• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.17-29
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• 2012

Delays are one of the biggest problems facing by the construction industry and they have significant financial and social impact in construction projects. The paper presents a framework of Delay Analysis System (DAS) with the aim of analysing the impact of delay factors in Libyan construction projects. The system has designed by integrating the possible delay factors, critical activities of a project using@risk simulator. A case study of building project was demonstrated to identify the impact of delays and the sensitivity of delay factor. The case study result showed that the project might be delayed by 97 to 103 days in comparison to the planned duration. The developed DAS is a tool for analysing and identify the impacts of delay factors and assist to construction manager to take necessary measure in reducing the delay impact. The paper provides a methodology for analysing the possible delay impact in a construction project and informing to construction manager in advance of the possible delay factors.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.96-108
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• 1994

Background: An appropriate use of hospital beds can improve productivity of hospital significantly. The authors' previous study revealed that approximately one third of Korean hospital bed days and one sixth of admissions were inappropriately used, when it was measured by Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol(AEP) and Delay Tool modified into Korean situation by the authors. This study aims to evaluate applicability of the instruments in a new hospital. More specifically the study aims to measure appropriateness of the instruments used by newly trained nurse reviewers at a new hospital setting. Methods: In order to evaluate applicability of these instruments, agreement rates of the scores recorded by newly trained nurse reviewers with by skilled nurse reviewer and also compared with the scores recorded by physician's implicit decision were assessed. Agreement rates were derived from concurrent application of AEP and Delay Tool to 52 admissions and 104 patient days from internal medicine, pediatrics, and general surgery of one university hospital. Overall agreement rate, specific nonacute agreement rate, and kappa statistics were used to indicate level of agreement. Results: Overall agreement rates on appropriateness between newly trained nurse reviewers and skilled nurse reviewer were 100% in admission and 98% in bed days. Overall agreement rates on reason for inappropriateness between newly trained nurse reviewers and skilled nurse reviewer were 96% in admission and 91% in bed days. Overall agreement rates between newly trained nurse reviewers and physician reviewer were 86% in admission and 87% in bed days. Conclusion: Results indicated that AEP and Delay Tool were applicable to a new hospital in detecting inappropriate utilization of beds and reasoning of the inappropriateness. These instruments could contribute to enhance efficiency of hospital use, through continuous monitoring of level of inappropriate hospital use at national or individual hospital level.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권9호
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• pp.746-756
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 한국형 달 탐사 시험용 궤도선을 위한 심우주 추적망 (Deep Space Network)의 관측값을 구현하는 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 이 알고리즘을 활용하여 탐사선의 신호 지연 효과를 관측 모델을 통해 보정해서 계산된 관측값을 생성할 수 있다. 계산된 관측값으로 거리, 도플러, 방위각, 고도각을 생성하였다. 기하학적 데이터 값을 General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT)의 시나리오를 통해 구하였으며, 계산된 관측값을 구하기 위해서 시간 지연 효과, 대류층 지연 효과, 대류권 내 하전 입자에 의한 지연 효과, 대류권 밖 하전 입자에 의한 지연 효과, 대류층에 의한 굴절 효과, 안테나에 의한 지연 효과를 고려하였다. 관측 모델들을 통해 구한 계산된 관측값은 시험용 궤도선의 정밀 궤도 결정을 위해 사용된다. 본 논문에서 개발한 데이터 시뮬레이션 모듈은 미 항공우주국의 궤도 결정 툴 박스 (Orbit Determination ToolBoX, ODTBX)를 이용해 검증되었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2009

This paper presents a method for designing a robust controller that alleviates disturbance effects and compensates performance degradation owing to the time-delay. Disturbance observer(DOB) approach as a tool of robust control has been widely employed in industry. However, since the Pade approximation of time-delay makes the plant non-minimum phase, the classical DOB cannot be applied directly to the system with time-delay. By using a new DOB structure for non-minimum phase systems together with the Smith Predictor, we propose a new controller for reducing the both effects of disturbance and time-delay. Moreover, the closed-loop system can be made robust against uncertain time-delay with the help of a Pill controller tuning method that is based on a second-order plus dead time modeling technique.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.213-214
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• 2008

This paper considers design of a robust controller that alleviates disturbance effects and compensates performance degradation of plants with time-delay. Disturbance observer(DOB) approach as a tool of robust control has been widely employed in industry. However, since the time-delay makes the plant non-minimum phase, classical DOB cannot be applied directly to the time-delay system. By using a new DOB structure for non-minimum phase systems together with the Smith Predictor, we propose a new control algorithm for reducing the effects of disturbance and time-delay of the system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.239-242
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• 1998

