• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.194-201
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• 2014

To increase the capacity of secondary cells, an appropriate serial composition of the battery modules is essential. The unbalance that may occur due to the series connection in such a serial composition is the main cause for declines in the efficiency and performance of batteries. Various studies have been conducted on the use of a passive or active topology to eliminate the unbalance from the series circuit of battery modules. Most topologies consist of a complex structure in which the Battery Management System (BMS) detects the voltage of each module and establishes the voltage balancing in the independent electrical power converters installed on each module by comparing the module voltage. This study proposes a new magnetic flux sharing type DC/DC converter topology in order to remove voltage unbalances from batteries. The proposed topology is characterized by a design in which all of the DC/DC convertor outputs connected to the modules converge into a single transformer. In this structure, by taking a form in which all of the battery balancing type converters share magnetic flux through a single harmonic wave transformer, all of the converter voltages automatically converge to the same voltage. This paper attempts to analyze the dynamic properties of the proposed circuit by using a Programmable Synthesizer Interface Module (PSIM), which is useful for power electronics analysis, while also attempting to demonstrate the validity of the proposed circuit through experimental results.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.2230-2237
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 자연계에 존재하는 동기화 현상에 착안하여 무선 네트워크를 위한 자율적 부하균형 기법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 무선 접속 서비스를 제공하는 셀 사이의 부하균형 문제를 자연계 동기화 현상을 이용하여 모델링 한 후 각 셀들이 이웃 셀과의 부하 차이에 따라 자율적으로 부하를 분배하기 위한 알고리즘을 설계한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안 기법을 이용하여 각 셀들이 자신의 지역적 정보만을 이용하여 자율적으로 부하 분배 여부를 결정하더라도 셀 간 부하균형을 이룰 수 있다는 것을 검증하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.122-129
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• 2015

In this study, we propose a low voltage stress and cost-effective light emitting diode (LED) driver capable of multi-channel current balancing. Conventional LED drivers require as many boost converters as the number of LED channels, whereas the proposed LED driver requires only one buck converter and several balancing capacitors instead of several expensive boost converters. Additionally, while the components of the boost converter have high voltage stress and depend on the LED driving voltage, components of the proposed driver have about one-half of the voltage stress across all components. The proposed driver exhibits high reliability and cost effectiveness because it only uses few DC blocking capacitors with no additional active devices to balance the current of multi-channel LEDs. The proposed driver exhibits high reliability and cost effectiveness. The validity of the proposed driver is confirmed through a theoretical analysis. An explanation of the design considerations and experimental results were obtained using a prototype applicable to a 46" LED-TV.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2010

In this study rotordynamic characteristics of an air turbo-compressor (ATC) used in oxygen plant are analyzed and its operating-speed balancing is performed to solve the vibration trouble caused by rotor unbalance. Three dimensional model of the ATC rotor is completed and then analytical FE (finite element) model, which is verified by experimental modal testing, is developed. A rotordynamic analysis includes the critical map, Campbell diagram, and unbalance response, especially considering the pedestal housings supporting tilting pad bearings. A test run of operating-speed, using tilting-pad bearing of actual use, showed that the vibration level increased very sharply as approaching the rated speed. The operating-speed balancing specified by API 684 was carried out by using influence coefficient method. The results showed that the vibrations at the bearing pedestal housings represented good levels of 0.1 mm/s. From the test run and operating-speed balancing, the analytical results, that is, critical speeds are in good agreement with the test results and unbalance responses introducing the correction masses are similar to the as-is test responses in its aspect.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1133-1151
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• 2010

Energy balanced consumption routing is based on assumption that the nodes consume energy both in transmitting and receiving. Lopsided energy consumption is an intrinsic problem in low-cost sensor networks characterized by multihop routing and in many traffic overhead pattern networks, and this irregular energy dissipation can significantly reduce network lifetime. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing network lifetime through balancing energy consumption for uniformly deployed low-cost sensor networks. We formulate the energy consumption balancing problem as an optimal balancing data transmitting problem by combining the ideas of corona cluster based network division and optimized transmitting state routing strategy together with data transmission. We propose a localized cluster based routing scheme that guarantees balanced energy consumption among clusters within each corona. We develop a new energy cluster based routing protocol called "OECR". We design an offline centralized algorithm with time complexity O (log n) (n is the number of clusters) to solve the transmitting data distribution problem aimed at energy balancing consumption among nodes in different cluster. An approach for computing the optimal number of clusters to maximize the network lifetime is also presented. Based on the mathematical model, an optimized energy cluster routing (OECR) is designed and the solution for extending OEDR to low-cost sensor networks is also presented. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed routing scheme significantly outperforms conventional energy routing schemes in terms of network lifetime.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2008

