• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.85-101
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• 2015

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate smart secondary controls using iPad for the drivers with physical disabilities in the driving simulator. Background: The physically disabled drivers face problems in the operation of secondary control devices that accept a control input from a driver for the purpose of operating the subsystems of a motor vehicle. Many of conventional secondary controls consist of small knobs or switches that physically disabled drivers have difficulties in grasping, pulling or twisting. Therefore, their use while driving might increase distraction and workload because of longer operation time. Method: We examined the operation time of conventional and smart secondary controls, such as hazard warning, turn signal, window, windshield wiper, headlights, automatic transmission and horn. The hardware of smart secondary control system was composed of iPad, wireless router, digital input/output module and relay switch. We used the STISim Drive3 software for driving test, customized Labview and Xcode programs for interface control of smart secondary system. Nine subjects were involved in the study for measuring operation time of secondary controls. Results: When the driver was in the stationary condition, the average operation time of smart secondary devices decreased 32.5% in the normal subjects (p <0.01), 47.4% in the subjects with left hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) and 38.8% in the subjects with right hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) compared with conventional secondary devices. When the driver was driving for the test in the simulator, the average operation time of smart secondary devices decreased 36.1% in the normal subjects (p <0.01), 41.7% in the subjects with left hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) and 34.1% in the subjects with right hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) compared with conventional secondary devices. Conclusion: The smart secondary devices using iPad for people with hemiplegic disabilities showed significant reduction of operation time compared with conventional secondary controls. Application: This study can be used to design secondary controls for adaptive vehicles and to improve the quality of life of the people with disabilities.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.151-160
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 기존의 시/청각 방식의 운전정보 전달체계의 한계를 극복하고 더불어 교통약자들의 운전수행에 도움이 되는 자동차용 햅틱 시트 기술을 개발하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 동전형 모터 30개를 사용한 진동자극용 시트커버형 시제품과 모터드라이버모듈을 제작하였고 65세 이상의 고령 피험자들을 대상으로 실시한 가상운전상황에서의 시트진동자극에 대한 실험에서는 피험자들의 전체 진동인지 점수 평균은 3.5/4점으로 87.5%의 인지율을 보여주었다. 또한 모든 피험자가 4번의 과속경고신호를 모두 인지하는 결과를 보여주었다. Trail Making Test 점수에 따른 그룹별 진동인지점수에 대한 통계분석 결과 유의한 차이가 발견되지 않았고 시각기능과 인지기능이 저하된 고령자라도 진동을 인지하는 촉각기능은 동등한 능력을 보여주는 결과를 얻었으며 이 결과는 고령운전자에 대한 차량 내에서의 시트를 통한 진동자극의 운전정보 유용성을 보여주는 것으로 사료된다.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 기존의 시/청각 방식의 운전정보 전달체계의 한계를 극복하고 더불어 교통약자들의 운전 수행에 도움이 되는 자동차용 햅틱시트 기술을 개발하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 동전형 모터 30개를 사용한 진동자극용 시트커버형 시제품과 모터드라이버모듈을 제작하였고 촉각이상이 없는 젊은 남녀 10명을 대상으로 6자유도 모션베이스 상에 구축된 가상운전 시뮬레이터를 사용하여 가상운전상황에서의 시트진동자극에 대한 실험을 진행하였다. 모터의 동작전압(1.5V, 2.5V, 3.5V)에 따라 세기가 가변되는 30개소의 진동자극의 위치별 인지율을 측정하여 분석하였다. 피험자들은 2.5V,3.5V로 동작하는 30개소의 모터 진동자극을 모두 인지하였고 최저작동전압인 1.5V에서도 일정수준 이상의 인지율을 보여주는 결과를 얻었으며 이 결과는 차량 내에서의 시트를 통한 진동자극의 운전정보 유용성을 보여주는 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제33권9호
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• pp.761-768
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• 2016

