• 센서학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.106-113
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• 2008

Perceiving a 3D moving target is important for automated machines including robots in a factory. Although stereovision or ultrasonic ranging is often employed for the purpose, the former requires high-cost systems, and the latter suffers from low-resolution. In this paper, we propose a PSD sensor array to acquire the 3D profile of an object conveyed by a belt. Rectangular parallelepiped target objects at random positions and orientations are assumed. Nine PSD sensors are configured in a $3{\times}3$ array above the belt, and fired in a sequence so that cross-talk can be avoided. Time gaps among sensor readings are compensated to get a result that is obtainable when sensors' measurements are made simultaneously along a sensing line. The system designed is tested with various objects in experiments.

• 센서학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.298-306
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• 1997

초음파센서는 저렴성, 단순한 구조, 기계적 강인성, 사용상의 적은 제약 등의 이점 때문에 다양한 응용분야에 적용된다. 그러나 주요 사용 목적으로는 물체의 감지와 거리측정으로 제한된다. 물체의 인식에 초음파센서를 사용하기에는 낮은 분해능을 초래하는 불량한 방향성과 측정오류를 유발하는 반사성의 단점이 있다. 이런 문제를 극복하기 위해 센서의 배열이 사용되어왔다. 즉, 분해능을 개선하기 위해 다양한 센서의 배열형태에서 많은 수의 센서를 사용하거나, 일정 수의 센서를 사용할 경우에는 센서배열을 기계적으로 이동시킨다. 본 논문에서는 센서배열에 단순한 구동 전자회로를 추가하여 센서 시스템의 인식 분해능을 개선하는 실제적인 방범을 제안한다. 구동회로는 송출 구동전압을 다양하게 변화시켜 알려진 센서의 특성에 따라 서로 다른 수신신호의 진폭으로부터 분해능의 개선을 얻는다. 제안된 방법에서는 사용하는 센서의 수를 증가하거나 추가되는 기계적인 구동기를 사용하지 않으며 분해능의 개선을 얻는다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.197-209
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• 2010

The structural state of a bridge is currently examined by visual inspection or by wired sensor techniques, which are relatively expensive, vulnerable to inclement conditions, and time consuming to undertake. In contrast, wireless sensor networks are easy to deploy and flexible in application so that the network can adjust to the individual structure. Different sensing techniques have been used with such networks, but the acoustic emission technique has rarely been utilized. With the use of acoustic emission (AE) techniques it is possible to detect internal structural damage, from cracks propagating during the routine use of a structure, e.g. breakage of prestressing wires. To date, AE data analysis techniques are not appropriate for the requirements of a wireless network due to the very exact time synchronization needed between multiple sensors, and power consumption issues. To unleash the power of the acoustic emission technique on large, extended structures, recording and local analysis techniques need better algorithms to handle and reduce the immense amount of data generated. Preliminary results from utilizing a new concept called Acoustic Emission Array Processing to locally reduce data to information are presented. Results show that the azimuthal location of a seismic source can be successfully identified, using an array of six to eight poor-quality AE sensors arranged in a circular array approximately 200 mm in diameter. AE beamforming only requires very fine time synchronization of the sensors within a single array, relative timing between sensors of $1{\mu}s$ can easily be performed by a single Mote servicing the array. The method concentrates the essence of six to eight extended waveforms into a single value to be sent through the wireless network, resulting in power savings by avoiding extended radio transmission.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.582-587
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• 2004

Ultrasonic sensors are widely used in mobile robot applications to recognize external environments, because they are cheap, easy to use, and robust under varying lighting conditions. However, the recognition of objects using a ultrasonic sensor is not so easy due to its characteristics such as narrow beam width and no reflected signal from a inclined object. As one of the alternatives to resolve these problems, use of multiple sensors has been studied. A sequential driving system needs a long measurement time and does not take advantage of multiple sensors. Simultaneous and pulse coding driving system of ultrasonic sensor array cannot measure short distance as the length of the code becomes long. This problem can be resolved by multi-frequency driving of ultrasonic sensors, which allows multi-sensors to be fired simultaneously and adjacent objects to be distinguished. Accordingly, this paper presents a simultaneous and multi-frequency driving system for an ultrasonic sensor array for object recognition. The proposed system is designed and implemented using a DSP and FPGA. A micro-controller board is made using a DSP, Polaroid 6500 ranging modules are modified for firing the multi-frequency signals, and a 5-channel frequency modulated signal generating board is made using a FPGA. To verify the proposed method, experiments were conducted in an environment with overlapping signals, and the flight distances for each sensor were obtained from filtering of the received overlapping signals and calculation of the time-of-flights.

