• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.109-115
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• 2013

In this paper, we developed pressure mesuring system for powered wheelchair and tried to validate the usefulness of developed system by pressure measuring experiment with 3D motion analysis. This system consist of 64ch seat FSR(Force Sensitive Resistance) sensor unit, 30ch*2 armchair FSR sensor unit, analog and digital hardware board, 2ch rotary encoder unit and realtime signal processing & display S/W. And each data acquired from this system has sampling frequency of 12bit, 10Hz. Pressure measuring experiment for 10 persons who use wheelchair in real life was performed in the 3D vision analysis room. From the experiment, we obtained result that the center line of body inclined to outside direction during powered-wheelchair rotate any direction.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.216-222
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• 2016

Generation of a quiet zone in noisy environment is undoubtedly of considerable realistic significance. This paper describes development and implementation of a multichannel real-time active noise control (ANC) system for 3 dimensional noisy environment to enhance the quiet zone performance in terms of size and noise cancellation gain. The proposed ANC system employes a multichannel delay-compensated filtered-X least mean square (FXLMS) algorithm; its real-time implementation is designed in TMS320C6713 digital signal processor (DSP) board. The system is evaluated for cancelling various tonal frequency noises in the range from 100 to 500 Hz, and the performance is then illustrated by measuring the quiet zone in terms of sound pressure level (SPL) attenuation. Experiment results show that a quiet zone of quiet with satisfactory size and maximum 24 dB noise attenuation is successfully generated.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.10
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• pp.858-866
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• 2013

In the DVB-S2, which is the technical specification of the second generation digital video broadcasting via satellite, APSK modulation scheme along with LDPC coding schemes are defined. APSK is a multi-lelvel PSK modulation scheme and decoding of LDPC coded signal requires soft decision information. Therefore, the APSK demodulator at the receiver should have capability of estimating soft information. In this paper, we introduce a method to estimate soft information by using simple distance estimation, and show that this method overestimates the soft information. Subsequently, this overestimated soft information leads to performance degradation. In order to overcome this problem, we propose a scaling method to improve the performance at the receiver In addition, we show that the proposed scaling scheme enables us to estimate the soft information with linear order complexity and produce the performance close to the maximum likelihood detection.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.6
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• pp.355-364
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• 2011

In most applications requiring high-confidential images, reversible watermarking is an effective way to ensure the integrity of images. Many watermarking researches which have been adapted to authenticate contents cannot recover the original image after authentication. However, reversible watermarking inserts the watermark signal into digital contents in such a way that the original contents can be restored without any quality loss while preserving visual quality. To detect malicious tampering, this paper presents a new block-based image authentication algorithm using differential histogram-based reversible watermarking. To generate an authentication code, the DCT-based authentication feature from each image block is extracted and combined with user-specific code. Then, the authentication code is embedded into image itself with reversible watermarking. The image can be authenticated by comparing the extracted code and the newly generated code and restored into the original image. Through experiments using multiple images, we prove that the presented algorithm has achieved over 97% authentication rate with high visual quality and complete reversibility.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.743-744
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• 2012

LED digital control convergence technology is receiving attention. It enables to analyze lighting and living environments by recognizing user information and situations through a signal process system composed of a multi-functional composite sensor's module. LED lighting is higly efficient, long-lived, environmentally, and is possible to converge with communication, and receiving as a next-generation general lighting that will replace a florescent light including the light bulb. The proposed system is an intelligent LED control system that uses solar light. This study is about a lighting control technology associated with user-estimated information/situation and related low-cost technology. Also, this study aims to embody emotional lighting by appropriately lighting 10% of the discharge current with supplementary colored LED according to the surrounding environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.797-798
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• 2012

The purpose of this study to embody LED visible light communication visual signal delivery system based on TFT-LCD module and to analyze a performance for digital signals. LED lighting enables to transmit data through light, to embody visible light communication, and to control lights in different wavelengths according to LED materials and structural materials. In this study, we aim to create a transmitting and receiving sensor that has implemented LED and visual sensors to LED efficiency and existing TFT-LCD module so as to estimate and indicate a communication distance and to find out application methods and problems. Also, by implementing TFT-LCD technology and next-generation LED visual communication technology, this study aims to check the possibility of technological realization by applying them to various means of communication including ubiquitous communication.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.523-526
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• 2002

