• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.1077-1082
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• 2007

We present a micromechanical active amplifier, inspired from the principle of the outer hair cells in cochlea, amplifying both displacement and force. The present micromechanical active amplifier modulates the resonant carrier motion using the variable stiffness spring whose stiffness changes proportionally to the input motion. We design, fabricate, and characterize two types of the amplifiers A and B, each having the variable stiffness spring fur the maximum displacement gain and force gain, respectively. In the experimental study, the amplifier A shows the displacement gain of 5.62, which is 2.15 times larger than that of the amplifier 3. The amplifier B shows the force gain of 10.0, resulting in 1.26 times larger value compared to that of the amplifier A. We experimentally verify that the haircell-inspired micromechanical amplifiers are capable to amplify both displacement and force.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2016

본 논문은 자동 시험 장비(ATE : automatic test equipment)를 위한 새로운 파라메터 측정기(PMU : parametric measurement unit) 설계 기술을 설명한다. 기존의 설계는 피 시험 소자(DUT : device under test)에 신호를 인가하기 위해 두 개 혹은 그 이상의 증폭기를 사용하지만, 본 연구에서는 오직 하나의 차동 차이 증폭기(DDA : differential difference amplifier)를 사용한다. 제안된 기술은 귀환 경로에 추가적인 증폭기가 필요하지 않기 때문에, PMU는 안정적인 동작을 보장한다. 또한 DUT의 응답 신호를 측정하기 위한 기존의 계측 증폭기(IA : instrument amplifier)가 3개의 증폭기와 다수의 저항을 사용하는 것에 반해, 제안된 기술은 오직하나의 DDA를 IA로 적용했다. DDA는 전 범위의 차동 신호를 다루기 위해 두 개의 rail-to-rail 차동 입력 단을 적용하였다. 100 dB의 개 루프 이득을 얻기 위해 folded-cascode 형태의 DDA 안에 추가적인 이득 증가 기술이 사용되었다. 제안된 PMU 설계는 더 작은 면적과 더 적은 전력 소모를 가지고 정확하고 안정적인 동작을 가능하게 한다. PMU는 0.18 um CMOS 공정으로 구현되었고 공급 전압은 1.8 V이다. 입력 범위는 전압인가 시 0.25~1.55 V이고, 전류인가 시 0.9~0.935 V이다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.253-261
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• 2004

The machining technology for the brittle materials such as ceramics are applied to the fields of MEMS(micro electromechanical system) by the progress of new machining technologies such as Etching, Diamond machining, Micro drilling, EDM(Electro discharge machining), ECDM(Electro discharge machining), USM(Ultrasonic machining), LBM(Laser beam machining), EBM(Electron beam machining). Especially, the USM technology can be applied to the dieletric brittle materials such as silicon, borosilicate glass, silicon nitride, quartz and ceramics with high aspect ratio. The micro machining system with machining force controlled position servo is developed in this paper and the optimized ultrasonic machining algorithm is constructed by the force controlled position servo control. The load cell is adapted in the force measuring and the servo control algorithm, suit for the ultrasonic machining characteristics, is estabilished with using the PID auto-tunning functions at the PMAC system which is generally adapted in the field of robot industries. The precision force signal amplifier is constructed with high precision operational amplifier AD524. The vacuum adsorption chuck which is made of titanum and internal flow line is engraved, is used in the workpiece fixing. The mahining results by USM shows that there are some deviation between the force command and the actual machining force that the servo control algorithm should be applied in the machining procedures. Therefore, the constant force controlled position servo system is developed for the micro USM system and by the examination machining process in USM, the stable USM system is realized by tracking the average value of machining force.

• 유공압시스템학회논문집
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2004

In the last few years, a considerable number of studies have been made on On-Off solenoid for fluid control. But, only few attempts have so far been made at solenoid actuator for high-voltage circuit breaker. In case of the high-pressure and high-flow system like high-voltage circuit breaker, a big size of On/Off solenoid is necessary which size is proportional to control pressure and flow rate. So, it is non-effective in the view point of system optimization. In this paper, On/Off solenoid actuator with the farce amplifier connected to the solenoid rod was proposed to get a high mechanical force and a fast response time. The magnetic force and the mechanical stress distributions were analysed using finite element analysis. The performances of suggested solenoid actuator were evaluated through the experimental results and compared with the analysis results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1993년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); Seoul National University, Seoul; 20-22 Oct. 1993
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• pp.172-178
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• 1993

