• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.665-682
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• 2015

Structural identification or St-Id is 'the parametric correlation of structural response characteristics predicted by a mathematical model with analogous characteristics derived from experimental measurements'. This paper describes a St-Id exercise on Humber Bridge that adopted a novel two-stage approach to first calibrate and then validate a mathematical model. This model was then used to predict effects of wind and temperature loads on global static deformation that would be practically impossible to observe. The first stage of the process was an ambient vibration survey in 2008 that used operational modal analysis to estimate a set of modes classified as vertical, torsional or lateral. In the more recent second stage a finite element model (FEM) was developed with an appropriate level of refinement to provide a corresponding set of modal properties. A series of manual adjustments to modal parameters such as cable tension and bearing stiffness resulted in a FEM that produced excellent correspondence for vertical and torsional modes, along with correspondence for the lower frequency lateral modes. In the third stage traffic, wind and temperature data along with deformation measurements from a sparse structural health monitoring system installed in 2011 were compared with equivalent predictions from the partially validated FEM. The match of static response between FEM and SHM data proved good enough for the FEM to be used to predict the un-measurable global deformed shape of the bridge due to vehicle and temperature effects but the FEM had limited capability to reproduce static effects of wind. In addition the FEM was used to show internal forces due to a heavy vehicle to to estimate the worst-case bearing movements under extreme combinations of wind, traffic and temperature loads. The paper shows that in this case, but with limitations, such a two-stage FEM calibration/validation process can be an effective tool for performance prognosis.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.130-138
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• 2012

There are increasing demands from the industry for intelligent robot-calibration solutions, which can be tightly integrated to the manufacturing process. A proposed solution can simplify conventional robot-calibration and teaching methods without tedious procedures and lengthy training time. iGPS(Indoor GPS) system is a laser based real-time dynamic tracking/measurement system. The key element is acquiring and reporting three-dimensional(3D) information, which can be accomplished as an integrated system or as manual contact based measurements by a user. A 3D probe is introduced as the user holds the probe in his hand and moves the probe tip over the object. The X, Y, and Z coordinates of the probe tip are measured in real-time with high accuracy. In this paper, a new approach of robot-calibration and teaching system is introduced by implementing a 3D measurement system for measuring and tracking an object with motions in up to six degrees of freedom. The general concept and kinematics of the metrology system as well as the derivations of an error budget for the general device are described. Several experimental results of geometry and its related error identification for an easy compensation / teaching method on an industrial robot will also be included.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2011

Objective: Making a new ergonomic interface system based on camera vision system, which helps the handicapped in home environment. Background: Enabling the handicapped to manipulate the consumer electronics by the proposed interface system. Method: A wearable device for capturing the eye image using a near-infrared(NIR) camera and illuminators is proposed for tracking eye gaze position(Heo et al., 2011). A frontal viewing camera is attached to the wearable device, which can recognize the consumer electronics to be controlled(Heo et al., 2011). And the amount of user's eye fatigue can be measured based on eye blink rate, and in case that the user's fatigue exceeds in the predetermined level, the proposed system can automatically change the mode of gaze based interface into that of manual selection. Results: The experimental results showed that the gaze estimation error of the proposed method was 1.98 degrees with the successful recognition of the object by the frontal viewing camera(Heo et al., 2011). Conclusion: We made a new ergonomic interface system based on gaze tracking and object recognition Application: The proposed system can be used for helping the handicapped in home environment.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.411-419
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• 2017

