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Design, Implementation and Performance Analysis of Event-oriented Execution Environment for DEVS (이벤트 지향 DEVS 실행 환경의 설계, 구현 및 성능 비교)

  • Kwon, Se-Jung;Kim, Tag-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.87-96
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    • 2011
  • DEVS(Discrete Event Systems Specification) is a set theoretic formalism developed for specifying discrete event system. For execution of DEVS, we need an execution environment, which consists of simulation engine and models interpreted by the simulation engine. Common existing environments use hierarchical scheduling algorithm for DEVS execution. This hierarchical scheduling is a proper algorithm for DEVS execution because of hierarchical and modular characteristics. But this algorithm has overheads owing to message passing and time management. To overcome these overheads, we apply event-oriented simulation to DEVS execution and we remove hierarchical overheads. In eventoriented simulation, the scheduling of model execution is performed by events and event list. We propose three event-oriented execution environments for DEVS and experiment about the performance of our proposed environments in comparison with the existing execution environment using the hierarchical scheduling. The experimental results show our environments works better than existing environment using the hierarchical scheduling.

Development and Walking Pattern Generation of Biped Humanoid Robot (이족보행 휴머노이드 로봇의 개발과 보행패턴 생성)

  • Choi, Insoo;Lee, Seung Jeong;Seo, Yong-Ho
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.173-178
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    • 2017
  • As research on the practical use of robots has continued since the past, advancements into each field of society are being continuously tried in modern society, breaking bounds from the previous experimental environment. However, in order for robots to be applied to the real environment, the production cost, which is considered to be the biggest disadvantage of commercializing the existing robot platform, and the adaptability issue in working environments in terms of human standards must be considered. This paper proposes a robot of biped walking form, which conforms to the degree of freedom and the size of human beings. By replacing the encoder with a combined module of potentiometer, the high cost of production is reduced, and by adopting a modular design that is easy to replace parts, the maintenance cost of robots is reduced. Finally, stability was verified by applying a walking pattern to two dummy robots of different sizes and motor arrangements. In this paper, after developing the real biped walking robots, the performance and usability were verified through walking experiments and applying the walking pattern using the developed robots.

Investigation of Thermal Management Parameters of Metal Hydride Based Hydrogen Storage System (금속수소화물 기반 수소저장시스템의 열관리 인자 조사)

  • PARK, CHU SIK;KIM, JONG WON;BAE, KI KWANG;JEONG, SEONG UK;KANG, KYOUNG SOO
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.251-259
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    • 2018
  • Metal hydride based hydrogen storage under moderate temperature and pressure gives the safety advantage over the gas and liquid storage methods. Still solid-state hydrogen storage including metal hydride is below the DOE target level for automotive applications, but it can be adapted to stationary or miliary application reasonably. In order to develop a modular solid state hydrogen storage system that can be applied to a distributed power supply system composed of renewable energy - water electrolysis - fuel cell, the heat transfer and hydrogen storage characteristics of the metal hydride necessary for the module system design were investigated using AB5 type metal hydride, LCN2 ($La_{0.9}Ce_{0.1}Ni_5$). The planetary high energy mill (PHEM) treatment of LCN2 confirmed the initial hydrogen storage activation and hydrogen storage capacity through surface modification of LCN2 material. Expanded natural graphite (ENG) addition to LCN2, and compression molding at 500 atm improved the thermal conductivity of the solid hydrogen storage material.

ECC Processor Supporting NIST Elliptic Curves over GF(2m) (GF(2m) 상의 NIST 타원곡선을 지원하는 ECC 프로세서)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Shin, Kyung-Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2018.10a
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    • pp.190-192
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    • 2018
  • This paper describes a design of an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) processor that supports five pseudo-random curves and five Koblitz curves over binary field defined by the NIST standard. The ECC processor adopts the Lopez-Dahab projective coordinate system so that scalar multiplication is computed with modular multiplier and XORs. A word-based Montgomery multiplier of $32-b{\times}32-b$ was designed to implement ECCs of various key lengths using fixed-size hardware. The hardware operation of the ECC processor was verified by FPGA implementation. The ECC processor synthesized using a 0.18-um CMOS cell library occupies 10,674 gate equivalents (GEs) and 9 Kbits RAM at 100 MHz, and the estimated maximum clock frequency is 154 MHz.

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Design of a 10 bit Low-power current-mode CMOS A/D converter with Current predictors (전류예측기를 이용한 10비트 저전력 전류구동 CMOS A/D 변환기 설계)

  • 심성훈;권용복;윤광섭
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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    • v.35C no.10
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    • pp.22-29
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, an 10 bit current-mode CMOS A/D converter with a current predictor is designed with a CMOS process to be integrated into a portable image signal processing system. A current predictor let the number of comparator reduce to 70 percent compared with the two step flash architecture. The current magnitude of current reference is reduced to 68 percent with a modular current reference. The designed 10 bit Low-power current-mode CMOS A/D converter with a current predictor is simulated with HSPICE using 0.6$\mu\textrm{m}$ N-well single-poly triple-metal CMOS process parameters. It results in a conversion rate of 10MSamples/s. A power consumption is measured to be 94.4mW at single +5V supply voltage. The 10 bit A/D converter fabricated using the same process occupies the chip area of 1.8mm x 2.4mm.

