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A study on the tracking algorithm of satellite antenna system (위성 안테나 시스템의 추적 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • 강우신;조창호;이상철;조도현;이상효
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.128-128
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    • 2000
  • An antenna tracking technique, referred to as "step track", is commonly used in communication applications. In this paper, an algorithm to improve the step-tracking technique for satellite tracking is proposed. We suggest a method by which the antenna scans the azimuth, detects the satellite signal without the position information, and points quickly to the direction receiving the signal of peak level. After reaching the peak level, the step-track system maintains enough signal levels to receive satellite broadcasting normally. Performance of the Tracking Algorithm proposed in this paper are verified with simulation.

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A Companding Scheme for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems

  • Han, Ju-Tak;Yoan Shin
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07c
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    • pp.1909-1912
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    • 2002
  • We propose in this paper a companding scheme or peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. By exploiting statistical distribution of OFDM transmit signals, the proposed scheme effectively reduces the PAPR by compressing the peak signals, while maintaining the average power unchanged. Simulation results are provided to show good performance of the proposed scheme.

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A Companding Scheme for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems (OFDM 시스템에서 PAPR 감소를 위한 Companding 기법)

  • 한주탁;신요한
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.06a
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    • pp.17-20
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    • 2002
  • We propose in this paper a companding scheme for PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) reduction in OFBM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) systems. By exploiting statical distribution of OFDM transmit signals, the proposed scheme effectively reduces the PAPR by compressing the peak signals, while maintaining the average power unchanged. Simulation results are provided to show good performance of the proposed scheme.

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A Longitudinal Study on Human Milk Volume and Lactational Performance of Korean Lacto-ovo-vegetarians (채식을 하는 수유부의 수유기간별 모유분비량과 수유양식에 관한 연구)

  • 최경순;김을상
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.219-229
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    • 1991
  • The longitudinal changes on human milk volume per day and lactational performance of 23 Korean lacto-ovo-vegetarians(primiparae=11, multiparae=12) from 0.5 to 5 months after parturition have been studied by test weighing method. The human milk volume per day tended to increase during lactation. The mean volume (SD, ml/day) at 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 months were 502(102), 692(127), 697(100), 684( 125), 757(52), 703(70), respectively. The overall mean volume was 661$\pm$132ml/day. The peak milk volume during the lactation was observed at most lactating women at the 1st month. The distributions of the individual mean volume during the first 5 months of lactation were found over 750m1(8.7% ), 650-750ml(47.9% ), 550-650m1(2l.7% ), and 450-550ml(2l.7% ) The number of feeding per day was 8.1 ($\pm$1.0) at 0.5 months postpartum, which was consistently decreased. However, the mean volume per feeding was increased from 62($\pm$9.5)ml at 0.5 month to 112($\pm$13.3)ml at 5 months postpartum. The milk volume was correlated with the peak volume. and maternal age. but not with weight before delivery. maternal height and birth weight. No differences of milk volume and lactational performance between facto-ovo-vegetarian and nonvegetarian women were observed. This study suggests that the human milk volume cited in the recommended dietary allowances for Koreitns is over estimated.

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Development of an Optimized Feature Extraction Algorithm for Throat Signal Analysis

  • Jung, Young-Giu;Han, Mun-Sung;Lee, Sang-Jo
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.292-299
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we present a speech recognition system using a throat microphone. The use of this kind of microphone minimizes the impact of environmental noise. Due to the absence of high frequencies and the partial loss of formant frequencies, previous systems using throat microphones have shown a lower recognition rate than systems which use standard microphones. To develop a high performance automatic speech recognition (ASR) system using only a throat microphone, we propose two methods. First, based on Korean phonological feature theory and a detailed throat signal analysis, we show that it is possible to develop an ASR system using only a throat microphone, and propose conditions of the feature extraction algorithm. Second, we optimize the zero-crossing with peak amplitude (ZCPA) algorithm to guarantee the high performance of the ASR system using only a throat microphone. For ZCPA optimization, we propose an intensification of the formant frequencies and a selection of cochlear filters. Experimental results show that this system yields a performance improvement of about 4% and a reduction in time complexity of 25% when compared to the performance of a standard ZCPA algorithm on throat microphone signals.

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A Study on Optimal Combination of Design Parameters for Improving Handling Performance of a Large Truck Using Design of Experiments (실험계획법을 이용한 대형트럭 조종성 향상을 위한 설계인자 최적조합에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Il-Dong;Lee, Dong-Hwan;Oh, Chae-Youn
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.799-806
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents a scheme for finding an optimal combination of design parameters affecting on the handling performance of a large truck using design of experiments. The average of the sum of peak-to-peak roll angles at the first and second part of the double lane is used as an objective function for design of experiments. Six design parameters are selected from all possible parameters affecting on the handling performance. The table of orthogonal arrays is made by 27 times simulations. A computational model of a large truck is developed by MSC/NASTRAN and MSC/ADAMS, and verified the reliability of it with the results of vehicle tests performed in a double lane change course. It is used for the simulations. Analyses of variance and factor effect of the table of orthogonal arrays are performed. This paper proposes an optimal combination of those six design parameters for improving the handling performance of the large truck.

