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Implementation of an Intelligent Visual Surveillance System Based on Embedded System (임베디드 시스템 기반 지능형 영상 감시 시스템 구현)

  • Song, Jae-Min;Kim, Dong-Jin;Jung, Yong-Bae;Park, Young-Seak;Kim, Tae-Hyo
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, an intelligent visual surveillance system based on a NIOS II embedded platform is implemented. By this time, embedded based visual surveillance systems were restricted for a special purpose because of high dependence upon hardware. In order to improve the restriction, we implement a flexible embedded platform, which is available for various purpose of applications. For high speed processing of software based programming, we improved performance of the system which is integrated the SOPC type of NIOS II embedded processor and image processing algorithms by using software programming and C2H(The Altera NIOS II C-To-Hardware(C2H) Acceleration Compiler) compiler in the core of the hardware platform. Then, we constructed a server system which globally manage some devices by the NIOS II embedded processor platform, and included the control function on networks to increase efficiency for user. We tested and evaluated our system at the designated region for visual surveillance.

A Study on Horizontal Displacement Following Ability of Welded and Non-welded Building Hardware (용접형과 무용접형 하지철물의 수평변위 추종능력에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Don-Woo;Kwak, Eui-Shin;Shon, Su-Deok;Lee, Seung-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2016
  • Building hardware joints are welded in most cases, which have risks of fire and explosion. Besides, the secondary damage of the destruction of the welded parts can be caused by the horizontal displacement of the structure due to earthquake or wind load. This paper compared the horizontal displacement following abilities of welded building hardware and non-welded building hardware. To do this, We conducted actual formation shake table test, and checked on the horizontal displacement following ability of structure by comparing their responses to earthquake load. We made the 2m-high framework to examine the responses of the actually constructed building hardwares, and analyzed the displacement responses of the welded-typed, non-welded-typed, and cruciform bracket building hardwares. We conducted the test by increasing acceleration rate until displacement reached 40mm corresponding to allowable relative story displacement II. The result of the test showed that the building hardware using welding work made cracking and breakage on welded connections of welded building hardware, but non-welded building hardware with no use of welding work and cruciform bracket building hardware make no problem, and that non-welded building hardware is superior to that of the welded building hardware in the horizontal displacement following ability due to earthquake or wind load.

A basic study for the development of Integrated Seakeeping Performance Evaluation System on board the ship (선박탑재용 종합내항성능 평가시스템 개발을 위한 기초적 연구)

  • 조익순;이충로;김순갑
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2000
  • From a ship's safe operation point of view, it is very important to estimate the navigational safety in a seaway. The seakeeping performance can be defined as the ability of a ship to go to sea, and to accomplish its missions successfully and safely even in adverse environmental conditions. There are several factors presently adopted for evaluating seakeeping performance. But a hardware of the system considering all these factors has not been developed since some of them can not be measured by sensors. In this paper, a synthetic method of evaluating navigational safety is developed by measuring the vertical and lateral acceleration. An experiment by using real measuring carried out on board the T/S 'HANNARA' The equipment was measured every 4 hours for more than 30 minutes the acceleration by accelerometer, analyzed its acceleration values and calculated navigational dangerousness. As the results of this on board experiment, the system is carried conviction to be useful as evaluating seakeeping performance.

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Precision Control of Belt Drives using Feed Forward Compensator under Acceleration and Velocity Constraints (속도와 가속도 제한에서 전향 보상기를 이용한 벨트 구동의 정밀제어)

  • Kwon, Sei-Hyun
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.713-720
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    • 2009
  • Numerous applications of position controlling devices using servoing technique and transmission of energy through belt drives are practiced in the industry. Belt drive is a simple, lightweight, low cost power transmission system. Belt drives provide freedom to position the motor relative to the load and this phenomenon enables reduction of the robot arm inertia. It also facilitates quick response when employed in robotics. In this paper, precision positioning of a belt driven mechanism using a feed-forward compensator under maximum acceleration and velocity constraints is proposed. The proposed method plans the desired trajectory and modifies it to compensate delay dynamics and vibration. Being an offline method, the proposed method could be easily and effectively adopted to the existing systems without any modification of the hardware setup. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through computer simulation and experimental results.

Design and Control of the Active Split Offset Caster based Omni-directional Vehicle (능동 분할 오프셋 캐스터 기반 전방향 차량의 설계 및 제어)

  • Kim, Han-Gyeol;Huan, Do Ngoc;Park, Jong-Chan;Kwon, Dong-Soo
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 2013
  • This research would investigate deeply the operation of an omni-directional mobile robot that is able to move with high acceleration. For the high acceleration performance, the vehicle utilizes the structure of Active Split Offset Casters (ASOCs). This paper is mainly focused on inverse kinematics of the structure, hardware design to secure durability and preserve the wheels' contact to the ground during high acceleration, and localization for the real time position control.

