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Educational Framework for Interactive Product Prototyping

  • Nam Tek-Jin
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.3 s.65
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    • pp.93-104
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    • 2006
  • When the design profession started, design targets were mainly static hardware centered products. Due to the development of network and digital technologies, new products with dynamic and software-hardware hybrid interactive characteristics have become one of the main design targets. To accomplish the new projects, designers are required to learn new methods, tools and theories in addition to the traditional design expertise of visual language. One of the most important tools for the change is effective and rapid prototyping. There have been few researches on educational framework for interactive product or system prototyping to date. This paper presents a new model of educational contents and methods for interactive digital product prototyping, and it's application in a design curricula. The new course contents, integrated with related topics such as physical computing and tangible user interface, include microprocessor programming, digital analogue input and output, multimedia authoring and programming language, sensors, communication with other external devices, computer vision, and movement control using motors. The final project of the course was accomplished by integrating all the exercises. Our educational experience showed that design students with little engineering background could learn various interactive digital technologies and its' implementation method in one semester course. At the end of the course, most of the students were able to construct prototypes that illustrate interactive digital product concepts. It was found that training for logical and analytical thinking is necessary in design education. The paper highlights the emerging contents in design education to cope with the new design paradigm. It also suggests an alterative to reflect the new requirements focused on interactive product or system design projects. The tools and methods suggested can also be beneficial to students, educators, and designers working in digital industries.

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Real-time Calculation of Geoid Applicable to Embedded Systems (내장형 시스템에 적용 가능한 지오이드의 실시간 결정)

  • Kim, Hyun-seok;Park, Chan-sik
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.374-381
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    • 2020
  • In order to improve the vertical position accuracy, the advantages of GPS and barometric altimeter are combined and used, but in order to fuse the two sensors, the geoid altitude must be compensated. In this paper, we proposed a technique that can calculate geoid altitude in real time even in low-cost embedded systems applied to drones or autonomous vehicles. Since the reference EGM08 is determined by a polynomial of the 2160th order, real-time calculation is impossible in the embedded system. Therefore, by introducing a linear interpolation technique, the amount of calculation was increased, and the storage space was saved by 75% by using the integer geoid height as a grid point. The accuracy of the proposed technique was evaluated through simulation, and it was confirmed that the accuracy of the maximum error is -1.215 m even in the region where the geoid change is rapid.

A Filter Design for Reducing Altitude Measurement Errors Arising during Aircraft Landing (항공기 착륙 시에 발생하는 고도측정 오차 개선을 위한 필터설계)

  • Song, Dae-Bum;Lim, Sang-Seok
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.97-107
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    • 1999
  • Passive sensors such as Laser Range Finder(LRF) and Forward Looking Infrared(FLIR) camera frequently used for tracking aircraft landing produce the measurements of elevation angle contaminated by large noise due to the exhaust plume disturbance. This results in poor tracking performance if the extended Kalman filter is used for estimation of the range and elevation which are corrupted by the non-Gaussian noise such as plume disturbance. In this paper, an adaptive estimation filter and the extended Kalman filter is combined to produce a combination-type filter. In this approach the adaptive filter is used for the plume-type disturbance noise and the extended Kalman filter is utilized for the measurement of Gaussian type. The proposed combination filter is effective for the trajectory estimation of landing aircraft under the influence of unknown bias and numerical simulations illustrate the performance of the proposed filter.

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An Energy Harvesting and Profiling System for Smart Video Devices (스마트 비디오 디바이스를 위한 에너지 하비스팅 및 프로파일링 시스템)

  • Kang, Doo-sik;Kim, Jun-sik;Park, Keon-woo;Lee, Myeong-jin
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, an energy harvesting and profiling system is designed for smart video devices in internet of things environments without dedicated power source. The energy harvesting module provides the harvested energy from solar panel to the smart video device. The energy profiling module measures the battery outflow current and the battery voltage of the smart video device and the consumed energy of processes, and calculate the harvested energy from the energy harvesting module to the smart video device and the total energy consumption of the smart video device. The accuracy of the harvested energy measured by the device energy profiling module is validated by comparing with the calculated energy using the regional solar radiation provided by Korea Meteorological Administration. Energy harvesting data from the designed energy harvesting and profiling system can be used to design the perpetual operation of smart video devices or Internet of Things sensors.

Vehicle Displacement Estimation By GPS and Vision Sensor (영상센서/GPS에 기반한 차량의 이동변위 추정)

  • Kim, Min-Woo;Lim, Joon-Hoo;Park, Je-Doo;Kim, Hee-Sung;Lee, Hyung-Keun
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.417-425
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    • 2012
  • It is well known that GPS cannot provide positioning results if sufficient number of visible satellites are not available. To overcome this weak point, attentions have been recently moved to hybrid positioning methods that augments GPS with other sensors. As an extension of hybrid positiong methods, this paper proposes a new method that combines GPS and vision sensor to improve availability and accuracy of land vehicle positioning. The proposed method does not require any external map information and can provide position solutions if more than 2 navigation satellites are visible. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, an experiment result with real measurements is provided and a result shows that accumulated error of n-axis is almost 2.5meters and that of e-axis is almost 3meters in test section.

