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Performance Evaluation of Transmitting Brainwave Signals for Driver's Safety in Urban Area Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (운전자의 안전을 위한 도심지역 자동차 애드혹 통신망의 뇌파전송 성능평가)

  • Jo, Jun-Mo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 2011
  • Recently, in the U-health area, there are research related on monitoring brainwaves in real-time for coping with emergent situations like the fatigue driving, cerebral infarction or the heart attack of not only the patients but also the normal elderly folks by transmitting of the EEG(Electroencephalograph). This system could be applied to hospitals or sanatoriums. In this paper, it is applied for the vehicular ad-hoc network to prevent the car accident in advance by monitoring the brainwaves of a driver in real-time. In order to do this, I used mobile ad-hoc nodes supported in the Opnet simulator for the efficient EEG brainwave transmission in the VANET environment. The vehicular ad-hoc networks transmitting the brainwaves to the nearest road-side unit are designed and simulated to draw an efficient and proper vehicular ad-hoc network environment.

Optimization of Bar-to-Bar Similar Friction Welding of Crank Shaft for Motor Vehicle and the Weld Fatigue Strength Properties and its AE Evaluation (자동차 크랭크 軸用 鋼材의 棒對棒 同種材 摩擦熔接의 疲勞强度 特性 및 AE 評價)

  • Oh, Sea-Kyoo;Yang, Hyung-Tae;Kim, Hun-Kyoung
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2 s.32
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    • pp.74-82
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    • 1999
  • Nowadays, the crank shaft motor vehicle has become essential as the important component. The machining precision was asked for manufacturing the shaft. They could be unstable in the quality by the conventional are welding. Both in-process quailty control and high reliability of the weld are the major concerns in applying friction wlding to the economical and qualified mass-production. No reliable nondestructive monitoring method is avaliable at present to determine the real-time evaluation of automatic production quality control for bar-to-bar friction welding of the crank shaft of O.D 24mm for motor vehicle. This paper, so that, presents the experimental examinations and statistical quantitative analysis of the correlation between the cumulative counts of acoustic emission(AE) during plastic deformation periods of the welding and the tensile strength and other properties of the bar-to-bar welded joints of O.D. 24mm shaft as well as the various welding variables, as a new approach which attempts finally to develop real-time quality monitoring system for friction welding, resulting in practical possiblility of real-time quality control more than 100% joint efficiency showing good weld with no micro structural defects.

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Thermomechanical and electrical resistance characteristics of superfine NiTi shape memory alloy wires

  • Qian, Hui;Yang, Boheng;Ren, Yonglin;Wang, Rende
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.183-193
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    • 2022
  • Structural health monitoring and structural vibration control are multidisciplinary and frontier research directions of civil engineering. As intelligent materials that integrate sensing and actuation capabilities, shape memory alloys (SMAs) exhibit multiple excellent characteristics, such as shape memory effect, superelasticity, corrosion resistance, fatigue resistance, and high energy density. Moreover, SMAs possess excellent resistance sensing properties and large deformation ability. Superfine NiTi SMA wires have potential applications in structural health monitoring and micro-drive system. In this study, the mechanical properties and electrical resistance sensing characteristics of superfine NiTi SMA wires were experimentally investigated. The mechanical parameters such as residual strain, hysteretic energy, secant stiffness, and equivalent damping ratio were analyzed at different training strain amplitudes and numbers of loading-unloading cycles. The results demonstrate that the detwinning process shortened with increasing training amplitude, while austenitic mechanical properties were not affected. In addition, superfine SMA wires showed good strain-resistance linear correlation, and the loading rate had little effect on their mechanical properties and electrical resistance sensing characteristics. This study aims to provide an experimental basis for the application of superfine SMA wires in engineering.

Biosignal-based Driver's Emotional Response Monitoring System: Part 1. System Implementation (생체 신호 측정 기반 운전자 상태 모니터링 시스템: 1부 시스템 구현)

  • Kim, Beom-Joon;Lee, Boon-Giin
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.677-684
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    • 2018
  • Recently, negative emotional responses by drivers are a growing problem, which leads to not only a traffic accident but a crime so called 'road rage' in countries with heavy traffics including South Korea. Under such a circumstance, measuring stress- and fatigue-induced emotional responses by means of wireless communication and a wearable system would be useful. The purpose of this study is to implement a system that measures various signals from a driver, derives and monitors his emotional responses from the measurements and verify its derivations with reliability. This paper, as a first part of the research, describes how the system has been implemented with experimental methods.

Electroencephalogram-Based Driver Drowsiness Detection System Using Errors-In-Variables(EIV) and Multilayer Perceptron(MLP) (EIV와 MLP를 이용한 뇌파 기반 운전자의 졸음 감지 시스템)

  • Han, Hyungseob;Song, Kyoung-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39C no.10
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    • pp.887-895
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    • 2014
  • Drowsy driving is a large proportion of the total car accidents. For this reason, drowsiness detection and warning system for drivers has recently become a very important issue. Monitoring physiological signals provides the possibility of detecting features of drowsiness and fatigue of drivers. Many researches have been published that to measure electroencephalogram(EEG) signals is the effective way in order to be aware of fatigue and drowsiness of drivers. The aim of this study is to extract drowsiness-related features from a set of EEG signals and to classify the features into three states: alertness, transition, and drowsiness. This paper proposes a drowsiness detection system using errors-in-variables(EIV) for extraction of feature vectors and multilayer perceptron (MLP) for classification. The proposed method evaluates robustness for noise and compares to the previous one using linear predictive coding (LPC) combined with MLP. From evaluation results, we conclude that the proposed scheme outperforms the previous one in the low signal-to-noise ratio regime.

