• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.2678-2685
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• 2020

The pipe bends and elbows in nuclear power plants (NPPs) are vulnerable to degradation mechanisms and can cause wall-thinning defects. As it is difficult to detect both the defects generated inside the wall-thinned pipes and the preliminary signs, the wall-thinning defects should be accurately estimated to maintain the integrity of NPPs. This paper proposes a deep fuzzy neural network (DFNN) method and estimates the collapse moment of wall-thinned pipe bends and elbows. The proposed model has a simplified structure in which the fuzzy neural network module is repeatedly connected, and it is optimized using the least squares method and genetic algorithm. Numerical data obtained through simulations on the pipe bends and elbows with extrados, intrados, and crown defects were applied to the DFNN model to estimate the collapse moment. The acquired databases were divided into training, optimization, and test datasets and used to train and verify the estimation model. Consequently, the relative root mean square (RMS) errors of the estimated collapse moment at all the defect locations were within 0.25% for the test data. Such a low RMS error indicates that the DFNN model is accurate in estimating the collapse moment for wall-thinned pipe bends and elbows.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.2547-2555
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• 2021

The frequency of reactor coolant leakage is expected to increase over the lifetime of a nuclear power plant owing to degradation mechanisms, such as flow-acceleration corrosion and stress corrosion cracking. When loss of coolant accidents (LOCAs) occur, several parameters change rapidly depending on the size and location of the cracks. In this study, leak flow during LOCAs is predicted using a deep fuzzy neural network (DFNN) model. The DFNN model is based on fuzzy neural network (FNN) modules and has a structure where the FNN modules are sequentially connected. Because the DFNN model is based on the FNN modules, the performance factors are the number of FNN modules and the parameters of the FNN module. These parameters are determined by a least-squares method combined with a genetic algorithm; the number of FNN modules is determined automatically by cross checking a fitness function using the verification dataset output to prevent an overfitting problem. To acquire the data of LOCAs, an optimized power reactor-1000 was simulated using a modular accident analysis program code. The predicted results of the DFNN model are found to be superior to those predicted in previous works. The leak flow prediction results obtained in this study will be useful to check the core integrity in nuclear power plant during LOCAs. This information is also expected to reduce the workload of the operators.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.4014-4021
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• 2021

If safety injection systems (SISs) do not work in the event of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA), the accident can progress to a severe accident in which the reactor core is exposed and the reactor vessel fails. Therefore, it is considered that a technology that provides recoverable maximum time for SIS actuation is necessary to prevent this progression. In this study, the corresponding time was defined as the golden time. To achieve the objective of accurately predicting the golden time, the prediction was performed using the deep fuzzy neural network (DFNN) with rule-dropout. The DFNN with rule-dropout has an architecture in which many of the fuzzy neural networks (FNNs) are connected and is a method in which the fuzzy rule numbers, which are directly related to the number of nodes in the FNN that affect inference performance, are properly adjusted by a genetic algorithm. The golden time prediction performance of the DFNN model with rule-dropout was better than that of the support vector regression model. By using the prediction result through the proposed DFNN with rule-dropout, it is expected to prevent the aggravation of the accidents by providing the maximum remaining time for SIS recovery, which failed in the LOCA situation.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.587-598
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• 2022

To increase building change recognition accuracy, we present a deep learning-based building change detection using remote sensing images. In the proposed approach, by merging pixel-level and object-level information of multitemporal remote sensing images, we create the difference image (DI), and the frequency-domain significance technique is used to generate the DI saliency map. The fuzzy C-means clustering technique pre-classifies the coarse change detection map by defining the DI saliency map threshold. We then extract the neighborhood features of the unchanged pixels and the changed (buildings) from pixel-level and object-level feature images, which are then used as valid deep neural network (DNN) training samples. The trained DNNs are then utilized to identify changes in DI. The suggested strategy was evaluated and compared to current detection methods using two datasets. The results suggest that our proposed technique can detect more building change information and improve change detection accuracy.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1542-1550
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• 2019

부정맥 분류를 위한 기존 연구들은 분류의 정확성을 높이기 위해 신경회로망(Artificial Neural Network), 퍼지(Fuzzy), 기계학습(Machine Learning) 등을 이용한 방법이 연구되어 왔다. 특히 딥러닝은 신경회로망의 문제인 은닉층 개수의 한계를 해결함으로 인해 오류 역전파 알고리즘을 이용한 부정맥 분류에 가장 많이 사용되고 있다. 딥러닝 모델을 심전도 신호에 적용하기 위해서는 적절한 모델선택과 파라미터를 최적에 가깝게 선택할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 심실 조기 수축 비트 검출을 위한 딥러닝 기반의 최적 파라미터 검출 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 먼저 잡음을 제거한 ECG신호에서 R파를 검출하고 QRS와 RR간격 세그먼트를 추출하였다. 이후 딥러닝을 통한 지도학습 방법으로 가중치를 학습시키고 검증데이터로 모델을 평가하였다. 제안된 방법의 타당성 평가를 위해 MIT-BIH 부정맥 데이터베이스를 통해 각 파라미터에 따른 딥러닝 모델로 훈련 및 검증 정확도를 확인하였다. 성능 평가 결과 R파의 평균 검출 성능은 99.77%, PVC는 97.84의 평균 분류율을 나타내었다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2005

