• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.831-841
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• 2010

Usability evaluation of physical products involves characterizing complex physical interactions between humans and products. Human models known as manikins have been widely utilized as usability evaluation tools for automobile interior package design. When combined with computer-aided design software programs, such manikins can be used to simulate driving postures and evaluate driver-interior fits early in the design process, and therefore, may greatly facilitate achieving high-quality design in a cost-efficient manner. The purpose of this study was to define a set of manikins for designing automobile interior packages for the South Korean male population. These manikins were conceptualized as "boundary" manikins, which represent individuals lacking in certain physical capacities or having usability-related issues (e.g., an individual with the 5th percentile forward reach capability, an individual with the 95th percentile shoulder width). Such boundary manikins can serve as an efficient tool for determining if an automobile interior design accommodates the majority of the population. The boundary manikins were selected from the large sample of Korean males whose anthropometric dimensions were described in the recent Size Korea anthropometric database. For each male in the database, his comfortable driving posture was represented using a kinematic body linkage model and various physical capacity measured and usability-related characteristics relevant to driver accommodation were evaluated. For each such measure, a boundary manikin was selected among the Korean males. The manikins defined in this study are expected to serve as tools for ergonomic design of automobile interior packages. The manikin selection method developed in this study was implemented as a generic software program useful for various product design applications.

• 한국HCI학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2019

자율주행차량에서 전기자동차의 등장까지 자동차 산업은 급속도로 변화하고 있다. 이러한 변화 속에서 운전자가 자동차를 어떻게 제어하고 안전과 편의를 얻을 것인가에 대한 HMI 연구는 더욱 중요해지고 있다. 본 연구는 차량 제조사들이 어떠한 관점으로 주행상황을 이해하고 있으며, 운전자의 인터랙션을 어떻게 정의하고 한계 짓는가에 대해 이해하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 HMI에 대한 선행 연구를 리뷰하였으며, 15인의 참가자가 직접 5개 제조사의 차량을 실제 도로에서 운전하고 인터페이스를 사용해보는 온로드 연구를 수행하였다. 연구 결과를 통해 본 연구는 주행 중 운전자가 쉽게 제어할 수 있는 버튼과 스위치 류가 제조사별로 상이했으며, 주행 중 보다 집중적으로 제어할 수 있는 버튼과 제어하기에 어려운 버튼이 존재함을 확인하였다. Audi 차량은 '컨트롤러의 선택과 집중', BMW 차량은 '드라이빙 중심의 최적화', Benz의 차량은 '단순화와 최소화', Lexus의 차량은 '조작분산의 제거', KIA의 차량은 '시각적 안정감'을 HMI의 특징적 키워드로 도출할 수 있었다. 이것은 각 제조사들이 운전자의 드라이빙 제어 영역에 대한 정의와 해석이 다름을 보여준다. 본 연구는 외관으로 드러나지 않는 차량별 HMI의 특성을 실제 주행상황에서 파악해보았다는 점에서 기존의 연구와 차별적인 의미를 갖는다. 군집주행, 자율주행과 같은 주행환경의 변화와 HMI의 변화에서도 실제 주행을 통해 인터랙션의 차이를 확인해보는 본 연구의 접근이 유용하게 활용될 수 있기를 기대한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권4B호
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• pp.613-623
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• 2000

8-VSB(Vestigial Side-Band) 변조 기술을 이용하여 ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee) 규격을 만족하는 디지털 TV 튜너를 개발하였다. 이중(double)주파수 변환 및 능동 트래킹 여파기를 튜너 전치단에 이용하여 이미지 응답 및 IF(Intermediate Frequency)Beat 성분들의 억압, 인접 채널과 다채널 수신 시 상호 간섭배제 성능을 만족할 수 있도록 이용하였다. 그러나 NTSC(National Television Systems Committee) 튜너와는 달리, 이중 주파수 변환을 이용하는 디지털 TV 튜너는 트래킹 필터 및 첫 번째 전압제어발진기 사이의 주파수 상관 관계가 존재하지 않는다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 마이크로 콘트롤러, EEPROM(Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), 디지털/아날로그 변환기, 차동 증폭기 및 스위치 드라이버가 조합된 하드웨어 및 트래킹 전압에 따른 주파수 특성에 대한 주파수 매핑을 구하여 자동 주파수 선택이 가능한 변형된 구조 및 방법을 제시하였다.

