• 제목/요약/키워드: Low-Cost Hardware Devices

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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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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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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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저가 소형 CMG 성능시험 및 분석 (Low Cost Small CMG Performance Test and Analysis)

  • 이승우;권혁진
    • 한국항공우주학회지
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    • 제39권6호
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    • pp.543-552
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    • 2011
  • 가장 효과적인 모멘텀 교환장치인 CMG(Control Moment Gyro)는 고기동성이 요구되는 위성에 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 고기동성이 요구되는 소형 인공위성을 위한 Single-Gimbal CMG(SGCMG)에 대한 하드웨어 개발에 필요한 동역학식을 정리하였으며 이를 사용하여 CMG 설계에 필요한 요구사항이 도출되었다. 또한 도출된 요구사항에 따라 출력토크가 1.2Nm인 소형 CMG 성능검증 모델이 제작되었으며, 에러분석 및 성능시험이 수행되었다. 최대 출력토크, 김벌 과도응답특성, 최소 출력토크, 출력토크오차, 김벌 각속도 오차 등을 성능시험 항목으로 선정하어 실험 측정하였고, 시험 결과를 통해 설계 결과를 검증하였다.

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

  • Tran, Linh Tam;Bae, Sung-Ho
    • 방송공학회논문지
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    • 제26권7호
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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.

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

  • 배대희;김철회;정용진
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2004년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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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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    • 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.II
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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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저가형 CSTN-LCD 동영상 프로세서 설계 (Implementation of Motion Picture Processor for Low-cost CSTN-LCD)

  • 김용법;최명렬
    • 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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    • 제9권8호
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    • pp.963-970
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    • 2006
  • 본 논문에서는 저가형 CSTN-LCD(Color Super-Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display)에 사용하는 동영상 프로세서를 제안한다. 제안된 프로세서는 SFP(SubFrame Pattern) 기법을 적용하여 계조 확장을 할 뿐 아니라 플리커(flicker)현상을 제거하였고 BFI(Black Field Insertion) 기법을 적용하여 액정의 응답시간을 보상하였다. 그리고 화질 향상을 위한 에지 강조 기법과 보간기법을 적용하였다. 하드웨어 구조는 FPGA 프로토타입 보드를 사용하여 검증하였다. 제안된 동영상 프로세서는 PDA(Personal Digital Assistants), 모바일 폰과 PMP(Portable Multimedia Player) 등에 사용되어 질 수 있다.

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

  • 안지훈;이원재;김재석
    • 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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    • 제43권9호
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2006
  • CMOS image sensor는 집적회로 구현이 가능하여 사이즈를 줄일 수 있고 저전력으로 구현이 가능하며 효율적인 영상처리를 할 수 있다는 장점을 갖고 있다. 그러나 불량화소의 발생은 곧 화질의 저하로 연결되기 때문에 불량화소를 검출하는 방법에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 CMOS image sensor에 사용되는 효율적인 불량화소 검출 알고리듬과 그 하드웨어를 제안하였다. 불량화소를 검출하기 위하여 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 Scan, Trace, Detection의 단계를 거친다. 시뮬레이션 결과 특정 조건에서는 99.99%의 불량화소 걸출 성공률을 나타냈다. 제안된 알고리듬은 Verilog HDL로 구현되었으며, 0.25 CMOS standard cell library에서 3.2k개의 게이트 수를 갖는다.

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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    • 제9권2호
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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.

속도와 가속도 제한에서 전향 보상기를 이용한 벨트 구동의 정밀제어 (Precision Control of Belt Drives using Feed Forward Compensator under Acceleration and Velocity Constraints)

  • 권세현
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • 제33권5호
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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
    • 대한원격탐사학회지
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    • 제1권1호
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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.