• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.527-535
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• 2012

This paper reports the active vibration control of plates using positive position feedback controller (PPF). The equations of motion of the plate under force and moment pairs were derived and the equations of PPF controllers were formulated. The effect of the parameters - gain and damping ratio - of the PPF controllers on the open loop transfer function was investigated mainly in terms of the system stability. Increasing the gain of the PPF controller tuned at a mode, the magnitude of the open loop transfer function is increased at all frequencies without changing the phase behavior. The increase of the damping ratio of the PPF controller leads to decrease the magnitude of the open loop transfer function and to modify its phase characteristics to be more stable. Two PPF controllers connected in parallel, Each PPF controller is tuned at the $1^{st}$ and $2^{nd}$ modes, respectively. Their parameters were determined to remain the system to be stable based on the results of the parametric study. A significant reduction in vibration at the 2 modes can be obtained.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.4-9
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• 2013

Leptin, a 16-kDa cytokine, is secreted by adipose tissue in response to the surplus of fat store. Thereby, the brain is informed about the body's energy status. In the hypothalamus, leptin triggers specific neuronal subpopulations (e.g., POMC and NPY neurons) and activates several intracellular signaling events, including the JAK/STAT, MAPK, PI3K, and mTOR pathway, which eventually translates into decreased food intake and increased energy expenditure. Leptin signal is inhibited by a feedback inhibitory pathway mediated by SOCS3. PTP1B involves another inhibitory pathway of leptin. Leptin potently promotes fat mass loss and body weight reduction in lean subjects. However, it is not widely used in the clinical field because of leptin resistance, which is a common feature of obesity characterized by hyperleptinemia and the failure of exogenous leptin administration to provide therapeutic benefit in rodents and humans. The potential mechanisms of leptin resistance include the following: 1) increases in circulating leptin-binding proteins, 2) reduced transport of leptin across the blood-brain barrier, 3) decreased leptin receptor-B (LRB), and/or 4) the provocation of processes that diminish cellular leptin signaling (inflammation, endoplasmic reticulum stress, feedback inhibition, etc.). Thus, interference of the cellular mechanisms that attenuate leptin signaling improves leptin action in cells and animal models, suggesting the potential utility of these processes as points of therapeutic intervention. Various experimental trials and compounds that improve leptin resistance are introduced in this paper.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1190-1199
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• 2010

This paper reports active control of clamped beams using acceleration feedback controllers (AF). The equations of motion of clamped beam under force and moment pairs were derived and the equations of AF controllers were formulated. The effect of the parameters - gain and damping ratio - of the AF controllers on the open loop transfer function was investigated mainly in terms of the system stability. Increasing the gain of the AF controller tuned at a mode, the magnitude of the open loop transfer function is increased at all frequencies. The increase of the damping ratio of the AF controller leads to decrease the magnitude of the open loop transfer function and modifies its phase characteristics to be more stable. Three AF controllers connected in parallel were then proposed. Each AF controller is tuned at the 2nd, 3rd and 4th modes, respectively. Their parameters were determined to remain the system to be stable based on the results of the parametric study. A significant reduction in vibration at the 3 modes can be obtained.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권2A호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2004

본 논문은 다중사용자를 위한 OFDMA/FDD(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access/Frequency Division Duplex) 시스템에서 가변적인 전송율로 전송하기위한 무선 채널의 피드백 정보를 감소하는 방안을 제시한다. 제한된 상향링크 제어채널을 통해 기지국으로 무선 채널 정보를 전송하기 위해서, 제안된 알고리즘은 인근 클러스터간의 무선 채널의 유사 정도를 나타내는 정보로 채널 변화 수준(channel variation level)을 사용하며, 모든 클러스터에 대해서 하나의 MCS(Modulation & Coding Scheme)을 사용한다. 시뮬레이션은 하나의 셀 내에서 수행되었으며, 기존의 알고리즘의 피드백 정보와 유사한 오버헤드로 대역 효율 및 outage probability에서 더 좋은 성능을 나타내었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2004

This paper presents a near-optimum blind decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for the receivers of Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television. By adopting a modified trellis decoder (MTD) with a trace- back depth of 1 for the decision device in the DFE, we obtain a hardware-efficient, blind DFE approaching the performance of an optimum DFE which has no error propagation. In the MTD, the absolute distance is used rather than the squared Euclidean distance for the computation of the branch metrics. This results in a reduction of the computational complexity over the original trellis decoding scheme. Compared to the conventional slicer, the MTD shows an outstanding performance improvement in decision error probability and is comparable to the original trellis decoder using the Euclidean distance. Reducing error propagation by use of the MTD in the DFE leads to the improvement of convergence performance in terms of convergence speed and residual error. Simulation results show that the proposed blind DFE performs much better than the blind DFE with the slicer, and the difference is prominent at the trellis decoder following the blind DFE.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.849-860
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• 2016

