• Title/Summary/Keyword: Compliant Mechanism

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Hardware Implementation of GA HDTV Video Encoder Using Hierarchical Motion Estimation and Adaptive Quantization (계층적 움직임 추정 및 적응 양자화 기법을 사용한 GA HDTV 동영상 부호화기 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 임경원;최병선;조현덕;최정필;유한주;송병철;김성득;박현상;나종범
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.152-164
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    • 1996
  • This paper describes the hardware architecture and implementation trade-offs of the Grand Alliance HDTV video encoder system. The implemented video encoder accepts video in 1125 line(30Hz) interlaced format, and produces a bit-stream compliant with the motion picture experts group version 2(MPEG-2) standards. The encoder processing includes large- area motion estimation and an advanced rate control mechanism. To keep the system complexity realizable, we adopt a fast hierarchical motion estimation method and developed its hardware architecture. Furthermore an adaptive perceptual quantization method is adopted to improve the perceptual quality. The developed system Is based on the 4-way parallel processing architecture and is implemented by using programmable IC, memory IC, and special-purpose processors such as DCT and motion estimation processors.

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Development of 3-DOF Parallel Manipulator Using Flexure Hinge (유연 힌지를 이용한 초정밀 3자유도 병렬 매니퓰레이터 개발)

  • Shin, Dong-Ik;Kim, Young-Soo;Suh, Seung-Whan;Han, Chang-Soo;Choi, Doo-Sun;Whang, Kyung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.127-133
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    • 2009
  • We present a $3-{\underline{P}}RS$ compliant parallel manipulator actuated by PZTs. The motion ranges are $400-{\mu}m$ translation to the z-direction and 5.7-mrad rotation about any axis on the x-y plane. A mechanical amplifier whose advantage is approximately 5.5 is designed and integrated with flexure revolute and spherical joints in a monolithic way. We evaluated the performance of the system: kinematic and dynamic characteristics. In kinematic point of view, the flexures play the roles of conventional mechanism but any nonlinearity such as dead-zone and backlash, which make it possible to achieve the steady-state resolution less than $0.1{\mu}m$. The system shows resonance near 86 Hz with high magnitude and, therefore, poor transient response. But the settling is faster when the flexures are strained higher.

Implementation of an Efficient Service Discovery Protocol for Directory Facilitator Based on CALM Agent (CLAM 에이전트 기반 Directory Facilitator를 위한 효율적인 서비스 디스커버리 프로토콜 구현)

  • Lee, Seung-Hyun;Shin, Dong-Ryeol;Jang, Kyung-Soo
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.275-282
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    • 2011
  • Current service discovery protocols such as UPnP, Jini, SLP provide the basic function which is message exchange pattern, service representation and description, in service discovery. They does not guarantee service interoperability among service discovery. Therefore, in this paper, we design and implement CLAM (Component-based Autonomic Layered Middleware) agent platform to enable an efficient service discovery through extension of DF agent function in FIPA-compliant specification. Also, we propose an efficient service discovery mechanism using DHT-Chord algorithm to guarantee scalability and interoperability in DF agent.

Controlling the Depth of Microchannels Formed during Rolling-based Surface Texturing

  • Bui, Quang-Thanh;Ro, Seung-Kook;Park, Jong-Kweon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.410-420
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    • 2016
  • The geometric dimension and shape of microchannels that are formed during surface texturing are widely studied for applications in flow control, and drag and friction reduction. In this research, a new method for controlling the deformation of U channels during micro-rolling-based surface texturing was developed. Since the width of the U channels is almost constant, controlling the depth is essential. A calibration procedure of initial rolling gap, and proportional-integral PI controllers and a linear interpolation have been applied simultaneously to control the depth. The PI controllers drive the position of the pre-U grooved roll as well as the rolling gap. The relationship between the channel depth and rolling gap is linearized to create a feedback signal in the depth control system. The depth of micro channels is studied on A2021 aluminum lamina surfaces. Overall, the experimental results demonstrated the feasibility of the method for controlling the depth of microchannels.

