• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.256-264
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• 1995

This report presents the development procedure and the results of a prototype star sensor which can be used as one of the attitude sensors of the KITSAT-3. The star sensor is a major attitude sensor that can determine the 3-axis attitude information, by comparing between star corrdinates in the star catalog and the measured corrdinates. The 2 dimensional CCD camera is used for measuring the star corrdinates and the DSP(Digital Signal Processor) technology is applied to the image and signal processing. Using the prototype star sensor with thermoelectri cooling technique, we have succesfully obtained the star images around 4th magnitude at Sobaeksan Astronomy Observatory minimizing night sky effect.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.1737-1744
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• 2010

이미지 센서에서 획득된 영상에는 화질 개선을 위해 다양한 이미지 처리 과정이 필요하다. 이러한 이미지를 처리해 주는 역할을 하는 것을 ISP(Image Signal Processor)라고 한다. 기존의 비전 카메라는 상용 ISP 칩을 사용하는 대신에 자체적으로 ISP 기능을 소프트웨어로 구현하여 PC등에서 수행하는 방식을 택해왔다. 그러나 이러한 방식은 ISP 기능을 수행하는데 많은 연산을 필요로 함에 따라 고성능 PC를 필요로 하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 하드웨어와 소프트웨어의 효율적인 분담을 통해 칩 면적을 크게 줄인 ISP를 제안한다. 연산을 빠르게 처리하기 위하여 연산이 많은 블록은 하드웨어로 설계하였고, 하드웨어의 면적을 고려하여 하드웨어와 소프트웨어를 동시에 이용하도록 설계하였다. 구현된 ISP는 VGA(640*480)급의 영상을 처리할 수 있으며 0.35um 공정에서 91450 게이트의 크기를 가진다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.305-318
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• 2008

The development of a digital signal processor based prototype is described in relation to continuing efforts for realizing a fully self-contained active sensor system utilizing impedance-based structural health monitoring. The impedance method utilizes a piezoelectric material bonded to the structure under observation to act as both an actuator and sensor. By monitoring the electrical impedance of the piezoelectric material, insights into the health of the structured can be inferred. The active sensing system detailed in this paper interrogates a structure utilizing a self-sensing actuator and a low cost impedance method. Here, all the data processing, storage, and analysis is performed at the sensor location. A wireless transmitter is used to communicate the current status of the structure. With this new low cost, field deployable impedance analyzer, reliance on traditional expensive, bulky, and power consuming impedance analyzers is no longer necessary. A complete power analysis of the prototype is performed to determine the validity of power harvesting being utilized for self-containment of the hardware. Experimental validation of the prototype on a representative structure is also performed and compared to traditional methods of damage detection.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.189-198
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• 2015

Most IoT-related approaches have tried to establish the relation by connecting the network between things. The proposed research will present how the pervasive interaction of eco-system formed by touching the objects between humans and things can be recognized on purpose. By collecting and sharing the detected patterns among all kinds of things, we can construct the environment which enables individualized interactions of different objects. To perform the aforementioned, we are going to utilize technical procedures such as event-driven signal processing, pattern matching for signal recognition, and hardware in the loop simulation. We will also aim to implement the prototype of sensor processor based on Arduino MCU, which can be integrated with system using Arduino-Matlab/Simulink hybrid-interoperation environment. In the experiment, we use piezo transducer to detect the vibration or vibrates the surface using acoustic wave, which has specific frequency spectrum and individualized signal shape in terms of time axis. The signal distortion in time and frequency domain is recorded into memory tracer within sensor processor to extract the meaningful pattern by comparing the stored with lookup table(LUT). In this paper, we will contribute the initial prototypes for the acoustic touch processor by using off-the-shelf MCU and the integrated framework based on Matlab/Simulink model to provide the individualization of the touch-sensing for the user on purpose.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.538-540
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• 2004

Electrical currents generated by human heart activities create magnetic fields represented by MCG(MagnetoCardioGram). Since an MCG signal acquisition system requires precise and stable operation, the system adopts hundreds of SQUID(Superconducting QUantum Interface Device) sensors for signal acquisition. Such a system requires fast real-time data acquisition in a required sampling interval, i.e., 1 mili-second for each sensor. This paper presents designed hardware to acquire data from 256-channel analog signal with 1 ksamples/sec speed, using 12-bit 8-channel ADC devices, SPI interfaces, parallel interfaces, 8-bit microprocessors, and a DSP processor. We implemented SPI interface between ADCs and a microprocessor, parallel interfaces between microprocessors. Our result concludes that the data collection can be done in $168{\mu}sec$ time-interval for 256 SQUID sensors, which can be interpreted to 6 ksamples/sec speed.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제44권4호통권316호
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• pp.74-78
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• 2007

