• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2010

At the end of last year, Korean nuclear power plants, APR-1400 and a research reactor have been contracted to build plants at United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Since 1959, a historical background of nuclear technologies in Korea is summarized. The safety requirements for Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) are discussed. Specific descriptions on the typical safety classification of I&C systems, the definitions of the electrical class 1E and the countermeasures against common caused failures are provided. And summaries of typical I&C systems such as the protection systems, the control systems, the instrumentations, the monitoring systems and a control room in NPP are introduced. Strict requirements on the development of the digital computer systems in nuclear applications are described.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 한국지반공학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.724-731
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to estimate a landslide using the SLOPILE program from the slope reinforced by slope stability systems such as soil nailing and pile. To do this, cutting slope located at Donghae-Highway in Kwangwon-Do was considered. The behavior of slope was monitored for a long term by using instrumentation according to the reinforcement stages. The sequence of reinforcement stages was followed as pile installation, boring, soil nailing installation, anchoring and embankment. The result from this case study shows that the safety factor of slope depends on the reinforcement stage more or less.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.319-322
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 고층빌딩의 화재감지/모니터링 시스템에 대한 기준 모델을 제시하고 제시된 모델의 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 화재감지/모니터링 시스템 모델은 CSMA/CD 방식으로 동작하며 100 Mbps의 전송속도로 동작하는 Fast Ethernet을 백본망으로 사용하고 하부망으로는 MS/TP를 사용한다. 또한 시스템의 확장성과 유연성을 확보하기 위하여 현재 국내 빌딩 자동화 통신망의 표준 프로토콜로 제정된 BACnet을 기반으로 동작한다. 본 논문에서는 제시된 화재감지/모니터링 시스템 모델의 성능을 분석하기 위하여 이산사건 시스템 모델링 전용 툴인 ARENA를 사용한 시뮬레이션 모델을 개발하였다. 개발된 시뮬레이션 모델을 이용하여 네트워크 지연시간이 화재감지/모니터링 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였으며, 분석된 결과를 바탕으로 본 논문에서 제시한 화재감지/모니터링 시스템 모델이 고층빌딩의 방화 설비 요구사항을 만족시킬 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.709-716
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• 2013

Rehabilitation of finger patients requires that the patients exercise their hands and fingers for proper functioning to return. A thumb rehabilitation robot, equipped with a two-axis force sensor, can prevent injury to the thumb by monitoring the applied pulling force. In this paper, we describe a link-type thumb rehabilitation robot designed for patients' thumb rehabilitation exercise. Tests of the manufactured link-type thumb rehabilitation robot were performed on normal male patients. Our results show that the robot can be used for flexibility and muscle-strength rehabilitation exercises for a patient's thumb.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1990년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 26-27 Oct. 1990
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• pp.204-208
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• 1990

The digital instrumentation and control system for the large scale system like the power plant must have the form of the heirachical structure. Because most large scale system have many control and process signals and it is distributed in the vade region, it is necessary to partition them into several subsystems. Therefore, the role of SCS(Supervisory Control System) having the functions of controlling and monitoring for the status of subsystems is very important. In this paper, new SCS for the effective control of the large scale system is proposed.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 전력전자학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.79-80
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• 2010

본 논문은 기존 통신용 전원장비를 첨단 통신망에 접속하여 원격제어 및 감시가 가능하게끔 해주는 인터페이스에 관한 연구이다. 인터넷, 휴대폰 등 각종 통신이 발전함에 따라 통신용 전원장비도 날이 갈수록 정밀해지고 고용량화 되어가고 있다. 이와 관련하여 통신장비의 관리 및 유지보수비용 또한 상당한 속도로 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 시대적 흐름 속에서 비용절감을 위한 연구와 다양한 운영방법들이 논의 되고 있는데 본 논문에서는 통신장비의 관리 및 유지보수 비용의 절감을 위한 원격 감시 제어 환경 속에서 원격지의 전원장비들과 첨단통신망을 연결해주는 인터페이스 장치의 개발에 관하여 논하였다. 개발된 인터페이스 장치는 통신기능을 통하여 전원의 상태를 감시 및 계측할 뿐 아니라 최적온도 및 습도 등의 유지를 위한 제어도 가능한 다기능을 특징으로 한다. 또한 전원의 계측 값들도 485통신을 통하여 바로 디지털 값으로 변환하여 전원감시장치로 보냄으로써 범용성에도 큰 특징을 갖는다고 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 한국산학기술학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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• pp.401-403
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• 2006

