• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1116-1122
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• 2009

ATS(Automatic Train Stop) system makes train stop when it runs over the speed limit and ensure the safe operation of train. Seoul Metro line 2 in Korea, which started its passenger service in 1982, has adopted ATS system for its signaling system. The ATS system has only a train stop function at the time of emergency, and Seoul Metro is planning to replaced them with ATC(Automatic Train Control)/ATO(Automatic Train Operation) system which can provide the dedicated speed control for headway reduction and automatic operation of train. Until all the ATS system is replaced with the new ATC system, both systems are to operate simultaneously at the same metro line. In this situation, ATS system sometimes reveals improper operation: train stops suddenly without any obstacles in front of it. These emergency stops cause interruption of passenger service, and abnormal abrasion of wheels and rail. This paper makes it clear that these interruptions are caused by EMI phenomena between ATS on-board device and ATC wayside device : Signal current flowing in AF track circuit of ATC is turn out to be a EMI source that prevent normal operation of the ATS on-board device. Although the two systems have different frequency-ranges (ATS system has frequency range between $78{\sim}130$[kHz] and ATC system has frequency range between $9.5{\sim}16.5$[kHz]), it turned out that EMI phenomena appears between the both systems. This is investigated by measuring the output signal from ATS on-board device passing over ATC wayside device. The FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) analysis of the signal reveals that AF track circuit signal is transmitted to the ATS on-board device and induce noise causing improper operation. The countermeasures to the EMI phenomena are examined in three ways; blocking EMI transmission, enforcement of EMS (Electromagnetic Susceptibility) of ATS on-board device, and blocking the EMI source. It is suggested that the practical solution be blocking EMI source temporarily, that is breaking AF track circuit signal when the trains with ATS on-board device pass over it. To this purpose, TODS(Train Occupation Detection System) is developed, and has made a success in preventing the EMI problem of Seoul Metro line 2.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.217-225
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• 2010

Today's public libraries in communities are on the processes of changes to integrate information and communication technology into traditional library system in order to support current users' demands for the new digital era. The purpose of this study is to examine the changing characters on space design and space uses of community based public libraries by conducting case studies of three branch libraries which were built after 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. As the conclusion of this research, the findings of the case studies are utilized as basic data for planning and design guidelines for public libraries as community resources. The study summarizes the characteristics of space design and space uses in public libraries as follow; first, the floor plans of small-scale public libraries are open visually as well as spatially. The space organization of the libraries is arranged by potential noise levels, as placing noisy spaces near the entrance halls and quiet spaces at the back. Main book shelves are located in the middle of the library buildings, while seats are arranged along the window sides. By placing various kinds of furniture in open reading areas, library users can select different types of seats and tables for their comforts. Second. the survey of observation also finds that a large number of users often use library computers and personal computers to connect the internet at the libraries. These personal computer users who are new user group in community based libraries preferred to sit in casual study areas and individual tables with one or two seats only. Third, the libraries, in addition, develop and provide various programs and events for people in communities. Especially, the programs for children, the elderly and new comers from the abroad are well prepared, thus provide opportunities for them to visit the libraries in regular bases. The survey finds that family entertainment and leisure activities are the important parts of the program as well as renting music CD and movie DVD are also important reasons for people to come. Thus, the libraries prepare high quality children's space and CD shelves near the entrance hall.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.324-334
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• 1998

