• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.230-245
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• 2005

In this paper, we develop a gesture-based input device equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes. The sensors measure the inertial measurements, i.e., accelerations and angular velocities produced by the movement of the system when a user is inputting gestures on a plane surface or in a 3D space. The gyroscope measurements are integrated to give orientation of the device and consequently used to compensate the accelerations. The compensated accelerations are doubly integrated to yield the position of the device. With this approach, a user's gesture input trajectories can be recovered without any external sensors. Three versions of motion tracking algorithms are provided to cope with wide spectrum of applications. Then, a Bayesian network based recognition system processes the recovered trajectories to identify the gesture class. Experimental results convincingly show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed gesture input device. In order to show practical use of the proposed input method, we implemented a prototype system, which is a gesture-based remote controller (Magic Wand).

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2010

For developing navigation system of total hip arthroplasty (THA) and evaluating hip joint kinematics, 3-D pose position of the femur and acetabulum in the pelvic coordinate system has been quantified. The pelvic coordinate system is determined by manually indicating pelvic landmarks in multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) images. It includes intra- and inter-observer variability, and may result in a variability of THA operation or diagnosis. To reduce the variability of pelvic coordinate system determination, this paper proposes an automated method in MDCT images. The proposed method determines pelvic coordinate system automatically by detecting pelvic landmarks on anterior pelvic plane (APP) from MDCT images. The method calibrates pelvic pose by using silhouette images to suppress the affect of pelvic pose change. As a result of comparing with manual determination, the proposed method determined the coordinate system with a mean displacement of $2.6\;{\pm}\;1.6$ mm and a mean angle error of $0.78\;{\pm}\;0.34$ deg on 5 THA subjects. For changes of pelvic pose position within 10 deg, standard deviation of displacement was 3.7 mm, and of pose was 1.28 deg. We confirmed the proposed method was robust for pelvic pose changes.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.70-76
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• 2009

최근 경제적 시간적 이유로 전력기기의 운전 중 부분방전 감시진단 장치가 많이 이용되는 추세에 있으나, 시 공간적으로 다양한 종류의 잡음의 영향이 문제시되고 있다. 이에 여러가지 잡음제거 기법들이 개발되었으나 범용적이지 않고 설정이나 환경에 따라 성능이 상이하다. 본 논문에서는 부분방전 측정신호의 잡음포함 정도를 수치적으로 제시할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 이 기법이 적용되어 개발된 알고리즘을 이용하여, 다수 잡음제거 기법의 설정에 따른 다양한 결과 중 최선의 결과를 자동적으로 선택할 수 있었다. 운전 중 부분방전 감시진단 시스템에 사용되는 세 가지 잡음제거 기법에 적용하여 성공적으로 복합화 하였고, 국내 다양한 잡음 환경의 고전압 기기들로부터 실측한 데이터에 능동적으로 적응한 잡음제거 결과를 도출할 수 있었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.197-208
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• 2017

Among various retrofitting strategies, use of semi-active control for retrofitting a building structure has gained momentum in recent years. One of the techniques for such retrofitting is to connect a weaker building to an adjacent stronger building by semi-active devices, so that performances of a weaker building are significantly improved for seismic forces. In this paper, a ten storey weaker building is connected to an adjacent stronger building using magneto-rheological (MR) dampers, for primarily improving the performance of the weaker building in terms of displacement, drift and base shear. For this, a fuzzy logic controller is specifically developed by fuzzyfying the responses of the coupled system. The performance of the control strategy is compared with the passive-on and passive-off controls. Pounding Mitigation between the two buildings is also investigated using all three control strategies. The results show that there exists a fundamental frequency ratio between the two buildings for which maximum control of the weaker building response takes place with no penalty on the stronger building. There exists also a fundamental frequency ratio where control of the weaker building response is achieved at the expense of the amplification of the stronger building. However, coupling strategy always improves the possibility of pounding mitigation.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.304-313
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• 2006

This paper describes a novel way of applying capacitive sensing technology to a mobile user interface. The key idea is to use grip-pattern, which is naturally produced when a user tries to use the mobile device, as a clue to determine an application to be launched. To this end, a capacitive touch sensing system is carefully designed and installed underneath the housing of the mobile device to capture the information of the user's grip-pattern. The captured data is then recognized by dedicated recognition algorithms. The feasibility of the proposed user interface system is thoroughly evaluated with various recognition tests.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2012

This paper proposes a method for evaluating web pages by considering implicit user reaction on web pages. Usually users spend more time and make more reactions, such as clicking, dragging and scrolling, while reading interesting pages. Based on this observation, a web page evaluation method by observing implicit user reaction is proposed. The system is designed with Ajax for observing user reactions, and neural networks for learning correlation between user reactions and usefulness of pages. The amounts of each type of user reactions are inputted to neural networks. Also the numbers of characters and images of pages are used as inputs because the amount of users' behaviors has a tendency to increase as the length of pages increase. The experiment is conducted with 113 people and 74 pages. Each page is ranked by users with a questionnaire. The proposed method shows more close ranking results to the user ranks than Google. That is, our system evaluates web pages more closely to users' viewpoint than Google. Although our experiment is limited, our result shows powerful potential of new element for web page evaluation. Some approaches evaluate web pages with their contents and some evaluate web pages with structural attributes, particularly links, of pages. Web page evaluation is for users, so the best evaluation can be done by users themselves. So, user feedback is one of the most important factors for web page evaluation. This paper proposes a new method which reflects user feedbacks on web pages.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2012

