• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2016

The East African ionosphere (3°S-18°N, 32°E-50°E) was mapped using Total Electron Content (TEC) measurements from ground-based GPS receivers situated at Asmara, Mekelle, Bahir Dar, Robe, Arbaminch, and Nairobi. Assuming a thin shell ionosphere at 350 km altitude, we project the Ionospheric Pierce Point (IPP) of a slant TEC measurement with an elevation angle of >10° to its corresponding location on the map. We then infer the estimated values at any point of interest from the vertical TEC values at the projected locations by means of interpolation. The total number of projected IPPs is in the range of 24-66 at any one time. Since the distribution of the projected IPPs is irregularly spaced, we have used an inverse distance weighted interpolation method to obtain a spatial grid resolution of 1°×1° latitude and longitude, respectively. The TEC maps were generated for the year 2008, with a 2 hr temporal resolution. We note that TEC varies diurnally, with a peak in the late afternoon (at 1700 LT), due to the equatorial ionospheric anomaly. We have observed higher TEC values at low latitudes in both hemispheres compared to the magnetic equatorial region, capturing the ionospheric distribution of the equatorial anomaly. We have also confirmed the equatorial seasonal variation in the ionosphere, characterized by minimum TEC values during the solstices and maximum values during the equinoxes. We evaluate the reliability of the map, demonstrating a mean error (difference between the measured and interpolated values) range of 0.04-0.2 TECU (Total Electron Content Unit). As more measured TEC values become available in this region, the TEC map will be more reliable, thereby allowing us to study in detail the equatorial ionosphere of the African sector, where ionospheric measurements are currently very few.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.93-105
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 하수관 손상에 의한 지반함몰 발생 과정에서 지반의 포화도 상승에 따른 흙의 불포화 강도 저하의 영향을 파악하기 위하여, 직접 전단 실험, 모형 실험, 그리고 수치해석을 수행하였다. 직접 전단 시험 결과, 흙의 마찰각은 포화도의 영향을 크게 받지 않으나, 점착력은 포화도의 영향을 크게 받음을 알 수 있다. 포화도 상승에 따른 강도저하의 영향만을 고려하기 위하여, 물의 침투효과를 배제한 모형 실험을 실시하여 지반 함몰 현상을 재현하였다. 지반 함몰은 대변위를 동반하며, 기존 유한요소법의 적용이 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 대변위 해석 기법인 일반 보간 재료점법을 사용하여 수행한 모형실험을 수치적으로 모사하였다. 비록 경계 조건 차이, 불완전 포화, 손상부 연결관의 폐색등에 의해 함몰 시간 등에는 차이가 있었지만, 유사한 토체의 변형 거동이 모형 실험과 수치해석에서 발견되었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1341-1348
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 변형된 모젯 변환을 이용하여 의료영상에서 회전된 물체의 회전각을 추출하고 보정하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 모젯 변환은 이산 형태의 라돈 변환으로서 변환 영역은 입력 영상에 대한 투영값으로 구성된다. 최근 영상 정보의 압축을 위해 주로 연구되던 모젯 변환을 회전 물체의 보정에 적용하기 위해 본 논문에서는 다음과 같이 모젯 변환을 변형하여 사용한다. 먼저 회전 영상에서 정확한 회전각을 추출하기 위해, 투영선 상의 화소 뿐만 아니라 투영선에 인접한 화소들도 투영값 계산에 반영한다. 그리고 모젯 변환에서의 계산량 감소를 위해 각 투영 방향에 대해 영상의 중심 화소를 통과하는 하나씩의 투영만을 실행한다. 또한 대상 영상이 회전 영상임을 고려하여 영상의 회전 시 삭제되거나 추가되지 않는 관심 영역을 설정하여 이 영역에 대해서만 투영값을 계산한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 다양한 의료 영상의 회전각 추출 및 보정에 매우 효율적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.333-340
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• 2005

Feedrate is one of the factors that have the significant effects on the productivity, qualify and tool life in the cutting mechanism as well as cutting velocity, depth of cut and width of cut. In this study, in order to realize the high-efficient machining, a new feedrate optimization method is proposed based on the concept that the optimum feedrate can be derived from the allowable cutting power since the cutting power can be predicted from the cutting parameters as feedrate, depth of cut, width of cut, chip thickness, engagement angle, rake angle, specific cutting force and so on. Tool paths are extracted from the original NC program via the reverse post-processing process and converted into the infinitesimal tool paths via the interpolation process. And the novel NC program is reconstructed by optimizing the feedrate of infinitesimal tool paths. Especially, the fast feedrate optimization is realized by using the Boolean operation based on the Goldfeather CSG rendering algorithm, and the simulation results reveal the availability of the proposed optimization method dramatically reducing the cutting time and/or the optimization time. As a result, the proposed optimization method will go far toward improving the productivity and qualify.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.100-103
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• 2005

