• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.436-442
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• 2008

Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography(MREIT) has been suggested to produce cross-sectional conductivity images of an electrically conducting object such as the human body. In most previous studies, recessed electrodes have been used to inject imaging currents into the object. An MRI scanner was used to capture induced magnetic flux density data inside the object and a conductivity image reconstruction algorithm was applied to the data. This paper reports the performance of a thin and flexible carbon-hydrogel electrode that replaces the bulky and rigid recessed electrode in previous studies. The new carbon-hydrogel electrode produces a negligible amount of artifacts in MR and conductivity images and significantly simplifies the experimental procedure. We can fabricate the electrode in different shapes and sizes. Adding a layer of conductive adhesive, we can easily attach the electrode on an irregular surface with an excellent contact. Using a pair of carbon-hydrogel electrodes with a large contact area, we may inject an imaging current with increased amplitude primarily due to a reduced average current density underneath the electrodes. Before we apply the new electrode to a human subject, we evaluated its performance by conducting MREIT imaging experiments of five swine legs. Reconstructed conductivity images of the swine legs show a good contrast among different muscles and bones. We suggest a future study of human experiments using the carbon-hydrogel electrode following the guideline proposed in this paper.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.385-392
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• 2018

This paper presents 2D numerical modeling to calculate ship-ice interactions that occur when an icebreaker advances into ice-covered water. The numerical model calculates repeated icebreaking of an ice plate and removal of small ice floes. The icebreaking of the ice plate is calculated using a ship-ice contact detection technique and fluid-structural interaction of ice plate bending behavior. The ship-ice interactions in small ice floes are calculated using a physically based modeling with 3DOF rigid body equations. The ice plate is broken in crushing, bending, and splitting mode. The ice floes drift by wind or current and by the force induced by the ship-ice interaction. The time history of ice force and ice floe distribution when an icebreaker advances into the ice-covered water are obtained numerically. Numerical results demonstrate that the time history of ice force and distribution of ice floes (ice channel width) depend on the ice floe size, ship motion and ice drifting by wind or current. It is shown that the numerical model of ship maneuvering in realistic ice conditions is necessary to obtain precise information about the ship in ice-covered water. The proposed numerical model can be useful to provide data of a ship operating in ice-covered water.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.77-81
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• 2002

A new method of optimal blank shape design using the initial nodal velocity (INOV) has been proposed for the drawings of arbitrary shaped cups. With the given information of tool shape and the final product shape, corresponding initial blank shape has been found from the motion of boundary nodes. Although the sensitivity method, the past work of Hynbo Shim and Kichan Son, has been proved to be excellent method to find optimal blank shapes, the method has a problem that a couple of deformation analysis is required at each design step and it also exhibits an abnormal behaviors in the rigid body rotation prevailing region. In the present method INOV, only a single deformation analysis per each design stage is required. Drawings of practical products as well as oil-pan have been chosen as the examples. At every case the optimal blank shapes have been obtained only after a few times of modification without predetermined deformation path. The deformed shape with predicted optimal blank almost coincides with the target shape at every case. Through the investigation the INOV is found to be very effective in the arbitrary shaped drawing process design.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.487-494
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• 2002

A new method of optimal blank shape design using the initial nodal velocity (INOV) has been proposed for the drawings of arbitrary shaped cups. With the given information of tool shape and the final product shape, corresponding initial blank shape has been found from the motion of boundary nodes. Although the sensitivity method, the past work of the present authors, has been proved to be excellent method to find optimal blank shapes, the method has a problem that a couple of deformation analysis is required at each design step and it also exhibits an abnormal behaviors in the rigid body rotation prevailing region. In the present method INOV, only a single deformation analysis per each design stage is required. Drawings of practical products as well as oil-pan, have been chosen as the examples. At every case the optimal blank shapes have been obtained only after a few times of modification without predetermined deformation path. The deformed shape with predicted optimal blank almost coincides with the target shape at every case. Through the investigation the INOV is found to be very effective in the arbitrary shaped drawing process design.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.427-434
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• 2019

