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Segmentation of Welding Defects using Level Set Methods

  • Mohammed, Halimi;Naim, Ramou
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.1001-1008
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    • 2012
  • Non-destructive testing (NDT) is a technique used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material without causing damage. In this paper we propose a method for segmenting radiographic images of welding in order to extract the welding defects which may occur during the welding process. We study different methods of level set and choose the model adapted to our application. The methods presented here take the property of local segmentation geodesic active contours and have the ability to change the topology automatically. The computation time is considerably reduced after taking into account a new level set function which eliminates the re-initialization procedure. Satisfactory results are obtained after applying this algorithm both on synthetic and real images.

Intersections of a Polyhedral Surface with Parallel Planes (다면체 곡면과 평행한 평면들과의 교선)

  • Jeon, Cha-Soo;Kim, Young-Yil
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.493-506
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    • 1995
  • Presented in this paper is an algorithm to obtain the intersections of a polyhedral surface composed of triangle facets with a series of parallel planes for extracting machining information from the surface. The change of the topology of the intersection curves is caused by characteristic points of the surface when sectioning the surface with parallel planes. The characteristic points are internal maximum, internal minimum, internal saddle, boundary maximum, boundary minimum, boundary max-saddle, and boundary min-saddle points. The starting points of the intersects are found efficiently and robustly using the characteristic points. The characteristic points as well as the intersection contours can be used to evaluate the machining information for process planning, and to generate NC tool path in CAD/CAM system.

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Bidirectional Quasi-Cuk DC/DC Converter with Reduced Voltage Stress on Capacitor and Capability of Changing the Output Polarity

  • Asl, Elias Shokati;Sabahi, Mehran
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.1108-1113
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a bidirectional topology for quasi-Cuk dc/dc converter with capability of zero-voltage and zero-current-switching (ZVZCS) is proposed. The bidirectional quasi-Cuk (BQ-Cuk) converter has different voltage and current transfer ratio, reduced voltage stress on capacitor and capability of changing the output polarity in comparison with conventional bidirectional Cuk converter. In this paper, steady-state analysis of the quasi-Cuk converter with capability of ZVZCS in turn-on is presented. Then, critical inductances for transient from this operation to two new operations are calculated. Next, besides values designing of used elements, maximum and minimum value of their current and voltage are calculated. Finally, experimental results to verify the accuracy of the proposed converter in different operating modes are presented.

Design of 1500V solar inverter stack beyond megawatt in NPC1 topology

  • Hao, Xin;Ma, Kwok-Wai;Zhao, Jia;Sun, Xin-Yu
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2017.07a
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2017
  • This paper describes a design concept of NPC1 power stack for 1500VDC megawatt level solar inverter. This stack uses three latest half-bridge IGBT modules with highest power density and operation junction temperature, which enable realization of power level beyond 1MW without paralleling. Critical design concept on loop inductance is explained. Dynamic characteristics are verified by double-pulse test. Thermal characteristics and output power limits are verified by thermal test. Temperature-sensitive component on PCB as output power constraint is identified. Different PCB repositioning solutions are tested to give the overall output power thermal derating curves, which enable output power of 1.15MW at $T_A=55^{\circ}C$ with $15^{\circ}C$ thermal margin. The power stack characteristic and performance change under different thermal environment is further analyzed.

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Three Phase Inverter System Utilizing Three Bi-directional Buck-Boost Converter (3개의 양방향 벅-부스트 컨버터를 이용한 3상 인버터 시스템)

  • Kim, Sung-Young;Nam, Kwang-Hee
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.551-554
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    • 2006
  • An inverter system which consists of three bi-directional buck-boost converters, is proposed for motor driving. Three phase sinusoidal output voltages can be generated by utilizing three buck-boost converters. The advantage of this scheme is that it does not require a separate DC-DC converter for motor driving, i.e. inverter function is combined into the three DC-DC converters. This topology is suitable for inverters for hybrid or fuel cell vehicles where DC link voltage is subject to change depending upon charging status or output power. So the proposed system is capable of driving motor at high speed. The converter system is controlled by PI controller and simulation results done by MATLAB SIMULINK are provided.Ҙ?⨀ሉȀ̀㘰々K䍄乍?ጊ츀Ѐ㔹〻Ԁ䭃䑎䴀

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CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETIZATION BEHAVIOR IN Co/Pd PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPIC MULTILAYERS

  • Oh, Hoon-Sang;Joo, Seung-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.655-658
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    • 1995
  • Magnetization behavior of sputter-deposited Co/Pd multilayers were characterized, and it has been found that even when the multilayers are sputtered at low pressure (10 mTorr), the coercivity of the multilayers can be increased to large extent without noticeable change of saturation magnetization by increasing the deposition pressure of Pd underlayer. It turned out that the surface topology of Pd underlayer gets rough as deposition pressure increases, which consequently affects the magnetization reversal mode of Co/Pd multilayers from domain wall motion to magnetic spin rotation. The enhancement of coercivity is attributed to the domain wall pinning effect which is comected with the surface roughness of Pd underlayer on which Co/Pd multilayers grow.

