• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권1호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2018

The EMG amplitude estimator, which has been investigated as an indicator of muscle force, is of high relevance not only in biomechanical studies but also more and more in clinical applications. This paper presents a new approach to estimate surface EMG amplitude by using the mean spike and mean turn amplitude(MSA and MTA) variables. Surface EMG signals, a total of 198 signals, were recorded from biceps brachii muscle over the range of 20-80%MVC isometric contraction and performance of the MSA and MTA variables applied to amplitude estimation of the EMG signals were investigated. To examine the performance, a SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) was computed from each amplitude estimate. The results of the study indicate that MSA and MTA amplitude estimations with first order whitening filter and 300[ms]-350[ms] moving average window length are optimal and show better performance(mean SNR improvement of 6%-15%) than the most frequently used variables(ARV and RMS).

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권8호
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• pp.1498-1502
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• 2007

There have been many different definitions of energy functions as the second statistics of a signal. In this paper, using the higher order differential energy function, we propose an algorithm separating the amplitude and frequency components in a discrete sinusoidal signal. The proposed amplitude and frequency estimation methods have less computational requirement than the existing methods. It also shows large computational advantage over the root mean square (RMS) calculation of a signal. The proposed methods can be used in the detection of abnormal events in signals on the power line. Computer simulations show that proposed frequency estimation method can detect the presence of voltage increase or decrease for a short period of time. Also, the proposed estimation methods have been compared with existing methods in terms of estimation error variance.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권5호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2017

The EMG amplitude estimator, which has been investigated as an indicator of muscle force, is utilized as the control input to artificial prosthetic limbs. This paper describes an application of the optimal EMG amplitude estimator to the surface EMG signals recorded during constant isometric %MVC (maximum voluntary contraction) for 30 seconds and reports on assessing performance of the amplitude estimator from the application. Surface EMG signals, a total of 198 signals, were recorded from biceps brachii muscle over the range of 20-80%MVC isometric contraction. To examine the estimator performance, a SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) was computed from each amplitude estimate. The results of the study indicate that ARV(average rectified value) and RMS(root mean square) amplitude estimation with forth order whitening filter and 250[ms] moving average window length are optimal and showed the mean SNR improvement of about 50%, 40% and 20% for each 20%MVC, 50%MVC and 80%MVC surface EMG signals, respectively.

• 지구물리
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.227-234
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• 2000

진폭이상이나 브라이트 스팟은 종종 탄화수소(가스, 석유)의 집적과 관계 있지만 또한 가까이 있는 두개의 반사면 때문에 생기는 튜닝효과에 의해서도 나타날 수 있다. 탄화수소의 가채매장량을 계산하기 위해서 탄성파 진폭과 저류암의 두께를 계산할 때 탄성파 진폭도로부터 튜닝효과를 제거할 수 있다. 가장 손쉬운 튜닝효과제거(디튜닝) 방법은 탄성파자료의 저류암 진폭을 쐐기모델로부터 얻어진 튜닝반응곡선을 이용하여 보정해 주는 것이다. 진폭이상과 관련된 탄화수소의 집적은 퓨닝효과가 제거된 자료를 이용해야 보다 정확하게 예측할 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1436-1443
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• 1989

In this paper, we propose a maximum-likelihood estimation(MLE) method to obtain the location and the amplitude of the pulses in MPE( multi-pulse excitation)-LPC speech synthesis using multi-pulses as excitation source. This MLE method computes the value maximizing the likelihood function with respect to unknown parameters(amplitude and position of the pulses) for the observed data sequence. Thus in the case of overlapped pulses, the method is equivalent to Ozawa's crosscorrelation method, resulting in equal amount of computation and sound quality with the cross-correlation method. We show by computer simulation: the multi-pulses obtained by MLE method are(1) pseudo-periodic in pitch in the case of voicde sound, (2) the pulses are random for unvoiced sound, (3) the pulses change from random to periodic in the interval where the original speech signal changes from unvoiced to voiced. Short time power specta of original speech and syunthesized speech obtained by using multi-pulses as excitation source are quite similar to each other at the formants.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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• pp.2737-2740
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• 2003

