• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.158-164
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• 2011

Breast cancer is the most frequently appearing cancer in women, these days. To reduce mortality of breast cancer, periodic check-up is strongly recommended. X-ray mammography is one of powerful diagnostic imaging systems to detect 50~100 um micro-calcification which is the early sign of breast cancer. Although x-ray mammography has very high spatial resolution, it is not easy yet to distinguish cancerous tissue from normal tissues in mammograms and new tissue characterizing methods are required. Recently ultrasound elastography technique has been developed, which uses the phenomenon that cancerous tissue is harder than normal tissues. However its spatial resolution is not enough to detect breast cancer. In order to develop a new elastography system with high resolution we are developing x-ray elasticity imaging technique. It uses the small differences of tissue positions with and without external breast compression and requires an algorithm to detect tissue displacement. In this paper, computer simulation is done for preliminary study of x-ray elasticity imaging. First, 3D x-ray breast phantom for modeling woman's breast is created and its elastic model for FEM (finite element method) is generated. After then, FEM experiment is performed under the compression of the breast phantom. Using the obtained displacement data, 3D x-ray phantom is deformed and the final mammogram under the compression is generated. The simulation result shows the feasibility of x-ray elasticity imaging. We think that this preliminary study is helpful for developing and verifying a new algorithm of x-ray elasticity imaging.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.348-354
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• 2007

Polymer actuators, which are also called as smart materials, change their shapes when electrical, chemical, thermal, or magnetic energy is applied to them and are useful in wide variety of applications such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), machine components, and artificial muscles. For this study, Polyaniline/carbon-nanotube polymer actuator that is one of electroactive polymer actuators was prepared. Since the nonlinear phenomena of hysteresis and a step response are essential considerations for practical use of polymer actuators, we have investigated the movement of the Polyaniline/carbon-nanotube polymer actuator and have developed an integrated model that can be used for simulating and predicting the hysteresis and a step response during actuation. The Preisach hysteresis model, one of the most popular phenomenological models of hysteresis, were used for describing the hysteretic behavior of Polyaniline/carbon-nanotube polymer actuator while the ARX method, one of system identification techniques, were used for modeling a step response. In this paper, we first expain details in preparation of the Polyaniline/carbon-nanotube polymer then present the mathematical description of our model, the extraction of the parameters, simulation results from the model, and finally a comparison with measured data.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제38권11호
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• pp.1231-1237
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• 2014

군용 차량의 경우 야지 주행에 대한 성능 시험이 필수적인데 실차 시험의 경우 비용과 시간에 의한 제약을 받게 되므로, 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 분석이 효율적이다. 본 연구에서는 상용 다물체 해석프로그램인 MSC.ADAMS 를 이용하여 차량 모델을 개발한다. 타이어 수직 강성 시험을 수행하고 FTire 모델에 반영하여 타이어 모델을 생성한다. 댐퍼의 경우 비선형 특성 시험을 통해 얻은 결과를 반영하여 댐퍼를 모델링 하였으며, 겹판 스프링은 빔 요소 모델로 차량 모델을 구성한다. 단순 장애물 통과 시험 및 파형로 통과 시험을 수행하고 가속도 응답 및 휠 하중 응답 분석을 통해 차량 모델의 신뢰성을 검증하였다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.69-78
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• 2015

다중 에이전트 시스템에 대한 연구는 최근 다양한 분야에서 활성화 되고 있으며, 복잡한 시스템의 제어 및 최적화에 관한 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 게임 환경에서의 NPC(Non-Player Character) 시뮬레이션을 위한 다중 에이전트 시스템을 개발한다. 시스템 개발의 목적은 동적 이산사건 영역의 상황을 추론하여 신속하고 정확한 판단을 제공하고 에이전트 시스템의 최적화 과정을 보다 손쉽게 도와주는데 있다. 이를 위한 에이전트 시스템의 기본 모델은 페트리넷을 활용하여 구조를 단순화 하고 퍼지 추론엔진을 사용하여 다양한 상황을 결정할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구 시스템의 실험은 NPC간의 가상 전장 상황을 묘사하며, 퍼지 규칙이 적용된 에이전트와 유한 상태 기계로 구현된 NPC를 시뮬레이션 하여 에이전트의 승률과 생존율을 산출하였다. 실험 결과 퍼지 규칙 기반 에이전트의 승률과 생존율이 유한 상태 기계로 구현된 NPC보다 더 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2002

도시 내 교통혼잡이 증가됨에 따라 최단경로 탐색방법뿐만이 아니라 동일 목적지까지의 여러 가지 경로(준 최단경로)를 제시해 줌으로써 교통량을 효과적으로 분산시킬 수 있는 대체경로 탐색기법에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 대체 경로의 유효성을 평가하는 성능지표를 제안하고, 복수개의 우수해 탐색에 유리한 진화 프로그램에 기초한 효과적인 대체경로 탐색기법을 제시한다. 기존 방법(k-th 최단경로 방법)의 문제점이었던 대체 경로들간의 유사성이 제안된 방법에서는 해결된다. 가상 도로망을 통한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션의 결과로서 제안된 방법이 기존 방법보다 교통량 분산(경로들간의 상이성)측면에서 훨씬 더 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2014