Background : Strategic planning is an organizationwide or systemwide, ongoing look into the future usually of 2~3 years, based on objective analysis of the current environment and trends, but it can incorporate both short-term and long-term goals. The strategic planning process includes external analysis, internal analysis, issue analysis, development of mission, vision and values, and lastly development of organizational goals and objectives. As a part of the strategic quality planning process, certain service lines, important organizationwide functions, or key processes supporting these functions can be prioritized to expedite and roll out certain strategic goals. This is called strategic quality initiatives. Methods : We organized a quality improvement team, a subgroup of 21st century vision planning corps of our medical center, and pursued QI activities for improvement of healthcare environment, particularly in the admission setting. We developed a strategic quality initiative based on the results of patient satisfaction surveys, and carried out functions of self-directed work team. Results : The strategic goal was to be the benchmark for peer group hospitals in Korea for providing cost-effective best-practice. The QI team included 3 medical doctors, 1 nurse, 1 social worker, and 1 QI consultant as well as many operational members to support services and quality initiatives met every Tuesday for 18 weeks. Outcome objectives were to improve patient satisfaction score. The issues included in the objectives were comfort, temperature, noise, cleanliness of the admission wards, quality and education of patient meals, matters regarding the admission process, and an appurtenant facility such as restaurant or convenience store. Every issue was discussed and recommendations, conclusions and opportunities were implemented. Conclusions : By developing a strategic quality initiative as a part of the strategic quality planning process, and pursuing a self-directed work team, certain sen/ice lines, important organizationwide functions, or key processes supporting these functions can be improved effectively within a short period. Strategic quality initiatives serve to support, or roll out, certain strategic goals that are relevant to performance improvement and development of specific measurable outcome objectives, and associated performance measure for each initiative. Each strategic quality initiative should include a statement of intent outcome objectives, and performance measures. We will come back with follow up of the strategic quality initiative, for improvement of healthcare environment, and results of patient satisfaction re-survey.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.53-66
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• 2000

한국 천문연구원은 국내 관련 기업과 함께 열전냉각방식 (thermoelectric cooler, 이하 TEC)을 이용한 실용화 극미광 영상장비를 개발하였다. 개발한 모델을 구성하는 부품들은 Kodak사의 KAF-0401E($768{\times}512$ pixels, blue plus version) CCD 센서를 사용하였고, 국내 업체인 Thermotek의 TEC 모듈을 사용하여 $-25^{\circ}C$까지 냉각이 가능하다. 셔터는 Uniblitz사의 VS25S를 사용하여 최소 80ms의 노출을 할 수 있다. PC와의 인터페이스는 현재 한국 천문연구원에서 개발하여 사용중인 ISA 버스의 컨트롤러 보드를 사용하고 12bit 비디오 프로세서인 AD9816을 사용하여 영상을 얻는다. 암잡음은 $-10^{\circ}C$에서 $0.4e^-$/pixel/s이며 직선성은 $99.9{\pm}0.1%$, gain은 4.24e^-/ADU이고 전체 시스템 잡음은 $25.3e^-(rms)$이다. 실험한 모델은 측광이 가능할 정도 ($\pm$0.01등급)의 정밀도를 가지고 천문관측 뿐만 아니라 다른 분야의 영상획득에 유용하게 사용 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2014

Purpose - This study aims to investigate the process of political changes in Japan, which has introduced regulatory policies for large-scale retail stores since the 1930s, as well as the examples, and suggests improvement schemes for our policies in Korea, which imposes restrictions on business hours and forced holidays in accordance with the current Distribution Industry Development Act. Research design, data, and methodology - After examining the political change processes related to large-scale retail stores in japan, this study analyzes individually regulated cases based on the ordinances enacted by each local government. Through case analysis in Japan, this study makes political suggestions that may be helpful for our country substantially. Results - Since there is an obvious possibility that our economic restrictions on business hours and mandatory holidays do not coincide with WTO GATS, it is necessary for large-scale distributors to introduce new social and environmental regulations similar to Japan, rather than imposing controls to restrict free competition and also introduce a policy to induce cooperation with small businesses for the advancement of the distribution industry. Thus, it is desirable to take measures on noise, waste, traffic, and parking for the preservation of the living environment in the surroundings when building new large-scale retail stores. It is also important to establish measures to improve the welfare of neighborhood residents and consumers, create a pleasant urban environment, and make it mandatory to make presentations at public hearings among residents. Furthermore, it should be mandatory to establish regional contribution plans when a retail store is established, and take measures to solve various civil complaints or problems that may occur after entering the market. Moreover, it is desirable for large-scale retail stores that entered the market to induce cooperation in performing various activities in the area with a strong sense that they are all members of the local economy. Conclusions - If introducing social regulations like in Japan, there is probably an advantage that the conflicts seen when large-scale retail stores enter the market are absorbed by adjusting the persons concerned within the established institution in order to establish a field to solve such conflicts systematically. In contrast, there are still concerns regarding chaotic operation without any active attempts to have a conversation with large-scale retail stores and local small merchants due to a sharp conflict among the persons concerned, and if it is a briefing session without any decision of the restrictions on their opening itself, there may be doubts with regard to their effectiveness. Moreover, if the de facto opening is restricted by the introduction of such a briefing session procedure, the choice of whether to protect the existing rights of large-scale retail stores might become problematic. However, such problems could be minimized in a way by forming a separate consultative group for all persons concerned including residents, local governments, professionals, civic organizations, small merchants, and massive retail store-related persons.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2020

