• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2005

This paper addresses development of the ultra-light analog sun sensors for small satellite applications. The sun sensor is suitable for attitude determination for small satellite because of its small, light, low-cost, and low power consumption characteristics. The sun sensor is designed, manufactured and characteristic-tested with the target requirements of ${\pm}60^{\circ}$ FOV (Field of View) and pointing accuracy of ${\pm}2^{\circ}$. Since the sun sensor has nonlinear characteristics between output measurement voltage and incident angle of sunlight, a higher order calibration equation is required for error correction. The error was calculated by using a polynomial calibration equation that was computed by the least square method obtained from the measured voltages vs. angles characteristics. Finally, the accuracies of 1-axis and 2-axes sun sensors, which consist of 2 detectors, are compared.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.267-276
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• 2000

PSS(Pyramidal type 2-axes Analog Sun Sensor) which will be used for KAISTSAT-4 is designed to be small, light, low in power consumptions, and adequate for small satellite attitude sensor. The PSS for the KAISTSAT-4 consists of the pyramidal structure, solar cells and amplifier. The pyramidal structure is suitable for the 2-axes sensing, Solar cells are made up of a rectangular shape of crystal silicon. The PSS measures the angle of incident light and initial satellite attitude measurement, and provides an alarm for the sunlight-sensitive payloads. This paper explains the PSS structure and the characteristic test result about the PSS with $\pm$$50^{\circ}$in FOV, less than $\pm$$3^{\circ}$in accuracy.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.260-265
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• 2012

Satellite devices for fine attitude control of the Science & Technology Satellite-2 (STSAT-2). Based on the mission requirements of STSAT-2, the conventional analog-type sun sensors were found to be inadequate, motivating the development of a compact, fast and fine digital sun sensor (FDSS). The FDSS uses a CMOS image sensor and has an accuracy of less than 0.03degrees, an update rate of 5Hz and a weight of less than 800g. A pinhole-type aperture is substituted for the optical lens to minimize its weight. The target process speed is obtained by utilizing the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which acquires images from the CMOS sensor, and stores and processes the image data. The sensor accuracy is maintained by a rigorous centroid algorithm. This paper describes the FDSS designs, realizations, tests and calibration results.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2016

기존 디지털 출력 방식의 PIR 센서를 이용한 침입감지 시스템은 사람이 아닌 다른 물체에 대한 침입 탐지 오류가 많았다. 본 논문은 이를 극복하기 위하여 아날로그 출력 방식의 PIR 센서 기반 침입 감지 시스템을 제안한다. 아날로그 방식 PIR 센서는 임계값을 기준으로 이진 출력값 대신, 일정 범위 내의 다양한 전압 준위로 출력값을 내보낸다. 아날로그 PIR 센서를 이용하여 획득된 신호의 샘플링된 신호값으로부터 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) 또는 MFCC(Mel-frequency cepstrum codfficents)을 이용하여 신호의 주파수 성분을 추출하여, 인공 신경회로망(Artificial Neural Network)의 특징벡터로 사용된다. 다양한 인간의 움직임과 애완동물의 움직임에 대한 신호 패턴들을 학습한 인공 신경회로망을 통해서 침입상황에서 침입한 객체가 사람인지 애완동물인지 판별하게 된다.

• 태양에너지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.25-30
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• 1998

PTC용 태양추적장치는 최대 집열을 위하여 PTC를 항상 태양광이 입사되는 방향으로 일치시키기 위한 자동제어시스템이다. 본 연구는 마이크로프로세서를 사용하는 PTC용 1축 태양추적장치의 개발에 관한 것이다. 개발된 태양추적장치는 태양 위치를 판별하는 태양 센서와 DC 모터 위치제어기로 구성되어 있으며, 80c196KC를 사용하는 제어장치는 아날로그 입력 장치, 24V DC 서보모터제어기, 디지털 I/O로 구성되어 있다. 태양센서는 photodiode를 사용하여 제작되었으며, 태양센서의 법선 방향으로부터 ${\pm}50^{\circ}$ 이내에 위치하는 태양을 감지할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 태양추적장치는 현재 한국에너지기술연구소에 설치되어 있는 PTC에서 사용되고 있으며, 태양추적 정확도에 관한 연구가 현재 진행되고 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1787-1790
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• 2005