Effect of Compliant Structure in the Accelerated Heart Valve Fatigue Tester on the Surface Pitting of the Disk (기계식 인공판막의 표면 부식에 영향을 미치는 가속내구시험기의 컴플라이언스 구조에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Uk;Lee, Hwan-Seong;Kim, Nam-Gyun
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.285-290
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    • 1998
  • There are various reports on the fracture of mechanical heart valves implanted in human or animal, and they are pointed out that problems are induced by an erosion of disk surface, due to a cavitation effect. We have been investigating this mechanism using accelerated fatigue tester, and it was found that erosion was enhanced by a compliance effect in the test circuit. In this study, effects of compliance value and location on erosion were discussed, while disk closing velocity was measured by a high speed video camera. It was clarified that faster closing velocity was resulting in a enhancement of erosion on the disk surface.

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Seismic performance of RC frame having low strength concrete: Experimental and numerical studies

  • Rizwan, Muhammad;Ahmad, Naveed;Khan, Akhtar Naeem
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.75-89
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    • 2019
  • The paper presents experimental and numerical studies carried out on low-rise RC frames, typically found in developing countries. Shake table tests were conducted on 1:3 reduced scaled two-story RC frames that included a code conforming SMRF model and another non-compliant model. The later was similar to the code conforming model, except, it was prepared in concrete having strength 33% lower than the design specified, which is commonly found in the region. The models were tested on shake table, through multiple excitations, using acceleration time history of 1994 Northridge earthquake, which was linearly scaled for multi-levels excitations in order to study the structures' damage mechanism and measure the structural response. A representative numerical model was prepared in finite element based program SeismoStruct, simulating the observed local damage mechanisms (bar-slip and joint shear hinging), for seismic analysis of RC frames having weaker beam-column joints. A suite of spectrum compatible acceleration records was obtained from PEER for incremental dynamic analysis of considered RC frames. The seismic performance of considered RC frames was quantified in terms of seismic response parameters (seismic response modification, overstrength and displacement amplification factors), for critical comparison.

ZPM Compensation and Impedance Control for Improving Walking Stability of Biped Robots (2족 보행 로봇의 보행 안정성 향상을 위한 ZPM보상 및 임피던스 제어)

  • Jeong, Ho-Am;Park, Jong-Hyeon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.24 no.4 s.175
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    • pp.1007-1015
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    • 2000
  • This paper proposes an adaptive trajectory generation strategy of using on-line ZMP information and an impedance control method for biped robots. Since robots experience various disturbances during their locomotion, their walking mechanism should have the robustness against those disturbances, which requires an on-line adaptation capability. In this context, an on-line trajectory planner is proposed to compensate the required moment for recovering stability. The ZMP equation and sensed ZMP information are used in this trajectory generation strategy. In order to control a biped robot to be able to walk stably, its controller should guarantee stable footing at the moment of feet contacts with the ground as well as maintaining good trajectory tracking performance. Otherwise, the stability of robot will be significantly compromised. To reduce the magnitude of an impact and guarantee a stable footing when a foot contacts with the ground, this paper. proposes to increase the damping of the leg drastically and to modify the reference trajectory of the leg. In the proposed control scheme, the constrained leg is controlled by impedance control using the impedance model with respect to the base link. Computer simulations performed with a 3-dof environment model that consists of combination of a nonlinear and linear compliant contact model show that the proposed controller performs well and that it has robustness against unknown uneven surface. Moreover, the biped robot with the proposed trajectory generator can walk even when it is pushed with a certain amount of external force.

