• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.387-397
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• 2023

Tooth surface shape error is an important parameter in gear accuracy evaluation. When tooth surface shape error is measured by laser interferometry, the gear interferogram is highly distorted and the gray level distribution is not uniform. Therefore, it is important for gear interferometry to extract the foreground region from the gear interference fringe image directly and accurately. This paper presents an approach for foreground extraction in gear interference images by leveraging the sinusoidal variation characteristics shown by the interference fringes. A gray level mask with an adaptive threshold is established to capture the relevant features, while a local variance evaluation function is employed to analyze the fluctuation state of the interference image and derive a repair mask. By combining these masks, the foreground region is directly extracted. Comparative evaluations using qualitative and quantitative assessment methods are performed to compare the proposed algorithm with both reference results and traditional approaches. The experimental findings reveal a remarkable degree of matching between the algorithm and the reference results. As a result, this method shows great potential for widespread application in the foreground extraction of gear interference images.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.545-552
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• 2015

복합발전 공정의 모델링 및 모사는 공정의 운전 및 설계 조건에 따른 공정변수의 변화를 정량적으로 예측하기 위한 중요한 접근방법이다. 본 연구에서는 현재 사용되는 복합발전공정의 정상상태 모사기의 단점을 보완하여, 사용자의 편의성과 개발자의 핵심기술 모델링을 가능하게 하는 공정 모델링 시스템을 개발하였다. 복합발전 공정의 주요 장치들을 분석하여 수학적 모델을 개발하였으며 이를 종합하여 모델라이브러리로 구성하였다. 또한 모사의 목적과 입수 가능한 자료에 따라 사용되는 모델의 상세도가 다르다는 점을 고려하여 주요장치에 대해 다른 상세도의 모델을 개발하였다. 복합발전 상업공정을 개발된 모델링 시스템을 사용하여 모델링과 모사를 수행하였으며 모사의 결과를 데이터자료와 비교 검증하였다. 검증의 모사결과와 자료데이터는 1% 내의 오차를 보였으며 개발된 모델링 시스템이 실제 공정에 응용될 수 있음을 보여주었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.257-289
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• 2015

Shear connectors are generally used to link the slab and girders together in slab-on-girder bridge structures. Damage of shear connectors in such structures will result in shear slippage between the slab and girders, which significantly reduces the load-carrying capacity of the bridge. Because shear connectors are buried inside the structure, routine visual inspection is not able to detect conditions of shear connectors. A few methods have been proposed in the literature to detect the condition of shear connectors based on vibration measurements. This paper proposes a different dynamic condition assessment approach to identify the damage of shear connectors in slab-on-girder bridge structures based on power spectral density transmissibility (PSDT). PSDT formulates the relationship between the auto-spectral densities of two responses in the frequency domain. It can be used to identify shear connector conditions with or without reference data of the undamaged structure (or the baseline). Measured impact force and acceleration responses from hammer tests are analyzed to obtain the frequency response functions at sensor locations by experimental modal analysis. PSDT from the slab response to the girder response is derived with the obtained frequency response functions. PSDT vectors in the undamaged and damaged states can be compared to identify the damage of shear connectors. When the baseline is not available, as in most practical cases, PSDT vectors from the measured response at a reference sensor to those of the slab and girder in the damaged state can be used to detect the damage of shear connectors. Numerical and experimental studies on a concrete slab supported by two steel girders are conducted to investigate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach. Identification results demonstrate that damages of shear connectors are identified accurately and efficiently with and without the baseline. The proposed method is also used to evaluate the conditions of shear connectors in a real composite bridge with in-field testing data.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.2938-2956
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• 2020

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) models have been developed by effective features to imitate the characteristics of human visual system (HVS). Actually, HVS is extremely sensitive to color degradation and complex texture changes. In this paper, we firstly reveal that many existing full reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods can hardly measure the image quality with contrast and masking texture changes. To solve this problem, considering texture masking effect, we proposed a novel FR-IQA method, called Texture and Color Quality Index (TCQI). The proposed method considers both in the masking effect texture and color visual perceptual threshold, which adopts three kinds of features to reflect masking texture, color difference and structural information. Furthermore, random forest (RF) is used to address the drawbacks of existing pooling technologies. Compared with other traditional learning-based tools (support vector regression and neural network), RF can achieve the better prediction performance. Experiments conducted on five large-scale databases demonstrate that our approach is highly consistent with subjective perception, outperforms twelve the state-of-the-art IQA models in terms of prediction accuracy and keeps a moderate computational complexity. The cross database validation also validates our approach achieves the ability to maintain high robustness.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.223-232
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 DSC를 이용한 구성방정식을 이용하여 토목섬유 사이의 접촉전단 응력과 변위와의 관계를 모델링하였다. DSC 모델은 두 개의 기준 상태, 즉 상대적으로 손상되지 않은 RI 상태와 완전히 파괴된 FA 상태와 한가지의 교란 함수로 구성된다. 본 모델은 통합된 모델로서, RI 상태를 탄성-완전 소성 모델, 계층적 단일 항복곡면 (HiSS) 모델 등 다양한 모델을 이용하여 모사할 수 있다. 한편 본 모델은 탄성과 소성 변위를 동시에 고려할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 4가지의 대형 직접전단 시험으로부터 측정된 자료와 측정자료로부터 도출된 모델 변수를 이용하여 재해석한 결과를 서로 비교하여, 둘 사이의 비교 결과가 상당히 일치함을 발견하였으며, 특히 표면이 매끄러운 지오멤브레인의 접촉면에서는 매우 상관관계를 보였다. 비록 표면이 거친 지오멤브레인이 포함된 접촉면에서는 예측 최대 전단강도가 실험결과와 약간의 차이를 보이기는 하였지만, 전체적으로 본 모델이 최대 전단응력이 나타나는 변위점과 대변형에서의 전단강도를 상당히 정확히 예측하였으며, 이를 통해 본 모델이 변형율 연화 현상을 보이는 접촉면 전단거동의 모델링에 유용함을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제81권2호
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• pp.179-194
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• 2022

