• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2099-2104
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• 2015

The paper presents a monitoring system for the cooling of distribution transformers. The suggested system is controlled by a microcontroller scheme. The system is designed to control the oil temperature. It gives a solution to improve the cooling system by adding a number of fans especially for indoor transformers that are placed in badly-ventilated rooms. Also, the paper includes an alarm system with the possibility of tripping the transformer if it is necessary. The monitoring system consists of acquisition temperature sensor, and on-site unit. The hardware and software of the on-site unit are demonstrated with sufficient illustrations. Small prototype is constructed in the laboratory. Some laboratory experiments are carried out for examining the designed circuit by using Proteus Virtual System Modeling as well as for testing the prototype monitoring system. Concerning this research point, a study is carried out to evaluate the economic feasibility. The results are recorded and associated with many recommendations that may be valuable to electrical distribution (utility) companies.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.261-265
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• 2005

In this paper, we constructed the infrastructure with wireless LAN and Access Point in the indoor environment and implemented the teleoperation. Wireless LAN based teleoperation system is irregular communication delay according to environment condition and occurrence possibility of blackout is very high. In this paper, In case these problem happened, we measured communication delay time by real time, and did mobile robot to control harmoniously through vision and force reflection information. Also, we present obstacle-avoidance mode that mobile robot can travel without collision using direction information in case communication delay time is large. We proved usefulness of presented algorithm through teleoperation experiment to apply presented algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1102-1107
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• 2009

An ultrasonic sensor has been widely used as a range sensor for its low cost and capability of detecting some obstacles, such as glasses and black surfaces, which are not well detected by a laser scanner and an IR sensor. Although low-cost sensors are preferred for practical service robots, they suffer from the inaccurate and insufficient range information. This paper proposes a novel approach to obstacle avoidance using low-cost anisotropic ultrasonic sensors with wide beam angle. In this paper, obstacles can be detected by the proposed sensor configuration which consists of one transmitter and three receivers. Because even wide obstacles are represented by a point, which corresponds to the intersection of range data from each receiver of the anisotropic sensor, a robot cannot avoid wide obstacles successfully. This paper exploits the probabilistic mapping technique to avoid collision with various types of obstacles. The experimental results show that the proposed method can robustly avoid obstacles in most indoor environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.711-717
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• 2007

Location information will become increasingly important for future Pervasive Computing applications. Location tracking system of a moving device can be classified into two types of architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, a mobile device actively transmits signals for estimating distances to listeners. In the latter, a mobile device listens signals from beacons passively. Although the passive architecture such as Cricket location system is inexpensive, easy to set up, and safe, it is less precise than the active one. In this paper, we present a passive location system using Cricket Mote sensors which use RF and ultrasonic signals to estimate distances. In order to improve accuracy of the passive system, the transmission speed of ultrasound was compensated according to air temperature at the moment. Upper and lower bounds of a distance estimation were set up through measuring minimum and maximum distances that ultrasonic signal can reach to. Distance estimations beyond the upper and the lower bounds were filtered off as errors in our scheme. With collecting distance estimation data at various locations and comparing each distance estimation with real distance respectively, we proposed an equation to compensate the deviation at each point. Equations for proposed algorithm were derived to calculate relative coordinates of a moving device. At indoor and outdoor tests, average location error and average location tracking period were 3.5 cm and 0.5 second, respectively, which outperformed Cricket location system of MIT.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1647-1658
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• 2016

RGB+D database has been widely used in object recognition, object tracking, robot control, to name a few. While rapid advance of active depth sensing technologies allows for the widespread of indoor RGB+D databases, there are only few outdoor RGB+D databases largely due to an inherent limitation of active depth cameras. In this paper, we propose a novel method used to build outdoor RGB+D databases. Instead of using active depth cameras such as Kinect or LIDAR, we acquire a pair of stereo image using high-resolution stereo camera and then obtain a depth map by applying stereo matching algorithm. To deal with estimation errors that inevitably exist in the depth map obtained from stereo matching methods, we develop an approach that estimates confidence of depth maps based on unsupervised learning. Unlike existing confidence estimation approaches, we explicitly consider a spatial correlation that may exist in the confidence map. Specifically, we focus on refining confidence feature with the assumption that the confidence feature and resultant confidence map are smoothly-varying in spatial domain and are highly correlated to each other. Experimental result shows that the proposed method outperforms existing confidence measure based approaches in various benchmark dataset.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2007

One of the most common approaches to achieve better thermal comfort with the radiant floor heating system is supply water temperature control, which is that supply water temperature is varied with outdoor air temperature. But the application of this control method was not easy, because there has been no way to determine the supply water temperature. So in this study, a comprehensive, yet simple calculation method to find out the required supply water temperature is suggested by combining the building heat loss equation and the heat emission model of hydronic radiant floor heating system for single zone. And then using this calculation method, the multizone control method is suggested and confirmed through the thermal simulation. It is shown that indoor air temperature is stably maintained around the set point.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.161-170
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• 2020

