• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.305-318
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• 2008

The development of a digital signal processor based prototype is described in relation to continuing efforts for realizing a fully self-contained active sensor system utilizing impedance-based structural health monitoring. The impedance method utilizes a piezoelectric material bonded to the structure under observation to act as both an actuator and sensor. By monitoring the electrical impedance of the piezoelectric material, insights into the health of the structured can be inferred. The active sensing system detailed in this paper interrogates a structure utilizing a self-sensing actuator and a low cost impedance method. Here, all the data processing, storage, and analysis is performed at the sensor location. A wireless transmitter is used to communicate the current status of the structure. With this new low cost, field deployable impedance analyzer, reliance on traditional expensive, bulky, and power consuming impedance analyzers is no longer necessary. A complete power analysis of the prototype is performed to determine the validity of power harvesting being utilized for self-containment of the hardware. Experimental validation of the prototype on a representative structure is also performed and compared to traditional methods of damage detection.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.163-173
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• 2017

Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure using fiber Bragg grating sensor networks (FBGSNs) has received significant public attention in recent years. However, there is currently little research on the health-monitoring technology of high-piled wharfs in coastal ports using the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor technique. The benefits of FBG sensors are their small size, light weight, lack of conductivity, resistance corrosion, multiplexing ability and immunity to electromagnetic interference. Based on the properties of high-piled wharfs in coastal ports and servicing seawater environment and the benefits of FBG sensors, the SHM system for a high-piled wharf in the Tianjin Port of China is devised and deployed partly using the FBG sensor technique. In addition, the health-monitoring parameters are proposed. The system can monitor the structural mechanical properties and durability, which provides a state-of-the-art mean to monitor the health conditions of the wharf and display the monitored data with the BIM technique. In total, 289 FBG stain sensors, 87 FBG temperature sensors, 20 FBG obliquity sensors, 16 FBG pressure sensors, 8 FBG acceleration sensors and 4 anode ladders are installed in the components of the back platform and front platform. After the installation of some components in the wharf construction site, the good signal that each sensor measures demonstrates the suitability of the sensor setup methods, and it is proper for the full-scale, continuous, autonomous SHM deployment for the high-piled wharf in the costal port. The South 27# Wharf SHM system constitutes the largest deployment of FBG sensors for wharf structures in costal ports to date. This deployment demonstrates the strong potential of FBGSNs to monitor the health of large-scale coastal wharf structures. This study can provide a reference to the long-term health-monitoring system deployment for high-piled wharf structures in coastal ports.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.327-342
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• 2017

본 논문은 센서 데이터를 수집하고 효과적으로 처리하는 IoT 서비스를 위한 스마트 센서 데이터 통합 처리 시스템을 소개한다. IoT 분야의 발전으로 센서 데이터를 수집하고 이를 네트워크로 송·수신하는 기술을 바탕으로 하는 스마트 홈, 자율주행 자동차 등의 다양한 프로젝트가 진행됨에 따라 센서 데이터를 처리하고 효과적으로 활용하기 위한 자율제어 시스템이 이슈가 되고 있다. 그러나 자율제어 시스템의 모니터링을 위한 센서 데이터 형식은 도메인에 따라 다르기 때문에 각기 다른 다양한 도메인에 자율제어 시스템을 적용하는 스마트 센서 데이터 통합 처리 시스템이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문은 스마트 센서 데이터 통합 처리 시스템을 소개하고, 이를 적용시켜 창문을 기준으로 내부와 외부의 센서 데이터를 처리하기 위해 1) receiveData, 2) parseData, 3) addToDatabase의 3단계 프로세스를 가지고, 자율제어 시스템에 의하여 쾌적한 실내 환경을 조성하기 위해 환기를 하는 자동 창문 개폐 시스템 'Smart Window'를 제안하고 구현한다. 이를 통해 대기 정보를 수집해 모니터링하며, 저장된 데이터를 토대로 통계 분석 및 더 나은 자율제어 수행을 위한 기계학습을 가능하게 한다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.338-344
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• 2010

This paper discusses the development of the control system of a mini quadrotor in Konkuk University for indoor applications. The attitude control system consists of a stability augmentation system, which acts as the inner loop control, and a modern control approach based on modeling will be implemented as the outer loop. The inner loop control was experimentally satisfied by a proportional-derivative controller; this was used to support the flight test in order to validate the modeling. This paper introduces the mathematical model for the simulation and design of the optimal control on the outer loop control. To perform the experimental tests, basic electronic hardware was developed using simple configurations; a microcontroller used as the embedded controller, a low-cost 100 Hz inertial sensors used for the inertial sensing, infra-red sensors were employed for horizontal ranging, an ultrasonic sensor was used for ground ranging and a high performance propeller system built on an quadrotor airframe was also employed. The results acquired from this compilation of hardware produced an automatic hovering ability of the system with ground control system support for the monitoring and fail-safe system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.425-433
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• 2002

After the removal of SA (Selective Availability), horizontal accuracy of 25m(2dRMS) is easily obtained using GPS (Global Positioning System). In this paper, the error characteristics without SA are analyzed and a navigation algorithm concerns this error characteristics is proposed to further improve the accuracy. The proposed method utilizes the relationship between elevation angle and errors that are remained after ionospheric and troposheric delay compensation. The relationship is derived from real measurements and used as a weighting matrix of weighted least squares estimator. Furthermore, a RAIM (Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring) technique is included to remove abnormal measurements affected by multi-path or low SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio). It is shown that using the proposed method, more than 4 times accurate result, which is comparable with DGPS (Differential GPS), can be obtained from experiments with real data. Besides accuracy and reliability, the proposed method reduces large jumps in position and maintains better performance than a method using mask angle to completely remove satellites below this mask angle. Thus it is expected that the proposed method can be efficiently applied to land navigation where some satellites are blocked by building or forest.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.279-286
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• 2015

