• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.1179-1185
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• 2013

In this study, the design optimization of the automotive side member is performed to maximize the crash energy absorption efficiency per unit weight. Design parameters which seriously influence on the frontal crash performance are selected through the sensitivity analysis using the Plackett-Burman design method. And also the design variables, which are determined from the sensitivity analysis, are optimized by two methods. One is conventional approximate optimization method which uses the statistical design of experiments (DOE) and response surface method (RSM). The other is a methodology derived from previous work by the authors, which is called sequential design of experiments (SDOE), to reduce a trial and error procedure and to find an appropriate condition for using micro-genetic algorithm. The proposed optimization technique shows that the automotive side member structure can be designed considering the frontal crash performance.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.225-230
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• 2003

Many port states such as New Zealand, the USA, Australia and Canada have strict regulations to prevent ships which arrive in their port from discharging polluted ballast water which contain harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens. They are notified that transfer of polluted ballast water can cause serious injury to public health and damage to property and environment. For this reason, they perceived that the ballast exchange in deep sea is the most effective method, together with submitting the ballast management plan which contains the effective exchange method, ballast system and safety consideration. In this study, we make an effort to develop optimum ballast water exchange management and in result of that, it provide more convenient and stable process for preparing ballast water management plan.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.82-96
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• 2019

A semi-submersible structure has been widely used for offshore drilling and production of oil and gas. The small water plane area makes the structure very sensitive to weight increase in terms of payload and stability. Therefore, it is necessary to lighten the substructure from the early design stage. This study aims at an optimization of hull structure based on a sophisticated yield and buckling strength in accordance with classification rules. An in-house strength assessment system is developed to automate the procedure such as a generation of buckling panels, a collection of required panel information, automatic buckling and yield check and so on. The developed system enables an automatic yield and buckling strength check of all panels composing the hull structure at each iteration of the optimization. Design variables are plate thickness and stiffener section profiles. In order to overcome the difficulty of large number of design variables and the computational burden of FE analysis, various methods are proposed. The steepest descent method is selected as the optimization algorithm for an efficient search. For a reduction of the number of design variables and a direct application to practical design, the stiffener section variable is determined by selecting one from a pre-defined standard library. Plate thickness is also discretized at 0.5t interval. The number of FE analysis is reduced by using equations to analytically estimating the stress changes in gradient calculation and line search steps. As an endeavor to robust optimization, the number of design variables to be simultaneously optimized is divided by grouping the scantling variables by the plane. A sequential optimization is performed group by group. As a verification example, a central column of a semi-submersible structure is optimized and compared with a conventional optimization of all design variables at once.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1616-1623
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• 2000

A diaphragm spring is an important component of a clutch assembly, characteristics of which depends largely on that of a diaphragm spring. A diaphragm spring is subject to high stress concentration in driving condition, which frequently causes cracks and fracture around finger area. In this paper, behavior of a diaphragm spring is analysed by finite element method to calculate sensitivity of design parameters, which is used to perform optimal design of diaphragm spring shape. As an object function, hoop stresses are taken and minimized to improve durability. Characteristics of the diaphragm is used as equality constraint to maintain the original design purpose and sequential linear programming(SLP) is utilized as an optimization tool. With optimized design, it is verified that concentrated stress is decreased maintaining release load characteristic.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.747-752
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• 2011

HMMs (Hidden Markov Models) are widely used for biological signal, such as EEG (electroencephalogram) sequence, analysis because of their ability to incorporate sequential information in their structure. A recent trends of research are going after the biological interpretable HMMs, and we need to control the complexity of the HMM so that it has good generalization performance. So, an automatic means of optimizing the structure of HMMs would be highly desirable. In this paper, we described a procedure of classification of motor imagery EEG signals using HMM. The motor imagery related EEG signals recorded from subjects performing left, right hand and foots motor imagery. And the proposed a method that was focus on the validation of the HSA (Harmony Search Algorithm) based optimization for HMM. Harmony search algorithm is sufficiently adaptable to allow incorporation of other techniques. A HMM training strategy using HSA is proposed, and it is tested on finding optimized structure for the pattern recognition of EEG sequence. The proposed HSA-HMM can performs global searching without initial parameter setting, local optima, and solution divergence.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1418-1423
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• 2004

Optimization of a heat exchanger with internally finned circular tubes has been performed for three-dimensional periodically fully developed turbulent flow and heat transfer. The design variables of fin number N, fin width ($d_1,d_2$) and fin height(H), are numerically optimized for the limiting conditions of $N=22{\sim}37$, $d_1=0.5{\sim}1.5$ mm, $d_2=0.5{\sim}1.5$ mm, $H=0.1{\sim}1.5$. Due to the periodic boundary conditions along main flow direction, the three layers of meshes are considered. The CFD and the mathematical optimization are coupled to optimize the heat exchanger. The flow and thermal fields are predicted using the finite volume method and the optimization is carried out by using the sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method which is widely used in the constrained nonlinear optimization problem.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.460-468
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• 2005