• 센서학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.65-73
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• 1996

수액을 장시간 환자에게 주입할 때 적절한 주입량, 주입률을 조절하는 것이 중요하다. 부적절한 주입량은 환자의 회복에 좋지 않은 영향을 끼칠 수 있으므로 주입량을 감지하는 센서의 신뢰도는 인퓨전 펌프 시스템에 많은 영향을 미친다. 본 연구에서는 인퓨전 펌프 시스템에 사용될 3가지 센서의 성능을 검토하였다. 피에조 필름, 광트렌지스터 및 광 다이오드 어레이의 3가지 센서가 비교되었으며 제안하는 신호 처리 기법과 광 다이오드 어레이를 사용한 기법을 이용하여 간섭과 진동 조도변화 센서의 위치에 따른 감도 변화등의 영향을 줄일 수 있었다. 실험 결과 광 다이오드 어레이가 다른 센서들에 비하여 높은 신지도를 보여 주었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.286-291
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• 2013

This paper presents to analyze patterns from single and complex malodors using gas sensor array based on metal oxide semiconductors. The aim of research is to identify and discriminate single malodors such as $NH_3$, $CH_3SH$ and $H_2S$ and their mixtures according to concentration levels. Measurement system for analyzing patterns from malodors is constructed by an array of metal oxide semiconductor sensors which are available commercially together with associate electronics. The patterns from sensory system are analyzed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which is simple statistical pattern recognition technique. Throughout the experimental trails, we confirmed the experimental procedure for measurement system such as sensors calibration time and gas flow rate, and discriminated malodors using pattern analysis technique.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.312-316
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• 2013

A novel fiber-optic sensor system is suggested in which fiber Bragg grating sensors are demodulated by a wavelength-sweeping fiber laser source and a spectrometer. The spectrometer consists of a diffraction grating and a 512-pixel photo-diode array. The reflected Bragg wavelength information is transformed into spatial intensity distribution on the photo-diode array. The peak locations linearly correspond to the Bragg wavelengths, regardless of the nonlinearities in the wavelength tuning mechanism of the fiber laser. The high power density of the fiber laser enables obtaining high signal-to-noise ratio outputs. The improved demodulation characteristics were experimentally demonstrated with a fiber Bragg grating sensor array with 5 gratings. The sensor outputs were in much more linear fashion compared with the conventional tunable band-pass filter demodulation. Also it showed advantages in signal processing, due to the high level of photo-diode array signals, over the broadband light source system, especially in measurement of fast varying dynamic physical quantities.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1267-1270
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• 1998

This paper analyzes the characteristics of wide-band one-shot beam formed by using all sensors of array at once, as variation of weighting width. Gaussian function is applied to each sensor as a role of weighting. As the results of the simulation for nested linear array having 17 sensors for each octave, as the width goes wider the directivity index(DI) becomes lower but more even and the variation of beamwidth becomes smaller. It is confirmed, therefore, that weighting width is carefully decided in consideration of DI level, DI stability and the beamwidth.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.305-309
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• 2004

The problem for parameters estimation of the received signals impinging on array sensors has long been of great research Interest in a great variety of applications, such as radar, sonar, and land mobile communications systems. Conventional subspace-based algorithms, such as MUSIC and ESPRIT, require an extensive computation of inverse matrix and eigen-decomposition In this paper, we propose a new parameters estimation algorithm via nonlinear minimization, which is simplified computationally and estimates signal parameters simultaneously.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.44-51
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• 2011

In this paper, an easy-to-use measurement device for illumination distribution is developed. The device consists of a sensor array module, a control module, and a PC interface. The sensor array module incorporates CIE 1931 color sensors and the ARM-based 96 MHz microcontroller in the control module for measurement and data processing. The sensor array module contains 64 color sensors arranged in a $16{\times}4$ array. The sensitivity of the sensor array module can be adjusted depending on the illumination level to be measured. The measurement data and control signals are exchanged via USB 2.0 standard. To demonstrate the performance of the device, the illumination distribution is measured for colors of red, green, and blue and is graphically shown. The device can be used for measurement of the illumination distribution, design and adjustment of LED illumination.