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A Multi Modal Interface for Mobile Environment (모바일 환경에서의 Multi Modal 인터페이스)

  • Seo, Yong-Won;Lee, Beom-Chan;Lee, Jun-Hun;Kim, Jong-Phil;Ryu, Je-Ha
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.666-671
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    • 2006
  • 'Multi modal 인터페이스'란 인간과 기계의 통신을 위해 음성, 키보드, 펜을 이용, 인터페이스를 하는 방법을 말한다. 최근 들어 많은 휴대용 단말기가 보급 되고, 단말기가 소형화, 지능화 되어가고, 단말기의 어플리케이션도 다양해짐에 따라 사용자가 보다 편리하고 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 입력 방법에 기대치가 높아가고 있다. 현재 휴대용 단말기에 가능한 입력장치는 단지 단말기의 버튼이나 터치 패드(PDA 경우)이다. 하지만 장애인의 경우 버튼이나 터치 패드를 사용하기 어렵고, 휴대용 단말기로 게임을 하는데 있어서도, 어려움이 많으며 새로운 게임이나 어플리케이션 개발에도 많은 장애요인이 되고 있다. 이런 문제점들은 극복하기 위하여, 본 논문에서는 휴대용 단말기의 새로운 Multi Modal 인터페이스를 제시 하였다. PDA(Personal Digital Assistants)를 이용하여 더 낳은 재미와 실감을 줄 수 있는 Multi Modal 인터페이스를 개발하였다. 센서를 이용하여 휴대용 단말기를 손목으로 제어를 가능하게 함으로서, 사용자에게 편리하고 색다른 입력 장치를 제공 하였다. 향후 음성 인식 기능이 추가 된다면, 인간과 인간 사이의 통신은 음성과 제스처를 이용하듯이 기계에서는 전통적으로 키보드 나 버튼을 사용하지 않고 인간처럼 음성과 제스처를 통해 통신할 수 있을 것이다. 또한 여기에 진동자를 이용하여 촉감을 부여함으로써, 그 동안 멀티 모달 인터페이스에 소외된 시각 장애인, 노약자들에게도 정보를 제공할 수 있다. 실제로 사람은 시각이나 청각보다 촉각에 훨씬 빠르게 반응한다. 이 시스템을 게임을 하는 사용자한테 적용한다면, 능동적으로 게임참여 함으로서 좀더 실감나는 재미를 제공할 수 있다. 특수한 상황에서는 은밀한 정보를 제공할 수 있으며, 앞으로 개발될 모바일 응용 서비스에 사용될 수 있다.

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Convenient and Economic Mechatronics Education Using Small Portable Electronic Devices (휴대용 소형 전자장비를 이용한 편리하고 경제적인 메카트로닉스 교육)

  • Kang, Chul-Goo
    • Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2016
  • Although mechatronics education in a mechanical engineering curriculum is recently recognized as important, its experimental education has been done generally in the laboratory equipped with all the apparatus and could not be done at home by students. This paper introduces experimental educations on mechatronics, e.g., digital logic circuits, 7-segment LED drive, square wave generation, microcontroller programming using assembly and C languages, timer interrupt, and step motor drive using a small 5 V power supply, a breadboard, various electronic and electric components, a microcontroller and its programmer, a step motor, and a student's PC. In the developed mechatronics course, experimental educations are scheduled in parallel with content's lectures together, and cheap and economic experimental environment is prepared for students in which students can easily practice experimental works in advance or later at home by themselves.

Semi-active vibration control using experimental model of magnetorheological damper with adaptive F-PID controller

  • Muthalif, Asan G.A.;Kasemi, Hasanul B.;Nordin, N.H. Diyana;Rashid, M.M.;Razali, M. Khusyaie M.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.85-97
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    • 2017
  • The aim of this research is to develop a new method to use magnetorheological (MR) damper for vibration control. It is a new way to achieve the MR damper response without the need to have detailed constant parameters estimations. The methodology adopted in designing the control structure in this work is based on the experimental results. In order to investigate and understand the behaviour of an MR damper, an experiment is first conducted. Force-displacement and force-velocity responses with varying current have been established to model the MR damper. The force for upward and downward motions of the damper piston is found to be increasing with current and velocity. In cyclic motion, which is the combination of upward and downward motions of the piston, the force with hysteresis behaviour is seen to be increasing with current. In addition, the energy dissipated is also found to be linear with current. A proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller, based on the established characteristics for a quarter car suspension model, has been adapted in this study. A fuzzy rule based PID controller (F-PID) is opted to achieve better response for a varying frequency input. The outcome of this study can be used in the modelling of MR damper and applied to control engineering. Moreover, the identified behaviour can help in further development of the MR damper technology.

