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A Study on Automatic Precision Landing for Small UAV's Industrial Application (소형 UAV의 산업 응용을 위한 자동 정밀 착륙에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Woo;Ha, Seok-Wun;Moon, Yong-Ho
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2017
  • In almost industries, such as the logistics industry, marine fisheries, agriculture, industry, and services, small unmanned aerial vehicles are used for aerial photographing or closing flight in areas where human access is difficult or CCTV is not installed. Also, based on the information of small unmanned aerial photographing, application research is actively carried out to efficiently perform surveillance, control, or management. In order to carry out tasks in a mission-based manner in which the set tasks are assigned and the tasks are automatically performed, the small unmanned aerial vehicles must not only fly steadily but also be able to charge the energy periodically, In addition, the unmanned aircraft need to land automatically and precisely at certain points after the end of the mission. In order to accomplish this, an automatic precision landing method that leads landing by continuously detecting and recognizing a marker located at a landing point from a video shot of a small UAV is required. In this paper, it is shown that accurate and stable automatic landing is possible even if simple template matching technique is applied without using various recognition methods that require high specification in using low cost general purpose small unmanned aerial vehicle. Through simulation and actual experiments, the results show that the proposed method will be made good use of industrial fields.

Quantitative Comparisons in $^{18}F$-FDG PET Images: PET/MR VS PET/CT ($^{18}F$-FDG PET 영상의 정량적 비교: PET/MR VS PET/CT)

  • Lee, Moo Seok;Im, Young Hyun;Kim, Jae Hwan;Choe, Gyu O
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.68-80
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    • 2012
  • Purpose : More recently, combined PET/MR scanners have been developed in which the MR data can be used for both anatometabolic image formation and attenuation correction of the PET data. For quantitative PET information, correction of tissue photon attenuation is mandatory. The attenuation map is obtained from the CT scan in the PET/CT. In the case of PET/MR, the attenuation map can be calculated from the MR image. The purpose of this study was to assess the quantitative differences between MR-based and CT-based attenuation corrected PET images. Materials and Methods : Using the uniform cylinder phantom of distilled water which has 199.8 MBq of $^{18}F$-FDG put into the phantom, we studied the effect of MR-based and CT-based attenuation corrected PET images, of the PET-CT using time of flight (TOF) and non-TOF iterative reconstruction. The images were acquired from 60 minutes at 15-minute intervals. Region of interests were drawn over 70% from the center of the image, and the Scanners' analysis software tools calculated both maximum and mean SUV. These data were analyzed by one way-anova test and Bland-Altman analysis. MR images are segmented into three classes(not including bone), and each class is assigned to each region based on the expected average attenuation of each region. For clinical diagnostic purpose, PET/MR and PET/CT images were acquired in 23 patients (Ingenuity TF PET/MR, Gemini TF64). PET/CT scans were performed approximately 33.8 minutes after the beginnig of the PET/MR scans. Region of interests were drawn over 9 regions of interest(lung, liver, spleen, bone), and the Scanners' analysis software tools calculated both maximum and mean SUV. The SUVs from 9 regions of interest in MR-based PET images and in CT-based PET images were compared. These data were analyzed by paired t test and Bland-Altman analysis. Results : In phantom study, MR-based attenuation corrected PET images generally showed slightly lower -0.36~-0.15 SUVs than CT-based attenuation corrected PET images (p<0.05). In clinical study, MR-based attenuation corrected PET images generally showed slightly lower SUVs than CT-based attenuation corrected PET images (excepting left middle lung and transverse Lumbar) (p<0.05). And percent differences were -8.01.79% lower for the PET/MR images than for the PET/CT images. (excepting lung) Based on the Bland-Altman method, the agreement between the two methods was considered good. Conclusion : PET/MR confirms generally lower SUVs than PET/CT. But, there were no difference in the clinical interpretations made by the quantitative comparisons with both type of attenuation map.