본 연구는 어깨뼈 설정 운동과 몸통 교정 테이핑 융합이 뇌졸중 환자의 몸통 근활성도, 몸통 균형 및 팔 기능개선에 효과적인지 알아보고자 하였다. 뇌졸중환자 20명을 연구군(테이핑+어깨뼈 설정) 10명과 대조군(어깨뼈 설정) 10명으로 나눈 뒤 4주간 주당 30분의 중재를 실시하였다. 연구군은 몸통 교정 테이핑을 적용받았고 동시에 어깨뼈 설정운동을 받았다. 측정은 몸통 근활성도, 몸통손상척도(Korean version Trunk Impairment Scale, K-TIS), 팔 기능검사 (Manual Function Test of upper extremity, MFT)를 실시하였다. 중재 전 후 연구군에서 몸통 근활성도, K-TIS, MFT 점수에 유의한 증가를 보였고(P<.05), 대조군 보다 K-TIS와 MFT 점수에 유의한 개선을 보였다(P<.05). 본 연구를 통해 어깨뼈 설정 단일 운동 보다 몸통 교정테이핑 융합 적용이 뇌졸중 환자의 몸통 근활성도, 몸통 균형 및 팔 기능개선에 더욱 효과적인 것을 알 수 있었다. 향후 연구에서 개별 근수축 개시시간(onset time)에 관한 변화를 확인한다면 더욱 임상적 의의가 있겠다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.139-149
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• 2015

This paper aims to analyze pronunciation variations of loanwords produced by Korean and improve the performance of pronunciation modeling of loanwords in Korean by using syllable-based segmentation and phonological knowledge. The loanword text corpus used for our experiment consists of 14.5k words extracted from the frequently used words in set-top box, music, and point-of-interest (POI) domains. At first, pronunciations of loanwords in Korean are obtained by manual transcriptions, which are used as target pronunciations. The target pronunciations are compared with the standard pronunciation using confusion matrices for analysis of pronunciation variation patterns of loanwords. Based on the confusion matrices, three salient pronunciation variations of loanwords are identified such as tensification of fricative [s] and derounding of rounded vowel [ɥi] and [$w{\varepsilon}$]. In addition, a syllable-based segmentation method considering phonological knowledge is proposed for loanword pronunciation modeling. Performance of the baseline and the proposed method is measured using phone error rate (PER)/word error rate (WER) and F-score at various context spans. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the baseline. We also observe that performance degrades when training and test sets come from different domains, which implies that loanword pronunciations are influenced by data domains. It is noteworthy that pronunciation modeling for loanwords is enhanced by reflecting phonological knowledge. The loanword pronunciation modeling in Korean proposed in this paper can be used for automatic speech recognition of application interface such as navigation systems and set-top boxes and for computer-assisted pronunciation training for Korean learners of English.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 경동맥 B-모드 초음파영상에서 내막-중막 두께(IMT : Intima-Media Thickness)의 자동측정을 위해 다이나믹 프로그래밍(dynamic programming)을 이용하여 내막과 중막의 경계선을 자동 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안하고 실험결과를 보여준다. 혈관 인터페이스의 픽셀 값과 기울기 등의 영상특징과 연속성의 기하학적 특징을 고려한 평가항(cost term)들을 포함하는 평가함수(cost function)를 계산하여 그 값이 최소가 되는 최적의 위치를 결정하기 위해 다이나믹 프로그래밍 방법을 적용하였다. 또한 스페클(speckle), 드랍아웃(dropout)과 같은 잡음과 약한 에지로 인한 거친 추출 결과에 대해 B-spline을 적용하여 더욱 부드러운 경계선을 유지하도록 함으로써 경계선의 연속성을 향상시켰다. 제안한 방법은 다중영상특징(multiple image features)을 고려함으로써 일반적인 에지 알고리즘보다 더욱 정확하고 재생산 가능한 경계선을 추출하였고 수동측정 시 발생하는 측정자 내, 측정자 간의 추출결과 변이성과 비효율성의 문제점을 해결하여 편리한 자동측정이 가능하게 한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제30권12호
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• pp.1239-1246
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• 2003

대상 물체의 3차원 모델을 구축하기 위해서는 여러 시점에서 측정된 거리정보 데이타들을 하나의 좌표계로 통합하는 정합(registration) 과정이 필수적이다. 3차원 데이타의 정합을 위해 가장 널리 사용되는 ICP(Iterative Closest Point) 알고리즘은 거리정보 데이타 간에 겹치는 영역 또는 일치점 등에 대한 사전 정보가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 임의의 시점에서 측정된 데이타를 반복적인 방법에 의해 자동으로 정합하는 개선된 ICP 방법이 제안된다. 3차원 데이타가 거리정보 영상으로 맺히는 관계를 나타내는 센서 사영조건(projection constraint), 데이타의 공분산(covariance) 행렬, 교차(cross) 사영 등을 이용하여 정합과정을 자동화하였으며, 유저의 개입이나 3차원 기계 보조 장치 등을 사용하는 별도의 초기값 측정 없이 3차원 모델을 정확하게 구성할 수 있다. 다양한 거리정보 데이타에 대한 실험을 통해 제안된 방법의 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.483-488
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• 1998

