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Analysis of Berthing Velocity of Ship and Application to Safe Pilotage (선박접안속도 분석과 안전도선에의 활용)

  • Ik-Soon Cho;Eun-Ji Kang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2022.11a
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    • pp.149-150
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    • 2022
  • External forces acting on the mooring facilities include wave, wind, current, and ship's kinetic energy. In particular, the ship's kinetic energy is changing as the ship become larger, and larger carrying capacity. It was intended to analyze the berthing velocity measurement data at on tanker terminals equipped with a DAS (Docking Aid System) through statistical means and algorithms and use it as basic data for safer and more efficient pier design and pilotage.

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A Color Navigation System for Effective Perceived Structure: Focused on Hierarchical Menu Structure in Small Display (지각된 정보구조의 효과적 형성을 위한 색공간 네비게이션 시스템 연구 - 작은 디스플레이 화면상의 위계적 정보구조를 중심으로 -)

  • 경소영;박경욱;박준아;김진우
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.167-180
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    • 2002
  • This study investigates effective ways to help users form a correct mental model of the hierarchical information space (HIS) in small display. The focus is the effect of color cue on understanding the structure and navigating the information space. The concept of color space (CS) corresponds well to the HIS - one color has a unique position in the CS as a piece of information does in HIS. In this study, we empirically examined two types of color cue, namely, categorical and depth cue. Hue was used as a categorical cue and tone was used as a depth cue. In our experiment, we evaluate the effectiveness of the color cues in the mobile internet system. Subjects were asked to perform four searching tasks and four comparison tasks. The results of experiment reveal that the categorical cues significantly improve the user's mental model whereas decrease navigation performances. The depth cues cannot aid in understanding the HIS as well as improve navigation performances. This study concludes with limitations of the study and descriptions of future studies.

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Design of a High Dynamic-Range RF ASIC for Anti-jamming GNSS Receiver

  • Kim, Heung-Su;Kim, Byeong-Gyun;Moon, Sung-Wook;Kim, Se-Hwan;Jung, Seung Hwan;Kim, Sang Gyun;Eo, Yun Seong
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2015
  • Global Positioning System (GPS) is used in various fields such as communications systems, transportation systems, e-commerce, power plant systems, and up to various military weapons systems recently. However, GPS receiver is vulnerable to jamming signals as the GPS signals come from the satellites located at approximately 20,000 km above the earth. For this reason, various anti-jamming techniques have been developed for military application systems especially and it is also required for commercial application systems nowadays. In this paper, we proposed a dual-channel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) RF ASIC for digital pre-correlation anti-jam technique. It not only covers all GNSS frequency bands, but is integrated low-gain/attenuation mode in low-noise amplifier (LNA) without influencing in/out matching and 14-bit analogdigital converter (ADC) to have a high dynamic range. With the aid of digital processing, jamming to signal ratio is improved to 77 dB from 42 dB with proposed receiver. RF ASIC for anti-jam is fabricated on a 0.18-μm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology and consumes 1.16 W with 2.1 V (low-dropout; LDO) power supply. And the performance is evaluated by a kind of test hardware using the designed RF ASIC.

Computer-Assisted Modified Mid-Sacrectomy for En Bloc Resection of Chordoma and Preservation of Bladder Function

  • Han, In-Ho;Seo, Young-Jun;Cho, Won-Ho;Choi, Byung-Kwan
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.523-527
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    • 2011
  • A 67-year-old woman presented for evaluation of severe coccygeal pain. The computed tomography scans and magnetic resonance imaging showed an asymmetric midline sacral tumor invading the right lower portion of S2. To preserve both S2 nerve roots and to obtain negative surgical margins, a modified mid-sacrectomy with an aid of a computed navigation system was performed. The sacral tumor was excised en bloc with negative tumor margins. Both S2 nerve roots were preserved and additional reconstruction was not necessary because of minimal resection of the sacroiliac joint. We report a case of a sacral chordoma which was excised en bloc with adequate surgical margins by a computer-assisted modified mid-sacrectomy. The computed navigation system may be a useful tool for tumor targeting and safe osteotomies in sacral tumor surgery via the posterior only approach.

Design of menu structures for the human interfaces of electronic products (전자제품 휴먼 인터페이스의 메뉴 설계 방안)

  • 곽지영;한성호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.534-544
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    • 1995
  • Many electronic products employ menu-driven interfaces for user-system dialogue. Unlike the software user interfaces, a small single-line display, such as a Liquid Crystal Display, is typically used to present menu items. Since the display can show only a single menu item at a time, more serious navigation problems are expected with single-line display menus(SDM). This study attempts to provide a set of unique guidelines for the design of the SDM based on empirical results. A human factors experiment was conducted to examine the effects of four design variables: menu structure, user experience, navigation aid, and number of targets. The usability of design alternatives was measured quantitatively in four different aspects, which were speed, accuracy, inefficiency of navigation, and subjective user preference. The analysis of variance was used to test the statistical effects of the design variables and their interaction effects. A set of design guidelines was drawn from the results which can be applied to the design of human-system interfaces of a wide variety of electronic consumer products using such displays. Since more generalized guidelines could be provided by constructing prediction models based on the empirical data, some powerful performance models are also required for the SDM. As a preliminary study, a survey was done on the performance models for ordinary computer menus.