A Rayleigh Lidar used for wind detection works by transmitting laser pulses to the atmosphere and receiving backscattering signals from molecules. Because of the weak backscattering signals, a lidar usually uses a high sensitivity photomultiplier as detector and photon counting technology for signal collection. The capturing of returned extremely weak backscattering signals requires the lidar to work on dark background with a long time accumulation to get high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Because of the strong solar background during the day, the SNR of lidar during daytime is much lower than that during nighttime, the altitude and accuracy of detection are also restricted greatly. Therefore this article describes an ultra-narrow bandwidth filter (UNBF) that has been developed on 354.7 nm wavelength of laser. The UNBF is used for suppressing the strong solar background that degrades the performance of Rayleigh wind lidar during daytime. The optical structure of UNBF consists of an interference filter (IF), a low resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) and a high resolution FPI. The parameters of each optical component of the UNBF are presented in this article. The transmission curve of the aligned UNBF is measured with a tunable laser. Contrasting the result of with-UNBF and with-IF shows that the solar background received by a Licel transient recorder decreases by 50~100 times and that the SNR with-UNBF was improved by 3 times in the altitude range (35 km to 40 km) compared to with-IF at 10:26 to 10:38 on August 29, 2018. By the SNR comparison at four different times of one day, the ratio-values are larger than 1 over the altitude range (25~50 km) in general, the results illustrate that the SNR with-UNBF is better than that with-IF for Rayleigh Lidar during daytime and they demonstrate the effective improvements of solar background restriction of UNBF.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2430-2434
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• 2005

Automatic FPC punching instrument for the improvement of working condition and cost saving is introduced in this paper. FPC(flexible printed circuit) is used to detect the contact position of K/B and button like a cellular phone. Depending on the quality of the printed ink and position of reference punching point to the FPC, the resistance and current are varied to the malfunctioning values. The size of reference punching point is 2mm and the above. Because the punching operation is done manually, the accuracy of the punching degree is varied with operator's condition. Recently, The punching accuracy has deteriorated severely to the 2mm punching reference hall so that assembly of the K/B has hardly done. To improve this manual punching operation to the FPC, automatic FPC punching system is introduced. Precise mechanical parts like a 5-step stepping motor and ball screw mechanism are designed and tested and low cost PC camera is used for the sake of cost down instead of using high quality vision systems for the FA. 3D Mechanical design tool(Pro/E) is used to manage the exact tolerance circumstances and avoid design failures. Simulation is performed to make the complete vision based punching machine before assembly, and this procedure led to the manufacturing cost saving. As the image processing algorithms, dilation, erosion, and threshold calculation is applied to obtain an exact center position from the FPC print marks. These image processing algorithms made the original images having various noises have clean binary pixels which is easy to calculate the center position of print marks. Moment and Least square method are used to calculate the center position of objects. In this development circumstance, Moment method was superior to the Least square one at the calculation of speed and against noise. Main control panel is programmed by Visual C++ and graphical Active X for the whole management of vision based automatic punching machine. Operating modes like manual, calibration, and automatic mode are added to the main control panel for the compensation of bad FPC print conditions and mechanical tolerance occurring in the case of punch and die reassembly. Test algorithms and programs showed good results to the designed automatic punching system and led to the increase of productivity and huge cost down to law material like FPC by avoiding bad quality.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 디지털 위상동기루프에서 사용하는 고해상도와 넓은 입력 범위를 가지는 2 단계 시간-디지털 변환기(TDC)구조를 제안한다. 디지털 위상동기루프에서 디지털 오실레이터의 출력 주파수와 기준 주파수와의 위상 차이를 비교하는데 사용하는 TDC는 고해상도로 구현되어야 위상고정루프의 잡음 특성을 좋게 한다. 기존의 TDC의 구조는 인버터로 구성된 지연 라인으로 이루어져 있어 그 해상도는 지연 라인을 구성하는 인버터의 지연 시간에 의해 결정되며, 이는 트랜지스터의 크기에 의해 결정된다. 따라서 특정 공정상에서 TDC의 해상도는 어느 값 이상으로 높일 수 없는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 인버터보다 작은 값의 지연 시간을 구현하기 위해 위상-인터폴레이션 기법을 사용하였으며, 시간 증폭기를 사용하여 작은 지연 시간을 큰 값으로 증폭하여 다시 TDC에 입력하는 2 단계로 구성하여 고해상도의 TDC를 설계하였다. 시간 증폭기의 이득에 영향을 주는 두 입력의 시간 차이를 작은 값으로 구현하기 위해 지연 시간이 다른 두 인버터의 차이를 이용하여 매우 작은 값의 시간 차이를 구현하여 시간증폭기의 성능을 높였다. 제안하는 TDC는 $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정으로 설계 되었으며 전체 면적은 $800{\mu}m{\times}850{\mu}m$이다. 1.2 V의 공급전압에서 12 mA의 전류를 사용하며 0.357 ps의 해상도와 200 ps의 입력 범위를 가진다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2003

