• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 C
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• pp.929-931
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• 1998

The tracking characteristics of silicon rubber degraded by accelerated outdoor exposure employing a weather-o-meter have been investigated. The tracking test was performed according to IEC Publ.587 but the concentration of conductive material was two times higher than the IEC standard in order to accelerate the tracking failure. The number of large effective scintillation and the current of high voltage circuit were measured by changing two signals as voltage signals. It was fiund that the increase of exposure time resulted in the reduction of tracking resistivity except the fact that the specimens slightly degraded within 200 hours has slightly increased the duration time.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.369-378
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• 2012

A load-following operation in APR+ nuclear plants is necessary to reduce the need to adjust the boric acid concentration and to efficiently control the control rods for flexible operation. In particular, a disproportion in the axial flux distribution, which is normally caused by a load-following operation in a reactor core, causes xenon oscillation because the absorption cross-section of xenon is extremely large and its effects in a reactor are delayed by the iodine precursor. A model predictive control (MPC) method was used to design an automatic load-following controller for the integrated thermal power level and axial shape index (ASI) control for APR+ nuclear plants. Some tracking controllers employ the current tracking command only. On the other hand, the MPC can achieve better tracking performance because it considers future commands in addition to the current tracking command. The basic concept of the MPC is to solve an optimization problem for generating finite future control inputs at the current time and to implement as the current control input only the first control input among the solutions of the finite time steps. At the next time step, the procedure to solve the optimization problem is then repeated. The support vector regression (SVR) model that is used widely for function approximation problems is used to predict the future outputs based on previous inputs and outputs. In addition, a genetic algorithm is employed to minimize the objective function of a MPC control algorithm with multiple constraints. The power level and ASI are controlled by regulating the control banks and part-strength control banks together with an automatic adjustment of the boric acid concentration. The 3-dimensional MASTER code, which models APR+ nuclear plants, is interfaced to the proposed controller to confirm the performance of the controlling reactor power level and ASI. Numerical simulations showed that the proposed controller exhibits very fast tracking responses.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 실내 환경에서 발생 할 수 있는 각종 냄새를 구분하고 농도를 검출하여 냄새 발생지로의 탐색과 이에 관련된 정보를 전송하는 지능 로봇을 구현 하였다. 온도변화에 따라 구동 되는 반도체식 가스센서를 이용하여 에탄올, 암모니아 및 이들의 혼합가스를 신경망 알고리즘을 통해 구분하고, 퍼지 추론방식으로 농도 측정이 가능한 후각 기능을 구현 하여 탑재함과 동시에 비전 시스템을 이용하여 장애물 회피 이동이 가능하게 하였다. 또한 로봇은 센서 네트워크 내에서 동작하며 유해 가스 및 냄새 관련 정보와 이에 따른 경고 메시지를 멀티홉 방식으로 네트워크 내 다른 노드로 전송한다. 비전 시스템과 후각 센서를 이용한 알고리즘으로 냄새의 종류 구분 및 농도 측정, 발생지 탐색이 가능 하였고 센서 네트워크 내 동작으로 이러한 정보전송이 가능한 로봇을 제시 하였다. 실제 실험을 통하여 냄새 인식 및 농도검출, 그리고 냄새 발생지로의 탐색 알고리즘 및 정보전송 성능의 효용성을 입증 하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1590-1592
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• 2000

The time to tracking breakdown of treated filled specimen is longer than untreated filled specimen. And, after the RWDT, the surface of specimen by adding untreated filler appeared heavy erosion. It was found that the addition to surface treated filler. the better tracking resistance. In the RWDT, the breakdown specimen is not affected by the dry flashover voltage. despite the fact that the surface degradation of tracking test has different state on each specimen. This suggests that wet flashover voltage play an important role in evaluating of tracking and erosion on the surface degradation in tracking test. And, the flashover voltage of specimen under wet conditions are greatly affected by the salt concentration and degree of degradation by the RWDT. Because of hydrophobicity and degree of degradation by the RWDT, the flashover voltage of treated filled specimen is higher than that of untreated filled specimen. Different types of specimen may have different hydrophobicity and their surface state under contaminated conditions may not be the same. It is assumed that this phenomenon is related to the decrease in hydrophobicity of the surface of the materials.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.110-113
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• 2022

Non-playable game character plays an important role in improving the concentration of the game and the interest of the user, and recently implementation of NPC with reinforcement learning has been in the spotlight. In this paper, we estimate an AI target tracking method via reinforcement learning, and implement an AI-based tracking agency of specific target object with avoiding traps through Unity ML-Agents Toolkit. The implementation is built in Unity game engine, and simulations are conducted through a number of experiments. The experimental results show that outstanding performance of the tracking target with avoiding traps is shown with good enough results.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2016

