• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.764-771
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• 2003

To control the motion generated by a compliant mechanism the design method using specified geometrical advantage is proposed. The optimization problem is formulated to minimize the difference between the specified and the current geometrical advantage of a mechanism and topology optimization is applied to determine the layout of a mechanism. The results of several test problems including a displacement converter design and a gripper design are compared with a multi-criteria model and show that the design of an accurate compliant mechanism with specified geometrical advantage can be obtained.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2004

This paper presents an approach to optimally design the air bearing surface (ABS) of the head slider by using the approximation methods. The reduced basis concept is used to reduce the number of design variables. In the numerical calculation, the progressive quadratic response surface modeling (PQRSM) is used to handle the non-smooth and discontinuous cost function. A multi-criteria optimization problem is formulated to enhance the flying performances over the entire recording band during the steady state and track seek operations. The optimal solutions of the sliders, whose target flying heights are 12 nm and 9 nm, are automatically obtained. The flying heights during the steady state operation become closer to the target values and the flying height variations during the track seek operation are smaller than those for the initial one. The pitch and roll angles are also kept within suitable ranges over the recording band.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제12권3_4호
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• pp.235-250
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• 2013

Optimal sensor placement (OSP) technique plays a key role in the structural health monitoring (SHM) of large-scale structures. According to the mathematical background and implicit assumptions made in the triaxial effective independence (EfI) method, this paper presents a novel multi-dimensional OSP method for the Canton Tower focusing on application demands. In contrast to existing methods, the presented method renders the corresponding target mode shape partitions as linearly independent as possible and, at the same time, maintains the stability of the modal matrix in the iteration process. The modal assurance criterion (MAC), determinant of the Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) and condition number of the FIM have been taken as the optimal criteria, respectively, to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. Numerical investigations suggest that the proposed method outperforms the original EfI method in all instances as expected, which is looked forward to be even more pronounced should it be used for other multi-dimensional optimization problems.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.327-338
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• 2011

With the incitation to reduce power consumption and the aggressive reuse of spectral resources, there is an inevitable trend towards the deployment of small-cell networks by decomposing a traditional single-tier network into a multi-tier network with very high throughput per network area. However, this cell size reduction increases the complexity of network operation and the severity of cross-tier interference. In this paper, we consider a downlink two-tier network comprising of a multiple-antenna macrocell base station and a single femtocell access point, each serving multiples users with a single antenna. In this scenario, we treat the following beamforming optimization problems: i) Total transmit power minimization problem; ii) mean-square error balancing problem; and iii) interference power minimization problem. In the presence of perfect channel state information (CSI), we formulate the optimization algorithms in a centralized manner and determine the optimal beamformers using standard convex optimization techniques. In addition, we propose semi-decentralized algorithms to overcome the drawback of centralized design by introducing the signal-to-leakage plus noise ratio criteria. Taking into account imperfect CSI for both centralized and semi-decentralized approaches, we also propose robust algorithms tailored by the worst-case design to mitigate the effect of channel uncertainty. Finally, numerical results are presented to validate our proposed algorithms.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.44-51
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• 2019

Designing sophisticate ship structures that satisfy several design criteria simultaneously with minimum weight and cost is an important engineering issue. For a ship structure composed of a shell and stiffeners, this issue is more serious because their mutual effect has to be addressed. In this study, a two-stage optimization method is proposed for the conceptual design of stiffeners in a ship's prow. In the first stage, a topology optimization method is used to determine a potential stiffener distribution based on the optimal results, whereupon stiffeners are constructed according to stiffener generative theory and the material distribution. In the second stage, size optimization is conducted to optimize the plate and stiffener sections simultaneously based on a parametric model. A final analysis model of the ship-prow structure is presented to assess the validity of this method. The analysis results show that the two-stage optimization method is effective for stiffener conceptual design, which provides a reference for designing actual stiffeners for ship hulls.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2005

