• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.137-144
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• 1978

A method is presented here in order to determine a nonlinearity correction of observed counter rates in a GM counter. An expression, which is developed under the assumption of dead time dependence on counting rates, gives good agreement with the results obtained from the experimental work. The variation of pulse voltages from a GM counter with counting rates was measured with the aid of pulse height analyzer. This method gives accurate values for the dead time over a wide range of counting. The technique as outlined allows tile exact correction of the nonlinearity caused by dead time loss. It was observed that the dead time decreases as the counting rate increases.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.8-10
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• 2005

In a general purpose inverter, a dead-time compensation strategy is very important for reducing torque ripples and acoustic noises of motors. However, in the case of small capacity inverter, the accurate dead-time compensation is hard to be obtained because a removal of the switching noise in a feedback current signal is difficult on condition of low-cost implementation. In this paper, the operation characteristics of the general purpose inverter applied the dead time compensation algorithm using an instantaneous back calculation of the phase angle of the current are presented.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2023

A model for calculating structure interacted mechanics is proposed. A structural interaction model and controller design based on tuned mass damping (TMD) was developed to control the induced vibration. A key point is to introduce a new analytical model to evaluate the properties of the TMD that recognizes the motion-dependent nonlinear response observed in the simulations. Aiming at the problem of increased current harmonics and low efficiency of permanent magnet synchronous motors for electric vehicles due to dead time effect, a dead time compensation method based on neural network filter and current polarity detection is proposed. Firstly, the DC components and the higher harmonic components of the motor currents are obtained by virtue of what the neural network filters and the extracted harmonic currents are adjusted to the required compensation voltages by virtue of what the neural network filters. Then, the extracted DC components are used for current polarity dead time compensation control to avert the false compensation when currents approach zero. The neural network filter method extracts the required compensation voltages from the speed component and the current polarity detection compensation method obtains the required compensation voltages by discriminating the current polarity. The combination of the two methods can more precisely compensate the dead time effect of the control system to improve the control performance. Furthermore, based on the relaxed method, the intelligent approach of stability criterion can be regulated appropriately and the artificial TMD was found to be effective in reducing cross-wind vibrations.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.195-205
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• 1997

The propulsion marine diesel engine have been widely applied with a mechanical- hydraulic governor to control the ship speed for long time. But it was recently very difficult for the mechani¬cal - hydraulic governor to control the speed of engine under the condition of low speed and low load because of jiggling by rough fluctuation of rotating torque and hunting by dead time of Desiel engnie The performance improvement of mechanical - hydraulic governor is required to solve these problems of control system. The electro - hydraulic governor using PID algorithm is provided to compensate the faults of mechanical- hydraulic governor. In this paper, in order to analyze the ship speed control system, the transfer function was converted from the z tansformation to w transformation. The influence of dead time changing by engine speed which induces hunting phenomena was investigated by Nichols chart of w plane. As a method of performance improvement of mechanical hydraulic governor, a Eletro - hydraulic governor shows that fine control results can be obtained through optimal parameter tuning of PID

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1352-1354
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• 2005

In this paper, an improved dead time compensation method which is concerned about dead time and extra time in Pulse-Width-Modulation(PWM) period is presented comparing the existing dead time compensation. The voltage drop across the switches are modeled excluding effect of stray capacitor. A low pass filter(LPF) is adopted for accurate detecting of current polarity. The method is based on Space-Vector-Pulse-Width-Modulation(SVPWM). All simulation results are presented using MATLAB and Simulink.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.395-403
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• 2006

This paper has proposed a new dead time compensation method for a voltage-fed PMW inverter. In the voltage-fed PMW inverter, a voltage distortion is generated by the dead time effect and the nonlinear characteristics of the switching devices. Especially, the distorted voltage causes 5th and 7th harmonics in the stationary phase currents, and 6th harmonic in the synchronous phase currents. As a result, the integrator output of the synchronous PI current regulator has the ripple corresponding to six times of the inverter output frequency. In this paper, the signal of the integrator output of the d-axis current regulator is used as the control signal for the dead time compensation. The experimental and simulation results are presented to verify the validity of the proposed method.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.569-576
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• 2011

This paper proposes a new dead time compensation method for a PWM inverter. Recently, PWM inverters are extensively used for industry applications, such as ac motor drives, distributed grid-connected systems and a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). Nonlinear characteristics of the switch and the inverter dead time cause a current distortion and deterioration of power quality. The dominant harmonics in the output current are the $5^{th}$ and $7^{th}$ harmonics in the stationary frame, and the $6^{th}$ harmonics in the synchronous rotating frame. In this paper, a resonant controller which compensates the $6^{th}$ harmonics in the synchronous rotating frame is proposed. This method does not require any off-line experimental measurements, additional hardware and complicated mathematical computations. Furthermore, the proposed method is easy to implement and does not cause any stability problem.

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
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• v.33 no.50
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• pp.326.1-326.10
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• 2018

Background: This retrospective study analyzed the causes of failure in the management process from the identification of brain-dead potential organ donors to actual donation in Korea over the past 5 years. Methods: Data of 8,120 potential brain deaths reported to the Korea Organ Donation Agency were used, including information received at the time of reporting, donation suitability evaluation performed by the coordinator after the report, and data obtained from interviews of hospital medical staff and the donor's family. Results: From January 2012 to December 2016, the total number of brain-dead potential organ donors in Korea was 8,120, of which 2,348 (28.9%) underwent organ procurement surgery with designated recipients. While the number of transplant donors has increased over time, the ratio of transplant donors to medically suitable brain-dead donors has decreased. The common causes of donation failure included donation refusal (27.6%), non-brain death (15.5%), and incompatible donation (11.6%); 104 potential donors (7.8%) were unable to donate their organs because they were not pronounced brain dead. Conclusion: The rate of successful organ donation may be increased by analyzing the major causes of failure in the brain-dead organ donation management process and engaging in various efforts to prevent such failures.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.41-43
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• 2013

PMSM 구동을 하였을 때, 인버터의 지령전압과 출력전압 사이에 왜곡이 발생하며, 대부분 Dead Time에 의한 영향 이다. 전압왜곡을 보상하는 여러 가지 방법 들이 연구되어왔다. 하지만 전압 왜곡의 보상이 abc 축 또는 dq축에서 이루어지고 있으나 어느 방식이 더 좋은지에 대한 검토가 없었다. 본 논문에서는 d-q축 전압방정식과 abc축 전압방정식으로부터 왜곡된 전압을 보상하는 방법을 비교한다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.353-355
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• 1997

A single molecule detection system, which consists of confocal fluorescence microscope and single photon counter, has been used to observe the dye concentration dependence of photon counting rate. With increasing concentration, a saturation effect of counting is observed and demonstrated on the basis of the dead time of photon detector. The equations presented here show the relations between the counting rate and some parameters such as probe volume, quantum efficiency of detector, and fluorescence photon number entered onto detector. The signal-to-noise ratio is also discussed briefly.