• 센서학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

In many medical image devices, dc noise often prevents normal diagnosis. In wireless capsule endoscopy systems, multipath fading through indoor wireless links induces inter-symbol interference (ISI) and indoor electric devices generate impulsive noise in the received signal. Moreover, dc noise, ISI, and impulsive noise are also found in optical fiber communication that can be used in remote medical diagnosis. In this paper, a blind signal processing method based on the biased probability density functions of constant modulus error that is robust to those problems that can cause error propagation in decision feedback (DF) methods is presented. Based on this property of robustness to error propagation, a DF version of the method is proposed. In the simulation for the impulse response of optical fiber channels having slowly varying dc noise and impulsive noise, the proposed DF method yields a performance enhancement of approximately 10 dB in mean squared error over its linear counterpart.

• 인지과학
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.357-381
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• 2009

이전의 연구들이 외부 피드백 정보에 대한 반응민감도에 성격특성적 개인차가 반영된다는 사실을 밝힌바 있지만, 재인기억과 관련한 의사결정에서 이러한 기질 혹은 특성적 개인차가 어떻게 관여하는지는 아직 알려진 바가 없다. 본 연구는 재인기억 과제에서 피드백에 근거한 의사결정 준거의 순응적 변화정도와 피드백에 대한 일반적 반응민감도의 개인차간 관계를 살펴보았다. 통제 조건인 실험 1에서는 올바른 피드백 조건이 의사결정 준거의 유동성에 영향을 미치지 않음을 보인 반면 피드백 조작이 이루어진 실험 2에서는 확신도가 높은 오기억 반응에만 선택적으로 편향된 피드백이 주어졌음에도 전반적인 Old/New 반응 범주의 결정준거 또한 순응적으로 이동함이 나타났다. 보다 중요하게 이 피드백에 근거한 의사결정 준거 학습에 나타나는 개별 피험자들의 반응민감도 차이가 강화 추구 혹은 불안 회피와 밀접하게 관련된 안정적 성격(Behavioral Activation System-BAS 혹은Behavioral Inhibition System-BIS)의 개인차에 의해 유의미하게 예측될 수 있음이 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 그동안 외현적인 재인 기억 의사 결정에 있어서 중요하게 여기지 않았던 점증적 강화학습 기제가 결정 준거의 설정에 관여할 수 있음을 보여준다는 데에서 중요한 의미를 찾을 수 있다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권12호
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• pp.1886-1891
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• 2012

In this paper, the analytical models for the electrothermal feedback of a ${\mu}$-bolometer focal plane array(FPA) are proposed and applied to the conceptually designed FPA to investigate the electrothermal feedback effect on bolometer FPA signal. The temperature and resistance change of the ${\mu}$-bolometer by the electrothermal feedback(ETF) model are increased upto 20 and 35.7 % of those of no feedback case, respectively, while those by the effective thermal conductance(ETC) model increased 8.5 and 15.1 %. The integration current and output voltage of a CTIA used as an column amplifier of FPA are also increased upto 41.6 and 32.4 % by the ETF model, while increased upto 17.2 and 13.5 % by the ETC model. The proposed models give more accurate temperature change, accordingly larger signal than no feedback considering case. Electrothermal feedback effect should be considered to design a high performance and high density ${\mu}$-bolometer FPA. The proposed models are very useful to investigate the transient thermal analysis, also considered to be useful to predict the responsivity and dynamic range of ${\mu}$-bolometer FPAs.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 새로운 개념의 공정 검출 회로를 제안하였다. 제안된 공정 검출 회로는 장채널 트랜지스터와 최소의 배선폭을 갖는 단채널 트랜지스터 사이의 공정변수의 차이를 비교한다. 이 회로는 공정 변이에 따라 발생하는 캐리어 이동도의 차이를 이용하여 이에 비례하는 차동 전류를 생성해 낸다. 이 방법에서는 고 이득 연산증폭기를 사용한 궤환 회로를 구현함으로써 두 개의 트랜지스터의 드레인 전압이 같아지도록 유지한다. 또한, 본 논문은 제안한 자기-바이어스 슈퍼 MOS 복합회로를 이용하여 고 이득 자기-바이어스 rail-to-rail 연산증폭기를 설계하는 새로운 방법을 소개한다. 설계된 연산증폭기의 이득은 단상의 $0.2V{\sim}1.6V$ 공통모드 범위에서 100dB 이상으로 측정되었다 최종적으로, 제안한 공정 검출 회로는 차동 VCO 회로에 직접 적용하였으며, 설계된 VCO 회로를 통해서 공정 검출 회로가 공정 코너들을 성공적으로 보상하고 광범위한 동작 영역에서 안정된 동작을 수행함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.967-970
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• 1999

A novel linear transconductor for low-voltage low-power signal processing is proposed. The transconductor consists of a pnp differential-pair and a npn differential-pair which are biased by local negative feedback. The simulation results show that the transcondcutor with transconductance of 50 $mutextrm{s}$ has a linearity error of 0.05% and the power dissipation is 2.44 ㎽ over an input linear range from -2V to +2V at supply voltage $\pm$3V.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.65-68
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• 2000

