• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.93-115
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• 2017

The ability of smartphones to facilitate various services like mobile banking, e-commerce and mobile payments has made them part of consumers' lives. Conjoint analysis (CA) is a marketing research approach used to assess how consumers' preferences for products or services develop. The potential applications of CA are numerous in consumer electronics, banking and insurance services, job selection and workplace loyalty, consumer packaged goods, and travel and tourism. Choice-Based Conjoint (CBC) analysis is the most commonly used CA approach in marketing research. The purpose of this study is to utilise CBC analysis to investigate the relative importance of smartphone attributes that influence consumer smartphone preference. An experiment was designed using Sawtooth CBC Software. 326 students attempted the online survey. Utility values were derived by Hierarchical Bayes (HB) estimation and used to explain consumers' smartphone preferences. All the six attributes used for the study were found to significantly influence smartphone preference. Smartphone brand was the most important, followed by the price, camera, RAM, battery life, and storage. This study is one of the first to use Sawtooth CBC analysis to assess consumer smartphone preference based on the six attributes. We provide implications for the development of new smartphones based on attributes.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.244-251
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• 2013

This paper presents a study the change of the load profile on the power system by the charging impact of electric vehicles (EVs) in 2020. The impact of charging EVs on the load demand is determined not only by the number of EVs in usage pattern, but also by the number of EVs being charged at once. The charging load is determined on an hourly basis using the number of the EVs based on different scenarios considering battery size, model, the use of vehicles, charging at home or work, and the method of charging, which is either fast or slow. Focusing on the impact of future load profile in Korea with EVs reaching up 10 and 20 percentage, increased power demand by EVs charging is analyzed. Also, this paper analyzes the impact of a time-of-use (TOU) tariff system on the charging of EVs in Korea. The results demonstrate how the penetration of EVs increases the load profile and decreases charging demand by TOU tariff system on the future power system.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2015

The concept known as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is to provide power to help balance loads by charging at night when demand is low and sending power to the grid when demand is high. Therefore, it is important to model the cost-benefit characteristics of Electric vehicle(EV)'s operation considering the negawatt market in real time. This paper proposes a methodology to formulate the various costs and economic benefits for sending the EV's power back to the grid, including a concept of inconvenience costs caused by operating the EV as a battery. This paper also introduces the general decision-making process based on the cost-benefit analysis in order to simulate the reasonable participation of V2G service. In the case study, it is confirmed by two-case simulations that the proposed approach is useful to help EV owners' decision-making. In the future, it is expected that the proposed methodology can be used as a decision-making guideline to help prepare the EV' power transmission.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2020

Integrated bidirectional OBC/LDC was developed to reduce the volume for elements, avoid space restriction, and increase efficiency in EV vehicles. In this study, a DC-DC converter in integrated OBC/LDC circuits was composed of an SRC circuit with a stable output voltage relative to an LLC circuit using a theoretical method and simulation. The resonant network of the selected circuit was optimized to minimize the power loss and element volume under constraints for the buck converter and the battery charging range. Moreover, the validity of the optimal model was verified through an analysis using a theoretical method and a numerical analysis based on power loss at the optimized resonant frequency.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.753-758
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 하이브리드 발전 시스템에서의 최대 전력 추종을 위한 디지털 퍼지 제어기 설계를 목표로 한다. 하이브리드 발전 시스템은 풍력과 태양광, 두 개의 발전 시스템으로 구성된다. 각 발전기에서 전압과 전류는 일반적으로 비선형 관계에 있기 때문에, 퍼지 모델 기반 제어기를 사용하여 비선형성을 효율적으로 제어하게 된다. 또한 마이크로프로세서 기반제어 시스템의 구축을 위하여 최신 디지털 재설계 기법을 사용하며, 디지털 퍼지 제어기를 설계하게 된다. 마지막으로 하이브리드 발전 시스템의 플랜트를 통한 실험으로써 본 제안 기법의 우수성을 입증한다.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2014

