• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.595-611
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• 2013

This paper aims to compare three collocation point methods associated with the odd order stochastic response surface method (SRSM) in a systematical and quantitative way. The SRSM with the Hermite polynomial chaos is briefly introduced first. Then, three collocation point methods, namely the point method, the root method and the without origin method underlying the odd order SRSMs are highlighted. Three examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the three methods. The results indicate that the condition that the Hermite polynomial information matrix evaluated at the collocation points has a full rank should be satisfied to yield reliability results with a sufficient accuracy. The point method and the without origin method are much more efficient than the root method, especially for the reliability problems involving a large number of random variables or requiring complex finite element analysis. The without origin method can also produce sufficiently accurate reliability results in comparison with the point and root methods. Therefore, the origin often used as a collocation point is not absolutely necessary. The odd order SRSMs with the point method and the without origin method are recommended for the reliability analysis due to their computational accuracy and efficiency. The order of SRSM has a significant influence on the results associated with the three collocation point methods. For normal random variables, the SRSM with an order equaling or exceeding the order of a performance function can produce reliability results with a sufficient accuracy. The order of SRSM should significantly exceed the order of the performance function involving strongly non-normal random variables.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.88-97
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• 2007

A point based speed enforcement system(SES) has been widely used in roadways to reduce the operating speeds and potential traffic accidents. Recently, the needs for introudcing new SES using point-to-point speed measurement was presented, however, no practical guidelines or justification of the system was available. This study investigated the effectiveness of the current SES and introduction of the new SES through user interview survey method. Survey results showed that 33% of respondents were unsatisfactory to the current way of SES operation, which was 11% higher than satisfactory respondents, and about 70% of the respondents supported the introduction of point-to-point based SES operation. A majority of respondents preferred the straight roadway segment, bridge and tunnel, and curved roadway segment for a start application site with the segment length of 1-5 km long. Using these survey results, an introduction scheme was discussed in terms of legal bases, installation criteria, and operational guidelines.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 입력된 자연영상으로부터 도로 영역을 검출하기 위한 소실점 자동 예측 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 도로 환경에서 안정적으로 소실점을 검출하기 위해 영상의 주방향성을 분석하여 영상 특징성분들이 집중되는 곳을 소실점으로 예측한다. 이를 위해 첫번째 단계에서는, 영상을 일정크기의 서브블록으로 분할하고 분할된 서브블록 내에서 임의의 에지 샘플을 선택하고 RANSAC을 적용하여 직선 모델을 예측함으로서 각 서브블록의 주방향성을 분석한다. 모든 블록에 대하여 주방향성을 검출한 후, 두 번째 단계에서 임의의 직선 샘플을 선택하고 RANSAC을 적용하여 교점 모델을 예측함으로서 각 직선들로 인한 교점 모델의 비용값을 측정하고 가장 높은 비용값의 교점 모델에 의한 평균점으로 소실점을 예측한다. 마지막으로 성능 검증을 위해 다양한 상황에 따른 정량적, 정성적 분석을 통해 제안하는 소실점 검출 알고리즘의 타당성과 효율성을 입증한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1846-1856
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• 2016

This study proposes a novel feature point initialization method in order to improve the accuracy of feature point positions by fusing a vision sensor and a lidar. The initialization is a process that determines three dimensional positions of feature points through two dimensional image data, which has a direct influence on performance of a 6-DoF bearing-only SLAM. Prior to the initialization, an extrinsic calibration method which estimates rotational and translational relationships between a vision sensor and lidar using multiple calibration tools was employed, then the feature point initialization method based on the estimated extrinsic calibration parameters was presented. In this process, in order to improve performance of the accuracy of the initialized feature points, an iterative automatic scaling parameter tuning technique was presented. The validity of the proposed feature point initialization method was verified in a 6-DoF bearing-only SLAM framework through an indoor and outdoor tests that compare estimation performance with the previous initialization method.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.109-114
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• 2011

The low temperature characteristics of automotive diesel have been legally regulated due to the fact that solid particle in diesel at low temperature can cause severe problems in the vehicle. The biodiesel is well known for eco-friendly fuel, which is one of the most popular alternative petrodiesel, but it is easy to solidified at low temperature than petrodiesel at low temperature. For that reason, in this study, we investigated the low temperature fuel characteristics of diesel-biodiesel blends which were prepared to mix 6 different kinds of biodiesel to winter diesel fuel, respectively. Also, we confirmed to improve low temperature fuel characteristics by pour point depressant.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.519-530
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• 2014