This study investigates the structural integrity of the amphibious tour bus under the rollover condition. The multi-purpose bus called Dual Mode Tour Bus (DMTB) which explores on land and water has been designed on top of a truck platform. Prior to the fabrication of new upper body and sailing equipment of DMTB, computational analysis investigates the rollover protection of the proposed structure including superstructure, wheels, and axles. The Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of the whole vehicle model is meshed and preprocessed under high performance using the Altair HyperMesh to attain the best mesh model suited for finite element analysis (FEA) on the proposed system. Meanwhile, the numerical model is analyzed by employing LS-DYNA to evaluate the superstructure strength. The numerical model includes detail information about the microstructure and considers wheels and axles as rigid bodies but excludes window glasses, seats, and interior parts. Based on the simulation analysis and proper modifications especially on the rear portion of the bus, the local stiffness significantly increased. The vehicle is rotated to the contact point on the ground based on the mathematical method presented in this study to save computational cost. The results show that the proposed method of rollover analysis is highly significant not only in bus rollover tests but in crashworthiness studies for other application. The critical impartments in our suggested dual-purpose bus accepted and passed "Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) R66".

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.77-86
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• 1996

In this paper we deal with the problem of recovering 3-D motion and structure from a time-varying 2-D velocity vector field. A great deal has been done on this topic, most of which has concentrated on finding necessary and sufficient conditions for there to be a unique 3-D solution corresponding to a given 2-D motion. While previous work provides useful theoretical insight, in most situations the known algorithms have turned out to be too sensitive to be of much practical use. It appears that any robust algorithm must improve the 3-D solutions over time. As a step toward such algorithm, we present a method for recovering 3-D motion and structure from a given time-varying 2-D velocity vector field. The surface of the object in the scene is assumed to be locally planar. It is also assumed that 3-D velocity vectors are piecewise constant over three consecutive frames (or two snapshots of flow field). Our formulation relates 3-D motion and object geometry with the optical flow vector as well as its spatial and temporal derivatives. The linearization parameters, or equivalently, the first-order flow approximation (in space and time) is sufficient to recover rigid body motion and local surface structure from the local instantaneous flow field. We also demonstrate, through a sensitivity analysis carried out for synthetic and natural motions in space, that 3-D motion can be recovered reliably.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1988년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); 한국전력공사연수원, 서울; 21-22 Oct. 1988
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• pp.826-831
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• 1988

This paper presents an approach to segment an image into areas of surfaces, and to compute the surface properties from a gray-scale image in order to describe the surfaces for reconstruction of the 3-D shape of the objects. In general, an rigid body has several surfaces and many edges. But if it is not polyhedoron, it is necessary not only to describe the relation between surfaces, i.e. its line drawings but also to represent the surfaces' equations itself. In order to compute the surfaces' equation we use a probability of edge distribution. At first it is extracted edges from a gray-level image as much as possible. These are not only the points that maximize the change of an image intensuty but candidates which can be seemed to be edges. Next, other character of a surface (color, coordinates and image intensity) are extracted. In our study, we call the all feature of a surface as "texture", for example color, intensity level, orientation of an edge, shape of a surface and so on. These features of a surface on a pixel of an image plane are mapped to a point of the feature space, and segmented to each groups by cluster analysis on this space. These groups are considered to represent object surface in an image plane. Finally, the states of object surface in 3-D space are computed from distributional probability of local and overall statistical features of a surface, and from shape of a surface.a surface.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.106-114
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 센서 결합을 이용하여 공간상의 시스템 자세를 정확히 추정할 수 있는 확장 칼만 필터를 설계하는 방법에 대해서 제안한다. 시스템 자세는 쿼터니언 상태 변수를 이용하여 표현하며, 이는 Gauss-Newton방법을 적용하여 가속도 센서와 지자기 센서로 부터 강체의 자세를 획득 하게 된다. 측정된 쿼터니언 값과 속도 센서 값, ARVR_SDK에 의한 영상 정보 값을 이용함으로써, 상태 변화를 추정 하게 되는데, 자세 추정의 정밀도를 높이기 위해 입력 값에 대한 에러를 보정하는 과정을 추가하여 적응적으로 입력 값을 조절하는 확장 칼만 필터를 설계 적용 하였다. 그 결과, 설계된 필터에 입력 값에 대한 오차가 있어도 일정부분 이를 보정하여 추정 값에 대한 신뢰도를 높이는 결과를 실험적으로 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2020

