• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.109-113
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• 2003

We have developed a planar-type single layer second-order $high-T_{c}$ SQUID gradiometer, which can detect the $d^2$$B_{z/}$dxdy of the second-order field gradient. This SQUID gradiometer consists of four-way 'clover-leaf' pick-up loops and is coupled directly to a 4-junction dc SQUID in such a way that the coupling polarity of the two diagonal loops is opposite to that of the other two loops. The pickup loops are intrinsically balanced for both uniform field and the 1 st-order field gradient. The $YBa_2$$Cu_3$$O_{7}$ thin film was made by pulsed laser deposition method on $SrTiO_3$ single crystal substrate and patterned by photolithography with Ar ion milling technique. Response of this gradiometer was tested for both uniform field and the 2nd-order field gradient. Details of the design, fabrication, and results will be discussed.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권18호
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• pp.8351-8358
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• 2016

Electronic cleansing is an image post processing technique in which the tagged colonic content is subtracted from colon using CTC images. There are post processing artefacts, like: 1) soft tissue degradation; 2) incomplete cleansing; 3) misclassification of polyp due to pseudo enhanced voxels; and 4) pseudo soft tissue structures. The objective of the study was to subtract the tagged colonic content without losing the soft tissue structures. This paper proposes a novel adaptive method to solve the first three problems using a multi-step algorithm. It uses a new edge model-based method which involves colon segmentation, priori information of Hounsfield units (HU) of different colonic contents at specific tube voltages, subtracting the tagging materials, restoring the soft tissue structures based on selective HU, removing boundary between air-contrast, and applying a filter to clean minute particles due to improperly tagged endoluminal fluids which appear as noise. The main finding of the study was submerged soft tissue structures were absolutely preserved and the pseudo enhanced intensities were corrected without any artifact. The method was implemented with multithreading for parallel processing in a high performance computer. The technique was applied on a fecal tagged dataset (30 patients) where the tagging agent was not completely removed from colon. The results were then qualitatively validated by radiologists for any image processing artifacts.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권12C호
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• pp.1194-1200
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 국부 통계 특성을 이용한 적응 MAP 방식의 고해상도 영상 복원 알고리즘에 대해 제안한다. 고해상도 원 영상의 윤곽선을 보존하기 위해 저해상도 영상의 국부 특성을 이용하여 시각함수를 정의하였고, MAP(Maximum A Posteriori) 추정 방식을 이용하여 국부적인 열화 정도(smoothness)를 조절하였다. 또한 가중치가 부여된 함수를 이용하여 원 고해상도 영상에 가능한 가까운 최적의 해를 찾기 위하여 반복기법을 사용하였으며, 열화 요소는 매 반복 단계마다 부분적으로 복원된 고해상도 영상으로부터 이용하였다. 제안된 방식의 성능을 실험 결과를 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1085-1093
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• 2010

본 논문은 FMCW 방식 전파 고도계에서 발생되는 수신신호 요동을 감소시키고, 스텝으로 변화되는 고도의 모서리 검출 특성을 향상시키기 위한 다중필터를 제안하였다. 제안된 필터는 Alpha-trimmed 평균필터와 주파수 변화 제한기, 그리고 1/3 order static필터로 구성되었다. 수신 신호 분석을 이용한 시뮬레이션은 제안된 필터가 이동 평균 필터 및 메디안 필터와 비교하여 오차 감소 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다. 특히, 지면 정지 비행에서 신호의 요동을 제거시키는 능력이 크게 향상되었다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2002

The projectile afterbodies for zero-lift drag reduction has been analyzed using the Navier-Stokes equations with the κ-εturbidence model. The numerical method of a second order upwind scheme has been used on an unstructured adaptive grid system. Base drag reduction methods that have been found effective on axisymmetric bodies are boattailing, base bleed, base combustion, locked vortex afterbodies and multistep afterbodies. In this paper, turbulence flow and pressure charateristics have been studied for geometries of multistep afterbodies. The important geometrical and flow parameters relevant to the design of such afterbodies have been identified by step number, length and height. The flow over multistep aftoerbodies or base have many kinds of compressible flow characteristics including expansion waves at the trailing edge, recompression waves, separation and recirculating flow in the base region, shear flow and wake flow. The numerical results have been compared and analyzed with the experimental data. The flow characteristics have been clearly shown.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

