• 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디자인학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표대회논문집
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• pp.32-33
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• 2003

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2017

소형가전 제품은 종류가 다양할 뿐만 아니라 구성부품의 재질도 복잡하여 폐기시 재활용이 매우 어려운 실정이다. 특히, 폐소형가전의 경우 흑색 플라스틱의 함유량이 높을 뿐만 아니라 재질이 다양하여 재활용 공정에서 발생하는 플라스틱의 재질을 인식하여 효율적으로 선별 회수하는 것이 매우 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 기존 선별기술이 가지고 있는 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 선별에 대한 기술적 한계 및 단점을 보완하기 위하여 레이저유도붕괴분광법(Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, LIBS)을 기반으로 하는 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 자동선별 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 정량 공급장치, 위치 자동인식 장치, 레이저유도기반분광분석(LIBS) 장치, 선별분리장치 및 Control unit 등으로 구성되어 있다. 레이저유도붕괴분광법(LIBS)을 이용하여 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 특성 스펙트럼 데이터를 획득하고, 인공지능형 알고리즘을 적용한 분류기를 설계하여 적용함으로써 흑색 플라스틱의 재질을 효율적으로 인식하고 분류할 수 있다. 본 연구에서 개발한 방사형기저함수신경회로망(RBFNNs) 분류기의 분류율은 약 97% 이상으로 나타났으며, 자동선별 시스템의 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 인식률은 약 94.0% 이상, 선별효율은 80.0% 이상으로 조사되었다. 본 연구에서는 실험실 규모의 자동선별장치를 개발하였으며, 본 장치에 대한 실험결과를 바탕으로 흑색 플라스틱 재질인식 및 선별효율 등을 분석하므로써 향후 폐소형가전의 재활용 현장에 적용할 예정이다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1839-1845
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• 2016

Detecting remote targets is important to active protection system (APS) or infrared search and track (IRST) applications. In normal situation, the well-known constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector works properly. However, decoys in APS or closely spaced targets in IRST degrade the detection capability by increasing background noise level in the CFAR detector. This paper presents a context aware CFAR detector by the intensity sorting and selection of background region to reduce the effect of neighboring targets that lead to incorrect estimation of background statistics. The existence of neighboring targets can be recognized by intensity sorting where neighboring targets usually show highest ranks. The proposed background statistics (mean, standard deviation) estimation method from median local pixels can be aware of the background context and reduce the effects of the neighboring targets, which increase the signal-to-clutter ratio. The experimental results on the synthetic APS sequence, real adjacent target sequence, and remote pedestrian sequence validated that the proposed method produced an enhanced detection rate with the same false alarm rate compared with the hysteresis-CFAR (H-CFAR) detection.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.151-160
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• 2016

알고리즘 교육은 컴퓨터과학 교육의 기본 원리를 가르치는 도구로서 강조되고 한다. 그러나 초등학생에 적합한 알고리즘 교재자료는 매우 부족한 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 초등학생들이 알고리즘에 대해 쉽게 배울 수 있도록 컴퓨터과학 언플러그드의 내용을 기반으로 교육자료를 제시하였다. 학습자의 자발적 학습활동을 위한 문제 해결 탐구과정을 제시하고, 학생들은 개별 또는 조별 활동중심학습으로 구성하였다. 생활 속의 문제를 해결하는 알고리즘 학습을 위해 기본적인 검색과 정렬 알고리즘들을 바탕으로 해싱기법의 교수법 및 교육자료 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 교육자료는 전문가 집단의 설문 분석을 통해 적절하다는 결론을 얻었다.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.100-105
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• 2000

Quality sorting of cut flowers is very essential to increase the value of products. There are many factors that determine the quality of cut flowers such as length, thickness, and straightness of stem, and color and maturity of bud. Among these factors, the straightness of stem and the maturity of bud are generally considered to be more difficult to evaluate. A prototype grading and sorting machine for cut flowers was developed and tested for a rose variety. The machine consisted of a chain-drive feed mechanism, a pneumatic discharge system, and a grading system utilizing color image processing and neural network. Artificial neural network algorithm was utilized to grade cut roses based on the straightness of stem and maturity of bud. Test results showed 89% agreement with human expert for the straightness of stem and 90% agreement for the maturity of bud. Average processing time for evaluating straightness of the stem and maturity of the bud were 1.01 and 0.44 second, respectively. Application of neural network eliminated difficulties in determining criteria of each grade category while maintaining similar level of classification error.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.607-614
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• 1996