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Metabolic Characteristic of the Liver of Dairy Cows during Ketosis Based on Comparative Proteomics

  • Xu, Chuang;Wang, Zhe;Liu, Guowen;Li, Xiaobing;Xie, Guanghong;Xia, Cheng;Zhang, Hong You
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.1003-1010
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    • 2008
  • The objective of the present study was to identify differences in the expression levels of liver proteins between healthy and ketotic cows, establish a liver metabolic interrelationship of ketosis and elucidate the metabolic characteristics of the liver during ketosis. Liver samples from 8 healthy multiparous Hostein cows and 8 ketotic cows were pooled by health status and the proteins were separated by two-dimensional-electrophoresis (2D-E). Statistical analysis of gels was performed using PDQuest software 8.0. The differences in the expression levels of liver proteins (p<0.05) between ketotic and healthy cows were identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF-TOF) tandem mass spectrometry. Five enzymes/proteins were identified as being differentially expressed in the livers of ketotic cows: expression of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase type-2 (HCDH), acetyl-coenzyme A acetyltransferase 2 (ACAT) and elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) were down-regulated, whereas that of alpha-enolase and creatine kinase were up-regulated. On the basis of this evidence, it could be presumed that the decreased expression of HCDH, which is caused by high concentrations of acetyl-CoA in hepatic cells, in the livers of ketotic cows, implies reduced fatty acid ??oxidation. The resultant high concentrations of acetyl-CoA and acetoacetyl CoA would depress the level of ACAT and generate more ??hydroxybutyric acid; high concentrations of acetyl-CoA would also accelerate the Krebs Cycle and produce more ATP, which is stored as phosphocreatine, as a consequence of increased expression of creatine kinase. The low expression level of elongation factor Tu in the livers of ketotic cows indicates decreased levels of protein synthesis due to the limited availability of amino acids, because the most glucogenic amino acids sustain the glyconeogenesis pathway; thus increasing the level of alpha-enolase. Decreased protein synthesis also promotes the conversion of amino acids to oxaloacetate, which drives the Krebs Cycle under conditions of high levels of acetyl-CoA. It is concluded that the livers of ketotic cows possess high concentrations of acetyl-CoA, which through negative feedback inhibited fatty acid oxidation; show decreased fatty acid oxidation, ketogenesis and protein synthesis; and increased gluconeogenesis and energy production.

A Study on the Development Environment for Flight Software using PowerPC (PowerPC를 이용한 저궤도 위성용 탑재소프트웨어 개발환경에 대한 연구)

