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Development of a Foot Pressure Distribution Measuring Device for Lower Limb Rehabilitaion

  • Choi, Junghyeon;Seo, Jaeyong;Park, Jun Mo
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2017
  • It is important to train lower limb muscle strength using a tilting table to recover the lower extremity function of hemiplegia patients. It is known that the foot deformity and poor posture of hemiplegia patients can reduce the effectiveness of lower limb rehabilitation training. In this study, we developed a sensor system that can measure the foot pressure distribution of the patients for the load control of the lower extremity during lower limb rehabilitation training and it can be substituted for conventional high-cost technologies.

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A study on reduction of clamping force for plastic back cover of large TV (대형 TV의 플라스틱 후면 커버 성형시의 형체력 절감 방안 연구)

  • Song, Jae-Choon;Han, Seong-Ryeol
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2019
  • A large plastic molding requires an injection molding with a large clamping force. However, it could not be prepared in the manufacturing at any time. In order to solve the problem, the injection molding analysis study was conducted on the back cover of 55 inch LED TV. The study compared the case of applying the existing flow system such as hot runner, the improvement of the hot runner lay-out and the precise control of the gate operation time, From the results of using the improved flow system, it was found that the welding and the clamping force were considerably improved as compared with before the improvement. In particular, the clamping force was reduced by 50% compared with before the improvement.

Development of Relative Position Measuring Device for Moving Target in Local Area (국소영역에서 이동표적의 상대위치 측정 장치 개발)

  • Seo, Myoung Kook
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2020
  • Intelligent devices using ICT technology have been introduced in the field of construction machinery to improve productivity and stability. Among the intelligent devices, Machine Guidance is a device that provides real-time posture, location, and work range to drivers by installing various sensors, controllers, and satellite navigation systems on construction machines. Conversely, the efficiency of equipment that requires location information, such as machine guidance, will be greatly reduced in buildings, and tunnels in the GPS blind spots. Thus, the other high-precision positioning technologies are required in the GPS blind spot zone. In this study, we will develop a relative position measurement system that provides precise location information such as construction machinery and robots in a local area where the GPS reception is difficult. A relative position measurement system tracks a marker in the form of a sphere installed on a vehicle by using the image base tracking technology, and measures the distance and direction information to the marker to calculate a position.

Vision-Based Real-Time Motion Capture System

  • Kim, Tae-Ho;Jo, Kang-Hyun;Yoon, Yeo-Hong;Kang, Hyun-Duk;Kim, Dae-Nyeon;Kim, Se-Yoon;Lee, In-Ho;Park, Chang-Jun;Leem Nan-Hee;Kim, Sung-Een
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.171.5-171
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    • 2001
  • Information that is acquired by adhered sensors on a body has been commonly used for the three-dimensional real-time motion capture algorithm. This paper describes realtime motion capture algorithm using computer vision. In a real-time image sequence, human body silhouette is extracted use a background subtraction between background image and the reference image. Then a human standing posture whether forward or backward is estimated by extraction of skin region in the silhoutte. After then, the principal axis is calculated in the torso and the face region is estimated on the principal axis. Feature points, which are essential condition to track the human gesture, are obtained ...

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A Study on Factors Influencing Perceptions of Dental Hygienists' Environmental Working Conditions (치과위생사의 작업환경 인식에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Choi, Min-Ji;Park, Eui-Jung
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.539-547
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: This study was performed to emphasize improvement of the perception of dental hygienists' environmental working conditions by analyzing various factors. Methods: Two hundred ninety-eight female dental hygienists working at 35 medical institutions in Daegu City and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province participated. A self-recording type survey was done in October 2016. Results: Factors influencing the perception of infection control was length of career. Dental hygienists with more experience have a higher level of perception. Factors influencing the perception of working posture was the number of patients per day and career level. Dental hygienists seeing 50 or fewer patients per day and senior staff showed higher levels of this perception. Factors influencing the perception of noise in the working area were length of career and lunchtime break. The perception level was high in the group with longer careers and dental hygienists who rest at lunch time. Factors influencing chemical exposure during work were the number of patients per day and the type of institute. Dental hygienists working in dental clinics or dealing with more patients had lower levels of perception. Conclusions: The sociodemographic and working characteristics of dental hygienists influence the perception of dental hygienists' environmental working conditions.

