• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.1554-1560
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• 2019

Development of digital main control rooms (MCRs) has greatly changed operating environments by altering operator tasks, and thus the unique characteristics of digital MCRs should be considered in terms of human reliability analysis. Digital MCR tasks can be divided into primary tasks that directly supply control input to the plant equipment, and secondary tasks that include interface management conducted via soft controls (SCs). Operator performance regarding these secondary tasks must be evaluated since such tasks did not exist in previous analog systems. In this paper, we analyzed SC-related tasks based on simulation data, and classified the error modes of the SCs following analysis of all operational tasks. Then, we defined the factors to be considered in human reliability analysis methods regarding the SCs; such factors are mainly related to interface management and computerized operator support systems. As these support systems function to reduce the number of secondary tasks required for SC, we conducted an assessment to evaluate the efficiency of one such support system. The results of this study may facilitate the development of training programs as well as help to optimize interface design to better reflect the interface management task characteristics of digitalized MCRs.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2005

Electromyogram (EMG) signal generated by voluntary contraction of muscles is often used in rehabilitation devices because of its distinct output characteristics compared to other bio-signals. This paper proposes a novel EMG-based human-computer interface for electric-powered wheelchair users with motor disabilities by C4 or C5 spine cord injury. User's commands to control the electric-powered wheelchair are represented by shoulder elevation motions, which are recognized by comparing EMG signals acquired from the levator scapulae muscles with a preset double threshold value. The interface commands for controlling the electric-powered wheelchair consist of combinations of left-, right- and both-shoulders elevation motions. To achieve a real-time interface, we implement an EMG processing hardware composed of analog amplifiers, filters, a mean absolute value circuit and a high-speed microprocessor. The experimental results using an implemented real-time hardware and an electric-powered wheelchair showed that the EMG-based human-computer interface is feasible for the users with severe motor disabilities.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2017

최근에 증가한 무인항공기(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV) 활용에 따라 다양한 UAV 제어 방법이 도입되고 있다. 일반적으로는 UAV 조종기를 통해 직접 제어하는 방법이 많이 활용되고 있다. 하지만, 세밀한 UAV 제어를 위해서는 직관적인 사용자 인터페이스가 필요하다. 이 논문에서는 다수개의 Myo로 UAV를 제어하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해서 기 개발된 지상관계시스템을 통해 Myo로 UAV를 제어하는 방법을 소개한다. 체감형 인터페이스로 UAV를 제어함으로써 직관적인 제어가 가능하다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.284-291
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• 2007

This study was to investigate performance of position, basic controls and additional control for man-machine interface on a 3-point hitch of a tractor. The developed additional control was one-touchup, backup, turnup, liftarm limited, PTO on/off and an external control. As a result of experiment, maximum steady state error of response system was lower than $0.8^{\circ}$ and this result showed the function operated normally because the dead band of system set was ${\pm}1^{\circ}$. There was no abnormal situation by switch operation and sensor signal during the performance test. The results of experiment showed the characteristics of the response was sufficient to be used as the position and additional control system for tractors.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.89-100
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• 2006

OBS 망을 위한 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스 도입은 OBS 망의 전달평면과 제어평면의 분리를 실현하여 OBS 스위치의 구현을 단순화시키고, 망의 다양한 융통성을 제공한다. 그러나 GSMP 프로토콜의 실행 오버헤드로 인하여 연결설정이 증가하는 단점이 있다. 또한 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스에서 망 관리의 위치가 제어기인지, 스위치인지 명확하게 규정되어 있지 않으며, OBS에 대한 망 관리의 연구결과는 전무한 상태이다. 본 논문에서는 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스 기반의 OBS 망에서 연결설정 지연을 최소화하기 위하여 중앙집중형 연결제어 서버를 이용한 병렬형 연결설정 메커니즘을 제안한다. 또한 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스가 적용된 OBS 망의 연결, 구성, 성능 및 장애관리를 위한 관리객체를 정의하고, 이들 관리 정보가 관리 기능별로 OBS 스위치와 제어기에 분산되어 탑재되는 분산 망 관리 모델을 제안한다. 제안한 병렬형 연결설정 메커니즘 및 분산 망 관리 모델을 이용한 망 관리 기능의 구현을 통하여 OBS 제어 및 망 관리의 실현성을 확인하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.72-79
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• 2003

This paper deals with the development of an interface program for automatic plate forming, which can exchange information between the heating line information generation program and the automatic heating apparatus. In this paper, the performance of the developed interface program has been verified from the view point of numerical position control. By applying the interface program to the operation of the automatic heating apparatus, an experiment of line heating has been conducted for several steel plate models. Based on the experimental results, a simplified relation to estimate angular distortion has keen derived as a natural characteristic of the present automatic heating apparatus. As a result of the present study, the prototype of the automatic plate forming system has been constructed, and its application to the real surface models found in the ship will be presented in the near future.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2021

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a technology that acquires and analyzes electrical signals from the brain to control external devices. BCI technologies can generally be used to control a computer cursor, limb orthosis, or word processing. This technology can also be used as a neurological rehabilitation tool for people with poor motor control. We reviewed historical attempts and methods toward predicting arm movements using brain waves. In addition, representative studies of minimally invasive and noninvasive BCI were summarized.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.109-112
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• 2006

This paper presents a dialogue interface using the dialogue management system as a method for controlling home appliances in Home Network Services. In order to realize this type of dialogue interface, we first investigated the user requirements for Home Network Services by analyzing the dialogues entered by users. Based on the analysis, we were able to extract 15 user intentions and 22 semantic components. In our study, example dialogues were collected from WOZ (Wizard-of-OZ) environment to implement a reasoning model for generating meaningful responses for example-based dialogue modeling technique. An overview of the Home Network Control System using proposed dialogue interface will be presented. Lastly, we will show that the Dialogue Management System trained with our collected dialogues behaves properly to achieve its task of controlling Home Network appliances by going through the steps of natural language understanding, response reasoning, response generation.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.129-140
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• 1998

An interface system was developed to offer the welding capability to a robot controller which had not any embedded function for arc welding before, and also an arc sensor algorithm was proposed for weld seam tracking of the welding robot. For the interface system between the robot controller and welding equipments, data communication software and interface connections were composed. The interface system was mae to correspond welding condition, correction data, operation sequence and current status with the robot controller by mutual had shaking and digital signal transfer. Graphic user interface program developed under the environment of windows made it easy to monitor data communication and operation status, and to control welding and sensing sequence. Arc sensing algorithm proposed in this study to compensate torch position error was based on a fuzzy logic with the variables of current difference and current differenced change at torch weaving extremities. The developed interface system could be successfully implemented in between welding equipments and the robot controller, and showed normal status and exact function in data and signal communication between the systems. The whole robot welding system was then examined to verify its welding and seam tracking capabilities in horizontal fillet, vertical fillet, and 3-dimensional fillet weldment. The experiments revealed sound weld bead shapes and also good seam tracing results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1989년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; Seoul, Korea; 27-28 Oct. 1989
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• pp.513-519
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• 1989

Modeling of the network interface for MAP and its performance analysis is investigated in this study. The parameters for the network interface are selected and a special interest is concentrated on the parameters related to the performance of the network interface itself. A queueing model of the network interface is proposed and simulation is performed to validate the proposed model of the network interface.