A computer vision based automatic intelligent sorting system for dried oak mushrooms has been developed. The developed system was composed of automatic devices for mushroom feeding and handling, two sets of computer vision system for grading , and computer with digital I/O board for PLC interface, and pneumatic actuators for the system control. Considering the efficiency of grading process and the real time on-line system implementation, grading was done sequentially at two consecutive independent stages using the captured image of either side. At the first stage, four grades of high quality categories were determined from the cap surface images and at the second stage 8 grades of medium and low quality categories were determined from the gill side images. The previously developed neuro-net based mushroom grading algorithm which allowed real time on-line processing was implemented and tested. Developed system revealed successful performance of sorting capability of approximate y 5, 000 mushrooms/hr per each line i.e. average 0.75 sec/mushroom with the grading accuracy of more than 88%.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2007

An on-line real time grading and sorting system for dried oak mushrooms was developed for on-site application. Quality grades of the mushrooms were determined according to an industrial specification. Three dimensional visual quality features were used for the grading. A progressive color computer vision system with white LED illumination was implemented to develop an algorithm to extract external quality patterns of the dried oak mushrooms. Cap (top) and gil (stem) surface images were acquired sequentially and side image was obtained using mirror. Algorithms for extracting size, roundness, pattern and color of the cap, thickness, color of the gil and amount of rolled edge of the dried mushroom were developed. Utilizing those quality factors normal and abnormal ones were classified and normal mushrooms were further classified into 30 different grades. The sorting device was developed using microprocessor controlled electro-pneumatic system with stainless buckets. Grading accuracy was around 97% and processing time was 0.4 s in average.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.16-24
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 트림 T형 용접너트 생산 시스템 중 불량품을 자동으로 선별할 수 있는 자동 선별기를 비전 검사기를 사용하여 개발하였다. 카메라로부터 입력되는 영상 신호에 대해 히스토그램을 활용한 경계 판별 및 나사산 검출, 이진 모폴로지 연산(Binary morphology operation)을 활용한 얼룩 검출 등의 기법을 활용하였다. 기존의 검사기나 육안 검사에서 불가능하였던 수치 검사를 0.1mm의 정밀도로 검사할 수 있도록 하였으며, 이를 통해 제조단가를 25% 절감하고 생산성을 330% 이상 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.13-34
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• 2002

This paper considers a postal transportation planning problem in the transportation network of the form of hub and spoke Given mail sorting centers and an exchange center, available vehicles and amount of mails to be transported between mail sorting centers, postal transportation planning is to make a transportation plan without violating various restrictions. The objective is to minimize the total transportation cost. To solve the problem, a tabu search algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is composed of a route construction procedure and a route improvement procedure to improve a solution obtained by the route construction procedure using a tabu search. The tabu search uses the best-admissible strategy, BA, and the first-best-admissible strategy, FBA. The algorithm was tested on problems consisting of 11, 16 and 21 mail sorting centers including one exchange center. Solutions of the problems consisting of 11 mail sorting centers including one exchange center were compared with optimal solutions On average, solutions using BA strategy were within 0.287% of the optimum and solutions using FBA strategy were within 0.508% of the optimum. Computational results show that the proposed algorithm can solve practically sized problems within a reasonable time and the quality of the solution is very good.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2001

In Korea and Japan, dried oak mushrooms are classified into 12 to 16 different categories based on its external visual quality. And grading used to be done manually by the human expert and is limited to the randomly sampled oak mushrooms. Visual features of dried oak mushrooms dominate its quality and are distributed over both sides of the gill and the cap. The 2nd prototype computer vision based automatic grading and sorting system for dried oak mushrooms was developed based on the 1st prototype. Sorting function was improved and overall system for grading was simplified to one stage grading instead of two stage grading by inspecting both front and back sides of mushrooms. Neuro-net based side(gill or cap) recognition algorithm of the fed mushroom was adopted. Grading was performed with both images of gill and cap using neural network. A real time simultaneous discharge algorithm, which is good for objects randomly fed individually and for multi-objects located along a series of discharge buckets, was developed and implemented to the controller and the performance was verified. Two hundreds samples chosen from 10 samples per 20 grade categories were used to verify the performance of each unit such as feeding, reversing, grading, and discharging unites. Test results showed that success rates of one-line feeding, reversing, grading, and discharging functions were 93%, 95%, 94%, and 99% respectively. The developed prototype revealed successful performance such as the approximate sorting capability of 3,600 mushrooms/hr per each line i.e. average 1sec/mushroom. Considering processing time of approximate 0.2 sec for grading, it was desired to reduce time to reverse a mushroom to acquire the reversed surface image.