• International Journal of Safety
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.10-13
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• 2009

In this study, a framework for web-based information system in VDN environment for safety and health monitoring in subway stations is suggested. Since physical variables that describing safety and health need to be closely monitored in multiple locations in subway stations, concept of distributed monitoring network using wireless media needs to be implemented. Connecting remote wireless sensor network and device (LonWorks) networks to the IP network based on the concept of VDN can provide a powerful, integrated and distributed monitoring performance, making a web-based information system possible.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2003년도 추계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.52-54
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• 2003

In automotive industry, light weight vehicle is one of issues because of air pollution. Therefore, automotive manufacturers have tried to apply light materials such as aluminum to car body. Welding aluminum using laser has some advantages good weld quality and high productivity. In this study, light emission which is generated in aluminum 6k21 welding with laser is measured using photodiodes. Analysis of relationship between sensor signals of welding variables and formation of keyhole and plasma is performed.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.632-639
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• 2014

Mechanical stress and the vacuum level are the two main factors dominating the quality factor of a resonator operated in the vacuum range 1 mTorr to 10 Torr. This means that if the quality factor of a resonator is very insensitive to the mechanical stress in the vacuum range, it is sensitive to mainly the ambient vacuum level. In this paper, a wafer-level packaged MEMS resonator with a highly vacuum-sensitive quality factor is presented. The proposed device is characterized by a package with out-of-plane symmetry and a suspending structure with only a single anchor. Out-of-plane symmetry helps prevent deformation of the packaged device due to thermal mismatch, and a single-clamped structure facilitates constraint-free displacement. As a result, the proposed device is very insensitive to mechanical stress and is sensitive to mainly the ambient vacuum level. The average quality factors of the devices packaged under pressures of 50, 100, and 200 mTorr were 4987, 3415, and 2127, respectively. The results demonstrated the high controllability of the quality factor by vacuum adjustment. The mechanical robustness of the quality factor was confirmed by comparing the quality factors before and after high-temperature storage. Furthermore, through more than 50 days of monitoring, the stability of the quality factor was also certified.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2011

This paper describes efficient flight control algorithms for building a reconfigurable ad-hoc wireless sensor networks between nodes on the ground and airborne nodes mounted on autonomous vehicles to increase the operational range of an aerial robot or the communication connectivity. Two autonomous flight control algorithms based on adaptive gradient climbing approach are developed to steer the aerial vehicles to reach optimal locations for the maximum communication throughputs in the airborne sensor networks. The first autonomous vehicle control algorithm is presented for seeking the source of a scalar signal by directly using the extremum-seeking based forward surge control approach with no position information of the aerial vehicle. The second flight control algorithm is developed with the angular rate command by integrating an adaptive gradient climbing technique which uses an on-line gradient estimator to identify the derivative of a performance cost function. They incorporate the network performance into the feedback path to mitigate interference and noise. A communication propagation model is used to predict the link quality of the communication connectivity between distributed nodes. Simulation study is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed reconfigurable airborne wireless networking control algorithms.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.235-241
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• 2024

Gas identification techniques using pattern recognition methods were developed from four micro-electronic gas sensors for noxious gas mixture analysis. The target gases for the air quality monitoring inside vehicles were two exhaust gases, carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x), and two odor gases, ammonia (NH₃) and formaldehyde (HCHO). Four MEMS gas sensors with sensing materials of Pd-SnO₂ for CO, In₂O₃ for NO_X, Ru-WO₃ for NH₃, and hybridized SnO₂-ZnO material for HCHO were fabricated. In six binary mixed gas systems with oxidizing and reducing gases, the gas sensing behaviors and the sensor responses of these methods were examined for the discrimination of gas species. The gas sensitivity data was extracted and their patterns were determined using principal component analysis (PCA) techniques. The PCA plot results showed good separation among the mixed gas systems, suggesting that the gas mixture tests for noxious gases and their mixtures could be well classified and discriminated changes.

• 센서학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.294-300
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• 2009

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) is performed by artificial ventilation and thoracic compression for the patient under emergent situation to maintain at least the minimum level of respiration and blood circulation for life survival. Quality of the pre-hospital CPR not only significantly affects the patient's survival rate but also minimizes side effects caused by CPR. Good quality CPR requires monitoring respiration, however, traditional respiratory air flow transducers cannot be used because the transducer elements are located on the flow axis. The present study developed a new technique with no physical object on the flow stream but enabling the air flow measurement and easily incorporated with the CPR devices. A turbulence chamber was formed in the middle of the respiratory tube by locally enlarging the cross-sectional area where the flow related turbulence was generated inducing energy loss which was in turn converted into pressure difference. The turbulence chamber was simply an empty enlarged air space, thus no physical object was placed on the flow stream, but still the flow rate could be evaluated. Both inspiratory and expiratory flows were obtained with symmetric measurement characteristics. Quadratic curve fitting provided excellent calibration formula with a correlation coefficient>0.999 (P<0.0001) and the mean relative error<1 %. The present results can be usefully applied to accurately monitor the air flow rate during CPR.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2018