Enhancement of Surface Hardness of Stainless Steel by Laser Peening (레이저피닝을 이용한 스테인리스강의 표면 경도 강화)

  • Lim, H.T.;Lee, M.H.;Kim, P.K.;Park, J.B.;Jeong, S.H.
    • Laser Solutions
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.18-22
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    • 2009
  • Experimental results for the laser shock peening of stainless steels, duplex stainless steel and STS304, for the enhancement of surface hardness are reported. A high power Nd:YAG laser (532 nm, 2nd harmonics) was used to irradiate the workpiece in water at the irradiances of 5, 10, $15\;GW/cm^2$. The surface of a workpiece was covered with Fe or Al foil for protection of the original surface and reduction of laser reflection. The laser pulse densities were varied from $25\;pulse/mm^2$ to $75\;pulse/mm^2$. In the case of the STS304, the surface hardness increased with increasing pulse density and the maximum increase of about 29% was achieved using Fe foil at $10\;GW/cm^2$ and $75\;pulse/mm^2$ conditions. The maximum increase in surface hardness of duplex stainless steel was about 8% at $10\;GW/cm^2$ and $75\;pulse/mm^2$ with also Fe foil. In the case of the Al foil, less increase of surface hardness was obtained, possibly due to the thermal expansion effect.

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Development of Automatic Grading and Sorting System for Dry Oak Mushrooms -2nd Prototype- (건표고 자동 등급선별 시스템 개발 -시작 2호기-)

  • Hwang, H.;Kim, S. C.;Im, D. H.;Song, K. S.;Choi, T. H.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 2001
  • In Korea and Japan, dried oak mushrooms are classified into 12 to 16 different categories based on its external visual quality. And grading used to be done manually by the human expert and is limited to the randomly sampled oak mushrooms. Visual features of dried oak mushrooms dominate its quality and are distributed over both sides of the gill and the cap. The 2nd prototype computer vision based automatic grading and sorting system for dried oak mushrooms was developed based on the 1st prototype. Sorting function was improved and overall system for grading was simplified to one stage grading instead of two stage grading by inspecting both front and back sides of mushrooms. Neuro-net based side(gill or cap) recognition algorithm of the fed mushroom was adopted. Grading was performed with both images of gill and cap using neural network. A real time simultaneous discharge algorithm, which is good for objects randomly fed individually and for multi-objects located along a series of discharge buckets, was developed and implemented to the controller and the performance was verified. Two hundreds samples chosen from 10 samples per 20 grade categories were used to verify the performance of each unit such as feeding, reversing, grading, and discharging unites. Test results showed that success rates of one-line feeding, reversing, grading, and discharging functions were 93%, 95%, 94%, and 99% respectively. The developed prototype revealed successful performance such as the approximate sorting capability of 3,600 mushrooms/hr per each line i.e. average 1sec/mushroom. Considering processing time of approximate 0.2 sec for grading, it was desired to reduce time to reverse a mushroom to acquire the reversed surface image.

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Defect Monitoring of a Wind Turbine Blade Surface by using Surface Wave Damping (표면파 기반의 풍력발전기 블레이드 표면상태 실시간 모니터링에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyung-Hwan;Yang, Young-Jin;Kim, Hyun-Bum;Yang, Hyung-Chan;Lim, Jong-Hwan;Choi, Kyung-Hyun
    • Clean Technology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.90-94
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    • 2017
  • These days much efforts are being dedicated to wind power as a potential source of renewable energy. To maintain effective and uniform generation of energy, defect preservation of turbine blade is essential because it directly takes effects on the efficiency of power generation. For the effective maintenance, early measurements of blade defects are very important. However, current technologies such as ultrasonic waves and thermal imaging inspection methods are not suitable because of long inspection time and non-real time inspection. To supplement the problems, the study introduced a method for real time defect monitoring of a blade surface based on surface wave technology. We examined the effect of various parameters such as micro-cracks and peelings on the propagation of surface wave.

Dual-arm Robot for Cell Production of Cellular Phone (휴대폰 셀 생산 공정 적용을 위한 양팔 로봇 개발)

  • Do, Hyun Min;Choi, Taeyong;Park, Chanhun;Park, Dong Il;Kyung, Jin Ho;Kim, Kye Kyung;Kang, Sang Seung;Kim, Joong Bae;Lee, Jae Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.30 no.9
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    • pp.893-899
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    • 2013
  • Recently, the requirement of automation in the cell production system is increasing due to a decrease of skilled workers who are the key point of a cell production system. This paper proposes a dual-arm robot designed and implemented with consideration of being applied to a cell production line of cellular phone. A specification was derived from the analysis of production process and the consideration of configuration for human-robot cooperation. Design and implementation results of the proposed dual-arm robot were suggested and the feasibility was verified through the demonstration of the proposed robot in some of packaging job of cellular phone.

