• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제88권3호
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• pp.221-238
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• 2023

This paper developed and examined a novel passive vibration isolator (i.e., "X-inerter") motivated by combining a bio-inspired structure and a rack-pinion inerter. The bio-inspired structure provided nonlinear stiffness and damping owing to its geometric nonlinearity. In addition, the behavior was further enhanced by a gear inerter that produced a special nonlinear inertia effect; thus, an X-inerter was developed. As a result, the X-inerter can achieve both high-static-low-dynamic stiffness (HSLDS) and quasi-zero stiffness (QZS), obtaining ultra-low frequency isolation. Furthermore, the installed inerter can produce a coupled nonlinear inertia and damping effect, leading to an anti-resonance frequency near the resonance, wide isolation region, and low resonance peak. Both static and dynamic analyses of the proposed isolator were conducted and the structural parameters' influence was comprehensively investigated. The X-inerter was proven to be comparatively more stable in the ultra-low frequency than the benchmarking QZS isolator due to the nonlinear damping and inertia properties. Moreover, the inertia effect could suppress the bio-inspired structure's super- and sub-harmonic resonance. Therefore, the X-inerter isolator generally possesses desirable nonlinear stiffness, nonlinear damping, and unique nonlinear inertia, designed to achieve the ultra-low natural frequency, the anti-resonance property, and a wide isolation region with a low resonance peak.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.59-60
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• 2013

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.53-54
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• 2013

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제3권8호
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• pp.299-308
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• 2014

신체 동작, 얼굴 표정과 같이 아주 복잡한 생체 패턴을 인식하고 분류하는 인간의 능력을 모방한 정보처리 컴퓨팅 관련 연구가 최근 다수 등장하고 있다. 특히 컴퓨터비전 분야에서는 인간의 뛰어난 인지 능력 중 상황정보 없이 시각시퀀스에서 동작을 분류하는 기능을 통해 시공간적 패턴 코딩과 빠른 인식 방법을 이해하고자 한다. 본 연구는 비디오 시퀀스상의 동작인식에 생물학적 시각인지과정의 영향을 받은 생체 기반 컴퓨터비전 모델을 제시하였다. 제안 모델은 이미지 시퀀스에서 동작을 검출하고 시각 패턴을 판별하는 데 생체 시각처리과정의 신경망 구조 단계를 반영하였다. 실험을 통해 생체 기반 동작인식 모델이 인간 시각인지 처리의 여러 가지 속성을 고려했을 뿐 아니라 기존 동작인식시스템에 비해 시간 정합성이 뛰어나며 시간 변화에 강건한 분류 능력을 보임을 알 수 있다. 제안 모델은 지능형 로봇 에이전트와 같은 생체 기반 시각정보처리 시스템 구축에 기여할 수 있다.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2018

To monitor the environment and determine the source of a pollutant gradient using a multiple robot swarm, we propose a hybrid algorithm that combines two bio-inspired algorithms mimicking chemotaxis and pheromones of bacteria. The algorithm is implemented in virtual robot agents in a simulator to evaluate their feasibility and efficiency in gradient maps with different sizes. Simulation results show that the chemotaxis controller guided robot agents to the locations with higher pollutant concentrations, while the pheromone marked in a virtual field increased the efficiency of the search by reducing the visiting redundancy. The number of steps required to reach the target point did not increase proportionally as the map size increased, but were less than those in the linear whole-map search method. Furthermore, the robot agents could function with simple sensor composition, minimum information about the map, and low calculation capacity.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.506-516
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• 2015

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are generally comprised of densely deployed sensor nodes, which results in highly redundant sensor data transmissions and energy waste. Since the sensor nodes depend on batteries for energy, previous studies have focused on designing energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols to extend the network lifetime. However, the energy-efficient protocols induce an extra end-to-end delay, and therefore recent increase in focus on WSNs has led to timely and reliable communication protocols for mission-critical applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and delay guaranteeing node scheduling scheme inspired by biological systems, which have gained considerable attention as a computing and problem solving technique.With the identification of analogies between cellular signaling systems and WSN systems, we formulate a new mathematical model that considers the networking challenges of WSNs. The proposed bio-inspired algorithm determines the state of the sensor node, as required by each application and as determined by the local environmental conditions and the states of the adjacent nodes. A control analysis shows that the proposed bio-inspired scheme guarantees the system stability by controlling the parameters of each node. Simulation results also indicate that the proposed scheme provides significant energy savings, as well as reliable delay guarantees by controlling the states of the sensor nodes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1273-1293
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• 2010

