• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.1120-1128
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• 2015

We propose a pseudo optical N-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PO PAM-N) signal using a few externally-modulated lasers (EMLs) operating at different wavelengths, which is suitable for upgrading the transmission speed over an optical link of < 10 km single-mode fiber with low-cost components. To compare a PO PAM-N signal with that of a standard optical PAM-N signal, we perform experiments for evaluating the performance of a 51.56-Gb/s PO PAM-4 signal and standard 51.56-Gb/s optical PAM-4 signal. The receiver sensitivity (at $BER=10^{-5}$) of the PO PAM-4 signal is 1.5 dB better than the receiver sensitivity of a standard optical PAM-4 signal. We also investigate the feasibility of PO PAM-N (N = 4, 8, and 16) signals operating at 103.12 Gb/s, considering relative intensity noise, timing jitter, extinction ratio (ER) of EMLs, and dispersion. From the results, a PO PAM-8 signal performs better than PO PAM-4 and PO PAM-16 signals at 103.12 Gb/s. Finally, we suggest a timing control method to suppress the effect of dispersion in a PO PAM-N signal. We show that the tolerance to dispersion of a 103.12-Gb/s PO PAM-8 signal can be improved to ${\pm}40ps/nm$ by applying a proposed scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.242-247
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• 2008

As an absolute positioning system, iGS is designed based on ultrasonic signals whose speed can be formulated clearly in terms of time and room temperature, which is utilized for a mobile robot localization. The iGS is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter, where an RFID is designated to synchronize the transmitter and receiver of the ultrasonic signal. The traveling time of the ultrasonic signal has been used to calculate the distance between the iGS system and a beacon which is located at a pre-determined location. This paper suggests an effective operation method of iGS to estimate position of the mobile robot working in unstructured environment. To expand recognition range and to improve accuracy of the system, two strategies are proposed: utilization of beacons belonging to neighboring blocks and removal of the environment-reflected ultrasonic signals. As the results, the ubiquitous localization system based on iGS as a pseudo-satellite system has been developed successfully with a low cost, a high update rate, and relatively high precision.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권11호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

본 논문은 차량용 UWB 레이더 시스템의 RF front-end 개발에 그 목적이 있다. UWB 시스템은 1ns 이하의 매우 좁은 펄스폭을 갖는 임펄스를 전송한다. 따라서 수 GHz에 이르는 매우 낮은 전력의 초광대역 특성을 갖게 되어 기존의 무선 통신 시스템과의 공존이 불가피하다. UWB의 장점은 높은 채널 용량과 데이터 전송률을 가지며, 다중 경로에 대한 세밀한 분해가 용이하여 위치 예측과 Rake 수신이 가능하다는 점이다. 또한 UWB는 저전력의 초광대역 특성을 나타내므로 낮은 간섭 특성을 가지며, 초단거리의 정밀함에 의해 위치 추적이 가능하며, 시스템 구현 비용을 절감할 수 있다. RF front-end 모듈은 DCR(Direct ConveRsion) 방식을 사용하여 설계하였으며, 저가의 차량용 RF단에 적합하게 구성을 하였다.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2010

Cast austenitic stainless steel(CASS) is used in the primary cooling piping system of nuclear power plant for it's relative low cost, corrosion resistance and easy of welding. However, the coarse-grain structure of cast austenitic stainless steel can strongly affect the inspectability of ultrasonic testing. The major problems encountered during inspection are beam skewing, high attenuation and high background noise of CASS component. So far, the best inspection performance involving CASS components have been achieved using low frequency TRL(Transmitter/Receiver side-by-side L wave) angle beam probe. But TRL technique could not detect shallow defect and it contains an uncertainty for sizing capability. Currently, most of researchers are studying to overcome these challenge issue. In this study, low-frequency phased array TRL technique used to detect and sizing the flaws in CF8A cast austenitic stainless steel.As conclusion, we could detect and size not only axial flaw but also circumferential flaw using low frequency phased array technique.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.328-336
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• 2003

Bluetooth is a specification for short-range wireless communication using the 2.4 GHz ISM band. It emphasizes low complexity, low power, and low cost. This paper describes an area-efficient digital baseband module for wireless technology. For area-efficiency, we carefully consider hardware and software partitioning. We implement complex control tasks of the Bluetooth baseband layer protocols in software running on an embedded microcontroller. Hardware-efficient functions, such as low-level bitstream link control; host controller interfaces (HCIs), such as universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) and universal serial bus (USB)interfaces; and audio Codec are performed by dedicated hardware blocks. Furthermore, we eliminate FIFOs for data buffering between hardware functional units. The design is done using fully synthesizable Verilog HDL to enhance the portability between process technologies so that our module can be easily integrated as an intellectual property core no system-on-a-chip (SoC) ASICs. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of this module was tested for functional verification and realtime operation of file and bitstream transfers between PCs. The module was fabricated in a $0.25-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, the core size of which was only 2.79 $mm{\times}2.80mm$.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.278-285
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• 2009

