• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.834-837
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• 2015

본 논문은 0-5 볼트의 범위에서 실시간 아날로그 ECG 신호를 생성하는 FPGA 하드웨어 기반 ECG 시뮬레이터를 설계하고 기능 및 특성을 기술하였다. 시뮬레이터에 의해 생성된 ECG 신호는 실험실 실험, 의료 기기 교정 및 연구에 사용되거나 다양하게 응용할 수 있다. 시뮬레이터의 ECG 신호는 신호 데이터를 생성하기 위하여 기존의 24bit 양자화로 획득한 후 실 데이터로 사용할 때에는 1kHz의 샘플링과 8비트로 분해, 양자화 되었다. 제안 시뮬레이터는 xilix Spartan-3를 이용하여 구현하였으며 PC와 설계 FPGA 시뮬레이터 간에 RS-232를 통하여 데이터를 전송할 수 있도록 하였다. 전송된 데이터는 메모리에 저장하고 저장된 데이터는 DAC(0808) 통하여 아날로그 ECG 신호로 출력되게 하였다. 또한 두 개의 버튼 수위를 통하여 심박수(HR)를 UP-DOWN할 수 있도록 하였다. 설계된 시스템의 평가를 위하여 기존의 심전도 입력을 사용하여 출력신호와 QRS파형의 획득을 위한 미분회로 통과 결과를 평가한 결과 적합한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.852-856
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• 2005

This paper proposes a new design of the ECG simulator with high resolution by using small amount of memories based on discrete least square estimation equations instead of reading the stored data inside the look-up table. The experimental results have shown that the ECG simulator using discrete least square estimation equations can display the bipolar limb leads ECG signals with low PRD (percent root-mean-square difference) while taking the less amount of memories than the previous method which used the look-up table to store ECG data for ECG simulation.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.391-395
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• 2015

15 리드 심전도는 12 리드 심전도가 진단하지 못하는 심장의 후벽질환 등을 진단하기 위하여 개발되었다. 그러나 15 리드 심전도를 이용한 심장질환 진단알고리즘을 개발하기 위해 필요한 15 리드 심전도 데이터가 부족하고, 기존의 심전도 시뮬레이터는 전극의 부착위치나 심장질환에 따라 달라지는 심전도의 형태를 예측할 수 없는 문제가 있다. 따라서 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 심장을 전기적인 캐패시턴스를 가지는 15 개의 부분으로 나누고 전기적인 저항소자를 통하여 연결된 LPM 을 제작하였다. 심장의 전기전도기전을 모사하기 위하여 각 절점은 전류원과 연결되고 위치와 시간지연을 고려한 개별적인 전류를 인가하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 제작한 LPM 의 각 절점에 특정한 전류를 인가함으로써 심전도로서 활용 가능한 파형을 얻는데 있다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2014년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.251-253
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• 2014

본 연구는 시뮬레이터에서의 mental workload 측정 및 평가를 위한 기초연구로서 실선과 시뮬레이터에서의 항해사 생체신호 변화를 비교하고자 한다.ECG, PVT, NASA-TLX를 이용하여 정신적 작업부하를 평가하였다. 운항구간은 부산항 입항과 출항으로 하였다. ECG와 NASA-TLX 분석 결과, 실선과 시뮬레이터 간에 유사한 경향을 보였다. 추후 동일한 상황에 대한 누적된 데이터 및 다양한 피실험자를 대상으로 실험을 수행하여야 할 것이다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 시뮬레이터를 활용한 다양한 환경에서의 workload 실험이 가능할 것이다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.16-19
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• 2015

A wearable sensing ECG T-shirt for ubiquitous vital signs sensing is proposed. The sensor system consists of a signal processing board and capacitive sensing electrodes which together enable measurement of an electrocardiogram (ECG) on the human chest with minimal discomfort. The capacitive sensing method was employed to prevent direct ECG measurement on the skin and also to provide maximum convenience to the user. Also, low power integrated circuits (ICs) and passive electrodes were employed in this research to reduce the power consumption of the entire system. Small flexible electrodes were placed into cotton pockets and affixed to the interior of a worn tight NIKE Pro combat T-shirt. Appropriate signal conditioning and processing were implemented to remove motion artifacts. The entire system was portable and consumed low power compared to conventional ECG devices. The ECG signal obtained from a 24 yr. old male was comparable to that of an ECG simulator.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.15-28
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• 2003

