• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.183-196
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• 2010

Monitoring and economical design of alternative energy generators such as wind turbines is becoming increasingly critical; however acquisition of the dynamic output data can be a time-consuming and costly process. In recent years, low-cost wireless sensors have emerged as an enabling technology for structural monitoring applications. In this study, wireless sensor networks are installed in three operational turbines in order to demonstrate their efficacy in this unique operational environment. The objectives of the first installation are to verify that vibrational (acceleration) data can be collected and transmitted within a turbine tower and that it is comparable to data collected using a traditional tethered system. In the second instrumentation, the wireless network includes strain gauges at the base of the structure. Also, data is collected regarding the performance of the wireless communication channels within the tower. In both turbines, collected wireless sensor data is used for off-line, output-only modal analysis of the ambiently (wind) excited turbine towers. The final installation is on a turbine with embedded braking capabilities within the nacelle to generate an "impulse-like" load at the top of the tower. This ability to apply such a load improves the modal analysis results obtained in cases where ambient excitation fails to be sufficiently broad-band or white. The improved loading allows for computation of true mode shapes, a necessary precursor to many conditional monitoring techniques.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.690-694
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• 2007

본 논문은 Wibro 시대를 맞아 차량내에서 인터넷이 가능하고 다양해지는 자동차 시스템에 적응하고 사용자가 자동차를 스스로 진단하고 이상이 생겼을 때 스스로 판단하여 자동차 정비소에 갔을 때 정확한 판단을 하여 신속하게 처리 할 수 있게 해 주며 자동차에 대해서 잘 모르는 운전자에게 정확한 정보를 제공한다. 주행 중에 자가 진단을 위해 임베디드 리눅스 시스템을 구축하고 자동차 와 진단 시스템의 통신을 위해 CAN과 RS232 통신을 통해 임베디드 리눅스 시스템과 통신을 한다. 또한 Wibro 시대를 맞아 디지털 흠 네트워크 가전들을 내장된 무선 네트워크와 ZigBee 시스템을 통해 언제 어디서나 웹을 통해 접근, 컨트롤 하는 임베디드 리눅스 시스템을 구축한다. 본 임베디드 리눅스 시스템은 초 경량화와 가격대비 성능 및 사용자 UI에 맞춰 시스템 구성하여 안정되고 호환성 높은 시스템을 구축한다. 그리고 미디어 플레이와 웹서버를 포팅하여 사용자 어플리케이션을 제공한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1826-1829
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• 2005

Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low power sensor network. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power, and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. Sensor network platform for health care has been designed, fabricated and tested. This system consists of an embedded micro-controller, Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver, power management, I/O expansion, and serial communication (RS-232). The hardware platform uses Atmel ATmega128L 8-bit ultra low power RISC processor with 128KB flash memory as the program memory and 4KB SRAM as the data memory. The radio transceiver (Chipcon CC1000) operates in the ISM band at 433MHz or 916MHz with a maximum data rate of 76.8kbps. Also, the indoor radio range is approximately 20-30m. When many sensors have to communicate with the controller, standard communication interfaces such as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or Integrated Circuit ($I^{2}C$) allow sharing a single communication bus. With its low power, the smallest and low cost design, the wireless sensor network system and wireless sensing electronics to collect health-related information of human vitality and main physiological parameters (ECG, Temperature, Perspiration, Blood Pressure and some more vitality parameters, etc.)

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2017

Considerable achievements in developing structural regulators as an important method for vibration control have been made over the last few decades. The use of large quantities of cables in traditional wired control systems to connect sensors, controllers, and actuators makes the structural regulators complicated and expensive. A wireless decentralized control experimental platform based on Wi-Fi unit is designed and implemented in this study. Centralized and decentralized control strategies as sample controllers are employed in this control system. An optimal control algorithm based on Kalman estimator is embedded in the dSPACE controller and the DSP controller. To examine the performance of this control scheme, a three-story steel structure is developed with active mass dampers installed on each floor as the wireless communication platform. Experimental results show that the wireless decentralized control exhibits good control performance and has various potential applications in industrial control systems. The proposed experimental system may become a benchmark platform for the validation of the corresponding wireless control algorithm.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.229-240
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• 2011

Recent developments in Smart Structures with very large scale embedded sensors and actuators have introduced new challenges in terms of data processing and sensor fusion. These smart structures are dynamically classified as a large-scale system with thousands of sensors and actuators that form the musculoskeletal of the structure, analogous to human body. In order to develop structural health monitoring and diagnostics with data provided by thousands of sensors, new sensor informatics has to be developed. The focus of our on-going research is to develop techniques and algorithms that would utilize this musculoskeletal system effectively; thus creating the intelligence for such a large-scale autonomous structure. To achieve this level of intelligence, three major research tasks are being conducted: development of a Bio-Inspired data analysis and information extraction from thousands of sensors; development of an analytical technique for Optimal Sensory System using Structural Observability; and creation of a bio-inspired decision-making and control system. This paper is focused on the results of our effort on the first task, namely development of a Neuro-Morphic Engineering approach, using a neuro-symbolic data manipulation, inspired by the understanding of human information processing architecture, for sensor fusion and structural diagnostics.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권7호
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• pp.597-607
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• 2014