가상의 컴퓨팅 환경을 제공하는 가상화 기술은 최근 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 분야이며, 이에 따라 가상화 기술을 이용한 많은 제품들이 상용화, 출시되는 추세이다 가상화의 여러 분야 중 특히 서버 가상화는 실제 필요한 서버의 수보다 적은 수의 물리적 서버들로 다수의 가강화 된 서버를 수행함으로써 네트워크 서비스 구축에 드는 비용을 절감할 수 있는 효율적인 방안이다. 본 논문에서는 서버 가상화 기술을 기반으로 하여 원격 데스크탑 서비스를 위한 서버를 가상화 한 가상 데스크탑 서비스를 설계, 구현하였다. 또한 제안된 가상 데스크탑 서비스 상에서 특정 물리적 서버에 부하가 집중되는 것을 방지하기 위한 부하 분산 정책을 제안하였다. 제안된 가상 데스크탑서비스와 부하 분산 정책은사용자 관점 및 시스템 관점에서의 성능 향상을 모두 기대할 수 있는 효율적인 원격 데스크탑 서비스가 될 것이다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.498-502
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• 2004

In a link-motion mechanism, numerous links are interconnected and each link executes a constrained motion at a high speed. Due to the complicated constrained motions of the constituent links, dynamic unbalance forces and moments are generated and transmitted to the main frame. Therefore unwanted vibration is produced. This degrades productivity and precise work. Based on constrained multi-body dynamics, the kinematic analysis is carried out to enable design changes to be made. This will provide the fundamental information for significantly reducing dynamic unbalance forces and moments which are transmitted to the main frame. In this work, a link-motion punch press is selected as an example of a link-motion mechanism. To calculate the mass and inertia properties of every link comprising a link-motion punch press, 3-dimensional CAD software is utilized. The main issue in this work is to eliminate the first-order unbalance force and moment in a link-motion punch press. The mass, moment of inertia link length, location of the mass center in each link have a great impact on the degree of dynamic balancing which can be achieved maximally. Achieving good dynamic balancing in a link motion punch press is quite essential fur reliable operation at high speed.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 신경 관련 인공 전자기기를 위한 신경 자극 집적회로를 $0.18-{\mu}m$ 표준 CMOS 반도체 공정을 이용하여 설계하였다. 제안 된 신경 자극 회로는 12.8-V 전원을 사용하면서 $10-k{\Omega}$의 부하에 최대 1 mA의 전류까지 전달이 가능하다. 표준 CMOS 공정 기술로 구현을 위해서 저전압 트랜지스터만을 이용하여 설계를 하였고, 고전압에서의 안정적인 동작을 위하여 트랜지스터 스태킹 기술을 적용하였다. 또한, 신경 자극 동작 후 전하 잔여량이 남아 있지 않도록 active charge balancing회로를 포함하였다. 제안 된 단일 채널 자극 집적회로의 경우 디지털-아날로그 변환기, 전류 출력 드라이버, 레벨 시프터, 디지털 제어 부분, 그리고 active charge balancing 회로까지 모두 포함하여 전체 칩 레이아웃 면적은 $0.13mm^2$을 차지하며, 다중 채널 방식의 신경 자극 기능의 체내 이식용 인공 전자기기 시스템에 적용을 하는데 적합하다.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2008

In spite of rapidly increasing interests in digital manufacturing, there still lacks of a systematic approach in manufacturing line flow analysis via modeling and simulation; currently, the parameters for designing manufacturing line are defined by being solely based on engineers experiences. The paper proposes an application of the genetic algorithm to a discrete event line simulation finding optimal set of parameters for manufacturing line balancing problem. The proposed method has been applied to two example problems-one is a simple manufacturing model and the other for shipyard industry-in order to demonstrate its validity and usefulness.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.861-871
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• 2016

With high penetration of renewable energies, power electronic transformers (PETs) will be one of the most important infrastructures in the future power delivery and management system. In this study, an isolated bidirectional modular multilevel DC/DC converter is proposed for PET applications. A modular multilevel structure is adopted as switching valves to sustain medium voltages to achieve modular design and high reliability. Only one high-frequency transformer is used in the proposed converter, which significantly simplifies the circuit and galvanic insulation design. A dual-phase-shift modulation strategy is proposed to regulate the output power and achieve a simple voltage balancing control. A down-scaled (2 kW/20 kHz) prototype is constructed to demonstrate the proposed converter and verify the control strategy. The experimental results comply with the theoretical analysis well, with the highest power efficiency reaching 97.6%.