• 센서학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.444-454
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• 2005

The IEEE 1451.4 standards defines an architectural model for interfacing smart transducers for sensors & actuators. This standard allows analogue transducers to communicate their identification and calibration data in a digital format. A digital format is called the TEDS (transducer electronic data sheet). However, the standard template TEDS of IEEE 1451.4 do not supports sensors to use in electronic tongue system, such as arrayed-potentiometric and voltametric sensors. In this paper, a solution to standardize sensors for E-Tongue (electronic tongue) and electronic tongue systems is presented.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.211-223
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• 2010

Accurate sensing of mechanical strains in civil structures is critical for optimizing structure reliability and lifetime. For instance, combined with intelligent control systems, electromechanical sensor output feedback has the potential to be employed for nondestructive damage evaluation. Application of Ionic Polymer Transducers (IPTs) represents a relatively new sensing approach with more than an order of magnitude higher sensitivity than traditional piezoelectric sensors. The primary reason this sensor has not been widely used to date is an inadequate understanding of the physics responsible for IPT sensing. This paper presents models and experiments defending the hypothesis of a streaming potential sensing mechanism.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2021

멀터콥터형 드론에 적용할 목적으로 바람 센서의 특성을 분석하고 실험을 통하여 비교하였다. 회전식 풍속계의 경우 동역학 효과가 측정 오차를 만들며, 초음파식 센서는 제작 오차와 신호처리 오차가 주요한 것으로 나타났다. 초음파식 센서는 트랜스듀서의 거리가 멀수록 오차가 줄어든다. 실험을 통하여 이러한 특성들을 확인하였으며, 멀티콥터에는 전압 출력 혹은 10 hz 이상의 데이터 출력이 가능한 초음파식 센서가 적합하다고 판단한다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2007

A differential floating mass transducer has been developed in Korea for fully implantable middle ear hearing devices (F-IMEHDs). In particular, the performance of a differential floating mass transducer (DFMT) is very important among the parts of the F-IMEHDs because the mechanical vibration generated by DFMT is delivered to the inner ear directly. In this paper, the electrical model is proposed to analyze the DFMT vibration characteristic using the mechanical model of the DFMT. The electrical model enables the simple analysis of DFMT vibration characteristics using a computer program. The proposed electrical model is simulated through PSpice as changing the values of passive elements in the electrical model. To verify the proposed model, the DFMT has been implemented on the basis of the simulated results and the experiment for vibration measurement has been carried out. Through the comparison, it is verified that the proposed model is useful to analyze the vibration characteristics of the DFMT.

• 센서학회지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.286-294
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 자체 제작한 3-3형 복합압전체 초음파 트랜스듀서와 SOFM(Self Organizing Feature Map) 신경회로망을 이용한 수중 3차원 물체인식특성에 대해 연구하였다. 자체 제작한 3-3형 복합압전체 소자는 수중 초음파 트랜스듀서 재료로서의 요구조건을 비교적 잘 만족하였다. 자체 제작한 3-3형 복합압전체 트랜스듀서와 SOFM 신경회로망을 이용하여 얻어진 4종의 인식물체(정사각기둥, 직사각기둥, 원통, 정삼각기둥)에 대한 전체적인 수중 물체인식률은 학습데이터인 경우에는 100%, 시험데이터는 94.0%를 나타내었다. 이들 결과로부터 자체 제작한 3-3형 복합압전체 초음파 트랜스듀서는 수중 물체인식용 트랜스듀서로서 응용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.25-31
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• 1996

제철소에서 생산되고, 활용되는 빌렛은 두 종류로 나누어, 밀도가 높은 강편 빌렛과 밀도가 낯은 연주 빌렛이 있다. 강편 빌렛은 밀도가 높고 표면이 매끄러워, 비교적 탐상이 용이하였으나, 연주 빌렛은 밀도간 낮고, 표면이 거칠어 탐상이 어려웠다. 연주 빌렛의 탐상도 가능케하기 위하여 초음파 탐촉자의 재질 및 치수등을 개선하고자 하였다. 주요 실험 결과로는, 초음파의 발신용 부분과, 수신용 부분이 서로 나뉘어 있는 분할형 탐촉자를 채택하였으며, 탐촉자의 치수는 탐상체의 치수와 밀접히 관계됨을 알았다. 예로써, 폭/두께가 각각 160mm인 연주 빌렛의 경우, 압전소자의 길이가 21mm, 폭이 8.5mm, 두께가 0.95mm, 인 것 두장이 나란히 내장된 탐촉자가 가장 적당하였다. 소자의 두께에 의존하는 이 때의 중심 주파수는 2.25MHz 였으며, 두 장의 압전소자간 각도에 의존하는 촛점 거리는 70mm 이었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.352-356
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• 2018

