• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.310-318
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• 2008

This paper presents a parallel typed walking robot to improve walking space and stability region. The robot is designed by inserting an intermediate mechanism between upper leg mechanism and lower leg mechanism. The leg mechanism is composed of three legs and base, which form a parallel mechanism with ground. Seven different types of walking robot are invented by combining the leg mechanisms and an intermediate mechanism. Topology is applied to design the leg mechanism. A motor vector is adopted to determine Jacobian and a wrench vector is used to analyze dynamics of the robot. We explore the stability region of the robot from the reaction force of legs and compute ZMP including the holding force to contact the foot to a wall. This investigates a walking stability when the robot walks on the ground as well as on the wall. We examine the walking space generated by support legs and by swing legs. The robot has both a large positional walking space and a large orientational walking space so that it can climb from a floor up to a wall.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.572-580
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• 2010

The Wireless Mesh Network uses a wireless communication technology with transmission rates simular to a cable which is used as a backbone networks. The topology structure is in a Mesh form which resembles an Ad-hoc networks. However, a metric is needed in order to set the channel access control method to operate intentions and interior motions are different. In this document, an efficient channel for delivering datas to improve access controls to a wireless mesh networks. The improved performance of the proposed plan is for a hidden and exposed mesh client through an exclusive channels to perform a proposed and analyzed methods.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.33-41
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• 2010

The battery consumption and the wireless communication pattern were analyzed for the low power and the improvement of channel interferences between of Zigbee networks and WPAN(Wireless Personal Area Network). The communication patterns considering end device's battery saving during channel searching period were analyzed for low power consumption topology of Zigbee dynamic ad-hoc characteristics. And, the communication patterns were analyzed due to channel interferences between WLAN and Random Back off of Zigbee, too. As a result, the communication patterns of Zigbee's coordinator and end devices is alleviated for the longer battery life time of Zigbee's end device due to Zigbee's end device setting techniques.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.1116-1121
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• 2001

Phase shifter has been used as a means of power-flow control and for transient stability improvement in AC transmission system. Until now, phase shifters have been based on an injection transformer. Conventional phase shifters with tap changers require regular maintenance and allow only step-like control of the phase angle. This paper propose a three-phase phase shifter using PWM AC/AC converter, which can improve system response and control stability in the applications. This paper deals with the circuit topology, operating principle so that the features of the phase shifter will be shown through computer simulation, especially using PSIM software.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.272-280
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• 2002

The recent research topics on $CO_2$ arc welding power supplies are focused mainly on the reduction of spatter generation. The method for reducing the spatters can be approached in several ways: finding the new materials fur consumable electrode and shielding gases, researching on the circuit topology and the controller. In this paper, the metal transfer and several control methods for the $CO_2$ GMAW were described. And it was proposed and compared with other schemes that the control method for reducing spatter by controlling the welding current when short-circuit and re-ignition.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.254-265
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• 1994

For solving the optimal routing problem (ORP) in large data networks, and algorithm called the hierarchical aggregation/disaggregation and decomposition/composition gradient project (HAD-GP) algorithm os proposed. As a preliminary work, we improve the performance of the original iterative aggregation/disaggregation GP (IAD-GP) algorithm introduced in [7]. THe A/D concept used in the original IAD-GP algorithm and its modified version naturally fits the hierarchical structure of large data networks and we would expect speed-up in convengence. The proposed HAD-GP algorithm adds a D/C step into the modified IAD-GP algorithm. The HAD-GP algorithm also makes use of the hierarchical-structure topology of large data networks and achieves significant improvement in convergence speed, especially under a distributed environment. The speed-up effects are demonstrated by the numerical implementations comparing the HAD-GP algorithm with the (original and modified) IAD-GP and the ordinary GP (ORD-GP) algorithm.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.59-69
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• 2006

Bluetooth is reputed as a wireless networking technology supplying ad-hoc networks between digital devices. In particular, Bluetooth scatternet is an essential part of dynamic ad-hoc networks. Yet, there have not been sufficient researches performed on scatternet environment. This paper proposes a scatternet reformation algorithm for ad-hoc networks for instances where some nodes enter or leave the scatternet. The proposed algorithm is a general algorithm that can be applied to many types of Bluetooth scatternet regardless of the topology. The proposed algorithm is made for two reformation cases, i.e., nodes leaving and nodes entering. For the reformation when nodes leave a scatternet, the recovery node vector (RNV) algorithm is proposed. It has short reformation setup delay because the process involves a single page process (not including inquiry process). For the reformation when nodes enter a scatternet, the entry node algorithm is proposed. This is a simple and easily implementable algorithm. In this paper, real hardware experiments are carried out to evaluate the algorithm's performance where the reformation setup delay, the reformation setup probability and the data transfer rate are measured. The proposed algorithm has shown improvement in the reformation setup delay and probability.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.213-222
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• 2009

IEEE 802.15.3 HR-WPAN is designed to enable wireless connectivity of high-speed, low-power, low-cost multimedia-capable portable consumer electronic devices. For quality of service, the standard specifies the use of TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access). However, during low contention TDMA gives much lower channel utilization and higher delays than CSMA (Carrier Sensing Multiple Access) because in TDMA, a node can transmit only during its scheduled time slots whereas in CSMA, nodes can transmit at any time as long as there is no contention. By mixing CSMA and TDMA, Hybrid MAC becomes more robust to timing failures, time-varying channel conditions, slot assignment failures and topology changes than a stand-alone TDMA.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2323-2340
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• 2012

Recent advances in cognitive radio technology have drawn immense attention to higher layer protocols above medium access control, such as transmission control protocol (TCP). Most proposals to improve the TCP performance in cognitive radio (CR) networks have assumed that either all nodes are in CR networks or the TCP sender side is in CR links. In those proposals, lower layer information such as the CR link status could be easily exploited to adjust the congestion window and improve throughput. In this paper, we consider a TCP network in which the TCP sender is located remotely over the Internet while the TCP receiver is connected by a CR link. This topology is more realistic than the earlier proposals, but the lower layer information cannot be exploited. Under this assumption, we propose an enhanced TCP protocol for CR networks called TCP for cognitive radio (TCP-CR) to improve the existing TCP by (1) detection of primary user (PU) interference by a remote sender without support from lower layers, (2) delayed congestion control (DCC) based on PU detection when the retransmission timeout (RTO) expires, and (3) exploitation of two separate scales of the congestion window adapted for PU activity. Performance evaluation demonstrated that the proposed TCP-CR achieves up to 255% improvement of the end-to-end throughput. Furthermore, we verified that the proposed TCP does not deteriorate the fairness of existing TCP flows and does not cause congestions.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.257-263
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• 1999

Recently the performance of CO2 arc welding machine has been advanced significantly through the adoption of inverter circuit topology which made it possible to control the waveform of welding current and thus to suppress the spatter generation. However, the optimum waveform is still uncertain. As a first step for figuring out the promising waveforms, this study was performed to set-up the experimental system for studying the effect of waveform variables, The system designed in this study is a digital controller using single chip microprocessor of 80C196KC. As a result of performance test of this system, it was demonstrated all of the waveform variables could be set individually and the resultant waveforms appeared to be pretty much the same as the intended one.