• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 W-CDMA 기지국용 envelope tracking 전력 증폭기의 선형성 특성을 개선하는 새로운 드레인 바이어스 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 envelope tracking 전력 증폭기에서 드레인 바이어스 전압은 트랜지스터의 문턱전압 근처까지 감소하여 선형성 특성이 크게 나빠진다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서 본 연구에서는 입력 신호가 작을 때는 드레인 바이어스 전압이 고정된 class AB로 동작하게 하고 입력 신호가 클 때는 envelope tracking 동작을 하도록 하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한, envelope tracking 동작에서 신호의 왜곡을 줄이도록 드레인 바이어스 전압과 입력 신호의 관계를 새로이 구한다. 제안된 기법의 효과를 검증하기 위하여 class AB Si-LDMOS 전력 증폭기를 사용하여 W-CDMA envelope tracking 전력 증폭기를 설계하였다. 제안된 드레인 바이어스 기법은 평균 효율을 저하시키지 않으면서 선형성 특성을 크게 개선하여 추가의 선형화 기법 없이도 W-CDMA 기지국용 전력 증폭기의 선형성 사양을 만족시키는 것을 시뮬레이션을 통해 확인하였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1019-1024
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• 2018

In this paper, we suggest a combined cost function to find out the optimal operation of an envelope tracking system, and evaluated its performance with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) waveform, with which envelope tracking coefficients for the peak drain efficiency and the bandwidth of power amplifiers are determined. Based on the classical envelope tracking theory, the operation of the supply modulator, which is a key part of the envelope tracking process, is modeled and analyzed mathematically. Then characteristics of the modulator by setting envelope shaping function as a cubic polynomial and sweeping the coefficients of this function was analyzed. By sweeping the coefficients, efficiency and bandwidth at each condition with 64-QAM signal was used to obtain optimal point of the supply modulator. Compared to the conventional shaping functions, the optimized function showed the bandwidth reduction by 12.7 percent point while the efficiency was maintained.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2019

This paper describes the tracking algorithm performance evaluation for autonomous vehicle using a safety envelope based path. As the level of autonomous vehicle technologies evolves along with the development of relevant supporting modules including sensors, more advanced methodologies for path generation and tracking are needed. A safety envelope zone, designated as the obstacle free regions between the roadway edges, would be introduced and refined for further application with more detailed specifications. In this paper, the performance of the path tracking algorithm based on the generated path would be evaluated under safety envelop environment. In this process, static obstacle map for safety envelope was created using Lidar based vehicle information such as current vehicle location, speed and yaw rate that were collected under various driving setups at Seoul National University roadways. A level of safety was evaluated through CarSim simulation based on paths generated with two different references: a safety envelope based path and a GPS data based one. A better performance was observed for tracking with the safety envelop based path than that with the GPS based one.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.82-86
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 포락선추적 기능을 갖는 WCDMA 기지국에 사용될 수 있는 GaN FET를 이용한 전력증폭기 모듈을 설계하고, 제작 및 측정결과를 제시하였다. 개발된 전력증폭기 모듈은 소신호 RF 신호를 입력받아 고이득 MMIC 증폭기, 구동 증폭기 및 전력 증폭기 등을 거쳐 10W 이상의 출력을 생성할 수 있다. 또한, Envelope Tracking 응용을 위해서 최종 전력증폭기의 Drain 전압이 가변되어도 전체 모듈이 안정적으로 동작할 수 있도록 발진방지회로, Isolator, 음전압 우선인가 바이어스 회로가 설계되었다. 모든 바이어스 회로와 RF회로를 $17.8{\times}9.8{\times}2.0\;cm3$ 크기의 하우징 안에 집적화하여 소형화시켰다. 측정결과 바이어스 전압이 4V에서 28V까지 가변할 경우 30dBm에서 40dBm까지 출력이 가변되면서도 35%이상의 일정한 효율 특성을 나타내어 포락선 추적 기능을 수행할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.63-75
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• 2015

