• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.934-939
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new algorithm for ultrasonic sensors arranged on ring frame to identify obstacles surrounding itself by TOFs (time of flight). The ring frame has multiple channels consisting of a transmitter and a receiver. When the transmitter of a selected channel transmits ultrasonic signal, the TOFs of reflected signals from obstacles are acquired by the receiver of the channel. The process continues for all channels consecutively. Then, by using parabolic curve fitting of TOFs of all channel, the proposed algorithm not only calculates distances from multiple obstacles, but also identifies if the shape of obstacles are point or plane by the coefficients of the curve. By the experiment using 16 ultrasonic transceivers on the ring frame in the environment of two poles and two planes, we show the feasibility of the proposed scheme.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.679-691
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• 2020

To identify the bridge information from the response of test vehicles passing on it (also known as the indirect approach) has aroused the interest of many researchers thanks to its economy, easy implementation and less disruption to traffic. The surface roughness of bridge remains an obstacle for such method as it contaminates the vehicle response severely and thereby renders many vehicle-response-based bridge identification methods ineffective. This study aims to eliminate such effect with the responses of two different test vehicles. The proposed method can estimate the surface profile of a bridge based on the acceleration data of the vehicles running on the bridge successively, and obtain the normalized contact point response, which proves to be relatively immune to surface roughness. The frequencies and mode shapes of bridge can be further extracted from the normalized contact point acceleration with spectral analysis and Hilbert transform. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified numerically with a three-span continuous bridge. The influence of measurement noise is also examined.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.485-500
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• 2023

Machine learning-based structural health monitoring (ML-based SHM) methods are researched extensively in the recent decade due to the availability of advanced information and sensing technology. ML methods are well-known for their pattern recognition capability for complex problems. However, the main obstacle of ML-based SHM is that it often requires pre-collected historical data for model training. In most actual scenarios, damage presence can be detected using the unsupervised learning method through anomaly detection, but to further identify the damage types would require prior knowledge or historical events as references. This creates the cold-start problem, especially for new and unobserved structures. Modal-based methods identify damages based on the changes in the structural global properties but often require dense measurements for accurate results. Therefore, a two-stage hybrid modal-machine learning damage detection scheme is proposed. The first stage detects damage presence using Principal Component Analysis-Frequency Response Function (PCA-FRF) in an unsupervised manner, whereas the second stage further identifies the damage. To solve the cold-start problem, mode shape assessment using the first mode is initiated when no trained model is available yet in the second stage. The damage identified by the modal-based method would be stored for future training. This work highlights the performance of the scheme in alleviating the cold-start issue as it transitions through different phases, starting from zero damage sample available. Results showed that single and multiple damages can be identified at an acceptable accuracy level even when training samples are limited.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.437-443
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• 2019

항로표지는 선박에 대하여 등광, 형상, 색채, 음향, 전파 등을 수단으로 운항 선박에게 위치, 방향 및 장애물의 위치 등을 알려주는 항행보조시설 일체를 의미하며, 주야간 선박항행의 안전을 위한 기본 수단이다. 예인선은 안전을 위해 종류별 최소 설비요건을 마련하여 사고를 대비하고 있지만, 예인삭의 길이, 조류의 영향, 상대적으로 중량이 큰 부선의 타력으로 인한 영향 등으로 예인선과 선회권이 달라, 변침 시 부선이 예인선을 따라가지 못하여 등부표와 추돌하는 사고가 발생하기도 한다. 본 연구의 목적은 두 선박의 물리적 관계를 분석하여 예인선열을 식별하고 등부표와의 위험을 항로표지 관리운영 시스템을 통해 전파하는 기초 시스템을 제시하는데 있다. 연구를 통해 예부선의 사전 식별 가능성을 확인하였고, 위험 전파를 위한 메시지를 설계하고 모의 시스템을 통한 위험 전파 및 전자해도 상에 위험을 표시하였다.