• 소음진동
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.247-253
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• 2000

The evaluation of the ride quality had been performed by the subjective method before ISO2631(International Organization for Stadard 2631) and BS6841(British Standard 6841) was precented, but many research programs have been performed by the objective method after that. On this study, the ride quality was evaluated related with the objective method which considered the vibration which the human body feels on the driver's seat while driving on the road. In particular, we made the shock absorber nonlinear model and also selected the suitable shock absorber in the part of the vibration which the human body feels into the simulation. The shock absorber of suspension was dealt with 3 cases respectively with the front wheel and rear wheel. The vibration of the car driving on the road can be transferred to the wheel, the suspension, the vehicle body, the seat and the human body. The signal which was gained from the seat(hip) and the floor(foot) of the human body was changed to the vibration signal which the human body felt through using the frequency weighting function. And then the performance of the shock absorber was calculated through the statistic processing.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.179-194
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• 2007

인공위성 전력계의 설계 및 분석은 위성 전체의 무게, 크기 및 성능을 결정하는 중요 변수로 작용한다. 위성체의 모든 타 부분체들은 전력계 설계의 영향을 받으며 특히 발사체 선정, 열 제어계 설계 및 구조계 설계의 경우 전력계의 성능 및 제한 조건 등 전력계 설계 결과에 매우 큰 영향을 받는다. 이 논문에서는 현재 국내에서 지속적으로 개발되고 있는 저궤도 위성의 전력계 설계를 위한 새로운 프로그램을 소개하고 타 위성의 설계 자료를 이용한 개발된 프로그램의 성능 실험 결과를 기술하였다. 실험 결과 제안된 전력계 설계 프로그램은 전력계 사이징 뿐 아니라 궤도상에서의 전력계 성능을 예측하는데도 사용할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.449-464
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• 2016

Objective: The objective of this study is to identify essential requirements of the instrument cluster's features and layout for elderly drivers through interview and paper prototyping. Background: Recent updates implemented in passenger vehicles require more complex information to be processed by drivers. Concurrently, a large portion of the US population, the baby boomer generation has aged, causing their physical and cognitive abilities to deter. Thus it is crucial that new methods be implemented into vehicle design in order to accommodate for the deterioration of mental and physical abilities. Method: Forty elderly drivers and twenty young drivers participated in this study. The test included three sessions including: 1) location value assessment to identify the priority of areas within the instrument cluster; 2) component value assessment to capture rankings of the degree of importance and frequency of use for possible instrument cluster components; and 3) paper prototyping to collect self-designed cluster with selection of designs for each component and location of features from each participant. Results: Results revealed differences in the area priority of the instrument cluster as well as the shape and location of component features for age and gender groups. Conclusion: The study provided insights on instrument cluster layout guidelines by proving elderly driver's mental model and preferred cluster design configurations to improve driving safety. Application: LCD-based vehicle instrument cluster design, with an adaptable feature configuration for cluster components and layouts.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.1065-1076
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• 2015

Network densification is regarded as the dominant driver for wireless evolution into the era of 5G. However, in this context, interference-limited dense small cell deployments are facing technical challenges in mobility management. The recently announced results from an LTE field test conducted in a dense urban area show a handover failure (HOF) rate of over 21%. A major cause of HOFs is the transmission failure of handover command (HO CMD) messages. In this paper, we propose two enhancements to HO performance in LTE networks - radio link failure-proactive HO, which helps with the reliable transmission of HO CMD messages while the user equipment is under a poor radio link condition, and Early Handover Preparation with Ping-Pong Avoidance (EHOPPPA) HO, which assures reliable transmission of HO CMD under a good radio link condition. We analyze the HO performance of EHOPPPA HO theoretically, and perform simulations to compare the performance of the proposed schemes with that of standard LTE HO. We show that they can decrease the HOF rate to nearly zero through an analysis, and based on the simulation results, by over 70%, without increasing the ping-pong probability.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2019