가상착용기술은 온라인 의류 쇼핑 활성화를 위해 중요한 기술이다. 최근 이미지 기반 가상착용기술은 의상과 착용 대상 신체의 3차원 정보가 필요하지 않다는 실용성 때문에 큰 관심을 받고 있다. 그러나 기존의 이미지 기반 알고리즘의 2차원 기하변형 방식의 한계로 인하여 대상 인물의 포즈와 의상 이미지의 형태가 큰 차이가 있는 경우 자연스러운 의상변형을 하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 3차원 인체 모델을 이용하여 2차원 의상 사진으로 부터 의상의 3차원 모델을 생성하고, 대상 인물의 자세와 체형에 맞게 3차원 변형 후 렌더링하고 대상 인간 이미지와 혼합을 통하여 가상착용 이미지를 생성할 수 있다. 기존 연구에서 사용된 VITON 데이터 세트를 사용한 실험 결과는 3차원 변형이 요구되는 경우에 2차원 이미지 기반 가상착용 결과들에 비교했을 때 자연스러운 결과를 보인다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2009

영상유도방사선치료(image guided radiation therapy: IGRT) 시 환자를 1차적으로 skin marker를 이용하여 위치시키고 2차적으로 OBI(on board imager)를 이용하여 해부학적 위치를 확인 후 couch를 움직여 set up을 보정하게 되는데, 이때 발생하는 오차에 대한 평가를 하려고 한다. 치료계획시 $0^{\circ}$와 $270^{\circ}$방향의 DRR(digital reconstructed radiography) 영상과 OBI로 촬영한 영상을 2차원-2차원 정합(2D-2D matching)으로 비교하여 치료계획시 환자의 셋업과 치료시 환자의 셋업의 오차를 비교하였다. Head&Neck 및 Spinal cord와 같은 주요장기 부위의 치료에서는 치료때 마다 OBI에 의하여 셋업시 확인하였으며, Chest 및 Abdomen&Pelvic 는 일주일에 2~3회 확인하였다. 그려나 보정 값은 모두 OIS(oncology information system)에 기록하여 160명의 환자를 대상으로 각각 Head&Neck, Chest 및 Abdomen&Pelvic으로 나누어 피부 지표를 이용한 셋업의 정확성을 평가하였다. Head&Neck 환자의 평균 셋업 오차는 각각 AP, SI, RL 방향에서 $0.2{\pm}0.2cm$, $-0.1{\pm}0.1cm$, $-0.2{\pm}0.0cm$ 로 나타났으며, Chest의 경우 $-0.5{\pm}0.1cm$, $0.3{\pm}0.3cm$, $0.4{\pm}0.2cm$ 로 나타났고 Abdomen의 경우 $0.4{\pm}0.4cm$, $-0.5{\pm}0.1cm$, $-0.4{\pm}0.1cm$로 나타났다. Pelvic 의 경우 $0.5{\pm}0.3cm$, $0.8{\pm}0.4cm$, $-0.3{\pm}0.2cm$ 나타났다. Head&Neck 같은 강체 (rigid body)는 셋업 오차가 Chest 및 Abdomen 부위에 비하여 상대적으로 작게 나타났다. Chest에서는 횡축 방향의 오차가 컸으며, Abdomen&Pelvic 에서는 AP 방향의 오차가 크게 나타났다. Chest에서 횡축오차가 크게 나타난 이유는 환자 셋업시 환자 몸의 휘어짐에 기인한 것이며, Abdomen에서의 AP방향의 오차가 큰 이유는 환자의 호흡으로 인해 앞뒤 위치의 변화 때문으로 사료된다. 환자 셋업 시스템에서는 systematic error는 나타나지 않았다. OBI는 해부학적 위치를 확인하기 때문에 병소가 피부에 위치해 있을 경우 피부마커로 셋업을 하는 것이 정확할 것으로 생각된다. 2차원-2차원 정합은 3차원-3차원 정합과 비교하여 rolling 오차를 찾아내지 못하나 환자의 피폭이 적다는 장점이 있으며 셋업 확인 시간이 짧기 때문에 실제 임상에서는 2차원-2차원 정합이 유용하였다.