• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.219-230
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• 2010

In nuclear power plants (NPPs), periodic sensor calibrations are required to assure that sensors are operating correctly. By checking the sensor's operating status at every fuel outage, faulty sensors may remain undetected for periods of up to 24 months. Moreover, typically, only a few faulty sensors are found to be calibrated. For the safe operation of NPP and the reduction of unnecessary calibration, on-line instrument calibration monitoring is needed. In this study, principal component-based auto-associative support vector regression (PCSVR) using response surface methodology (RSM) is proposed for the sensor signal validation of NPPs. This paper describes the design of a PCSVR-based sensor validation system for a power generation system. RSM is employed to determine the optimal values of SVR hyperparameters and is compared to the genetic algorithm (GA). The proposed PCSVR model is confirmed with the actual plant data of Kori Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 and is compared with the Auto-Associative support vector regression (AASVR) and the auto-associative neural network (AANN) model. The auto-sensitivity of AASVR is improved by around six times by using a PCA, resulting in good detection of sensor drift. Compared to AANN, accuracy and cross-sensitivity are better while the auto-sensitivity is almost the same. Meanwhile, the proposed RSM for the optimization of the PCSVR algorithm performs even better in terms of accuracy, auto-sensitivity, and averaged maximum error, except in averaged RMS error, and this method is much more time efficient compared to the conventional GA method.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.872-898
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• 2007

전동차 자동검사 장치의 하나인 판타그라프 습판마모 자동측정 시스템은 첨단 기술인 머신비젼 기법을 이용하여 습판체의 마모상태를 검수자의 육안검사 없이 마모량과 교체시점 등을 판단하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 우천시 빗물로 인한 노이즈(Noise)가 영상에 입력되어 판타그라프 습판의 에지(Edge)를 검출하는데 영향을 미쳐 신뢰성을 저하시키는 요인이 된다. 이러한 노이즈 제거를 위해 평활화(Smoothing) 처리로서 필터링 기법을 적용한 평균 마스크(Averaging mask), 중간값 필터(Median filter) 기법을 사용하여 문제점 등을 확인하고, 머신비젼 기술에서 사용되는 영상측정에 있어 에지 추출(Edge Detection)이 노이즈의 영향을 받지 않고 안정된 결과를 획득할 수 있도록 유도하고자 한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2008

Gasoline Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion is a new combustion concept. Unlike the conventional internal combustion engine, the premixed fuel mixture with high residual gas rate is auto-ignited and burned without flame propagation. There are several operating factors which affect HCCI combustion such as start of combustion (SOC), residual gas fraction, engine rpm, etc. Among these factors SOC is a critical factor in the combustion because it affects exhaust gas emissions, engine power, fuel economy and combustion characteristics. Therefore SOC of gasoline HCCI should be controlled precisely, and SOC detection should be preceded SOC control. This paper presents a control oriented SOC detection method using 50 percent normalized difference pressure. Normalized difference pressure is defined as the normalized value of difference pressure and difference pressure is difference between the in-cylinder firing pressure and the motoring pressure. These methods were verified through the HCCI combustion experiments. The SOC detection method using difference pressure provides a fast and precise SOC detection.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.369-388
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• 2023

In this paper, we develop the two-step procedure that detects and estimates the position of structural changes for multivariate nonstationary time series, either on mean parameters or second-order structures. We first investigate the presence of mean structural change by monitoring data through the aggregated cumulative sum (CUSUM) type statistic, a sequential procedure identifying the likely position of the change point on its trend. If no mean change point is detected, the proposed method proceeds to scan the second-order structural change by modeling the multivariate nonstationary time series with a multivariate locally stationary Wavelet process, allowing the time-localized auto-correlation and cross-dependence. Under this framework, the estimated dynamic spectral matrices derived from the local wavelet periodogram capture the time-evolving scale-specific auto- and cross-dependence features of data. We then monitor the change point from the lower-dimensional approximated space of the spectral matrices over time by applying the dynamic principal component analysis. Different from existing methods requiring prior information on the type of changes between mean and covariance structures as an input for the implementation, the proposed algorithm provides the output indicating the type of change and the estimated location of its occurrence. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated in simulations and the analysis of two real finance datasets.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권8호
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• pp.1179-1185
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• 2012

This paper presents a new approach for the detection of seismic events using accumulated changes on time-frequency domain and variable threshold. To detect seismic P-wave arrivals with rapidness and accuracy, it is that the changes on the time and the frequency domains are simultaneously used. Their changes are parameters appropriated to reflect characteristics of earthquakes over moderate magnitude(${\geq}$ magnitude 4.0) and microearthquakes. In addition, adaptively controlled threshold values can prevent false P-wave detections due to low SNR. We tested our method on real earthquakes those have various magnitudes. The proposed algorithm gives a good detection performance and it is also comparable to STA/LTA algorithm in computational complexity. Computer simulation results shows that the proposed algorithm is superior to the conventional popular algorithm (STA/LTA) in the seismic P-wave detection.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.237-254
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• 2019