A Weighted Feature Voting Approach for Robust and Real-Time Voice Activity Detection

  • Moattar, Mohammad Hossein;Homayounpour, Mohammad Mehdi
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.99-109
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    • 2011
  • This paper concerns a robust real-time voice activity detection (VAD) approach which is easy to understand and implement. The proposed approach employs several short-term speech/nonspeech discriminating features in a voting paradigm to achieve a reliable performance in different environments. This paper mainly focuses on the performance improvement of a recently proposed approach which uses spectral peak valley difference (SPVD) as a feature for silence detection. The main issue of this paper is to apply a set of features with SPVD to improve the VAD robustness. The proposed approach uses a weighted voting scheme in order to take the discriminative power of the employed feature set into account. The experiments show that the proposed approach is more robust than the baseline approach from different points of view, including channel distortion and threshold selection. The proposed approach is also compared with some other VAD techniques for better confirmation of its achievements. Using the proposed weighted voting approach, the average VAD performance is increased to 89.29% for 5 different noise types and 8 SNR levels. The resulting performance is 13.79% higher than the approach based only on SPVD and even 2.25% higher than the not-weighted voting scheme.

Performance of Interference Mitigation with Different Wavelets in Global Positioning Systems

  • Seo, Bo-Seok;Park, Kwi-Woo;Park, Chansik
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.165-173
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we apply a discrete wavelet packet transform (DWPT) to reduce the influence of interference in global positioning system (GPS) signals and compare the interference mitigation performance of various wavelets. By applying DWPT to the received signal, we can gradually divide the received signal band into low-pass and high-pass bands. After calculating the average power for the separate bands, we can determine whether there is interference by comparing the value with the given threshold. For a band that includes interference, we can reconstruct the whole band signal using inverse DWPT (IDWPT) after applying a nulling method that sets all of the wavelet coefficients to 0. The reconstructed signals are correlated with the pseudorandom noise (PRN) codes to acquire GPS signals. The performance evaluation is based on the number of satellite signals whose peak ratio (defined as the ratio of the first and second correlation peak values in the acquisition stage) exceeds the threshold. In this paper, we compare and evaluate the performance of 6 wavelets including Haar, Daubechies, Symlets, Coiflets, Biorthogonal Splines, and Discrete Meyer.

Effects of Isokinetic Exercise on Muscular Performance and Thickness of the Quadriceps Muscle (넙다리네갈래근의 근수행력과 근두께에 대한 등속성 운동의 효과)

  • Han, Sang-Wan;Lee, Jeong-Woo
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of isokinetic exercise on muscular performance and thickness of the quadriceps muscle. Methods: Twenty one healthy male students participated in this study. Participants were divided into 2 groups: $60^{\circ}/sec$ of isokinetic exercise (n=7), $180^{\circ}/sec$ (n=7) and $300^{\circ}/sec$ (n=7). Each group did isokinetic exercises 3 times a week for 6 weeks. Each group was measured for peak torque per body weight, average power and total work using a Biodex System 4. Rectus femoris, vastus laterails and vastus medialis were measured for muscle thickness using a SONOACE 6000C. Data were analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA using SPSS 12.0. Results: There was a significant time-related effect in peak torque per body weight, average power and total work. There was a significant time-related effect in the vastus medialis and rectus femoris muscle thickness. However, there was a significant group by time interaction for vastus laterlis muscle thickness. Conclusion: Isokinetic exercise may be an effective method for improving quadriceps muscle performance regardless of angular velocity. However, the thickness of the rectus femoris and vastus medialis muscle may be increased regardless of the angular velocity of the quadriceps muscle the vastus lateralis muscle may only be remarkably improved when doing exercise with low angular velocity.

The analysis of socio-economic determinants of demanders for cultural performance (문화공연에 대한 사회·경제적 수요 특성 분석)

  • Lee, Joo-Suk;Kwak, Seung-Jun;Cho, Seung-Kuk
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.3155-3161
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    • 2015
  • This paper attempts to analyze the socio-economic determinants of demanders for cultural performance. To take into account zero responses (no expenditure or no experience for cultural performance, this paper employed a two-equation model and tobit model. the results of this study can be obtained the following conclusion. The demands of performing arts tend to be increased to people as they were younger, women, more earned and higher educated. In addition, the income is inelastic to demand. And after a certain age (peak age), the demand is increased.