Weight bearing is effective during rehabilitation of gait, in the elderly and disabled people. Various training devices using weight bearing function were developed along with treadmill walking; however, no device has been developed in conjunction to walking on the ground. Here, we designed a rail type frame of a gait rehabilitation system for body-weight support (BWS) function, and analyzed its mechanical safety in the static weight bearing condition of a vertical axis. Computational simulations were performed to analyze structure of the driving parts, which are connected with a rail and driving rollers and the lower plate of the BWS. Structural analyses showed the drivers and BWS were safe, when simulated at 135kg weight under static conditions. Thus, this rail type rehabilitation system can be used for gait training of the elderly and disabled.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 국내에 거주하고 있는 뇌졸중 환자 및 일반인을 대상으로 국외에서 표준화된 운전 적합성 평가도구인 UFOV(Useful Field of View Test) 검사 도구의 신뢰도와 타당도를 분석하는 것이다. 2014년 10월부터 11월까지 서울시 소재 병원에 입원중인 뇌졸중 환자 19명과 일반인 23명을 대상으로 인구사회학적 정보와 UFOV 검사-재검사 신뢰도, 검사자간 신뢰도, UFOV와 TMT A&B, MVPT 점수를 비교한 동시타당도, 뇌졸중 환자와 일반인의 UFOV 검사결과로 판별타당도를 분석하였다. 그 결과 UFOV 검사의 검사-재검사 신뢰도는 하위항목 1~3에서 모두 .83(p<.01)이상을 보였으며, 검사자간 신뢰도(ICC=2,1)는 하위 항목 1~3에서 모두 .92(p<.001)이상을 보였다. 동시타당도를 알아보기 위한 TMT A&B, MVPT와 UFOV 검사의 세 하위항목과의 상관에서 모두 통계학적으로 유의한 관계를 보였으며, 판별타당도는 모든 항목에서 뇌졸중 환자와 일반인의 경우 통계학적으로 유의한 차이를 나타냈다(p<.001). 따라서 UFOV 검사는 작업치료 임상 분야에서 뇌졸중 환자의 운전사고 예방 및 운전능력을 평가하기 위한 도구로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1509-1512
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• 2003

The electric power wheelchair needs to control motor torque and speed for responding to variable actions given by handling a joystick. In this paper a DSP-based BLDC motor controller using a single dc-link current sensor is presented for electric power wheelchair. It is composed by a DSP processor and three-phase inverter module. To control torque, high speed current control is achieved by the PI controller and pulse width modulation (PWM) signals with 25 kHz carrier frequency, which is performed by 200 ${\mu}sec$ cycle. The speed controller computes the new direct current reference from the speed error and the PI control equation. The displacement value by handling the joystick is converted to reference speeds of right and left wheel motors using nonholonomic wheelchair kinematics. Experimental results show that the presented control system is enough to implement a speed servo in wheelchair driving.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2016

It is needed to use the gait training system for the rehabilitation of the disabled and old people. In this study, a gait training system of turn roller type is proposed for the purpose of helping the rehabilitation. A driving mechanism with the turn roller is designed by using the RecurDyn which is the dynamic analysis program. RecurDyn is used to analyze the dynamic behavior of the gait training system. The static load analysis is carried out to investigate the safety of this system. From the operating test of this system, it is noted that the driving error is little and the load capacity is 130 kgf.

• 센서학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.286-293
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• 2007

For safe walking of the people who are blind, walking assistance robot which can detecting and avoiding the obstacle was investigated. The implemented prototype walking assistance robot consists of a obstacle detecting module, a user interface using acoustic signal and a driving module. The obstacle detecting module uses 6 ultrasonic sensors those located at the front part of the robot can perceive the obstacle which is in 3 meter distances and $180^{\circ}$ degrees. It calculates the distance and degree from the obstacle using TOF (time of flight) method and decides the 3-dimensional location of the obstacle. The obstacle information is delivered to the user using acoustic alarm and guide sound. The robot is designed to avoid by itself when the obstacle is detecting and the user only follows it to safe walking. After the designed robot was implemented, driving and obstacle detecting experiments were carried out. The result showed that the designed walking assistance robot will help the people who are blind to walk around safe.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.199-206
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• 2020

A wheelchair is an essential rehabilitation assistant device for the movement of paraplegia patients and generally paralyzed patients who cannot walk normally. In particular, the applicability of the manual/motorized wheelchair is gradually increasing. Until now, decelerators using belt, chain and worm gears, etc have been widely used. However, a decelerator takes a large space although it is a simple device and thus is not ideal for the driving part of manual/motorized wheelchair. For these reasons, in this study we developed a driving part producing a large driving force through a decelerator using planetary gears rather than conventional worm gear-based decelerator. We designed the tooth profile of the planetary gears for decelerator using Kisssoft program, In addition, we designed the driving part so as to apply it to the wheels of conventional wheelchairs, and then optimized the mechanism for the principles of manual/motorized transposition of the driving part and the operational principles. Based on the results of this study, we finally designed and manufactured a driving part for wheelchair decelerator in the form of planetary gears with 1 sun gear, 2 planetary gears and 1 ring gear.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.19-31
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• 2005

Brain injured patients who had the driver's license before the injury of the brain were tested with the newly developed tool CPAD by Hangyang Medical School and the National Rehabilitation Center. The CPAD contains many variables to measure the ability of driving. Also for each patient the American standard CBDI score was measured and the result was compared with the CPAD results. Of interest is to classify the patients as pass, border, fail group after the CPAD test. To derive the discriminant functions with the group information based on CBDI, parametric/nonparametric and multivariate/univariate discriminant analysis was performed and discussed.