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Design and Fabrication of Low Power Sensor Network Platform for Ubiquitous Health Care

  • Lee, Young-Dong;Jeong, Do-Un;Chung, Wan-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1826-1829
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    • 2005
  • Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low power sensor network. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power, and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. Sensor network platform for health care has been designed, fabricated and tested. This system consists of an embedded micro-controller, Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver, power management, I/O expansion, and serial communication (RS-232). The hardware platform uses Atmel ATmega128L 8-bit ultra low power RISC processor with 128KB flash memory as the program memory and 4KB SRAM as the data memory. The radio transceiver (Chipcon CC1000) operates in the ISM band at 433MHz or 916MHz with a maximum data rate of 76.8kbps. Also, the indoor radio range is approximately 20-30m. When many sensors have to communicate with the controller, standard communication interfaces such as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or Integrated Circuit ($I^{2}C$) allow sharing a single communication bus. With its low power, the smallest and low cost design, the wireless sensor network system and wireless sensing electronics to collect health-related information of human vitality and main physiological parameters (ECG, Temperature, Perspiration, Blood Pressure and some more vitality parameters, etc.)

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Low Cost Small CMG Performance Test and Analysis (저가 소형 CMG 성능시험 및 분석)

  • Rhee, Seung-Wu;Kwon, Hyoek-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.543-552
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    • 2011
  • Control Moment Gyro(CMG) is one of the most efficient momentum exchange devices for satellite attitude control and CMG is very essential device for agile satellite. In this study, the essential dynamic equation for the design of gimbal motor and wheel motor is summarized. The development process of SGCMG hardware for agile small satellite system, the description of developed hardware and its performance test results are presented. Test result shows that the developed hardware model can produce an output torque more than 1.2Nm as designed. Other test items are max. torque, gimbal bandwidth, minimum torque, torque error, gimbal rate error.

Training-Free Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

  • Tran, Linh Tam;Bae, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.855-861
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    • 2021
  • Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is cutting-edge technology in the machine learning community. NAS Without Training (NASWOT) recently has been proposed to tackle the high demand of computational resources in NAS by leveraging some indicators to predict the performance of architectures before training. The advantage of these indicators is that they do not require any training. Thus, NASWOT reduces the searching time and computational cost significantly. However, NASWOT only considers high-performing networks which does not guarantee a fast inference speed on hardware devices. In this paper, we propose a multi objectives reward function, which considers the network's latency and the predicted performance, and incorporate it into the Reinforcement Learning approach to search for the best networks with low latency. Unlike other methods, which use FLOPs to measure the latency that does not reflect the actual latency, we obtain the network's latency from the hardware NAS bench. We conduct extensive experiments on NAS-Bench-201 using CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNet-16-120 datasets, and show that the proposed method is capable of generating the best network under latency constrained without training subnetworks.

Design and Implementation of TCP/IP Protocol Processor for Embedded Flatform (임베디드 플렛폼을 위한 TCP/IP 프로토콜 프로세서 설계 및 구현)

  • Bae, Dae-Hee;Kim, Cheol-Hoi;Jeong, Yong-Jin
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.123-126
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    • 2004
  • Demands on dealing with multimedia data through the network have been increased, and networking multimedia devices require processing, transmitting , and receiving the digital data. In order to implement the network for high performance and low cost, we may have to integrate the dedicated hardware into a system on a chip by spending an extra amount of silicon resource. In this paper, we describe hardware implementation of TCP/IP protocol stack which is now popular to connect multiple PCs and peripherals by means of networks. For evaluation we used ALTERA APEX 20K600EBC652 FPGA with 600,000 gates. The operating frequency is estimated 29.9MHz and it used area of $26\%$.

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Advanced Mobile Display System Architecture

  • Kim, Chang-Sun;Kwon, Oh-Kyong
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07b
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    • pp.850-853
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents issues of display hardware architecture, relating to memory, display driver IC architecture, and chip-to-chip interface. To achieve a low power and low cost mobile phone, not only the display architecture must be carefully selected, but also the driver-ICs optimized to accommodate the different modes of operation found in typical handheld devices. The technique of forming a photo sensor in each pixel using TFT and display module architecture are developed to add multi functions in display such as fingerprint recognition, image scanning, and integrated touch screen. Detailed architectures of IC partitioning, high-speed serial interface, D/A converter, and multi functions such as fingerprint recognition and image scanning using photo sensors are important to a power optimized system.

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Implementation of Motion Picture Processor for Low-cost CSTN-LCD (저가형 CSTN-LCD 동영상 프로세서 설계)

  • Kim, Yong-Bum;Choi, Myung-Ryul
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.963-970
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we proposed a motion picture processor for using low-cost color super twisted nematic liquid crystal display(CSTN-LCD). The proposed processor apply a new driving scheme using SFP(Subgroup Frame Pattern), so we extends gray scale and eliminates flicker phenomenon. In addition, we apply the BFI (Black Field Insertion) to the design compensated for response time of a LC (Liquid Crystal). We use an edge enhancement and interpolation method to improve image quality of motion picture. The hardware architecture of proposed processor has been implemented and verified on a prototype FPGA board. The proposed method can be used in the display devices such as PDA(Personal Digital Assistants), mobile phone, and PMP(Portable Multimedia Player).

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An Efficient Dead Pixel Detection Algorithm and VLSI Implementation (효율적인 불량화소 검출 알고리듬 및 하드웨어 구현)

  • An Jee-Hoon;Lee Won-Jae;Kim Jae-Seok
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.43 no.9 s.351
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose the efficient dead pixel detection algorithm for CMOS image sensors and its hardware architecture. The CMOS image sensors as image input devices are becoming popular due to the demand for miniaturized, low-power and cost-effective imaging systems. However, the presence of the dead pixels degrade the image quality. To detect the dead pixels, the proposed algorithm is composed of scan, trace and detection step. The experimental results showed that it could detect 99.99% of dead pixels. It was designed in a hardware description language and total logic gate count is 3.2k using 0.25 CMOS standard cell library.

An Analysis of Replication Enhancement for a High Availability Cluster

  • Park, Sehoon;Jung, Im Y.;Eom, Heonsang;Yeom, Heon Y.
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.205-216
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we analyze a technique for building a high-availability (HA) cluster system. We propose what we have termed the 'Selective Replication Manager (SRM),' which improves the throughput performance and reduces the latency of disk devices by means of a Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD), which is integrated in the recent Linux Kernel (version 2.6.33 or higher) and that still provides HA and failover capabilities. The proposed technique can be applied to any disk replication and database system with little customization and with a reasonably low performance overhead. We demonstrate that this approach using SRM increases the disk replication speed and reduces latency by 17% and 7%, respectively, as compared to the existing DRBD solution. This approach represents a good effort to increase HA with a minimum amount of risk and cost in terms of commodity hardware.

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.

A Microcomputer Based Image Processing System for Remotely Sensed Data

  • Lim, Young-S.;Lee, Kyung-K.;Pak, Kyu-H.;Kim, Myung-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 1985
  • A low cost image processing system based on a CROMEMCO microcomputer called KAIS-MIPS, is developed for processing remotely sensed Landsat data. It hardware system can be easily interfacd with other peripheral devices. The software system provides flexibility, expansibility, portability, and maintainability as well as extensive processing capacity. As an example, processing and land use classification of Landsat 2 data for the Inchun city and its 6vicinity in Korea are provided.