Immune-inspired intrusion detection is a promising technology for network security, and well known for its diversity, adaptation, self-tolerance, etc. However, scalability and coverage are two major drawbacks of the immune-inspired intrusion detection systems (IIDSes). In this paper, we propose an IIDS framework, named GEP-IIDS, with improved basic system elements to address these two problems. First, an additional bio-inspired technique, gene expression programming (GEP), is introduced in detector (corresponding to detection rules) representation. In addition, inspired by the avidity model of immunology, new avidity/affinity functions taking the priority of attributes into account are given. Based on the above two improved elements, we also propose a novel immune algorithm that is capable of integrating two bio-inspired mechanisms (i.e., negative selection and positive selection) by using a balance factor. Finally, a pruning algorithm is given to reduce redundant detectors that consume footprint and detection time but do not contribute to improving performance. Our experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of our solution to handle the scalability and coverage problems of IIDS.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2014

This paper describes the design concept of a bio-inspired legged underwater and estimating its performance by implementing simulations. Especially the leg structure of an underwater organism, diving beetles, is fully adopted to our designing to employ its efficiency for swimming. To make it possible for the robot to both walk and swim, the transformable kinematic model according to applications of the leg is proposed. To aid in the robot development and estimate swimming performance of the robot in advance, an underwater simulator has been constructed and an approximated model based on the developing robot was set up in the simulation. Furthermore, previous work that we have done, the swimming locomotion produced by a swimming patten generator based on the control parameters, is briefly mentioned in the paper and adopted to the simulation for extensive studies such as path planning and control techniques. Through the results, we established the strategy of leg joints which make the robot swim in the three dimensional space to reach effective controls.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.2205-2217
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• 2015

생체모방 라우팅 프로토콜은 동적 환경에서 집단 생명체가 분산 자율적인 방식으로 최적 경로를 찾아가는 원리를 이용하여 네트워크 토폴로지 변화에 따라 오버헤드를 줄이며, 라우팅 성능을 극대화하고, 경로 단절시 빠른 복구가 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이동 애드혹 네트워크를 위한 생체모방 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안 방식은 추가적인 오버헤드 없이 라우팅 정보를 얻기 위하여 무선 매체의 엿듣기(overhearing) 기능을 사용한다. 엿듣기를 통해 출발지와 목적지 사이의 최단 경로 주변에 페로몬을 확산시키고, 확산된 페로몬을 기반으로 확률적 경로 탐색을 수행하여 출발지와 목적지 간 유용한 대체 경로를 확보한다. 이와 같은 방식으로 제안 프로토콜은 제어 오버헤드를 줄이면서 최신의 라우팅 정보를 획득할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션 결과 제안하는 생체모방 라우팅 프로토콜은 기존 AODV 및 AntHocNet 프로토콜 보다 우수한 라우팅 성능을 보여주면서 AntHocNet 보다 오버헤드를 크게 감소시킨다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.74-90
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• 2014

Routing in mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) is an extremely challenging issue due to the features of MWSNs. In this paper, we present a novel bio-inspired trusted routing protocol (B-iTRP) based on artificial immune system (AIS), ant colony optimization (ACO) and Physarum optimization (PO). For trust mechanism, B-iTRP monitors neighbors' behavior in real time and then assesses neighbors' trusts based on AIS. For routing strategy, each node proactively finds routes to the Sink based on ACO. When a backward ant is on the way to return source, it senses the energy residual and trust value of each node on the discovered route, and calculates the link trust and link energy of the route. Moreover, B-iTRP also assesses the availability of route based on PO to maintain the route table. Simulation results show how B-iTRP can achieve the effective performance compared to existing state-of-the-art algorithms.