Smart Safety Management System based on ICT Sensor (ICT 센서를 기반한 스마트 안전관리 시스템)

  • Lee, Seung-Chul;Joung, Young-Su;Cho, Min-Jun;Jeon, Dong-Ju;Baek, Uk-Jin;Kim, Nam-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.542-545
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    • 2022
  • Recently, the Act on the Punishment of Severe Disasters has drawn attention to the construction environment. A common way to check the safety management of the construction site is for workers to check the site with their own eyes. However, this method is inevitably affected by the limitations of workers' abilities, resulting in fatigue and reduced work efficiency. For this reason, it cannot be an efficient method. Thus, we intend to help the working environment and construction site safety through this study, by proposing an efficient ICT safety management system that can supplement the above methods. In this paper explain the design of the access management system using RFID and the field information monitoring method through noise sensors and fine dust sensors. In addition, we propose a system that can prevent accidents between heavy equipment and people with a PIR sensor, and prevent safety accidents by grasping the slope of the building being worked through a gyro sensor.

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축방향 하중을 받는 앵귤러 콘택트 볼베오링의 수명특성에 관한 실험적 연구

  • Hwang, Pyung;Kwon, Sung-In
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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    • 1996.05a
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 1996
  • The new trends in main spindle design of Machining Center are focused on high-speed, high-precision and high-stiffness. As a main spindle bearing, the angular-contact ball bearing is well used. A rolling bearing is usually only a small part of a larger mechanical system, but its performance can have a great influence on the functioning of the whole machine. This work is about fatigue life tester design and monitoring of defected rolling-element bearings. The major work is done via experiments and the vibration signal is analysised by means of frequency spectrum technique. By analyzing the frequency spectrum, it is possible to view the condition of the bearings.

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Vibration Characteristics Analysis of Reduction Unit for Railway Vehicles (국내 철도차량 감속기 진동특성분석)

  • Ji, Hae-Young;Kim, Jae-Chul;Lee, Dong-Hyung;Moon, Kyung-Ho;Lee, Kang-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.169-174
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    • 2012
  • Reduction unit is one of the most important components for railway vehicle because torque of motor must be transmitted to wheels of vehicle by reduction unit. However, According to advanced studies, it has been often broke down due to the damage, fatigue and wear of gear. To solve this problem, defect diagnosis methods of gear have been mainly using the vibration diagnosis technology through vibration waveform and frequency analysis. However, We should know vibration characteristics of normal state reduction unit prior to defect diagnosis. So in this paper, We had analyzed vibration characteristics of reduction unit in order to utilize monitoring system development. Comparison of targets is the vibration characteristics of normal state reduction unit about Electric Multiple Unit(EMU) and the High-speed trains(KTX, KTX II).

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Leak Detection and Evaluation for Power Plant Boiler Tubes Using Acoustic Emission (음향방출을 이용한 보일러튜브 누설평가)

  • Lee, Sang-Guk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2004
  • Boiler tubes in power plants are often leaked due to various material degradations including creep and thermal fatigue damage under severe operating conditions such as high temperature and high pressure over an extended period of time. To monitor and diagnose the tubes on site and in real time, the acoustic emission (AE) technology was applied. We developed an AE leak detection system, and used it to study the variation of AE signal from the on-site tubes in response to the changes in the boiler operation condition and to detect the locations of leakage based on it. Detection of leak was performed by acquiring and evaluating the signals in separate regimes of high and low frequency signal. As a result of these studies, we found that on-line monitoring and detection of leak location for boiler tubes is possible using the developed system. Thus, the system is expected to contribute to the safe operation of power plants, and prevent economic losses due to potential leak.

Design of Digital-clothing that can Detect Driver's Bio-signal and Position (운전자의 생체신호 및 위치 파악이 가능한 디지털 의류 설계)

  • Lee, Min-hye;Jeong, Dong-myong;Shin, Seong-yoon;Jeon, Tae-il;Choi, Jae-seok;Jeong, Gi-soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2018.10a
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    • pp.171-173
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    • 2018
  • The poor working conditions of transit drivers not only lead to mental stress and fatigue accumulation of workers, but also to the main causes of mass transit accidents. Stress and fatigue accumulation are closely related to the vital signs because they affect the psychological and physical health. In this paper, we designed a digital garment which can measure driver's health condition by measuring electrocardiogram, pulse rate and body temperature. Also proposed a system that transmits the measured bio-signal to the smartphone app via Bluetooth and transmits the current position of the driver to the server by using the built-in GPS of the smartphone, assuming there is something wrong.

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