• ETRI Journal
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.563-568
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• 2005

A motion-control chip contains major functions that are necessary to control the position of each motor, such as generating velocity command profiles, reading motor positions, producing control signals, driving several types of servo amplifiers, and interfacing host processors. Existing motion-control chips can only generate velocity profiles of fixed characteristics, typically linear and s-shape smooth symmetric curves. But velocity profiles of these two characteristics are not optimal for all tasks in industrial robots and automation systems. Velocity profiles of other characteristics are preferred for some tasks. This paper proposes a motion-control chip to generate velocity profiles of desired acceleration and deceleration characteristics. The proposed motion-control chip is implemented with a field-programmable gate array by using the Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language and Handel-C. Experiments using velocity profiles of four different characteristics will be performed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.70.1-70.1
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• 2015

The facility for RAON superconducting heavy-ion accelerator at a beam power of up to 400 kW will be produced rare isotopes with two electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources. Highly charged ions generated by the ECR ion source will be injected to a superconducting LINAC to accelerate them up to 200 MeV/u. During the acceleration of the heavy ions, a good vacuum system is required to avoid beam loss due to interaction with residual gases. Therefore ultra-high vacuum (UHV) is required to (i) limit beam losses, (ii) keep the radiation induced within safe levels, and (iii) prevent contamination of superconducting cavities by residual gas. In this work, a RAON vacuum design for all the accelerator system will be presented along with Monte Carlo simulation of vacuum levels in order to validate the vacuum hardware configuration, which is needed to meet the baseline requirements.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.223-232
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• 2012

For the accurate estimation of the position and orientation of a UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle), a low-cost AHRS (attitude heading reference system) was developed using a low-cost IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensor which provides information on the 3D acceleration, 3D turning rate and 3D earth-magnetic field data in the object coordinate system. The main hardware system is composed of an IMU sensor (ADIS16405) and TMS320F28335, which is coded with an extended kalman filter algorithm with a 50-Hz sampling frequency. Through an experimental gimbal device, good estimation performance for the pitch, roll, and yaw angles of the developed AHRS was verified by comparing to those of a commercial AHRS called the MTi system. The experimental results are here presented and analyzed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.421-428
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• 2013

The current vibration reduction methods for positioning systems lead to either complicated motion or the need for additional hardware when the positioning systems carry out frequent short-distance movements. This paper proposes a simple yet efficient vibration reduction method for positioning systems subjected to frequent short-distance movements. The essence of the proposed method is the trapezoidal or triangular velocity profiles, whose acceleration/deceleration rates are designed to be related to the natural frequency of concern. The combined use of the proposed method and the input shaping method is also proposed for the possible application to multi-mode systems. Experiments are performed to validate the proposed method. The simulation and experiments prove that the proposed method is of great use for residual vibration reduction in positioning systems subjected to frequent short-distance movement.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.37-44
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• 2012

In this paper, the application of robust fuel gauge algorithm in the external environment to general fuel gauge system is proposed. The proposed fuel gauge system is composed of two modules which are Moving Average Filter (MAF) and Inclination Filter (IF). They are used to show correctly the amount of fuel in the external environment which are curve road, slope or acceleration/deceleration driving. In parallel, verification and validation processes using Software In the Loop Simulation (SILS) in personal computer and Hardware In the Loop Simulation (HILS) similar to actual vehicle environments are established. Through this research, it turned out to be possible to operation of gauge become correct of external environment.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.599-604
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• 2005

A functional suspension model is proposed as a kinematic describing function of the suspension, that represents the relative wheel displacement in polynomial form in terms of the vertical displacement of the wheel center and steering rack displacement. The relative velocity and acceleration of the wheel is represented in terms of first and second derivatives of the kinematic describing function. The system equations of motion for the full vehicle dynamic model are systematically derived by using velocity transformation method of multi-body dynamics. The comparison of test and simulation results demonstrates the validity of the proposed functional suspension modeling method. The model is computationally very efficient to achieve real-time simulation on TMS 320C6711 150 MHz DSP board of HILS (hardware-in-the-loop simulation) system for ECU (electronic control unit) evaluation of semi-active suspension.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.93-99
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• 2015