Analyses of flow and heat transfer characteristics and shape optimization of internally finned circular tubes have been performed for three-dimensional periodically fully developed turbulent flow and heat transfer. CFD and mathematical optimization are coupled in order to optimize the shape of heat exchanger. The design variables such as fin widths $(d_{1},\;d_{2})$ and fin height (h) are numerically optimized by minimizing the pressure loss and maximizing the heat transfer rate for limiting conditions of $d_{1}=0.2\~1.5\;mm,\;d_{2}=0.2\~1.5\;mm,$ and $h=0.2\~1.5mm$. Due to the periodic boundary conditions along main flow direction, the three layers of meshes are considered. The flow and thermal fields are predicted using the finite volume method and the optimization is carried out by means of the sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method which is widely used in the constrained nonlinear optimization problem.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.389-396
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• 2016

The necessity for environment-friendly material development has emerged in the recent automotive field due to stricter regulations on fuel economy and environmental concerns. Accordingly, the automotive industry is paying attention to carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) material with high strength and stiffness properties while the lightweight. In this study, we determine a shape of lower control arm (LCA) for maximizing the strength and stiffness by optimizing the thickness of each layer when the stacking angle is fixed due to the CFRP manufacturing problems. Composite materials are laminated in the order of $0^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, and $-45^{\circ}$ with a symmetrical structure. For the approximate optimal design, we apply a sequential two-point diagonal quadratic approximate optimization (STDQAO) and use a process integrated design optimization (PIDO) code for this purpose. Based on the physical properties calculated within a predetermined range of laminate thickness, we perform the FEM analysis and verify whether it satisfies the load and stiffness conditions or not. These processes are repeated for successive improved objective function. Optimized CFRP LCA has the equivalent stiffness and strength with light weight structure when compared to conventional aluminum design.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 초고층 건물의 철근콘크리트 아웃리거 벽체 개구부의 최적설계를 위한 수학적 최적화 프레임워크를 제시하였다. 전용 유한요소해석 프로그램을 이용하여 아웃리거 벽체를 해석하였으며 깊은 보의 스트럿-타이 거동을 고려하여 개구부를 배치하였다. 최적화를 위해 파이썬 SciPy 라이브러리 중 순차이차계획법(Sequential Quadratic Programming)을 이용하여 제약 경계 최적화를 수행하였다. 최적화에 필요한 미분가능한 연속 함수를 얻어내기 위해 선형 보간법을 사용하였으며, 최적화 프로그램의 효율성을 위해 데이터베이스를 이용하였다. 2변수 최적화의 결과를 탐색 알고리즘의 이동 경로를 통해 살펴본 결과 알고리즘이 최적화된 결과를 효율적으로 찾아냄을 확인하였다. 그리고 개구부의 폭을 모두 같게 설정한 것이 아닌 각각의 개구부의 크기를 개별 변수로 설정하였을 경우 목적함수의 값이 최소화되어 더 우수한 최적화 결과를 도출함을 확인하였다. 또한, 최적화의 과정에 있어 데이터베이스를 이용할 경우 최적화 시간을 효과적으로 단축시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.510-518
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 유체 속에서의 로봇의 방향전환 메커니즘의 성능을 개선하고 최적화하기 위하여 물 속 자연환경에 최적화되어 있는 물고기의 CST(CST:C-shape sharp turn) 패턴을 모방하여 물고기 로봇의 꼬리 관절 궤적을 신경회로망(neural network)을 사용하여 제안하였다. 물고기의 CST 패턴을 모방하기 위해 CST 패턴을 순차적으로 기록한 정보를 수치적으로 변환하여 좌표 데이터를 생성하고 함수화하였다. 함수화된 모션 함수를 물고기 로봇의 상대 관절각으로 변환하였으나, 구해진 상대 관절 궤적은 잉어의 순차적 기록에 의해 구해진 각도이므로 분해능이 떨어져 실제 물고기 로봇의 제어에 적용하기 어렵다. 그러므로 상대 관절 궤적을 일반화 기능이 뛰어난 신경회로망을 사용하여 보간하고 물고기 로봇에 적용하였다. 모의실험을 통하여 신경회로망을 이용한 상대 관절 궤적 함수가 고차의 다항식 궤적 함수에 비하여 물고기 로봇의 CST 모션에 더 좋은 성능을 나타냄을 확인하였다.