• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제12권3_4호
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• pp.363-379
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• 2013

Dynamic displacement of structures is an important index for in-service structural condition and behavior assessment, but accurate measurement of structural displacement for large-scale civil structures such as long-span bridges still remains as a challenging task. In this paper, a vision-based dynamic displacement measurement system with the use of digital image processing technology is developed, which is featured by its distinctive characteristics in non-contact, long-distance, and high-precision structural displacement measurement. The hardware of this system is mainly composed of a high-resolution industrial CCD (charge-coupled-device) digital camera and an extended-range zoom lens. Through continuously tracing and identifying a target on the structure, the structural displacement is derived through cross-correlation analysis between the predefined pattern and the captured digital images with the aid of a pattern matching algorithm. To validate the developed system, MTS tests of sinusoidal motions under different vibration frequencies and amplitudes and shaking table tests with different excitations (the El-Centro earthquake wave and a sinusoidal motion) are carried out. Additionally, in-situ verification experiments are performed to measure the mid-span vertical displacement of the suspension Tsing Ma Bridge in the operational condition and the cable-stayed Stonecutters Bridge during loading tests. The obtained results show that the developed system exhibits an excellent capability in real-time measurement of structural displacement and can serve as a good complement to the traditional sensors.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.303-308
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• 2023

Background: Occupational workers at altitudes are more prone to falls, leading to catastrophic outcomes. Acrophobia, height-related anxiety, and affected executive functions lead to postural instabilities, causing falls. This study investigated the effects of repeated virtual height exposure and training on cognitive processing and height-related anxiety. Methods: Twenty-eight healthy volunteers (age 20.48 ± 1.26 years; mass 69.52 ± 13.78 kg) were recruited and tested in seven virtual environments (VE) [ground (G), 2-story altitude (A1), 2-story edge (E1), 4-story altitude (A2), 4-story edge (E2), 6-story altitude (A3), and 6-story edge (E3)] over three days. At each VE, participants identified occupational hazards present in the VE and completed an Attitude Towards Heights Questionnaire (ATHQ) and a modified State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Questionnaire (mSTAIQ). The number of hazards identified and the ATHQ and mSTAIQ scores were analyzed using a 7 (VE; G, A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3) x 3 (DAY; DAY 1, DAY 2, DAY 3) factorial repeated measures analysis of variance. Results: The participants identified the lowest number of hazards at A3 and E3 VEs and on DAY 1 compared to other VEs and DAYs. ATHQ scores were lowest at G, A1, and E1 VEs. Conclusion: Cognitive processing is negatively affected by virtual altitudes, while it improves with short-term training. The features of virtual reality, such as higher involvement, engagement, and reliability, make it a better training tool to be considered in ergonomic settings. The findings of this study will provide insights into cognitive dual-tasking at altitude and its challenges, which will aid in minimizing occupational falls.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2015

Global Positioning System (GPS) is used in various fields such as communications systems, transportation systems, e-commerce, power plant systems, and up to various military weapons systems recently. However, GPS receiver is vulnerable to jamming signals as the GPS signals come from the satellites located at approximately 20,000 km above the earth. For this reason, various anti-jamming techniques have been developed for military application systems especially and it is also required for commercial application systems nowadays. In this paper, we proposed a dual-channel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) RF ASIC for digital pre-correlation anti-jam technique. It not only covers all GNSS frequency bands, but is integrated low-gain/attenuation mode in low-noise amplifier (LNA) without influencing in/out matching and 14-bit analogdigital converter (ADC) to have a high dynamic range. With the aid of digital processing, jamming to signal ratio is improved to 77 dB from 42 dB with proposed receiver. RF ASIC for anti-jam is fabricated on a 0.18-μm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology and consumes 1.16 W with 2.1 V (low-dropout; LDO) power supply. And the performance is evaluated by a kind of test hardware using the designed RF ASIC.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.74-86
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• 2020

Horse meat is nutritionally adequate to the elderly, but it has a comparatively hard texture in contrast to most of the food. In practice, the meat intake in the elderly is generally bated because the relatively difficult texture of the meat can diminish mastication. Thus, strategies are being developed to produce meat products remanding detracted mastication exertion and possibly exalt ingestion and nutritional stand, in the elderly. Hence, the effects of enzymes on textural characteristics of horse meat were studied, because they have well-known favorable efficacy on the meat tenderness by causing important demotion of the myo-fibrillar protein and collagen. Four treatments namely, papain, bromelin, pepsin, and pancreatin, alongside one control were invoked to the horse meat. Their effects on the texture parameters were determined. All the above enzymatic treatments significantly reduced hardness and resilience (p<0.001). These results present opportunities to produce essential fatty acids fortified horse meat with soft texture and satisfied technological characteristics. The intake of the essential fatty acids intensified horse meat could aid the elderly to get their aimed essential fatty acid demands. Results also suggest that horse meat tenderized through enzymatic processing stand for auspicious options for the comprehension of texture-revised diets in the elderly population.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권4호
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• pp.569-577
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• 2018