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Capacitors Energy Strategy Based Cascaded H-Bridge Converter for DC Port Failures

  • Peng, Xu;Liu, Xiaohan;Yang, Guolong;Liu, Xijun;Gao, Lixia;Zhu, Xinyu
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.1133-1141
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, a capacitors energy strategy based Cascaded H-bridge Converter (CHBC) for steady DC link voltage is proposed, which allow the CHBC to work while DC power fails. The topology of the CHBC is analyzed to construct the proposed strategy. The capacitors energy strategy is deduced based on the principle that the DC link voltage should be steady, the switch state should be smooth and the switch frequency should be normal. Experiments based on a three-module prototype, including static experiment, start experiment and step change experiment, proves the correctness of the strategy. They also verified the excellent fault tolerance ability and good dynamic performance of the proposed strategy.

Pair-nodes Selection Algorithm for PBS (Pairwise Broadcast Synchronization) (PBS(Pairwise Broadcast Synchronization)를 위한 노드 쌍 선택 알고리즘)

  • Bae, Shi-Kyu
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.1288-1296
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    • 2018
  • PBS(Pairwise Broadcast Synchronization) is a well-known synchronization scheme for WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks). As PBS needs the set of node-pairs for network-wide synchronization by over-hearing, GPA(Group-Wise Pair Selection Algorithm) was also proposed after PBS. However, GPA is complex and requires too many message transmissions, leading to much power consumption. Besides, GPA is not appropriate to topology change or mobile wireless sensor networks. So, we propose a new and energy-efficient pair-node selection algorithm for PBS. The proposed scheme's performance has been evaluated and compared with GPA by simulation. The results are shown to be better than GPA.

Game-Theoretic Optimization of Common Control Channel Establishment for Spectrum Efficiency in Cognitive Small Cell Network

  • Jiao Yan
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2024
  • Cognitive small cell networks, consisting of macro-cells and small cells, are foreseen as a promising candidate solution to address 5G spectrum scarcity. Recently, many technological issues (such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing) related to cognitive small cell networks have been studied, but the common control channel (CCC) establishment problem has been ignored. CCC is an indispensable medium for control message exchange that could have a huge significant on transmitter-receiver handshake, channel access negotiation, topology change, and routing information updates, etc. Therefore, establishing CCC in cognitive small cell networks is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a potential game theory-based approach for CCC establishment in cognitive radio networks. We design a utility function and demonstrate that it is an exact potential game with a pure Nash equilibrium. To maintain the common control channel list (CCL), we develop a CCC update algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach has good convergence. On the other hand, it exhibits good delay and overhead of all networks.

Accuracy Analysis of Topographic Survey Data for the Official Land Price Appraising (공시지가산정을 위한 지형·지세조사 자료의 정확도 분석)

  • Lee, Chang-Han;Sung, Chun-Ja
    • Journal of Cadastre & Land InformatiX
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.153-167
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    • 2018
  • Despite many criticisms that topographic survey data for the official land price appraising collected annually using field survey method might be inaccurate, there is only few concrete research on it. This paper investigated whether the topographic survey data collected by a local government using field survey method is consistent with the data analyzed using the digital elevation model to examine its accuracy. The accuracy analysis indicated that 324 out of 1537 lots of land have inconsistent results which means the ratio of inconsistency is 17.36%. Among 11 areas studied, five had the inconsistency ratio above 20% while the worst one had 38.71%. The inconsistency ratio is generally higher for the rough terrain with irregular slope and high altitude while it is relatively lower for the terrain with smooth landform. The analysis results imply that there are limitations in investigating the topology by field survey method. Therefore, the official land price appraising policy should set precise criterion and change over to highly accurate geographic information analysis method to effectively and accurately examine topology, given the fact that the topology of the Republic of Korea has complicated features with irregular slope and altitude.