• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.525-543
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• 2010

Testing and validation processes are critical tasks in developing a new hardware platform based on a new technology. This paper describes a series of experiments to evaluate the performance of a newly developed MEMS-based wireless sensor node as part of a wireless sensor network (WSN). The sensor node consists of a sensor board with four accelerometers, a thermometer and filtering and digitization units, and a MICAz mote for control, local computation and communication. The experiments include calibration and linearity tests for all sensor channels on the sensor boards, dynamic range tests to evaluate their performance when subjected to varying excitation, noise characteristic tests to quantify the noise floor of the sensor board, and temperature tests to study the behavior of the sensors under changing temperature profiles. The paper also describes a large-scale deployment of the WSN on a long-span suspension bridge, which lasted over three months and continuously collected ambient vibration and temperature data on the bridge. Statistical modal properties of a bridge tower are presented and compared with similar estimates from a previous deployment of sensors on the bridge and finite element models.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제39권6_2호
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• pp.1541-1551
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• 2023

해색위성 원격탐사에서 광학센서에서 측정된 전자기 시그날을 태양광 복사휘도로 산출하는 것은 해양 환경 모니터링의 시작이 되는 중요 단계이다. 일반적으로 광학센서가 임무 기간 수많은 촬영을 하면서 감쇄가 일반적이며 이로 인해 발생하는 복사 보정의 불확도는 해수원격반사도, 엽록소-a 농도, 유색용존유기물 등 최종 산출물에 영향을 미치기 때문에, 국제적으로 해색위성의 임무기간 중 자료 연속성을 위한 복사보정의 중요성을 강조해 왔다. 본 연구는 Geostationary Ocean Color Imager-II (GOCI-II) 위성의 지속적인 품질과 정확성을 확보하기 위해 GOCI-II의 복사 보정 알고리즘을 개선 방법을 제시한다. GOCI-II는 궤도상 복사 보정 장치인 태양광 확산기(Solar Diffuser, SD)를 사용하여 gain을 지속적으로 측정하였다. 시계열 분석 결과 gain이 방위각에 따라 계절적 변동을 보임과 동시에 센서의 노후화 가능성을 고려해야 함을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 방위각 보정 모델을 도입하여 계절 주기성을 제거하였고, 센서 감쇄 보정 모델을 통해 복사 이득의 비선형적 추세를 산출하였다. 본 연구에서 개선된 복사 보정 알고리즘을 적용하여 대기 최상층(Top of Atmosphere, TOA) 복사휘도의 스펙트럼에 미치는 영향을 확인하였고, 이는 GOCI-II 데이터의 장기적인 안정성 확보를 통해 신뢰성 있는 위성 산출물을 제공함으로써 장기간 트렌드 분석 및 해양 환경 모니터링에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.58-67
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• 2006

Due to the variety of signal processing and complicated mathematical analysis, it is not easy to accomplish 3D bin-picking with non-contact sensor. To solve this difficulties the reliable signal processing algorithm and a good sensing device has been recommended. In this research, 3D laser scanner and CCD camera is applied as a sensing device respectively. With these sensor we develop a two-step bin-picking method and reliable algorithm for the recognition of 3D bin object. In the proposed bin-picking, the problem is reduced to 2D intial recognition with CCD camera at first, and then 3D pose detection with a laser scanner. To get a good movement in the robot base frame, the hand eye calibration between robot's end effector and sensing device should be also carried out. In this paper, we examine auto-calibration technique in the sensor calibration step. A new thinning algorithm and constrained hough transform is also studied for the robustness in the real environment usage. From the experimental results, we could see the robust bin-picking operation under the non-aligned 3D hole object.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.349-353
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• 2016

Recently, research on bolometer-type uncooled infrared image sensor which is made for industrial applications has been increasing. In general, it is difficult to calibrate fixed pattern noise (FPN) of bolometer array. In this paper, average-current calibration algorithm is presented for reducing bolometer resistance offset. A resistor which is produced by standard CMOS process, on the average, has a deviation. We compensate for deviation of each resistor using average-current calibration algorithm. The proposed algorithm has been implemented by a chip which is consisted of a bolometer pixel array, average current generators, current-to-voltage converters (IVCs), a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). These bolometer-resistor array and readout circuit were designed and manufactured by $0.35{\mu}m$ standard CMOS process.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.148-157
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• 2002

A health monitoring system becomes a useful tool to obtain information on long term behavior of the important railway structures such as very long span and special type bridges. The health monitoring system not only gives the direct measurement data of the railway bridges but also provides the basic data on the maintenance of the structures. Therefore, periodic calibrations of the health monitoring system will be a necessary step toward precise and accurate assessment of the railway bridges. In this study, the calibration and gauge factor readjustment process made for the health monitoring system installed in the railroad bridges is reviewed and some findings are explained in detail: specifically, the calibrators made for this purpose are illustrated and the regression processes of the calibration on long-term displacement using water level sensor, longitudinal displacement using LVDT sensor, instantaneous displacement using LVDT sensors and accelerometer are described in full length. Based on the regression results, it was found that the gauge factors need to be readjusted according to the regression equation but, since the deviation or shift is not serious so far, long-term observation on each sensor is also recommended. Future work will be concentrated on the long-term analysis of each sensor and on the database creation so that the assessment of the structures is possible.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.1822-1829
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• 2008