This paper has been studied an algorithm for EMG signal amplitude estimation in noisy environment. The proposed method has the first stage decomposing the row vector from the delayed EMG signal and the second stage computing the eigenvalues by the eigen decomposition from the covariance matrix of the EMG signal matrix. The last stage is the estimation of RMS values from the eigenvalues. The proposed method was effective when the amplitude of the EMG signal is small, which means the signal to noise ratio is low.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권8호
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• pp.1193-1198
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• 2012

An instantaneous amplitude (IA) estimator using the symmetric higher order differential energy operator is proposed. The amplitude estimator and the instantaneous frequency (IF) estimator based on the symmetric higher order differential energy operator coincide with the analyzed signal in time, and they show better estimation results than the IA and IF based on the higher order differential energy operator. Various IF and IA estimators are applied to AM-FM signals for the performance comparison. Among the IF and IA estimators, the IF and IA estimators based on the symmetric higher order energy operator show the best estimation accuracy. Then, the IA and IF estimators are applied to the distorted power line signal to show their usefulness as power disturbance detectors.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.64-70
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• 2009

본 논문은 잡음에 강인한 음성인식 성능을 획득하기 위해 generalized Gamma 분포기반의 음성향상 기법을 제안한다. 우수한 음성향상을 위해서 제안된 방식에서는 generalized Gamma분포와 spectral gain floor를 이용한 음성추적 기법에 스펙트럼 최소잡음성분에 의한 희귀적인 평균 스펙트럼 값으로부터 유도되는 잡음추정을 결합하여 음질을 향상시켜 음성인식에 적용하였다. Spectral component, spectral amplitude 그리고 log spectral amplitude에 기반하여 제안된 음성향상 기법을 잡음환경에서의 음성인식에 적용하여 그 성능을 측정하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1945-1955
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• 2018

High frequency signal injection (HFI) is an alternative method for estimating rotor position of interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM). The general method of frequency and amplitude selection is based on error tolerance and experiments, and is usually set with only one group of HF parameters, which is not efficient for different working modes. This paper proposes a novel rotor position estimation scheme by HFI with optimized frequency and amplitude, based on the mathematic model of IPMSM. The requirements for standstill and low-speed operational modes are met by applying this novel scheme. Additionally, the effects of the frequency and amplitude of the injected HF signal on the position estimation results under different operating conditions are analyzed. Furthermore, an optimization method for HF parameter selection is proposed to make the estimation process more efficient under different working conditions according to error tolerance. The effectiveness of the propose scheme is verified by the experiments on an IPMSM motor prototype.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.649-660
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• 2017

전자전에서 적군이 방사한 펄스 신호에 관한 정보 중에서 펄스 세기는 방사되는 신호원의 거리를 추정하고 혼재되어 들어오는 신호원들을 분리할 때 사용된다. 기존의 펄스 세기 추정 방식에서는 이전 단계에서 추정된 펄스폭에 해당하는 신호를 푸리에 변환한 후에 주파수 영역으로 변환된 신호 세기의 최댓값을 수신된 펄스 신호의 세기로 추정을 하였다. 하지만 이러한 방식은 주파수 변조 신호가 수신될 경우 주파수 영역에서 에너지가 분산되어 펄스 세기를 정확하게 추정하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위하여 시간 영역에서 수신된 펄스의 평균 전력을 구하고 수신기에서의 잡음의 평균 전력을 제거하여 펄스 세기를 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 주파수 변조 신호가 수신될 경우에 제안된 기법이 무변조 신호와 동일한 성능을 가지는 것을 보인다. 추가로 펄스 세기 추정은 이전 단계에서 발생한 펄스 폭 오차에 영향을 받게 되는데, 동일한 펄스 폭의 오차가 발생했을 때 기존 기법보다 제안하는 기법이 강건함을 보인다.