• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.663-679
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• 2009

The use of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers in geotechnical instrumentation is relatively new but on the rise. This paper describes a new MEMS-based system for in situ deformation and vibration monitoring. The system has been developed in an effort to combine recent advances in the miniaturization of sensors and electronics with an established wireless infrastructure for on-line geotechnical monitoring. The concept is based on triaxial MEMS accelerometer measurements of static acceleration (angles relative to gravity) and dynamic accelerations. The dynamic acceleration sensitivity range provides signals proportional to vibration during earthquakes or construction activities. This MEMS-based in-place inclinometer system utilizes the measurements to obtain three-dimensional (3D) ground acceleration and permanent deformation profiles up to a depth of one hundred meters. Each sensor array or group of arrays can be connected to a wireless earth station to enable real-time monitoring as well as remote sensor configuration. This paper provides a technical assessment of MEMS-based in-place inclinometer systems for geotechnical instrumentation applications by reviewing the sensor characteristics and providing small- and full-scale laboratory calibration tests. A description and validation of recorded field data from an instrumented unstable slope in California is also presented.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2021

The Core Protection Calculator System (CPCS) is vital for plant safety as it ensures the required Specified Acceptance Fuel Design Limit (SAFDL) are not exceeded. The CPCS generates trip signals when Departure from Nucleate Boiling Ratio (DNBR) and Local Power Density (LPD) exceeds their predetermined setpoints. These setpoints are established based on the operating margin from the analysis that produces the SAFDL values. The goal of this research is to create a simplified CPCS that optimizes operating margin for I-SMRs. Because the I-SMR is compact in design, instrumentation placement is a challenge, as it is with Ex-core detectors and RCP instrumentation. The proposed CPCS addresses the issue of power flux measurement with In-Core Instrumentation (ICI), while flow measurement is handled with differential pressure transmitters between Steam Generators (SG). Simplification of CPCS is based on a Look-Up-Table (LUT) for determining the CEA groups' position. However, simplification brings approximations that result in a loss of operational margin, which necessitates compensation. Appropriate compensation is performed based on the result of analysis. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are presented as a way to compensate for the inadequacies of current systems by providing faster execution speeds and a lower Common Cause Failure rate (CCF).

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.337-344
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• 2023

Three-point bending is the main method for measuring the elastic modulus of a thin plate. Although various displacement transducers may be used to measure the bending, these are single-point measurements, and it is difficult to eliminate the error caused by eccentric load and shear force. Error-correction models for the elastic modulus of quartz glass using digital speckle interferometry are proposed for eccentric load and shear force. First, the positional misalignment between maximum deflection and load is analyzed, and the error caused by eccentric load is corrected. Then, the additional displacement caused by shear force at different positions of the quartz glass plate is explored. The effect of shear deformation is also corrected, by measuring two points. Since digital speckle interferometry has the advantage of full-field measurement, it can simultaneously obtain deflection data for multiple points to realize error correction. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate that the proposed model can effectively correct the measurement error of the elastic modulus.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.477-479
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• 1998

This paper presents the results of the field of an improved GPS navigation algorithm. The improved GPS navigation algorithm is a modified Kalman filter which is designed to be ideally suited to car navigation in urban area where lack of GPS visibility is the major problem because of the frequent blockage of the GPS signals by tall buildings and other structures. The method allows the user to estimate its position when the number of visible GPS satellites becomes less than four by using altitude fixing and clock bias estimation techniques. The two estimation techniques are integrated with the Kalman filter in a mutually compensating manner and it is shown that the 3-dimensional position accuracy is well maintained when the number of the visible satellites drops down to two for a reasonable period of time. The post processing results are included to show the improved performance of the modified algorithm over a normal conventional GPS Kalman filter.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.1589-1599
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• 2017

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are getting more attention in safety-related and safety-critical application development of nuclear power plant instrumentation and control systems. The high logic density and advancements in architectural features make static random access memory (SRAM)-based FPGAs suitable for complex design implementations. Devices deployed in the nuclear environment face radiation particle strike that causes transient and permanent failures. The major reasons for failures are total ionization dose effects, displacement damage dose effects, and single event effects. Different from the case of space applications, soft errors are the major concern in terrestrial applications. In this article, a review of radiation effects on FPGAs is presented, especially soft errors in SRAM-based FPGAs. Single event upset (SEU) shows a high probability of error in the dependable application development in FPGAs. This survey covers the main sources of radiation and its effects on FPGAs, with emphasis on SEUs as well as on the measurement of radiation upset sensitivity and irradiation experimental results at various facilities. This article also presents a comparison between the major SEU mitigation techniques in the configuration memory and user logics of SRAM-based FPGAs.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제36S권9호
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• pp.76-90
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• 1999

