• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.435-449
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• 2004

In this paper, a novel anti-sway control system that uses an inclinometer as a sway sensor is investigated. The inclinometer, when compared with a vision system, is very cheap, durable, and easy to maintain, while providing almost the same performance. A number of observers to estimate the angular velocity of the load and the trolley velocity are presented. A state feedback controller with an integrator is designed. After a time-scale analysis, a 1/4-size pilot crane of a rail-mounted quayside crane was constructed. The performance of the proposed control system was verified with a real rubber-tired gantry crane at a container terminal as well as with the constructed pilot crane. Experimental results are provided.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.321-325
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• 2022

Purpose: Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is a condition defined as pain and dysfunction of temporomandibular joints and masticatory muscles. Abnormal interconnections between temporomandibular muscles and cervical spine structures can cause the changes of postural alignment and balance ability. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in static balance ability in subjects with painrelated TMD. Methods: This study conducted on 25 subjects with TMD and 25 control subjects with no TMD. Pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) of the masseter and temporalis muscles were measured using a pressure algometer. Static balance ability was assessed during one leg standing using an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor. During balance task, the IMU sensors measured motion and transfer movement data for center of mass (COM) motion, ankle sway and hip sway. Results: PPTs of masseter and temporalis muscles were significantly lower in the TMD group than in the control group (p<0.05). One leg standing, hip sway, and COM sway results were significantly greater in the TMD group (p<0.05), but ankle sways were not different between group. Conclusion: We suggest pain-related TMD is positively related to reduced PPTs of masticatory muscles and to static balance ability. These results should be considered together with global body posture when evaluating or treating pain-related TMD.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2020

PURPOSE: This study aimed to determine the most effective feedback condition for static balance in elderly subjects. METHODS: Thirty-eight elderly subjects (12 men and 26 women with a mean age of 77.21 years) participated in this study. They each completed a questionnaire on their general characteristics, excluding personal identification codes. The static balance ability of the participants was evaluated using a Wii Balance Board and the Balancia program (version 2.0). The following three feedback conditions were considered: condition 1 (tactile feedback), condition 2 (visual feedback), and condition 3 (no feedback). One-way repeated-measures analysis of variance was used for the comparisons according to sway length and sway velocity. The statistical significance level was set to α = .05 for all variables. RESULTS: Significant differences in the sway length and sway velocity were observed between the three conditions (p < .05). Significant differences in the sway length were noted in the order of conditions 1, 2, and 3 (p < .05), and significant differences in the sway velocity in the order of conditions 3, 2, and 1 (p < .05). CONCLUSION: Significant differences in static balance ability were observed between the three conditions. In this study, tactile feedback was found to be the most effective feedback for balance training. Owing to aging and impairment of the senses, such as that observed in the tactile receptors, visual receptors, and proprioceptors, it is recommended that elderly subjects participate in balance training.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2007

This paper proposes a method of container position measurement using automatic landing system that is estimated by a laser range finder. In the most of container position measurement methods, CCD cameras or laser scanners have been used to get the source data. However those sensors are not only weak for disturbances, for examples, the light, fog, and rain, but also the system cost is high. When the spreader arrives at the goal position, it is still swung by inertia or by wind effect. In this paper, the spreader swung data have been used to find the container position. The laser range finder is equipped in the front side of spreader. It can measure distance and relative position between spreader and container. This laser range finder can be rotated as desired by a motor. And a tilt sensor is equipped on the spreader to measure spreader sway. The relative position information between the spreader and a container using the laser range finder and tilt sensor is estimated through the geometrical analysis.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2021

카라반은 외부의 물리적 요인에 쉽게 영향을 받아 탑승자에게 위험한 상황을 초래하는 경우가 많다. 따라서 탑승자의 안정성을 확보하기 위해 스웨이 현상을 사전에 예방할 수 있는 스웨이 저감 장치를 개발할 필요성이 있다. 본 논문에서는 견인차량과 카라반 사이의 Hitch angle을 최소화하는 것을 목표로 한다. 구체적으로는 견인차량과 카라반 각각에 장착된 IMU 센서를 통해 카라반의 초기 불안정성을 감지하고, PID 제어기를 이용하여 Hitch angle, Hitch yaw rate가 Desired hitch angle, Desired hitch yaw rate에 수렴할 수 있도록 제어 값을 산출한다. 산출된 제어 값에 따라 카라반 좌우 브레이크에 다른 제동토크를 생성하여 분배하고 제어한다. 주행 실험을 통해 스웨이 저감 장치의 성능을 검증한 결과, 제어하지 않은 경우보다 Hitch angle이 감소한 것을 확인할 수 있었고, 횡 방향 안정성 향상률은 제어 전에 비해 78.9% 향상된 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.546-554
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• 2021

