• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.619-624
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• 2015

Owing to miniaturization and low-power electronics, mobile, implanted, and wearable devices have become the main trends of electronics during the past decade. There has been much research regarding energy harvesting to achieve battery-free or self-powered devices. The optimal design problems of a double-pendulum kinetic-energy harvester from human motion are studied in this paper. For the given form factor, the weight of the harvester, and the known human excitation, the optimal design problem is solved using a dynamic non-linear double-pendulum model and an electric generator. The average electrical power was selected as the performance index for the given time period. A double-pendulum harvester was proven to be more efficient than a single-pendulum harvester when the appropriate parameters were used.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.129-137
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 ATSC(Advanced Television System Committee) Mobile DTV에서 신뢰성이 보장되고 빠른 시간 안에 재난정보가 수신될 수 있도록 하는 재난방송 시스템을 제안한다. 미국에서 현재 사용되고 있는 Cable용 재난 표준인 EAM(Emergency Alert Message)을 기반으로 프로토콜을 정의 하였으며, 가장 신속하게 재난정보가 전달 될 수 있도록 성능측정을 하여 최적의 방법을 제안하였다. 기존 미국식 방송규격인 ATSC legacy 시스템에 영향을 전혀 미치지 않으며 모바일 방송을 전송할 수 있도록 하는 ATSC Mobile DTV는, 전원에 구애받지 않고 재난방송을 전달할 수 있는 효과적인 매체라는 장점과 함께 미국 전역뿐만 아니라 ATSC규격을 채택한 다양한 국가에서 적용이 가능하다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.393-399
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• 2009

Historically, industrial condition monitoring has been performed by costly hard-wired sensors or infrequent checks by maintenance personnel equipped with hand held monitoring equipment. Self- powered wireless condition monitoring systems provides on-line monitoring of critical plant and machinery providing major operating cost benefits. A vibration energy harvester(VEH) is a device that converts kinetic energy occurred by machine vibration into useable electrical energy. Using VEHs to power wireless monitoring systems can yield significant benefits: increased reliability, lower life time costs and no battery disposal issues, etc. This paper proposes the novel prototype design and manufacturing of a VEH that can eliminate the effect by failed batteries.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 1998년도 제10회 학술강연회논문집
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• pp.14-14
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• 1998

The ejector is a device which employs a high-velocity primary motive fluid to entrain and accelerate a slower moving secondary suction fluid. The resulting kinetic energy of the mixture is subsequently used for self-compression to a higher pressure, thus performing the function of a compressor. The outstanding advantages of the ejectors are simplicity and reliability. However the industrial use of ejectors has been confined mainly to very particular cases of operation. The experimental results obtained so far were insufficient to be made use of general cases. Large-sized modern ejectors, mainly driven by high powered air-compressors and designed for very wide ranges of operating conditions, cannot be based on the earlier research results, if we wish to be sure of the final outcome.

• 센서학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2024

Energy harvesting technology that converts the wasted energy resources into electrical energy is emerging as a semipermanent power source for self-powered electronics and wireless low-power sensor systems. Among the various energy conversion techniques, flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters (f-PEHs), using materials with piezoelectric effects, have attracted significant interest because they can harvest a small mechanical energy into electrical signals without constraints of time and space in various environments. In this study, we used a flexible piezoelectric composite film fabricated by dispersing BaHf_xTi_(1-x)O₃ (x = 0, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1) piezoelectric powders inside a polymeric matrix to facilitate f-PEHs. The fabricated f-PEH with optimal Hf contents (x = 0.05) generated a maximum output voltage of 0.95 V and current signal of 130 nA with stable electrical/mechanical disabilities under periodically bending deformations. In addition, we demonstrated a cantilever-type f-PEH and investigated its potential as a sensor by characterizing the output performance under mechanical vibrations at various frequencies. This study provides the breakthrough for realizing self-powered energy harvesting and sensing systems by adopting the lead-free piezoelectric composites under vibrational environments.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.107-114
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• 2005

