• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.97-106
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• 2007

Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has developed over the last 35 years to become a scientifically, technologically and clinically recognized field of interest in clinical medicine. FES has been applied to locomotion, grasping, ventilation, incontinence, and decubitus healing. However, all of these achievements illustrate the initial applications of FES; its true potential has not yet been realized. Recently, FES systems, which are miniaturized stimulation devices, have been utilized in the clinical setting. However, because the stimulating electrodes of the current FES devices are percutaneous electrodes, which are susceptible to wire breakage, and skin infection an implantable FES stimulating electrode has been introduced in the U.S. and Japan. In the present study, an external power supply method using radio frequency (RF) coupling and data transmission was developed for the control of the implantable FES device. In addition, we review the current understanding of FES devices and their application in clinical medicine.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.475-484
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• 1990

This paper proposes a method for the implementation of a power line communication equipment using power line synchronization in a direct-sequence spread spectrum communication system. In order to implement a network using a power line as a transmission channel we have investigated the utilization of direct-sequence speread spctrum which gives such advantages as robustness against narrow-band interference and noise, and realization of multiple access. In a power line, however, complexity of synchronization makes it difficult to realize a multiple access and cost down and system simplification. The proposed technique of power line synchronization makes it possible to get cost down and system size small, and the realization of multiple communication can be achieved by the addition of address setting circuit.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.253-265
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• 2016

In this study, travel time data collection of mine equipments was conducted in an underground mine using a reverse Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system. In the reverse RFID system, RFID readers and antennas are mounted on mine equipments, and RFID tags are attached to the underground mine gallery. Indoor experiments were performed to analyze how RFID reader transmission power levels affect tag readable area and tag recognition rates. The results showed that travel time measurement become precise when the reader transmission power was reduced, however tag recognition rates were reduced. The field experiments indicated that setting the reader transmission power to 28 dBm maintained the tag recognition rate while minimizing the tracking location error. In addition, the results revealed that the reverse RFID system can be used successfully in an underground mine to collect the travel time data of haulage trucks.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.55-60
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• 2020

As research and development of eco-friendly vehicles are expanding worldwide, additional devices of vehicles are reduced or deleted to increase the mileage, or research is being conducted to reduce weight. Among them, the multi-stage transmission that was applied to the internal combustion engine vehicle was deleted and replaced with a reducer, and the initial driving power is secured by increasing the torque through the control of the motor output value. However, since frequent motor speed change can result in a load increase, this study attempts to develop a compact and lightweight manual two-stage reducer with a general reducer structure. Therefore, a two-speed transmission with two gear ratio was designed by inserting a large gear and a small gear in a structure with a parallel shaft to connect the gears with a V-belt in the form of a parallel shaft reducer, and setting the gear ratio of the low and high gears respectively. In addition, power performance according to the rotational speed and load of the transmission was checked through a test, and the heat generation characteristics generated during driving were checked to verify the validity of the transmission.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.538-544
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• 1999

One of the most important requirements for the development of computerized relay setting system is its openness to abbommodate the various changes like new panel additions. This paper describes the relay settein-coordination system(PROSET2000), which has an open system architecture and adopts the dbject oriented programming paradigm. Its main features include the intelligent fault type identification, automatic running of the short circuit analysis, ren-time rulebase modification, automatic documentation, ect.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.286_287
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• 2009

In this paper, the protectability of distance relay is furtherly researched. Based on the probabilistic modeling of the measurement errors, the protectability of three zones is presented in detail by considering their different protection aims denoted by sensitivity and selectivity. The optimal setting for the each zone can be obtained to provide a reference for the practical application.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2008

This paper defines a concept of "protectability" for the performance evaluation of distance relay considering its sensitivity and selectivity. The paper starts from the probabilistic modeling of the errors, and based on this model, a detailed explanation of protectability calculation for each zone of the distance relay is presented. An effect of the Weighting Rate and the Measurement Deviation on the protectability evaluation is also given. By considering this effect, the optimization of relay setting can be realized. The proposed method is applied to a typical model system to show its effectiveness.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.151-161
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• 2012

This paper considers a two-user Gaussian interference channel with energy harvesting transmitters. Different than conventional battery powered wireless nodes, energy harvesting transmitters have to adapt transmission to availability of energy at a particular instant. In this setting, the optimal power allocation problem to maximize the sum throughput with a given deadline is formulated. The convergence of the proposed iterative coordinate descent method for the problem is proved and the short-term throughput maximizing offline power allocation policy is found. Examples for interference regions with known sum capacities are given with directional water-filling interpretations. Next, stochastic data arrivals are addressed. Finally, online and/or distributed near-optimal policies are proposed. Performance of the proposed algorithms are demonstrated through simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.484-486
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• 2002

In this paper, installation type is analyzed into a single and mixed burying type on burying situation of domestic underground transmission cables, and problem of underground cable is discussed with investigating the relation between burying type and sheath circulation current. Investigated cable systems are 520 T/L which have 512T/L for 154kV and 8T/L for 345kV. The authors consider that the analysis of sheath circulating current with burying type will contribute for setting reduction methods of sheath circulation current.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.129-132
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• 1990

This paper reports an expert system for coordination of protective relays in the high voltage transmission system. The proposed system consists of five modules and has adopted the frame and production rule representations achieving the efficient data storage and knowledgebases. It has an interface to the fault program PSS/E and has reduced the data retrival time by implementing the local database containg only the minimum information for the process. Different relay parameters and output formats of the setting results can be easily incorporated owing to the rule-based structure. Graphics-based output helps understanding of the process and enhances the practical power.