무선의 센서필드 개념을 중심으로 불특정 공간에 배포된 센서로부터 수집된 정보를 일괄적으로 활용하는 무선 센서 네트워크는 낮은 사양의 하드웨어를 이용하여 무선 Ad-Hoc 네트워크를 구성할 수 있다. 즉, 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅은 여기저기에 산재된 컴퓨터들이 우리 일상생활을 좀 더 효율적으로 편리하게 관리하자는 것이다. 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅을 구현할 때 필수적인 디바이스가 저전력 무선 센서 노드이며, 이를 활용한 응용분야는 다양하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 고가의 실험실습 기자재의 상태를 실시간으로 확인할 수 있는 기자재 모니터링 시스템을 제시하였다.이를 활용함으로써 고가의 실험실습 기자재의 온도 등 상태를 실시간으로 확인함으로써 만약의 사태에 신속하게 대비할 수 있다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.30-36
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• 1995

One of principal causes of car accidents is low arousal level of driver. Drivers arrive their destination under an appropriate arousal level. Basic research was done to develop a portable arousal monitor and to evaluate the arousal level of drivers. An arousal monitor which can simulantaneously measure the skin impedance change and EEG was designed and tested. The relationship among three parameters was studied and was used to determine the index of skin impedance level depending on arousal level.

• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2020

An instrumentation amplifier (IA) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are essential circuit blocks for accurate and robust sensor readout systems. This paper introduces recent advances in radiation-hardening by design (RHBD) techniques applied for the sensor readout integrated circuits (IC), e.g., the three-op-amp IA and the successive-approximation register (SAR) ADC, operating against total ionizing dose (TID) and singe event effect (SEE) in harsh radiation environments. The radiation-hardened IA utilized TID monitoring and adaptive reference control to compensate for transistor parameter variations due to radiation effects. The radiation-hardened SAR ADC adopts delay-based double-feedback flip-flops to prevent soft errors which flips the data bits. Radiation-hardened IA and ADC were verified through compact model simulation, and fabricated CMOS chips were measured in radiation facilities to confirm their radiation tolerance.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.179-197
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• 2012

This study presents the findings of the structural health monitoring and the real time system identification of one of the first large scale building instrumentations in Turkey for earthquake safety. Within this context, a thorough review of steps in the instrumentation, monitoring is presented and seismic performance evaluation of structures using both nonlinear pushover and nonlinear dynamic time history analysis is carried out. The sensor locations are determined using the optimal sensor placement techniques used in NASA for on orbit modal identification of large space structures. System identification is carried out via the stochastic subspace technique. The results of the study show that under ambient vibrations, stocky buildings can be substantially stiffer than what is predicted by the finite element models due to the presence of a large number of partitioning walls. However, in a severe earthquake, it will not be safe to rely on this resistance due to the fact that once the partitioning walls crack, the bare frame contributes to the lateral stiffness of the building alone. Consequently, the periods obtained from system identification will be closer to those obtained from the FE analysis. A technique to control the validity of the proportional damping assumption is employed that checks the presence of phase difference in displacements of different stories obtained from band pass filtered records and it is confirmed that the "proportional damping assumption" is valid for this structure. Two different techniques are implemented for identifying the influence of the soil structure interaction. The first technique uses the transfer function between the roof and the basement in both directions. The second technique uses a pre-whitening filter on the data obtained from both the basement and the roof. Subsequently the impulse response function is computed from the scaled cross correlation between the input and the output. The overall results showed that the structure will satisfy the life safety performance level in a future earthquake but some soil structure interaction effects should be expected in the North South direction.