We propose a fuzzy neural network (FNN) theory capable of deciding the quality of a road image prior to extracting lane-related information. The accuracy of lane-related information obtained by image processing depends on the quality of the raw images, which can be classified as good or bad according to how visible the lane marks on the images are. Enhancing the accuracy of the information by an image-processing algorithm is limited due to noise corruption which makes image processing difficult. The FNN, on the other hand, decides whether road images are good or bad with respect to the degree of noise corruption. A cumulative distribution function (CDF), a function of edge histogram, is utilized to extract input parameters from the FNN according to the fact that the shape of the CDF is deeply correlated to the road image quality. A suitability analysis shows that this deep correlation exists between the parameters and the image quality. The input pattern vector of the FNN consists of nine parameters in which eight parameters are from the CDF and one is from the intensity distribution of raw images. Experimental results showed that the proposed FNN system was quite successful. We carried out simulations with real images taken in various lighting and weather conditions, and obtained successful decision-making about $99\%$ of the time.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2019

웹에서 정보 접근에 대한 폭발적인 주문으로 웹 사용자의 다음 접근 페이지를 예측하는 필요성이 대두되었다. 웹 접근 예측을 위해 마코브(markov) 모델, 딥 신경망, 벡터 머신, 퍼지 추론 모델 등 많은 모델이 제안되었다. 신경망 모델에 기반한 딥러닝 기법에서 대규모 웹 사용 데이터에 대한 학습 시간이 엄청 길어진다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 딥 신경망 모델에서는 학습을 여러 컴퓨터에 동시에, 즉 병렬로 학습시킨다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 스파크 클러스터에서 다층 Perceptron 모델을 학습 시킬 때 중요한 데이터 분할, shuffling, 압축, locality와 관련된 기본 파라미터들이 얼마만큼 영향을 미치는지 살펴보았다. 그 다음 웹 접근 예측을 위해 다층 Perceptron 모델을 학습 시킬 때 성능을 높이기 위하여 이들 스파크 파라미터들을 튜닝 하였다. 실험을 통하여 논문에서 제안한 스파크 파라미터 튜닝을 통한 웹 접근 예측 모델이 파라미터 튜닝을 하지 않았을 경우와 비교하여 웹 접근 예측에 대한 정확성과 성능 향상의 효과를 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.1341-1347
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• 2020

부정맥 분류를 위한 기존 연구들은 분류의 정확성을 높이기 위해 신경회로망(Artificial Neural Network), 기계학습(Machine Learning) 등을 이용한 방법이 연구되어 왔다. 특히 딥러닝은 신경회로망의 문제인 은닉층 개수의 한계를 해결함으로 인해 인공 지능 기반의 부정맥 분류에 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 AR 기반의 특징점 추출과 딥러닝을 통한 부정맥 분류 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 먼저 잡음을 제거한 ECG 신호에서 R파를 검출하고 자기 회귀 모델을 통하여 최적의 QRS와 RR간격을 추출하였다. 이후 딥러닝을 통한 지도학습 방법으로 가중치를 학습시키고 부정맥을 분류하였다. 제안된 방법의 타당성 평가를 위해 MIT-BIH 부정맥 데이터베이스를 통해 각 파라미터에 따른 훈련 및 분류 정확도를 확인하였다. 성능 평가 결과 PVC는 약 97% 이상의 평균 분류율을 나타내었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.208-215
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• 2016

The lithography hotspot detection process is crucial for semiconductor design development process. But, the lithography hotspot detection using optical simulation method takes much time and it slowdown the layout design development cycle. Though the geometry based approach is introduced as an alternative, it still revealed low detection performance and sophisticated framework. To solve this problem, we introduce a deep convolutional neural network based hotspot detection method. Our method made better results in ICCCAD 2012 dataset. To reach this score, we used lots of technical effort to improve the result in addition to just utilizing the nature of convolutional neural network. Inspection region reduction, data augmentation, DBSCAN clustering helped our work more stable and faster.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.723-730
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• 2019

Acquiring instrumentation signals generated from nuclear power plants (NPPs) is essential to maintain nuclear reactor integrity or to mitigate an abnormal state under normal operating conditions or severe accident circumstances. However, various safety-critical instrumentation signals from NPPs cannot be accurately measured on account of instrument degradation or failure under severe accident circumstances. Reactor vessel (RV) water level, which is an accident monitoring variable directly related to reactor cooling and prevention of core exposure, was predicted by applying a few signals to deep neural networks (DNNs) during severe accidents in NPPs. Signal data were obtained by simulating the postulated loss-of-coolant accidents at hot- and cold-legs, and steam generator tube rupture using modular accident analysis program code as actual NPP accidents rarely happen. To optimize the DNN model for RV water level prediction, a genetic algorithm was used to select the numbers of hidden layers and nodes. The proposed DNN model had a small root mean square error for RV water level prediction, and performed better than the cascaded fuzzy neural network model of the previous study. Consequently, the DNN model is considered to perform well enough to provide supporting information on the RV water level to operators.