• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.555-577
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• 2015

In the work at hand, the development of a morphing flap, actuated through shape memory alloy load bearing elements, is described. Moving from aerodynamic specifications, prescribing the morphed shape enhancing the aerodynamic efficiency of the flap, a suitable actuation architecture was identified, able to affect the curvature. Each rib of the flap was split into three elastic elements, namely "cells", connected each others in serial way and providing the bending stiffness to the structure. The edges of each cell are linked to SMA elements, whose contraction induces rotation onto the cell itself with an increase of the local curvature of the flap airfoil. The cells are made of two metallic plates crossing each others to form a characteristic "X" configuration; a good flexibility and an acceptable stress concentration level was obtained non connecting the plates onto the crossing zone. After identifying the main design parameters of the structure (i.e. plates relative angle, thickness and depth, SMA length, cross section and connections to the cell) an optimization was performed, with the scope of enhancing the achievable rotation of the cell, its ability in absorbing the external aerodynamic loads and, at the same time, containing the stress level and the weight. The conceptual scheme of the architecture was then reinterpreted in view of a practical realization of the prototype. Implementation issues (SMA - cells connection and cells relative rotation to compensate the impressed inflection assuring the SMA pre-load) were considered. Through a detailed FE model the prototype morphing performance were investigated in presence of the most severe load conditions.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2022

고령보행자를 포함한 교통약자는 신체적 능력이 저하되어 보행속도가 상대적으로 낮으며, 인지반응시간이 느린 특성을 가지고 있지만, 현재 교통약자를 위한 보행신호는 0.8m/s로 일률적으로 적용하고 있다. 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 스마트 횡단시스템이 개발되어 운영되고 있지만, 보행자별 적정 보행속도를 반영한 신호운영이 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 교통약자비율이 높은 지역에서 수집된 영상정보를 활용하여, 교통약자의 종류, 보행자의 수, 도로의 기하구조 등을 고려한 신경망모형과 다중회귀모형기반의 횡단속도 추정모델을 개발하였다. 이를 통해 개발된 모델을 스마트횡단시스템에 적용하여 실시간 교통약자에 따른 최적 보행신호 제공을 지원하고자 하였다. 경기도 파주시의 도시 교통 네트워크에서 수집된 실제 교통 상황 데이터 2,400개를 사용하였다. 모델의 성능은 상관계수, 평균 절대오차 등 7개의 선택된 지표를 통해 평가되었다. 다중선형회귀모델은 상관 계수가 0.652이고 MAE가 0.182였으며, 신경망모델은 상관계수가 0.823이고 MAE가 0.105로 나타나. 신경망모델이 더 높은 예측력을 보였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.339-347
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• 2023

Both the first author and the company of the second author were involved, directly or indirectly, in the design stage of a permanent link between the bottom of the Italian peninsula and the nearby Sicily island. This ambitious project was left in stand-by from 2013 to 2023. The current political revival originates some thoughts on the updated desired performance of suspension bridges, without any immediate reference to that specific crossing. It is simply regarded as a starting point. After an update on recent worldwide realizations, the authors focus their attention on four basic aspects: the span length, the girder scheme, the foundation technology and the bridge runability. Eventually, structural control and monitoring aspects are discussed as potentially innovative options in designing suspension bridges with railway crossing.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.169-177
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• 2010

철도는 다양한 분야에서 이용되며, 현재 많은 인원과 물류를 운송할 수 있는 효과적이고 친환경적인 교통수단이다. 근래에 들어 지하철을 비롯한 철도에 사고는 인명피해 및 물적 사고로 대부분 인재에 속하며, 이를 방지하기위한 안전 대책을 강구하는 방안이 추진 중이다. 본 논문에서는 철도 건널목 사고 예방을 위한 시스템의 개발을 목적으로 열차의 상황정보를 기반으로 기본적인 철도 건널목 안전관리시스템의 확장뿐만 아니라, 시스템 측면에서도 유연성을 제공할 수 있는 OSGi 프레임워크 기반 상황인지형 스마트 철도 건널목 안전 관리시스템을 구현하는 것을 목적으로 한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2019

This paper proposes a new method using multi-layer overlapped windows to improve the performance of YOLO network which is vulnerable to detect small dense objects. In particular, the proposed method uses the YOLO Network based on the multi-layer overlapped windows to track small dense vehicles that approach from long distances. The method improves the detection performance for location and size of small vehicles. It allows crossing area of two multi-layer overlapped windows to track moving vehicles from a long distance to a short distance. And the YOLO network is optimized so that GPU computation time due to multi-layer overlapped windows should be reduced. The superiority of the proposed algorithm has been proved through various experiments using captured images from road surveillance cameras.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.237-243
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• 2004

