• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.132-138
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• 2011

A micromachined silicon accelerometer capable of surviving and detecting very high accelerations(up to 200,000 times the gravitational acceleration) is necessary for a high impact accelerometer for earth-penetration weapons applications. We adopted as a reference model a piezoresistive type silicon micromachined high-shock accelerometer with a bonded hinge structure and performed structural analyses such as stress, modal, and transient dynamic responses and sensor sensitivity simulation for the selected device using piezoresistive-structural coupled-field analysis. In addition, structural optimization was introduced to improve the performances of the accelerometer against the initial design of the reference model. The design objective here was to maximize the sensor sensitivity subject to a set of design constraints on the impact endurance of the structure, dynamic characteristics, the fundamental frequency and the transverse sensitivities by changing the dimensions of the width, sensing beams, and hinges which have significant effects on the performances. Through the optimization, we could increase the sensor sensitivity by more than 70% from the initial value of $0.267{\mu}V/G$ satisfying all the imposed design constraints. The suggested simulation and optimization have been proved very successful to design high impact microaccelerometers and therefore can be easily applied to develop and improve other piezoresistive type sensors and actuators.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.spc1
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• pp.473-480
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• 2005

A three axes marine satellite antenna has been developed. As a design step, a CAD model for the antenna has been created according to the design requirements. Kinematic analyses are carried out to insure design specification and to check collision detection of the CAD model. Marine satellite antennas experience base motions, and a relevant control system should control the three antenna axis to point to the satellites accurately. A sensor fusion algorithm and a PIDA (Proportional, Integral, Derivative, Acceleration) control algorithm are designed and implemented to control the yaw, level, and cross-level angle of a small size satellite marine antenna. Antenna stabilization control experiments are performed using a test simulator which gives the antenna base motions. Experimental results show small pointing errors, which is less than 0.2 degree for the level, cross-level, and yaw axis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.336-340
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• 1996

This paper presents the development of a collocated capacitance sensor and its application to the decentralized PID controller design for 4-axis magnetic bearing system. The main feature of the sensor is that it is made of a compact printed circuit board (PCB) so that it can be built in to the actuator coil of the magnetic bearing unit. The signal processing unit has been also developed. Then, decentralized PED controller is designed using simplified rotor system model. Finally, the experimental results on the performance of the collocated sensor based decentralized PID controller for a magnetic bearing rotor system is presented.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.533-553
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• 2013

In this paper, system identification of a cable-stayed bridge in Korea, the Hwamyung Bridge, is performed using vibration responses measured by a wireless sensor system. First, an acceleration based-wireless sensor system is employed for the structural health monitoring of the bridge, and wireless sensor nodes are deployed on a deck, a pylon and several selected cables. Second, modal parameters of the bridge are obtained both from measured vibration responses and finite element (FE) analysis. Frequency domain decomposition and stochastic subspace identification methods are used to obtain the modal parameters from the measured vibration responses. The FE model of the bridge is established using commercial FE software package. Third, structural properties of the bridge are updated using a modal sensitivity-based method. The updating work improves the accuracy of the FE model so that structural behaviors of the bridge can be represented better using the updated FE model. Finally, cable forces of the selected cables are also identified and compared with both design and lift-off test values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.858-861
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• 2012

Distributed sensor nodes for environmental monitoring, have a problem of difficult and expensive battery change. In this case, renewable energy such as solar energy is helpful. We can use high-quality solar energy everyday. In this paper, we model photovoltaic energy prediction model for sensor nodes, which includes charge and discharge characteristics as well as seasonal and monthly characteristics of the solar energy. Our model is useful to predict energy consumption of solar-powered sensor nodes realistically using real world use data of the nodes.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.260-273
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• 2007

The wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes are required to operate for several months with the limited system resource such as memory and power. The hardware platform of WSN has 128Kbyte program memory and 8Kbytes data memory. Also, WSN node is required to operate for several months with the two AA size batteries. The MAC, Network protocol, and small application must be operated in this WSN platform. We look around the problem of memory and power for WSN requirements. Then, we propose a new computing model of system software for WSN node. It is the Atomic Object Model (AOM) with Dual Priority Scheduling. For the verification of model, we design and implement IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol with the proposed model.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.3 s.35
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• pp.237-247
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• 2005

Ubiquitous Sensor Network(USN) is the very core of a technology for the Ubiquitous environments. There is the weakness from various security attacks such that tapping of sensor informations, flowing of abnormal packets, data modification and Denial of Service(DoS) etc. And it's required counterplan with them. Especially it's restricted by the capacity of battery and computing. By reasons of theses. positively, USN security technology needs the lightweighted design for the low electric energy and the minimum computing. In this paper, we propose lightweight USN mutual authentication methology based on trust model to solve above problems. The proposed authentication model can minimize the measure of computing because it authenticates the sensor nodes based on trust information represented by subjective logic model. So it can economize battery consumption and resultingly increse the lifetime of sensor nodes.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.16-23
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• 1994

Developed fiber-optic biosensor for the detection of organophosphorus compounds in a contaminated water needs the analysis of an enzyme kinetics and the transport phenomena in the reaction part to analyze the sensor signal and to design the sensor. The enzyme inhibition kinetics was investigated and the reactor model was proposed to design the reaction part in the proposed sensor. Since the acetylcholinesterase was inhibited by the organophosphorus compounds, experiments for enzyme inhibition reaction were performed from 0 to 2 ppm to be detected by the developed sensor, and irreversible enzyme inhibition kinetics was proposed. The reactor parts were divided into the two phases, i.e. bulk phase and immobilized enzyme layer, to analyze the flow and diffusion. Sensor signal was able to be analyzed based on the total reactor model established by linking the enzyme reaction kinetics. Based on the proposed model, the effects of loading enzyme amount and enzyme layer thickness on the magnitude of readout signal were simulated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.217-218
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• 2008

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.67-73
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• 2012

In this paper, in order to overcome the disadvantage of wireless-based sensor network, a hybrid sensor network using wired and wireless linkage is proposed. Proposed a wired and wireless linkage hybrid sensor network can compensate the defect of poor transmission at the indoor wireless environment, and can be free from interference between a wireless LAN and Bluetooth of the same frequency bandwidth due to an attribute of low-loss transmission at the CATV network. Also, proposed a wired and wireless linkage hybrid sensor network make use of CATV network which is well-built infrastructure, is more efficient to design network, assure a stability and high reliability of the sensor network as providing a stability for an inaccuracy and a predictable transmission link for the existing wireless network.