from the far-end speech signal based on the G.729A speech codec under various background noise environments. Specifically, we first estimate the excitation signal of ambient noise at the near-end through the encoder of the G.729A speech codec, reinforcing the excitation signal of the far-end speech transmitted from the far-end. we specially propose a novel approach to directly reinforce the excitation signal of far-end speech signal based on the decoder of the G.729A. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the CCR (Comparison Category Rating) test of the method for subjective determination of transmission quality in ITU-T P.800 under various noise environments and shows better performances compared with conventional SNR Recovery methods.

Feature Vector Extraction and Automatic Classification for Transient SONAR Signals using Wavelet Theory and Neural Networks (Wavelet 이론과 신경회로망을 이용한 천이 수중 신호의 특징벡타 추출 및 자동 식별)

  • Yang, Seung-Chul;Nam, Sang-Won;Jung, Yong-Min;Cho, Yong-Soo;Oh, Won-Tcheon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 1995
  • In this paper, feature vector extraction methods and classification algorithms for the automatic classification of transient signals in underwater are discussed. A feature vector extraction method using wavelet transform, which shows good performance with small number of coefficients, is proposed and compared with the existing classical methods. For the automatic classification, artificial neural networks such as multilayer perceptron (MLP), radial basis function (RBF), and MLP-Class are utilized, where those neural networks as well as extracted feature vectors are combined to improve the performance and reliability of the proposed algorithm. It is confirmed by computer simulation with Traco's standard transient data set I and simulated data that the proposed feature vector extraction method and classification algorithm perform well, assuming that the energy of a given transient signal is sufficiently larger than that of a ambient noise, that there are the finite number of noise sources, and that there does not exist noise sources more than two simultaneously.

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Non-Contact Gesture Recognition Algorithm for Smart TV Using Electric Field Disturbance (전기장 왜란을 이용한 비접촉 스마트 TV 제스처 인식 알고리즘)

  • Jo, Jung-Jae;Kim, Young-Chul
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.124-131
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we propose the non-contact gesture recognition algorithm using 4- channel electrometer sensor array. ELF(Extremely Low Frequency) EMI and PLN are minimized because ambient electromagnetic noise around sensors has a significant impact on entire data in indoor environments. In this study, we transform AC-type data into DC-type data by applying a 10Hz LPF as well as a maximum buffer value extracting algorithm considering H/W sampling rate. In addition, we minimize the noise with the Kalman filter and extract 2-dimensional movement information by taking difference value between two cross-diagonal deployed sensors. We implemented the DTW gesture recognition algorithm using extracted data and the time delayed information of peak values. Our experiment results show that average correct classification rate is over 95% on five-gesture scenario.