Development of Air Cushion Transporter Using the Pneumatic Floating Pad (공기부양판을 적용한 에어쿠션 트랜스포터의 개발)

  • Jung, Hyunmok;Hong, Junhee;Yun, Dongwon;Park, Heechang;Kim, Byungin;Lee, Sunghwi
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.338-344
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    • 2016
  • Recent trends in transport system for carrying heavy freight are that demands of a high efficiency, economic efficiency, convenience and safety are increased. Conventional transport systems were poor in transport efficiency and economic efficiency. And Safety problems can be caused to products and workers. In order to overcome these problems, an air cushion transport device with a high-pressure air is required. The air cushion transporter is a device for reducing the frictional force of floor surface and lifting the heavy freight by spraying the high-pressure air to the floor. Technology to float and transfer freight using high-pressure air is very convenient and initial cost can be reduced. In this paper, the study on the levitation performance and transport efficiency of air cushion transport system is conducted and verified that air cushion transporter has a significantly higher transport efficiency than conventional heavy handling systems.

Fabrication of an All-Layer-Printed TFT-LCD Device via Large-Area UV Imprinting Lithography

  • Lee, Seung-Jun;Park, Dae-Jin;Bae, Joo-Han;Lee, Sung-Hee;Kim, Jang-Kyum;Kim, Kyu-Young;Bae, Jung-Mok;Kim, Bo-Sung;Kim, Soon-Kwon;Lee, Su-Kwon;Kwon, Sin;Seo, Jung-Woo;Kim, Ki-Hyun;Cho, Jung-Wok;Chang, Jae-Hyuk
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.49-51
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    • 2010
  • Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) using ultraviolet (UV) rays is a technique in which unconventional lithographic patterns are formed on a substrate by curing a suitable liquid resist in contact with a transparent patterned mold, then releasing the freshly patterned material. Here, various solutions are introduced to achieve sufficient overlay accuracy and to overcome the technical challenges in resist patterning via UV imprinting. Moreover, resist patterning of all the layers in TFT and of the BM layer in CF was carried out using UV imprinting lithography to come up with a 12.1-inch TFT-LCD panel with a resolution of $1280{\times}800$ lines (125 ppi).

Implementation of DAS for Performance Analysis of Heavy-Vehicle ABS (대형 차량용 ABS의 성능분석을 위한 DAS 구현)

  • Lee, Ki-Chang;Jeon, Jung-Woo;Nam, Taek-Kun;Hwang, Don-Ha;Kim, Yong-Joo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.07d
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    • pp.2373-2375
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    • 2002
  • 전자 제어식 미끄럼 방지 제동 장치(ABS, Anti-lock Brake System)를 장착한 차량의 실차 제동 시험은 시험용 차량을 비롯하여, 많은 분석장비를 필요로 한다. 이러한 고가의 장비는 구하기가 어려울 뿐만 아니라 사용방법을 학습하는 데에도 상당한 기간을 필요로 하므로, 개발중인 ABS에 대하여 적용해 보기에는 그 사용에 제약을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 개발중인 미끄럼방지 제동 알고리즘과 전자제어장치(ECU, Electronic Control Unit)를 대형 버스에 장착하여, 저 점착 노면에서 주행 시험을 시행하였고, 그 주행 기록의 분석을 위하여 DAS(Data Acquisition System)를 구현하였다. 개발 ABS 알고리즘 및 ECU의 기능과 성능 검증이 목적인 DAS는 부가적인 센서 및 고가의 장비를 사용하지 않고 제어보드와 휴대용 노트북 컴퓨터를 이용하였다. 고정밀도의 자료를 획득할 수는 없었지만, 개발 DAS를 이용한 차량 실차 제동 시험은 경제적이면서도 효과적인 ECU 및 알고리즘의 성능 분석을 이룰 수 있었다. 특히 개발 DAS는 제어 및 Data Acquisition을 동일한 보드를 사용하여 구현함으로써, ABS 장착 실차 주행 시험 결과를 제어알고리즘에 즉각적으로 반영시킨 수 있었다. 이러한 One Board System 및 On-Vehicle Programming을 이용한 방법은 개발 알고리즘의 빠른 Debugging 및 파라미터 조정(Tuning)을 가능하게 하였으므로, 실차 제동 시험을 위한 한정된 기간 내에 개발 ABS ECU 및 제어 알고리즘의 성능을 효과적으로 검증할 수 있었다.

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