• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.5
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• pp.879-884
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• 2009

A Method for detection of saturation of a current transformer(CT) is proposed. The algorithm is initiated when the end point of a saturation period is detected. This detection is achieved by checking the time interval between the adjacent zero-crossing points of the second derivative of the secondary current. Once the end point of the saturation period is detected, the beginning point of the corresponding saturation period is determined by backward examination of the sum of the secondary current from the end point. The performance of the algorithm was evaluated for a-g faults on a 345 kV 100km overhead transmission line. The Electromagnetic Transient Program(EMTP) was used to generate fault current signals for different fault inception angles and different remanent fluxes. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed algorithm successfully detects the saturation period even in the presence of a remanent flux.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.49-53
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• 1992

In many applications such as speech analysis, speech coding, speech recognition, etc., the voiced-unvoiced decision should be performed correctly for efficient processing. One of the parameters which are used for voice-unvoiced decision is zero-crossing. But the information of higher formants have not represented as the zero-crossing rate for higher formants of speech signals.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.352-359
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• 1987

The cycloconverter operating on a circulating current-free mode has many zero crossing points. If an exact zero crossing points are not detected, the three phase-unbalanced currents will flow in a motor. In this paper, the current feedback using a current reference wave is proposed to improve the problems of zero crossing detection, three phase-unbalanced voltages, currents, and torgue ripples. To prevent the saturation of the air gap flux and keep the torque constant, the constant voltage / hertz control with IR compensation is adopted. The PI-controller is designed using the linearized model of the cycloconverterinduction motor system. Alsi, Z-80A single board computer has been used to implement the proposed scheme which results in the performance improvement of cycloconterter-fed induction motor speed control system.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 2008

Underwater ambient noise originating from geophysical, biological, and man-made acoustic sources contains information on the source and the ocean environment. Such noise affectsthe performance of sonar equipment. In this paper, three steps are used to identify the ambient noise source, detection, feature extraction, and similarity measurement. First, we use the zero-crossing rate to detect the ambient noisesource from background noise. Then, a set of feature vectors is proposed forthe ambient noise source using the Hilbert-Huang transform and the Karhunen-Loeve transform. Finally, the Euclidean distance is used to measure the similarity between the standard feature vector and the feature vector of the unknown ambient noise source. The developed algorithm is applied to the observed ocean data, and the results are presented and discussed.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.246-255
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• 1998

This paper presents a novel method for real-time malfunction detection of plasma etching process using EPD signal traces. First, many reference EPD signal traces are collected using monochromator and data acquisition system in normal etching processes. Critical points are defined by applying differentiation and zero-crossing method to the collected reference signal traces. Critical parameters such as intensity, slope, time, peak, overshoot, etc., determined by critical points, and frame attributes transformed signal-to symbol of reference signal traces are saved. Also, UCL(Upper Control Limit) and LCL(Lower Control Limit) are obtained by mean and standard deviation of critical parameters. Then, test EPD signal traces are collected in the actual processes, and frame attributes and critical parameters are obtained using the above mentioned method. Process malfunctions are detected in real-time by applying SPC(Statistical Process Control) method to critical parameters. the Real-time malfunction detection method presented in this paper was applied to actual processes and the results indicated that it was proved to be able to supplement disadvantages of existing quality control check inspecting or testing random-selected devices and detect process malfunctions correctly in real-time.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.396-399
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• 2003

This paper proposes a simple digital image stabilization(DIS) algorithm for roll motion, which has not been compensated in the 2-axes mechanical stabilization system, using aero-crossing of the rotational motion vectors. The 2-axes stabilization system cannot stabilize rolled images, which causes the deteriorated performance of the object detection and recognition. In this paper, we propose the rotational motion stabilization algorithm which estimates and compensates global motion in terms of rotational center and rotational angle. Both the synthetic images with undesirable rotational disturbance and the real images from 2-axes stabilization system are used to evaluate the proposed algorithm. The results show that our proposed algorithm suppresses the undesirable rotational disturbance effectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.37-39
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• 2009

In the research of speech recognition, locating the beginning and end of a speech utterance in a background of noise is of great importance. Since the background noise presenting to record will introduce disturbance while we just want to get the stationary parameters to represent the corresponding speech section, in particular, a major source of error in automatic recognition system of isolated words is the inaccurate detection of beginning and ending boundaries of test and reference templates, thus we must find potent method to remove the unnecessary regions of a speech signal. The conventional methods for speech endpoint detection are based on two simple time-domain measurements - short-time energy, and short-time zero-crossing rate, which couldn't guarantee the precise results if in the low signal-to-noise ratio environments. This paper proposes a novel approach that finds the Lyapunov exponent of time-domain waveform. This proposed method has no use for obtaining the frequency-domain parameters for endpoint detection process, e.g. Mel-Scale Features, which have been introduced in other paper. Comparing with the conventional methods based on short-time energy and short-time zero-crossing rate, the novel approach based on time-domain Lyapunov Exponents(LEs) is low complexity and suitable for Digital Isolated Word Recognition System.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.2246-2255
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• 1997

Gardner proposed an algorithm for timing recovery of BPSK/QPSK signals based on zero-crossing detection technique. When Gardner's method is applied to multi-level PAM signals, it suffers from increased timing jitter due to self noise. To alleviate this problem, an improved algoritjm is proposed in this paper. The timing function is modified so that it zero point at the transition of PAM signals, that results in remarkable reduced timing jitter. The performance of the proposed algorithm is analyzed and compared to that of Garner's one. Finally, analytical results are verified by computer simulation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.519-520
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• 2008

In this paper, we design and implement the monolithic zero crossing detection power factor correction IC using a high voltage 30V BCD process. The ZCD PFC IC is designed for power applications, such as notebook, LCD monitor, etc. It includes power factor correction function and several protection circuit, regulator, high-voltage high current output drivers. And also, the designed IC has restart timer function which the output pulse is generated if the output signal of IC is not in a 200us. The simulation results show that the designed IC acts properly as power factor correction IC with efficient protective functions.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.43-48
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• 1992

In the area of speech vocoder systems, the MBE vocoder allows the high quality and low bit rate. In the MBE parameters detection, the dicision methods of V/UV region proposed until now are dependent highly to the other parameters, fundamental frequency and formant information. In this paper, thus, we propose a new V/UV detection method that uses a zero-crossing rate of flatten harmonices spectrum. This method can reduce the influences of the other parameters for the V/UV regions detection.