In this study, tool path control algorithm for aspherical surface grinding was derived and discussed. The aspherical surface actually means contact points between lens and tool. Tool positions are generally defined at the center of a tool, so there is difference between tool path and lens surface. The path was obtained from contact angle and relative position from the contact point. The angle could be calculated after differentiating an aspheric equation and complex algebraic operations. The assumption of the control algorithm was that x moves by constant velocity while z velocity varies. X was normal to the radial direction of lens, but z was tangential. The z velocities and accelerations were determined from current error and next position in each step. In the experiment, accuracy of the control algorithm was checked on a micro-precision machine. The result showed that the control error tended to be diminished when the tool diameter increased, and the error was under sub-micro level.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.1669-1680
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 볼 엔드밀 가공에서 공구계의 처짐을 고려한 절삭력과 처짐을 예측하고, 처짐의 예측으로 가공 정밀도를 향상시키는 이송 속도와 헬릭스 각의 선정 에 대해서 고찰한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2005

A haptic steering system which reflects steering reaction torque has been developed for a fixed base vehicle simulator. The haptic steering system consists of a steering effort sensor, MR-clutch, AC servo motor and controller. In order to generate realistic steering torque feel to driver and at the same time to meet real-time simulation requirement, 3D torque map is constructed by experimental data and torque generation algorithm using the torque map has been also developed. 3D torque map is constructed using curve fitting and interpolation of the measured values of the steering angle, velocity and steering torque from actual slalom test on the proving ground. In order to carry out performance test of the developed haptic steering system, a fixed based vehicle simulator is constructed by integrating real time vehicle dynamics module, VR-video/audio module, and the haptic steering system. Steering torque and steering angle curves have been obtained from virtual testing in the vehicle simulator and performance of the haptic steering system has been evaluated.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.28-33
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• 2016

Since defects in the wheels of railway vehicles, which occur due to wears with the rail, cause serious damage to the running device, the diagnostic monitoring system for condition-based maintenance is required to secure the driving safety. In this paper, we studied to apply a useful Cepstrum analysis to detect periodic structure in spectrum among the vibration signal processing techniques for the fault diagnosis of a rotating body such as wheel. In order to analyze in variations of train velocity, the Cepstrum analysis was performed after a domain change of the vibration signal from time domain to rotation angle domain. When domains change, it is important to use a interpolation for a uniform interval of the rotation angle. Finally, the Cepstrum analysis for wheel flat detection was verified by using the vibration signal including the disturbance resulting from the rail irregularities and the vibration of bogie components.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.469-478
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• 1996

In the conventional digital ultrasound scanner, the reflected signal is sampled either in polar coordinates of R-$\theta$ method, or in Cartesian coordinates of uniform ladder algorithm (ULA). The R-$\theta$ scan method necessitates a coordinate transform process which makes hardware complex in comparison with ULA scan mrthoA In spite of this complexity, R-$\theta$ method has a good resolution in ultrasonographic (US) image, since scan direction of the US imaging is a radial direction. In this paper, a new digital scan converter is proposed, which is named the radius uniform ladder algorithm (RULA). The RULA has the rome scan direction as the US scanning in the radial direction and as the display space in the $\theta$ direction. In tllis new approach, sampled points we uniformly distributed in each horizontal line i.n well as in each radial ray so that the data are displayed in the Cartesian coordinates by the 1-D interpolation process. The propped algorithm has an uniform resolution in the periphery and the center field in comparison with equi-angle ULA and equi-interval ULA. To extend the scan angle, concentric square raster sampling (CSRS) is adopted with reduction of discontinuities on the junctions between horizontal scan and vertical scan. The discontinuities are reduced by using the hmction filtering along the $\theta$ direction.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a rotation resistant robust logo embedding watermarking technique. Geometric manipulations make the detection process very complex and difficult. Watermark embedding in the normalized image directly suffers from smoothing effect due to the interpolation during the image normalization. This can be avoided by estimating the transform parameters using image normalization angle and moments, instead of embedding in the normalized image. Conventional rotation resistant schemes that use full frame transform. In this paper we adopt DCT and calculate masking using a spatio-frequency localization of the $8{\times}8$ block DCT coefficients. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is robust against rotation process.