This paper deals with the modeling and experiment of a robot system for force/impact control performance. The basic model is composed of a direct drive motor, servo amplifier, link, force sensor and environments. Based on the developed model, the stability of the whole system was analyzed via root locus method. For the force control, integral force compensation with velocity feedback method shows the best performance of all the explicit force control strategies. In dealing with impact, PID position control and the explicit force control method were implemented. Instead of add more damping to the robot system by velocity feedback, we developed a new passive damping method and it was also applied to enhance the damping characteristic of the system.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.331-336
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new type of high-frequency directional valve controlled by the piezostack actuator associated with displacement amplifier. As a first step, a dynamic model of directional valve which can operate at 200 Hz with a flow rate of 12 l/min is derived by considering pressure drop and flow force. As a second step, an appropriate piezostack is selected by considering actuation force as well as field-dependent displacement. Subsequently, in order to control spool displacement and flow rate a proportional-derivative (PD) controller is designed based on the $3^{rd}$-order valve system. Control performances such as sinusoidal trajectory tracking of the spool displacement in time domain are evaluated. In addition, the field-dependent flow rate is also presented to verify the required performance of the valve system.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.1020-1026
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new type of high-frequency directional valve controlled by the piezostack actuator associated with displacement amplifier. As a first step, a dynamic model of directional valve which can operate at 200 Hz with a flow rate of 12 litter/min is derived by considering pressure drop and flow force. As a second step, an appropriate piezostack is selected by considering actuation force as well as field-dependent displacement. Subsequently, in order to control spool displacement and flow rate a proportional-derivative(PD) controller is designed based on the 3rd-order valve system. Control performances such as sinusoidal trajectory tracking of the spool displacement in time domain are evaluated. In addition, the field-dependent flow rate is also presented to verify the required performance of the valve system.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2008

For the accuracy correction of the micro-positioning industrial robot, micro-manipulator has been devised. The compliant mechanisms using piezoelectric actuators is necessary geometrically and structurally to be developed by the optimization approaches. The overall geometric advantage as the mechanical efficiencies of the mechanism are considered as objective functions, which respectively art the ratio of output displacement to input force, and their constraints are the vertical notion of supporting leg and the structural strength of manipulation. In optimizing the compliant mechanical amplifier, the sequential linear programming and an optimality criteria method are used for the geometrical dimensions of compliant bridges and flexure hinges. This paper presents the integrated design process which not only can maximize the mechanism feasibilities but also can ensure the positioning accuracy and sufficient workspace. Experiment and simulation are presented for validating the design process through the comparisons of the kinematical and structural performances.

• Composites Research
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2000

복합재 구조물의 저속충격탐지 방법 중의 하나는 고분자 압전센서를 이용하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 저속충격을 받는 복합재 평판에 대한 충격력과 부착된 스트레인 게이지, 고분자 압전센서 신호와의 관계를 유도하였다. 압전센서의 등가회로도를 통해서 고분자 압전센서의 개회로 신호와 폐회로 신호와의 관계를 유도하여 전하증폭기를 사용하지 않은 고분자 압전센서 신호를 이용하여 복합재 평판의 충격력 복원 가능성에 대한 연구로 확장하였다. 진동실험을 통하여 얻은 복합재 평판의 고유진동수와 감쇠비를 이용하여 해석적인 모델을 수정하여 정방향 문제와 역방향 문제에 있어서 오차를 줄일 수 있었다. 복원된 충격력과 해석적인 센서 신호는 실제 저속 충격 실험을 통하여 측정한 충격력, 스트레인 게이지 신호, 그리고 고분자 압전센서 신호와 잘 일치하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.411-417
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a sensor with a C-shaped load cell to detect force change when a person sitting on the chair in an electrical transport-convenience vehicle is pushing ground by both heels. The load cell built in the vehicle is mechanically deformed by the vertical force owing to the human weight and the horizontal force by ground-pushing feet. The deformation rate of the load cell and its distribution are simulated using finite element analysis. In the simulation, the applied loads are preset in the range of 10 kg - 100 kg with a step size of 10 kg, and the ground-pushing force by feet is increased to 40 N with a step size of 5 N with respect to each applied load level. The resistance change of the load cell was observed to be linear in simulation as well as in measurement. the maximum difference between simulation and measurement was 0.89 % when the strain gauge constant was 2.243. The constant has a large influence on the difference. The proposed sensor was fabricated by connecting an instrument amplifier and a microcontroller to a load cell and used to detect the force by ground-pushing feet. To detect foot driving, the reference signal was set to 130% of the load, and the duration of the sensor output signal exceeding the reference signal was set to 0.6 s. In a test of a vehicle built with the proposed sensor, the footpushing force by the worker could be successfully detected even when the worker was working.