• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.39-49
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• 2011

Smart Grid has two main objectives on both supply and demand aspects which are to distribute the renewable energy sources on supply side and to develop realtime price responses on demand side. Renewable energy does not consume fossil fuels, therefore it improves the eco-friendliness and saves the cost of power system operation at the same time. Demand response increases the flexibility of the power system by mitigating the fluctuation from renewable energies, and reduces the capacity investment cost by shedding the peak load to off-peak periods. Currently Smart Grid technologies mainly focus on energy monitoring and display services but it has been proved that enabling technologies can induce the higher demand responses through many pilot projects in USA. On this context, this paper provides a price responsive algorithm for HEMS (home energy management system) on the real time pricing environment. This paper identifies the demand response as a core function of HEMS and classifies the demand into 3 categories of fixed, transferable, and realtime responsive loads which are coordinated and operated for the utility maximization or cost minimization with the optimal usage combination of three kinds of demand.

• 국제강구조저널
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1373-1383
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• 2018

Experimental study was conducted to investigate the seismic behavior of roof joint. Eight full-scale specimens were tested considering the effects of axial force, joint height, hole shape of base plate and edge distance of concrete on the failure mode and resistance capacity of roof joint. With the increase of axial force, the hysteretic curves were fuller. The mechanical model of roof joint change from bending to shear. With the increase of joint height, the ultimate strength of roof joint decreased. If the hole shape of base plate changed from circle to loose, the slip behavior of roof joint appeared and the ultimate strength of roof joint decreased. The damage of edge concrete may occur if the edge distance of concrete was not big enough.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2020

Getting on and off an elevator is one of the most important parts for multi-floor navigation of a mobile robot. In this study, we proposed the method for the pose recognition of elevator doors, safe path planning, and motion estimation of a robot using RGB-D sensors in order to safely get on and off the elevator. The accurate pose of the elevator doors is recognized using a particle filter algorithm. After the elevator door is open, the robot builds an occupancy grid map including the internal environments of the elevator to generate a safe path. The safe path prevents collision with obstacles in the elevator. While the robot gets on and off the elevator, the robot uses the optical flow algorithm of the floor image to detect the state that the robot cannot move due to an elevator door sill. The experimental results in various experiments show that the proposed method enables the robot to get on and off the elevator safely.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.901-905
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• 2005

Monte Carlo localization is known to be one of the most reliable methods for pose estimation of a mobile robot. Much research has been done to improve performance of MCL so far. Although MCL is capable of estimating the robot pose even for a completely unknown initial pose in the known environment, it takes considerable time to give an initial estimate because the number of random samples is usually very large especially for a large-scale environment. For practical implementation of the MCL, therefore, a reduction in sample size is desirable. This paper presents a novel approach to reducing the number of samples used in the particle filter for efficient implementation of MCL. To this end, the topological information generated off- line using a thinning method, which is commonly used in image processing, is employed. The topological map is first created from the given grid map for the environment. The robot scans the local environment using a laser rangefinder and generates a local topological map. The robot then navigates only on this local topological edge, which is likely to be the same as the one obtained off- line from the given grid map. Random samples are drawn near the off-line topological edge instead of being taken with uniform distribution, since the robot traverses along the edge. In this way, the sample size required for MCL can be drastically reduced, thus leading to reduced initial operation time. Experimental results using the proposed method show that the number of samples can be reduced considerably, and the time required for robot pose estimation can also be substantially decreased.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.590-596
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• 2020

상용전력망과 계통연계가 어려운 도서지역에서는 독립적인 마이크로그리드로 생산된 에너지를 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 방법을 찾는 것은 매우 중요한 일이다. 본 논문에서는 태양광과 풍력의 하이브리드 모델을 적용한 소규모 마이크로그리드에서 생산된 전력을 전력계측기와 수집된 데이터의 응답속도 테스트를 거쳐 P2P전력거래를 위한 프로슈머관리시스템을 구현하였다. 마이크로그리드 프로슈머 관리시스템의 전력망은 Mesh구조로 이루어져 있으며 P2P전력거래는 3곳의 독립적으로 구축된 off-grid 사이트에서 전력계측기와 DC전력전송기를 이용하여 테스트하였고, 이때 전력계측기의 측정값은 전압(평균값) : 380V + 0.9V, 전류(평균값) : + 0.01A, 전력 : 1000W ( - 1W)로 오차 허용범위인 ±1%이내로 나타나 그 유의성을 확인하였다. 실시간으로 50개의 데이터를 동시 전송하여 메인화면 0.32초, 일 발전량 2.61초, 누적발전량 2.77초, 전력거래 0.11초 등의 응답속도가 나타나 서버의 안정화를 확인하였다. 따라서 본 시스템은 한국전력의 중계 없이 독립적인 망으로 활용될 수 있는 P2P 전력거래시스템으로서 그 타당성이 입증되었다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2022