선내 통합유무선 네트워크에서는 선내의 각종 센서와 제어기를 자율적으로 구성관리하고 원격제어를 제공하는 기능을 수행한다. 특히 센서장비에 장착되는 무선통신 모듈은 선내 통합유무선 네트워크와의 원활한 연결을 위하여 무선 게이트웨이 기능을 수행하는 브릿지(bridge)를 통한 데이터 전송방식이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 선내 통합유무선 네트워크를 위한 무선 브릿지로 와이미디어기반 통신방식구조를 제안한다. 제안한 무선 브릿지구조에서 선내 제어 유선네트워크의 정보를 효과적으로 전송할 수 있는 방안으로 분산적인 MAC 기반의 와이미디어 통신 방안을 적용하여 성능을 분석한다. 제안한 방식을 시뮬레이션한 결과, 선내 디바이스의 2홉 이동성에서는 신뢰성 있는 통신 성능이 보장됨을 나타내었다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.695-700
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• 2005

센서 네트워크는 많은 센서 노드들을 산개시켜 놓은 다음 노드들끼리 통신망을 구성하고 주위 환경 정보를 수집하고 분석한다. 각 노드들은 제한된 자원 내에서 지정된 일을 수행해야 하기 때문에 효율성이 극대화되어야 하고 하드웨어 자체의 성능도 뛰어나야 한다. 지금까지 기술적인 제약이 있었지만 최근 If 제조 기술과 무선 네트워크 기술의 급속한 발달로 인해 저렴하면서 전력소비가 적고 다양한 기능을 하는 소형 임베디드 시스템을 구성할 수 있게 되었다. 기술 발전과 함께 무선 센서 네트워크는 새로운 연구 분야로서 자리매김하였고 현재 여러 연구실에서 연구되어지고 있으며, 제각기 다른 이름으로 다양하게 불리고 있다. Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS), Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET), Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN). 현재 센서 네트워크 분야에서 TinyOS가 널리 이용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 TinyOS와 그 플랫폼을 이용해서 가정 내에서 컨텍스트 인식을 위한 센서 네트워크를 구성하고자 한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

The operation of subway trains induces secondary structure-borne vibrations in the nearby underground spaces. The vibration, along with the associated noise, can cause annoyance and adverse physical, physiological, and psychological effects on humans in dense urban environments. Traditional tethered instruments restrict the rapid measurement and assessment on such vibration effect. This paper presents a novel approach for Wireless Smart Sensor (WSS)-based autonomous evaluation system for the subway train-induced vibrations. The system was implemented on a MEMSIC's Imote2 platform, using a SHM-H high-sensitivity accelerometer board stacked on top. A new embedded application VibrationLevelCalculation, which determines the International Organization for Standardization defined weighted acceleration level, was added into the Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project Service Toolsuite. The system was verified in a large underground space, where a nearby subway station is a good source of ground excitation caused by the running subway trains. Using an on-board processor, each sensor calculated the distribution of vibration levels within the testing zone, and sent the distribution of vibration level by radio to display it on the central server. Also, the raw time-histories and frequency spectrum were retrieved from the WSS leaf nodes. Subsequently, spectral vibration levels in the one-third octave band, characterizing the vibrating influence of different frequency components on human bodies, was also calculated from each sensor node. Experimental validation demonstrates that the proposed system is efficient for autonomously evaluating the subway train-induced ambient vibration of underground spaces, and the system holds the potential of greatly reducing the laboring of dynamic field testing.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.249-251
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• 2009

Mobile patrol robots are mainly used in aerospace and military engineering because they can work at dangerous environment replacing a man. This paper presents a study on the remote monitoring and control system of a mobile patrol robot platform using TCP/IP. The mobile robot consists of intel PXA270 and linux-based system. It can get environment information such as images, temperature, humidity and slope by using two cameras and various sensors. And it transmits information data to a monitoring system through the ad-hoc network which is one of wireless network solutions. At this time, a mobile robot is a server and a monitoring system is a client. Users can monitor environment information which is received from a mobile robot by an application based on PC. We have used TCP/IP protocol, socket programming, interface technique of process and devices and control algorithm to embody the mobile robot and its monitoring system. Experimental results shows that the system can be utilized as a remote patrol monitoring tool.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2007

A coaxial rotor flying robot is developed for surveying and reconnoitering various circumstances under calamity environment. The robot has two contrarotating rotors on a common axis, an embedded microcontroller, an IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), an IR sensor for height control, a micro camera for surveillance, ultrasonic position sensors and wireless communication devices. A bell-bar mounted on the top of the upper rotor hub increases stability and improves flight performance. In this paper, we present a dynamic model of a coaxial rotor flying robot and design an embedded controller far the robot, and implement them to control the developed flying robot. Experimental results show that the proposed controller is valid for autonomous hovering and position control.