• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1004-1009
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• 2004

Precise time synchronization is a main technology in high-speed communications, parallel and distributed processing systems, Internet information industry and electronic commerce. Synchronized clocks are useful for many leasers. Often a distributed system is designed to realize some synchronized behavior, especially in real-time processing in factories, aircraft, space vehicles, and military applications. Nowadays, time synchronization has been compulsory thing as distributed processing and network operations are generalized. A network time server obtains, keeps accurate and precise time by synchronizing its local clock to standard reference time source and distributes time information through standard time synchronization protocol. This paper describes design issues and implementation of a network time server for time synchronization especially based on a clock model. The system uses GPS (Global Positioning System) as a standard reference time source and offers UTC (universal Time coordinated) through NTP (Network Time protocol). Implementation result and performance analysis are also presented.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.159-166
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• 2012

There are several ways such as GPS(Global Positioning System) and INS (Inertial Navigation System) to track the location of moving vehicle. The GPS has the advantages of having non-accumulative error even if it brings about errors. In order to obtain the position information, we need to receive at least 3 satellites information. But, the weak point is that GPS is not useful when the 혠 signal is weak or it is in the incommunicable region such as tunnel. In the case of INS, the information of the position and posture of mobile with several Hz~several hundreds Hz data speed is recorded for velocity, direction. INS shows a very precise navigational performance for a short period, but it has the disadvantage of increasing velocity components because of the accumulated error during integration over time. In this paper, sensor fusion algorithm is applied to both of INS and GPS for the position information to overcome the drawbacks. The proposed system gets an accurate position information from experiment using SVD in a non-accessible GPS terrain.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.167-175
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• 2002

Image Mosaicing creates a new image by composing video frames or still images that are related, and performed by arrangement, composition and redundancy analysis of images. This paper proposes a hierarchical image mosaicing system using camera and object parameters far efficient video database construction. A tree-based image mosiacing has implemented for high-speed computation time and for construction of static and dynamic image mosaic. Camera parameters are measured by using least sum of squared difference and affine model. Dynamic object detection algorithm has proposed for extracting dynamic objects. For object extraction, difference image, macro block, region splitting and 4-split detection methods are proposed and used. Also, a dynamic positioning method is used for presenting dynamic objects and a blurring method is used for creating flexible mosaic image.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.142-151
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• 1999

Linear Pulse Motors (LPM) are used a field where SImOth linear motion is required, and it's position accuracy higher than that of a lead According to the advanUlge such as simplicity of rrechanical frarre, high reliability, precise open-loop operation, low inertia etc. LPM is awlied largely where it have made motor of this kind more and rmre attractive in many application areas such as factory automation and high speed positioning. This paper is researched to analyze for force characteristics of hybrid LPM with high accuracy and repeatability. Both the thrust and normal force are very sensitive to the airgap and tooth pitches of the forcer and platen. Here, the thrust shows a high content while the normal force is much higher than the thrust. For magnetic circuits of hybrid LPM is the complicated structure, the finite element rrethod (FEM) is employed with suitable rrethod for calculating the force. Therefore, both the virtual work principle and maxwell stress tensor have been used.n used.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.2 s.95
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• pp.39-49
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• 1999

This paper describes the development of a vision-aided position and orientation recognition system for automatically adjusting electronic tuners which control the waveform by rotating variable resisters. The position and orientation recognition system estimates the center and the angle of the tuner grooves so that the main controller may correct the difference from the ideal position and thereby manipulate the variable resisters automatically. In this paper a robust algorithm is suggested which estimates the center and the angle of the tuner grooves fast and precisly from the source image with lighting variance and video noise. In the algorithm morphological filtering, 8-chain coding, and invariant moments are sequentially used to figure out image segments concerned. The performance of the proposed system was evaluated using a set of real specimens. The results indicate the system works well enough to be used practically in real manufacturing lines. If the system adopts a high speed frame grabber which enables real time image processing, it can also be applied to positioning of robot manipulators as well as automated PCB adjusters.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.16-24
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• 2012

This paper proposes a method utilizing Differential Global Position System (DGPS) with Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) and pre-built Geo-graphic Information System (GIS) to detect lane departure of a vehicle. The position of a vehicle measured by DGPS with RTK has 18 cm-level accuracy. The preconditioned GIS data giving accurate position information of the traffic lanes is used to set up coordinate system and to enable fast calculation of the relative position of the vehicle within the traffic lanes. This relative position can be used for safe driving by preventing the vehicle from departing lane carelessly. The proposed system can be a key component in functions such as vehicle guidance, driver alert and assistance, and the smart highway that eventually enables autonomous driving supporting system. Experimental results show the ability of the system to meet the accuracy and robustness to detect lane departure of a vehicle at high speed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.610-615
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• 2005

Visual servoing is the fusion of results from many elemental areas including high-speed image processing, kinematics, dynamics, control theory, and real-time computing. It has much in common with research into active vision and structure from motion, but is quite different from the often described use of vision in hierarchical task-level robot control systems. We present a new approach to visual feedback control using image-based visual servoing with the stereo vision in this paper. In order to control the position and orientation of a robot with respect to an object, a new technique is proposed using a binocular stereo vision. The stereo vision enables us to calculate an exact image Jacobian not only at around a desired location but also at the other locations. The suggested technique can guide a robot manipulator to the desired location without giving such priori knowledge as the relative distance to the desired location or the model of an object even if the initial positioning error is large. This paper describes a model of stereo vision and how to generate feedback commands. The performance of the proposed visual servoing system is illustrated by the simulation and experimental results and compared with the case of conventional method for dual-arm robot made in Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.89-100
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• 1996

A new stage-sliced pipiline structure is presented to design a high speed real time Global Positional Systems(GPS) applications. The CORDIC algorothm was revised to generate a pipeline structure, which will be used to produce a large amount of trigonometric computations rapidly. A stage-sliced approach was introduced to adjust the number of interative processes, and thereby to control the precision of computation results. Both the computation and the control circuits of the proposed architecture are included in a pipeline stage, which are intergrated into a stage slice. The circuit was prototyped using six FPGA chips : one is used for glue logics and five of the chips are used for pipeline slice implementation. A single FPGA chip comprising 7 pipeline stages provides one pipeline slice. To compensate and inter-slice time delay, dummy cycles are introduced in inter-slice signal exchanges.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.120-129
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• 2002

An integrated structure and controller design approach for rotating cantilever beam is presented. An optimization method is developed for improving positioning performance considering the elastic deformations during high speed rotation and adopting the beam shape and the control gains as design variables. For this end, a dynamic model is setup by the finite element method according to the shape of the beam. The mass and stiffness of the beam are distributed in such a way that the closed-loop poles of the control system should be located leftmost in the complex s-plane. For optimization method, the simulated annealing method is employed which has higher probability to find the global minimum than the gradient-based down-hill methods. Sequential design and simultaneous design methods are proposed to obtain the optimal shape and controller. Simulations are performed with new designs by the two methods to verify the effectiveness of the approach and the results show that the settling time is improved for point-to-point position controls.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.377-383
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• 2003

As the high-speed data communications such as xDSL using the existing copper cable come into wide use, the electromagnetic coupling characteristics of telecommunication cables become more significant. In order to describe the screening performance of telecommunication cable, the transfer impedance of cable shield is required. This paper describes the transfer impedance for two types of telecommunication cables using the line injection method of IEC 96-1. Results are analyzed to show how the materials of cable shields, the positioning of the injection line and of the inner conductor of the CUT(Cable Under Test) affect the value of transfer impedance. We then propose the transfer impedance model of telecommunication cable based on the measurements.