• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.148-156
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• 2003

Many car manufacturers have frequently adopted an aggressive inflator and a lower threshold speed for airbag deployment in order to meet an injury requirement for unbolted occupant at high speed crash test. Consequently, today's occupant safety restraint system has a weakness due to an airbag induced injury at low speed crash event. This paper proposes a new crash algorithm to improve the weakness by suppressing airbag deployment at low speed crash event in case of belted condition. The proposed algorithm consists of two major blocks-crash severity algorithm and deployment logic block. The first block decides crash severity with two levels by means of velocity and crash energy calculation from acceleration signal. The second block implemented by simple AND/OR logic combines the crash severity level and seat belt status information to generate firing commands for airbag and belt pretensioner. Furthermore, it can be extended to adopt additional sensor information from passenger presence detection sensor and safing sensor. A simulation using real crash data for a 1,800cc passenger vehicle has been conducted to verify the performance of proposed algorithm.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.538-547
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• 2015

The goal of this study is to develop an algorithm to propose optimal deployment of detection sensor nodes in the target area, based on a performance surface, which represents detection performance of active and passive acoustic sonar systems. The performance surface of the active detection system is calculated from the azimuthal average of maximum detection ranges, which is estimated with a transmission loss and a reverberation level predicted using ray-based theories. The performance surface of the passive system is calculated using the transmission loss model based on a parabolic equation. The optimization of deployment configurations is then performed by a hybrid method of a virtual force algorithm and a particle swarm optimization. Finally, the effectiveness of deployment configurations is analyzed and discussed with the simulation results obtained using the algorithm proposed in this paper.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.316-321
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• 2012

본 논문은 셀룰러 시스템에서 에너지 효율적인 마이크로 기지국 배치 방안에 관한 것이다. 먼저 기지국 배치는 영역에 대한 고려가 필요하기 때문에 공간 스펙트럼 효율(ASE)을 제한조건으로 하여, 제한조건을 만족하면서 에너지 사용을 최소로 하는 최적화 문제를 제시한다. 최적화 문제의 계산 복잡도를 감소시키기 위하여 마이크로 기지국 배치에 따른 기지국 서비스 영역과 ASE간의 관계를 기반으로 하는 마이크로 기지국 배치 방안을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통하여 제한된 알고리즘이 일정 범위 안에서 최적해의 성능을 만족시킴을 보인다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.198-208
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• 2011

At a shipyard, the efficient handling of blocks is one of the most important factors in the shipbuilding process. We consider the problem of deployment planning of blocks from storage yards. As some information of block arrangement should be considered to handle the problem, we adopt the block arrangement based on the coordinates and sizes of each block at a storage yard. Deployment planning for a block involves deciding upon its transportation route from the storage yard and searching for blocks that would obstruct its transportation along this route. A tabu search algorithm for deploying several blocks is developed to minimize the number of obstructive blocks deployed together from the storage yards at a shipyard. The results of computational experiments show that the developed algorithm is very useful in the deployment planning of multiple blocks from the storage yards.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1351-1372
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• 2022

A self-organizing multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) deployment based on virtual forces has a difficulty in ensuring the quality-of-experience (QoE) of users because of the difference between the assumed center for users in a hotspot and an actual center for users in the hotspot. This discrepancy is aggravated in a non-uniform and mobile user distribution. To address this problem, we propose a new density based virtual force (D-VF) multi-UAVs deployment algorithm which employs a mean opinion score (MOS) as a metric of QoE. Because MOS is based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), a sum of users' MOS is a good metric not only to secure a wide service area but to enhance the link quality between multi-UAVs and users. The proposed algorithm improves users' QoE by combining virtual forces with a random search force for the exploration of finding multi-UAVs' positions which maximize the sum of users' MOS. In simulation results, the proposed deployment algorithm shows the convergence of the multi-UAVs into the position of maximizing MOS. Therefore, the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional virtual force-based deployment scheme in terms of QoE for non-uniform user distribution scenarios.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2006