의료용으로 사용되는 새로운 개념의 환자감시용 센서 매트와 그 신호처리방식을 제시하였다. 제시된 센서 매트와 플라스틱 광섬유를 교차시켜 배치한 구조를 갖는 내부 센서층을 갖는 구조로 제작하였다. 플라스틱 광섬유의 대구경 특성을 이용하여 불필요한 외부환경 요인에 의하여 발생되는 잡음요소들을 평균화하여 신호성분만을 통과시키는 대역통과필터를 구현하였다. 센서 출력단에 신호처리부를 부가하여 추가로 불필요한 성분들을 제거하여 잡음제거 능력을 향상시켰고 지능형 알고리즘을 사용하여 신뢰성 있는 환자호흡감지방식을 구현하였다. 신호와 주변잡음 모두에게 고감도를 보이는 기존의 기계적인 방식을 사용하는 감지방식과는 달리 본 연구에서 제시된 방식은 신뢰성 있는 호흡 감지가 가능함을 보여주었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1239-1241
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• 2001

This research addresses a new vehicle detecting scheme which uses MR(Megneto Resistive) sensor. A vehicle detector which includes two MR sensors for detecting car presence and speed, sensor voltage amplifiers, signal processor, microprocessor, RF data transceiver and a simple car moving simulator is constructed. From experimental results with the vehicle detector the proposed vehicle detecting scheme was verified.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1989년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; Seoul, Korea; 27-28 Oct. 1989
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• pp.700-704
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• 1989

A robotic system with a 3-dimensional profile measuring sensor is developed in order to measure the complicated shape of the target body. Due to this 3-dimensional profile measuring sensor, a computer is able to adjust the posture of the robot hand so that complicated global profile of the target body can be recognized after several measurements from the variant directions. In order to enable fast data processing, a digital signal processor and a look-up table is introduced.

• 센서학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.178-184
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• 2014

Key components of implantable hearing aids are consist of an acoustic sensor that collect external sound by suppressing the body noise, a signal processor module for compensation algorithm of hearing loss, and a output transducer which has tiny size but have high efficiency, respectively. In the partial implantable hearing aids, technologies of transducer and signal processor are so matured that can be applied not too much difficulty. However, due to the difficulties in implantable acoustic sensor technology, such as minimization of masticatory sound and damage of sensor's membrane from external impact, practical use of fully implantable hearing aids have not successful so far. In this paper, we have proposed a novel implantable acoustic sensor which has trans-tympanic structure, and is verified that the proposed method can be very useful for fully implantable hearing aids by cadaveric experiments.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.766-771
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• 2008

SAW Device는 필터이외에도 각종 물리 센서나 화학센서 혹은 ID Tag로 다양한 분야로 활용범위가 확대됨에 따라 다양한 SAW Device를 사용하기 위한 플랫폼이 요구된다. 현재 SAW ID나 Sensor는 많은 발전을 해왔지 만 SAW Sensor를 활용 할 수 있는 플랫폼의 발전은 미흡하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 ID Tag 나 Sensor를 비롯한 여러 SAW Sensor를 보다 편리 하게 활용할 수 있는 플랫폼에 대하여 연구 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 플랫폼은 SAW Device를 인식 할 수 있는 RF 모듈과 SAW Device의 응답신호를 처리 할 수 있도록 고성능 프로세서를 이용한 매인 모듈로 구성하였다. 매인 모듈에서는 고성능 프로세서를 이용함으로서 GUI 환경 기반의 플랫폼을 구현하여 사용자들이 SAW Device에서 수집된 정보를 보다 편리하고 알아보기 쉽게 사용할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 본 논문에서 사용한 플랫폼은 ARM9 코어의 프로세서를 기반의 플랫폼으로 Windows Embedded CE 6.0 OS를 사용하여 사용자에게 더욱 편리한 인터페이스를 제공할 수 있도록 하고, 개발자들에게는 센서를 활용한 다양한 어플리케이션을 보다 쉽게 적용할 수 있도록 하였다.