최근 들어 급증하고 있는 해양사고의 주요 원인은 인간의 수행 오류에 기인하고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 디지털 선박의 구축, 선박 정보의 모니터링 시스템 등의 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 그러나 선박의 안전한 항해를 위해 다양한 형태의 대량 정보를 효율적으로 저장하고, 이용하고, 관리하는 시스템에 대한 연구가 미흡하다. 본 논문은 지능형 자율운항시스템의 아키텍쳐인 RVC 지능시스템 모델을 기반으로 하는 VWS(Virtual World System)을 제안한다. VWS는 선박의 안전 항해에 필요한 모든 정보를 저장하고 지능형 자율운항시스템의 부시스템에 정보를 서비스한다. VWS는 특정 문제 영역을 표현하기 위하여 토폴로지 데이터베이스를 이용하고, 실시간 처리 특성을 반영하기 위하여 스케줄링을 도입하였다. 또한 분산 처리 특성을 반영하기 위하여 가상세계 API를 정의하였다. 본 논문에서는 설계된 VWS를 지능형 선박 자율운항시스템에 장착하고 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 효율성을 입증해 보였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.675-687
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• 2010

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the science and technology of monitoring and assessing the condition of aerospace, civil and mechanical infrastructures using a sensing system integrated into the structure. Impedance-based SHM measures impedance of a structure using a PZT (Lead Zirconate Titanate) patch. This paper presents a low-power wireless autonomous and active SHM node called Autonomous SHM Sensor 2 (ASN-2), which is based on the impedance method. In this study, we incorporated three methods to save power. First, entire data processing is performed on-board, which minimizes radio transmission time. Considering that the radio of a wireless sensor node consumes the highest power among all modules, reduction of the transmission time saves substantial power. Second, a rectangular pulse train is used to excite a PZT patch instead of a sinusoidal wave. This eliminates a digital-to-analog converter and reduces the memory space. Third, ASN-2 senses the phase of the response signal instead of the magnitude. Sensing the phase of the signal eliminates an analog-to-digital converter and Fast Fourier Transform operation, which not only saves power, but also enables us to use a low-end low-power processor. Our SHM sensor node ASN-2 is implemented using a TI MSP430 microcontroller evaluation board. A cluster of ASN-2 nodes forms a wireless network. Each node wakes up at a predetermined interval, such as once in four hours, performs an SHM operation, reports the result to the central node wirelessly, and returns to sleep. The power consumption of our ASN-2 is 0.15 mW during the inactive mode and 18 mW during the active mode. Each SHM operation takes about 13 seconds to consume 236 mJ. When our ASN-2 operates once in every four hours, it is estimated to run for about 2.5 years with two AAA-size batteries ignoring the internal battery leakage.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.317-320
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• 2009

At the present day, the use of containers crisscrossing seven seas and intercontinental transport has significantly increased and bringing the change on the shape of the world economy which we cannot be neglected. Additionally, with the recent technological advances in wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies, has providing an economically feasible monitoring solution to diverse application that allow us to envision the intelligent containers represent the next evolutionary development step in order to increase the efficiency, productivity, utilities, security and safe of containerized cargo shipping. This paper we present a comprehensive containerized cargo monitoring system which has adaptively embedded WSN technology into cargo logistic technology. We share the basic requirement for an autonomous logistic network that could provide optimum performance and a suite of algorithms for self-organization and bi-directional communication of a scalable large number of sensor node apply on container regardless inland and maritime transportation.

• 한국정보기술학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2018

다양한 분야에 적용이 확대되고 있는 무선 센서 네트워크 기술은 센서들의 전력공급 및 전원관리 문제가 가장 큰 핵심이 되고 있다. 이러한 이유에서 새로운 개념의 전력공급장치와 전원관리장치가 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 송전선에 흐르는 전류를 이용하여 전자기유도 원리에 의한 에너지 하베스팅 기술을 적용하여 별도의 외부 입력 없이 센서노드에 안정적인 전력을 공급하는 자율독립전원 시스템을 개발하였다. 제안한 자율독립전원 시스템은 Power CT를 활용한 전력공급장치와 충전회로를 포함한 전원관리장치로 구성되었다. 전원관리장치는 배터리의 충전의 안전성을 확보하기 위하여 전압제한회로, 충전전압/전류 모니터링 회로를 적용하였다. 제안된 시스템의 성능검증을 위하여 SVL진단장치에 적용하여 실험한 결과 안정적으로 운용됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.439-459
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• 2010

Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure using wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) has received significant public attention in recent years. The benefits of WSSNs are that they are low-cost, easy to install, and provide effective data management via on-board computation. This paper reports on the deployment and evaluation of a state-of-the-art WSSN on the new Jindo Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge in South Korea with a 344-m main span and two 70-m side spans. The central components of the WSSN deployment are the Imote2 smart sensor platforms, a custom-designed multimetric sensor boards, base stations, and software provided by the Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project (ISHMP) Services Toolsuite. In total, 70 sensor nodes and two base stations have been deployed to monitor the bridge using an autonomous SHM application with excessive wind and vibration triggering the system to initiate monitoring. Additionally, the performance of the system is evaluated in terms of hardware durability, software stability, power consumption and energy harvesting capabilities. The Jindo Bridge SHM system constitutes the largest deployment of wireless smart sensors for civil infrastructure monitoring to date. This deployment demonstrates the strong potential of WSSNs for monitoring of large scale civil infrastructure.