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The Planning of Temporary Housing for Post Application of Mega Sports Facilities - Focused on the 2018 Winter Olympics - (메가스포츠시설의 사후 활용을 위한 임시주거 계획 - 2018평창동계올림픽을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Jong-Chan;Kang, Youn-Do;Kim, Byung-Sean
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This is a study on the planning of temporary housing for post application of Mega Sports facilities. The subject of the study is 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which is to suggest building an alternative temporary housing using shipping containers(high cube), which solve the lack of accommodations and recycle temporary housing after Olympics, save money and be eco-friendly in Olympics. Method: This study includes this ; research on the a fact-finding survey about Mega sports facilities post application and demand survey on 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics accomodations and an analysis about temporary housing plan. Furthermore we decided temporary housing building plan by analyzing residents' needs and traits of the housing etc. Through this, we made a schematic design for household units. Result: As a result, this study is a plan of making space, forms, and structure. The planned size is $38.4m^2$(L:12m, W:3.2m) except balcony, and indoor height is 2.5m. The space consists of entrance, bathroom, bedroom and living room with folding furniture system. Also there's a detailed floor plan of the ceiling, wall, and floor we drew up. The ceiling and wall consist of dampproof film, noncombustible board, fire proof urethane form, and color-designed sheet. The floor is composed of floor tile, cement mortar, light concrete(with heat coil), insulation, and dampproof film. Additionally, this study is a plan of interior dry wall with detail using modular construction method for work efficiency and quality improvement.

Design of a GCS System Supporting Vision Control of Quadrotor Drones (쿼드로터드론의 영상기반 자율비행연구를 위한 지상제어시스템 설계)

  • Ahn, Heejune;Hoang, C. Anh;Do, T. Tuan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.41 no.10
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    • pp.1247-1255
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    • 2016
  • The safety and autonomous flight function of micro UAV or drones is crucial to its commercial application. The requirement of own building stable drones is still a non-trivial obstacle for researchers that want to focus on the intelligence function, such vision and navigation algorithm. The paper present a GCS using commercial drone and hardware platforms, and open source software. The system follows modular architecture and now composed of the communication, UI, image processing. Especially, lane-keeping algorithm. are designed and verified through testing at a sports stadium. The designed lane-keeping algorithm estimates drone position and heading in the lane using Hough transform for line detection, RANSAC-vanishing point algorithm for selecting the desired lines, and tracking algorithm for stability of lines. The flight of drone is controlled by 'forward', 'stop', 'clock-rotate', and 'counter-clock rotate' commands. The present implemented system can fly straight and mild curve lane at 2-3 m/s.

Design and Analysis of a Battery Charge and Discharge Regulator of Communication Satellite (통신위성 배터리 충,방전기 설계 및 해석)

  • Choe,Jae-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.31 no.7
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    • pp.118-126
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    • 2003
  • In this study, a battery charge and discharge regulator of modular type is designed as paralleled bi-directional converter that is possible to provide the power without failure not only in the steady state but also in the transient period by the step load variation or the unexpected faults among the converter modules. Each converter module is designed to get stability, performance, reliability, and maintainability and the average current mode method used for controller has the advantages such as noise immunity, fast response, and the real average current signal acquisition. The equivalent model and small signal model for the paralleled battery chargerIdischarger are presented, and also the transfer functions are analyzed for the CCM(Continuous Charge Mode), CDM(Continuous Discharge Mode) and DDM(Discontinuous Discharge Mode). The experiments of the paralleled bi-directional converter are carried out in the step load variation, and in faults of one converter module respectively. And the performance of paralleled bi-directional converter is verified via the experimental results.

Design and Implementation of a Universal System Control Strategy Applicable to VSC-HVDC Systems

  • Zhao, Yue;Shi, Li-bao;Ni, Yi-xin;Xu, Zheng;Yao, Liang-zhong
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.225-233
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    • 2018
  • This paper proposes a universal system control strategy for voltage source converter (VSC) based high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems. The framework of the designed control strategy consists of five layer structures considering the topology and control characteristics of the VSC-HVDC system. The control commands sent from the topmost layer can be transmitted to the next layer based on the existing communication system. When the commands are sent to each substation, the following transmission of commands between the four lower layers are realized using the internal communication system while ignoring the communication delay. This hierarchical control strategy can be easily applied to any VSC-HVDC system with any topology. Furthermore, an integrated controller for each converter is designed and implemented considering all of the possible operating states. The modular-designed integrated controller makes it quite easy to extend its operating states if necessary, and it is available for any kind of VSC. A detailed model of a VSC-HVDC system containing a DC hub is built in the PSCAD/EMTDC environment. Simulation results based on three operating conditions (the start-up process, the voltage margin control method and the master-slave control method) demonstrate the flexibility and validity of the proposed control strategy.

Automatic Combination & Assembly System for Phone Camera Lens Module (폰 카메라 렌즈모듈 자동 조합시스템 개발)

  • Song, Jun Yeob;Ha, Tae Ho;Lee, Chang Woo;Kim, Dong Hoon;Jeon, Jong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2014
  • An automatic combination and assembly system for phone-camera lens modules was developed. The system enables the assembly of the relative orientation of the individual lenses making up the lens module. Conventional assembly systems assemble a lens module from eight assembly units. The developed system reduces this number to half by combining each lens and a spacer into a single assembly unit. Also, the number of transfer stages for sequential assembly is minimized without increasing the assembly time. Therefore, high productivity and a footprint that is only about 25 % of that of a conventional assembly system can be realized. The system features a modular design to allow it to cope with rapid changes in the market. Only a few components, such as the picker and guide, need to be replaced for changing to a new assembly model.