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Design of a Propagation Wave Type Microrobot for Moving on the Slippery Surface

  • Kim, Eui-Jin;Park, Jong-Hyeon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2072-2077
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    • 2003
  • Animal-like robots are serving an important role as a linkage between biology and engineering. So, in this paper, we aim to develop a biomimetic microrobot that mimics the locomotion mechanism of a gastropod. This microrobot has 3 DOF (x, y translation and rotation), and has small size, unlimited traveling range, high resolution and low cost. Its movement can be made using propagation wave that is generated by the controllable sinusoidal voltage source and piezoelectric effects. This soft motion that can be generated by propagation wave and piezoelectric mechanism would be useful for the motion on the slippery surface. So we modeled the propagation wave mechanism including piezoelectric effect and friction on the contact surface, and could know the velocity of the microrobot is dependent on the driving frequency, input voltage peak, propagation wavelength and surface friction coefficient. With these results we design the microrobot, and accomplish its fabrication and experimentation. The development of this microrobot shall be aimed to design an autonomous moving actuator like animal. Also it can be used from micromanipulation system technology to biology and medicine.

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Stimulation Effect of a Soft Ferrite Ceramic Powder on Growth in Plant Cell and Tissue Cultures (연자성 세라믹 분말에 의한 식물세포 및 조직의 생장촉진 효과)

  • Ahn, Jun-Cheul;Kim, Yu-Jung;Park, Chan-Young;Hwang, Baik
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.530-534
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    • 1998
  • The addition of the ceramic powder as state of bare in culture medium has stimulated the growth of Achyranthes japonica in both the disorganized cell and the plantlet. The grwoth rate of Hyoscyamus niger adventitious root and Pylatycodon grandiflorum hairy root was enhanced up to 100 and 250%, respectively, even though Scopolia parviflora hairy root and Hyoscyamus albus adventitious root were not. The ceramic powder has enhanced the growth of H. niger adventitious root even in a test tube immersed into its culture medium to irradiate alone without any direct contact. The ceramic powder seems to have a significant role on both the growth and the physiological action of some plants.

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Contact Microscopy by Using Soft X-ray Radiation from Iodine Laser Produced Plasma (옥소 레이저 플라즈마에서 발생된 연 X-선을 이용한 밀착 현미경 기술)

  • 최병일
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1990.02a
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    • pp.49-53
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    • 1990
  • Laser plasma was generated by a 1 GW iodine photodissociation laser(λ=1.315${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, E-12.7J) whose output beam was focused on a molybdenum target surface. The experiment was conducted in the vacuum chamber under 10-5Torr and several tens of laser shooting were necessary for sufficient exposure to the PBS resist. A speciman was put directly on the resist and located at a distance of 3cm from the X-ray source. The replicas of a mesh, spider's tread, a red blood cell were obtained by PBS resist and were analyzed by Nomarski and SEM. Two main effects of limitation in resolution, source size and Fresnel diffraction, are mentioned and compared with the experimental result. In this experiment, a resolution better than 1000A could be obtained.

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Bioceramic Effects to Enhance Secondary Metabolites Production in Tissue Culture of Some Medicinal Plants

  • Kim, Yu-Jeong;Hwang, Baik;Ahn, Jun-Cheul
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.118-122
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    • 2004
  • We have investigated that a couple of soft ferrite ceramic powders having a spinal structure have shown the effect on growth and secondary metabolites production of some medicinal plants cultured in vitro. The addition of the ceramic powders as bare state to culture medium has stimulated the growth of Achyranthes japonica callus and plantlet, adventitious root of Hyoscyamus niger and Platycodon grandiflorum hairy root about 65, 75, 150 and 50%, respectively. Whereas Centella asiatica callus and plantlet, Scopolia parviflora hairy root, and Hyoscyamus albus adventitious root were not affected markedly. Moreover, the ceramic powder has enhanced the growth of H. niger adventitious roots even under conditions of irradiating alone without any direct contact between ceramic powder and media. Based on growth stimulation effect, the ceramic powders have enhanced the gross production of tropane alkaloid in H. niger adventitious root, and polyacetylene in P. grandiflorum hairy root about 35 and 30%, respectively.

Giant Lipoma of the Hand: A Case Report (수부에 발생한 거대 지방종: 증례 보고)

  • Kim, Woo-Sung;Jung, Yu-Hoon;Cho, Nam-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korean bone and joint tumor society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.97-100
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    • 2013
  • Lipomas are the commonest soft tissue tumor. However, those arsing in the hand are infrequent. Lipomas in the hand that exhibit a size of more than 5 cm call giant lipoma, these are very rare only case reports and small series of this entity have been described. We could experience a case about giant lipoma of the hand which cannot easily contact, we report a case including review of literatures.

