• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.208-212
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• 2016

In this work, a loop sensor for Arc-Flash detections has been developed in order to trip a circuit breaker within 2.5 ms after an Arc-Flash event. For an efficient capturing of the flash light, plastic optical fibers, where light attenuations are larger than those in silica-based ones, with different diameters and surface conditions were utilized. The performance was comparatively analyzed with those of a point sensor and a commercialized product. The point sensor module was designed for hemisphere-like capturings of Arc-Flashes larger than 3 kA at 2 meters from the sensor. On the other hand, the loop sensor allowed 360-degree-detections around the fiber axis and the measurement range was dependent on the length of the fiber connected to the sensor module. The trip-level-dependent brightness measurement results showed that the fabricated point sensor and loop sensor satisfied a brightness condition, 10~40 klux, and the responses of the system to Arc-Flashes were completed within 2.5 ms.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.506-507
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• 2008

소규모 풍력에너지, 연료전지 및 태양에너지 등의 신 재생에너지원들이 소규모 분산전원으로 도입되고 있다. 이로 인해, 수용가 측의 전원이 대규모 전력사업자로부터만 공급받던 시스템방식에서, 분산전원과 연계하여 동시에 사용하는 방식으로 바뀌고 있다. 이러한 분산전원이 계통에 도입될 경우 이로 인해 평상시 기존 계통의 보호방식에 미치는 영향의 경우는 상시전압변동, Flicker, 병해열로 인한 순시전압변동, 고조파, 불평형 등이 고려 될 수 있다. 또한 이러한 경우로 인해 보호계전기의 오동작도 초래 할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 태양광시스템을 분산전원으로 하는 연계 계통을 모델링하여 발생하는 파형에 대해 분석한다. 또한 디지털 보호계전기의 디지털 필터링 기법을 비교하여 빠른 연산 속도와 주파수 응답 특성을 가지는 알고리즘을 선정하고 모델링하여 모델링 된 디지털 필터로 분산전원 연계를 통해 얻어진 파형을 필터링 한다. 본 논문에서 분산전원의 계통 모의는 전력계통에 모의에 높은 신뢰성을 가지는 PSCAD/EMTDC를 기반으로 하였으며, 디지털 보호계전기의 디지털 필터 알고리즘 모델링은 MATLAB을 사용하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.213-221
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• 1996

An assembly sequence is considered to be optimal when is minimizes assembly cost while satisfying assembly constraints. To derive such an optimal sequence for robotic assembly, this paper proposes a method using a simulated annealing algorithm. In this method, an energy funciton is derived inconsideration of both the assembly constraints and the assembly cost. The energy function thus derived is iteratively minimized until no further change in energy occurs. During the minimization, the energy is occationally perturbed probabilistically in order to escape from local minima. The minimized energy yields an optimal assembly sequence. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, case studies are presented for industrial products such as an electrical relay and an automobil alternator. The performance is analyzed by comparing the results with those of a neural network-based method, based upon the optimal solutions of an expert system.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.381-388
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• 2003

In this paper, the IED(Intelligent Electronic Devices) with the consideration of harmonic problems is discussed, With significant development of power electronics technology, the proliferation of a nonlinear load has more deteriorated power quality, As continuous harmonic current makes for a shortening lifetime, overheat and abnormal operation, it should be considered to improve these problems. However, the conventional digital protective relay which eliminates harmonic elements with orthogonal filter has a defect on actually implementation. The prototype IED is constructed with Digital Signal Processor(TMS320C32) and Complex Programmable Logic Device. According to the experiment and simulation results, it is proved that the proposed system has good performance of measuring harmonic factors and protecting electrical equipment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.3A
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• pp.245-253
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• 2010

In this paper, we derive the performance analysis of the coded cooperation over a Rician fading channel. A new scheme called coded cooperation was suggested by using user cooperation and channel codes simultaneously. In previous works, it was verified that the coded cooperation schemes have better performance than other relay schemes in a Rayleigh fading channel. However, the high speed short range indoor wireless communication system has recently attracted research attention and its channel with very high carrier frequency(60GHz) can be typically modeled as a Rician fading channel. We derive analytical outage probabilities and bit error probabilities of the coded cooperation over the Rician fading channel and prove it to have full diversity order.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7C
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• pp.435-442
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• 2011