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A Study on the Accuracy of the Loran C China North Sea Chain (GRI 7430) Fix in Kunsan Area (군산지역에서 Loran C China North Sea Chain (GRI 7430 )의 측위 정도의 연구)

  • Won-Woo Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1998
  • Loran C is a low frequently , pulsed. hyperbolic radio aid to navigation system, which operates in the 90 to 110 kHz frequency band. The position accuracy is not excellent but the repeatable and relative accuracy is very good, and it is very useful for fishing vessel in coastal waters. The operation of China north sea chain9GRI 7430) was begun on January, 1996, and in order to evaluate the accuracy of this chain, it was observed with Loran C receiver (LC-90, Furuno) in July 9 and December 30, 1997 at the fixed position of Kunsan national university. The obtained results were as follows : The time difference error of M-X, M-Y pair were $0.5{\mu}s$, $4.4{ \mu}s$ respectively and the mean time difference of M-X, M-Y pair were $15120.4{,\mu}s$ $32085.4{\mu}s$ respectively. The Loran C signals were received steadily and the daily fluctuation of time difference was very small. The longitudinal position error was very much than latitudinal position error, and the mean position error was about 1091.8m.

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A Study on Established Measures of the Korea Inquiry Counsels Association (심판변론인협회 설립방안에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Sung-Hwa;Kim, Jin-Kwon
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.8
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    • pp.669-677
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    • 2010
  • About ten years have passed since the rules regarding establishing the Inquiry Counsels Association in the Act on the Investigation of and Inquiry into Marine Accidents were founded in 1999. In recent years, we expect to do the inquiry aid of a person involved in a marine accident, when the government enacted new regimes to better protect the rights of social minorities. But despite such rules regarding establishing the Inquiry Counsels Association, the government did nothing to found the Association for the last ten years. Especially, it is necessary a pivotal figure connecting to a similar work boundary, because persons qualified for an inquiry counsel are various. The authors think that the establishment of the Inquiry Counsels Association plays key part in resolving these problems. Therefore this study focused on the establishment of the Inquiry Counsels Association.

A Study on Target Acquisition and Tracking to Develop ARPA Radar (ARPA 레이더 개발을 위한 물표 획득 및 추적 기술 연구)

  • Lee, Hee-Yong;Shin, Il-Sik;Lee, Kwang-Il
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.307-312
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    • 2015
  • ARPA(Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) is a device to calculate CPA(closest point of approach)/TCPA(time of CPA), true course and speed of targets by vector operation of relative courses and speeds. The purpose of this study is to develop target acquisition and tracking technology for ARPA Radar implementation. After examining the previous studies, applicable algorithms and technologies were developed to be combined and basic ARPA functions were developed as a result. As for main research contents, the sequential image processing technology such as combination of grayscale conversion, gaussian smoothing, binary image conversion and labeling was deviced to achieve a proper target acquisition, and the NNS(Nearest Neighbor Search) algorithm was appllied to identify which target came from the previous image and finally Kalman Filter was used to calculate true course and speed of targets as an analysis of target behavior. Also all technologies stated above were implemented as a SW program and installed onboard, and verified the basic ARPA functions to be operable in practical use through onboard test.

A Study on the Beginning of Busan Aids to Navigation through the Analysis of Old Pictorial Maps on Choryang Harbour (초량항 고지도 분석을 통한 부산 항로표지의 기원에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Woong-Hee
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.511-518
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    • 2014
  • The history of the Korean lighthouse have been known to be begun from which installed by the purpose of the Japanese invasion of the outside. Modern navigational aid system have configured during the Japanese ruling era since the Incheon Palmido Lighthouse was built in 1903 as the first lighthouse in Korea. But in this regard it needs to be considered more carefully. Busan, as the city of international port and of Choryang Waegwan, had been a center of foreign relations between Korea and Japan since early 15th century. Because that reason, International port facility has been developed for a long time ago in Busan for example lighthouse, breakwater, wharf, jetty and so on. Nevertheless the lack of historical data and basic research related to the marine caused the proper history could not be established until now. In recently the basic translation of Korean Maritime Customs documents started to finish, and a compilation book of old pictorial maps on Choryang Waegwan was issued. As a result, more objective history of Busan Aids to Navigation can be investigated.

Development of Safety Management Procedures for an Autonomous Navigation Element Technology Test (선박 자율운항 요소기술 시험을 위한 안전관리절차서 개발)

  • Woo, Donghan;Lee, In-Gyu;Im, Namkyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.566-573
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    • 2021
  • In this study, safety management procedures were developed based on domestic and foreign guidelines and related maritime law to ensure the safe development and implementation of smart autonomous ship technology and Samsung Heavy Industry. The safety management procedure was developed according to the guidelines for (MASS) sea trials (MSC.1/Circ.1604, Annex: Interim guidelines for MASS trials), proposed by International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the relevant authorities and stakeholders of MASS to properly conduct tests of systems and infrastructure related to safety and environmental protection. The developed safety management procedure applies to the maritime demonstration test of a system applying autonomous navigation element technology mounted as a navigation aid on a ship operating under a watch system, while complying with the environmental protection and navigation safety of the coast of Korea.