TCP Accelerator for DVB-RCS SATCOM Dynamic Bandwidth Environment with HAIPE

  • Kronewitter, F. Dell;Ryu, Bo;Zhang, Zhensheng;Ma, Liangping
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.518-524
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    • 2011
  • A high assurance IP encryption (HAIPE) compliant protocol accelerator is proposed for military networks consisting of red (or classified) networks and black (or unclassified) networks. The boundary between red and black sides is assumed to be protected via a HAIPE device. However, the IP layer encryption introduces challenges for bandwidth on demand satellite communication. The problems experienced by transmission control protocol (TCP) over satellites are well understood: While standard modems (on the black side) employ TCP performance enhancing proxy (PEP) which has been shown to work well, the HAIPE encryption of TCP headers renders the onboard modem's PEP ineffective. This is attributed to the fact that under the bandwidth-on-demand environment, PEP must use traditional TCP mechanisms such as slow start to probe for the available bandwidth of the link (which eliminates the usefulness of the PEP). Most implementations recommend disabling the PEP when a HAIPE device is used. In this paper, we propose a novel solution, namely broadband HAIPE-embeddable satellite communications terminal (BHeST), which utilizes dynamic network performance enhancement algorithms for high latency bandwidth-on-demand satellite links protected by HAIPE. By moving the PEP into the red network and exploiting the explicit congestion notification bypass mechanism allowed by the latest HAIPE standard, we have been able to regain PEP's desired network enhancement that was lost due to HAIPE encryption (even though the idea of deploying PEP at the modem side is not new). Our BHeST solution employs direct video broadcast-return channel service (DVB-RCS), an open standard as a means of providing bandwidth-on-demand satellite links. Another issue we address is the estimation of current satellite bandwidth allocated to a remote terminal which is not available in DVBRCS. Simulation results show that the improvement of our solution over FIX PEP is significant and could reach up to 100%. The improvement over the original TCP is even more (up to 500% for certain configurations).

CORBA/SNMP 통합 관리 시스템 구축을 위한 게이트웨이 구축 방안

  • Gang, Yeong-Min;Hong, Won-Gi
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.58-67
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    • 2000
  • Todays enterprise networks are composed of multiple types of interconnected networks.Enterprise Networks interoperability between these technologies is needed. To enable interworking, it is necessary to be able to map between the relevant object models and to build on this to provide a mechanism to handle protocol conversion on the domain boundaries.In this paper, we describe a gateway between management application in the CORBA domain and agent in the SNMP domain and various integration methods. The main function of the gateway is to dynamically convert the method invocations on object reference in CORBA domain to SNMP messages for MIB entries at remote agents, We also present translation methods from SNMP MIB to CORBA IDL using Direct translation and Abstract translation. JIDM algorithm has no notion of containment and inheritance relationships between object classes and is difficult to understanding between management attribute and SNMP Action attribute. Abstract translation over come these problems.New superclasses define for common attributes and define explicit CORBA method for SNMP Action.It is a methodology for obtaining the CORBA-compliant management agents from already existing SNMP agents.

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Security and Privacy Mechanism using TCG/TPM to various WSN (다양한 무선네트워크 하에서 TCG/TPM을 이용한 정보보호 및 프라이버시 매커니즘)

  • Lee, Ki-Man;Cho, Nae-Hyun;Kwon, Hwan-Woo;Seo, Chang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.195-202
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, To improve the effectiveness of security enforcement, the first contribution in this work is that we present a clustered heterogeneous WSN(Wareless Sensor Network) architecture, composed of not only resource constrained sensor nodes, but also a number of more powerful high-end devices acting as cluster heads. Compared to sensor nodes, a high-end cluster head has higher computation capability, larger storage, longer power supply, and longer radio transmission range, and it thus does not suffer from the resource scarceness problem as much as a sensor node does. A distinct feature of our heterogeneous architecture is that cluster heads are equipped with TC(trusted computing) technology, and in particular a TCG(Trusted Computing Group) compliant TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is embedded into each cluster head. According the TCG specifications, TPM is a tamper-resistant, self-contained secure coprocessor, capable of performing cryptographic functions. A TPM attached to a host establishes a trusted computing platform that provides sealed storage, and measures and reports the integrity state of the platform.

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