Economic burden of work-related musculoskeletal disorder(WMDs) is increasing. Known causes of WMDs include improper posture, repetition, load, and temperature of workplace. Among them, improper postures play an important role. A smart sensor called SensorTag is employed to estimate the trunk postures including flexion-extension, lateral bend, and the trunk rotational speeds. Measuring gravitational acceleration vector in the smart sensor along the tri-orthogonal axes offers an orientation of the object with the smart sensor attached to. The smart sensor is light in weight and has small form factor, making it an ideal wearable sensor for body posture measurement. Measured data from the smart senor is wirelessly transferred for analysis to a smartphone which has enough computing power, data storage and internet-connectivity, removing need for additional hardware for data post-processing. Based on the estimated body postures, WMDs risks can be conviently gauged by using existing WMDs risk assesment methods such as OWAS, RULA, REBA, etc.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.65-76
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• 2016

특정 제조사의 단말 또는 운영체제에 의존성이 없는 플랫폼 독립적인 웹은 높은 이식성, 소프트웨어의 재활용, 개발 생산성, 풍부한 개발자 존재, 유지 보수 면에서 장점을 가지나, 화려한 UI/UX를 제공하는 네이티브 응용에 비해 낮은 성능으로 웹 기반의 응용 개발 및 보급이 크게 활성화되지 못했다. 한편 데스크톱은 물론 모바일 단말의 멀티코어 기반 Graphic Processing Unit(GPU), CPU 탑재 등 HW 고사양화와 웹 응용에서도 HW 가속 기능을 활용할 수 있는 표준 제공으로 성능 제약을 극복할 수 있게 되었다. 본고에서는 GPU 발전동향을 살펴보고, 고속 렌더링 및 병렬 연산처리를 요구하는 웹 응용이 GPU기반 HW 가속 기능을 활용할 수 있는 크로노스 그룹의 그래픽 가속(Web Graphics Library: WebGL) 및 컴퓨팅(Web Computing Language: WebCL) 지원 표준 규격을 정리한다. 또한, 최근 차세대 GPU Application Programming Interface(API)로 발표된 Vulkan에 대해 알아보고, 웹 고속화 기술에 적용 가능성에 대해 전망한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.2966-2977
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• 1996

As design of very large circuits is made possible by rapid development of VLSI technologies, efficient fault simulation is needed. Ingeneral, fault simulation requires many computer resources. As general-purpose multiprocessors become more common and affordable, these seem to be an attractive and effective alternative for fault simulation. Efficient fault simulation of synchronous sequential circuits has been reported to be attainably by using a linear iterative array model for such a circuit, and combining parallel fault simulation with russogate fault simulation. Such fault simulation algorithm is parallelized on a general-purpose multiprocessor with shard memory for acceleration of fault simulation. Through the experimenal study, the effect of the number of processors on speed-up of simulation, processor utilization, and the effect of multiprocessor hardware on simulation performance are studied. Some results for experiments with benchmark circuits are shown.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.69-77
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• 2007

3D 그래픽스 관련 산업의 눈부신 성장은 GPU 기술의 발전을 기반으로 이루어졌다. GPU는 기존의 고정된 기능의 파이프라인을 벗어나 프로그램 가능한 형태로 발전하였으며 GPU의 프로그램 능력과 성능의 꾸준한 향상이 이루어지고 있다. 최근에는 GPU 내부의 연산 집중도의 불균형을 해결하기 위한 연구와 GPU의 연산능력을 다른 응용분야에 이용하기 위한 연구가 진행중에 있다. GPU를 이용한 3D 그래픽스 응용프로그램 개발을 위해서 산업 표준의 API들이 존재하는데 데스크톱용 API에서 필수 기능만을 골라 간략화한 모바일 기기용 프로파일 또한 정의되고 있다. 모바일 기기에 사용되는 GPU도 프로그램 가능한 구조로 진화하고 있으며 대중화되기 위해서는 전력소모를 낮추기 위한 노력이 필요하다.