이 논문은 여러 개의 집중하중을 받는 깊은 보의 최적위상을 조사 분석하고 그 결과를 기술하였다. 본 연구에서는 최소화해야하는 변형에너지를 목적함수로 가정하고 구조물의 초기부피를 제약함수로 사용하였다. 물질내부에 존재하는 구멍의 크기를 조절하기 위하여 최적정기준법을 바탕으로 한 크기조절알고리듬을 도입하였다. 수치해석을 통하여 길은 보의 최적위상과 관련한 위상최적화 파라미터의 민감도를 조사하였고, 필터링과정이 최적위상에 끼치는 영향을 심도 있게 조사하였다. 수치해석결과로부터 깊은 보의 최적위상은 최적화 파라미터와 깊은 연관되어 있고 필터링과정이 최적위상을 찾는데 매우 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.26-38
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• 2020

자기 충전형 콘크리트의 배합물 설계는 전형적인 다기준의사결정의 과정이다. 본 연구에서는 실험설계법과 반응표면법을 이용하여 SCC 배합물 전산 설계가 가능하도록 재료성능 및 비용모델을 생성하고, 요구조건을 반영한 여러 성능 사이의 상대적 중요도를 산정하여 가중 다목적 설계문제로 정식화하여 수치최적해를 계산함으로써 비용효율을 고려한 SCC최적설계를 수행하였다. 실험비용과 시간을 고려하여 SCC의 수많은 요구성능 중 압축강도, 철근충전성, 재료분리저항성, 비용정보 등을 다목적 최적화의 목적함수로 설정하였다. 재료경제성을 최적재료설계프로세스에 합리적으로 반영함으로써 경제적 콘크리트배합설계를 수행할 수 있었으며, 본 연구 결과 실험점 계획에서부터 최적해 산출에 이르는 과정을 객관적인 프로세스로 구성함으로써 콘크리트 범용 최적재료설계기술 및 전산화를 기대할 수 있다.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

This paper presents a topology optimization approach using element-free Galerkin method (EFGM) for the optimal design of compliant mechanisms with geometrically non-linearity. Meshless method has an advantage over the finite element method(FEM) because it is more capable of handling large deformation resulted from geometrical nonlinearity. Therefore, in this paper, EFGM is employed to discretize the governing equations and the bulk density field. The sensitivity analysis of the optimization problem is performed by incorporating the adjoint approach with the meshless method. The Lagrange multipliers method adjusted for imposition of both the concentrated and continuous essential boundary conditions in the EFGM is proposed in details. The optimization mathematical formulation is developed to convert the multi-criteria problem to an equivalent single-objective problem. The popularly applied interpolation scheme, solid isotropic material with penalization (SIMP), is used to indicate the dependence of material property upon on pseudo densities discretized to the integration points. A well studied numerical example has been applied to demonstrate the proposed approach works very well and the non-linear EFGM can obtain the better topologies than the linear EFGM to design large-displacement compliant mechanisms.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.233-235
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• 2000

SVC(Static Var Compensator) is commonly installed with conventional mechanically switched existing reactor or capacitor banks for wide range voltage control. The frequencies of switching of external banks have a great impact on the quality of voltage, but is limited since the life time of the external banks depends severely on the number of switching. So it is a complete multi-objective nonlinear optimization problem with conflicting objectives. This paper presents a method to determine the optimal coordination of SVC and external banks using genetic algorithm based on the multi-objective criteria. Optimal dead band and delay time of external banks is sought for reliable and efficient operation

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.925-930
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• 2005

In this paper, evolutionary multi-objective selection method of RBF networks structure is considered. The candidates of RBF network structure are encoded into the chromosomes in GAs. Then, they evolve toward Pareto-optimal front defined by several objective functions concerning with model accuracy and model complexity. An ensemble network constructed by such Pareto-optimal models is also considered in this paper. Some numerical simulation results indicate that the ensemble network is much robust for the case of existence of outliers or lack of data, than one selected in the sense of information criteria.