The bending, buckling and free vibration responses of functionally graded material (FGM) beams are investigated semi-analytically by the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) in this paper. In the concepts of the SBFEM, the dimension of computational domain can be reduced by one, therefore only the axial dimension of the beam is discretized using the higher order spectral element, which reduces the amount of calculation and greatly improves the calculation efficiency. The governing equation of FGM beams is derived in detail by the means of the principle of virtual work. Compared with the higher-order beam theory, fewer parameters and simpler control equations are used. And the governing equation is transformed into a first-order ordinary differential equation by introducing intermediate variables. Analytical solutions of the governing equation can be obtained by pade series expansion in the direction of thickness. Numerical example are compared with the numerical solutions provided by the previous researchers to verify the accuracy and applicability of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed formulations can quickly converge to the reference solutions by increasing the order of higher order spectral elements, and high accuracy can be achieved by using a small number of the elements. In addition, the influence of the structural sizes, material properties and boundary conditions on the mechanical behaviors of FG beams subjected to different load types is discussed.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2017

The long-term effect of ambient temperature on bridge strain is an important and challenging problem. To investigate this issue, one year data of strain and ambient temperature of a long-span cable-stayed bridge is studied in this paper. The measured strain-time history is decomposed into two parts to obtain the strains due to vehicle load and temperature alone. A linear regression model between the temperature and the strain due to temperature is established. It is shown that for every $1^{\circ}C$ increase in temperature, the stress is increased by 0.148 MPa. Furthmore, the extreme value distributions of the strains due to vehicle load, temperature and the combination effect of them during the remaining service period are estimated by the average conditional exceedance rate approach. This approach avoids the problem of declustering of data to ensure independence. The estimated results demonstrate that the 95% quantile of the extreme strain distribution due to temperature is up to $1.488{\times}10^{-4}$ which is 2.38 times larger than that due to vehicle load. The study also indicates that the estimated extreme strain can reflect the long-term effect of temperature on bridge strain state, which has reference significance for the reliability estimation and safety assessment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.775-792
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• 2015

Person re-identification is an important and challenging task in computer vision with numerous real world applications. Despite significant progress has been made in the past few years, person re-identification remains an unsolved problem. This paper presents a novel appearance-based approach to person re-identification. The approach exploits region covariance matrix and color histograms to capture the statistical properties and chromatic information of each object. Robustness against low resolution, viewpoint changes and pose variations is achieved by a novel signature, that is, the combination of Log Covariance Matrix feature and HSV histogram (LCMH). In order to further improve re-identification performance, third-party image sets are utilized as a common reference to sufficiently represent any image set with the same type. Distinctive and reliable features for a given image set are extracted through decision boundary between the specific set and a third-party image set supervised by max-margin criteria. This method enables the usage of an existing dataset to represent new image data without time-consuming data collection and annotation. Comparisons with state-of-the-art methods carried out on benchmark datasets demonstrate promising performance of our method.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.63-72
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• 2006

The purpose of this raper is to address the negative impedance instability in DC/DC converters. We present the negative impedance instability of PWM DC/DC converters loaded by constant power loads (CPLs). An approach to design digital controllers for DC/DC converters Is presented. The proposed method, called Power Alignment control technique, is applied to DC/DC step-down choppers operating in continuous conduction or discontinuous conduction modes with CPLs. This approach uses two predefined state variables instead of conventional pulse width modulation (PWM) to regulate the output voltage. A comparator compares actual output voltage with the reference and then switches between the appropriate states. It needs few logic gates and comparators to be implemented thus, making it extremely simple and easy to develop using a low-cost application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for converters with CPLs. Furthermore, stability of the proposed controllers using the small signal analysis as well as the second theorem of Lyapunov is verified. Finally, simulation and analytical results are presented to describe and verify the proposed technique.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권12호
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• pp.1170-1176
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• 2010

본 연구는 적응제어기법을 이용한 무인항공기이 피치 자세 기동에 대한 연구 내용을 소개한다. 모델기반적응제어(Model Reference Adaptive Control)을 이용하여 피치 자세각과 엘리베이터 입력 사이의 피드백 선형화 과정에서 발생하는 불확실성을 처리하였다. 모델 불활실성 파라미터는 피드백 제어기가 작동하는 중에 적응법칙을 이용하여 추정할 수 있도록 설계 되었다. 안정화 제어기에 의해 달성되는 최종 피치 자세각에 대한 분석을 통해 폐루프 시스템의 특성을 파악할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안된 제어 기법은 기존 제어기에서 주로 채택하고 있는 선형화나 게인 스케쥴링등의 과정이 필요하지 않아 상당한 모델 오차가 존재하는 상황에서 무인항공기의 고기동 피치 제어기 설계에 도움을 줄 것으로 생각한다.