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Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Collecting Marine Debris (쓰레기 수거용 무인 수상로봇)

  • Oh, Myung Hoon;Kim, Jea Heung;Kim, Hyeon Min;Shin, Dong A;Kim, Dong Hun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.61-62
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    • 2015
  • This study presents a movable USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle) based on Micro Controller. Recently, Micro Controller has widely used in application programming such as industry and education application. In particular, Robot is capable of collecting Marine Debris in any sea area is needed so We propose USV used IP camera for automatic driving, distance detection to control movement of USV in order to prevent of collision based on Arduino. Also, Surrounding situation taken by IP camera can be transmitted to monitor and smartphone.

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Automation for Oyster Hinge Breaking System

  • So, J.D.;Wheaton, F.W.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1996.06c
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    • pp.658-667
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    • 1996
  • A computer vision system was developed to automatically detect and locate the oyster hinge line, one step in shucking an oyster. The computer vision system consisted of a personal computer, a color frame grabber, a color CCD video camera with a zoom lens, two video monitor, a specially designed fixture to hold the oyster, a lighting system to illuminate the oyster and the system software. The software consisted of a combination of commercially available programs and custom designed programs developed using the Microsoft CTM . Test results showed that the image resolution was the most important variable influencing hinge detection efficiency. Whether or not the trimmed -off-flat-white surface area was dry or wet, the oyster size relative to the image size selected , and the image processing methods used all influenced the hinge locating efficiency. The best computer software and hardware combination used successfully located 97% of the oyster hinge lines tested. This efficienc was achieve using camera field of view of 1.9 by 1.5cm , a 180 by 170 pixel image window, and a dry trimmed -off oyster hinge end surface.

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Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Spatial Distribution of Chaco Semi-Arid Forest in Copo National Park, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

  • Jose Luis Tiedemann
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.99-110
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    • 2024
  • According to the REDD+ program, it is necessary to monitor, quantify, and report forest conditions in protected land areas. The objectives of this work were to quantify the average monthly aerial net primary productivity (ANPPMONTH) of semi-arid Chaco Forest at Copo National Park (CNP), Santiago del Estero, Argentina, during the period 2000-2023, as well as its spatial distribution and relationship, and its use efficiency (RUE) of average monthly rainfall (AMR). The ANPPMONTH model accounted for 90% of the seasonal variability from October to May, the average seasonal ANPPMONTH was 145 tons of dry matter per hectare (t dm/ha), being the maximum in January with 192 t dm/ha and the minimum in May with 91 t dm/ha. The surface area covered by ANPPMONTH exhibited a consistent positive trend from October to May (t test=15.65, p<0.01). Strong and significant direct relationships were found between ANPPMONTH and AMRs, linear models explaining 90% and 96% of the variability, respectively. The results obtained become reference values for assessing the capacity of the forest systems to stock carbon for global warming mitigation and for monitoring and controlling their response to extreme climatic adversities. The average ANPPMONTH reduces uncertainty when defining the thresholds to monitor and quantify ANPP and forest area, thus facilitating the detection of negative changes in land use in CNP. Such results evidence the National Parks Administration's high effectiveness for the maintenance of protected area and for the high ANPP of the FCHS of CNP in the period 2000-2023.

Monitoring of Dry Cutting and Applications of Cutting Fluid for Ball End Milling

  • Tangjitsitcharoen, Somkiat;Rungruang, Channarong;Laiaddee, Duangta
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.242-250
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    • 2010
  • For economical and environmental reasons, the aim of this research is hence to monitor the cutting conditions with the dry cutting, the wet cutting, and the mist cutting to obtain the proper cutting condition for the plain carbon steel with the ball end milling based on the consideration of the surface roughness of the machined parts, the life of the cutting tools, the use of the cutting fluids, the density of the particles of cutting fluids dispersed in the working area, and the cost of cutting. The experimentally obtained results of the relation between tool wear and surface roughness, the relation between tool wear and cutting force, and the relation between cutting force and surface roughness are correspondent with the same trend. The phenomena of surface roughness and tool wear can be explained by the in-process cutting forces. The models of the tool wear with the cutting conditions and the cutting times are proposed to estimate the tool cost for the different cooling strategies based on the experimental data using the multiple regression technique. The cutting cost is calculated from the costs of cutting tool and cutting fluid. The mist cutting gives the lowest cutting cost as compared to others. The experimentally obtained proper cutting condition is determined based on the experimental results referring to the criteria.

