• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.271-298
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• 2012

Researchers have made significant progress in recent years towards realizing effective structural health monitoring (SHM) utilizing wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs). These efforts have focused on improving the performance and robustness of such networks to achieve high quality data acquisition and distributed, in-network processing. One of the primary challenges still facing the use of smart sensors for long-term monitoring deployments is their limited power resources. Periodically accessing the sensor nodes to change batteries is not feasible or economical in many deployment cases. While energy harvesting techniques show promise for prolonging unattended network life, low power design and operation are still critically important. This research presents the WiSeMote: a new, fully integrated ultra-low power wireless smart sensor node and a flexible base station, both designed for long-term SHM deployments. The power consumption of the sensor nodes and base station has been minimized through careful hardware selection and the implementation of power-aware network software, without sacrificing flexibility and functionality.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.1045-1049
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 2.4 GHz 대역에 적용할 수 있는 초 저전력 저잡음 증폭기를 TSMC 0.18 ${\mu}m$ RF CMOS 공정을 이용하여 설계하였다. 높은 이득과 낮은 전력 소모를 만족하기 위해서 전류 재사용 기법을 사용하였으며, subthreshold 영역에서 문턱 전압보다 낮은 바어이스 전압을 인가함으로써 초 저전력 특성을 구현하였다. 설계된 저잡음 증폭기는 2.4 GHz에서 13.8 dB의 전압 이득과 3.4 dB의 잡음 지수 특성을 나타냈으며, 0.9 V의 공급 전압으로 0.7 mA의 전류를 소모하여 0.63 mW의 초 저전력을 소모하는 결과를 얻었다. 칩 면적은 $1.1\;mm{\times}0.8\;mm$이다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1279-1282
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• 2006

An ultra low-power down-conversion level shifter using low temperature poly-crystalline silicon thin film transistors is proposed for mobile applications. The simulation result shows that the power consumption of the proposed circuits is only 17% and the propagation delay is 48% of those of the conventional cross-coupled level shifter without additional area. And the measured power consumption is only 21% of that of the crosscoupled level shifter.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.76-86
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• 2019

The cross-flow turbine is a key hydraulic power system that is widely due to low costs, high efficiency, and low maintenance. In particular, the cross-flow turbine considered as the most suitable turbine for low head situations as it is known to operate down to 5 m of water head. However, the conventional cross-flow turbine is unsuitable for ultra-low head situations with less than a 3 m water head. In this study, we propose an inverted-type cross-flow turbine to overcome the limitations of conventional cross-flow turbines under ultra-low head situations. First, we described the limitations of conventional turbines and suggested a new turbine for the ultra-low head circumstances. Second, we investigated the performance of the new turbine using CFD analysis. Results demonstrated the effects of the design parameters, such as number of blades and rotor diameter ratio, on the performance of the suggested turbine. As a result, we developed an inverted-type cross-flow turbine with up to 60% efficiency under low water head conditions.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권10C호
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• pp.992-998
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 고정밀 차량위치 추적 기반의 교통신호등 제어를 위한 저전송율 초광대역 무선통신 시스템에서의 Ultra Fast Acquisition 알고리즘을 연구하였다. 현재 CDMA에서 사용되는 acquisition방식으로는 저전송율 UWB시스템에서 회로가 복잡해지고 빠른 acquisition을 기대할 수 없기 때문에 새로운 Ultra Fast Acquisition방식이 필요하다. 기본적으로 Sequential Estimation방식을 사용하며 trinomial m-시퀀스를 사용하여 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크용 U시스템에서 long PN code를 사용하는 경우에도 회로의 복잡도를 줄이고 FCC Emission limit을 만족시키면서, $1\~3{\mu}sec$이내의 acquisition을 가능하도록 설계하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.129-132
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• 2017

A conventional pulse oximeter has high power consumption; thus, its mobility is severely limited. In this paper, we discuss the drawbacks of the existing pulse oximeters and propose a new ultra-low-power pulse oximeter that supports wireless data transmission for remotely monitoring vital signs, such as peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2) and beats per minute (BPM). We could notably reduce power consumption by using a low-frequency single clock in all well-customized modules. Also, our device is publicly certified, and thus, possibly engaged in clinical trials for commercial use.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.221-224
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• 2004

This paper proposed an ultra low-power CMOS exponential voltage-mode circuit using the Pseudo-exponential function for realizing the exponential characteristics. The proposed circuit provides high dB-linear output voltage range at low-voltage applications. In a $0.25\;\mu m$ CMOS process, the simulations show more than 35 dB output voltage range and 26 dB with the linearity error less than $\pm0.5\;dB.$ The average current consumption is less than 80 uA. The proposed circuit can be used for the design of an extremely low-power variable gain amplifier (VGA) and automatic gain control (AGC).

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.849-853
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• 2014

In micro-scale electromechanical systems, the power to perform accurate position sensing often greatly exceeds the power needed to generate motion. This paper explores the implications of sampling rate and amplifier noise density selection on the performance of a system identification algorithm using a capacitive sensing circuit. Specific performance objectives are to minimize or limit convergence rate and power consumption to identify the dynamics of a rotary micro-stage. A rearrangement of the conventional recursive least-squares identification algorithm is performed to make operating cost an explicit function of sensor design parameters. It is observed that there is a strong dependence of convergence rate and error on the sampling rate, while energy dependence is driven by error that may be tolerated in the final identified parameters.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권8A호
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• pp.661-668
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 무선 통신에 사용되는 저 전력 통신 기법들에 대해 살펴보고 초 저 전력 무선통신이 가능한 능동형 RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) 시스템에 적용할 수 있는 새로운 프로토콜과 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 기술을 바탕으로 MCU와 RF Transceiver, 칩 안테나 등을 이용하여 송수신 모듈을 구성하였고 내부 전원을 위해 리튬 코인 배터리를 사용하였다. 구현된 리더와 태그의 실험을 통해 송신 시 초당 약 $10{\mu}A$ 이하, 수신 시 초당 약 $30{\mu}A$ 이하의 소비 전류를 측정하였고 이를 바탕으로 초 저 전력 무선통신이 가능함을 확인하였다. 이러한 결과는 수신되는 패킷의 도착 시간을 동적으로 예측하는 알고리즘으로 가능하며 장시간 통신할 때에도 방전되지 않는 조건 하에 링크가 끊어지지 않은 장점을 가지고 있어 오작동을 막고 응답성을 향상시킬 수 있음을 나타낸다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2013

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of hot forging on the hardness and impact value of ultra high carbon low alloy steel. With increasing hot forging ratio, thickness of the network and acicular proeutectoid cementite decreased, and than were broken up into particle shapes, when the forging ratio was 80%, the network and acicular shape of the as-cast state disappeared. Interlamellar spacing and the thickness of eutectoid cementite decreased with increasing forging ratio, and were broken up into particle shapes, which then became spheroidized. With increasing hot forging ratio, hardness, tensile strength, elongation and impact value were not changed up 50%, and then hardness rapidly decreased, while impact value rapidly increased. Hardness and impact value was greatly affected by the disappeared of network and acicular shape of proeutectoid cementite, and became particle shape than thickness reduction of proeutectoid and eutectoid cementite.