Most of time delay existing in industrial processes can be modeled as an input time-delay which causes a lot of difficulties. To implement a time-delay free control, loop transfer function is recovered through the direct state feedback. For the proper state feedback, and observer is designed based upon the factorization approach which is known as one of the most powerful tool for the design of various control systems. The design scheme is parctically applied for the control of a DC motro which suffers from input time-delay. Simulational results demonstrate that this new algorithm guarantess the stability of the time-delayed system, as well as performance improvement compared to the conventional PI control.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권5호
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• pp.180-187
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• 1996

This paper describes a post-layout simulation method using VHDL and C for verifying the architecture of antifuse-based FPGAs and the dedicated CAD system. An antifuse-based FPGA consists of programming circuitry including decoding logic, logic modules, segmented tracks, antifuses and I/O pads. The VHDL model which includes all these elements is used for logic verification and programming verification of the implemented circuit by reconstructing the logic circuit from the bit-stream generated from layout tool. The implemented circuit comprises of logic modules and routing networks. Since the routing delay of the complex networks is comparable to the delay of the logic module in the FPGA, the accurate post-layout simulation is essential to the FPGA system. In this paper, the C program calculates the delay of the routing netowrks using SPICE, elmore or horowitz delay models and the results feedback to the VHDL simulation. Critical path anc be found from this post-layout simulation results.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.605-613
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• 2014

In this work, the delay time for groundwater recharge was estimated by comparing simulated recharges by means of SWAT(Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model and WTF(Water Table Fluctuation) method. The delay time for groundwater recharge means that the time when the water from rainfall travelled through vadose zone just after getting out of soil zone bottom. As measuring this delay time is almost impossible, we used to compare the estimated values from modeling(SWAT) and analytic method(WTF). The test site is Hancheon watershed which has 8 groundwater measurement stations. The results show that the altitude has a linear relationship with the estimated delay time values. To validate these results, we conducted corelation analysis between transformed groundwater levels and observed ones. The results showed that computed groundwater levels have good corelation($R^2$=0.97, 0.87, respectively). The estimated delay time would be used for the groundwater behaviour characteristics in vadose zone. As recharge rates vary according to the height, the delay time is thought to be an import variable for the proper groundwater recharge estimation.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2011

Chip 동작 주파수가 상승함에 따라, 온-칩 인터커넥에서 인덕턴스 문제 대한 우려가 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 VLSI 설계에서 인덕턴스 효과가 큰 인터커넥을 선택하는 2단계의 인덕턴스 screening tool을 소개한다. Technology가 scaling함에 따라 인터커넥의 단면이 줄어들어 저항이 증가한다. 저항의 증가는 인덕턴스의 영향을 줄이는 효과가 있다. 따라서 각각 다른 CMOS 공정(0.25${\mu}m$, 0.13${\mu}m$, 90nm)을 사용하여 디자인된 칩을 개발한 tool로 실험함으로써 technology scaling에 따른 인덕턴스 영향을 분석해 보았다. 인덕턴스 screening tool의 결과는 디자인의 0.1% 이내의 net들이 작동 주파수에서 인덕턴스 문제를 보임으로써, 모든 인터커넥에 인덕턴스 모델을 추가하는 대신 인덕턴스 screening을 한 후 필요한 인터커넥에만 추가하는 것이 효율적임을 알 수 있다. 대부분 test chip들이 본래 칩 동작 주파수에서는 인덕턴스 영향이 문제되지 않았지만, 주파수를 높일 경우 문제가 되는 인터커넥들을 찾아낼 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 개발한 인덕턴스 screening tool은 회로 설계자들에게 유용한 지침을 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국공작기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국공작기계학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집 - 한국공작기계학회
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• pp.345-350
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• 1999

The effectiveness of software error compensation for thermally induced machine tool errors relies on the prediction accuracy of the pre-established thermal error models. The selection of optimal sensor locations is the most important in establishing these empirical models. In this paper, a methodology for the selection of optimal sensor locations is proposed to establish a robust linear model which is not subjected to collinearity. Correlation coefficient and time delay are used as thermal parameters for optimal sensor location. Firstly, thermal deformation and temperatures are measured with machine tools being excited by sinusoidal heat input. And then, after correlation coefficient and time delays are calculated from the measured data, the optimal sensor location is selected through hard c-means clustering and sequential selection method. The validity of the proposed methodology is verified through the estimation of thermal expansion along Z-axis by spindle rotation.