• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.83-89
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• 2013

An adaptive blind equalization is a technique using to minimize the Inter-symbol Interference occurred on a communication channel in the transmission of the high speed digital data. In this paper, we propose a blind equalization more improving performance of the conventional MSAGF-MMA adaptive blind equalization algorithm by applying a multiple step size. This algorithm apply a LMS algorithm with a several step size according to each region divided by absolute values of decision-directed error to MSAGF-MMA. By computer simulation, it is confirmed that the proposed algorithm has a performance highly enhanced in terms of a convergence speed, a residual ISI and a residual error and an ensemble averaged MSE in a steady status compared with MMA and MSAGF-MMA.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.91-101
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• 2019

This paper proposes an efficient data-driven approach to build models for predicting energy consumption in buildings. Data used in this research is collected by installing humidity and temperature sensors at different locations in a building. In addition to this, weather data from nearby weather station is also included in the dataset to study the impact of weather conditions on energy consumption. One of the main emphasize of this research is to make feature selection independent of domain knowledge. Therefore, to extract useful features from data, two different approaches are tested: one is feature selection through principal component analysis and second is relative importance-based feature selection in original domain. The regression model used in this research is gradient boosting regression and its optimal parameters are chosen through a two staged coarse-fine search approach. In order to evaluate the performance of model, different performance evaluation metrics like r2-score and root mean squared error are used. Results have shown that best performance is achieved, when relative importance-based feature selection is used with gradient boosting regressor. Results of proposed technique has also outperformed the results of support vector machines and neural network-based approaches tested on the same dataset.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1135-1148
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• 2017

Speech recognition is one of the fascinating fields in the area of Computer science. Accuracy of speech recognition system may reduce due to the presence of noise present in speech signal. Therefore noise removal is an essential step in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system and this paper proposes a new technique called combined thresholding for noise removal. Feature extraction is process of converting acoustic signal into most valuable set of parameters. This paper also concentrates on improving Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features by introducing Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT) in the place of Discrete Fourier Transformation (DFT) block to provide an efficient signal analysis. The feature vector is varied in size, for choosing the correct length of feature vector Self Organizing Map (SOM) is used. As a single classifier does not provide enough accuracy, so this research proposes an Ensemble Support Vector Machine (ESVM) classifier where the fixed length feature vector from SOM is given as input, termed as ESVM_SOM. The experimental results showed that the proposed methods provide better results than the existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.17-17
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• 2017

최근 기후변화로 인한 국지적인 돌발성 위험기상 및 집중호우의 발생빈도가 증가로 인한 기상재해의 규모가 대형화되고 있다. 이러한 기상재해 및 위험기상의 대비를 위하여 시공간적으로 고해상도를 갖는 레이더 강수자료가 수공학분야에 널리 활용되고 있다. 하지만 기상레이더는 대기 중에 존재하는 수상체로부터 반사되는 반사도를 사용하여 강수량을 산정하므로 지상 강수자료와 시공간적 오차가 존재하며 레이더-반사도 관계식을 적용하더라도 과소추정의 문제가 발생하게 된다. 과소추정의 문제를 해결하기 위하여 편의보정기법을 적용한 레이더 강수자료에는 여전히 관측과정에서 발생할 수 있는 무작위 오차(random error)에 대한 불확실성이 존재하게 된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 과소추정의 문제를 개선하고 레이더 강수자료의 시공간적 오차구조 규명이 가능한 정량적 강수량 추정기법을 개발하였다. 이를 위해 다변량 분석기법을 사용하여 레이더 강수자료의 시공간적 오차구조를 반영할 수 있는 무작위 오차(random error)를 확률론적으로 발생할 수 있는 레이더 강수앙상블 모형을 개발하였다. 개발된 모형으로부터 생산된 레이더 강우앙상블은 통계적 효율기준 분석결과 우수한 모형성능을 확인하였으며 극치호우 및 강우시계열 패턴 분석결과 지상강우의 특성을 효과적으로 재현하는 것을 확인하였다. 최종적으로 도시유역 및 미계측유역의 강우-유출모형에 입력 자료로 활용하여 홍수자료를 생산할 수 있는 레이더기반 홍수예보 시스템을 개발하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.300-300
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• 2018