  • 이재승;최종욱;김대영;이종인;김학정
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.10c
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    • pp.514-516
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    • 2004
  • 위성의 개발을 위해서는 오랜 개발기간과 많은 예산, 축적된 기술이 요구된다. 또한 위성에는 다양한 분야의 기술이 사용되어지기 때문에 각 서브시스템마다 독자적인 개발환경을 구축할 필요가 있다. 특히 위성의 찌어. 임무수행 및 지상과의 통신 등을 담당하는 탑재소프트웨어는 위성의 용도 및 목적에 따라 개발환경이 크게 달라진다. 실시간 운영체제는 무엇을 사용하는지, 개발 및 검증을 위한 도구로 어떤 프로그램을 사용하는지, 내외부의 인터페이스는 어떠한 방식으로 수행할지, 새로운 기능의 CPU나 하드웨어에 대한 제어 등 위성의 탑재소프트웨어를 개발하기 위해서는 많은 검토 항목들이 고려되어야 한다. 새로운 위성을 개발할 경우 신기술의 적용과 새로운 시스템위성시스템의 검증 및 개발을 위한 개발검증장비가 요if되며, 위성시스템의 변경 때마다 개발검증장비를 새로이 구축하게 되면 많은 기간과 막대한 비용이 위성개발 시마다 소요된다. 위성선진국에서는 다양한 위성의 개발 시 비용절감 및 개발기간 단축을 위하여 범용위성용 개발검증장비를 개발하여 이용하고 있는 추세이다. 국내에서는 다목적실용위성 1호가 발사되어 성공적으로 임무를 수행하고 있으며 다목 실용위성 2호가 개발되어 현재 통합 및 조립시험이 진행 중이다. 그러나 새로운 위성시스템의 사전 검증 및 신기술의 적용을 위한 범용위성 시스템 테스트베드에 대한 기술은 미비한 실정이다. 이러한 범용위성용 개발검증장비의 기반기술을 확보하기 위하며 현재 위성전자전산시스템 개발검증장비에 대한 연구가 수행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 수행되고 있는 PowerPC를 이용한 위성 탑재소프트웨어 개발검증시스템의 설계 및 개발현황에 대하여 소개한다.이스는 실험정보가 저장된 데이터베이스, 분석결과가 저장된 데이터베이스, 그리고 유전자 정보 탐색을 위한 데이터베이스로 분류해 데이터를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있게 하였다. 본 시스템은 LiNUX를 운영체계로 하고 데이터베이스는 MYSQL로 하여 JSP, Perl. 통계처리 언어인 R로 구현되었다.프트웨어를 사용하지 않고도 국내의 순수 솔루션인 리눅스 기반의 LonWare 3.0 다중 바인딩 기능을 통해 저 비용으로 홈 네트워크 구성 관리 서버 시스템 개발에 대한 비용을 줄일 수 있다. 기대된다.e 함량이 대체로 높게 나타났다. 점미가 수가용성분에서 goucose대비 용출함량이 고르게 나타나는 경향을 보였고 흑미는 알칼리가용분에서 glucose가 상당량(0.68%) 포함되고 있음을 보여주었고 arabinose(0.68%), xylose(0.05%)도 다른 종류에 비해서 다량 함유한 것으로 나타났다. 흑미는 총식이섬유 함량이 높고 pectic substances, hemicellulose, uronic acid 함량이 높아서 콜레스테롤 저하 등의 효과가 기대되며 고섬유식품으로서 조리 특성 연구가 필요한 것으로 사료된다.리하였다. 얻어진 소견(所見)은 다음과 같았다. 1. 모년령(母年齡), 임신회수(姙娠回數), 임신기간(姙娠其間), 출산시체중등(出産時體重等)의 제요인(諸要因)은 주산기사망(周産基死亡)에 대(對)하여 통계적(統計的)으로 유의(有意)한 영향을 미치고 있어 $25{\sim}29$세(歲)의 연령군에서, 2번째 임신과 2번째의 출산에서 그리고 만삭의 임신 기간에, 출산시체중(出産時體重) $3.50{\sim}3.99kg$사이의 아이에

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A Method to Manage Faults in SOA using Autonomic Computing (자율 컴퓨팅을 적용한 SOA 서비스 결함 관리 기법)

  • Cheun, Du-Wan;Lee, Jae-Yoo;La, Hyun-Jung;Kim, Soo-Dong
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.716-730
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    • 2008
  • In Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service providers develop and deploy reusable services on the repositories, and service consumers utilize blackbox form of services through their interfaces. Services are also highly evolvable and often heterogeneous. Due to these characteristics of the service, it is hard to manage the faults if faults occur on the services. Autonomic Computing (AC) is a way of designing systems which can manage themselves without direct human intervention. Applying the key disciplines of AC to service management is appealing since key technical issues for service management can be effectively resolved by AC. In this paper, we present a theoretical model, Symptom-Cause-Actuator (SCA), to enable autonomous service fault management in SOA. We derive SCA model from our rigorous observation on how physicians treat patients. In this paper, we first define a five-phase computing model and meta-model of SCA. And, we define a schema of SCA profile, which contains instances of symptoms, causes, actuators and their dependency values in a machine readable form. Then, we present detailed algorithms for the five phases that are used to manage faults the services. To show the applicability of our approach, we demonstrate the result of our case study for the domain of 'Flight Ticket Management Services'.