Spectrum sensing is vital for secondary unlicensed nodes to coexist and avoid interference with the primary licensed users in cognitive wireless networks. In this paper, we develop models for bounding interference levels from secondary network to the primary nodes within a spectrum sensing framework. Instead of classical stochastic approaches where Poisson point processes are used to model transmitters, we consider a more practical model which takes into account the medium access control regulations and where the secondary Poisson process is judiciously thinned in two phases to avoid interference with the secondary as well as the primary nodes. The resulting process will be a modified version of the Mat$\acute{e}$rn point process. For this model, we obtain bounds for the complementary cumulative distribution function of interference and present simulation results which show the developed analytical bounds are quite tight. Moreover, we use these bounds to find the operation regions of the secondary network such that the interference constraint is satisfied on receiving primary nodes. We then obtain theoretical results on the primary and secondary throughputs and find the throughput limits under the interference constraint.

• Advances in materials Research
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.77-89
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• 2014

In the present article, the thermal buckling of zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is studied using a nonlocal refined shear deformation beam theory and Von-Karman geometric nonlinearity. The model developed simulates both small scale effects and higher-order variation of transverse shear strain through the depth of the nanobeam. Furthermore the present formulation also accommodates stress-free boundary conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the nanobeam. A shear correction factor, therefore, is not required. The equivalent Young's modulus and shear modulus for zigzag SWCNTs are derived using an energy-equivalent model. The present study illustrates that the thermal buckling properties of SWCNTs are strongly dependent on the scale effect and additionally on the chirality of zigzag carbon nanotube. Some illustrative examples are also presented to verify the present formulation and solutions. Good agreement is observed.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.810-818
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• 2002

When the contribution of lightweight components to the total energy of a system is small, tole inertia effects are sometimes ignored by replacing them to massless links. For example, a revolute-spherical massless link generates two kinematic constraint equations between adjacent bodies and allows four relative degrees of freedom. In this paper, to implement a massless link systematically in a computer program using the velocity transformation technique, the velocity transformation matrix of massless links is derived and numerically implemented. The velocity transformation matrix for a revolute-spherical massless link and a revolute-universal massless link are appeared as a 6$\times$4 matrix and a 6$\times$3 matrix, respectively. A massless link model in a suspension composite joint transmitting external forces is also developed and the numerical efficiency of the proposed model is compared to a conventional multibody model. For a massless link transmitting external forces, forces acting on links are resolved and transmitted to the attached points with a quasi-static assumption. Numerical examples are presented to verify the formulation.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.122-138
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• 2013

Adaptive control of a peak current mode controlled (PCM) boost converter supplied by a PEM fuel cell is described in this paper. The adaptive controller with reference model and signal adaptation is developed in order to compensate the deviation of the response during the change of the operating point. The procedure for determining the adaptive algorithm's weighting coefficients, based on a combination of the pole-zero placement method and an optimization method is proposed. After applying the proposed procedure, the optimal adaptive algorithm's weighting coefficients can be determined in just a few iterations, without the use of a computer, thus greatly facilitating the application of the algorithm in real systems. Simulation and experimental results show that the dynamic behavior of a highly nonlinear control system with a fuel cell and a PCM boost converter, can fairly accurately be described by the dynamic behavior of the reference model, i.e., a linear system with constant parameters.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.1189-1202
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• 1999

As compared with VOD data, NOD article data has the following characteristics: it is created at any time, has a short life cycle, is selected as not one article but several articles by a user, and has high access locality in time. Because of these intrinsic features, user access patterns of NOD article data are different from those of VOD. Thus, building NOD system using the existing techniques of VOD system leads to poor performance. In this paper, we analysis the log file of a currently running electronic newspaper, show that the popularity distribution of NOD articles is different from Zipf distribution of VOD data, and suggest a new popularity model of NOD article data MS-Zipf(Multi-Selection Zipf) distribution and its approximate solution. Also we present a life cycle model of NOD article data, which shows changes of popularity over time. Using this life cycle model, we develop LLBF (Largest Life-cycle Based Frequency) prefetching algorithm and analysis he performance by simulation. The developed LLBF algorithm supports the similar level in hit-ratio to the other prefetching algorithms such as LRU(Least Recently Used) etc, while decreasing the number of data replacement in article prefetching and reducing the overhead of the prefetching in system performance. Using the accurate user access patterns of NOD article data, we could analysis correctly the performance of NOD server system and develop the efficient policies in the implementation of NOD server system.