Development of Wireless Data Transmission System for LPWA-based Industrial Sites (LPWA 기반 산업현장의 무선 데이터 전송 시스템 개발)

  • Kwon, Hyuk;Cho, Kyoung-Woo;Oh, Chang-Heon
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.37-42
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    • 2018
  • Recently, there have been many studies on the IoT environment in which the sensors attached to the equipment automatically transmit and process the site information in real time through the network to control the equipment. The core of such a system is a network for data transmission and reception, and a wired network with wide transmission distance is a priority. However, in the case of a wired network, there is a problem that the time and cost consumed to configure the communication is higher than that of the wireless. In this paper, we propose LPWA - based wireless data transmission system using LPWA and BLE communication to solve this problem. The proposed system collects data from equipment through BLE and transmits data to the server using LPWA. Experimental results show that the spreading factor of maximum length of LPWA is 8, and the minimum length is 9.

Design and Implementation of IoT Terminal Equipment for Vessels using Thuraya Geo-stationary Orbit Satellite (Thuraya 정지궤도 위성을 이용한 선박용 IoT 단말 장치 설계 및 구현)

  • Jang, Won-Chang;Lee, Myung-Eui
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2020
  • Satellite communication is not used by many people like mobile communication, but it is a necessary technology for public service and communication services, such as providing the Internet in military, disaster, remote education and medical services, island areas, and infrastructure vulnerable areas. However, on ships and aircraft, mobile communications requiring base stations are either unavailable or restricted in their use. In this paper, we used a Raspberry Pi board as the terminal device to communicate network through satellite modem and PPP protocol, and implemented two-way data link using the text message of the modem to connect to the Thuraya geo-stationary orbit network. In addition, I/O devices were connected to the controller of the terminal equipment to design and implement an IoT device system for ships that can remotely access the system under control and control I/Os and transmit measured data through various sensors.

Modal Testing of Arches for Plastic Film-Covered Greenhouses (비닐하우스 아치구조의 모달실험)

  • Cho, Soon-Ho
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2010
  • To determine the static buckling loads and evaluate the structural performance of slender steel pipe-arches such as for greenhouse structures, a series of modal tests using a fixed hammer and roving sensors was carried out, by providing no load, then a range of vertical loads, on an arch rib in several steps. More attention was given to an internal arch where vertical and horizontal auxiliary members are not placed, unlike an end arch. Modal parameters such as natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping ratios were extracted using more advanced system identification methods such as PolyMAX (Polyreference Least-Squares Complex Frequency Domain), and compared with those predicted by commercial FEA (Finite Element Analysis) software ANSYS for various conditions. A good correlation between them was achieved in an overall sense, however the reduction of natural frequencies due to the existence of preaxial loads was not apparent when the vertical load level was about up to 38% of its resistance. Some difficulties related to the field testing and parameter extraction for a very slender arch, as might arise from the influences of neighboring members, are carefully discussed.

Thickness Measure and Characteristic Length for Effective Young's Modulus of Model Ice Plate in the Ice Basin (빙해수조 모형빙판의 두께 계측과 유효탄성계수용 특성길이 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Hwan;Choi, Bong-Kyun;Lee, Chun-Ju
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.353-360
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    • 2014
  • The model ice is created at KRISO (Korea Research Institute for Ships and Ocean Engineering) ice basin where model ship is tested to obtain the necessary data in order to design the ice breaking vessels and ocean structures operating in the northern pole sea area. Through the model ship test, ice breaking, clearing, ice-ship and ice-propeller interaction behavior can be obtained. Since mechanical properties of ice plate are required for the model test, some tests are performed to obtain the properties in this paper. First, ultrasonic devide is used to measure the thickness of the model ice plate and the results show the possibility of using ultrasonic method, yet more sophisticated device or special sensors are required to measure the ice thickness completely. And the defection of ice plate is measured using LVDT to compute the characteristic length of ice plate on the fluid, which is used to get the effective Young's modulus of model ice.

Development of TRT Kit for Optical Experiments with Reflective Telescopes (다양한 반사광학계 실험 실습을 위한 TRT Kit 개발)

  • Park, Woojin;Pak, Soojong;Chang, Seunghyuk;Kim, Geon Hee;Jeong, Byeongjoon;Kim, Sanghyuk;Lee, Hye-In;Ji, Tae-Geun;Gwak, Jeongha;Jo, Kwang;Kim, Hyoeun;Choi, Saepbyul;Park, Soonchang
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.52.3-53
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    • 2016
  • 일반적으로 사용되는 소구경 망원경은 경통에 의한 차폐로 인해 내부 구조를 보기 쉽지 않으므로, 망원경 광학계를 이해하기에는 적합하지 않다. 본 연구에서는 최소한의 배플 만을 사용하여 경통이 없는 구조의 개방형 망원경을 설계 및 제작하였다. 개발된 변환식 반사망원경 키트(TRT Kit, Transformable Reflecting Telescope Kit)는 부경 모듈을 교체하는 방식만으로 뉴턴식 망원경(Newtonian Telescope), 카세그레인식 망원경(Cassegrain Telescope), 그리고 그레고리식 망원경(Gregorian Telescope)으로 변형하는 것이 가능하다. 주경, 부경을 비롯한 망원경의 모든 부분은 사용자가 직접조립할 수 있도록 모듈화(Modularization) 하였다. 또한 부경에 부착된 슬라이딩 장치 및 리니어 스테이지(Linear Stage)는 망원경의 초점을 정밀하게 맞출 수 있도록 설계하였다. TRT Kit를 이용하여 학생들은 세 가지 형태의 망원경 광학계를 직접 조립하고 그 구조 및 성능을 비교해 볼 수 있으며, 광축 정렬, 정밀 초점 조절 과정을 통해 기본적인 광학계의 원리를 이해 할 수 있다.

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