• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.802-806
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• 2004

For the protection of the local air quality and the global atmosphere, the emissions of trace species including nitric oxides (NO and NO$_2$) from gas turbines are regulated by local governments and by the International Civil Aviation Organization. In-situ measurements of such species are needed not only for the development of advanced low-emission combustion concepts but also for providing emissions data required for the sound assessment of the effects of the emissions on environment. We have been developing a laser absorption system that has a capability of simultaneous determination of NO and NO$_2$concentrations in the exhaust jets from aero gas turbines. A diode laser operating near 1.8 micrometer is used for the detection of NO while a separated visible tunable diode laser operating near 676 nanometers is used for NO$_2$. The sensitivities at elevated temperature conditions were determined for simulated gas mixtures heated up to 500K in a heated cell of a straight 0.5 m optical path. Sensitivity limits estimated as were 30 ppmv-m and 3.7 ppmv-m for NO and NO$_2$, respectively, at a typical exhaust gas temperature of 800K. Experiments using the simulated exhaust flows have proven that $CO_2$ and $H_2O$ vapor - both major combustion products - do not show any interference in the NO or NO$_2$ measurements. The measurement system has been applied to the NO/NO$_2$ measurements in NO and NO$_2$ doped real combustion gas jets issuing from a rectangular nozzle having 0.4 m optical path. The lower detection limits of the system were considerably decreased by using a multipass optical cell. A pair of off-axis parabola mirrors successfully suppressed the beam steering in the combustion gas jets by centralizing the fluctuating beam in sensor area of the detectors.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2014

항공자력탐사의 전처리(pre-processing)는 육상탐사에 비해 손품이 많이 들어가는 복잡한 과정이 더 많아 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스 기반의 전용 처리도구를 이용하는 것이 가장 효율적이다. 본 글에서는 항공자력자료의 전처리 전용 소프트웨어, $KMagLevelling^{TM}$을 개발하고 그 주요 기능을 간략히 소개하였다. $KMagLevelling^{TM}$은 전처리 과정을 크게 세부분으로 구분하여 구현하였다. 세부기능별 사용자 인터페이스 중 편의성과 독창성 측면에서 주목할 만한 기능으로서는 (1) 방대한 양의 항공자력자료 D/B를 비행경로 형태로 시각화하여 표현하는 기법 (2) 취합자료 중 특정 영역의 필요한 자료만의 발췌 (3) 자력자료 내의 원치 않는 부분을 선택적으로 쉽게 제거하는 사용자 인터페이스의 세 가지로 요약된다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권11B호
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• pp.1030-1037
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 다중 로봇 (multi-robot)을 활용한 응용분야 중, 미지의 영역에 대한 탐색 (exploration) 능력을 향상시켜서, 주어진 미로 (maze)에서 다중 로봇이 통신을 통해서 협력적으로 출구를 찾아가는 효율적인 방안을 제안하였다. 즉, 미로 형태의 임의의 환경을 생성한 후, 로봇을 무작위로 배치시켜 상호간에 통신을 통하여 출구로 신속히 모두 빠져나오는 문제를 다루고 있다. 미로탐색을 위해 다중 로봇의 지역 탐색에서 사용되었던, 프론티어 셀, 셀 유틸리티등 기존 연구를 활용하였다. 또한 로봇간의 다중홉 무선 통신 (multihop wireless communications)을 위해서 이동성 (mobility)에 강한 일종의 홉기반 (hop-by-hop) 라우팅인, 랜덤 베스킷 볼 라우팅을 채용하였다. 또한, 출구를 찾은 로봇이 일정한 확률에 의거하여 출구 앞에서 정지하거나 혹은, 빠져나가는 의사 결정을 하여, 이 확률적인 결정이 다른 로봇의 행동에 어떻게 영향을 주는지를 실험적으로 조사하였다. 즉, 출구를 찾은 로봇이 현재 위치에서 멈추어서, 통신 중계 지점 (relay)으로 어떻게 활동되어야 최적인지에 대한 문제를 모의 실험을 통해 파악해보았다.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.270-275
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• 2014

Objectives: This study compared the mechanical properties of various instruments for canal exploration and glide-path preparations. Materials and Methods: The buckling resistance, bending stiffness, ultimate torsional strength, and fracture angle under torsional load were compared for C+ file (CP, Dentsply Maillefer), M access K-file (MA, Dentsply Maillefer), Mani K-file (MN, Mani), and NiTiFlex K-file (NT, Dentsply Maillefer). The files of ISO size #15 and a shaft length of 25 mm were selected. For measuring buckling resistance (n = 10), the files were loaded in the axial direction of the shaft, and the maximum load was measured during the files' deflection. The files (n = 10) were fixed at 3 mm from the tip and then bent $45^{\circ}$ with respect to their long axis, while the bending force was recorded by a load cell. For measuring the torsional properties, the files (n = 10) were also fixed at 3 mm, and clockwise rotations (2 rpm) were applied to the files in a straight state. The torsional load and the distortion angle were recorded until the files succumbed to the torque. Results: The CP was shown to require the highest load to buckle and bend the files, and the NT showed the least. While MA and MN showed similar buckling resistances, MN showed higher bending stiffness than MA. The NT had the lowest bending stiffness and ultimate torsional strength (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The tested instruments showed different mechanical properties depending on the evaluated parameters. CP and NT files were revealed to be the stiffest and the most flexible instruments, respectively.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.1153-1164
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• 2024