본 연구는 고령화시대에 따라 한국의 장애인 증가로 인한 전동휠체어의 수요가 증가함에 따라, 시뮬레이션을 이용한 접이식 전동휠체어에 대해 기술하였다. 기존의 모터가 들어있는 전동휠체어를 보호자가 환자와 함께 탈 수 있는 구조로 설계 하였고 모터와 배터리를 분리하지 않고도 휠체어를 접을 수 있어 자동차트렁크나 작은 공간에 쉽게 넣을 수 있고 핸드카형식으로도 사용 할 수 있는 접이식 휠체어를 제안하였다. 또한 환자의 편리성을 위해 휠체어 디자인을 외산에 비해 경제적인 가격으로 개선했고 갑작스러운 가속이나 급정지에도 적절히 제어될 수 있도록 설계하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.503-506
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• 2014

이 연구는 고령화 시대에 맞게 한국의 장애인 증가로 인한 휠체어 사용의 증가를 이야기한다. 기존의 모터가 들어있는 전동휠체어를 보호자가 환자와 함께 탈 수 있게끔 하였고 모터와 배터리를 분해하지 않고도 휠체어를 접을 수 있어 자동차트렁크나 작은 공간에 쉽게 넣을 수 있고 핸드카형식으로도 사용할 수 있는 접이식 휠체어바디를 설계했다. 설계한 휠체어 바디는 Solidworks를 이용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다. 시뮬레이션은 인장응력, 변형률, 피로해석으로 나뉘어 휠체어가 튼튼하게 설계하였다. 또한 환자를 위한 휠체어 디자인을 개선했고 갑작스러운 가속이나 급정지에도 잘 제어되게끔 설계하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.648-657
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• 2019

A cluster topology was proposed with the assumption of zero noise to improve the performance of wireless body area networks (WBANs). However, in WBANs, the transmission power should be reduced as low as possible to avoid the effect of electromagnetic waves on the human body and to extend the lifetime of a battery. Therefore, in this work, we consider a bit error rate for a cluster-based WBAN and analyze the performance of the system while the transmission of sensors and cluster headers (CHs) is controlled. Moreover, a hierarchical topology is proposed for the cluster-based WBAN to further improve the throughput of the system; this proposed system is called as the hierarchical cluster WBAN. The hierarchical cluster WBAN is combined with a transmission control scheme, that is, complete control, spatial reuse superframe, to increase the throughput. The proposed system is analyzed and evaluated based on several factors of the system model, such as signal-to-noise ratio, number of clusters, and number of sensors. The calculation result indicates that the proposed hierarchical cluster WBAN outperforms the cluster-based WBAN in all analyzed scenarios.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2022

Sensor Nodes play a major role to monitor and sense the variations in physical space in various real-time application scenarios. These nodes are powered by limited battery resources and replacing those resource is highly tedious task along with this it increases implementation cost. Thus, maintaining a good network lifespan is amongst the utmost important challenge in this field of WSN. Currently, energy efficient routing techniques are considered as promising solution to prolong the network lifespan where multi-hop communications are performed by identifying the most energy efficient path. However, the existing scheme suffer from performance related issues. To solve the issues of existing techniques, a novel hybrid technique by merging particle swarm optimization and game theory model is presented. The PSO helps to obtain the efficient number of cluster and Cluster Head selection whereas game theory aids in finding the best optimized path from source to destination by utilizing a path selection probability approach. This probability is obtained by using conditional probability to compute payoff for agents. When compared to current strategies, the experimental study demonstrates that the proposed GTPSO strategy outperforms them.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4385-4399
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• 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) eHealth systems composed by Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has emerged recently. Sensor nodes are placed around or in the human body to collect physiological data. WBAN has many different applications, for instance health monitoring. Since the limitation of the size of the battery, besides speed, reliability, and accuracy; design of WBAN protocols should consider the energy efficiency and time delay. To solve these problems, this paper adopt the end-edge-cloud orchestrated network architecture and propose a transmission based on reinforcement algorithm. The priority of sensing data is classified according to certain application. System utility function is modeled according to the channel factors, the energy utility, and successful transmission conditions. The optimization problem is mapped to Q-learning model. Following this online power control protocol, the energy level of both the senor to coordinator, and coordinator to edge server can be modified according to the current channel condition. The network performance is evaluated by simulation. The results show that the proposed power control protocol has higher system energy efficiency, delivery ratio, and throughput.