We have developed satellite devices for fine attitude control of the Science & Technology Satellite-2 (STSAT-2) scheduled to be launched in 2007. The analog sun sensors which have been continuously developed since the 1990s are not adequate for satellites which require fine attitude control system. From the mission requirements of STSAT-2, a compact, fast and fine digital sensor was proposed. The test of the fine attitude determination for the pitch and roll axis, though the main mission of STSAT-2, will be performed by the newly developed FDSS. The FDSS use a CMOS image sensor and has an accuracy of less than 0.01degrees, an update rate of 20Hz and a weight of less than 800g. A pinhole-type aperture is substituted for the optical lens to minimize the weight while maintaining sensor accuracy by a rigorous centroid algorithm. The target process speed is obtained by utilizing the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in acquiring images from the CMOS sensor, and storing and processing the data. This paper also describes the analysis of the optical performance for the proper aperture selection and the most effective centroid algorithm.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.173-180
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• 1996

이 논문에서는 우리별 1호와 2호의 간략한 설명과 우리별 I호와 통일한 구조를 가진 우리별 2호의 아날로그 태양 감지기의 동작원리, 보정 방법 및 궤도상의 운용결과를 서술한다. 아날로그 태양 감지기는 향후 위성 프로젝트를 위한 실험 탑재체로써 탑재되었다. 이 태양 감지기들은 위성이 요구하는 중량 및 전력 소모의 최소화에 알맞게 제작되었다. 두개의 일차원 아날로그 태양 감지기들이 우리벌 2호 위성의 윗면에 부착되어 있다. 각각의 태양 감 지기들은 $\pm60^{\circ}$의 앙각을 갖고 있으며 갑지기 두개가 총 $210^{\circ}$의 앙각을 가지므로 $30^{\circ}$의 중 첩부분이 있다. 일차원 태양 감지기들이 위성의 Z축에 정렬되어 있으므로 위성의 Z축(yaw 축)을 중심으로한 상대적인 태양각과 위성의 회전 속도만을 알 수 있다. 각각의 태양 감지기는 지상에서 5차 곡선 적합화(5th order line fitting) 알고리즘율 이용하여 보정수식올 얻었으며 이 수식들은 궤도상의 운용결과에 적용되었다. 그 결과 입사 태양광의 난반사가 가장 심한 입사각 $0^{\circ}$ 근처를 제외한다면 태양전지판용 실리콘 소자를 사용한 태양 감지기 1의 경우 $1.5^{\circ}$, 파기원에서 제작된 실리콘 광소자를 사용한 태양 감지기 2의 경우 $0.5^{\circ}$의 최대 오차흘 갖는 궤도 운용상의 성능을 보여 주었다. 그 결과들을 4장에 보였으며 각각의 태양 감지기의 성능과 가능한 감지기의 부확에 따롱 오차를 5장에 보인다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.485-486
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• 2006

This paper proposes a novel low-cost CMOS temperature sensor for controlling the self-refresh period of a mobile DRAM. In this temperature sensor, ring oscillators composed of cascaded inverter stages are used to obtain the temperature of the chip. This method is highly area-efficient, simple and easy for IC implementation as compared to traditional temperature sensors based on analog bandgap reference circuits. The proposed CMOS temperature sensor was fabricated with 80 nm 3-metal DRAM process. It occupies a silicon area of only about less than $0.02\;mm^2$ at $10^{\circ}C$ resolution with under 5uW power consumption at 1 sample/s processing rate. This area is about 33% of conventional temperature sensor in mobile DRAM.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.444-447
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• 2004

SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) is one of the most important performance for the electro-optical camera system. This paper shows not only the SNR analyses for the MSC system, which is the payload in the KOMPSAT2 satellite, but also the trials for its improvement in the electronics circuit design. The MSC deals with one panchromatic band and four multi-spectral bands. The SNR analyses are performed based on the MSC design for the each band and assuming that the defined radiance reached directly to the sensor entrance pupil. In the SNR calculation, shot noise, dark current noise, analog electronics noise and ADC quantization noise are considered as noise sources. In these noise sources, especially, the electronics noise depends on the camera electronics design. This paper shows the camera electronics design to increase SNR and its test results as well as the SNR analyses.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.387-392
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• 2010

This study was performed to design and to construct a digital soil cone index(CI) measuring device replacing conventional analog type devices. The device developed in the study consisted of a load cell, a rotary encoder and a motor with a decelerator as its main parts. The cone speed was controlled lower than 3.0 m/s which keeps the standard suggested by the ASABE S313.3 specification. The experiment was conducted in a soil bin system as well as in various fields. The CI data measured by the developed device were compared with those by an existing measurement device(SC900, Spectrum, USA). Based on the experiments at various field conditions, the CI measuring characteristic of the device was quite similar to that of the conventional device within a acceptable $R^2$ range of more than 0.5(mean=0.76). It was concluded that the digital cone index measuring device was an effective and comprehensive sensor for measuring soil strength.