• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.671-684
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• 2011

Deciding on an optimal sensor placement (OSP) is a common problem encountered in many engineering applications and is also a critical issue in the construction and implementation of an effective structural health monitoring (SHM) system. The present study focuses with techniques for selecting optimal sensor locations in a sensor network designed to monitor the health condition of Dalian World Trade Building which is the tallest in the northeast of China. Since the number of degree-of-freedom (DOF) of the building structure is too large, multi-modes should be selected to describe the dynamic behavior of a structural system with sufficient accuracy to allow its health state to be determined effectively. However, it's difficult to accurately distinguish the translational and rotational modes for the flexible structures with closely spaced modes by the modal participation mass ratios. In this paper, a new method of the OSP that computing the mode shape matrix in the weak axis of structure by the simplified multi-DOF system was presented based on the equivalent rigidity parameter identification method. The initial sensor assignment was obtained by the QR-factorization of the structural mode shape matrix. Taking the maximum off-diagonal element of the modal assurance criterion (MAC) matrix as a target function, one more sensor was added each time until the maximum off-diagonal element of the MAC reaches the threshold. Considering the economic factors, the final plan of sensor placement was determined. The numerical example demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권4A호
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• pp.639-645
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• 2006

FRP(Fiber Reinforced Polymer)는 부식의 저항성, 고강도, 피로저항 능력 및 성형성 등에서 우수한 건설 신소재이다. 광섬유 브래그 격자(Fiber Bragg Grating; FBG) 센서는 전자기 저항, 작은 소재의 크기, 그리고 높은 내구성 등의 이점으로 smart sensor로서 현재 많이 사용되고 있다. 하지만 FBG 센서의 변위 측정 기술 능력의 부족으로 현재까지는 변형률, 온도 등의 물리량 측정센서로서 활용되고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 FRP와 FBG센서의 기능 복합화(Hybrid)를 통하여 smart FRP Rod를 개발 한 후 인장시험을 실시하였다. 또한, FBG센서에 의해 측정된 변형률 데이터를 신경망(Neural Network) 기법을 이용하여 변위 추정 모형을 개발함으로서 FBG 센서 단점인 변형률 계측만을 위한 센싱 역할을 극복하고자 한다. 인공신경망 모형은 MLP(Multi-layer Perceptron)로, 오차범위 0.001에 수렴 될 수 있도록 학습(training)을 실시하였다. 학습에는 비선형 목적함수와 역전파 학습(Back-propagation) 알고리즘을 적용하였으며 모형의 검증은 UTM에서 측정된 변위 값과 수치해석에 의한 결과 값을 비교함으로서 실시하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.363-370
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• 2014

Despite several years of intense research, the security and cryptography in wireless sensor networks still have a number of ongoing problems. This paper describes how identification (ID)-based node authentication can be used to solve the key agreement problem in a three-layer interaction. The scheme uses a novel security mechanism that considers the characteristics, architecture, and vulnerability of the sensors, and provides an ID-based node authentication that does not require expensive certificates. The scheme describes the routing process using a simple ID suitable for low power and ID exposure, and proposes an ID-based node authentication. This method achieves low-cost communications with an efficient protocol. Results from this study demonstrates that it improves routing performance under different node densities, and reduces the computational cost of key encryption and decryption.

• 센서학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.369-377
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• 2004

Recently, the "ride comfort" problem becomes increasingly important because of today's needs for train speedup. The concept of term "ride comfort" is equivocal. Generally it is defined as the vehicle vibration. There are many studies on evaluation method of ride comfort for railway. But each of them recommends the different assessment method and the different guidance. In general, the evaluation methods defined in the standards, such as ISO 2631 and UIC 513R, and Ride Index suggested by Sperling, have been used in the railroad. But, only one or two methods of these can be evaluated by using the commercial ride comfort measuring system. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the new ride comfort measuring system for railway with multi-function. In this paper, the generalization of "ride comfort" and the design and verification of new ride comfort measuring system for railway with multi-function have been described and the application examples has been introduced.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.572-575
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• 2004

Since the 1990s, the advancement of semiconductor technology has resulted in the development of microprocessor technology, auxiliary computer technology, and application technology such as intelligent algorithms (neural network, fuzzy, etc.). These based the development of intelligent machines. An agent is autonomous software that recognizes environment, exchanges knowledge with other agents and makes decisions. We designed agent-based sensor structure. For the purpose, first, it modeled the function of an intelligent machine. Second, it designed sensory function on the agent level.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.984-990
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• 2016