Design and Control of a Dynamic PLS of the Biped Walking RGO-Robot for a Trainning of Rehabilitation (재활훈련용 이쪽보행 RGO 로봇의 Dynamic PLS 설계와제어 - <응력해석과 FEM을 중심으로>)

  • 김명회;장대진;박창일;박영필
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.238-243
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a design and a control of a biped walking AGO-robot and dynamic walking simulation for this system. The biped walking RGO-robot is distinguished from other one by which has a very light-weight and a new RGO type with servo motors. The gait of a biped walking AGO-robot depends on the constrains of mechanical kinematics and initial posture. The stability of dynamic walking is investigated by ZMP(Zero Moment Point) of the biped walking AGO-robot. It is designed according to a human wear type and is able to accomodate itself to human environments. The joints of each leg are adopted with a good kinematic characteristics. To test of the analysis of joint kinematic properties, we did the strain stress analysis of dynamic PLS and the study of FEM with a dynamic PLS. It will be expect that the spinal cord injury patients are able to train effectively with a biped walking RGO-robot.

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Trajectory Tracking Performance Analysis of Underwater Manipulator for Autonomous Manipulation

  • Chae, Junbo;Yeu, Taekyeong;Lee, Yeongjun;Lee, Yoongeon;Yoon, Suk-Min
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.180-193
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the end-effector tracking performance of a manipulator installed on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for autonomous underwater intervention is verified. The underwater manipulator is an ARM 7E MINI model produced by the ECA group, which consists of six joints and one gripper. Of the six joints of the manipulator, two are revolute joints and the other four are prismatic joints. Velocity control is used to control the manipulator with forward and inverse kinematics. When the manipulator approaches a target object, it is difficult for the ROV to maintain its position and posture, owing to various disturbances, such as the variation in both the center of mass and the reaction force resulting from the manipulator motion. Therefore, it is necessary to compensate for the influences and ensure the relative distance to the object. Simulations and experiments are performed to track the trajectory of a virtual object, and the tracking performance is verified from the results.

The Effect of Key Point Control Handling for One-leg Standing Postural Adaptation in Hemiplegia (주 조절점 핸들링이 편마비 환자의 한발서기 자세적응에 미치는 영향 - 보바스의 신경발달치료 중심 -)

  • Kim, Dae-Young
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1059-1064
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    • 2001
  • This study is aimed at diagnosing transmutation aspect with the respective of hemiplegia patient's static adaptation of posture which is influenced by anti-gravity excercise, center of gravity shifting movement and segmental movement adaption of the legs and arms by key-point control in the process of Bobatli's treatment approach. The patients for the investigation of this study were selected as a total 17 patients who were doing the physical-therapy in Tae-gu Rehabilitation Center, and diagnosed as hemiplegia patients by Rehabilitation Medicine department in Kyung-buk University hospital. And also, there investigated into temporal transition that keep the attitude with one-leg standing on the ground concerning static attitude adaption on the basis of the before of anti-gravity movement and the after of 4-weeks movement. The findings of this study were as follows: With the respective the time to keep standing pose by one-leg at static attitude transmutation, affected side showed meaningful differences as a l.86/sec, 2.62/sec at 4 weeks later considering the before and after of this experiment.(p<0.01), non-affected side at the aspect of attitude keeping time, but there didn't showed meaningful differences statistically.

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Unified Detection and Tracking of Humans Using Gaussian Particle Swarm Optimization (가우시안 입자 군집 최적화를 이용한 사람의 통합된 검출 및 추적)

  • An, Sung-Tae;Kim, Jeong-Jung;Lee, Ju-Jang
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.353-358
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    • 2012
  • Human detection is a challenging task in many fields because it is difficult to detect humans due to their variable appearance and posture. Furthermore, it is also hard to track the detected human because of their dynamic and unpredictable behavior. The evaluation speed of method is also important as well as its accuracy. In this paper, we propose unified detection and tracking method for humans using Gaussian-PSO (Gaussian Particle Swarm Optimization) with the HOG (Histograms of Oriented Gradients) features to achieve a fast and accurate performance. Keeping the robustness of HOG features on human detection, we raise the process speed in detection and tracking so that it can be used for real-time applications. These advantages are given by a simple process which needs just one linear-SVM classifier with HOG features and Gaussian-PSO procedure for the both of detection and tracking.

Example Based Motion Generation and its Applications with Efficient Control for Arbitrary Morphologies (다양한 골격의 효과적인 제어가 가능한 예제 기반의 모션 생성과 응용)

  • Choung, Yu-Jean;Kang, Kyung-Kyu;Kim, Dong-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents a motion generation technique for arbitrary morphologies with the user defined correspondences between joints. Users can define the controlling part in the source character and the part to be controlled in the target character in our system. To remove the restriction in the morphology of the target character, we use the pair of example posture sets. In our system, in order to provide the correspondence regardless of the number of joints, the deformed part in the target character is simplified into the direction vector. The final postures are then generated with the weighted sum of the examples. Our experimental results demonstrate that our approach can generate motions for various target characters and can control the user defined joints in real-time.

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