• 센서학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.138-142
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• 2016

A pulse measurement by tonometry provides useful information for diagnosis, including not only blood pressure and heart rate but also parameters for estimating a condition of the cardiovascular system. Currently, various pulse measurement devices based on the tonometry have been developed. A reliability of these devices is determined by a positioning technic between the sensor and the blood vessel and a controlling technique of the pressurization level. An angle of the sensor for the pulse measurement seems to be highly related with a measured signal, however, the objective studies for this issue have been not published. In this paper, the variation of the pulse signals by tonometry direction was experimentally assessed according to the angle of the sensor. In order for guaranteeing the repeatability of the experiment, we used a pulse generator device, which can generate human pulse signal by using silicon tube and fluid pump, and developed a structure for precise adjustment of the angle and the pressurization level of the sensor. The angle of the sensor was acquired by an inclinometer, which was attached at the opposite side of the sensor. As results, a coefficient of variation (CV) of a maximum amplitude (MA) of the pulse wave was largely increased over the angle range of $-9{\sim}9^{\circ}$. Furthermore, the changes of the pulse shape showed different aspects according to the sign of the angle tilted along the blood vessel. It is expected that the results of this study can be helpful for developing more precise pulse measurement devices based on the tonometry and applying in clinic.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.511-517
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 null-seeking method를 사용하여 서보형 받음각 센서를 설계하고 그것의 특징을 분석하였다. Null-seeking method는 측정부의 두 압력 홀에서 측정되는 압력 차이가 0이 되도록 회전한 측정부의 동체 기준선에 대한 회전각으로 받음각을 측정한다. 이 방법은 측정 전 범위에서 높은 정확도와 일정한 오차를 가진다. 그러므로 이러한 종류의 받음각 센서는 무인항공기에 적합하다. 이 논문에서 개발될 받음각 센서의 요구사항을 분석하여, 서보형 받음각 센서를 설계 가공하였다. 그 후 받음각 센서에 탑재할 받음각 계산 알고리즘을 개발하였으며, 끝으로 MATLAB Simulink와 풍동시험을 통해 개발된 받음각 센서의 특성을 검증하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1996

In this paper, describe the automatic climbing wheelchair system use an articulated crawler mobile robot. This wheelchair system(call system) is composed of sensor detecting part and wireless communication part with PC. The sensor parts are consisted of sloping sensor and ultrasonic sensor part. The sloping sensor measures the sloping angle of system, and the ultrasonic sensor measures the distance of system's front wheel center from stair. PC will generate the operation data to climb up the stair using the measured data and make primitives for the system. At firsts This system transfer from sensor data to the PC. PC calculate the operation data to climb up the stair from the internal algorithm. We simulated the system in various stair angle slope($25^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$), and tested it on the real staircase with width 37cm, highlt 18cm, Angle $26^{\circ}$ . There were $0.350^{\circ}$ - $1.060^{\circ}$ Angle errors while climbing because adapted sensor has a precision $0.35^{\circ}$ in resolution. Finally, We implemented the sensor detecting part and the wireless communication park and practiced our system in 4cm/sec speed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.714-722
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• 2018

This paper presents a wide-range speed control scheme of brushless DC (BLDC) motors based on a hall sensor with separated low- and normal-speed controllers. However, the use of the hall sensor signal is insufficient to detect motor speed in the low-speed region because of low sensor resolution and time delay. In the proposed method, a micro-stepping current control method according to the torque angle variation is presented. In this mode, the motor current frequency and rotating angle are determined by the reference speed without the actual speed fed by the hall sensor. The detected torque angle is used to adjust the current value in a limited band to control the current value in accordance with the load. The torque angle is detected exactly at the changing point of the hall sensor signal. The rotor can follow the rotating flux with the variable torque angle. In a normal speed range, the conventional vector control scheme is used to control the motor current with a PI speed controller using the hall sensor. The torque characteristics are analyzed on the basis of the back EMF and current shape. To adopt the vector control scheme, the continuous rotor position is estimated by the measured speed and hall sensor position. At the mode changing point between low and normal speed range, the proper initial current command and reference rotor position are calculated. The calculated current command can reduce the torque ripple during transient mode. The proposed method is simple but effective in extending the speed control range of a conventional BLDC motor with hall sensor without the need for a high-resolution encoder. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by various experiments on a practical BLDC motor.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1867-1870
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• 2005

