• 센서학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2004

There is currently much interest in the development of instruments that emulate the senses of humans. Increasingly, there is demand for mimicking the human sense of smell, which is a sophisticated chemosensory system. An electronic nose system is applicable to a large area of industries including environmental monitoring. We have designed a protable electronic nose system using an array of commercial chemical gas sensors for recognizing and analyzing the various odours. In this paper, we have implemented a portable electronic nose system using an array of gas sensors for recognizing and analyzing VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) in the field. The accuracy of a portable electronic nose system may be lower than an instrument such as GC/MS (Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer). However, a portable electronic nose system could be used on the field and showed fast response to pollutants in the field. Several different algorithms for odours recognition were used such as BP (Back-Propagation) or LM-BP (Levenberq-Marquardt Back-Propagation). We applied RBF (Radial Basis Function) Network for recognition and quantifying of odours, which has simpler and faster compared to the previously used algorithms such as BP and LM-BP.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.95-99
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• 2023

Forest healing is an activity that enhances immunity and human health using various elements of nature, such as fragrance and scenery. Particularly, phytoncide composed of terpene, a natural volatile substance emitted by forest plants, activates the immune function and is an important raw material in health-related products, such as antibacterial and insect repellents. Moreover, phytoncide is used as a measure to evaluate the impact of the forest atmosphere on the human body. This study aims to implement a highly sensitive gas sensor system that can measure phytoncide in real-time, which is an essential element for realizing a forest healing environment. A gas generation apparatus was implemented by using an adsorption tube in consideration of filed applicability in a laboratory atmosphere to enable the measurement of α-pinene and limonene, which are among the main components of phytoncide. Throughout the experimental trials, the sensitivity of gas sensor arrays to α-pinene and limonene was confirmed. In addition, the classification results demonstrated the AVOCs and NVOCs can be well discriminated using PCA. The primary results confirmed the possibility of developing a high-sensitivity gas sensor system for phytoncide sensing in real time.

• 센서학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.444-454
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• 2005

The IEEE 1451.4 standards defines an architectural model for interfacing smart transducers for sensors & actuators. This standard allows analogue transducers to communicate their identification and calibration data in a digital format. A digital format is called the TEDS (transducer electronic data sheet). However, the standard template TEDS of IEEE 1451.4 do not supports sensors to use in electronic tongue system, such as arrayed-potentiometric and voltametric sensors. In this paper, a solution to standardize sensors for E-Tongue (electronic tongue) and electronic tongue systems is presented.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.842-849
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• 1990

본 논문에서는 array processing에서, sensor array를 통해 들어오는 source signal들의 개수를 결정하는 방법들을 판정의 정확도의 관점에서 연구 고찰한다. 첫번째 방법은 Akaike의 Akaike's Information Criterion(AIC)이고, 다른 하나는 Schwartz와 Rissanen의 Minimum Description Length(MDL)이다. 실용적인 측면에서 볼 때, 신호대잡음비 (S/N)가 매우 낮은 상태에서 얻어진 한정된 양의 data를 이용하여 제한된 갯수의 sensor들로 이루어진 array로 부터, 매우 근접해 있는 source signal들의 갯수를 예측해 내는 것은 대단히 중요한 일이다. 본 논문은 simulation 결과를 통하여, source signal들이 근접해 있을수록, array의 sensor 갯수가 줄어들수록, 이용할 data의 양이 한정될수록 또 S/N가 낮아질수록, AIC이 MDL에 비해서 높은 신뢰도를 가짐을 보여준다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.72-76
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• 2000

칼만 필터를 이용한 2차원 견인 배열 (towed may) 형상 추정 기법의 성능을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 변위 센서를 이용할 경우, 기존의 칼만 여파기 방법에 의해 추정된 2차원 하이드로폰 수평 좌표는 총 길이가 배열의 길이와 일치하며 등간격 값을 갖게 된다. 이렇게 고정된 수평 좌표를 사용하는 경우 배열의 왜곡 정도가 심화됨에 따라 오차가 증가하게 된다. 이를 개선하기 위해 선형 근사화 방법 또는 스플라인 보간법을 이용하여 발생하는 오차를 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제안하고 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통해 그 성능을 검증한다.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