항체가 정밀한 항법 정보를 얻기 위해서는 관성 센서의 초기 오차에 대한 보정이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 레이트 테이블과 고성능 센서를 기준 센서로 사용하여, 저급 MEMS 관성 센서 오차 보정에 따르는 비용과 효율성의 어려움을 극복하는 방법을 제안하였다. 초기 오차 보정 과정에서 기준 센서와 타겟 센서에 같은 동적 입력을 인가한 후 결과를 분석하였다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 초기 오차 보정 방법이 실제로 매우 효율적이며 유용함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2000

This paper proposes a method of geometric error calibration for a parallel using only sensor of length measurement without additional sensors. The concept is generalized which creates measurement residuals by exploring conflicting information provided with external length sensing. Although this calibration method requires many configurations, it has an advantage of using relatively simple length measurements. This method is shown to provide good calibration results, especially when there exist smaller measurement noises and more configurations are measured.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2017년도 제48회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1140-1141
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• 2017

SWASH형 시험선의 제어 시스템에 입력 값으로 사용되는 심도 값은 초음파 센서를 통해 측정한다. 선수부에 부착한 초음파 센서를 통해 수면과의 거리를 측정하여 시험선의 무게중심까지의 거리를 단순히 계산 할 수 있지만, 시험선의 자세와 초음파 센서로 측정한 값에 대한 기하학적 관계를 함께 적용해야만 시험선의 정확한 심도를 예측 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 초음파 센서와 시험선의 자세 값을 이용한 SWASH형 시험선의 심도를 보정해주는 방법을 소개한다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.182-185
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• 2005

Satellite cameras are calibrated before launch in detail and in general, but it cannot be guaranteed that the geometry is not changing during launch and caused by thermal influence of the sun in the orbit. Modem satellite imaging systems are based on CCD-line sensors. Because of the required high sampling rate the length of used CCD-lines is limited. For reaching a sufficient swath width, some CCD-lines are combined to a longer virtual CCD-line. The images generated by the individual CCD-lines do overlap slightly and so they can be shifted in x- and y-direction in relation to a chosen reference image just based on tie points. For the alignment and difference in scale, control points are required. The resulting virtual image has only negligible errors in areas with very large difference in height caused by the difference in the location of the projection centers. Color images can be related to the joint panchromatic scenes just based on tie points. Pan-sharpened images may show only small color shifts in very mountainous areas and for moving objects. The direct sensor orientation has to be calibrated based on control points. Discrepancies in horizontal shift can only be separated from attitude discrepancies with a good three-dimensional control point distribution. For such a calibration a program based on geometric reconstruction of the sensor orientation is required. The approximations by 3D-affine transformation or direct linear transformation (DL n cannot be used. These methods do have also disadvantages for standard sensor orientation. The image orientation by geometric reconstruction can be improved by self calibration with additional parameters for the analysis and compensation of remaining systematic effects for example caused by a not linear CCD-line. The determined sensor geometry can be used for the generation? of rational polynomial coefficients, describing the sensor geometry by relations of polynomials of the ground coordinates X, Y and Z.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.305-313
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• 2000

A vicarious calibration method was developed for the OSMI sensor calibration. Employing measured aerosol optical thickness by a sunphotometer and a sky radiometer and water leaving radiance by ship measurements as inputs, TOA (top of the atmosphere) radiance at each OSMI band was simulated in conjunction with a radiative transfer model (Rstar5b) by Nakajima and Tanaka (1988). As a case of examining the accuracy of this method, we simulated TOA radiance based on water leaving radiance measured at NASA/MOBY site and aerosol optical thickness estimated nearby at Lanai, and compared simulated results with SeaWiFS-estimated TOA radiances. The difference falls within about $\pm$5%, suggesting that OMSI sensor can be calibrated with the suggested accuracy. In order to apply this method for the OSMI sensor calibration, ground-based sun photometry and ship measurements were carried out off the east coast of Korean peninsula on May 31, 2000. Simulations of TOA radiance by using these measured data as input to the radiative transfer model show that there are substantial differences between simulated and OSMI-estimated radiances. Such a discrepancy appears to be mainly due to the cloud contamination because satellite image indicates optically thin clouds over the experimental area. Nevertheless results suggest that sensor calibration can be achieved within 5% uncertainty range if there are ground-based measurements of aerosol optical thickness, and water leaving radiances under clear-sky and optically thin atmospheric conditions.