With the recent progress in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) in industry, increasing attention has been given to Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems. An AGV is a self-powered unit for transporting materials between stations without needing to be controlled by an operator. Such a system has several sensors to recognize the external state, and it is designed to travel between stations automatically without external assistance. To manage each device automatically in real time it requires a distributed controller with a main computer as the host, as well as a number of micro-controllers. In this study, an AGV system with dual motor drive was constructed. A Pentium 4 personal computer was set up as the main host for the distributed control, and this communicated with other micro-controllers in the management of the motor. The speed of each motor was also controlled by a micro-controller.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.263-275
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• 2010

In the last decade, wireless sensor networks have emerged as a promising technology that could accelerate progress in the field of structural monitoring. The main advantages of wireless sensor networks compared to conventional monitoring technologies are fast deployment, small interference with the surroundings, self-organization, flexibility and scalability. These features could enable mass application of monitoring systems, even on smaller structures. However, since wireless sensor network nodes are battery powered and data communication is the most energy consuming task, transferring all the acquired raw data through the network would dramatically limit system lifetime. Hence, data reduction has to be achieved at the node level in order to meet the system lifetime requirements of real life applications. The objective of this paper is to discuss some general aspects of data processing and management in monitoring systems based on wireless sensor networks, to present a prototype monitoring system for civil engineering structures, and to illustrate long-term field test results.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.241-247
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• 2022

Ad hoc network is self-organized network powered by battery. The reliability of virtual user identification and channel security are reduced when SNR is low due to limited user energy. In order to solve this problem, a joint virtual user identification and channel security en/decoding method is proposed in this paper. Transmitter-receiver-based virtual user identification code is generated by executing XOR operation between orthogonal address code of transmitter and pseudo random address code of receiver and encrypted by channel security code to acquire orthogonal random security sequence so as to improve channel security. In order to spread spectrum as well as improve transmission efficiency, data packet is divided into 6-bit symbols, each symbol is mapped with an orthogonal random security sequence. Subspace-based method is adopted by receiver to process received signal firstly, and then a judgment model is established to identify virtual users according to the previous processing results. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method obtains 1.6dB E_b/N₀ gains compared with reference methods when miss alarm rate reaches 10^-3.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.769-775
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• 2016

Characteristics of a wireless sensor powered by the IDE (interdigitated electrode) embedded piezoelectric cantilever generator were analyzed in order to evaluate its potential for use in wireless sensor applications. The IDE embedded piezoelectric cantilever was designed and fabricated to have a self-resonance frequency of 126 Hz and acceleration of 1.57 G, respectively, for the mechanical resonance with a practical conveyor system in a thermal-power plant. It produced maximum output power of 2.81 mW under the resistive load of $160{\Omega}$ at 126 Hz. The wireless sensor module is electrically connected to a rectifier capacitor with capacity of 0.68 farad and 3.8 V for power supply by the piezoelectric cantilever generator. The unloaded capacitor could be charged as a rate of approximately $365{\mu}V/s$ while the capacitor exhibited that of 0.997 mV/min. during communication under low duty cycle of 0.2%. Therefore, it is considered that the fabricated IDE embedded piezoelectric cantilever generator can be used for wireless sensor applications.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.619-626
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• 2019

나노 공정기술을 이용한 반도체 및 회로기술의 발전은 의료용 삽입형 기기(MID)의 소형화, 감도, 수명, 신뢰성을 더욱 향상했지만, 최근 MID의 지속적인 동작을 위한 전원의 지속적인 제공 여부가 중요한 도전과제 중 하나이다. 이러한 이유로 신체 내에서 다양한 생체 역학 에너지를 활용하는 자체 전원 이식형 의료기기가 최근에 많이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 TENG를 이용한 자가발전을 통해 재충전이 가능한 심장박동기를 개발하였다. 그리고 우리는 대형동물의 동작에 따라 삽입된 심장박동기에 내장된 TENG의 발전을 검증하였다. 동물의 움직임으로부터 수집되는 전력은 2.47V로 심장박동기에 센싱을 위해 필요한 전압(1.35V)보다 높은 전원을 획득할 수 있었다.