The crosstalk among coupled microstrip lines is the major limiting factors of signal qualities in the high-speed digital and communication equipment. In this paper, a three-dimensional finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is applied to analyze the crosstalk between the coupled microstrip lines. The proposed structures of the coupled microstrip lines are investigated to reduce the coupling in a simple way by modifying their ground plane with an optimum gap. The examples of these structures with the different sizes of the gaps on their ground plane are studied. These structures are considered as the four-port network to evaluate transmission efficiency, near- and far-end crosstalk. Gaussian pulse is excited to evaluate the frequency characteristics from dc to 30 ㎓. The transmission efficiency, near- and far-end crosstalk of each structure of the coupled microstrip lines are demonstrated. The numerical results of this study show that the majority of crosstalk is the far-end crosstalk. The usage of the optimum gap on the ground plane can reduce the far-end crosstalk of the coupled microstrip lines while the transmission efficiency is nearly equal.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.6-12
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• 1984

The basic binary quantized first-order digital phase locked loop (DPLL) is modified in order to reduce the aquisition time and steadyftate phase error. Adding the loop that corrects the phase difference by detecting the falling zero-crossing time, an effort for the improving the performance is performed and the performance compared with that of the basic DPLL. Using a graphical method, the phase locking processes of the modified DPLL for a phase step and a frequency step input are depicted visually in the absence of noise. The performance of the modified DPLL for a sinusoidal input added narrow band random noise is evaluated using the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation. This approach is verified by direct computer simulation. The steady-state phase error and the average aquisition time of the modified DPLL are compared with those of the basic DPLL, It is shown that the aquisition time of the modified DPLL is shortened about twice, also, as signal to noise ratio increases, the effect of the modification increases and the steady-state phase error approaches to zero.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.235-243
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• 2012

In this study, we developed two legged multi-joint robot by using wireless servo motor that was applied by wireless sensor network technology, which is widely used recently, and performed an experiment of walking method of two legged multi-joint robot. We constructed the star network with servo motors which were used at each joint of two-legged robot. And we designed the robot for operation by transmission of joint control signal from main control system or by transmission of the status of each joint to the main control system, so it operates with continuously checking the status of joints at same time. We developed the humanoid robot by using wireless digital servo motor which is different from existing servo motor control system, and controlled it by transmitting the information of angles and speeds of robot joints to the motor(node) as a feedback through main control system after connecting power and setting up the IDs to each joint. We solved noisy problem generated from wire and wire length to connection point of the control device by construction of the wireless network instead of using existing control method of wiring, and also solved problem of poor real time response to gait motion by controlling the position with continuous transmission of control signals to each joint. And we found that the effective control of robot is able by performing the simulation on walking motion in advance with the developed control algorithm which was downloaded into installed memory. Also we performed the stable walking with two-legged robot by attaching pressure sensor to robot sole. And we examined the robot gait operated by application of calculated algorithm on robot movement to each joint. In this study, we studied the method of controlling robot gait motion by using wireless servo motors and measured the torque applied to each joint, and found that the developed wireless servo motor by ZigBee sensor network offers easier control of two legged robot gait and better circuit configuration of it than the existing wired control system could do.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.30-39
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• 2004

This study aims at establishing a digital signal processing technique to control 3-D sound localization, especially focusing our ores on the role of information provided by Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF). In order to clarify the cues to control the auditory distance perception, two conventional models named Hirsch-Tahara model and auditory parallax model were examined. As a result, it was shown that both models have limitations to universally explain the auditory distance perception. Hence, the auditory parallax model was extended so as to apply in broader cases of auditory distance perception. The results of the experiment by simulating HRTFs based on the extended parallax model showed that the cues provided by the new model were almost sufficient to control the perception of auditory distance from an actual sound source located within about 2m.