Clocking effects of a stator on the performance and internal flow in an UTRC 1.5 stage axial turbine are investigated using a three-dimensional unsteady flow simulation. Six relative positions of two rows of stator are investigated by positioning the second stator being clocked in a step of 1/6 pitch. The relative efficiency benefit of about 1% is obtained depending on the clocking positions. However, internal flows have some different characteristics from that in the previous study at the best and worst efficiency positions, since the first stator wake is mixed out with the rotor wake before arriving at the leading edge of the second stator. Instead of the first stator wake, it is found that the wake interaction of the first stator and rotor has a important role on a relative efficiency variation at each clocking position. The time-averaged local efficiency along the span at the maximum efficiency is more uniform than that at the minimum efficiency. That is, the spanwise efficiency distribution at the minimum efficiency has larger values in mid-span but smaller values near the hub and casing in comparison to those at the maximum efficiency. Moreover, the difference between maximum and minimum instantaneous efficiencies during one period is found to be smaller at the maximum efficiency than at the minimum efficiency.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.123-131
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• 2005

기존의 부브노프-갤러킨 자연요소법(BG-NEM)에서 발생하는 수치적분의 부정확성을 페트로프-갤러킨 자연요소법(PG-NEM)에서 완벽히 해결할 수 있음을 저자들의 이전 논문에서 확인하였다. 본 논문에서는 PG-NEM을 확장하여 2차원 기하학적 비선형 문제를 다룬다. 해석을 위해 선형화된 토탈 라그랑지 정식화를 도입하고 PG-NEM을 적용하여 근사화한다. 각 하중 단계마다 절점은 새로운 위치로 갱신되며, 재분포된 절점을 바탕으로 형상함수를 새롭게 구성한다. 이러한 과정은 PG-NEM이 더 정확하고 안정적인 근사함수를 제공하는 것을 가능하게 한다. 개발된 포트란 시험 프로그램을 이용하여 대표적인 수치 예제를 수행하였으며, 수치결과로부터 PG-NEM이 효율적이고 정확하게 대변형 문제를 근사화하는 것을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.190-207
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• 2015

In the combustion engineering, to decrease pollution and increase production efficiency, and to optimally keep solid burning material amount constant in a burner online, it needs a smart method to detect the amount variation of the burning materials in a high temperature environment. This paper presents an online machine vision system for automatically measuring and detecting the burning material amount inside a burner or a boiler. In the camera-protecting box of the system, a sub-system for cooling is constructed by using the cooling water circulation techqique. In addition, the key and intelligent step in the system is to detect the pile profile of the variable burning material, and the algorithm for the pile profile tracing was studied based on the combination of the gey level (color) discontinuity and similarity based image segmentation methods, the discontinuity based sub-algorithm is made on the quaternion convolution, and the similarity based sub-algorithm is designed according to the region growing with multi-scale clustering. The results of the two sub-algoritms are fused to delineate the final pile profile, and the algorithm has been tested and applied in different industrial burners and boilers. The experiements show that the proposed algorithm works satisfactorily.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an optimal trajectory for biped robots to move up-and-down stairs using a genetic algorithm and a computed-torque control for biped robots to be dynamically stable. First, a Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) which of operators are composed of reproduction, crossover and mutation is used to minimize the total energy. Constraints are divided into equalities and inequalities: Equality constraints consist of a position condition at the start and end of a step period and repeatability conditions related to each joint angle and angular velocity. Inequality constraints include collision avoidance conditions of a swing leg at the face and edge of a stair, knee joint conditions with respect to the avoidance of the kinematic singularity, and the zero moment point condition with respect to the stability into the going direction. In order to approximate a gait, each joint angle trajectory is defined as a 4-th order polynomial of which coefficients are chromosomes. The effectiveness of the proposed optimal trajectory is shown in computer simulations with a 6-dof biped robot that consists of seven links in the sagittal plane. The trajectory is more efficient than that generated by the modified GCIPM. And various trajectories generated by the proposed GA method are analyzed in a viewpoint of the consumption energy: walking on even ground, ascending stairs, and descending stairs.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2005년도 연구개발 발표회 논문집
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• pp.473-480
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• 2005

Clocking effects of a stator on the performance and internal flow in an UTRC 1.5 stage axial turbine are investigated using a three-dimensional unsteady flow simulation. Six relative positions of two rows of stator are investigated by positioning the second stator being clocked in a step of 1/6 pitch. The relative efficiency benefit of about 1% is obtained depending on the clocking positions. However, internal flows have some different characteristics from that in the previous study at the best and worst efficiency positions, since be first stator wake is mixed out with the rotor wake before arriving at the leading edge of the second stator. Instead of the first stator wake, it is found that the wake interaction of the first stator and rotor has a important role on a relative efficiency variation at each clocking position. The time-averaged local efficiency along the span at the maximum efficiency is more uniform than that at the minimum efficiency. That is, the spanwise efficiency distribution at the minimum efficiency has larger values in mid-span but smaller values near the hub and casing in comparison to those at the maximum efficiency. Moreover, the difference between maximum and minimum instantaneous efficiencies during one period is found to be smaller at the maximum efficiency than at the minimum efficiency.