In this paper, with the aid of information which is included within data, preprocessing algorithm-based black plastic classifier is designed. The slope and area of spectrum obtained by using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy(LIBS) are analyzed for each material and its ensuing information is applied as the input data of the proposed classifier. The slope is represented by the rate of change of wavelength and intensity. Also, the area is calculated by the wavelength of the spectrum peak where the material property of chemical elements such as carbon and hydrogen appears. Using informations such as slope and area, input data of the proposed classifier is constructed. In the preprocessing part of the classifier, Principal Component Analysis(PCA) and fuzzy transform are used for dimensional reduction from high dimensional input variables to low dimensional input variables. Characteristic analysis of the materials as well as the processing speed of the classifier is improved. In the condition part, FCM clustering is applied and linear function is used as connection weight in the conclusion part. By means of Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO), parameters such as the number of clusters, fuzzification coefficient and the number of input variables are optimized. To demonstrate the superiority of classification performance, classification rate is compared by using WEKA 3.8 data mining software which contains various classifiers such as Naivebayes, SVM and Multilayer perceptron.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1074-1083
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• 1993

본 연구에서 제시된 방법은 Fig.2(c)에 나타낸 방법으로 공구궤적의 검증과 더불어 NC공구궤적의 잘못된 부분과 정도를 찾아내 수정할 수 있도록하여 기존의 NC검증시스템의 비효율성을 해결하고자 했다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2008년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.240-244
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 근전도 신호 기반의 무선 착용형 컴퓨터 인터페이스를 개발하였다. 밴드 형태의 무선 착용형 단말기는 4 채널 근전도 센서와 붙어있으며, 대역통과 필터 및 차단 필터, 신호증폭기를 이용하여 구별 가능한 근전도 신호를 추출하였다. 얻어진 신호는 무선통신을 통해 컴퓨터로 전송하게 된다. 컴퓨터 인터페이스를 위해 손목 움직임을 사용하였으며, 움직임으로부터 획득된 신호를 다층 인식 신경망을 사용하여 손목 움직임을 인식하게 하였다. 이를 통하여 마우스 커서의 움직임을 제어하고, 마우스 버튼을 클릭하는 동작을 할 수 있으며, 시각 디스플레이 장치에 표시된 핸드폰 자판과 같은 유저 인터페이스를 통해 컴퓨터에 글자를 입력할 수 있게 하였다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2000

It is well known that the quality and efficiency of the design of metal forming processes can be significantly improved with the aid of effective numerical simulations. In the present study, a two-and three-dimensional finite element simulation system, CAMP form, was developed for the analysis of metal forming processes in the PC environment. It is composed of a solver based on the thermo-rigid-viscoplastic approach and graphic user interface (GUI) based pre-and post-processors to be used for the effective description of forming conditions and graphic display of simulation results, respectively. In particular, in the case of CAMPform 2D (two-dimensional), as the solver contains an automatic remeshing module which determines the deformation step when remeshing is required and reconstructs the new mesh system, it is possible to carry out simulations automatically without any user intervention. Also, the forming analysis considers ductile fracture of the workpiece and wear of dies for better usage of the system. In the case of CAMPform 3D, general three-dimensional problems that involve complex die geometries and require remeshing can be analyzed, but full automation of simulations has yet to be achieved. In this paper, the overall structure and computational background of CAMPform will be briefly explained and analysis results of several forming processes will be shown. From the current results, it is construed that CAMPform can be used in providing useful information to assist the design of forming processes.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2311-2316
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• 2011

정보통신과 네트워크의 발전으로 인하여 정보에 대한 보안의 중요성이 날이 갈수록 심화되고 있다. 이러한 시점에서 암호시스템들이 발전하고 있으나 비례적으로 크랙 및 해킹의 기술도 발전되고 있다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 바이트 가변연산을 이용하여 블록암호시스템을 설계하였다. 설계된 바이트 기반 블록암호시스템은 고정된 DC 및 LC를 발생시키지 않으므로 이러한 공격방법으로부터 안전하다는 장점을 가진다. 또한 기존 대칭형 암호시스템이 가지고 있던 처리속도와 비대칭 암호시스템이 가지고 있던 인증기능을 모두 포함함으로서 네트워크 기반에서의 정보통신발달에 많은 도움을 주리라 사료된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.3428-3434
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• 2010

논문에서는 IS-95 역방향링크 신호의 품질 측정을 위한 알고리즘을 제안하고 구현하였다. 수신 신호의 품질을 측정하기 위해서는 등화, 반송파 주파수 및 위상 오프셋 추정, 타이밍 동기가 반드시 필요하며, 모든 신호처리는 기저대역에서 수행된다. 등화기는 칩간 간섭(InterChip Interference)을 제거하기 위해, 4배 오버샘플링된 샘플에 대해서 동작하도록 설계되었다. 반송파 주파수 및 위상 오프셋 추정은 데이터 및 타이밍 정보 없이도 가능하도록 하였기 때문에, 타이밍 동기 이전에 수행된다. 타이밍 동기 시에 사용되는 보간 수(Interpolation Number)에 따라 측정의 정확도가 증가하지만, 계산량도 증가하게 된다. 따라서, 제안된 알고리즘이 구현될 플랫폼 성능에 따라 보간 수를 적절히 선택해야한다.