• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2004

This paper describes a low-cost single-phase active power filter, which consists of a half-bridge PWM inverter with a simple control circuit. In order to verify the performance of proposed active power filter, many computer simulations with EMTP codes and experimental works with a hardware prototype were done. Both results confirm that the proposed active power filter shows excellent performance to eliminate the harmonics generated in the single-phase non-linear load. The active power filter has advantage of low implementation cost and compact size, using a half-bridge inverter and a simple control circuit with only one current sensor. So, it can be fabricated as a plug-in type. This paper shows the necessity and a good possibility to apply such advantage to the electric railway system.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1307-1313
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• 2017

Sensor networks are composed of provide low powered, inexpensive distributed devices which can be deployed over enormous physical spaces. Coordination between sensor devices is required to achieve a common communication. In low cost, low power and short-range wireless environment, sensor networks cope with significant resource constraints. Security is one of main issues in wireless sensor networks because of potential adversaries. Several security protocols and models have been implemented for communication on computing devices but deployment these models and protocols into the sensor networks is not easy because of the resource constraints mentioned. Memory intensive encryption algorithms as well as high volume of packet transmission cannot be applied to sensor devices due to its low computational speed and memory. Deployment of sensor networks without security mechanism makes sensor nodes vulnerable to potential attacks. Therefore, attackers compromise the network to accept malicious sensor nodes as legitimate nodes. This paper provides the different security models as a metric, which can then be used to make pertinent security decisions for securing wireless sensor network communication.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2008년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.319-325
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 이동로봇에 사용되는 저가형 다중 센서를 이용하여 로봇의 작업환경을 인지할 수 있는 다중 센서 시스템을 개발하고, 이에 따른 이동로봇의 사용자 인터페이스를 개발함으로써 원격지에서 이동로봇을 조종하는데 주변 환경에 적합한 센서를 선택하고, 선택된 센서의 정보를 사용자 인터페이스 화면에 표시하는 '자동 절환' 기능을 추가함으로써 로봇주위의 환경을 보다 효과적으로 파악할 수 있는 인터페이스를 구현하였다. 실험에 사용된 저가용 센서는 초음파, Position sensing detector, 저가형 CMOS 카메라 모듈을 사용하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.174-182
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 저가형 컬러센서를 이용하여 원거리 인식이 가능한 소형 RGB 센서를 개발하였다. 이 센서의 수광부에는 원거리 인식을 위해 카메라 렌즈를 사용하였으며, 고출력 백색 LED와 반사경이 장착된 렌즈를 조명부에 사용하여 조명의 강도를 높였다. RGB 색상 인식 알고리즘은 학습과정과 실시간 인식과정으로 구성되어 있다. 학습과정에서는 기준색으로 도색된 시편을 이용하여 RGB 색상에 대한 정규화된 기준 데이터를 취득하고, 인식과정에서는 마할라노비스 거리를 이용하여 3색을 분류한다. 개발한 RGB 색상 인식 센서를 부품 분류 시제품에 적용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2009

GPS 와 INS 통합시스템은 저가 MEMS 기술의 결과에 따라 대중적으로 널리 사용되기에 이르렀다. 그러나 저가센서에 의한 현재의 성과는 관성센서의 큰 에러 때문에 여전히 낮은 실정이다. 이것은 제한된 도시환경 안에서의 비행범위 때문에 더욱 관련이 있다. 이러한 관성센서 에러를 줄이면서 동시에 위성의 활용성을 높이기 위하여 GPS 와 저가 INS 는 연성으로 결합되어 Kalman Filter 설계를 응용하여 상호 통합되어진다. 본 논문에서는 연성으로 결합된 Kalman Filter를 이용한 GPS/INS 센서 통합을 제공한다. 우리는 또한 경로의 기하학에 의해 또는 그 목적시간 위치 따라 수학적으로 설명하는 ZH45C 궤도장치에 의한 산출된 기준 Wander Azimuth Strapdown Mechanization의 시뮬레이터 결과를 비교하여 검증하다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.186-192
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• 2009

최근 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 대한 연구가 활발해지면서 무선 센서 네트워크는 설치의 용이함과 저렴한 구축비용으로 다양한 분야에 널리 사용되고 있다. 현재 상용화 되어 있는 산간 지역에서 사용가능한 균열 예측 시스템은 구축 방법이나 비용면에서 많은 부담이 되고 있다. 이에 대한 대안으로 저비용의 상용화된 무선 센서 네트워크를 이용한 사면 균열 예측 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템은 센서 노드를 절벽이나 사면, 바위, 둑 등에 부착하기 쉽고 지형물의 원형 손상을 최소화 할 뿐만 아니라 설치 및 유지 보수비용이 기존의 시스템에 비하여 약 50% 정도에 불과한 장점을 갖는다.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2020