The CMOS power amplifier (PA) is a promising solution for highly-integrated transmitters in a single chip. However, the implementation of PAs using the CMOS process is a major challenge because of the inferior characteristics of CMOS devices. This paper focuses on improvements to the efficiency and linearity of CMOS PAs for modern wireless communication systems incorporating high peak-to-average ratio signals. Additionally, an envelope tracking supply modulator is applied to the CMOS PA for further performance improvement. The first approach is enhancing the efficiency by waveform engineering. In the second approach, linearization using adaptive bias circuit and harmonic control for wideband signals is performed. In the third approach, a CMOS PA with dynamic auxiliary circuits is employed in an optimized envelope tracking (ET) operation. Using the proposed techniques, a fully integrated CMOS ET PA achieves competitive performance, suitable for employment in a real system.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.235-245
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• 2014

This paper presents an envelope tracking power amplifier using a standard CMOS process for the 3GPP long-term evolution transmitters. An efficiency of the CMOS power amplifier for the modulated signals can be improved using a highly efficient and wideband CMOS bias modulator. The CMOS PA is based on a two-stage differential common-source structure for high gain and large voltage swing. The bias modulator is based on a hybrid buck converter which consists of a linear stage and a switching stage. The dynamic load condition according to the envelope signal level is taken into account for the bias modulator design. By applying the bias modulator to the power amplifier, an overall efficiency of 41.7 % was achieved at an output power of 24 dBm using the 16-QAM uplink LTE signal. It is 5.3 % points higher than that of the power amplifier alone at the same output power and linearity.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.445-451
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• 2007

Voltage quality problems such as voltage sag, swell, flicker, undervoltage, and overvoltage have been of great concern for both utilities and customers over the last decade. In this paper, a new approach based on the $H_{\infty}$ algorithm to monitor voltage disturbances is presented. The key idea of this approach is to estimate the amplitude of the fundamental component of distorted and noisy voltage waveform instantaneously, and then the information can be extracted from the estimated envelope to identify and classify different voltage related power quality problems. The $H_{\infty}$ algorithm is characterized by a fast tracking, unlike that of existing techniques. The $H_{\infty}$ algorithm outperforms the Kalman Filter (KF) by its fast convergence and robust tracking performance against non-Gaussian noise. The paper investigates the effects of various types of noise on the performance of the $H_{\infty}$ algorithm. Digital simulation results confirm the validity and accuracy of the proposed method. The proposed $H_{\infty}$ algorithm is examined by tracking the flicker produced by a resistance welder simulated in the PSCAD/EMTDC package.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2013

Helmet Mounted Display(HMD) has great advantages on the navigation and mission symbologies for the pilot's forward looking display and, therefore, has been remarkably drawing attention as the up coming display of the next generation aircraft. The essential technology to process the Line of Sight-Foward(LOS-F) data in real-time is to estimate exact helmet situation and position. In this paper, we research a acoustic helmet tracking technique. For the reason that mechanical acoustic noises might interfere with Helmet Tracking System(HTS) and unnecessary acoustic noises are inevitable when using acoustic technique, this approach has not been adapted. In order to overcome this problem. We propose that acoustic wave of which the wave length is longer than audio frequency and, especially, we used beating signal envelope which is composed of two close high frequency.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2015

This paper presents the algorithm for envelope protection of helicopters. The algorithm consists of two feedback control loops: inner loop and outer loop. As an inner loop control, model following control is designed to meet the ADS-33 handling qualities specification by minimizing the tracking errors between the responses of the actual model and those of the command filter. In order to implement envelope protection, saturation limiter is imposed to command channels in command filter, whose limits are computed corresponding to the envelope limit. Fast model predictive control is designed as an outer loop control to deal with saturation constraints generated by the inner loop envelope protection and also imposed by outer loop envelope protection variables. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm yields good envelope protection performance.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.802-809
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• 2014

This paper presents a dual-mode bias modulator (BM) for complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) power amplifiers (PAs). The BM includes a hybrid buck converter and a normal buck converter for an envelope tracking (ET) mode for high output power and for an average power tracking (APT) mode for low output power, respectively. The dual-mode BM and CMOS PA are designed using a $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS process for the 1.75 GHz band. For the 16-QAM LTE signal with a peak-to-average power ratio of 7.3 dB and a bandwidth of 5 MHz, the PA with the ET mode exhibited a poweradded efficiency (PAE) of 39.2%, an EVM of 4.8%, a gain of 19.0 dB, and an adjacent channel leakage power ratio of -30 dBc at an average output power of 22 dBm, while the stand-alone PA has a PAE of 8% lower at the same condition. The PA with APT mode has a PAE of 21.3%, which is an improvement of 13.4% from that of the stand-alone PA at an output power of 13 dBm.