During cerebral ischemia two important factors such as hypoxia and reduction of glucose can act as modulating stressor affecting the release of amine neurotransmitters including 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). This study was performed to investigate the effect of glucose deprivation on the oxygen deprivation-induced changes of [3H]-5-HT release in the rat hippocampal slices. Experimental groups were divided into 4 groups for this study: normoxic/normoglycemic group, oxygen-deprived group, glucose-deprived group, and oxygen/glucose-deprived group. The hippocampus of rat brain was sliced by 400 $\mu\textrm{m}$ thickness with manual chopper. After 30 minutes preincubation in the normal buffer, the slices were incubated for 20 min in buffer containing [3H]-5-HT (0.1 M, 74 $\mu\textrm$Ci) for uptake. To measure the release of [3H]-5-HT into the buffer, the incubation medium was drained of and refilled with fresh buffer every ten minutes through a sequence of 14 tubes. Oxygen deprivation by gassing with 95% $N_2$/5% $CO_2$ and/or glucose deprivation was done in the 6th and 7th tube. The radioactivities in each buffer and the tissue were counted using scintillation counter. The results were expressed as fractional release. When slices were exposed to oxygen-deprived media for 20 min, the diminution followed by the rebound release of [3H]-5-HT was observed during the post-oxygen deprived period. However, glucose deprivation or oxygen/glucose deprivation markedly increased the release of [3H]-5-HT. which was opposite to the pattern observed in oxygen-deprived group. These results suggested that oxygen deprivation itself inhibits [3H]-5-HT release in rat hippocampal slices during oxygen-deprived period, but additional glucose deprivation convert the inhibitory response to increase of [3H]-5-HT release.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2002

피로균열 성장거동 관찰을 위한 새로운 실험 방법의 개발이 필요하다. 이러한 요구를 만족시키기 위해서 본 연구에서는 영상처리기법을 피로시험에 도입하였으며, 영상처리시스템을 이용하여 표면피로균열길이를 측정하였다. 먼저 주기적으로 시험하중을 멈추는 동안 균열영상 데이터를 컴퓨터에 저장시켰다. 시험이 끝난 후에는 본 연구진에서 개발한 영상처리 소프트웨어를 사용하여 균열길이를 측정하였으며, 이를 위하여 블록매칭방법을 포함한 다양한 영상처리 기법을 적용하였다. 영상처리시스템으로 측정한 데이터와 현미경을 이용하여 수동으로 측정한 데이터를 비교하여 영상처리시스템의 유효성을 검증하였다. 만약 본 연구에서 제안한 방법을 균열성장거동을 자동적으로 관찰하거나 모니터 하는데 사용한다면 피로시험에 소요되는 시간과 노동력을 현격히 줄일 수 있다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.695-699
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 기울기와 밝기값 분포 정보를 고려하여 전립선 객체를 분할하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 네 단계로 이루어진다. 첫째, 일정 간격으로 방사선을 생성한다. 이 때, 방사선의 시작 위치와 길이를 산정함으로써 잡음의 영향을 최소화 한다. 둘째, 방사선에서 얻은 프로파일을 기울기 기준으로 경계점 후보들을 정렬하고 정렬 된 순서에 따라 우선순위를 부여한다. 셋째, 기울기 우선순위와 자기값 분포를 사용하여 경계점을 추출한다. 마지막으로 경계점 추출 오류를 줄이기 위하여 추출된 경계점을 B-스플라인 보간으로 보정한다. 정확성 평가를 위하여 전문가가 수동 분할한 결과와 본 제안방법을 적용하여 얻은 결과간 평균거리차이 측정과 중복지역비율 측정을 수행한다. 실험결과 평균거리차이는 1.09mm, 표준편차는 $\pm0.20mm$로 측정되었고, 중복지역비율은 92%로 측정되었다.