최근 우리나라는 봄철 지속적으로 가뭄이 발생하는 추세로 모니터링과 더불어 가뭄 피해를 경감할 수 있도록 가뭄해석 기법이 필요하다. 이를 위해 우선적으로 우리나라 실정에 적합한 가뭄지수를 산정하고, 개선을 통해 가뭄정보들이 수자원확보를 위한 관리와 정책에 활용되어야 한다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 국내 기존에 활용되고 있는 수문학적 가뭄지수인 개선된 지표수공급지수(MSWSI : Modified Surface Water Supply Index)를 선정하고 개선하였으며, 개선된 MSWSI를 이용하여 앙상블기법 기반의 확률론적 가뭄해석을 수행하였다. MSWSI의 개선에 있어서는 우선, 유역 내 공식적으로 수집되는 모든 수문기상인자를 조사하여 기존 MSWSI에서 적용한 강수량, 하천유량, 댐 유입량, 지하수량 4가지 인자와 사용 가능한 댐 저수위, 댐 방류량 인자를 추가하여 반영하였다. 또한 각 수문인자들에 대하여 인자별로 적합한 확률분포를 적용하였다. 또한 극심한 가뭄이 발생한 2006년과 2014년을 대상으로 비교 검토를 실시하고, 앙상블기반 확률론적 가뭄전망을 수행하고 검증하였다. 연구결과, 본 연구에서 개선한 MSWSI가 2006년과 2014년 발생한 가뭄현상을 더 잘 나타내는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 실제 수문기상현상을 더욱 잘 반영하여 실제 가뭄과 유사한 가뭄결과로 분석되어, 개선된 MSWSI가 효용성이 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 앙상블 기반의 확률론적 가뭄전망 결과, 본 연구에서 개선한 MSWSI를 이용하였을 때 더 우수한 것으로 분석되었다. 대부분의 유역에서 실제 가뭄지수가 개선된 MSWSI를 이용한 가뭄전망 범위에 속하는 것으로 나타나, 본 연구에서 개선한 MSWSI를 활용한다면 보다 정확한 가뭄모니터링 수행이 가능하며, 가뭄전망의 정확성을 높일 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.301-301
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 위성 기반 토양수분 자료를 수문모형에 자료동화하여 격자 단위에서 수문기상인자를 산출하고 그 정확성을 평가하였다. 수문모형으로는 Variable Infiltration Capacity(VIC) model을 선정하여 국내 주요 8개 댐 유역에 구축하였으며, 입력자료는 2008년 이후 10년간 자료를 수집하였으며, 2008-2012년의 관측 유량 자료를 사용하여 모형을 보정하였다. 모형의 보정을 위해 Isolated-Speciation Particle Swarm Optimization(ISPSO) 기법을 적용하여 매개변수를 추정하였고, 2013-2017년의 관측유량 자료를 통하여 모형의 성능을 검증하였다. VIC 모형에 자료 동화한 토양수분 자료는 AMSR2 위성 토양 수분 자료와 지상관측 토양수분 자료를 합성한 자료를 사용하였으며, 인공위성자료와 지상 자료를 조건부합성기법으로 합성한 토양수분자료는 각 격자별 토양수분을 더 정확히 산정하여 자료동화시 모형의 모의 정확도가 향상되는 경향을 보였다. 본 연구결과는 지상관측자료를 통해 보정된 위성관측 토양수분자료를 자료동화하여 수문모형의 정확도를 향상시키고, 미계측 유역에 대한 향상된 수문기상인자 정보를 제공함으로써 다양한 수문분석의 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.42 no.5 s.143
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• pp.427-434
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• 2005

The free surface influenced the wake behind a rotating propeller and its effects were investigated experimentally in a circulating water channel with the variation of water depth. Instantaneous velocity fields were measured using two-frame PIV technique and ensemble-averaged to study the phase-averaged flow structure in the wake region. For an isolated propeller, the flow behind the propeller is affected only by the propeller rotation speed, the leading on the blades and the proximity of the propeller to the free surface. The phase-averaged mean velocity fields show that the potential wake and the viscous wake developed on the blade surfaces. The interaction between the tip vortices and the slipstream causes the oscillating trajectory of tip vortices. The presence of the free surface greatly affected the wake structure, especially for propeller immersion depth of 0.6D. At small immersion depths, the free surface modified the tip and trailing vortices and the slipstream flow structure downstream of X/D = 0.3 in the propeller wake.