The MIMO has weak points such as size and cost of systems and the complexity of hardware augment. Thus, the cooperative transmission techniques have been recently discussed briskly and it also solves problems by increase of shadowy area. However, limited cooperation scheme is utilized due to a single-antenna at the destination. The base station is simply equipped with multiple antennas. When the base station has multiple antennas, cooperative diversity and multiplexing schemes can be easily applied in the base station. To guarantee reliability with high throughput, a cooperative hybrid cyclic relay diversity transmission scheme is proposed which can use an arbitrary number of relays without rate loss and a modification of the base station. The presented results show that the proposed schemes can be effectively applied to the existing various MIMO-OFDM communication system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.415-419
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• 2002

The mutual interchange and cooperation giving first consideration to the communication technology and industry makes it possible to advance the day of unification of North and South Korea. For the sake of this, it is necessary to build communication network connecting all parts of Korea synthetically. This paper presents the plan to build the realizable communication system in North Korea. It bases on an objective view and prospect of domestic and foreign conditions and will help to construct the communication inflation. Therefore, consideration of pluralistic, economic and relay aspects must be proceeded and also the least expense of unification must be deliberated.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.313-318
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• 2011

When wireless channels undergo fast fading, non-coherent frequency shift keying (FSK) (de)modulation schemes may be considered for amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communications. In this paper, we derive the bit-error-rate performance of partial non-coherent receiver as a lower bound of the optimal non-coherent receiver for FSK modulated AF cooperative communications. From the simulation and analytical results, it is found that the derived lower bound is very closed to simulation results. This result shows that knowing partial channel state information may not improve system performance significantly. On the other hand, conventional optimal non-coherent receiver involves complicated integration operation. To address the above complexity issue, we also propose a near optimal non-coherent receiver which does not involve integration operation. Simulation results have shown that the performance gap between the proposed near optimal receiver and the optimal receiver is small.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.564-566
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• 2003

전력 계통에서 안정한 전력을 공급하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 전력 계통의 오류는 전압 및 주파수를 감시함으로써 검출 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 위상 고정 루프를 이용한 전력 계통의 주파수 측정 장치를 제안하고 이를 구현한 결과를 제시하고자 한다. 제안한 주파수 측정 장치는 위상 고정 루프의 기본요소로 구성된다. 위상분별기는 배타적 논리연산을 통해 위상오차를 검출하고 위상의 앞섬 및 뒤짐의 검출이 가능하도록 설계하였으며, 전력 계통의 주파수 동특성을 고려해서 3차의 루프 필터를 설계하였다. DCO는 출력 주파수의 분해능을 고려하여 입력 신호를 정확하게 추정할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 제안한 주파수 측정 장치의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 모의실험을 통해 주파수 변동량의 측정 범위 및 정확도를 검토하였으며, FPGA와 CPU를 포함하는 하드웨어를 구현하였다. FPGA에는 Verilog HDL로 디지털 위상 고정 루프의 위상분별기와 DCO를 구현하였으며 루프필터는 소프트웨어로 구현하였다. 제안한 디지털 위상 고정 루프의 성능 검증을 위해 정밀한 함수 발생기의 출력을 인가한 후 출력 주파수를 측정한 결과 및 전력 계통에 대한 실험 결과를 제시하였다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.297-305
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• 2010

A home healthcare system based wireless sensor network, which can continuously monitor and manage the elderly's electrocardiogram(ECG) signal at any space at home without space limit is proposed. The communication coverage of wireless network is expended by multi-hop wireless sensor network. In order to send the elderly's ECG data wirelessly, a small size ECG sensor node was designed to forward the ECG data over multi-hop relay network. The packet acquired by mobile ECG node is transmitted through wireless intermediate nodes to base station for analyzing the packet reception rate. Modified minimum cost forwarding(MMCF) protocol and flooding protocol are designed and implemented to check the transmission efficiency of a packet in a wireless sensor network. The developed MMCF protocol shows an advantage of high reception rate by reduced network traffic.