• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.610-612
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• 2005

사용자의 환경정보(Context)는 기존 서비스나 정보 검색을 효과적으로 하기위해 이용되고 있다. 이러한 환경정보중의 사용자 위치정보는 많은 어플리케이션이나 연구에서 유용하게 사용되고 있다. 이미 많은 연구에서 사용자의 위치를 인식하기 위해서 다양한 기술을 이용한 방법을 제안했다. 하지만 기존 연구들은 특정 환경기반 시나리오를 기반으로 개발해서 다양한 위치정보를 필요로 하는 위치기반 서비스를 제공하기 어렵다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 IrDA(Infrared Data Association)의 Line of Sight 통신 특성을 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 위치인식 시스템의 유효성을 보여주기 위한 방법으로 "박물정보 제공 서비스"를 프로토타입으로 구현하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12A
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• pp.1177-1184
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• 2008

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation can severely weaken the accuracy of ranging and localization in wireless location systems. NLOS bias mitigation techniques have recently been proposed to relieve the NLOS effects, but positively rely on the capability to accurately distinguish between LOS and NLOS propagation scenarios. This paper proposes an energy-capture-based NLOS identification method for LDR-UWB systems, based on the analysis of the characteristics of the channel impulse response (CIR). With this proposed energy capture method, the probability of successfully identifying NLOS is much improved than the existing methods, such as the kurtosis method, the strongest path compare method, etc. This NLOS identification method can be employed in adaptive modulation scheme to decrease bit error ratio (BER) level for certain signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The BER performance with the adaptive modulation can be significantly enhanced by selecting proper modulation method with the knowledge of channel information from the proposed NLOS identification method.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2001

The purpose of this thesis is to search the situation of an outbreak of the fallacy and methods of its treatment. We regard intuition as origins of genuine knowledge, but it sometimes raises the fallacy by intrinsic characters of itself. It makes an examination of the fallacy of the sense of sight like an optical illusion to instance that of sense. The sense of sight is an important factor in an intuitive cognition. However, its activity without thinking raises the fallacy of intuition in the process to observe and judge the things. I point out the fallacy of intuition which originates from terms and concepts in mathematical problems. The concept of mean velocity is representative. In this case, students make a mistake which means velocity can be solved by dividing the sum of v$_1$ and v$_2$ into two. The methods which overcome the fallacy of intuition are balance of intuition and logic, overcome of functional fixedness, the development of intuitive models and the development of metacognitive ability.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.13-16
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• 2008

The line of sight(LOS) is affected by the vibration of spacecraft. It is necessary to predict the effect of disturbance on LOS stability. Reaction wheel assembly is anticipated to be the largest disturbance source on spacecraft. The disturbance which is occurred mainly due to the mass imbalance is analyzed with harmonic numbers. The accuracy and stability are verified by probability density function with dynamic equation of the satellite motion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.609-611
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• 2013

There's little to obstacles obstructing communication in the sky. There are nearly fixed obstacles obstructing communication on the ground. But communication disruption can be occur frequently and unexpectedly on the sea surface. Especially, it is difficult for a small station which can be greatly affected by waves and low antenna height to secure the LOS for radio communication. In this paper, LOS and minimum antenna height is calculated due to changing wave height and Tx/Rx antenna height on the sea surface.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.24-33
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• 2009

The present study deals with the optimization of the leading edge shape around a wing-body junction to minimize the strength of the horseshoe vortex, which is one of the main factor generating the secondary flow losses. For this purpose, approximate optimization method is used for the optimization. The study is performed by using $FLUENT^{TM}$ and $iSIGHT^{TM}$. The total pressure coefficient for the optimized model was decreased about 9.79% compared with the baseline model.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.36-47
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• 1996

By integrating the eye head-position monitioring devices, the present authors developed an eye-controlled human/computer interface based on the line-of-sight and an intentional blink to invoke commands. Also modified was an existing calibration method to reduce the visual angle between the target center and the intersection point of the derived line-of-sight. This modified calibration method allowed 108 or more command blocks to be displayed on the 14 inch monitor with the target acquisition probability(hit rate) of 98% when viewed at the distance of 500 mm apart. An active triggering method using an intentional blink was proposed and was shown to be a feasible and efficient alternative to invoke commands with total triggering time of 0.8 sec or less. The system could be used by the normal people as well as the handicapped individuals as a new human/computer interface.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an effective time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization method with adaptive bias computation in indoor environments. The goal of the localization is to estimate an accurate target's location in wireless localization system. However, in indoor environments, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors block the signal propagation between target device and base station. The NLOS errors have significant effects on ranging between two devices for wireless localization. In TOA-based localization, finding the target's location inside the overlapped area in the TOA-circles is difficult. We present an effective localization method using compensated distance with adaptive bias computation. The proposed method is possible for the target's location to estimate an accurate location in the overlapped area using the measured distances with subtracted adaptive bias. Through localization experiments in indoor environments, estimation error is reduced comparing to the conventional localization methods.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.397-410
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• 2016

This paper proposes a novel cooperative localization method for distributed wireless networks in 3-dimensional (3D) global positioning system (GPS) denied environments. The proposed method, which is referred to as hybrid ellipsoidal variational algorithm (HEVA), combines the use of non-parametric belief propagation (NBP) and variational Bayes (VB) to benefit from both the use of the rich information in NBP and compact communication size of a parametric form. InHEVA, two novel filters are also employed. The first one mitigates non-line-of-sight (NLoS) time-of-arrival (ToA) messages, permitting it to work well in high noise environments with NLoS bias while the second one decreases the number of calculations. Simulation results illustrate that HEVA significantly outperforms traditional NBP methods in localization while requires only 50% of their complexity. The superiority of VB over other clustering techniques is also shown.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1011-1018
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• 1992

A series of experiment has been performed on the spray characteristics in a cylindrical confined space with the injection pressure taken as a parameter. By using a single-hole patternator and the Malvern particle sizer, the spray mass flux, drop size and volume concentration distributions along the radial and axial directions were obtained ; the line-of- sight data by Malvern particle sizer have been converted to the ring-of-sight data by using the tomographical transformation techniqe. The experimental results show that, due to the restriction on the ambient gas entrainment by the wall boundary, the effective spray angle is increasing. The spray drops were measured to be smaller in the confined space because of a large number of floating small drops by recirculation of the gas phase and the breakup of large drops by the wall collision. Also the details on the flow behavior of the confined spray are discussed.