Airbag deployment has been responsible for huge death, incidental injuries and broken bones due to low crash severity and wrong deployment decision. This misfortune has led the authorities and the industries to pursue uniquely designed airbags incorporating crash-sensing technologies. This paper provides a thorough discussion underlying crash sensing algorithm approaches for the subject matter. Unfortunately, most algorithms used for crash sensing still have some problems. They either deploy at low severity or fail to trigger the airbag on time. In this work, the crash-sensing algorithm is studied by analyzing the data obtained from the variables such as (i) change of velocity, (ii) speed of the vehicle and (iii) acceleration. The change of velocity is used to detect crash while speed of the vehicle provides relevant information for deployment decision. This paper also demonstrates crash severity with respect to the changing speed of the vehicle. Crash sensing simulations were carried out using Simulink, Stateflow, SimMechanics and Virtual Reality toolboxes. These toolboxes are also used to validate the results obtained from the simulated experiments of crash sensing, airbag deployment decision and its crash severity detection of the proposed system.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.658-663
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 실내 위치 추정시스템에 주로 사용되는 시퀀스 기반 위치추정(Sequence-Based Localization, SBL) 알고리즘의 성능향상을 위한 노드배치 알고리즘에 대해 연구한다. 기존의 노드선택 또는 배치알고리즘은 다수의 타겟이 위치하는 공간의 중심값에 노드들을 위치시켜 성능향상을 이루는 반면, SBL에서는 위치추적 알고리즘 특성상 타겟을 에워싸는 공간에서의 노드배치가 효율적일 수 있음에 주목한다. 이를 실현하기 위해 K-means clustering 알고리즘을 통한 노드배치 가능 공간을 선정하고, 그 선정된 공간상의 효율적 노드위치를 찾기 위해 2분법을 활용하여, 설계 복잡도가 낮은 노드배치 알고리즘을 제시한다. 제안된 노드배치알고리즘은 다양한 모의실험을 통해 무작위 노드배치 알고리즘 대비 뛰어난 위치추정성능을 보여주며, 노드위치를 위한 전역탐색 (full search)과 비교하여, 상당히 낮은 설계복잡도를 유지하면서도 만족할 만한 성능을 보인다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.369-376
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• 2005

In recent years, AGVs(Automated Guided Vehicles) have received growing attention as a subsystem of the integrated container operating system which enables unmanned control. improvement of job reliability, accuracy and productivity. Therefore, a number of works have been done to enhance the performance AGVs. In this paper. job deployment and a dynamic routing control system composed of supervisor, traffic controller. motion controller and routing table are discussed. A simple job deployment scheme and an efficient dynamic routing algorithm incorporating with the deadlock prediction and avoidance algorithm are investigated.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.26-38
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• 2020

Determining the optimal levels of the technical attributes (TAs) of a product to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction is the main activity in the planning process for quality function deployment (QFD). In real applications, the number of customer requirements for developing a single product is quite large, and the number of converted TAs is also high so the size of the house of quality (HoQ) becomes huge. Furthermore, the TA levels are often discrete instead of continuous and the product market can be divided into several market segments corresponding to the number of HoQ, which also unacceptably increases the size of the QFD optimization problem and the time spent on making decisions. This paper proposed a genetic algorithm (GA) solution approach to finding the optimum set of TAs in QFD in the above situation. A numerical example is provided for illustrating the proposed approach. To assess the computational performance of the GA, tests were performed on problems of various sizes using a fractional factorial design.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.182-193
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• 2000

Several metrics have been used in crash discrimination algorithms in order to have timely air bag deployment during all frontal crash modes. However, it is still challengine to have timely air bag deployment especially during the oblique, the pole and the underride crash mode. Therefore, in this paper a new crash discrimination algorithm was proposed, using the absolute value of the deceleration change multiplied by the velocity change as a metric, and processing the metric as a function of the velocity change. The new algorithm was applied for all frontal crash modes of a minivan and a sports utility vehicle, and it resulted in timely air bag deployment for all frontal crash modes including the oblique, the pole and the underride crash mode. Moreover, it was proposed that an accelerometer be installed at each side of the rails, rockers or pillars to assess the crash severity of each side and to deploy the frontal air bags at different time especially during an asymmetric crash such as an oblique and an offset crash. As an example, the deceleration pulses measured at the left and right B-pillar·rocker locations were processed through the new algorithm, and faster time-to-fires were obtained for the air bag at the struck side for the air bag at the other side.