• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1373-1375
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• 2002

태양광발전 시스템을 설치하여 동작상태의 데이터를 하고, 시스템을 분석하기 위한 목적의 데이터 취득 장치가 널리 이용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 기반의 데이터취득시스템(Computer-Based Data Acquisition System)의 개발에 대해 서술하고 있다. 제안된 시스템은 시스템이 설치될 곳의 환경요소(일사량, 온도 등) 및 전기적 출력 요소를 측정하기 위한 센서들로 구성하였으며, 측정된 데이터를 컨디셔닝 (Conditioning)과 변환 과정을 거친 후 데이터 취득카드를 통해 컴퓨터에 인터페이스(Interrace)시켰다. 태양광 발전 시스템의 동작상태를 실시간으로 모니터링하고, 취득된 데이터를 저장 및 분석하기 위한 목적으로 본 논문에서는 랩뷰-소프트웨어(Labview-Software)를 적용시킨 모니터링 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 모니터링 시스템은 그래픽화된 데이터-프로세싱 알고리즘을 사용하여, 상대적으로 짧은 기간 내에 시스템을 구현할 수 있고 시스템의 측정요소가 설치초기에 예상한 것보다 많아지거나 시스템이 용량이 증대되는 경우에도 그 적용성이 용이한 장점이 있다. 제안된 본데이터 취득 시스템을 독립형 태양광 설비에 적용하여 동작상태를 실시간으로 관찰하였고 동작특성을 분석 및 평가하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.881-890
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• 2010

Conventional fire detection systems use physical sensors to detect fire. Chemical properties of particles in the air are acquired by sensors and are used by conventional fire detection systems to raise an alarm. However, this can also cause false alarms; for example, a person smoking in a room may trigger a typical fire alarm system. In order to manage false alarms of conventional fire detection systems, a computer vision-based fire detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The proposed fire detection algorithm consists of two main parts: fire color modeling and motion detection. The algorithm can be used in parallel with conventional fire detection systems to reduce false alarms. It can also be deployed as a stand-alone system to detect fire by using video frames acquired through a video acquisition device. A novel fire color model is developed in CIE $L^*a^*b^*$ color space to identify fire pixels. The proposed fire color model is tested with ten diverse video sequences including different types of fire. The experimental results are quite encouraging in terms of correctly classifying fire pixels according to color information only. The overall fire detection system's performance is tested over a benchmark fire video database, and its performance is compared with the state-of-the-art fire detection method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.679-690
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• 2009

The paper presents a new photovoltaic inverter for stand-alone induction motor application. The proposed system is composed of two stages. First stage is for the photovoltaic dc power feeding and second stage is dedicated to the motor-inverter subsystem and control technique. A direct torque control (DTC) with a novel switching strategy for motor torque ripple minimization is introduced. The novel DTC strategy is based on selecting a suitable voltage vector group for motor torque ripple minimization. A three-level voltage source inverter (VSI) is used instead of a two level inverter because the first has more available vectors and lower ripples in the output current and flux than the second, thus it has lower torque ripples. The photovoltaic array and battery bank are sized and the configuration is indicated based on sun-hour methodology. Simulation results show a comparison between three systems; two level VSI with conventional DTC strategy, three level VSI with conventional DTC, and the proposed system that has a novel DTC switching strategy applied to three level VSI. The results show that the proposed system has lower ripples in the current, flux and torque of the motor.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.740-747
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• 2006

Amplification by universal consensus sequences in pathogenic bacterial DNA would allow rapid identification of pathogenic bacteria, and amplification of genus-specific and species-specific sequences of pathogenic bacterial DNA might be used for genotyping at the genus and species levels. For design of probes for molecular diagnostics, several tools are available as stand-alone programs or as Web application. However, since most programs can design only a few probe sets at one time, they are not suitable for large-scale and automatic probes design. Therefore, for high-throughput design of specific probes in diagnostic array development, an automated design tool is necessary. Thus, we developed a Web-based automatic system for design of genus-specific and species-specific probes for pathogen detection. The system is available at http://www.miprobe.com.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1628-1639
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• 2015

