• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.506-516
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• 2015

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are generally comprised of densely deployed sensor nodes, which results in highly redundant sensor data transmissions and energy waste. Since the sensor nodes depend on batteries for energy, previous studies have focused on designing energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols to extend the network lifetime. However, the energy-efficient protocols induce an extra end-to-end delay, and therefore recent increase in focus on WSNs has led to timely and reliable communication protocols for mission-critical applications. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient and delay guaranteeing node scheduling scheme inspired by biological systems, which have gained considerable attention as a computing and problem solving technique.With the identification of analogies between cellular signaling systems and WSN systems, we formulate a new mathematical model that considers the networking challenges of WSNs. The proposed bio-inspired algorithm determines the state of the sensor node, as required by each application and as determined by the local environmental conditions and the states of the adjacent nodes. A control analysis shows that the proposed bio-inspired scheme guarantees the system stability by controlling the parameters of each node. Simulation results also indicate that the proposed scheme provides significant energy savings, as well as reliable delay guarantees by controlling the states of the sensor nodes.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권11A호
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• pp.1138-1146
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• 2006

센서 네트워크에서는 배터리 용량이 중요한 문제이다. 기존 MAC 프로토콜에서는 배터리 수명을 연장시키기 위하여 sleep 모드와 active 모드가 주기적으로 전환되는 S-MAC 프로토콜과 가변적인 active 시간을 사용하는 T-MAC 프로토콜이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 S-MAC 프로토콜과 T-MAC 프로토콜보다 에너지 소비 효율성이 뛰어난 IS-MAC (Improved Sensor MAC) 프로토콜을 제안한다. IS-MAC 프로토콜은 센서 네트워크의 에너지 효율성을 높이기 위하여 버퍼의 임계 값을 사용하여 데이터를 전송하며 에너지 낭비의 원인인 제어 패킷 수를 줄이는 방안을 제안하였다. 또한 제안한 알고리즘에 대한 수학적 분석을 통하여 IS-MAC이 기존의 센서 MAC 프로토콜보다 에너지와 데이터 전송 시간 면에서 더 효율적임을 보였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.971-975
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• 2005

In this study, a car-door-controlled collision protection system using proximity sensor is proposed and its preliminary analysis and several preliminary experiments are conducted. The proposed system has three additional sub-components on the car-door that is, a pair of extra electro-magnetic actuator that are attached to the sliding bar of the open/close car-door four-bar mechanism, a proximity sensor that would be attached to the outside surface of the door which is likely to frequently contact to the object and a driving control circuit of the whole system. A proximity sensor is used to detect object close to the car-door, the driving control circuit provides actuating power command to the electro-magnets to generate braking force to stop the swing motion of the car-door. It is verified through kinematic analysis of the four-bar car-door open/close mechanism and through experiments that the magnitude of maximum electronic magnetic force could provide the braking force enough for this application. For this purpose, an electro-magnet driving circuit is implemented and tested. And also to increase the safety of the system a time delay circuit is implemented and tested.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.408-414
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• 2007

마이크로 센서 소자와 무선 네트워크 기술의 발전으로 인하여 에너지 효율적이고 저가격의 무선 센서 노드의 개발이 가능하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 낮은 전력 소모와 우수한 BER(Bit Error Rate) 성능을 위해 FEC 기술을 적용한 FSK 모뎀 기반의 멀티 홉 무선 센서 네트워크를 제안한다. FEC 기술은 부호화 및 복호화를 위한 추가의 전력을 필요로 하며 센서 노드안에 구현하기 위한 복잡한 기능을 필요로 한다. 성능 평가를 위하여 본 논문에서는 채널 파라미터, 홉의 수, 전송 비트의 수, 노드사이의 거리를 함수로 하여 수신된 비트 및 부호어의 확률을 계산하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 11th (KACC); Pohang, Korea; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.409-412
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• 1996

Ultrasonic sensors are widely used in various applications due to advantages of low cost, simplicity in construction, mechanical robustness, and little environmental restriction in usage. But the main purposes of the noncontact sensing are rather narrowly confined within object detection and distance measurement. For the application of object recognition, ultrasonic sensors exhibit several shortcomings of poor directionality which results in low spatial resolution of objects, and specularity which gives frequent erroneous range readings. To resolve these problems in object recognition, an array of the sensor has been used. To improve the spatial resolution, more number of sensors are used in essence throughout the various devices of the sensor arrays. Under the disguise of a fixed number of the sensors, the array can be shifted mechanically in several steps. In this paper we propose a practical sensor resolution enhancement method using an electronic circuit accompanying the sensor array. The circuit changes the transmitter output voltage in several steps. Using the known sensor characteristics, a set of different return echo signals provide enhanced spatial resolution. The improvement is obtained with neither the cost of the increased number of the sensors nor extra mechanical devices.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.412-417
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• 2015