In recent years, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have been used to search for lost or stolen radioactive sources to avoid radiation exposure for operators. To achieve autonomous localization of radioactive sources, the UGVs must have the ability to automatically determine the next radiation measurement location instead of following a predefined path. Also, the radiation field of radioactive sources has to be reconstructed or inverted utilizing discrete measurements to obtain the radiation intensity distribution in the area of interest. In this study, we propose an effective source localization framework and method, in which UGVs are able to autonomously explore in the radiation area to determine the location of radioactive sources through an iterative process: path planning, radiation field reconstruction and estimation of source location. In the search process, the next radiation measurement point of the UGVs is fully predicted by the design path planning algorithm. After obtaining the measurement points and their radiation measurements, the radiation field of radioactive sources is reconstructed by the Gaussian process regression (GPR) model based on machine learning method. Based on the reconstructed radiation field, the locations of radioactive sources can be determined by the peak analysis method. The proposed method is verified through extensive simulation experiments, and the real source localization experiment on a Cs-137 point source shows that the proposed method can accurately locate the radioactive source with an error of approximately 0.30 m. The experimental results reveal the important practicality of our proposed method for source autonomous localization tasks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.939-955
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• 2010

With the progress of IT and mobile positioning technologies, various types of location-based services (LBS) have been proposed and implemented. Finding a shortest path between two nodes is one of the most fundamental tasks in many LBS related applications. So far, there have been many research efforts on the shortest path finding problem. For instance, $A^*$ algorithm estimates neighboring nodes using a heuristic function and selects minimum cost node as the closest one to the destination. Pruning method, which is known to outperform the A* algorithm, improves its routing performance by avoiding unnecessary exploration in the search space. For pruning, shortest paths for all node pairs in a map need to be pre-computed, from which a shortest path container is generated for each edge. The container for an edge consists of all the destination nodes whose shortest path passes through the edge and possibly some unnecessary nodes. These containers are used during routing to prune unnecessary node visits. However, this method shows poor performance as the number of unnecessary nodes included in the container increases. In this paper, we focus on this problem and propose a new border line-based pruning scheme for path routing which can reduce the number of unnecessary node visits significantly. Through extensive experiments on randomly-generated, various complexity of maps, we empirically find out optimal number of border lines for clipping containers and compare its performance with other methods.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2011

Lunar exploration program has been prepared with the aim of launch in the 2020's. As part of it, a lunar lander demonstrator has been developed which is the model for verifying all the system, such as structure, propulsion and control system before launch to deep space. After verifying all the system, the demonstrator will be evaluated by flight test. This paper deals with path tracking controller based on thrusters for the demonstrator. For this, first we derive equations of motion according to the allocation of thrusters and design the path tracking controller. The signal generated from the controller is continuous so PWPF(Pulse-Width Pulse-Frequency) modulator is adopted for generating on/off signal. Finally MATLAB simulation is performed for evaluating the path tracking ability and the final landing velocity.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2018

This study focuses on autonomous exploration based on map expansion for an underwater robot equipped with acoustic sonars. Map expansion is applicable to large-area mapping, but it may affect localization accuracy. Thus, as the key contribution of this paper, we propose a method for underwater autonomous exploration wherein the robot determines the trade-off between map expansion ratio and position accuracy, selects which of the two has higher priority, and then moves to a mission step. An occupancy grid map is synthesized by utilizing the measurements of an acoustic range sonar that determines the probability of occupancy. This information is then used to determine a path to the frontier, which becomes the new search point. During area searching and map building, the robot revisits artificial landmarks to improve its position accuracy as based on imaging sonar-based recognition and EKF-SLAM if the position accuracy is above the predetermined threshold. Additionally, real-time experiments were conducted by using an underwater robot, yShark, to validate the proposed method, and the analysis of the results is discussed herein.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

The Mobile robots are increasingly being used to perform tasks in unknown environments. The potential of robots to undertake such tasks lies in their ability to intelligently and efficiently search in an environment. An algorithm has been developed for robots which explore the environment to measure the physical properties (dust in this paper). While the robot is moving, it measures the amount of dust and registers the value in the corresponding grid cell. The robot moves from local maximum to local minimum, then to another local maximum, and repeats. To reach the local maximum or minimum, simple gradient following is used. Robust estimation of the gradient using perturbation/correlation, which is very effective when analytical solution is not available, is described. By introducing the probability of each grid cell, and considering the probability distribution, the robot doesn't have to visit all the grid cells in the environment still providing fast and efficient sensing. The extended algorithm to coordinate multiple robots is presented with simulation results.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2024

무인 항공기의 경로 계획은 고정 및 동적 장애물을 포함하는 복합 환경에서 장애물 충돌을 회피하는 것이 중요하다. RRT나 A^*와 같은 경로 계획 알고리즘은 고정된 장애물 회피를 효과적으로 수행하지만, 고차원 환경일수록 계산 복잡도가 증가하는 한계점을 가진다. 강화학습 기반 알고리즘은 복합적인 환경 반영이 가능하지만, 기존 경로 계획 알고리즘과 같이 고차원 환경일수록 훈련 복잡도가 증가하여 수렴성을 기대하기 힘들다. 본 논문은 셀 분해 알고리즘을 활용한 강화학습 모델을 제안한다. 제안한 모델은 학습 환경을 세부적으로 분해하여 환경의 복잡도를 감소시킨다. 또한, 에이전트의 유효한 행동을 설정하여 장애물 회피 성능을 개선한다. 이를 통해 강화학습의 탐험 문제를 해결하고, 학습의 수렴성을 높인다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안된 모델이 일반적인 환경의 강화학습 모델과 비교하여 학습 속도를 개선하고 효율적인 경로를 계획할 수 있음을 보여준다.