It is well-known that the decision rule in the mini-mum mean-squares-error decision feedback equalizer(MMSE-DFE) is biased, and therefore suboptimum with respect to error probability. We present a new family of algorithms that solve the bias problem in the adaptive DFE. A novel constraint, called the constant-norm con-straint, is introduced unifying the quadratic constraint and the monic one. A new cost function based on the constant-norm constraint and Lagrange multiplier is defined. Minimizing the cost function gives birth to a new family of unbiased adaptive DFE. The simula-tion results demonstrate that the proposed method in-deed produce unbiased solution in the presence of noise while keeping very simple both in computation and im-plementation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.95-108
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• 2021

Application (app) ratings are feedback provided voluntarily by users and serve as important evaluation criteria for apps. However, these ratings can often be biased owing to insufficient or missing votes. Additionally, significant differences have been observed between numeric ratings and user reviews. This study aims to predict the numeric ratings of Google apps using machine learning classifiers. It exploits numeric app ratings provided by users as training data and returns authentic mobile app ratings by analyzing user reviews. An ensemble learning model is proposed for this purpose that considers term frequency/inverse document frequency (TF/IDF) features. Three TF/IDF features, including unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams, were used. The dataset was scraped from the Google Play store, extracting data from 14 different app categories. Biased and unbiased user ratings were discriminated using TextBlob analysis to formulate the ground truth, from which the classifier prediction accuracy was then evaluated. The results demonstrate the high potential for machine learning-based classifiers to predict authentic numeric ratings based on actual user reviews.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1226-1235
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• 2016

For wearable health monitoring systems, a fundamental problem is the limited space for storing energy, which can be translated into a short operational life. In this paper, a highly efficient active voltage doubling rectifier with a wide input range for micro-piezoelectric energy harvesting systems is proposed. To obtain a higher output voltage, the Dickson charge pump topology is chosen in this design. By replacing the passive diodes with unbalanced-biased comparator-controlled active counterparts, the proposed rectifier minimizes the voltage losses along the conduction path and solves the reverse leakage problem caused by conventional comparator-controlled active diodes. To improve the rectifier input voltage sensitivity and decrease the minimum operational input voltage, two low power common-gate comparators are introduced in the proposed design. To keep the comparator from oscillating, a positive feedback loop formed by the capacitor C is added to it. Based on the SMIC 0.18-μm standard CMOS process, the proposed rectifier is simulated and implemented. The area of the whole chip is 0.91×0.97 mm², while the rectifier core occupies only 13% of this area. The measured results show that the proposed rectifier can operate properly with input amplitudes ranging from 0.2 to 1.0V and with frequencies ranging from 20 to 3000 Hz. The proposed rectifier can achieve a 92.5% power conversion efficiency (PCE) with input amplitudes equal to 0.6 V at 200 Hz. The voltage conversion efficiency (VCE) is around 93% for input amplitudes greater than 0.3 V and load resistances larger than 20kΩ.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.1235-1242
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 $0.18{\mu}m$ triple-well CMOS 공정을 사용하여 포톤계수 방식의 $32{\times}32$ 픽셀 어레이를 갖는 CMOS ray 영상센서를 설계하였다. 설계된 영상센서의 카픽셀은 $100{\times}100\;{\mu}m2$ 면적을 가지고 있고 약 400개의 트랜지스터로 구성되어 있으며, 범프 본딩을 통해 ray 검출기와 CSA(Charge Sensitive Amplifier)의 연결을 위한 $50{\times}50{\mu}m2$의 오픈패드를 가지고 있다. 각각의 싱글픽셀 CSA에서 전압 바이어스 회로를 사용한 folded cascode CMOS OP amp 대신 레이아웃 면적을 줄이기 위하여 self biased folded cascode CMOS OP amp를 이용하였으며, 계수 모드 진입 전후에 CLK에서 발생 할 수 있는 short pulse를 제거하는 15bit LFSR 계수기 (Linear Feedback Shift Register Counter) 클럭 발생회로를 제안하였으며, 읽기 모드에서 CMOS X-ray 영상센서의 최대 전류를 줄이기 위하여 열 어드레스 디코더를 이용하여 한 열씩 읽도록 설계하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.189-200
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• 2007

As a functional material, shape memory alloy (SMA) has attracted much attention and research effort to explore its unique properties and its applications in the past few decades. Some of its properties, in particular the electrical resistance (ER) based self-sensing property of SMA, have not been fully studied. Electrical resistance of an SMA wire varies during its phase transformation. This variation is an inherent property of the SMA wire, although it is highly nonlinear with hysteresis. The relationship between the displacement and the electrical resistance of an SMA wire is deterministic and repeatable to some degree, therefore enabling the self-sensing ability of the SMA. The potential of this self-sensing ability has not received sufficient exploration so far, and even the previous studies in literature lack generality. This paper concerns the utilization of the self-sensing property of a spring-biased Nickel-Titanium (Nitinol) SMA actuator for two applications: ER feedback position control of an SMA actuator without a position sensor, and estimation of the opening of a SMA actuated valve. The use of the self-sensing property eliminates the need for a position sensor, therefore reducing the cost and size of an SMA actuator assembly. Two experimental apparatuses are fabricated to facilitate the two proposed applications, respectively. Based on open-loop testing results, the curve fitting technique is used to represent the nonlinear relationships between the displacement and the electrical resistance of the two SMA wire actuators. Using the mathematical models of the two SMA actuators, respectively, a proportional plus derivative controller is designed for control of the SMA wire actuator using only electrical resistance feedback. Consequently, the opening of the SMA actuated valve can be estimated without using an extra sensor.