Direct shear testing of brittle material samples with non-persistent cracks

  • Haeri, Hadi;Sarfarazi, Vahab;Shemirani, Alireza Bagher;Zhu, Zheming
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.927-935
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    • 2018
  • The mechanical behavior of the brittle material samples containing the internal and edge cracks are studied under direct shear tests. It is tried to investigate the effects of stress interactions and stress intensity factors at the tips of the pre-existing cracks on the failure mechanism of the bridge areas within these cracks. The direct shear tests are carried out on more than 30 various modeled samples each containing the internal cracks (S models) and edge cracks (E models). The visual inspection and a low power microscope are used to monitor the failure mechanisms of the tested samples. The cracks initiation, propagation and coalescences are being visualized in each test and the detected failure surfaces are used to study and measure the characteristics of each surface. These investigations show that as the ratio of the crack area to the total shear surface increases the shear failure mode changes to that of the tensile. When the bridge areas are fixed, the bridge areas in between the edge cracks have less strength than those of internal cracks. However, the results of this study show that for the case of internal cracks as the bridge area is increased, the strength of the material within the bridge area is decreased. It has been shown that the failure mechanism and fracture pattern of the samples depend on the bridge areas because as the bridge area decreases the interactions between the crack tip stress fields increases.

Sensible heat flux estimated by gradient method at Goheung bay wetland (고흥만 습지에서 경도법으로 산출한 현열플럭스)

  • Kim, Dong-Su;Kwon, Byung-Hyuk;Kim, Il Kyu;Kang, Dong Hwan;Kim, Kwang-Ho;Kim, Geun-Hoi;Park, Jun-Sang
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.156-167
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    • 2008
  • Meorological data have been collected to monitor the wetland area in Goheung bay since 2003 and four intensive observations were conducted to study effects of the atmospheric turbulence on the energy budget and the ecological changes. We improved an algorithm to estimate the sensible heat flux with routine data. The sensible heat flux estimated by gradient method was in good agreement with that measured by precision instruments such as surface layer scintillometer and ultrasonic anemometer. Diurnal variations of sensible heat flux showed analogous tendency to those of temperature gradient. When the vertical wind shear of horizontal wind components was weak, even though temperature gradient was strong, the gradient method underestimated the sensible heat flux. A compensation for the cloud will make this gradient method be a helpful tool to monitor the ecosystem without expensive instruments except for weak wind shear and temperature gradient.

New Measurement Method of Wound Healing by Stereoimage Optical Topometer System (Stereoimage Optical Topometer System을 이용한 새로운 창상 계측 방법)

  • Rho, Kyoung-Hwan;Han, Seung-Kyu;Kim, Woo-Kyung
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.755-758
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: In order to determine the amount of wound healing, objective sequential assessments of changes in wound size and depth are essential. Although a variety of measurements for wound healing have been proposed, a gold standard for quantifying day-to-day changes in healing has not been established. We present here a simple and non-invasive wound measurement method that quantitatively and accurately documents changes of the size of a raw surface and the volume of a soft tissue defect using a stereoimage optical topometer(SOT) system. Methods: Using a 5mm diameter biopsy punch, four circular wounds were created on abdominal area of a diabetic mouse. Photographs were taken using SOT system at baseline, 5th day and 10th postoperative day. The wound margin was traced on a digitalized photo and evaluated the area and the volume of the wound by SOT system. Results: The SOT system calculated a mean wound surface of $15.93{\pm}0.29mm^2$ and volume of $827.50{\pm}88.86$ intensity/pixel${\times}$area(I/PA) immediately after wounding. On the 5th day after the operation wound surface declined by $10.73mm^2$ and on the 10th day declined by $5.95mm^2$. The wound volume also declined from 827.50 I/PA to 161.75 I/PA and 30.50 I/PA on 0, 5th and 10th day, respectively. Conclusion: The SOT system described in this study represents a reliable, simple, practical, and non-invasive technique to accurately monitor and evaluate wound healing.

