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A Study on the Effective Use of Virtual Reality for Improving Safety Training Systems (산업안전 교육시스템에서의 가상현실의 효과적 활용 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Baik, Ji-Min;Ham, Dong-Han;Lee, Yang-Ji
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.19-30
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    • 2016
  • This paper addresses the problem of how to effectively use virtual reality(VR) for improving the quality of safety training systems. As the working environment and the working system in the industry are more and more complex and large-scaled, the concern with system safety is accordingly growing. Safety training systems are regarded as an effective way for increasing workers' interest in system safety and enhancing their ability of preventing and handling accidents/incidents. Recently, it has been reported that VR would be effectively used for improving the quality of safety training systems, with its technically specialized features. However, little attention has been given to the problem of how to effectively use VR for safety training systems. In order to make the best use of new technology such as VR, it is important to examine its advantages and disadvantages and the contexts to which its use can be beneficial. This paper firstly reviews the current status of safety training systems and the use of VR for safety training systems in the inside and outside of the country. Next, we summarize the interview with safety managers in four manufacturing companies, which was conducted to understand the requirements of stake-holders of the issue. Based on the review and the interview, we suggested the ways of using VR in safety training systems in an effective manner. They are described from the four perspectives: development and maintenance cost, lack of specialized workers, design of accident scenarios used with VR, and empirical demonstration of the effectiveness of VR in safety training.

Size-dependent dynamic stability of a FG polymer microbeam reinforced by graphene oxides

  • Wang, Yuewu;Xie, Ke;Fu, Tairan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.73 no.6
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    • pp.685-698
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    • 2020
  • The dynamic stability of a functionally graded polymer microbeam reinforced by graphene oxides subjected to a periodic axial force is investigated. The microbeam is assumed to rest on an elastic substrate and is subjected to various immovable boundary restraints. The weight fraction of graphene oxides nanofillers is graded across the beam thickness. The effective Young's modulus of the functionally graded graphene oxides reinforced composite (FG-GORC) was determined using modified Halpin-Tsai model, with the mixture rule used to evaluate the effective Poisson's ratio and the mass density. An improved third order shear deformation theory (TSDT) is used in conjunction with the Chebyshev polynomial-based Ritz method to derive the Mathieu-Hill equations for dynamic stability of the FG-GORC microbeam, in which the scale effect is taken into account based on modified couple stress theory. Then, the Mathieu-Hill equation was solved using Bolotin's method to predict the principle unstable regions of the FG-GORC microbeams. The numerical results show the effects of the small scale, the graphene oxides nanofillers as well as the elastic substrate on the dynamic stability behaviors of the FG-GORC microbeams.

A Novel Low Power Design of ALU Using Ad Hoc Techniques

  • Agarwa, Ankur;Pandya, A.S.;Lho, Young-Uhg
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.102-107
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the comparison and performance analysis for CPL and CMOS based designs. We have developed the Verilog-HDL codes for the proposed designs and simulated them using ModelSim for verifying the logical correctness and the timing properties of the proposed designs. The proposed designs are then analyzed at the layout level using LASI. The layouts of the proposed designs are simulated in Winspice for timing and power characteristics. The result shows that the new circuits presented consistently consume less power than the conventional design of the same circuits. It can also be seen that these circuits have the lesser propagation delay and thus higher speed than the conventional designs.

Concord: A Proactive Lightweight Middleware to Enable Seamless Connectivity in a Pervasive Environment

  • Hsu Sam;Mutha Mahesh;Pandya A.S.;Lho Young-Uhg
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2005
  • One of the major components of any pervasive system is its proactive behavior. Various models have been developed to provide system wide changes which would enable proactive behavior. A major drawback of these approaches is that they do not address the need to make use of existing applications without modifying the applications. To overcome this drawback, a middleware architecture called 'Concord' is proposed. Concord is based on a simple model which consists of Lookup Server and Database. The rewards for this simple model are many. First, Concord uses the existing computing infrastructure. Second, Concord standardizes the interfaces for all services and platforms. Third, new services can be added dynamically without any need for reconfiguration. Finally, Concord consists of Database that can maintain and publish the active set of available resources. Thus Concord provides a solid system for integration of various entities to provide seamless connectivity and enable proactive behavior.