A multichannel smart sound sensor capable to detect and identify sound events in noisy conditions is presented in this paper. Sound information extraction is a complex task and the main difficulty consists is the extraction of high­level information from an one-dimensional signal. The input of smart sound sensor is composed of data collected by 5 microphones and its output data is sent through a network. For a real time working purpose, the sound analysis is divided in three steps: sound event detection for each sound channel, fusion between simultaneously events and sound identification. The event detection module find impulsive signals in the noise and extracts them from the signal flow. Our smart sensor must be capable to identify impulsive signals but also speech presence too, in a noisy environment. The classification module is launched in a parallel task on the channel chosen by data fusion process. It looks to identify the event sound between seven predefined sound classes and uses a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) method. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients are used in combination with new ones like zero crossing rate, centroid and roll-off point. This smart sound sensor is a part of a medical telemonitoring project with the aim of detecting serious accidents.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.703-720
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• 2020

This paper investigates the safety of the wind turbine blade against excessive deformation. For this purpose, the performance of the blade in the along-wind direction is improved by longitudinal stiffener made of shape memory alloy. The rationale behind the selection of this smart material is due to its ability to offer excellent thermo-mechanical behaviour at low strain. Here, Liang-Roger model is adopted for vibration control, and the super-elastic effects are utilised for blade stiffening. Turbulent wind fields are generated at the hub height using TurbSim and the corresponding loads are evaluated using blade element momentum theory. An efficient switching algorithm is developed along with performance curves that enable the designer to select an optimal mode of heating depending upon the operational scenario. Numerical results presented in this paper clearly demonstrate the performance envelope of the proposed stiffener and its influence on the reliability of the blade.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2024

The new metro crossing the existing metro will cause the settlement or floating of the existing structures, which will have safety problems for the operation of the existing metro and the construction of the new metro. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and predict the settlement of the existing metro caused by the construction of the new metro in real time. Considering the complexity and uncertainty of metro settlement, a Gaussian Prior Bayesian Emulator (GPBE) probability prediction model based on Bayesian optimization (BO) is proposed, that is, BO-GPBE. Firstly, the settlement monitoring data are analyzed to get the influence of the new metro on the settlement of the existing metro. Then, five different acquisition functions, that is, expected improvement (EI), expected improvement per second (EIPS), expected improvement per second plus (EIPSP), lower confidence bound (LCB), probability of improvement (PI) are selected to construct BO model, and then BO-GPBE model is established. Finally, three years settlement monitoring data were collected by structural health monitoring (SHM) system installed on Nanjing Metro Line 10 are employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of BO-GPBE for forecasting the settlement.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.223-234
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• 2017

The audible pedestrian signal (APS) is an add-on device which connects to the pedestrian signaling device and informs the contents and changes of the signaling by sound. It provides walking direction information of the pedestrian crossing so that the blind people can safely cross the pedestrian crossing. In an intersection where a plurality of audible pedestrian signal (APS) are installed at an intersection crosswalk, existing audible pedestrian signal (APS) operate simultaneously in the communication radius of a wireless remote controller, which may cause confusion for the blind people and the public may complain about the noise. In this paper, we developed a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)-based audible pedestrian signal (APS) system capable of supporting two-way communications with a smart-phone that can cross the intersection safely and improve the walking comfort and traffic safety for the blind people. The proposed method is a method in which the BLE beacon communication based audible pedestrian signal (APS) presents active service to the blind people, and the existing audible pedestrian signal (APS) is a way of requesting the passive service by the blind people with the wireless remote control by the unidirectional communication based on 358Mhz. The developed system is installed in the crossroad of Doma-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, and it is tested and operated by the blind people. The satisfaction evaluation and analysis of the audible pedestrian signal (APS) for the blind people have good results and are planned to be expanded in the future.

• 한국방재안전학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.105-113
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• 2023

전라남도는 국내에서 가장 많은 25곳의 연륙·연도교가 있으며, 다도해와 이를 잇는 해상교량을 중심으로 해양 및 관광 자원이 풍부한 지자체이다. 그러나, 해상교량의 경우 강풍, 태풍 등이 발생할 경우에는 교량의 구조적 안전성과는 별개로 교량의 과대진동 등으로 인하여 사용자와 지역주민들의 불안감이 증대되는 현안이 있다. 실제로 최근 2019년에 개통한 신안군의 천사대교의 경우, 강풍과 과대 진동으로 인한 차량 통행 제한이 빈번하게 발생하였고 그로인한 지역주민 및 운전자의 불안감 증대로 민원이 속출되고 있다. 따라서, IoT계측기술을 이용하여 측정된 데이터를 기반으로 정량적이고 정확한 교량의 풍황상황과 통행과 관련된 교량의 진동수준을 실시간으로 지역주민에서 제공함으로써 해상교량의 안전관리에 대한 지역주민 불안감을 해소가 필요하다. 본 연구는 기존의 계측시스템 및 IoT센서를 이용하여 해상교량의 풍속 상황과 진동을 상시적으로 관측하고 이를 지역주민 및 관리자에게 전파함으로써 해상교량의 안전 및 통행에 대한 불안감을 해소할 수 있으며, 강풍 및 대형 재난재해에 대해서도 사전대응이 가능한 기술을 개발하고자 한다.