Line-interactive uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems are good candidates for providing energy storage within a microgrid. In this paper, a control scheme for a line-interactive UPS system applied in a low-voltage microgrid is presented. It is based on the Q-w and P-E droop control to achieve a seamless transition between grid-connected and stand-alone operation modes. Moreover, a new model for designing the controllers is built in the dq-frame based on the instantaneous power definition. The new-built model takes into account the dynamic performance of the output impedance of the inverter in the dq-frame and can be evaluated in the time domain. Compared to the traditional model based on the instantaneous power definition, the new-built model is more accurate to describe the dynamic performance of the system. Simulation and experimental results obtained with a microgrid consisting of two 40-kW line-interactive UPS systems are given to validate the control strategy of the line-active UPS system and the accuracy of the new-built model.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

This paper proposes a modeling and controller design approach for a wind-diesel hybrid system including dump load. Wind turbine depends on nature such as wind speed. It causes power fluctuations of wind turbine. Excessive power fluctuation at stand-alone power grid is even worse than large-scale power grid. The proposed control scheme for power quality is fuzzy PI controller. This controller has advantages of PI and fuzzy controller. The proposed model is carried out by using Matlab/Simulink simulation program. In the simulation study, the proposed controller is compared with a conventional PI controller. Simulation results show that the proposed controller is more effective against disturbances caused by wind speed and load variation than the PI controller, and thus it contributes to a better quality wind-diesel hybrid power system.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 1997

Most Virtual Reality Systems have been developed to support only a single user on a stand-alone system. With increasing availability of Internet, many people are taking strong interests in distributed Virtual Reality : the virtual environment is shared by many paticipants interacting over the network. To support sharing virtual environment and interactions on a network, we developed novel contributions to 3D world description and a network model. Interactive 3D world description is based on VRML, which is extended to support multi-user interactions. Then network model in our system consists of an architecture and a set of protocols for realizing a multi-user interactive shared 3D environment in IP multicast environment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10c
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• pp.191-193
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• 2008

A fuel cell power system among various alternative power sources has many advantages such as low-polluted, high-efficient, and heat-recyclable, thus it is now able to be up to hundreds MWh-scaled through improving feasibility and longevity of it. During the last few years of the twentieth century, much changed to stimulate new and expanding interest in fuel cell technology. This paper presents optimal design and operational features of stand-alone 500W PEMFC(Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell) system which can be a substitute instead fossil fuel. The stack of PEMFC is composed of 35 laminated graphite, and a unit cell of the stack has electrical characteristics as below; 14W, 0.9V, 15A. The other components of BOP(Balance of Plant) are composed of hydrogen and nitrogen tanks, regulators, 3way 5solenoid valves, mass flow meters, etc.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.675-684
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• 2016

This paper presents a new stand-alone wind-based induction generator system with constant frequency and adjustable output voltage. The proposed generator consists of a six-phase cage-rotor induction machine with two separate three-phase balanced stator windings and a three-phase space vector pulse width modulation inverter that operates as a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). The first stator winding is fed by the STATCOM and used to excite the machine while the second stator winding is connected to the generator external load. The main frequency of the STATCOM is determined to be constant and equal to the load-requested frequency. The generator output frequency is independent of the load power demand and its prime mover speed because the frequency of the induced emf in the second stator winding is the same as this constant frequency. A sliding mode control (SMC) is developed to regulate the generator output voltage. A second SMC is used to force the zero active power exchanged between the machine and the STATCOM. Some simulation and experimental results are presented to prove the validity and effectiveness of the proposed generator system.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2001

This paper presents a digital instrument for a DSP based power quality analysis in three phase power system where current waveform is non-sinusoidal. it is based on stand alone type TMS320C31 DSP(digital signal processor)board and on a special high-speed data acquisition system. Power quality of low power motor drives are analyzed and processed by using a simple average power algorithm, and result of power analysis are displayed by LCD in the proposed system. This paper also goes on to discuss the performance of an instrument prototype, both in terms of accuracy and speed of measurement under the transient and steady state condition.