Measurement of magnetic signals generated from electric activity of myocardium provides useful information for the functional diagnosis of heart diseases. Key technical component of the magnetocardiography (MCG) technology is SQUID. To measure MCG signals with high signal-to-noise ratio, sensitive SQUID magnetic field sensors are needed. Present magnetic field sensors based on Nb SQUIDs have field sensitivity good enough to measure most of MCG signals. However, for accurate measurement of fine signal pattern or detection of local atrial fibrillation signals, we may need higher field sensitivity. In addition to field sensitivity, economic aspect of the SQUID system is also important. To simplify the SQUID readout electronics, the output voltage or flux-to-voltage transfer of SQUID should be large enough so that direct measurement of SQUID output can be done using room-temperature preamplifiers. Double relaxation oscillation SQUID (DROS), having about 10 times larger flux-to-voltage transfers than those of DC-SQUIDs, was shown to be a good choice to make the electronics compact. For effective cancellation of external noise inside a thin economic shielded room, first-order axial gradiometer with high balance, simple structure and long-baseline is needed. We developed a technology to make the axial gradiometer compact using direct bonding of superconductive wires between pickup coil and input coil. Conventional insert has mechanical support to hold the gradiometer array, and the dewar neck has equal diameter with the dewar bottom. Boiling of the liquid He can generate mechanical vibrations in the gradiometer array due to mechanical connection structure. Elimination of the mechanical support, and direct mounting of the gradiometer array into the dewar bottom can reduce the dewar neck diameter, resulting in the reduction of liquid He consumption.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.1534-1542
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• 1997

In this paper, we present a performance improvement method for the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm of the narrowband signals incident on a uniform circular array. It is very important to estimate the covariance matrix effectively because the performance of DOA algorithm mainly depends on the exactness of the sampel coveriance matrix which is computed from the received samples of signals. In case of uniform circular array with the even number sensors, the structure of the arrray has a useful geometrical property. Therefore we present the method which can estimate covariance matrix more effectively using this property. The simulation results are shown to demonstrate the superior perfodrmance obtained by the proposed covariance matrix estimation method relative to that of the conventional estimation method.

• 센서학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2024

The quality of the display can be managed by effectively managing the temperature generated by the panel during use. Conventional display panels rely on an external reference resistor for temperature monitoring. However, this approach is easily affected by external factors such as temperature variations from the driving circuit and chips. These variations reduce reliability, causing complicated mounting owing to the external chip, and cannot monitor the individual pixel temperatures. However, this issue can be simply and efficiently addressed by integrating temperature sensors during the display panel manufacturing process. In this study, we fabricated and analyzed a temperature sensor integrated into an a-IGZO (amorphous indium-gallium-zinc-oxide) TFT array that was to precisely monitor temperature and prevent the deterioration of OLED display pixels. The temperature sensor was positioned on top of the oxide TFT. Simultaneously, it worked as a light shield layer, contributing to the reliability of the oxide. The characteristics of the array with integrated temperature sensors were measured and analyzed while adjusting the temperature in real-time. By integrating a temperature sensor into the TFT array, monitoring the temperature of the display became easier and more accurate. This study could contribute to managing the lifetime of the display.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1987년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집(II)
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• pp.1256-1259
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• 1987

This paper gives a new SRF (Sonic Range Finder) Array formation on the mobile robot. This SRF Array formation obtaine the mobile robot's environmental informations wider and faster than the other systems and detects the obstacles in the robot's path. It is processed and controlled by 8031, on-chip micro-computer. SRF Array sensors are drived by the LM1812 transceiver and selected by the 8-channel channel multiplexer. In this paper, it detects the obstacles in wider range and gives them to the MAIN to design the shortest modify path.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.189-195
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• 2016

In this paper, we newly introduce a visible light communication (VLC) repeater using the LED array in an LED lamp. The LED array is used for a light source in the repeater, which radiates light both for illumination and data transmission. A VLC repeater is made by adding some electronic circuits to the LED array including a photodetector, a demodulator, and a modulator. The repeater is installed on the ceiling of a room like a conventional LED lamp, receives the VLC signal from an arbitrary transmitter, recovers data, and radiates the signal to wide area in the room. We used a carrier frequency of 100 kHz for the uplink from a transmitter to the repeater, and 500 kHz for the downlink from the repeater to a receiver. The repeater is useful for increasing the transmission path to wide area over the obstacles that may exist between VLC transmitters and receivers.