본 논문은 진동형 각속도 검출 센서로부터 각속도 신호를 검출하는 애널로그 신호처리 ASIC의 구현에 관한 것이다. 각속도 검출 센서의 출력은 구조적으로 콘덴서의 용량변화로 나타나므로 이를 검출하기 위하여 전하 증폭기를 이용하였으며, 센서의 구동에 필요한 자체발진회로는 각속도 검출 센서의 공진 특성을 이용한 정현파 발진회로로 구현하였다. 특히 센서의 제조 공정으로 인한 특성 변화나 온도 변화와 같은 외부 요인에 의한 자체발진특성의 열화를 방지하기 위하여 자동이득조절회로를 사용하였다. 진동형 각속도 검출 센서의 동작특성에 의하여 진폭변조 형태로 나타나는 각속도 신호를 검출하기 위하여 동기검파회로를 사용하였다. 동기검파회로에서는 반송파의 크기에 따라 검파신호의 크기가 달라지는 현상을 방지하기 위하여 스위칭 방식의 곱셈회로를 사용하였다. 설계된 칩은 0.5㎛ CMOS 공정으로 구현하였으며, 1.2㎜×1㎜의 칩 크기로 제작되었다. 실험 결과 3V의 전원전압에서 3.6mA의 전류를 소비하였으며, 칩과 각속도 센서를 결합한 정상동작상태에서 직류에서 50㎐까지 잡음 스펙트럼 밀도는 -95 dBrms/√㎐에서 -100 dBrms/√㎐ 사이에 존재하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.10-21
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• 2008

본 논문은 실시간 감시 시스템을 위한 웨이블릿(wavelet) 기반의 신경망과 불변 모멘트를 이용한 이동물체 인식과 추적 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 첫 번째인 움직임 후보영역 검출 단계에서는 연속된 두 프레임간의 차영상 분석 방법을 기반으로 하여 물체의 움직임에 의해 화소값 변화가 발생한 후보영역을 검출한다. 두 번째인 물체 인식 단계에서는 검출된 후보영역에 웨이블릿 신경망(wavelet neural network: WNN) 기반의 인식 방법을 사용하여 추적하고자하는 물체가 포함되어 있는지를 판별한다. 세 번째인 물체 추적 단계에서는 인식된 물체에 웨이블릿 불변 모멘트(invariant moments) 기반의 매칭 방법을 사용하여 인식된 이동 물체를 추적한다. 영상내에서 이동물체를 검출하기 위해 본 논문에서는 이전 영상과 현재 영상간의 화소밝기 차이에서 적응적 임계값(adaptive threholding)을 사용하여 주위 환경 변화에 강인한 이동물체 검출이 가능하였다. 또한 물체의 인식과 추적을 위해 웨이블릿 특징값을 사용함으로써, 계산 시간의 감소와 영상의 잡음에 의한 영향을 최소화시킬 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 물체 인식 정확도가 향상되었다. 제안한 방법을 일반 도로에서 획득한 영상에서 실험한 결과, 자동차 검출율은 92.8%, 프레임당 처리 시간은 0.24초이다. 이것을 통해 제안한 방법은 실시간 지능형 교통 감시 시스템에 유용하게 적용될 수 있음을 알 수 있다.