This paper relates to a technology for monitoring a liquefied gas storage tank in the special gas field where demand is increasing owing to the continuous growth of related fields such as the semiconductor, display, and ICT convergence electronics industries. We have proposed a system for real - time monitoring using wireless sensor network technology, and implemented a system consisting of a sensor unit, transmitter module, and receiver module to be attached to a liquefied gas storage tank. The system was applied to LCO2 tanks among various liquefied gas storage tanks to verify the feasibility. The storage tanks employed in the experiments has capacities of 16,179 l and was 1,920 mm in inner diameter. Furthermore, the density was 1.03 g/l. The measured data were compared with reference data on the remaining gas level versus the $CO_2$ height of the surface, expressed using a conventional water meter, provided by an existing storage tank supplier. The experimental results show that the data is similar to the standard data provided by the tank supplier, and has a high accuracy and reliability within an error range of 0.03%.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권3호
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• pp.573-577
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• 2009

Piezoresistive pressure sensor have become the successfully-commercialized MEMS product and the related technologies have been well developed over the past decades. Regarding the design methodology, however, the coupled-physics FEM analyses of the transducer itself and the signal-processing circuitry design based on the conventional EDA are separated and both of the analyses were sequentially processed for the full design of the pressure sensor. For the fast and effective R&D, new design methodology is proposed in this paper where the FEM results are linked to the EDA environment and therefore most of the design works can be done in the EDA environments, which means the time-consuming FEM analyses can be minimized. In order to verify the proposed approach, a typical piezoresistive pressure sensor having the silicon diaphragm and piezoresistors was modeled and analyzed based on the proposed methodology. The verification results showed that the simulated results were matched well with the measured data within the 7% difference while the simulation time was reduced less than 5% compared to the conventional methodology. Through the proposed approach, various types of the piezoresistive pressure sensors can be developed in more effective way.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.128-133
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• 2008

In this paper, in order to analyze property of frequency response in microphone using optical sensor, acousto-optic sensor system has been implemented. The capacitance microphone and fiber-optic transmission path type fiber-optic microphone (FOM) have weaknesses in directivity, size, weight, and price. However suggested optical microphone can be constituted by cheap devices, so it has many benefits like small size, light weight, high directivity, etc. Head part of optical microphone which is suggested in this paper is movable back and forth by sound pressure with the attached reflection plate. Operating point has also been determined by measuring the response characteristics. The choosing the point, which has maximum linearity and sensitivity has changing the distance between optical head and vibrating plate. We measured the output of the O/E transformed signal of the optical microphone while frequency of sound signal is changed using sound measurement /analysis program, "Smaart Live" and "USBPre", which are based on PC, and compared the result from an existing capacitance microphone. The measured optical microphone showed almost similar output characteristics as those of the compared condenser microphone, and its bandwidth performance was about 4 kHz at up to 3 dB.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.215-225
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• 2001

Stress waves monitored on the surface of structures under various loading conditions can provide useful information on the structural health status. In this paper, stress waves are measured by several sensors when a steel beam is impacted by a ball drop. The sensors used include the piezo-electric film Sensor, the electrical strain gage, and the ultrasonic transducer, and special attention is given to the pieza film sensor. The wavelet transform is used for the time-frequency analysis of dispersive waves propagating in the beam. The velocities of the wave produced in the team due to the lateral impact is found to be frequency-dependent and identified as the flexural wave velocity based on the comparisons with the Timoshenko beam theory. A linear impact site identification method is developed using the flexural wave, and the impact sites of the beam can be accurately estimated by the piezo film sensors. It is found that the piezo film sensor is appropriate for sensing stress waves due to impact and for locating impact sites in the beam.