Applying image processing techniques to education, the face of the learner is photographed, and expression and movement are detected from video, and the system which estimates degree of concentration of the learner is developed. For one learner, the measuring system is designed in terms of estimating a degree of concentration from direction of line of learner's sight and condition of the eye. In case of multiple learners, it must need to measure each concentration level of all learners in the classroom. But it is inefficient because one camera per each learner is required. In this paper, position in the face region is estimated from video which photographs the learner in the class by the difference between frames within the motion direction. And the system which detects the face direction by the face part detection by template matching is proposed. From the result of the difference between frames in the first image of the video, frontal face detection by Viola-Jones method is performed. Also the direction of the motion which arose in the face region is estimated with the migration length and the face region is tracked. Then the face parts are detected to tracking. Finally, the direction of the face is estimated from the result of face tracking and face parts detection.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.2846-2866
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• 2022

Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits sophisticated chemotaxis behavior through two parallel strategies, klinokinesis and klinotaxis, executed entirely by a small nervous circuit. It is therefore suitable for inspiring fast and energy-efficient solutions for autonomous navigation. As a random search strategy, the Lévy walk is optimal for diverse animals when foraging without external chemical cues. In this study, by combining these biological strategies for the first time, we propose a spiking neural network model for search and contour tracking of specific concentrations of environmental variables. Specifically, we first design a klinotaxis module using spiking neurons. This module works in conjunction with a klinokinesis module, allowing rapid searches for the concentration setpoint and subsequent contour tracking with small deviations. Second, we build a random exploration module. It generates a Lévy walk in the absence of concentration gradients, increasing the chance of encountering gradients. Third, considering local extrema traps, we develop a termination module combined with an escape module to initiate or terminate the escape in a timely manner. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model integrating these modules can switch strategies autonomously according to the information from a single sensor and control steering through output spikes, enabling the model worm to efficiently navigate across various scenarios.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.257-271
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• 2004

본류대를 따라 저장대가 주기적으로 존재하는 다중저장대모형을 개발하고 자연하천의 혼합거동을 해석하였다. 개발된 모형 및 하나의 저장대를 갖는 기존의 저장대모형을 비교하기 위하여 모형실험 결과를 이용하였다. 본 모형을 이용하여 구한 농도분포는 모형실험에서 수집된 시간에 따른 농도분포를 잘 재현하는 반면, 연속적인 저장대를 갖는 기존모형은 불연속적인 저장대 구조로 인해 발생하는 농도분포의 부차적인 융기부분을 정확히 재현하지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 모형의 현장 적용성을 검토하기 위하여 새로운 모형을 미국 미네소타주에 위치한 Shingobee River에 적용하고 혼합거동을 해석한 결과 새로운 저장대 모형은 저장대가 존재하는 자연하천에서의 분산거동을 정확하게 모의하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.302-309
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• 2000

The tracking characteristics of silicone rubber degraded by accelerated outdoor exposure employing a weather-o-meter were investigated. The tracking test was performed according to ICE Publ.587 method but the concentration of conductive solution was two times higher than IEC standard in order to accelerate the tracking failure. The number of large effective scintillation and the current of high voltage circuit were measured simultaneously. It was shown that the number of effective scintillation had valuable information of the tracking degradation state of silicone rubber, while the average current between electrodes could not provide information enough for diagnosis. Based upon the experimental results, it could be said that the key factor accelerating tracking failure was not Joule heating by current but pyrolysis by burning of silicone rubber, and that reduction of contact angle was due to chain scission which resulted in the free radicals of low molecules.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.355-363
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• 2015

HVDC technology has become popular as an economic mode of bulk power transmission over very long distances. Polymeric insulators in HVDC power transmission lines are affected by surface tracking and erosion problems due to contamination deposit, which pose a greater challenge in maintaining the reliability of the HVDC system. In addition, polymeric insulators are also naturally affected by aging due to various environmental stresses, which in turn accelerates the surface tracking and erosion problems. Research works towards the improvement of tracking and erosion resistance of polymeric insulators by adding nano-sized fillers in the base material are being carried out worldwide. However, surface tracking and erosion performance of nano-filled aged polymeric insulators for HVDC applications are not well reported. Hence, in the present work, tracking and erosion resistance of the nano $Al(OH)_3$ filled silicone rubber insulation material has been evaluated under DC voltages at different filler concentrations and aged conditions, as per IEC 60587 test procedures. Leakage current and contact angle measurements were carried out to understand the surface hydrophobicity. Moving average technique was used to analyze the trend followed by leakage current. Water aged specimen shows less tracking resistance when compared with thermal aged specimen. It is observed that nano-filler concentration of 5% is even sufficient to get better tracking/erosion resistance under DC voltages.