Walking of a biped robot with compliant ankle joints (순응성 발목 관절을 갖는 두발 로보트의 보행)

  • 이건영
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.1157-1160
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    • 1996
  • Control of a biped robot which has compliant ankle joints is dealt in this paper. Simulated version of a human ankle joint is built using springs and mechanical constraints, which gives a flexibility of joint and compliance against the touching ground. The biped robot with compliant ankle joints proposed here gives a good contact between its sole and the ground and makes foot landing soft. As a result, installing force sensors for measuring the center of gravity of the biped becomes easier. A motor to drive an ankle joint is not needed which makes legs light. However, the control problem becomes more difficult because the torque of the ankle joint to put the biped in a desired walking gait cannot be provided from the compliant ankle joint. To solve this problem, we proposed a dynamic gait modification method by adjusting the position of a hip joint. Simulation results for the mathematical model of the SD-2 biped in the Ohio State University are given to show the validity of the proposed controller.

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초 저 소비전력 및 저 전압 동작용 FULL CMOS SRAM CELL에 관한 연구

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    • The Magazine of the IEIE
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.38-49
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    • 1997
  • 0.4mm Resign Rule의 Super Low Power Dissipation, Low Voltage. Operation-5- Full CMOS SRAM Cell을 개발하였다. Retrograde Well과 PSL(Poly Spacer LOCOS) Isolation 공정을 사용하여 1.76mm의 n+/p+ Isolation을 구현하였으며 Ti/TiN Local Interconnection을 사용하여 Polycide수준의 Rs와 작은 Contact저항을 확보하였다. p-well내의 Boron이 Field oxide에 침적되어 n+/n-well Isolation이 취약해짐을 Simulation을 통해 확인할 수 있었으며, 기생 Lateral NPN Bipolar Transistor의 Latch Up 특성이 취약해 지는 n+/n-wellslze는 0.57mm이고, 기생 Vertical PNP Bipolar Transistor는 p+/p-well size 0.52mm까지 안정적인 Current Gain을 유지함을 알 수 있었다. Ti/TiN Local Interconnection의 Rs를 Polycide 수준으로 낮추는 것은 TiN deco시 Power를 증가시키고 Pressure를 감소시킴으로써 실현할 수 있었다. Static Noise Margin분석을 통해 Vcc 0.6V에서도 Cell의 동작 Margin이 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, Load Device의 큰 전류로 Soft Error를 개선할수 있었다. 본 공정으로 제조한 1M Full CMOS SRAM에서 Low Vcc margin 1.0V, Stand-by current 1mA이하(Vcc=3.7V, 85℃기준) 를 얻을 수 있었다.

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$\mu$CP Process Technology for Nanopattern Implementation (나노패턴 구현을 위한 $\mu$CP 공정기술)

  • 조정대;신영재;김광영
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.624-627
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    • 2003
  • Microcontact printing (uCP) of alkanethiols on gold was the first representative of soft-lithography processes. This is an attempt to enhance the accuracy of classical to a precision comparable with optical lithography, creating a low-cost, large-area, and high-resolution patterning process. Microcontact printing relies on replication of a pattered PDMS stamp from a master to form an elastic stamp that can be inked with a SAM solution(monolayer -forming ink) using either immersion inking or contact inking. The inked PDMS stamp is then used to print a pattern that selectively protects the gold substrate during the subsequent etch.

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Development of a Pressure Distribution Measurement System (압력분포 측정시스템의 개발)

  • 정진호;이기원;김영호
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.213-218
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    • 2000
  • Pressure distributions of the soft tissue are valuable for understanding and diagnosing the disease characteristics due to the mechanical loading. Our system measures dynamic pressure distributions in real-time under the general PC environment, and analyzes various foot disorders. Main features of the developed system are as follows: (1) With the resistive pressure sensor matrix of 40${\times}$40 cells, the data is sent to the PC with the maximum sampling rate of 40 frames/sec. (2) For each frame, contact area, pressure and force are analyzed by graphic forms. Thus, various biomechanical parameters are easily determined at specific areas of interests. (3) A certain stance phase can be chosen for the analysis from the continuous walking, and the detailed biomechanical analysis can be done according to an arbitrary line dividing anterior/posterior or medial/lateral plantar areas. (4) The center of pressure (COP) is calculated and traced from the pressure distribution data, and thus the movement of the COP is monitored in detail. A few experiments revealed that our system successfully measured the dynamic plantar distribution during normal walking.

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The Finite Element Analysis of Foundation Layer by Introducing Interface Element (접합요소를 도입한 기초지반의 유한요소해석(지반공학))

  • 정진섭;이대재;봉기영
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.425-430
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    • 2000
  • In the analysis of deformation in which the stiffness is greatly different between the adjacent materials, the desired results have been obtained by using the interface element method compared with those secured by the conventional method of the concept of continua. This study deals with the deformation analysis of soft foundation by the introduction of interface element. The physical conditions of interface element are divided into three categories by Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion ie. sliding, separation, and contact. Finally the accuracy of the program proposed in this paper is proved highly accurate by performing the comparison of the theoretical values numerical results of a model element with simplified boundary conditions.

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