국내 시설 농업의 99.2%를 차지하는 플라스틱온실의 내부 환경인자는 외부 환경의 변화에 민감하게 반응하고 온실 공간 내부에서 편차가 발생한다. 온도, 습도, CO₂, 광도의 환경인자를 계측하기 위한 지점을 3 × 3 × 5로 구성하여 데이터를 취득하고 내부 공간을 수직, 수평적인 측면으로 분할하여 환경 인자의 분포를 확인하였다. 계측지점의 최적점을 선정하고자 계측 공간을 수직, 수평적인 방향으로 분할하고, 측정 데이터와 이를 활용한 예측지점의 선형회귀분석 결과로 성능평가를 실시하였다. 일반적인 상황에서는 온도와 습도 인자의 경우 1개의 센서로 플라스틱온실 내부 환경의 계측이 가능할 수 있으나, 특정구간의 경우 다수의 센서를 활용하여 내부공간의 정밀성을 확보하는 것이 필요하다. CO₂의 경우 실험기간 내의 계측 매트릭스의 증가에도 불구하고 변이를 정의하는데 한계가 있음을 발견하였다. 조도 분포의 경우 일출 이후 지속적으로 회귀분석 결과가 작아짐을 발견하였다. 구조물의 간섭 등을 고려해 동일한 수평적인 방향에서 미계측 지점의 결정계수가 감소하였고, 센서 매트릭스 배치를 작물 높이 위로 위치하여 다수의 센서 노드 설치로 개선 가능하다고 예상된다. 외부 환경의 변화에 따라 온실 내부 환경이 불규칙하게 변화되며, 이 구간은 시설의 규격을 고려하여 계측 매트릭스를 구성해야 한다. 반대로 안정적인 구간에서는 최소한의 센서 노드로 내부 환경의 예측이 가능한 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 결과적으로 측정하고자 하는 환경인자와 시설의 구조 등 연구 및 재배자의 목적에 맞는 계측 매트릭스 위치 선정의 유동성이 요구되며, 덕트의 개폐위치를 조절하여 필요한 곳에 에너지를 투입하는 국소냉난방 및 생육제어 모델링 설계에 적용 가능하다고 판단된다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.127-153
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• 2009

국내외적으로 간접흡연이나 환경 속 담배연기가 미칠 수 있는 해악에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있으며, 그 결과 작업공간 내 금연정책이 점차 늘어나고 있다. 한국에서도 작업공간 내 금연정책이 2003년 국민건강증진법 개정으로 훨씬 강화되었다. 본 논문에서는 2001년과 2005년에 이루어진 국민건강영양조사를 이용하여 강화된 금연정책이 흡연율과 일평균 흡연 개비 수에 미친 영향을 분석하고자 한다. 금연법강화가 실내 작업공간 위주로 이루어진 점에 착안하여 법 개정의 영향을 많이 받은 실내근무자 직업군과 영향을 비교적 덜 받는 실외근무자 직업군을 비교하였다. 추정 결과, 금연법 강화로 95% 수준에서 유의하게 흡연율은 4.1%p 감소하였고, 흡연자 중 일평균 흡연 개비는 2.5개비 줄어든 것으로 나타났다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.88-91
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• 2010

본 논문은 RF모듈과 초음파 센서들을 설치한 밀폐된 공간에서 이동 로봇을 사용해 위치인식과 속도제어에 대한 내용으로 구성하였다. 두 개의 퍼지 룩업 테이블은 설정값에 대한 듀티비 로서 선택한다. 출발점과 커브지점에서 기본퍼지규칙 보다 이중퍼지 규칙을 갖는 이동로봇이 수렴시간을 줄일 수 있었다. 또한 이중 룩업테이블의 교체시간은 e-${\Delta}e$위상 평면내의 특이점인 b1,c1,d1에서 발생한다. 룩업 테이블 중 하나는 과도영역에서 상승시간을 줄이기 위해 사용하고 다른 하나는 정상상태 오차를 줄이고 설정값에 빠르게 수렴하기 위해 사용한다. 퍼지 제어기를 갖는 실내 위치 인식 로봇 제어시스템을 통한 실험의 결과로서 퍼지 제어 알고리즘의 유용성을 확인하였고 이중 퍼지 제어 룰을 갖는 로봇이 하나의 룰 테이블을 갖는 로봇에 비해 개선된 속도 응답을 얻을 수 있음을 확인 하였다.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2010

As more and more people desire to live in an apartment complex with a comfortable outdoor space, many construction company became interested in outdoor design. In order to increase the use of outdoor space and create the most pleasant environment, outdoor thermal environment and comfort should be evaluated quantitatively from the design stage. This study utilized ENVI-met 3.1 model to analyze outdoor thermal environment in apartment complex, and evaluated outdoor thermal comfort in 6 points of apartment complex. The physiologically equivalent temperature(PET) was employed as a outdoor thermal index. Playground B had a poor thermal environment with the maximum PET $43^{\circ}C$ (Very hot). Because shading by building and tree didn't affect outdoor thermal environment of playground B. To design comfortable outdoor space from the view point of thermal environment, the factors influencing Mean radiant temperature(MRT) and wind speed should be considered in design stage. Since it is difficult to control outdoor thermal environment compared with indoor environment, we should take into account an assessment for outdoor thermal environment and comfort in outdoor design stage.