KOREAN PARTICIPATION ON THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT 2 (CIBER2) (적외선 우주배경복사 관측 실험 2(CIBER2) 국제 공동 연구)

  • Lee, D.H.;Park, W.K.;Moon, B.G.;Park, S.J.;Kim, M.G.;Kim, G.H.;Nam, U.W.;Pyo, J.;Jeong, W.S.;Park, Y.S.;Kim, I.J.;Han, W.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2015
  • First light galaxies have predictable linear clustering, and are expected to produce fluctuations with a characteristic spatial power spectrum, which peaks at an angular scale of ~ 10 arcminutes and in the $1-2{\mu}m$ spectral regions. The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment 2 (CIBER2) is a dedicated sounding rocket mission for measuring the fluctuations in the extragalactic infrared background light, following up the previous successful measurements of CIBER1. With a 28.5 cm telescope accompanied with three arms of camera barrels and a dual broadband filter on each H2RG (${\lambda}_c=2.5{\mu}m$) array, CIBER2 can measure 6 bands of wide field ($1.1{\times}2.2$ degrees) up to 3 AB magnitudes deeper than CIBER1. This project is leaded by California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, collaborating internationally with Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Seoul National University. The Korean team is in charge of 1) one H2RG scientific array, 2) ground station hardware and software, 3) telescope lenses, and 4) flight and test bed electronics fabrication. In this paper, we describe the detailed activities of the Korean participation as well as the current status of the CIBER2 project.

System Development of Cubsat SIGMA(KHUSAT-3)

  • Shin, Jehyuck;Lee, Seongwhan;Lee, Jung-Kyu;Lee, Hyojeong;Lee, Jeongho;Seo, Junwon;Shin, Youra;Jeong, Seonyeong;Cheon, Junghoon;Kim, Hanjun;Lim, Jeonghyun;Lee, Junmin;Jin, Ho;Nam, Uk-Won;Kim, Sunghwan;Lee, Regina;Kim, Hyomin;Lessard, Marc R.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.106-106
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    • 2014
  • SIGMA (Scientific cubesat with Instrument for Global Magnetic field and rAdiation)는 근 지구공간에서 우주방사선량 측정과 자기장 변화 검출의 과학적 목적과 교육적 목적을 가지고 개발하고 있는 초소형 큐브위성이다. $100mm{\times}100mm{\times}340.5mm$의 크기로 약 3.6 kg의 무게를 가지며, 탑재체는 방사선에 대하여 인체와 동일한 산란 흡수 특성을 가진 Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC)와 자기장 측정을 위한 Magnetometer (Mag)이다. 위성체는 구조계, 자세제어계, 전력계, 명령 및 데이터처리계, 통신계로 구성되어있다. 구조계는 위성의 뼈대인 Chassis와 Mag deployer로 이루어져있고, 위성의 안정적인 자세유지를 목적으로 Attitude Control System (ACS) Board와 Torque Coil이 자세제어계로 구성된다. 전력의 생산과 공급 및 충전은 태양전지판과 Electrical Power System (EPS), 리튬 배터리로 구성된 전력계에서 이뤄지며, 명령 및 데이터처리계는 On Board Computer (OBC)와 Instrument Interface board (IIB)를 중심으로 서브시스템의 명령체계와 데이터처리를 다룬다. 통신계는 Uplink인 VHF 안테나와 Downlink인 UHF, S-band 안테나로 구성되며 지상과 명령을 송수신한다. SIGMA는 타임인터럽트 기능을 활용한 Flight Software (FSW)로 운용되며 임무에 따른 6가지 모드의 시나리오로 위성을 운용한다. 이에 SIGMA의 개발과 테스트 결과를 소개한다. 본 큐브위성 개발기술을 바탕으로 향후 천문관측용 위성에도 활용할 예정이다.