본 연구는 엑스선 흉부촬영에서 격자를 이용하여 촬영법과 Air Gap Technique을 이용한 촬영법에서 얻은 영상을 평가하기 위하여 대학병원 영상의학과에서 10년 이상 근무한 방사선사 선생님 5인에게 주관적 평가 ROC와 객관적 평가 SNR를 시행하였다. 분석한 결과는 Cronbach Alpha 값이 0.714로 유의하게 높았다. Air Gap Technique 촬영법에서 팬톰과 상수용체 간격을 20 cm 띄우고 관전압 100 kVp, 관전류와 촬영시간 8 mAs로 설정하고 촬영한 영상을 ROC 평가에서 18점, SNR 평가에서 6.149로 가장 높은 점수를 얻었다. 또한 격자를 이용하여 촬영법에서는 팬톰과 상수용체 간격을 15 cm 띄우고 관전압 110 kVp, 관전류와 촬영시간을 8 mAs에서 촬영 시 ROC 평가점수가 19점과 객관적평가인 신호대잡음비(SNR)가 6,622으로 가장 높은 점수를 받았다. 이에 격자를 이용하여 나타나는 격자의 cut-off 현상으로 인하여 재촬영뿐만 아니라 판독지연, 환자의 피폭선량 증가, 기계적 수명단축 등의 단점을 벗어나는 Air Gap Technique 촬영법을 활용한다면, 중환자실 및 응급환자를 위한 이동형 엑스선 촬영장비를 사용할 경우를 포함하여 흉부 촬영 시에 많은 도움이 되리라 사료된다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.534-539
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• 2006

The supply of oxygen for aeration is the largest energy consumer at activated sludge wastewater treatment plants. Replacement of less efficient aeration systems with fine pore aeration devices can save up to 50 percent of aeration energy costs. The purpose of this study was the diagnosis and evaluation of a domestic wastewater aeration system by the off-gas method which had been studied by US EPA and ASCE. For this study, an off-gas analyzer and its hood were made to collect off-gas. Also, a vacuum pump was connected to the analyzer to make suction of off-gas. Experiments were conducted at a domestic activated sludge wastewater treatment plant which had a single spiral roll aeration system installed with P.E tube diffuser. Data on OTE(f), SOTE(pw), OUR, and air flow rate were obtained from these experiments. In case of replacing an aeration system, it is recommended that it should be replaced with perforated membrane disc or ceramic disc fine bubble diffusers installed in a full floor coverage or grid pattern.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.181-183
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• 2016

탄화규소(Silicon Carbide) 기반의 1200 V급 Merged Pin Schottky(MPS) 다이오드의 구조를 2D-atlas simulation tool을 사용하여 최적화 및 설계하였다. 최적화된 항복전압과 온-저항 값을 얻기 위해 본 소자에서 중요한 파라미터인 P-Grid의 도핑농도와 에피층의 도핑농도를 각각 $2{\sim}10{\times}10^{17}cm^{-3}$, $2{\sim}10{\times}10^{16}cm^{-3}$으로 변화시키면서 소자의 전기적 특성을 분석하였으며, 그 후 P-Grid의 Space값을 $1{\sim}5{\mu}m$로 설계하여 이에 따른 항복전압과 온-저항의 값을 확인하였다. 항복전압과 온-저항은 서로 trade-off 관계에 있기 때문에 각 변수에서 도출된 값들을 Baliga's Figure Of Merit (BFOM)식에 대입하여 비교하였다. 그 결과 고전압 소자에 적용 가능한 1200 V급 4H-SiC MPS다이오드를 최적화 및 설계를 도출하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권7호
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• pp.1299-1304
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• 2011

A wind turbine (WT) should be shut down as fast as possible to minimize its own damage in a storm-driven situation. Shutdown of a large wind farm requires a power grid to have a ramp-up capability large enough to balance between generation and consumption of electrical energy. This paper proposes a supervised shutdown algorithm of a wind farm to meet a required ramp-down rate in a grid code in the case of a storm-driven situation. The information on the speed and the direction of wind is measured at a wind mast (WM) installed around a wind farm. If the wind speed exceeds a cut-out speed, the number of WTs to be shut down simultaneously is decided to meet a required ramp-down rate of a grid-code. Arrival times to each WT from the WM are calculated and sorted in the order of time. Then a sequence of groups is generated. The shutdown start/end times of each group are decided to avoid superposition between adjacent two groups. The performance of the proposed shutdown algorithm is verified under various storm scenarios. Results indicate that the proposed algorithm can not only protect the wind farm in the case of a storm-driven situation but also meet the required ramp-down rate. In addition, the algorithm can produce more energy than that of a conventional shutdown algorithm.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.95-97
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• 2018

The power quality of Single Phase Grid-Connected Inverters (GCIs) has received much attention with the increasing number of Distributed Generation (DG) systems. However, the performance of single phase GCIs get degraded due to several factors such as the grid voltage harmonics, the dead time effect, and the turn ON/OFF of the switches, which causes the harmonics at the output of GCIs. Therefore, it is not easy to satisfy the harmonic standards such as IEEE 519 and P1547 without the help of harmonic compensator. To meet the harmonic standards a certain kind of harmonic controller needs to be added to the current control loop to effectively mitigate the low order harmonics. In this paper, the harmonic compensation is performed using a novel robust harmonic compensation method based on Digital Lock-in Amplifier (DLA). In the proposed technique, DLAs are used to extract the amplitude and phase information of the harmonics from the output current and compensate it by using a simple PI controller in the feedforward manner. In order to show the superior performance of the proposed harmonic compensation technique, it is compared with those of conventional harmonic compensation methods in terms of the effectiveness of harmonic elimination, complexity, and implementation. The validity of the proposed harmonic compensation techniques for the single phase GCIs is verified through the experimental results with a 5kW single phase GCI. Index Terms -Single Phase Grid Connected Inverter (SPGCI), Harmonic Compensation Method, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and Harmonic Standard.