In wireless mesh sensor networks (WMSNs), sensor nodes are connected in the form of a mesh topology and transfer sensor data by multi-hop routing. A data aggregation method for WMSNs is required to minimize the number of routing hops and the energy consumption of each node with limited battery power. This paper presents a shortest path data aggregation method for WMSNs. The proposed method utilizes a simple hash function based on shuffled row major indexing for addressing sensor nodes. This allows sensor data to be aggregated without complex routing tables and calculation for deciding the next hop. The proposed data aggregation algorithms work in a fractal fashion with different mesh sizes. The method repeatedly performs gathering and moves sensor data to sink nodes in higher-level clusters. The proposed method was implemented and simulations were performed to confirm the accuracy of the proposed algorithms.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.243-262
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• 2015

Optimal sensor placement (OSP) is a critical issue in construction and implementation of a sophisticated structural health monitoring (SHM) system. The uncertainties in the identified structural parameters based on the measured data may dramatically reduce the reliability of the condition evaluation results. In this paper, the information entropy, which provides an uncertainty metric for the identified structural parameters, is adopted as the performance measure for a sensor configuration, and the OSP problem is formulated as the multi-objective optimization problem of extracting the Pareto optimal sensor configurations that simultaneously minimize the appropriately defined information entropy indices. The nondirective movement glowworm swarm optimization (NMGSO) algorithm (based on the basic glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm) is proposed for identifying the effective Pareto optimal sensor configurations. The one-dimensional binary coding system is introduced to code the glowworms instead of the real vector coding method. The Hamming distance is employed to describe the divergence of different glowworms. The luciferin level of the glowworm is defined as a function of the rank value (RV) and the crowding distance (CD), which are deduced by non-dominated sorting. In addition, nondirective movement is developed to relocate the glowworms. A numerical simulation of a long-span suspension bridge is performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NMGSO algorithm. The results indicate that the NMGSO algorithm is capable of capturing the Pareto optimal sensor configurations with high accuracy and efficiency.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.4738-4753
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• 2018

Efficient rendezvous node selection and routing algorithm (RNSRA) for wireless sensor networks with mobile sink that visits rendezvous node to gather data from sensor nodes is proposed. In order to plan an optimal moving tour for mobile sink and avoid energy hole problem, we develop the RNSRA to find optimal rendezvous nodes (RN) for the mobile sink to visit. The RNSRA can select the set of RNs to act as store points for the mobile sink, and search for the optimal multi-hop path between source nodes and rendezvous node, so that the rendezvous node could gather information from sensor nodes periodically. Fitness function with several factors is calculated to find suitable RNs from sensor nodes, and the artificial bee colony optimization algorithm (ABC) is used to optimize the selection of optimal multi-hop path, in order to forward data to the nearest RN. Therefore the energy consumption of sensor nodes is minimized and balanced. Our method is validated by extensive simulations and illustrates the novel capability for maintaining the network robustness against sink moving problem, the results show that the RNSRA could reduce energy consumption by 6% and increase network lifetime by 5% as comparing with several existing algorithms.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2011

다중센서자료를 동시에 활용하기 위해서는 센서 간의 정밀한 기하보정이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 선형정보를 추출하여 고해상도의 광학영상과 SAR 영상 간의 기하보정을 수행하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 기준영상과 대상영상에 대하여 수동으로 매칭쌍을 추출하여 두 영상 간의 좌표체계를 개략적으로 일치시켜주는 과정을 전처리로 수행하였다. 방사적 특성이 다른 두 영상에 대하여 Canny edge operator를 통해 선형 화소를 추출한 뒤, 비용함수를 구성하여 유사하다고 생각되는 점을 초기 매칭쌍으로 선정하고, 그 중에서 이상치로 판단되는 오매칭쌍을 제거하고 남은 대상을 최종 매칭쌍으로 추출하였다. 본 기법을 통해 영상 전역에 걸쳐서 고르게 분포된 다수의 매칭쌍을 추출할 수 있었을 뿐만 아니라, 고도가 높거나 고도 변화가 큰 지역적 특성으로 인해 지리적 위치오차를 포함하는 지역에서 추출된 매칭쌍을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있었다. 최종적으로 추출된 매칭쌍을 이용하여 piecewise linear function과 affine transformation을 결합한 새로운 변환모델식을 적용하여 기하보정 정확도를 높이고자 하였고, 수동으로 추출된 검사점을 통해 1.58의 RMSE 값을 도출하였다.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2009

The flight control of the T-50 advanced trainer is conducted by the digital FBW (Flight-by-Wire) control system. The system input data consist of flight conditions such as altitude, airspeed, and angle of attack. And the flight conditions of the aircraft are obtained from IMFP (Integrated Multi-Function Probe). The T-50 aircraft equip three IMFP sensors. To ensure reliability in flight condition data obtained from each IMFP sensor, the mean value of flight conditions is used as the input of the control system. In this study, the effect of an installation angle of IMFP sensors on estimation of flight altitude was investigated by flight test results in the supersonic region.