The celestial navigation is one of alternatives to GPS system and can be used as a backup of GPS. In the celestial navigation system using more than two star trackers, the vehicle's ground position can be solved based on the star trackers' attitude information if the vehicle's local vertical or horizontal angle is given. In order to determine accurate ground position of flight vehicle, the high accurate local vertical angle measurement is one of the most important factors for navigation performance. In this paper, the Earth geophysical deflection was analyzed in the assumption of using the modern electrolyte tilt sensor as a local vertical sensor for celestial navigation system. According to the tilt sensor principle, the sensor measures the tilt angle from gravity direction which depends on the Earth geoid surface at a given position. In order to determine the local vertical angle from tilt sensor measurement, the relationship between the direction of gravity and the direction of the Earth center should be analyzed. Using a precision orbit determination software which includes the JGM-3 Earth geoid model, the direction of the Earth center and the direction of gravity are extracted and analyzed. Appling vector inner product and cross product to the both extracted vectors, the magnitude and phase of deflection angle between the direction of gravity and the direction of the Earth center are achieved successfully. And the result shows that the angle differences vary as a function of latitude and altitude. The maximum 0.094$^{circ}$angle difference occurs at 45$^{circ}$latitude in case of 1000 Km altitude condition.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권10호
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• pp.1959-1965
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• 2011

Measuring the movement of joint angle of human body is very important clinically. Human joint angle displacement can be used to evaluate the degree of disease and disability. Also, we can determine the rehabilitation process with angular information. Conventional methods for measuring angular displacement are many weakness. The purpose of this study is to overcome the limitations of existing equipments by using optical method. For this reason, optical sensor system was used to correlate detected light signal with joint angle. Experimental results of the applied joint model in this study showed that joint angular displacement can be measured by optical signals. The suggested method is simple, durable, small, lightweight, convenient, and cost effective.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.946-949
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• 2004

It is necessary to detect the tilt angle for control or monitoring of various systems such as ship, aircraft recreation facilities etc as well as bridge or building systems. However the electronic liquid charge type tilt sensor which is one of typical tilt sensor has many problems. Those are remarkably slow response time and limited mounting condition because or liquid viscosity coefficient and inertia etc. In this study we propose a tilt angle instrumentation method using piezoelectricity acceleration sensor. The method can he applied on moving mount We verified the validity of the method through experiment.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.522-529
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• 2022

In this paper, an experimental study on the control of the plume deflection panel(PDP) with a support jack of the ground launching platform using a tilt angle sensor is described. To overcome the disadvantages of the existing PDP control without a support jack using a limit sensor, the control algorithm using a tilt angle sensor and the ferroelectric RAM in the Launcher Control Unit for recognizing the contact with the ground in an abnormal operation is proposed to control the PDP in various operation environments. Finally, the proposed algorithm can be well applied for not only heavy-load launching platforms but also any other similar systems.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2015

AFLS (Adaptive front lighting System) is being applied to improve safety in driving automotive at night. Safe embedded system for controlling head-lamp has to be tightly designed by considering safety requirement of hardware-dependent software, which is embedded in automotive ECU(Electronic Control Unit) hardware under severe environmental noise. In this paper, we propose an adaptive headlight controller with newly-designed symmetric angle sensor compensator, which is integrated with ECU-based adaptive front light system. The proposed system, on which additional backup hardware and emergency control algorithm are integrated, effectively detects abnormal situation and restore safe status of controlling the light-angle in AFLS operations by comparing result in symmetric angle sensor. The controlled angle value is traced into internal memory in runtime and will be continuously compared with the pre-defined lookup table (LUT) with symmetric angle value, which is used in normal operation. The watch-dog concept, which is based on using angle sensor and control-value tracer, enables quick response to restore safe light-controlling state by performing the backup sequence in emergency situation.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.355-361
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• 2020

스쿼트는 장소에 제약 없이 효과적으로 하체 근력을 증진시킬 수 있는 운동이다. 스쿼트 시 잘못된 자세로 인한 부상이 빈번하게 발생하고 있으며, 부상을 예방하기 위해서는 적절한 각도를 유지하며 운동하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 허벅지에 착용된 단일 관성 센서 모듈을 이용하여 스쿼트 각도를 측정할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하고 검증하였다. 스쿼트 각도를 측정하기 위해 각 관성 센서(가속도 센서, 자이로 센서)의 장단점을 상호 보완 하는 상보필터 알고리즘을 사용하였고, 임상 실험을 통해 각 상보필터 계수에 따른 스쿼트 각도의 정확도를 평가하였다. 분석 결과, 최적의 상보필터 계수를 기반으로 계산된 스쿼트 각도는 측각기에서 측정한 각도와 상관 계수 0.623와 편향 오차 -5.6°로 유의한 상관관계를 보였다.