Design of High-speed VPN System for Network Processor with Embedded Crypto-module (암호모듈을 내장한 네트워크프로세서를 이용한 고속 VPN 시스템 설계)

  • Kim, Jung-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.926-932
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    • 2007
  • Various research groups proposed various architecture of hardware VPN for the high performance VPN system. However, the VPN based on hardware researcher are focused only on the encryption acceleration. Soft based VPN is only useful when the network connection is slow. We have to consider the hardware performance (encryption/decryption processing capability, packet processing, architecture method) to implement hardware based VPN. In this paper, we have analysed architecture of hardware, consideration and problems for high-speed VPN system, From the result, we can choose the proper design guideline.

Fast NC Cutting Verification Using Graphic Hardware (그래픽 하드웨어를 이용한 NC 가공 검증의 고속화)

  • 김경범;이상헌;우윤환
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.616-619
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    • 2002
  • The z-map structure is widely used for NC tool path verification as it is very simple and fast in calculation of Boolean operations. However, if the number of the x-y grid points in a z-map is increased to enhance its accuracy, the computation time for NC verification increases rapidly. To reduce this computation time, we proposed a NC verification method using 3-D graphic acceleration hardwares. In this method, the z-map of the resultant workpiece machined by a NC program is obtained by rendering tool swept volumes along tool pathos and reading the depth buffer of the graphic card. The experimental results show that this hardware-based method is faster than the conventional software-based method.

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Design and Implementation of Parabolic Speed Pattern Generation Pulse Motor Control Chip (포물선 가감속 패턴을 가지는 정밀 펄스 모터 콘트롤러 칩의 설계 및 제작)

  • Won, Jong-Baek;Choi, Sung-Hyuk;Kim, Jong-Eun;Park, Jone-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2001.11c
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    • pp.284-287
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, we designed and implemented a precise pulse motor control chip that generates the parabolic speed pattern. This chip can control step motor[1], DC servo[2] and AC servo motors at high speed and precisely. It can reduce the mechanical vibration to the minimum at the change point of a degree of acceleration. Because the parabolic speed pattern has the continuous acceleration change. In this paper, we present the pulse generation algorithm and the parabolic pattern speed generation. We verify these algorithm using visual C++. We designed this chip with VHDL(Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language) and executed a logic simulation and synthesis using Synopsys synthesis tool. We executed the pre-layout simulation and post-layout simulation with Verilog-XL simulation tool. This chip was produced with 100 pins, PQFP package by 0.35 um CMOS process and implemented by completely digital logic. We developed the hardware test board and test program using visual C++. We verify the performance of this chip by driving the servo motor and the function by GUI(Graphic User Interface) environment.

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Hardware and Software Co-Design Platform for Energy-Efficient FPGA Accelerator Design (에너지 효율적인 FPGA 가속기 설계를 위한 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 공동 설계 플랫폼)

  • Lee, Dongkyu;Park, Daejin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.20-26
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    • 2021
  • Recent systems contain hardware and software components together for faster execution speed and less power consumption. In conventional hardware and software co-design, the ratio of software and hardware was divided by the designer's empirical knowledge. To find optimal results, designers iteratively reconfigure accelerators and applications and simulate it. Simulating iteratively while making design change is time-consuming. In this paper, we propose a hardware and software co-design platform for energy-efficient FPGA accelerator design. The proposed platform makes it easy for designers to find an appropriate hardware ratio by automatically generating application program code and hardware code by parameterizing the components of the accelerator. The co-design platform based on the Vitis unified software platform runs on a server with Xilinx Alveo U200 FPGA card. As a result of optimizing the multiplication accelerator for two matrices with 1000 rows, execution time was reduced by 90.7% and power consumption was reduced by 56.3%.

Cooperative Contour Control of Two Robots under Speed and Joint Acceleration Constraints

  • Jayawardene, T.S.S.;Nakamura, Masatoshi;Goto, Satoru;Kyura, Nobuhiro
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1387-1391
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    • 2003
  • The fundamental aim of this paper is to present a solution algorithm to achieve cooperative contour controlling, under joint acceleration constraint with maximum cooperative speed. Usually, the specifications like maximum velocity of cooperative trajectory are determined by the application itself. In resolving the cooperative trajectory into two complementary trajectories, an optimum task resolving strategy is employed so that the task assignment for each robot is fair under the joint acceleration constraint. The proposed algorithm of being an off-line technique, this could be effectively and conveniently extended to the existing servo control systems irrespective of the computational power of the controller implemented. Further, neither a change in hardware setup nor considerable reconfiguration of the existing system is required in adopting this technique. A simulation study has been carried out to verify that the proposed method can be realized in the generation of complementary trajectories so that they could meet the stipulated constraints in simultaneous maneuvering.

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