Kinect sensor has two output data which are produced from red green blue (RGB) sensor and depth sensor, it is called color image and depth map, respectively. Although this device's prices are cheapest than the other devices for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction, we need extra work for reconstruct a smooth 3D data and also have semantic meaning. It happened because the depth map, which has been produced from depth sensor usually have a coarse and empty value. Consequently, it can be make artifact and holes on the surface, when we reconstruct it to 3D directly. In this paper, we present a method for solving this problem by using implicit surface representation. The key idea for represent implicit surface is by using radial basis function (RBF) and to avoid the trivial solution that the implicit function is zero everywhere, we need to defined on-surface point and off-surface point. Based on our simulation results using captured face as an input, we can produce smooth 3D face and fill the holes on the 3D face surface, since RBF is good for interpolation and holes filling. Modified anisotropic diffusion is used to produced smoothed surface.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2017

Solar-powered wireless sensor nodes can use extra energy to obtain additional data to increase the precision. However, if the amount of data sensed is increased indiscriminately, the overhead of relay nodes may increase, and their energy may be exhausted. In this paper, we introduce a sensing and compression rate selection scheme to increase the amount of data obtained while preventing energy exhaustion. In this scheme, the neighbor nodes of the sink node determine the limit of data to be transmitted according to the allocated energy and their descendant nodes, and the other nodes select a compression algorithm appropriate to the allocated energy and the limitation of data to be transmitted. A simulation result verifies that the proposed scheme gathers more data with a lower number of blackout nodes than other schemes. We also found that it adapts better to changes in node density and the amount of energy harvested.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 다양한 환경 센서를 이용하여 농작물 재배 환경에 필요한 정보를 수집하고 실시간으로 모니터링 할 수 있는 센서 네트워크 기반의 농업 환경 모니터링 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 센서 네트워크 기반의 무선 센서 노드들은 대부분 각 센서들의 특성에 따라 별도의 변환/제어 모듈이 필요했다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 시스템에서는 농작물 재배지에서 필요로 하는 정보를 얻기 위해 사용되는 여러가지 센서들을 단일 노드에 통합할 수 있는 통합 센서 모듈을 개발한다. 또한 통합 센서 모듈에 맞는 센서 네트워크 모니터링 시스템을 개발한다. 개발된 시스템의 동작 상태를 검증하기 위해 테스트 환경에 통합 센서 노드를 설치하여 설치 환경 정보를 센싱할 수 있도록 하여 실시간으로 모니터링할 수 있게 하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.43-45
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• 2004

A remote monitoring system was developed to improve inconveniences of manual work such as monitoring street lights by using current sensors, microprocessor and RF communication system. In order to control the street lights on the roads effectively and monitor them in real time, we can attach current sensor to the street lights which monitors Lamp, the broken part and state of the Balast, and the amount of an electric leak precisely we developed a system which makes it possible to transmit the data on monitoring results in breakdown of street lights and Balasts to the central monitoring computer without setting up extra data transmission line. The system we devised can transmit data through Power Line Modem and RF communication using relay method to the central controlling computer without any loss of data.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.239-247
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• 2001

Measured radiative heat fluxes on the furnace exit plane of a heavy duty power boiler of steam output 1650 T/h are discussed. A high-ash pulverized bituminous coal was used. Such measurements are necessary to improve heat fluxes inside a steam boiler furnace was manufactured. An extra small heat radiation sensor was placed in the water cooled head of the probe. The sensor had no direct contact with furnace gases and measured only the radiant energy. There was no exposure to convective heat transfer. With the radiometric probe, one can obtain a spherical indicatrix of radiation intensity as well as hemispherical radiative heat flux incident on any surface passing through a measuring point inside the furnace. Thus, the quantity of radiation energy, passing through the furnace exit plane, to the convective heating surfaces and the quantity of radiation energy going in the opposite direction were measured. A formula for relative radiative heat flux on the furnace exit plane has been proposed.