Recently, to improve convenience, flexible electronics are quickly being developed for a number of application areas. Flexible electronic devices comprise characters such as being bendable, stretchable, foldable, and wearable. Effectively manufacturing flexible electronic devices requires high efficiency, low costs, and simple processes for manufacturing technology. Through this study, we enabled the rapid production of multifunctional flexible bending sensors using a simple, low-cost Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printer. Furthermore, we demonstrated the possibility of the rapid production of a range of functional flexible bending sensors using a simple, low-cost FDM 3D printer. Accurate and reproducible functional materials made by FDM 3D printers are an effective tool for the fabrication of flexible sensor electronic devices. The 3D-printed flexible bending sensor consisted of polyurethane and a conductive filament. Two patterns of electrodes (straight and Hilbert curve) for the 3D printing flexible sensor were fabricated and analyzed for the characteristics of bending displacement. The experimental results showed that the straight curve electrode sensor sensing ability was superior to the Hilbert curve electrode sensor, and the electrical conductivity of the Hilbert curve electrode sensor is better than the straight curve electrode sensor. The results of this study will be very useful for the fabrication of various 3D-printed flexible sensor devices with multiple degrees of freedom that are not limited by size and shape.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 11th (KACC); Pohang, Korea; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.409-412
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• 1996

Ultrasonic sensors are widely used in various applications due to advantages of low cost, simplicity in construction, mechanical robustness, and little environmental restriction in usage. But the main purposes of the noncontact sensing are rather narrowly confined within object detection and distance measurement. For the application of object recognition, ultrasonic sensors exhibit several shortcomings of poor directionality which results in low spatial resolution of objects, and specularity which gives frequent erroneous range readings. To resolve these problems in object recognition, an array of the sensor has been used. To improve the spatial resolution, more number of sensors are used in essence throughout the various devices of the sensor arrays. Under the disguise of a fixed number of the sensors, the array can be shifted mechanically in several steps. In this paper we propose a practical sensor resolution enhancement method using an electronic circuit accompanying the sensor array. The circuit changes the transmitter output voltage in several steps. Using the known sensor characteristics, a set of different return echo signals provide enhanced spatial resolution. The improvement is obtained with neither the cost of the increased number of the sensors nor extra mechanical devices.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2013

Wireless Sensor Networks consist of small, inexpensive, low-powered sensor nodes that communicate with each other. To achieve a low communication cost in a resource constrained network, a novel concept of signcryption has been applied for secure communication. Signcryption enables a user to perform a digital signature for providing authenticity and public key encryption for providing message confidentiality simultaneously in a single logical step with a lower cost than that of the sign-then-encrypt approach. Ring signcryption maintains the signer's privacy, which is lacking in normal signcryption schemes. Signcryption can provide confidentiality and authenticity without revealing the user's identity of the ring. This paper presents the security notions and an evaluation of an ID-based ring signcryption scheme for wireless sensor networks. The scheme has been proven to be better than the existing schemes. The proposed scheme was found to be secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext ring attacks (IND-IDRSC-CCA2) and secure against an existential forgery for adaptive chosen message attacks (EF-IDRSC-ACMA). The proposed scheme was found to be more efficient than scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks reported by Qi. et al. based on the running time and energy consumption.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.779-788
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• 2020

Multi-Walled Carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) coupled with Silicone Rubber (SR) can represent applicable strain sensors with accessible materials, which result in good stretchability and great sensitivity. Employing these materials and given the fact that the combination of these two has been addressed in few studies, this study is trying to represent a low-cost, durable and stretchable strain sensor that can perform excellently in a high number of repeated cycles. Great stability was observed during the cyclic test after 2000 cycles. Ultrahigh sensitivity (GF>1227) along with good extensibility (ε>120%) was observed while testing the sensor at different strain rates and the various number of cycles. Further investigation is dedicated to sensor performance in the detection of human body movements. Not only the sensor performance in detecting the small strains like the vibrations on the throat was tested, but also the larger strains as observed in extension/bending of the muscle joints like knee were monitored and recorded. Bearing in mind the applicability and low-cost features, this sensor may become promising in skin-mountable devices to detect the human body motions.