Drainage Control and Prediction of Slope Stability by GIS-based Hydrological Modeling at the Large Scale Open Pit Mine (GIS에 의한 대규모 노천광에서의 배수처리 및 사면안정 예측)

  • SunWoo, Choon;Choi, Yo-Soon;Park, Hyeong-Dong;Jung, Yong-Bok
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.360-371
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents an application of drainage control and slope stability by GIS-based hydrological modeling to control the surface water from an operational point of view. This study was carried out on a region of Pasir open-pit coal mine, Indonesia. A detailed topographical survey was performed at the study area to generate a reliable DEM (Digital Elevation Model). Hydrology tools implemented in ArcGIS 9.1 were used to extract the characteristics of drainage system such as flow direction, flow accumulation and catchment area from DEM. The results of hydrological modeling and spatial analysis showed that current arrangement of pumping facility is not suitable and some vulnerable places to erosion exist on the bench face due to concentrated surface runoff. Finally, some practical measures were suggested to optimize the design of drainage system and to monitor the slope stability by the surface water management at the study region during heavy rainfall.

An Analysis on the Changes of the Surface Hydrological Parameters using Landsat TM Data (Landsat TM 자료를 이용한 지표면 수문인자 변화 분석)

  • Chae, Hyo-Sok;Song, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.46-59
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    • 1999
  • Remote sensing provides informations on the changes of the hydrological states and variables over with the temporal and spatial distribution to monitor hydrological conditions and changes for large area. Especially, it can extract a spatial distribution of hydrological parameters such as surface albedo, vegetation informations, and surface temperature to effectively manage water resources of the watershed. In this study, we analyzed the characteristic of temporal and spatial changes in surface hydrological parameters which is necessary to identify the spatial distribution of water resources. 5 Landsat TM data of 1995 which is collected for Bochong-chon watershed, located in the upper stream of Keum River, were used to estimate characteristics on the change of hydrological parameters and atmospheric correction was carried out using COST model. The study showed that the difference of the albedo by the land cover was very sensitive depending upon the change of sun elevation and the amount of water in the soil. The difference between the surface temperature analysis and the measured air temperature was from $2.5^{\circ}C$ to $3.86^{\circ}C$.

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Estimation of Spectral Radiant Distribution of Illumination and Corresponding Color Reproduction According to Viewing Conditions (광원의 분광 방사 분포의 추정과 관찰조건에 따른 대응적 색재현)

  • 방상택;이철희;곽한봉;유미옥;안석출
    • Proceedings of the Korean Printing Society Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2000
  • Because Image on the CRT change under different illuminants, human is difficult to see original color of object. If what is information of used illuminant on capturing object know, image can be transformed according to viewing condition using the linear matrix method. To know information of used illuminant at an image, the spectral radiance of illuminant can be estimated using the linear model of Maloney and Wandell form an image. And then image can be properly transformed it using color appearance model. In this paper, we predict the spectral radiance of illuminant using spectral power distribution of specular light and using surface spectral reflectance at maximum gray area. and then we perform visual experiments for the corresponding color reproduction according to viewing condition. In results, we ensure that the spectral radiance of illuminant at an image can be well estimated using above algorithms and that human visual system is 70% adapted to the monitor's white point and 30% to ambient light when viewing softcopy images.