• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2003

Water droplet erosion is one of major concerns in the design of modern large fossil steam turbines because it causes serious operational problems such as performance degradation and reduction of service life. A new erosion model has been developed in the present study for the prediction of water droplet erosion of rotor blades operated in wet steam conditions. The major four erosion parameter : impact velocity, impacting droplet flow rate, droplet size and hardness of target are involved in the model so that it can also be used for engineering purpose at the design stage of rotor blades. Comparison of the predicted erosion rate with the measured data obtained from the practical steam turbine operated for more than 90,000 hours shows good agreement.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.856-863
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• 1999

The thermal performance degradation of heat pipes is caused by the non-condensable gas generation mainly due to the electrochemical corrosion which results from the reaction of working fluids with tube materials. In this study, a simplified method described below was proposed to estimate the life of heat pipes concerning the non-condensable gas generation. The temperature distributions at the outer surface of heat pipes was measured, and based on them the amount of non-condensable gas of hydrogen was estimated. Applying it to the Arrhenius model, the mass generation of hydrogen and the volume occupied by the gas In heat pipes could be estimated for an operating temperature and time. Moreover, this simplified method was applied to the accelerated life test of nine methanol-stainless steel heat pipe samples.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.141-149
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• 2007

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmit pre-coding/beamforming can significantly improve system spectral efficiency. However, several obstacles prevent precoding from wide deployment in early wireless networks: The significant feedback overhead, performance degradation due to feedback delay, and the large storage requirement at the mobile devices. In this paper, we propose a precoding method that addresses these issues. In this approach, only 3 or 6 bits feedback is needed to select a precoding matrix from a codebook. There are fifteen codebooks, each corresponding to a unique combination of antenna configuration (up to 4 antennas) and codebook size. Small codebooks are prestored and large codebooks are efficiently computed from the prestored codebook, modified Hochwald method and Householder reflection. Finally, the feedback delay is compensated by channel prediction. The scheme is validated by simulations and we have observed significant gains comparing to space-time coding and antenna selection. This solution was adopted as a part of the IEEE 802.16e specification in 2005.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.74-79
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 머신러닝 알고리즘 중 하나인 다층 퍼셉트론을 기반으로 전력선통신 시스템에서의 수신 신호를 이용하여 송신단에서 전송한 원신호를 예측하는 시스템 모델을 제안한다. 전력망을 활용한 통신 방식을 사용하는 전력선통신 시스템은 일반적인 통신설로를 활용하는 통신 방식에 비해 잡음이 많다. 이 때문에 전력선통신 시스템의 성능이 저하가 되는 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서 제안하는 통신 시스템 모델을 이용하면 원신호 예측을 통해 잡음의 영향이 최소화되어 전력선통신 시스템의 성능저하를 완화시킨다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 통신 시스템 모델을 백색 잡음 환경에 적용하여 시뮬레이션을 해봄으로써 원신호가 예측 되는지를 입증한다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.219-228
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• 2018

Purpose: This study evaluated the feasibility of a near-infrared spectroscopy technique for the rancidity prediction of soybean oil. Methods: A near-infrared spectroscopy technique was used to evaluate the rancidity of soybean oils which were artificially deteriorated. A soybean oil sample was collected, and the acid values were measured using titrimetric analysis. In addition, the transmission spectra of the samples were obtained for whole test periods. The prediction model for the acid value was constructed by using a partial least-squares regression (PLSR) technique and the appropriate spectrum preprocessing methods. Furthermore, optimal wavelength selection methods such as variable importance in projection (VIP) and bootstrap of beta coefficients were applied to select the most appropriate variables from the preprocessed spectra. Results: There were significantly different increases in the acid values from the sixth days onwards during the 14-day test period. In addition, it was observed that the NIR spectra that exhibited intense absorption at 1,195 nm and 1,410 nm could indicate the degradation of soybean oil. The PLSR model developed using the Savitzky-Golay $2^{nd}$ order derivative method for preprocessing exhibited the highest performance in predicting the acid value of soybean oil samples. onclusions: The study helped establish the feasibility of predicting the rancidity of the soybean oil (using its acid value) by means of a NIR spectroscopy together with optimal variable selection methods successfully. The experimental results suggested that the wavelengths of 1,150 nm and 1,450 nm, which were highly correlated with the largest absorption by the second and first overtone of the C-H, O-H stretch vibrational transition, were caused by the deterioration of soybean oil.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.1845-1851
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• 2007