본 논문은 컬러 히스토그램과 ‘컬러 텍스쳐’을 이용하는 새로운 내용기반 영상 검색 기법을 제안한다. 제안한는 방법은 영상의 컬러 히스토그램을 k-means 군집화하여 얻은 컬러 벡터로 히스토그램을 대표하고, 각 대표 컬러 벡터를 중심으로 화소 색상과의 거리를 이용해 컬러 텍스처를 만든다. 그러므로, 컬러 텍스처란 영상의 컬러 히스토그램에 의해 두드러지는 텍스처 성분을 의미하며 본 논문에서는 컬러 텍스처를 Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF) 모델로 해석한다. 제안하는 알고리듬은 영역화와 같은 기하학적 정보를 추출하는 과정이 없으므로 고속의 검색에 적합하며, 기존의 컬러 히스토그램만을 이용한 기법이나 영상의 밝기 성분에서 나타나는 텍스처를 이용한 방법에 비해 효과적인 검색 결과를 나타낸다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.392-399
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• 2022

Light-measuring devices (LMDs) are frequently used to measure luminance and color coordinates of displays. However, it is very difficult to use a conventional LMD for measuring the optical properties of virtual-reality (VR) devices with a wide field of view (FOV), because of their confined spaces where the entrance pupil of a LMD is located. In this paper, a new LMD that can measure the optical properties of wide-FOV VR devices, without physical conflict with the goggles of the VR device, is proposed. The LMD is designed to fully satisfy the requirements of IEC 63145-20-10, and a pivot-point correction method for the LMD is applied to improve its accuracy. To show the feasibility of the developed LMD and the correction method, seven VR devices with wide FOV are measured with it. From the results, all of them are successfully measured without any physical conflict, and a comparison to their nominal values shows that the FOVs have been properly measured.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2008

최근 한국에서는 기상이변 및 노후화, 지진발생 등에 따른 댐 손상 및 붕괴 사례가 증가하고 있으며, 이와관련된 댐안전 문제는 국가차원의 재난관리 측면에서 중요하게 다루어지고 있다. 지속적인 댐의 안전성 확보를 위해 정부차원의 다각적 관련 법제도 마련뿐 아니라, 각 댐 관리기관들에서도 댐의 안전관리를 위한 다양한 제도적, 기술적 대책을 수립하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 댐 안전관리 업무의 모순점을 개선하고, 지속적이며 효율적인 댐 안전관리 업무수행을 위해 댐안전관리시스템(KDSMS)을 개발하였다. 댐안전관리시스템은 제원정보시스템 및 수문정보시스템, 현장점검시스템, 지진감시 등을 포함한 매설계기계측시스템, 조사진단시스템, 총괄 정보자료시스템 등으로구성되어 있다. 댐안전관리시스템은 현장 및 본사의 안전관리관련의 세부 정보뿐 아니라, 현장 기술자 및 본사, 연구소 등 관련자들의 안전관리 업무내용 및 상호연계를 총괄하고 있는 전사적 시스템으로 개발되었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제22권1E호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2003

Non-singular boundary element method (BEM) codes are developed in acoustics application. The BEM code is then used to calculate unknown boundary surface normal displacements and surface pressures from known exterior near field pressures. And then the calculated surface normal displacements and surface pressures are again applied to the BEM in forward in order to calculate reconstructed field pressures. The initial exterior near field pressures are very well agreed with the later reconstructed field pressures. Only the same number of boundary surface nodes (1178) are used for the initial exterior pressures which are at first calculated by Finite Element Method (FEM) and BEM. Pseudo-inverse technique is, used for the calculation of the unknown boundary surface normal displacements. The structural object is a tuning fork with 128.4 ㎐ resonant. The boundary element is a quadratic hexahedral element (eight nodes per element).

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.763-768
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• 2011

Image denoising is a lively research field. Today the researches are focus on the wavelet domain especially using wavelet threshold method. We proposed an adaptive threshold method which considering the characteristic of different sub-band, the method is adaptive to each sub-band. Experiment results show that the proposed method extracts white Gaussian noise from original signals in each step scale and eliminates the noise effectively. In addition, the method also preserves the detail information of the original image, obtaining superior quality image with higher peak signal to noise ratio(PSNR).