Gas sensors based on metal oxide semiconductors are used in numerous applications including monitoring indoor air quality and detecting harmful substances like volatile organic compounds. Nanostructures, for example, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanodomes, and nanofibers have been widely utilized to improve gas sensing properties of metal oxide semiconductors, and this increases the effective surface area, resulting in participation of more target gas molecules in the surface reaction. In the recent times, 1-dimensional (1D) metal oxide nanostructures fabricated using anodic oxidation have attracted great attention due to their high surface-to-volume ratio with large-area uniformity, reproducibility, and capability of synthesis under ambient air and pressure, leading to cost-effectiveness. Here, we provide a brief overview of 1D metal oxide nanostructures fabricated by anodic oxidation and their gas sensing properties. In addition, recent progress on thin film-based anodic oxidation for application in gas sensors is introduced.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.658-663
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• 2018

현재 대기질 관측 방법은 지상관측망과 인공위성 자료를 기반으로 실시되고 있다. 그러나 현재 방법은 국소지역 및 특정 사업장에 대한 불법 대기오염 물질 배출 증거를 채집하는데 한계가 있으므로 첨단센서를 이용한 증거 채집 방법 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 이 연구에서는 이산화질소와 아황산가스 농도 측정에 있어 자외선 초분광센서의 활용 가능성을 분석하였다. 사용한 스펙트럼은 두 가지 종류로 복사전달모델을 이용하여 모의한 농도별 스펙트럼과 초분광센서를 이용하여 측정한 각 가스의 한 개 농도에 대한 스펙트럼이다. 초분광센서의 활용 가능성을 파악하기 위하여 모의한 스펙트럼과 초분광센서를 이용한 관측 스펙트럼의 차이를 분석하고, 모의 스펙트럼을 이용하여 가스의 농도에 따른 스펙트럼의 변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과 초분광센서로 관측한 스펙트럼과 복사전달모델로 모의한 스펙트럼이 매우 유사한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 모의한 스펙트럼에서 특정 파장의 흡수 깊이가 가스의 농도와 매우 높은 상관관계를 갖고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 초분광 센서를 이용하여 대기오염물질인 이산화질소와 아황산가스의 농도 추정 가능성이 높은 것으로 판단된다. 향후 연구에서는 초분광센서를 이용하여 다양한 농도에 대한 이산화질소와 아황산가스에 대한 스펙트럼을 관측하고, 농도 추정 가능성을 검증할 필요가 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.807-810
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• 2011

최근 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 핵심 기술인 센서 네트워크 기술이 각광을 받으면서 다양한 종류의 센서 노드로 구성된 센서 네트워크에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크는 부착된 태그와 센서로부터 사물 및 환경 정보를 감지, 저장, 가공, 전달하여 인간 생활에 폭넓게 활용되며, 환경오염에 대해서도 사람이 직접 측정 및 모니터링 하기 힘든 지역에 설치되어 활용되고 있다. 기존 네트워크에 비해 초소형, 저전력, 저비용으로 쉽게 구성 가능하기 때문에 꾸준히 연구되어지고 있으며 환경과 IT의 전략적 융합을 통한 그린 IT의 네트워크 접목 또한 중요한 연구분야로 조명되고 있다. 특수한 작업장이외의 주택실내나 일반 사무실 등에서의 공기오염 문제는 인간이 주거시설에 거주한 이례로 계속되어온 문제로서 그 대책이 시급하다. 쉽게 외부의 신선한 공기와 충분한 양의 환기로서 해결이 가능하나 사람이 계속해서 관리해 주기에는 불편한 상황이다. 본 논문에서는 센서네트워크 기반하에 실내 공기질을 관리를 할 수 있는 시스템을 설계하고, 효율적으로 운영 가능한 방안에 대해서 연구한다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2004

Asthma is one of the important respiratory diseases requiring home self care usually performed by commercialized peak expiratory flow meter (PEFM). However, this simple device can measure only single parameter, PEF, due to its purely mechanical principle, significantly limiting desease management quality. The present study introduced a new expiratory flow measurement technique by miniatured air expansion chamber easily installed within PEFM. Continuous pressure signal obtained from the chamber demonstrated an accurate quadratic relationship with flow. The volume measurement error was $<{\pm}1%$ well within the American Thoracic Society (ATS) criteria of 3%. Important spirometric parameters of FVC, PEF, and FEF25-75% were all accurately estimated with correlation coefficients > 0.95. The present technique obtains continuous expiratory air flow signal, making possible and convenient to perform spirometric test at home. Electronic interface capability would be also useful for remote asthma management.