The temporal subtraction technique as one of computer aided diagnosis has been introduced in medical fields to enhance the interval changes such as formation of new lesions and changes in existing abnormalities on deference image. With the temporal subtraction technique radiologists can easily detect lung nodules on visual screening. Until now, two-dimensional temporal subtraction imaging technique has been introduced for the clinical test. We have developed new temporal subtraction method to remove the subtraction artifacts which is caused by mis-registration on temporal subtraction images of lungs on MDCT images. In this paper, we propose a new computer aided diagnosis scheme for automatic enhancing the lung nodules from the temporal subtraction of thoracic MDCT images. At first, the candidates regions included nodules are detected by the multiple threshold technique in terms of the pixel value on the temporal subtraction images. Then, a rule-base method and artificial neural networks is utilized to remove the false positives of nodule candidates which is obtained temporal subtraction images. We have applied our detection of lung nodules to 30 thoracic MDCT image sets including lung nodules. With the detection method, satisfactory experimental results are obtained. Some experimental results are shown with discussion.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2012

This paper proposes an intuitive real-time robot control system using human body movement. Recently, it has been developed that motion generation for humanoid robots with reflecting human body movement, which is measured by a motion capture. However, in the existing studies about robot control system by human body movement, the detailed structure information of a robot, for example, degrees of freedom, the range of motion and forms, must be examined in order to calculate inverse kinematics. In this study, we have proposed Associative Motion Generation as humanoid robot motion generation method which does not need the detailed structure information. The associative motion generation system is composed of two neural networks: nonlinear principal component analysis and Jordan recurrent neural network, and the associative motion is generated with the following three steps. First, the system learns the correspondence relationship between an indication and a motion using training data. Second, associative values are extracted for associating a new motion from an unfamiliar indication using nonlinear principal component analysis. Last, the robot generates a new motion through calculation by Jordan recurrent neural network using the associative values. In this paper, we propose a real-time humanoid robot control system based on Associative Motion Generation, that enables user to control motion intuitively by human body movement. Through the task processing and subjective evaluation experiments, we confirmed the effective usability and affective evaluations of the proposed system.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2012

차량 애드 혹 네트워크(VANETs)를 위한 응용들의 개발은 지능적 안전 운송시스템 제공이라는 매우 제한적인 명확한 목표를 가지고 있다. 공공의 안전을 위한 긴급경고 기술은 제한된 시간에 신속하고 효율적으로 경고 메세지를 전달하는 지능형 방송 기법을 필요로 하는 응용중의 하나이다. VANETs 방송 프로토콜 설계 시에 접근제어 계층에서 여러 노드들이 동시에 전송을 시도할 경우, 다수 패킷들의 충돌과 여분의 지연을 발생하는 방송폭풍 문제가 고려되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는, 효율적으로 방송폭풍 문제와 시간 한계를 해결할 수 있는 조기 지능형 경보 방송(EI-CAST) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 충돌시간(TTC)에 기초한 조기경보 기술과 퍼지논리에 기초한 지능형 방송 기술을 사용하며, 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안 알고리즘과 기존 경보방송 알고리즘의 성능을 비교 평가 하였다. 실험결과 제안 알고리즘의 경우 경보 전송거리 4 km 이내의 차량들은 사고발생 이전에 경보메시지를 수신할 수 있으며 패킷 충돌이 없음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.845-858
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• 2020

This paper proposes a modified end-to-end secure low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (ME-LEACH) algorithm for enhancing the lifetime of a wireless sensor network (WSN). Energy limitations are a major constraint in WSNs, hence every activity in a WSN must efficiently utilize energy. Several protocols have been introduced to modulate the way a WSN sends and receives information. The end-to-end secure low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (E-LEACH) protocol is a hierarchical routing protocol algorithm proposed to solve high-energy dissipation problems. Other methods that explore the presence of the most powerful nodes on each cluster as cluster heads (CHs) are the sparsity-aware energy efficient clustering (SEEC) protocol and an energy efficient clustering-based routing protocol that uses an enhanced cluster formation technique accompanied by the fuzzy logic (EERRCUF) method. However, each CH in the E-LEACH method sends data directly to the base station causing high energy consumption. SEEC uses a lot of energy to identify the most powerful sensor nodes, while EERRCUF spends high amounts of energy to determine the super cluster head (SCH). In the proposed method, a CH will search for the nearest CH and use it as the next hop. The formation of CH chains serves as a path to the base station. Experiments were conducted to determine the performance of the ME-LEACH algorithm. The results show that ME-LEACH has a more stable and higher throughput than SEEC and EERRCUF and has a 35.2% better network lifetime than the E-LEACH algorithm.