This paper suggests a car-following algorithm for urban environment, with multiple target candidates. Until now, advanced driver assistant systems (ADASs) and self-driving technologies have been researched to cope with diverse possible scenarios. Among them, car-following driving has been formed the groundwork of autonomous vehicle for its integrity and flexibility to other modes such as smart cruise system (SCC) and platooning. Although the field has a rich history, most researches has been focused on the shape of target trajectory, such as the order of interpolated polynomial, in simple single-lane situation. However, to introduce the car-following mode in urban environment, realistic situation should be reflected: multi-lane road, target's unstable driving tendency, obstacles. Therefore, the suggested car-following system includes both in-lane preceding vehicle and other factors such as side-lane targets. The algorithm is comprised of three parts: path candidate generation and optimal trajectory selection. In the first part, initial guesses of desired paths are calculated as polynomial function connecting host vehicle's state and vicinal vehicle's predicted future states. In the second part, final target trajectory is selected using quadratic cost function reflecting safeness, control input efficiency, and initial objective such as velocity. Finally, adjusted path and control input are calculated using model predictive control (MPC). The suggested algorithm's performance is verified using off-line simulation using Matlab; the results shows reasonable car-following motion planning.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.247-264
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• 2015

Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the priority of information presentation and the effective menu type to be placed in the center of a gauge cluster display for commercial trucks and to present a set of ergonomic designs for the gauge cluster display. Background: An effective ergonomic design is specifically needed for the development of the gauge cluster display for the commercial trucks, because more diverse and heavier information is delivered to truck drivers, compared to the information to passenger car drivers. Method: First, all the information that must be shown on the commercial truck display was collected. Then, the severity, frequency of use, and display design parameters were evaluated for those information by commercial truck drivers. Next, an analysis on the information attributes and the heuristic evaluation utilizing the display design principles were carried out. According to the results, a design alternative of the main screen to be displayed was constructed by priority. A comparative analysis between the alternative and existing main screens was also conducted to see the efficacy of the designs. Lastly, we conducted an experiment for the selection of menu type. The experiment was conducted using the driving simulator with an eye-tracking device. The independent variables were four types of the menu reflecting the commercial truck characteristics such as grid type, icon type, list type, and flow type. We measured preference, total execution time, the total duration of fixation on the gauge cluster area, and the total number of fixation on the gauge cluster area as dependent variables. Results: Four types of driver convenience information and six types of driver assistance information were selected as the information to be placed primarily on the main screen of the gauge cluster. The Grid type was the most effective among the menu types. Conclusion: In this study, the information that appears on the main screen of the display, the division of the display and the design of the menu type for commercial truck drivers were suggested. Application: This study is expected to be utilized as guidelines on the ergonomic design of a gauge cluster display for commercial trucks.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.103-113
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• 2003

본 연구는 교통 경로 탐색 가운데, 우회 경로 탐색과 선호 경로 탐색을 하였으며, 계층 분석법을 적용한 퍼지비가법 제어기 사용을 제안한다. 이것은 기존의 경로 탐색과는 달리, 인간의 사고과정에 착안한 것으로, 애매한 주관적 판단을 정량적으로 분석, 평가하였다. 그리고 중요도를 운전 전문가로부터 의견 수렴한 것을 기초로 도출하였으며, 실제효용성을 진단하고자 경로 모델의 예를 사용하였다. 모델 평가는 평가 요소에 대한 속성 소속 함수화 및 평가치 규정, 계층 분석법에 의한 중요도 결정, $\lambda$-퍼지 척도에 의한 중요도의 비 가법적 표현, Choquet 퍼지 적분 등으로 수행하였다. 결국, 우회 경로 탐색 결과, 시시각각 변하는 교통환경에 적응할 수 있는 실 시간적인 교통 경로 제어가 가능하였으며, 선호 경로 탐색 결과, 본 연구의 알고리즘이 운전자 개인의 교통 경로 선택 성향을 잘 반영함을 보여 주었다. 논문은 5 가지의 중요한 의미가 있다. (1) 제안된 접근 방법은 운전자의 경로 선택 결정 과정과 유사하다. (2) 제안된 접근 방법은 다 속성의 경로 평가 기준을 제어 할 수 있다. (3) 제안된 접근 방법은 운전자의 주관적 판단을 비가법적으로 객관화 할 수 있다. (4) 제안된 접근 방법은 우회 경로 탐색에서 동적인 경로 탐색을 보여주고 있다 (5) 제안된 접근 방법은 선호 경로 탐색에서 개개 운전자 속성을 고려할 수 있다.