배경 잡음과 실내 잔향음은 음성 인식 시스템 성능 저하의 주요 이유이다. 많은 알고리즘이 음성의 잔향음 제거를 위해 개발되었다. 이 논문에서는 실내 환경에서 수정된 선형 예측 잔여(Linear Prediction Residual)를 이용하여 음질 개선을 위한 잔향음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 잔향음 제거 방법은 음성에서 성문 경계의 순간에 발생한 성도(聲道)시스템의 중요한 여기에 기반한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 3개의 센서로부터 수집한 반향신호로 각 센서에서의 시간지연 정보를 사용한다. 새로운 선형 예측 잔여신호는 선형 예측 잔여의 가중치와 힐버트 변환으로 얻은, 개선된 선형 예측 잔여 조합을 사용한다. 코히런트하게 더해진 힐버트 포락선의 특징은 잡음과 반사로 인한 큰 진폭 피크를 가지는 것이다. 깨끗한 음성의 잔여는 개선된 음성을 얻는 시변전극 필터를 일으키는데 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 반향 환경에서 성능 분석을 위해 제안된 알고리즘의 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 실내 잔향환경에서 기존의 알고리즘에 비해 반사된 음성의 품질 향상의 결과를 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2011

This paper proposes a quasi-optimal linear DOA (Direction-of-Arrival) estimator which is necessary for the development of a real-time robot auditory system tracking moving acoustic source. It is well known that the use of conventional nonlinear filtering schemes may result in the severe performance degradation of DOA estimation and not be preferable for real-time implementation. These are mainly due to the inherent nonlinearity of the acoustic signal model used for DOA estimation. This motivates us to consider a new uncertain linear acoustic signal model based on the linear prediction relation of a noisy sinusoid. Using the suggested measurement model, it is shown that the resultant DOA estimation problem is cast into the NCRKF (Non-Conservative Robust Kalman Filtering) problem [12]. NCRKF-based DOA estimator provides reliable DOA estimates of a fast moving acoustic source in spite of using the noise-corrupted measurement matrix in the filter recursion and, as well, it is suitable for real-time implementation because of its linear recursive filter structure. The computational efficiency and DOA estimation performance of the proposed method are evaluated through the computer simulations.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2015

Upcoming ground-breaking applications for always-on tiny interconnected devices steadily demand two-fold features of processor cores: aggressively low power consumption and enhanced performance. We propose implementation of a novel superscalar low-power processor core with a low supply voltage. The core implements intra-core low-power microarchitecture with minimal performance degradation in instruction fetch, branch prediction, scheduling, and execution units. The inter-core lockstep not only detects malfunctions during low-voltage operation but also carries out software-based recovery. The chip incorporates a pair of cores, high-speed memory, and peripheral interfaces to be implemented with a 65nm node. The processor core consumes only 24mW at 350MHz and 0.68V, resulting in power efficiency of $80{\mu}W/MHz$. The operating frequency of the core reaches 850MHz at 1.2V.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2018

It has become ever harder to design reliable circuits with each nanometer technology node; under normal operation conditions, a transistor device can be affected by various aging effects resulting in performance degradation and eventually design failure. The reliability (aging) effect has traditionally been the area of process engineers. However, in the future, even the smallest of variations can slow down a transistor's switching speed, and an aging device may not perform adequately at a very low voltage. Therefore, circuit designers need to consider these reliability effects in the early stages of design to make sure there are enough margins for circuits to function correctly over their entire lifetime. However, such an approach excessively increases the size and power dissipation of a system. As the impact of reliability, new techniques in designing aging-resilient circuits are necessary to reduce the impact of the aging stresses on performance, power, and yield or to predict the failure of a system. Therefore, in this paper, a novel low power on-chip self-tuning circuit considering the aging effects has been proposed.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.5-13
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• 2014

Number of components and payload systems installed in satellites were found to be exposed to various disturbance sources such as the reaction wheel assembly, the control moment gyro, coolers, and others. A micro-level of vibration can introduce jitter problems into an optical payload system and cause significant degradation of the image quality. Moreover, the prediction of on-orbit vibration effects on the performance of optical payloads during the development process is always important. However, analyzing interactions between subsystems and predicting the vibration level of the payloads is extremely difficult. Therefore, this paper describes the analytical and experimental approach to microvibration effects on satellite optical payload performance with integrated jitter analysis frame-work, microvibration emulator and satellite structure testbed.