This paper presents an improved time series based damage detection approach with experimental verifications for detection, localization, and quantification of damage in shear-type structures under varying mass effects using output-only vibration data. The proposed method can be very effective for automated monitoring of buildings to develop proactive maintenance strategies. In this method, Auto-Regressive Moving Average models with eXogenous inputs (ARMAX) are built to represent the dynamic relationship of different sensor clusters. The damage features are extracted based on the relative difference of the ARMAX model coefficients to identify the existence, location and severity of damage of stiffness and mass separately. The results from a laboratory-scale shear type structure show that different damage scenarios are revealed successfully using the approach. At the end of this paper, the methodology limitations are also discussed, especially when simultaneous occurrence of mass and stiffness damage at multiple locations.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.588-590
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• 2006

Recently, many on-line approaches to instrument channel surveillance (drift monitoring and fault detection) have been reported worldwide. On-line monitoring (OLM) method evaluates instrument channel performance by assessing its consistency with other plant indications through parametric or non-parametric models. The heart of an OLM system is the model giving an estimate of the true process parameter value against individual measurements. This model gives process parameter estimate calculated as a function of other plant measurements which can be used to identify small sensor drifts that would require the sensor to be manually calibrated or replaced. This paper describes an improvement of auto-associative kernel regression by introducing a correlation coefficient weighting on kernel distances. The prediction performance of the developed method is compared with conventional auto-associative kernel regression.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.73-76
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• 2007

Photodynamic diagnosis(PDD) is a method to diagnose the possibility of cancer, both by the principle that if a photosensitizer is injected into an organic tissue, it is accumulated in the tissue of a malignant tumor selectively after a specific period, and by a comparison of the intensity of the fluorescence of normal tissue with abnormal tissue after investigating the excitation light of a tissue with accumulated photosensitizer. Since the selection of the wavelength band of excitation light has an interrelation with fluorescence generation according to the selection of a photosencitizer, it plays an important role in POD. This study aims at designing and evaluating light source devices that can stably generate light with various kinds of wavelengths In order to make possible PDD using a photosensitizer and diagnosis using auto-fluorescence. The light source device was a Xenon lamp and filter wheel, composed of an optical output control through Iris and filters with several wavelength bands It also makes the inducement of auto-fluorescence possible because it is designed to generate a wavelength band of 380-400. The transmission part of the light source was, developed to enhance the efficiency of light transmission. To evaluate this light source device, the characteristics of the light output and wavelength band were verified. To validate the capability of this device as PDD the detection of auto-fluorescence using mouse was performed.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2010

MANET(Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork)은 실제 구현이나 동작과정에 많은 변수가 내재되어 있기 때문에 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 적용의 중요한 대상이 된다. MANET에서는 노드의 이동성으로 인해 다른 MANET과 중첩되거나 병합될 경우가 발생하며, 이 경우 다른 전달 방식을 가진 노드와의 통신을 위하여 새로운 경로 및 주소 설정이 선행되어야 한다. 이 과정은 새로 구성되는 네트워크에 있어서 오버헤드이기 때문에 이를 최소화하여 네트워크의 전달성능을 향상시킬 수 있도록 하기 위한 네트워크의 성능분석과 검증에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 오버헤드를 최소화할 수 있는 on-demand방식의 주소 자동설정 기법의 제안과, 제안한 기법의 타당성과 성능 검증을 위한 모델링 및 성능분석 내용을 제시하였다. NS-2에 의한 시뮬레이션은 기존의 방법에 비해 제안한 방법이 오버헤드를 줄이고 또한 시간적으로 분산되는 결과를 보였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.500-510
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• 2023

수동소나 신호에는 정상신호와 비정상 신호가 같이 존재하는 경우가 대부분이다. 정상신호와 혼재된 비정상 신호는 주로 정상신호만을 학습하는 오토인코더를 이용하여 탐지된다. 하지만 기존의 오토인코더는 혼재된 신호로부터 왜곡된 정상신호를 복원하므로 부정확한 탐지를 수행할 수 있다. 이러한 한계를 개선하고자, 본 논문에서는 순환신경망과 벡터 양자화 기반의 비정상 신호 탐지 모델을 제안한다. 제안된 모델은 학습된 잠재벡터들을 대표하는 코드 북을 생성하고, 제안된 코드벡터의 탐색을 통해 보다 정확하게 비정상 신호를 탐지한다. 공개된 수중 음향 데이터를 이용한 실험에서 제안된 기법이 적용된 오토인코더와 변이형 오토인코더는 기존 모델에 비해 최소 2.4 % 향상된 탐지 성능과 최소 9.2 % 높은 비정상 신호 추출 성능을 보였다.