Navigation system is applied in variety of fields including the simple location positioning, autopilot navigation of unmanned robot tractor, autonomous guidance systems for agricultural vehicles, construction of large field works that require high precision and map making process. Particularly utilization of GPS (Global Positioning System) is very common in the present navigation system. This study introduces a navigation system for autonomous field robot that travels to the pre-input path using GPS information. Performance of the GPS- based navigation is highly depended on its receiving rate because GPS receivers do not acquire any navigation information in the period between the refresh intervals. So this study presents an algorithm that improves an accuracy of the navigation by estimation the positional information during the blind period of a low rate GPS receiver. In fact the algorithm calculated the robot's heading in a 50 Hz rate, so the blind period of an 1 Hz GPS receiver is extensively covered. Consequently implementation of the algorithm to the GPS based navigation showed an improvement in guidance accuracy. The conventional field robot directly carried an expensive control computer and sensors onboard, therefore the miniaturization and weight reduction of the robot was limited. In this paper, the field robot carried only communication equipments such as GPS module, normal RC receiver, and bluetooth modem. This enabled the field robot to be built in an economic cost and miniature size.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.744-751
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 RF소자들의 테스트시 비용 절감을 극대화 할 수 있는 저가형 고속 RF 자동화 테스트 시스템(Automatic Test Equipment, ATE)의 제작에 관하여 다루어진다. 제작된 RF ATE는 고속의 스위칭 시간과 고정밀 디지타이저를 포함한 16개의 독립적인 RF 입출력 단자를 갖고 있으며 산업 표준인 VXI(Versus module eXtensions for Instrument)와 GPIB(General Purpose Interface Bus) 인터페이스를 사용하여 구성된다. 또한 소자의 생산효율을 극대화하기 위하여 동시에 4개의 소자를 테스트할 수 있도록 시스템이 구성된다. 마지막으로 현재 가격 경쟁이 상당히 심한 소자 중 하나인 RF 전력증폭모듈올, 제작된 RF ATE를 이용하여 테스트를 진행하여 시스템 성능을 검증한다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.658-663
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to develop an air-passing soundproofing panel with more improved structure to reduce the $CO_2$ emission and installation cost. To reduce the emission of $CO_2$ ; it is suggested to choose low $CO_2$ emission material relative to the aluminum and to reduce the materials by developing a specially designed air-passing soundproofing panel structure. First of all, we performed the flow analysis to predict the wind pressure according to the open angle of the air-passing soundproofing panel and the noise level analysis at the receiver point. To verify the simulation, a prototype of the soundproofing panel was made. The flow test in the wind tunnel and load test were performed. The economic evaluation for the installation of the air-passing soundproofing panel was performed and specifications of the installation was prepared. As the results of this research, it was verified that the wind load was reduced about 40% to that of the conventional one at 25m/s wind speed in the wind tunnel test. By applying the 4m span soundproofing wall with air-passing soundproofing panel and under the cost of 250 thousand $won/m^2$ instead of the conventional 2m span panel, the installation cost will always be lowered than the conventional one in the combination of (60:40~50:50) conventional to air-passing soundproofing panel from the economic evaluation. The 20% reduction of $CO_2$ was found by changing the 50% of aluminum soundproof panel to air-passing soundproofing panel.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2014

무선 통신 시스템의 집적화 및 비용 절감을 위해 복잡한 필터를 사용하는 헤테로다인 수신기 대신 직접 변환 수신기가 재조명되고 있다. 이에 따라 직접 변환 수신기의 성능 저하 요인을 개선하기 위한 방법 중 하나로 I/Q 불균형 문제, 즉 실수부와 허수부의 진폭, 위상 불일치 개선을 위한 연구가 진행되었다. 그러나 기존 협대역 시스템 중심의 연구에서 크게 고려하지 않아도 되었던 저역 통과 필터의 불일치 문제가 통신 시스템의 광대역화 추세에 따라 직접 변환 수신기의 I/Q 불균형 현상에 심각한 영향을 미칠 수 있게 되었다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 10MHz의 광대역 신호를 발생시켜 중심 주파수로부터 각각 ${\pm}8MHz$로 이동시켜 필터 불일치에 의한 영향이 주파수 선택적으로 나타남을 확인하고, 기존의 I/Q 불균형 모델링에서 주로 다루었던 진폭, 위상 불일치에 더하여 필터 불일치 모델링을 추가하였다. 또한 각 불일치 요소를 제거하기 위한 보상 방법을 제시하였다. 모의실험을 통해, 제안한 I/Q 불균형 보상기는 필터 불일치가 존재하는 상황에서 주파수에 따른 신호 왜곡의 차이를 보상함을 확인하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제13C권1호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2006

오늘날 자동차 네비게이션이나 측량 장치 등 정밀한 위치 정보가 5필요한 곳에 GPS(Global Positioning System) 수신기가 널리 사용되고있다. 그러나 용도에 따라 사용되는 GPS 수신기의 종류와 가격, 그리고 GPS 수신기가 가지는 오차율은 천차만별이다. 일반적인 GPS수신기는 수신율과 기상상태에 따라 다르기는 하지만, 대략 최대 30m까지의 오차범위를 가진다. 그에 비해 RTK(Real-Time Kinematic)와 DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System)장비는 높은 정확성을 가지는 반면 가격 부담으로 인해 일반인이 쉽게 이용할 수가 없는 단점을 가지고 있으며 장비들의 크기가 커서 휴대성도 떨어진다. 따라서 일반인들이 정밀 위치 정보를 사용하기 위해서는 낮은 가격, 휴대의 편리성을 갖추는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 DGPS 방식을 응용하여 일반 GPS 수신기보다 높은 정확도를 가지는 위치 정보를 제공하면서 PDA와 같은 보편화된 휴대 장비에서 사용 가능한 시스템을 제공하여 사용자 편리성을 증대시키는 방안을 제시한다.