• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.98-113
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• 2016

A reactor vessel level monitoring system measures the water level in a reactor during normal operation and abnormal conditions. A drop in the water level can expose nuclear fuel, which may lead to fuel meltdown and radiation spread in accident conditions. A level monitoring system mainly consists of a sensing line and pressure transmitter. Over a period of time boron sediments or other impurities can clog the line which may degrade the accuracy of the monitoring system. The aim of this study is to determine blockage in a sensing line using the energy of the composite signal. An equivalent Pi circuit model is used to simulate blockages in the sensing line and the system's response is examined under different blockage levels. Composite signals obtained from the model and plant's unblocked and blocked channels are decomposed into six levels of details and approximations using a wavelet filter bank. The percentage of energy is calculated at each level for approximations. It is observed that the percentage of energy reduces as the blockage level in the sensing line increases. The results of the model and operational data are well correlated. Thus, in our opinion variation in the energy levels of approximations can be used as an index to determine the presence and degree of blockage in a sensing line.

• 센서학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.178-186
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• 2011

Line tracking is a well defined method of mobile robot navigation. It is simple in concept, technically easy to implement, and already employed in many industrial sites. Among several different line tracking methods, magnetic sensing is widely used in practice. In comparison, vision-based tracking is less popular due mainly to its sensitivity to surrounding conditions such as brightness and floor characteristics although vision is the most powerful robotic sensing capability. In this paper, a vision-based robust path line detection technique is proposed for the navigation of a mobile robot assuming uncontrollable surrounding conditions. The technique proposed has four processing steps; color space transformation, pixel-level line sensing, block-level line sensing, and robot navigation control. This technique effectively uses hue and saturation color values in the line sensing so to be insensitive to the brightness variation. Line finding in block-level makes not only the technique immune from the error of line pixel detection but also the robot control easy. The proposed technique was tested with a real mobile robot and proved its effectiveness.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.568-574
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• 2004

On-line phase tracking of an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) and experimental vibration control of a composite beam with a sensing-patch are investigated. We propose a sensing-patch for the compensation of the interferometric non-linearity. In this paper, a sensing-patch that comprises an EFPI and a piezo ceramic(PZT) is fabricated and the characteristics of the sensing-patch are experimentally investigated. A simple and practical logic is applied for the real-time tracking of optical phase of an interferometer. Experimental results show that the proposed sensing-patch does not have the non-linear behavior of conventional EFPI and hysteresis of piezoelectric material. Moreover, it has good strain resolution and wide dynamic sensing range. Finally, the vibration control with the developed sensing-patch has been performed using Fuzzy logic controller, and the possibility of sensing-patch as a sensoriactuator is considered.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.726-733
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• 2004

On-line phase tracking of an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) and experimental vibration control of a composite beam with a sensing-patch are investigated. We propose a sensing-patch for the compensation of the interferometric non-linearity. In this paper. a sensing-patch that comprises an EFPI and a piezo ceramic(PZT) is fabricated and the characteristics of the sensing-patch are experimentally investigated. A simple and practical logic is applied for the real-time tracking of optical phase of an interferometer Experimental results show that the proposed sensing-patch does not have the non-linear behavior of conventional EFPI and hysteresis of piezoelectric material. Moreover, it has good strain resolution and wide dynamic sensing range. Finally, the vibration control with the developed sensing-patch has been performed using Fuzzy logic controller, and the possibility of sensing-patch as a sensoriactuator is considered.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.106-112
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• 2009

An optical sensing membrane has been fabricated to measure the concentration of dissolved oxygen(DO) and pH value simultaneously. It has employed HPTS as a pH sensitive dye and a ruthenium(II) complex as a DO sensitive dye. The sensing membrane has been applied to wells in a 24-well microtiter plate. Using the 24-well microtiter plate the concentrations of dissolved oxygen and pH values have been on-line monitored during the cultivations of E.coli DH5${\alpha}$, B.cereus 318 and P.pastoris X-33. On-line monitoring of DO and pH in microorganism cultivation processes showed good performance of the sensing membrane containing 5 mM HPTS and 2 or 5 mg/mL Rudpp.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.2050-2056
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• 2008

