• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.270-274
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• 2006

A color filter array (CFA) helps a single electrical image sensor to recognize color images. The Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Bayer CFA is commonly used, but the amount of the light which arrives at the photodiode is attenuated with this CFA. Red-White-Blue (RWB) CFA increases the amount of the light which arrives at photodiode by using White (W) pixels instead of Green (G) pixels. However, white pixels are saturated earlier than red and blue pixels. The pseudo multiple capture scheme and the corresponding RWB CFA were proposed to overcome the early saturation problem of W pixels. The prototype CMOS image sensor (CIS) was fabricated with $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The proposed CIS solves the early saturation problem of W pixels and increases the dynamic range.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.41-47
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• 1997

Fault diagnosis problem is currently a subject of extensive research in the control field. Although there are several works on the fault detection and isolation observers and the residual generators, those are con- cerned with only the detection of actuator failures or sensor failures. So, the perfect detection and isolation for the actuator and sensor failures is strongly required in the field of the practical applications. In this paper, a strategy of fault diagnosis using multiple proportional integral (PI) observers including the magnitude of actuator failures is provided. It is shown that actuator failures are detected and isolated perfectly by monitoring the integrated error between actual output and estimated output by a PI observer. Also in presence of complex actuator and sensor failures, these failures are detected and isolated by multiple PI observers.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.1769-1777
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• 2009

With the advent of the ubiquitous technology age, the progress of network technology has enabled a robust sensor communication, not just in cities, but also in poor surroundings such as deserts, polar regions, or underwater environments. In this paper, we propose a Multiple Acknowledgement (MA) technique to replace the conventional Automatic Repeat request (ARQ) technique. The MA mechanism is to send an Ack to many receivers simultaneously. The CH (master, coordinator) of the unit cluster broadcasts a Beacon frame where Ack information of the previously transmitted data is included. This technique can reduce the number of transmissions and overhead significantly. The proposed technique is a scheme improving the efficiency of an underwater sensor network where the uplink data transmission is the mainstream. The Performance of the ARQ, Block Ack, Pervasive Block Ack and the proposed method were compared with one another and analyzed. The proposed method showed significant performance improvement as compared with the ARQ, BA, and PBA in its channel efficiency.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제38권8호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2001

파장을 스케닝하기 위해 Fabry-Perot 필터를 사용하는 기존의 광섬유 브래그 격자(FBG) 스트레인 측정시스템은 PZT의 히스테리시스 특성과 필터의 느린 스케닝 시간 그리고 높은 가격으로 인해 응용이 제한적이다. 광원으로 비교적 저가인 발광 다이오드(LED)를 사용하고 FBG 센서를 다중화하기 위해 코드 분할 다중화(CDM) 방식을 도입한 다중 FBG 센서 시스템을 제안하였으며 실험을 통해 특성을 측정하였다. 실험은 정적 스트레인과 동적 스트레인을 측정하기 위한 두 가지 구조의 시스템에 대한 출력과 센서 신호간의 누화를 측정하였다. 구성한 시스템은 매우 저가이고 빠른 응답속도를 갖으며 누화의 레벨은 -30 dB 이하로 측정되었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.676-683
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• 2019

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of multiple tiny and power constrained sensors which use radio frequencies to carry out sensing in a designated sensor area. To effectively design and implement reliable WSN, it is critical to consider models, protocols, and algorithms that can optimize energy consumption of all the sensor nodes with optimal amount of packet delivery. It has been observed that deploying a single sink node comes with numerous challenges especially in a situation with high node density and congestion. Sensor nodes close to a single sink node receive more transmission traffic load compared to other sensors, thus causing quick depletion of energy which finally leads to an energy hole and sink hole problems. In this paper, we proposed the use of multiple energy efficient sink nodes with brute force technique under optimized parameters to improve on the number of packets delivered within a given time. Simulation results not only depict that, deploying N sink nodes in a sensor area has a maximum limit to offer a justifiable improvement in terms of packet delivery ratio but also offers a reduction in End to End delay and reliability in case of failure of a single sink node, and an improvement in the network lifetime rather than deploying a single static sink node.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2017

We develop an embedded system to measure various sensor data, control multiple motors, and communicate with mobile devices for system managements. Choosing TI AM3359 microprocessor featuring high processing performance, low power consumption, and various I/O device support, we design and build the embedded system hardware so that it supports multiple global positioning system (GPS) and gyro sensor modules to measure precise position; multiple pulse width modulation (PWM) outputs to control multiple direct current (DC) motors; a Bluetooth module to communicate with mobile devices. Then, we port the boot loader and device drivers to the built circuit board and construct the firmware development environment for the application programming. The performance of the designed and implemented embedded system is demonstrated by real motor control test using GPS and gyro sensor data and control parameters configured by a mobile device.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제13D권7호
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• pp.867-878
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• 2006

최근 센서네트워크에 관련된 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히, 센서의 전력 보전을 위한 많은 기술들이 개발되고 있는데, 본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크의 불필요한 전력 소비를 줄이는 다중 연속질의 최적화에 관련된 방법을 제시한다. 우리는 센서 네트워크에서 전송되는 데이터의 횟수나 전송량의 원천적 문제가 되는 다중 연속 질의의 중복성 문제를 해결하는 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 분할 알고리즘은 새롭게 생성된 사용자 질의와 기존의 질의 들 사이에 중첩 질의 영역을 제거하기 위해, 질의 인덱스 (QR-tree)를 통해 하나의 질의를 둘 이상의 질의로 분할하는 알고리즘이다. QR-트리는 효율적인 질의 분할을 위해, R*-트리를 본 논문의 구존에 맞게 개량한 것이다. 이러한 처리 결과, 우리는 센서 네트워크의 전체 에너지에서 약 20% 가량의 에너지를 보존할 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2461-2466
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• 2003

This paper presents a simple sensor fusion algorithm using neural network for navigation of mobile robots with obstacle avoidance and trap recovery. The multiple sensors input sensor data to the input layer of neural network activating the input nodes. The multiple sensors used include optical encoders, ultrasonic sensors, infrared sensors, a magnetic compass sensor, and GPS sensors. The proposed sensor fusion algorithm is combined with the VFH(Vector Field Histogram) algorithm for obstacle avoidance and AGPM(Adaptive Goal Perturbation Method) which sets adaptive virtual goals to escape trap situations. The experiment results show that the proposed low-level fusion algorithm is effective for real-time navigation of mobile robot.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.210-215
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• 2003

A fine hot-wire is used both as a heating element and a temperature sensor in transient hot-wire method. The traditional sensor system is unnecessarily big so that it takes large fluid volume to measure the thermal conductivity. To dramatically reduce this fluid volume, a new sensor fabrication and a data processing method are proposed in this article. Contrast to the conventional and most popular two wire sensor, the new sensor system is made up of divided multiple long and short wires. Through validation experiments, it is found that the measured thermal conductivities of the glycerin are exactly same each other between the conventional and proposed new method. Also some technical considerations in arranging the multiple wires are briefly discussed.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1995년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.585-590
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• 1995

This paper describes strain distribution analysis of a multiple parallel plate structure for a multi-componenet force and moment sensor. A parallel plate structure which has higher rigidity than a simple beam structure are widely used for multi-component force and moment sensor. The strain distribution in the beams of a parallel plate structure should be accurately calculated to design a high precision multi-component force and moment sensor. We derived equations to calculate the strains for multiple parallel plate structure. It reveals that results from finite element analysis and experiment are in good agreement with results from the derived equations.