The one of the most important factors is the platoon design on developing AH3(Advanced Highway System), as it is related to traffic efficiency and drivers' safety. This study was evaluated that how much speed is comfortable for drivers and how long distance is appropriate for vehicular gap of platoon by measuring drivers' physiology signal and sensibility. A fixed-based AHS simulator was developed by using a real vehicle cockpit and the restructured part of Korean highway for human factors evaluation. The EEG(electroencephalogram), ECG (electrocardiogram) and GSR(Galvanic Skin Response) were measured for obtaining drivers' physiology signal according to the change of speed and gap. The brain wave(${\alpha},\;{\beta},\;{\delta},\;{\theta}$) by EEG, the response of the autonomic nervous system. the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, by ECG, and relax-arousal situation by GSR were analyzed. The SD(Semantic Differential) method was also applied to evaluate drivers' sensibility by 5-grade evaluation scale with 96 adjectives. SSQ(Simulator Sickness Questionnaire) was used to measure the simulator sickness of pre and post driving, two times. As the results, drivers were comfortable with 120km/h speed of platoon and lam to 15m vehicular distance. The results of this study may differ from the adaption of the reality because of many parameters. However, the purpose of this study is show to significant results of the drivers' safety and the acceptability of human factors evaluation.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2006

he purpose of this study is to measure bio-signal to investigate the driver's physiological response change under real situation using train simulator. The train simulator used in this study is KTX model and according to changes of driving situation, The bio-signal controlled by autonomic nervous system, such as GSR(Galvanic Skin Response), SpO2(Saturation percent O2), HR(Heart Rate), ECG(Electrocardiograph), EEG(Electroencephagram) and movement and response of eye were measured. Statistically significant difference in bio-signal data and eye movement activity pattern were investigated under several different driving speeds using analysis of variance (p<0.05). The GSR and HR value measured in average and mission speed operation is higher than in high-speed operation. β wave of EEG in average speed operation become more activated than in high speed operation. In accordance with a characteristic of rail vehicle, movement and response of eye in high-speed operation requiring relatively simple maneuver become less activated than in either average or mission speed operations. Conclusively, due to more careful driving controls in average and mission speed operation are required than in high-speed operation, level of mental and physical stresses of train driver was increased and observed through changes of bio-signal and eye movement measured in this study.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2009

Driving simulators are useful tools not only to test the components of future cars but also to evaluate the telematics service and HMI (Human-Machine Interface). However driving simulators cannot be implemented to test and evaluate the telematics service system because the GPS (Global Positioning System) which contains basic functional support for the telematics module do not work in the VR (virtual reality) environment. This paper presents a method to implement telematics service to a driving simulator by developing the GPS simulator which is able to emulate GPS satellite signals consist of NMEA-0183 protocol and RS232C communication standards. It is expected that the driving simulator with the GPS simulator can be used to study HMI and human-factor evaluations of the commercial telematics system to realize the HiLES (Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation System).

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.280-289
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• 2022

In this paper, we present a QRS-complex detection algorithm to calculate an accurate heartbeat and clearly recognize irregular rhythm from ECG signals. The conventional Pan-Tompkins algorithm brings false QRS detection in the derivative when QRS and noise signals have similar instant variation. The proposed algorithm uses amplitude differences in 7 adjacent samples to detect QRS-complex which has the highest amplitude variation. The calculated amplitude is cubed to dominate QRS-complex and the moving average method is applied to diminish the noise signal's amplitude. Finally, a decision rule with a threshold value is applied to detect accurate QRS-complex. The calculated signals with Pan-Tompkins and proposed algorithms were compared by signal-to-noise ratio to evaluate the noise reduction degree. QRS-complex detection performance was confirmed by sensitivity and the positive predictive value(PPV). Normal ECG, muscle noise ECG, PVC, and atrial fibrillation signals were achieved which were measured from an ECG simulator. The signal-to-noise ratio difference between Pan-Tompkins and the proposed algorithm were 8.1, 8.5, 9.6, and 4.7, respectively. All ratio of the proposed algorithm is higher than the Pan-Tompkins values. It indicates that the proposed algorithm is more robust to noise than the Pan-Tompkins algorithm. The Pan-Tompkins algorithm and the proposed algorithm showed similar sensitivity and PPV at most waveforms. However, with a noisy atrial fibrillation signal, the PPV for QRS-complex has different values, 42% for the Pan-Tompkins algorithm and 100% for the proposed algorithm. It means that the proposed algorithm has superiority for QRS-complex detection in a noisy environment.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.135-136
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to develope a validation method for driving simulator. Physiological responses such as EOG, ECG, and driver's behaviour were measured by using actual vehicles. The characteristics of the recognition of the acceleration by the human are investigated. These results showed that physiological responses was changed by the driving environment. Subject recognized that he drove more than real distance and turning angle.