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Analysis of Polymer Characteristics Using Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry (말디토프 질량분석을 이용한 고분자의 특성분석)

  • Kang, Min-Jung;Seong, Yunseo;Kim, Moon-Ju;Kim, Myung Soo;Pyun, Jae-Chul
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.263-271
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    • 2017
  • The application of mass spectrometry to polymer science has rapidly increased since the development of MALDI-TOF MS. This review summarizes current polymer analysis methods using MALDI-TOF MS, which has been extensively applied to analyze the average molecular weight of biopolymers and synthetic polymers. Polymer sequences have also been analyzed to reveal the structures and composition of monomers. In addition, the analysis of unknown end-groups and the determination of polymer concentrations are very important applications. Hyphenated techniques using MALDI-tandem MS have been used for the analysis of fragmentation patterns and end-groups, and also the combination of SEC and MALDI-TOF MS techniques is recommended for the analysis of complex polymers. Moreover, MALDI-TOF MS has been utilized for the observation of polymer degradation. Ion mobility MS, TOF-SIMS, and MALDI-TOF-imaging are also emerging technologies for polymer characterization because of their ability to automatically fractionate and localize polymer samples. The determination of polymer characteristics and their relation to the material properties is one of the most important demands for polymer scientists; the development of software and instrument for higher molecular mass range (> 100 kD) will increase the applications of MALDI-TOF MS for polymer scientists.

Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Yak Follicular Fluid during Estrus

  • Guo, Xian;Pei, Jie;Ding, Xuezhi;Chu, Min;Bao, Pengjia;Wu, Xiaoyun;Liang, Chunnian;Yan, Ping
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.29 no.9
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    • pp.1239-1246
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    • 2016
  • The breeding of yaks is highly seasonal, there are many crucial proteins involved in the reproduction control program, especially in follicular development. In order to isolate differential proteins between mature and immature follicular fluid (FF) of yak, the FF from yak follicles with different sizes were sampled respectively, and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) of the proteins was carried out. After silver staining, the Image Master 2D platinum software was used for protein analysis and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) was performed for differential protein identification. The expression level of transferrin and enolase superfamily member 1 (ENOSF1) was determined by Western blotting for verification analysis. The results showed that 2-DE obtained an electrophoresis map of proteins from mature and immature yak FF with high resolution and repeatability. A comparison of protein profiles identified 12 differently expressed proteins, out of which 10 of them were upregulated while 2 were downregulated. Western blotting showed that the expression of transferrin and ENOSF1 was enhanced with follicular development. Both the obtained protein profiles and the differently expressed proteins identified in this study provided experimental data related to follicular development during yak breeding seasons. This study also laid the foundation for understanding the microenvironment during oocyte development.

Improvement of Altitude Measurement Algorithm Based on Accelerometer for Holding Drone's Altitude (드론의 고도 유지를 위한 가속도센서 기반 고도 측정 알고리즘 개선)

  • Kim, Deok Yeop;Yun, Bo Ram;Lee, Sunghee;Lee, Woo Jin
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.6 no.10
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    • pp.473-478
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    • 2017
  • Drones require altitude holding in order to achieve flight objectives. The altitude holding of the drone is to repeat the operation of raising or lowering the drone according to the altitude information being measured in real-time. When the drones are maintained altitude, the drone's altitude will continue to change due to external factors such as imbalance in thrust due to difference in motor speed or wind. Therefore, in order to maintain the altitude of drone, we have to exactly measure the continuously changing altitude of the drone. Generally, the acceleration sensor is used for measuring the height of the drones. In this method, there is a problem that the measured value due to the integration error accumulates, and the drone's vibration is recognized by the altitude change. To solve the difficulty of the altitude measurement, commercial drones and existing studies are used for altitude measurement together with acceleration sensors by adding other sensors. However, most of the additional sensors have a limitation on the measurement distance and when the sensors are used together, the calculation processing of the sensor values increases and the altitude measurement speed is delayed. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately measure the altitude of the drone without considering additional sensors or devices. In this paper, we propose a measurement algorithm that improves general altitude measurement method using acceleration sensor and show that accuracy of altitude holding and altitude measurement is improved as a result of applying this algorithm.