• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.206-211
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• 2011

In this paper, we report a high-precision wireless gap sensor based on a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device. The sensing element is a parallel-plate capacitor whose dimensions are $3{\times}3\;mm^2$, and is attached to the SAW device as an external load. The SAW device, equipped with an RF antenna, serves simultaneously as a signal conditioner and an RF transponder. The center frequency of the SAW device is 450 MHz. The wireless gap sensor prototype exhibits a resolution of 100 nm and a sensing range of $50{\mu}m$. The proposed sensor system can be used for remote, high-precision gap measurement in hard-to-reach environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.468-472
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• 2007

현재 다양한 기능의 로봇들이 개발되고 있으며 사람들의 관심 또한 확대되고 있다. 그 기능과 이용 분야 또한 다양하게 확산되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 무인 로봇의 이동에 있어서 지정된 동작만을 반복하는 단순한 이동 로봇이 아니라 사람의 눈과 같이 로봇이 방향과 거리를 스스로 계산하여 스스로 제어가 가능하고 동작을 할 수 있는 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 본 연구에서는 크리켓(Cricket) 센서 네트워크 기술을 이용한 실내 위치 추적 시스템을 이용하여 무인 이동 로봇의 자가 제어(Self-Control)가 가능하도록 할 수 있는 자동 주행 시스템을 개발하였으며 그 결과를 기술하였다. 무인 이동 로봇의 자동 제어 시스템의 프로토타입을 구현해 봄으로써 크리켓 센서네트워크를 이용한 로봇의 위치 측정 및 제어가 유용하게 사용될 수 있음을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.301-306
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• 2007

AlN thin film for SAW filter application was deposited on (100) silicon wafers by reactive magnetron sputtering method. The structural characteristics were dependent on the deposition conditions such as sputtering pressure, RF power, substrate temperature, and nitrogen partial pressure. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Electron Probe MicroAnalyzer (EPMA) and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) have been used to find out structural properties and preferred orientation of AlN thin films. Insertion loss of SAW devices was 28.51 dB and out of band rejection was about 24 dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.14-17
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• 2006

본 논문은 센서 네트워크에서 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 B-MAC의 저전력 기법인 LPL(low power listening)이 갖고 있는 하드웨어 의존성을 지적하고 이러한 의존성이 없는 LPL 구현 기법을 제안한다. preamble과 listening interval 간의 관계를 만족하기 위해 요구되는 기존 LPL의 조건들을 가상 프리앰블 패킷과 크로스 첵킹 방식을 이용하여 해결하였다. 본 논문이 제안하는 기법은 IEEE 802.15.4 기반의 CC2420 RF칩에서의 실험을 통하여 기존의 LPL과 유사한 성능을 보여주었으며, idle listening을 최소화하여 RF칩의 duty cycle이 최대 10.6%까지 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.457-461
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• 2002

This paper describes a development of a robot working in hazard environment. The developed robot consists of robot controller with vision system and host PC program. The robot and camera can move with 2 degree of freedom by independent remote controlling a user friendly designed joystick. An environment is recognized by the vision system and ultra sonic sensors. The visual image and command data translated through 900MHz and 447MHz RF controller, respectively. To show the validity of the developed system, operations of the robot in the field area were illustrated.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.348-352
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• 2015

Thin nickel oxide films formed on uncooled and cooled $SiO_2/Si$ substrates using a radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputter powered by 200 W in a mixed atmosphere of argon and oxygen. Grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction and field emission scanning electron microscopy are used for the structural analysis of nickel oxide films. The electrical conductivity required for better bolometric performance is estimated by means of a four-point probe system. Columnar and (200) preferred orientations are discovered in both films regardless of substrate cooling. Electric resistivity, however, is greatly influenced by the substrate cooling. Oxygen partial pressure increase during the nickel oxide deposition leads to a rapid decrease in resistivity, and the resistivity is higher in the cooled nickel oxide samples. Even when small microstructure variations are applied, lower resistivity in favor of low noise performance is acquired in the uncooled samples.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.20-26
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• 2016

A wireless passive sensor network is a network which, by letting RF sources supply energy to sensor nodes, is - at least theoretically - able to live an eternal life without batteries. Due to the technological immaturity, however, a wireless passive sensor network still has many difficulties; energy scarcity, non-simultaneity of energy reception and data transmission and inefficiency in data transmission occurring at sensor nodes. Considering such practical constraints, in this paper, we propose an elementary MAC scheme supporting many sensor nodes to deliver packets to a sink node. Based on a time structure in which a charging interval for charging capacitors by using received and an acting interval for communicating with a sink node are alternately repeated, the proposed MAC scheme delivers packets to a sink node according to slotted ALOHA. In general, a contention-type scheme tends to exhibit relatively low throughput. Thus, we multilaterally evaluate the throughput performance achieved by the proposed MAC scheme using a simulation method. Simulation results show that the network-wide throughput performance can be enhanced by properly setting the length of acting interval.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.247-253
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• 2002

For fabrication of the pyroelectric IR sensor $(Pb,La)TiO_3(PLT)$/$LiTaO_3$/(LTO)/PLT ferroelectric thin films was deposited by rf magnetron sputtering followed by rapid thermal annealing and the crystallinity as a function of annealing temperature and time was investigated. Permittivity and dielectric loss factor of ferroelectric thin films as a function of c-axis preffered orientation was measured. Also pyroelectric coefficient of ferroelectric thin films with largest c-axis preffered orientation was measured and obtain figure of merit of voltage response($F_V$) and detectivity($F_D$). In this case $F_V$, $F_D$ was $5.63{\times}10^{-10}\;C{\cdot}cm/J$, $1.98{\times}10^{-8}\;C{\cdot}cm/J$, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1067-1070
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a remote measurement system for the wireless monitoring of ECU Sensor Signals of vehicle. In order to measure the ECU sensor signals, the interface circuit is designed to communicate ECU and designed terminal wirelessly according to the ISO, SAE regulation of communication protocol standard. A micro-controller 80C196KC is used for communicating ECU sensor signals. ECU sensor signals are transmitted to the RF-wireless terminal that was developed using the micro controller 80386EX. LCD, and RF-module. 80386EX software is programmed to monitor the ECU sensor signals using the Borland C++ compiler in which the half duplex method was used for the RS232 communication. The algorithms for measuring the ECU sensor signals are verified to monitor ECU state. At the same time, the information to fix the vehicle's problem can be shown on the developed monitoring software. The possibility for remote measurement of ECU sensor signals using 80386EX is also verified through the developed systems and algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1999.12a
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• pp.639-645
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• 1999