Proposals for the New Maritime Education System in Asian Countries

  • Park, Young-Soo;Inoue, Kinzo;Park, Sung-Yong;Park, Jin-Soo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.32 no.9
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    • pp.693-698
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    • 2008
  • The maritime education and training is executed in Asian countries according to The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Seafarers(STCW). However, mainly basic training and education takes in maritime universities, because this convention is minimum requirements to become junior mariner. So, until now researches have not developed to the stage of discussing how maritime universities of advanced shipping countries should pursue the direction of education in the new eras. Korea and Japan as the leading shipping countries in Asia, need to take initiatives in building a new education system in order to foster the next generation maritime expert. To enhance the professional abilities of maritime technologists in the new era, element design of science and technology relating to maritime issues and a new education system based on an amalgamation of maritime education and scientific and technological education were discussed.

A Study on the Roadmap Design for Electrical Safety Technology (전기안전기술 로드맵 설계 연구)

  • Shin, Heung-Sik;Lee, Jae-Chon;Lee, Bung-Gil
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2007
  • A roadmap for Electrical Safety Technology has been designed based on the study that has been contributed by the specialists, professors and researchers in electral safety field. The roadmap is divided into five major fields including, for instance, the electrical fire accidents roadmap. The other four roadmaps are for electrical shock accidents, electrical facilities accidents, electrical safety policies and electrical safety culture-education, respectively. Each roadmap has a purpose, a scope, and a technical characteristic. Following the roadmaps can result in significant reduction of electrical fire accidents, electrical shock accident victims and so forth. The result can also be utilized in guiding the planning and development of the future electrical safety technology.

A new study on hand gesture recognition algorithm using leap motion system (Leap Motion 시스템을 이용한 손동작 인식기반 제어 인터페이스 기술 연구)

  • Nam, Jae-Hyun;Yang, Seung-Hun;Hu, Woong;Kim, Byung-Gyu
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.11
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    • pp.1263-1269
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    • 2014
  • As rapid development of new hardware control interface technology, new concepts have been being proposed and emerged. In this paper, a new approach based on leap motion system is proposed. While we employ a position information from sensor, the hand gesture recognition is suggested with the pre-defined patterns. To do this, we design a recognition algorithm with hand gesture and finger patterns. We apply the proposed scheme to 3-dimensional avatar controling and editing software tool for making animation in the cyber space as a representative application. This proposed algorithm can be used to control computer systems in medical treatment, game, education and other various areas.

Assessment of the Performance of B2PLYP-D for Describing Intramolecular π-π and σ-π Interactions

  • Choi, Tae-Hoon;Han, Young-Kyu
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.4195-4198
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    • 2011
  • Intramolecular ${\pi}-{\pi}$ and ${\sigma}-{\pi}$ interactions are omnipresent for numerous energetic and structural phenomena in nature, and the exact description of these nonbonding interactions plays an important role in the accurate prediction of the three-dimensional structures for numerous interesting molecular systems such as protein folding and polymer shaping. We have selected two prototype molecular systems for benchmarking calculations of intramolecular ${\pi}-{\pi}$ and ${\sigma}-{\pi}$ interactions. Accurately describing conformational energy of such systems requires highly elaborate but very expensive ab initio methods such as coupled cluster singles, doubles, and (triples) (CCSD(T)). Our calculations reveal a double hybrid density functional incorporating dispersion correction (B2PLYP-D) that agrees excellently with the CCSD(T) results, indicating that B2PLYP-D can serve as a practical method of choice.

Analysis of Experience Knowledge of Shooting Simulation for Training Using the Text Mining and Network Analysis (Text Mining과 네트워크 분석을 활용한 교육훈련용 모의사격 시뮬레이션 경험지식 분석)

  • Kim, Sungkyu;Son, Changho;Kim, Jongman;Chung, Sehkyu;Park, Jaehyun;Jeon, Jeonghwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.700-707
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    • 2017
  • Recently, the military need more various education and training because of the increasing necessity of various operation. But the education and training of the military has the various difficulties such as the limitations of time, space and finance etc. In order to overcome the difficulties, the military use Defense Modeling and Simulation(DM&S). Although the participants in training has the empirical knowledge from education and training based on the simulation, the empirical knowledge is not shared because of particular characteristics of military such as security and the change of official. This situation obstructs the improving effectiveness of education and training. The purpose of this research is the systematizing and analysing the empirical knowledge using text mining and network analysis to assist the sharing of empirical knowledge. For analysing texts or documents as the empirical knowledge, we select the text mining and network analysis. We expect our research will improve the effectiveness of education and training based on simulation of DM&S.