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.31-45
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• 2018

This study implemented the prediction of drought properties (number of drought events, intensity, duration) using the user-oriented systematical procedures of downscaling climate change scenarios based the multiple global climate models (GCMs), AIMS (APCC Integrated Modeling Solution) program. The drought properties were defined and estimated with Effective Drought Index (EDI). The optimal 10 models among 29 GCMs were selected, by the estimation of the spatial and temporal reproducibility about the five climate change indices related with precipitation. In addition, Simple Quantile Mapping (SQM) as the downscaling technique is much better in describing the observed precipitation events than Spatial Disaggregation Quantile Delta Mapping (SDQDM). Even though the procedure was systematically applied, there are still limitations in describing the observed spatial precipitation properties well due to the offset of spatial variability in multi-model ensemble (MME) analysis. As a result, the farther into the future, the duration and the number of drought generation will be decreased, while the intensity of drought will be increased. Regionally, the drought at the central regions of the Korean Peninsula is expected to be mitigated, while that at the southern regions are expected to be severe.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.50 no.8
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• pp.1306-1313
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• 2018

The randomness and incipient nature of certain faults in reactor systems warrant a robust and dynamic detection mechanism. Existing models and methods for fault diagnosis using different mathematical/statistical inferences lack incipient and novel faults detection capability. To this end, we propose a fault diagnosis method that utilizes the flexibility of data-driven Support Vector Machine (SVM) for component-level fault diagnosis. The technique integrates separately-built, separately-trained, specialized SVM modules capable of component-level fault diagnosis into a coherent intelligent system, with each SVM module monitoring sub-units of the reactor coolant system. To evaluate the model, marginal faults selected from the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) are simulated in the steam generator and pressure boundary of the Chinese CNP300 PWR (Qinshan I NPP) reactor coolant system, using a best-estimate thermal-hydraulic code, RELAP5/SCDAP Mod4.0. Multiclass SVM model is trained with component level parameters that represent the steady state and selected faults in the components. For optimization purposes, we considered and compared the performances of different multiclass models in MATLAB, using different coding matrices, as well as different kernel functions on the representative data derived from the simulation of Qinshan I NPP. An optimum predictive model - the Error Correcting Output Code (ECOC) with TenaryComplete coding matrix - was obtained from experiments, and utilized to diagnose the incipient faults. Some of the important diagnostic results and heuristic model evaluation methods are presented in this paper.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.137-145
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• 2024

The technique of experimentally determining concrete's compressive strength for a given mix design is time-consuming and difficult. The goal of the current work is to propose a best working predictive model based on different machine learning algorithms such as Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), Stacked Ensemble (SE), Distributed Random Forest (DRF), Extremely Randomized Trees (XRT), Generalized Linear Model (GLM), and Deep Learning (DL) that can forecast the compressive strength of ternary geopolymer concrete mix without carrying out any experimental procedure. A geopolymer mix uses supplementary cementitious materials obtained as industrial by-products instead of cement. The input variables used for assessing the best machine learning algorithm not only include individual ingredient quantities, but molarity of the alkali activator and age of testing as well. Myriad statistical parameters used to measure the effectiveness of the models in forecasting the compressive strength of ternary geopolymer concrete mix, it has been found that GBM performs better than all other algorithms. A sensitivity analysis carried out towards the end of the study suggests that GBM model predicts results close to the experimental conditions with an accuracy between 95.6 % to 98.2 % for testing and training datasets.