본 논문은 스테레오 라인 CCD와 광원을 이용한 2차원 평면에서 이동객체를 인식하고 이동경로를 추적하는 시스템 구현이다. 시스템 구현은 카메라 이미지를 직접 처리하는 대신 두개의 라인 CCD 센서와 입력된 라인 이미지의 밝기를 비교하여 2차원 거리를 측정한다. 알고리듬은 이동객체감지, 경로추적과 좌표변환 기법을 적용한다. 객체의 이동경로를 효과적으로 감지하기 위하여 측정된 거리의 신뢰성을 평가하는 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 시스템을 구현하여 실험한 결과 5mm 인식율과 100ms 주기 이상의 이동객체경로 추적이 가능하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제4권10호
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• pp.643-654
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• 2003

택타일 영상을 사용하여 로봇 그리퍼 내부 작업 물체의 미끄럼 및 회전을 감지하는 기법을 제안해 본다. 기존에 제안된 모우멘트 불변량 사용방법의 경우 택셀 수 변화가 발생하는 경우 적용 할 수 없는 단점을 가지고 있다. 에지 ＆ 라인 불변량 특성을 이용한 경우 기본적으로 특정수 이상의 택셀을 가지고 있어야 하므로 택셀수가 적은 경우 적용 할 수 없다. 이 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 택셀 영상을 분석하고 적용기법 결정인자를 추출한다. 이를 이용하여 필터링 문턱값을 설정하여 택타일 영상을 필터링하고, 결정인자에 따라 모우멘트 불변량 사용방법과 에지 ＆ 라인 불변량 사용 방법 중 적합한 기법을 채택하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다 컴퓨터 모의 실험과 하드웨어 실험에 적용한 결과 개선된 이동 및 회전 등 움직임 감지가 가능하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.40-45
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• 1994

SAW 가스센서의 기판으로 $112^{\circ}$ rot. x-cut $LiTaO_{3}$ 기판을 사용하였고, 사진식각법으로 reference delay line과 sensing delay line으로 구성된 dual delay line SAW소자를 제작하였다. 각각의 IDT는 전극의 폭이 $10{\mu}m$이고, 10 개의 전극쌍을 갖는다. 각각 두개의 delay line 중에서 reference delay line은 감지막을 증착시키지 않고, sensing delay line은 유기물 반도체의 일종인 Pb-프탈로시아닌을 shadow mask로써 $10^{-5}$torr의 진공하에서 선택적으로 증착시켰다. 제작된 SAW소자로 rf amp.와 AGC(Auto Gain Control)를 사용하여 dual delay line oscillator를 만들었다. 이때 발진주파수는 $87{\sim}$89 MHz였다. 온도와 $NO_{2}$ 가스농도의 변화에 따른 발진주파수의 변화를 조사하였다.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.377-384
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• 2009

In this paper, leakage current sensing module of SoC(System on Chip)type and real time monitoring system under consideration of electromagnetic interface in power trunk line are developed. The first, leakage current sensing module of SoC type under consideration of electromagnetic interface is developed, and the developed sensing module of SoC type is composed of leakage sensing part, power supply part, interface part, communication part, AD(Alternating current to Direct current)convert part and amplification part. And also the electromagnetic compatibility is evaluated by conduction and radiation of EMI(Electromagnetic Interference) for developed sensing module. The developed system can have confidence, stability and do energy saving under mixed electric circumstance of the low voltage communication device and high voltage equipment. The second, the real time remote monitoring system is developed using designed wire and wireless communication module with leakage current sensing module of SoC type. The developed real time remote monitoring system can monitor sensing state, occurrence state of leakage current and alarm for each step etc.. And the device configuration, PCB layout for leakage current sensing module of system on chip type and the experiment configuration in consideration of EMI are presented. Also the measurement results of conduction and radiation for EMI are presented.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.731-740
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• 2010

A region merging technique is suggested in this paper for the segmentation of high-spatial resolution imagery. It employs a region growing scheme based on the region adjacency graph (RAG). The proposed algorithm uses directional neighbor-line average feature vectors to improve the quality of segmentation. The feature vector consists of 9 components which includes an observation and 8 directional averages. Each directional average is the average of the pixel values along the neighbor line for a given neighbor line length at each direction. The merging coefficients of the segmentation process use a part of the feature components according to a given merging coefficient order. This study performed the extensive experiments using simulation data and a real high-spatial resolution data of IKONOS. The experimental results show that the new approach proposed in this study is quite effective to provide segments of high quality for the object-based analysis of high-spatial resolution images.