The high-switching-frequency operation of power converters can achieve high power density through size reduction of passive components, such as capacitors, inductors, and transformers. However, a small-output capacitor that has small capacitance and low effective series resistance changes the small-signal model of the converter power stage. Such a capacitor can make the converter unstable by increasing the crossover frequency in the transfer function of the small-signal model. In this paper, the design and implementation of a high-frequency LLC resonant converter are presented to verify the power density enhancement achieved by decreasing the size of passive components. The effect of small output capacitance is analyzed for stability by using a proper small-signal model of the LLC resonant converter. Finally, proper design methods of a feedback compensator are proposed to obtain a sufficient phase margin in the Bode plot of the loop gain of the converter for stable operation at 500 kHz switching frequency. A theoretical approach using MATLAB, a simulation approach using PSIM, and experimental results are presented to show the validity of the proposed analysis and design methods with 100 and 500 kHz prototype converters.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.2397-2408
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 디지털 고밀도 기록 장치의 비선형성 감소를 위한 비선형 적응 등화기의 구조에 대하여 논한다. 기록 장치가 고밀도화되어 감에 따라 증가하는 비선형 심볼간 간섭을 감소시킬 수 있는 비선형 적응 결정 궤환 등화기를 제안하고, 후조(postcursor)에 비선형 심볼간 간섭이 존재할 때 이를 제거할 수 있도록 제안된 기존의 방식은 RAM-적응 결정 궤환 등화기와 성능을 비교 평가한다. 3종류의 다른 밀도를 갖는 기록 채널의 경우에 대하여 각 등화기의 출력을 SNR을 관찰하고, 전조(precursor)와 후조에 비선형 심볼간 간섭이 존재하는 일반적인 기록 채널에서 비선형 적응 결정 궤환 등화기의 성능이 가장 우수함을 확인한다

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2015

This paper presents a high-throughput low-complexity decoder architecture and design technique to implement successive-cancellation (SC) polar decoding. A novel merged processing element with a one's complement scheme, a main frame with optimal internal word length, and optimized feedback part architecture are proposed. Generally, a polar decoder uses a two's complement scheme in merged processing elements, in which a conversion between two's complement and sign-magnitude requires an adder. However, the novel merged processing elements do not require an adder. Moreover, in order to reduce hardware complexity, optimized main frame and feedback part approaches are also presented. A (1024, 512) SC polar decoder was designed and implemented using 40-nm CMOS standard cell technology. Synthesis results show that the proposed SC polar decoder can lead to a 13% reduction in hardware complexity and a higher clock speed compared to conventional decoders.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.532-545
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• 2022

In-depth convergence analyses for neutronics/thermal-hydraulics (T/H) coupled calculations are performed to investigate the performance of nonlinear methods based on the Fixed-Point Iteration (FPI). A simplified neutronics-T/H coupled system consisting of a single fuel pin is derived to provide a testbed. The xenon equilibrium model is considered to investigate its impact during the nonlinear iteration. A problem set is organized to have a thousand different fuel temperature coefficients (FTC) and moderator temperature coefficients (MTC). The problem set is solved by the Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel (G-S) type FPI. The relaxation scheme and the Anderson acceleration are applied to improve the convergence rate of FPI. The performances of solution schemes are evaluated by comparing the number of iterations and the error reduction behavior. From those numerical investigations, it is demonstrated that the number of FPIs is increased as the feedback is stronger regardless of its sign. In addition, the Jacobi type FPIs generally shows a slower convergence rate than the G-S type FPI. It also turns out that the xenon equilibrium model can cause numerical instability for certain conditions. Lastly, it is figured out that the Anderson acceleration can effectively improve the convergence behaviors of FPI, compared to the conventional relaxation scheme.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2020

공정 실험을 통하여 공정 동특성 모델을 얻는 과정은 제어시스템 설계에 있어 시간과 비용이 드는 매우 중요한 과정이다. 이를 위한 계단응답은 공정의 동특성을 이해하고 동특성 모델을 얻는 데 사용되는 오래된 하나의 정형화된 공정응답이다. 계단응답에 근거한 방법에서는 공정입력에 계단 변화를 주었을 때 나타나는 공정출력을 측정하여야 하는데, open-loop 상태로 장시간 운전해야 하는 것이 단점으로 지적된다. 이 단점을 완화하기 위하여 시간최적제어 기법을 이용하는 계단응답을 얻는 시간을 최소화 하는 방법이 제안되어 있다. 이 최적화에는 반복 계산이 필요한데, 여기서는 반복 계산이 필요 없는 방법을 제안한다. 계단응답을 위한 시간이 획기적으로 줄어드는 것을 보여주는 모사 결과들을 얻었으며, 이 방법을 제어기 자동튜닝에 응용하여 이 자동튜닝에 널리 채택되고 있는 relay feedback 자동튜닝과 비교한 모사 결과들을 제시하였다.