A novel simplified pulse width modulation(PWM) strategy for neutral point clamped (NPC) three-level converter is proposed in this paper.The direct output voltage modulation is applied to reduce the calculation time. Based on this strategy, several optimized control methods are proposed. The neutral point potential balancing algorithm is discussed and a fine neutral point potential balancing scheme is introduced. Moreover, the minimum pulse width compensation and switching losses reduction can be easily achieved using this modulation strategy. This strategy also gains good results even with the unequal DC link capacitor. The modulation principle is studied in detail and the validity of this simplified PWM strategy is experimentally verified in this paper. The experiment results indicated that the proposed PWM strategy has excellent performance, and the neutral point potential can be balanced well with unequal DC link captaincies.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.941-955
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• 2015

In dual-channel networks (DCNs), all frequency hopping (FH) sequences used for data channels are chosen from the original FH sequence used for the control channel by shifting different initial phases. As the number of data channels increases, the hitting frequency point problem becomes considerably serious because DCNs is non-orthogonal synchronization network and FH sequences are non-orthogonal. The increasing severity of the hitting frequency point problem consequently reduces the resource utilization efficiency. To solve this problem, we propose a novel hitting frequency point collision avoidance method, which consists of a sequence-selection strategy called sliding correlation (SC) and a collision avoidance strategy called keeping silent on hitting frequency point (KSHF). SC is used to find the optimal phase-shifted FH sequence with the minimum number of hitting frequency points for a new data channel. The hitting frequency points and their locations in this optimal sequence are also derived for KSHF according to SC strategy. In KSHF, the transceivers transmit or receive symbol information not on the hitting frequency point, but on the next frequency point during the next FH period. Analytical and simulation results demonstrate that unlike the traditional method, the proposed method can effectively reduce the number of hitting frequency points and improve the efficiency of the code resource utilization.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.422-423
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• 1993

이 short note에서 우리는 bulk gadolinium의 강자성에서 상자성으로의 전이온도(즉, Curie점) 측정에 대한 결과를 보고하고자 한다. 이 결과보고는 gadolinium박막에 대한 이전의 결과에 정당성을 주기 위해서 쓰여졌다. 본 실험에서 bulk gadolinium의 Curie점은 시료의 저항을 온도의 함수로 측정함으로써 결정하였다. 이는 Curie점에서 비열의 특이성이 바로 비저항의 특이성으로 연결되기 때문이다. 결과적으로 우리는 bulk gadolinium의 Curie점이 19.2${\pm}$0.$3^{\circ}C$가 되고이 값은 비열의 실험치로 결정한 다른 그룹들의 실험값들과 잘 일치하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.2585-2598
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• 2015

Hand posture recognition has played a very important role in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Vision (CV) for many years. The challenge arises mainly due to self-occlusions caused by the limited view of the camera. In this paper, a robust hand posture recognition approach based on 3D point cloud from two RGB-D sensors (Kinect) is proposed to make maximum use of 3D information from depth map. Through noise reduction and registering two point sets obtained satisfactory from two views as we designed, a multi-viewed hand posture point cloud with most 3D information can be acquired. Moreover, we utilize the accurate reconstruction and classify each point cloud by directly matching the normalized point set with the templates of different classes from dataset, which can reduce the training time and calculation. Experimental results based on posture dataset captured by Kinect sensors (from digit 1 to 10) demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.247-257
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• 1997

It was the turning point in the "fixed point arena" when the notion of weak commutativity was introduced by Sessa [9] as a sharper tool to obtain common fixed points of mappings. As a result, all the results on fixed point theorems for commuting mappings were easily transformed in the setting of the new notion of weak commutativity of mappings. It gives a new impetus to the studying of common fixed points of mappings satisfying some contractive type conditions and a number of interesting results have been found by various authors. A bulk of results were produced and it was the centre of vigorous research activity in "Fixed Point Theory and its Application in various other Branches of Mathematical Sciences" in last two decades. A major break through was done by Jungck [3] when he proclaimed the new notion what he called "compatibility" of mapping and its usefulness for obtaining common fixed points of mappings was shown by him. There-after a flood of common fixed point theorems was produced by various researchers by using the improved notion of compatibility of mappings. of compatibility of mappings.