수중 탐지를 위한 합성개구소나(Synthetic Aperture Sonar, SAS) 신호처리에서는 탑재플랫폼이 직선경로를 따라 주행한다고 가정한다. 그러나 실제로는 플랫폼의 복잡한 운동에 따른 궤적 교란으로 인해 SAS 영상에 번짐과 같은 왜곡이 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 예인형 SAS 개발을 위해 궤적 교란에 의한 SAS 영상 왜곡을 개선하기 위한 방법으로서, Redundant Phase Center (RPC)을 이용한 예인체 운동 추정 및 영상 보정, 그리고 자동 초점 기법인 Phase Gradient Autofocus (PGA) 기법에 대해 검토하였다. 그리고 시뮬레이션을 통해, sway로 인해 왜곡된 SAS 영상에 이 기법들을 적용하고 그 성능 및 유효성에 대해 살펴보았다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.241-245
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• 2003

This paper introduces a method that can derive information about the movement of a spreader and skew in order to drive ALS(Automatic Landing System) in the crane used at a harbor. Some methods that use LDL Corner detectors a kind of 2D Laser scanner sensor or Laser distance measuring units to obtain the information in ALS are used presently. But these have some defects in economic efficiency and performance. Therefore, to correct these defects, we propose a method to acquire the information for the movement of a spreader, skew and sway angle using CCD camera image data and Laser distance measuring unit data.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2010

본 논문은 홈 케어를 위해 생체 센서 시스템으로 홈 네트워크 시스템을 구성하여 생체 신호가 전달되도록 생체 신호 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 알고리즘의 구성 조건은 입력함수, 주파수 변화 함수, 변위 점 산출 발생 함수, 위치 변동 축 발생 함수, 축 변화 흔들림 변위(Sway Displacement)의 함수에서 변위치의 최대 값과 최소 값을 기준에 조정할 수 있는 단계로 주파수 변동이 0.01 단위로 변화가 있도록 조정하였다. 산출되는 항목은 맥박(Heart Rate), 체온(Temperature), 체중(Weight) 로 구성되고, 파형으로 신체적 균형정도를 확인하고 건강의 상태를 확인하도록 의미를 부여하였다. 본연구의 결과로 홈 네트워크를 통해 헬스 센터 및 건강관리 중앙 시스템에 단말기를 통해 전송된 알고리즘으로 홈 내 건강 관리시스템이 진행되는 결과를 얻을 수 있고, 다양한 신체적 파라메타를 통한 모니터링 기능을 갖춘 시스템관리가 형성 될 것으로 예상된다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2007

In general, the swing motion of the crane is controlled and suppressed by activating the trolley motion. In many papers reported by us, we suggested a new type of anti-sway control system of the crane. In the proposed control system, a small auxiliary mass(moving-mass) is installed on the spreader and the swing motion is controlled by moving the auxiliary mass. The actuator reaction against the auxiliary mass applies inertial control forces to the container in order to reduce the swing motion in the desired manner. The measuring system is based on laser sensor or others. However it is not so useful in real world. Especially, in this paper, the image sensor is used to measures the motions of the spreader and the measured data are fed back to the controller in real time. The applied image processing technique is a kind of robust template matching method which is named Vector Code Correlation (VCC) and devised to consider the real environmental conditions. And the $H_{\infty}$ based control technique is applied to suppress swing motion of the crane. And the experimental result shows that the proposed measurement system based on image sensor and control system is useful and robust to disturbances.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.1287-1294
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• 2004

Automated container terminals have been being developed over the world for recent years and many countries are interested in it because the amount of containers exported or imported is rapidly increasing. The conventional container terminals were not designed to control this kind of heavily many containers. They would face many structural problems soon or later, although they have managed to do well so far. One of the most important things in developing automated container terminal is to develop the equipment able to handle many containers efficiently. Those are maybe automated transfer cranes, automatic guided vehicles, and automated quay-side cranes. The word 'automated' means the equipment is operated without drivers and those equipments are able to work without any interruption in working schedule. Through the researches on the conventional transfer cranes, we decided that the structure of the conventional transfer cranes is not efficient in automated container terminal and it's not possible to handle so many containers in limited time. Therefore we have been studying on the proper structure of the automated container crane for past several years and a new type of transfer crane has been developed. Design concept and control method of a new type of transfer crane had been presented in the previous paper: Part Ⅰ. Experimental features will be presented with a model transfer crane in this paper: Part Ⅱ.