• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2017

자동문에 있어서 적외선과 마이크로파 센서는 물체인식 입력신호를 통해 모터 개폐동작 제어를 담당하는 핵심부품으로 많이 사용하고 있다. 적외선과 마이크로파 기반의 센서를 자동문에 적용한 기존 시스템 경우, 대부분 건물외부로 노출하여 설치하기 때문에 태양의 적외선 또는 가시광선에 의해 오동작이 발생하게 된다. 또한 실내 외의 온도 차로 인한 환경변화는 물체인식 검출신호에 잡음을 일으키는 원인이 되기도 한다. 이러한 문제점과 더불어 빠르게 이동하는 물체를 감지센서가 검출영역에 대한 처리속도를 따라가지 못하는 하드웨어 결함이 감지 사각지대를 만들게 된다. 이는 자동문을 이용하는 통행자의 안전문제에 직접적인 영향을 주고 있기 때문에 빠른 개선방안이 필요한 시점이다. 본 논문은 기존의 감지센서 외에 초음파 센서를 추가 설치하여 검출영역을 개선하기 위한 실험을 진행하였다. 초음파 신호의 검출특성과 장점을 자동문에 적용하여 빠르게 이동하는 물체의 접근경로와 고정 장애물의 위치영역을 정확하고 신속하게 처리하는 연산회로와 검출 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 이를 통해 초음파 센서를 적용한 자동문이 사각지대를 감지하는 검출영역에서 성능개선으로 이어지는 결과를 현장실험을 통해서 확인하고 개선방안을 제안하였다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2010

The ultrasonic guided wave propagates along with the given structure's wall direction. Because of this specific character, the ultrasonic guided waves arc used in many other fields. Especially, it can be readily utilized for nondestructive inspection of various structures that are made up of gas pipes, heat exchanger tubes, and thin plates. Further, the guided wave technology can be readily utilized when inspecting pipes or thin plates which pose high risk of the accident but for which the nondestructive inspection itself is impossible because it is difficult to get to them since they are coated or buried underground. In the other hand, conventional ultrasonic testing such as thickness gauging uses bulk waves and only tests the region of structure immediately below the transducer. As a result of the application about inlet and outlet cooling water line using guided wave test, we conformed that the overall corrosions were in the lower side of the 304.8 mm inlet valve and these corrosions were engaged in not locally but through the lower side of the valve line. In the near future, we can expect that the detectable defect size is smaller than before along with the development of the sensing technology.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2018

Presently, the exploration of an unknown environment is an important task for the development of mobile robots and mobile robots are navigated by means of a number of methods, using navigating systems such as the sonar-sensing system or the visual-sensing system. To fully utilize the strengths of both the sonar and visual sensing systems, In mobile robotics, multi-sensor data fusion(MSDF) became useful method for navigation and collision avoiding. Moreover, their applicability for map building and navigation has exploited in recent years. In this paper, as the preliminary step for developing a multi-purpose autonomous carrier mobile robot to transport trolleys or heavy goods and serve as robotic nursing assistant in hospital wards. The aim of this paper is to present the use of multi-sensor data fusion such as ultrasonic sensor, IR sensor for mobile robot to navigate, and presents an experimental mobile robot designed to operate autonomously within indoor environments. Simulation results with a mobile robot will demonstrate the effectiveness of the discussed methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.1090-1105
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• 2012

A multi-modal sensing M2M healthcare monitoring system for the continuous monitoring of patients under their natural physiological states or elderly persons with chronic diseases is summarized. The system is designed for homecare or the monitoring of the elderly who live in country side or small rest home without enough support from caregivers or doctors, instead of patient monitoring in big hospital environment. Further insights into the natural cause and progression of diseases are afforded by context-aware sensing, which includes the use of accelerometers to monitor patient activities, or by location-aware indoor tracking based on ultrasonic and RF sensing. Moreover, indoor location tracking provides information about the location of patients in their physical environment and helps the caregiver in the provision of appropriate support.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a machine learning-based method for supporting resource management of IoT software platforms in a multi-modal sensing scenario. We assume that an IoT device installed with a oneM2M-compatible software platform is connected with various sensors such as PIR, sound, dust, ambient light, ultrasonic, accelerometer, through different embedded system interfaces such as general purpose input output (GPIO), I2C, SPI, USB. Based on a collected dataset including CPU usage and user-defined priority, a machine learning model is trained to estimate the level of nice value required to adjust according to the resource usage patterns. The proposed method is validated by comparing with a rule-based control strategy, showing its practical capability in a multi-modal sensing scenario of IoT devices.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권7B호
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• pp.595-601
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• 2006

이 연구는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 절대 위치 좌표를 제공할 수 있는 초음파 위치인식 시스템에 관한 것이다. 무선(RF: Radio Frequency) 신호에 의해 동기화된 다수의 고정된 발신기가 순차적으로 초음파를 발신하며, 초음파 신호들을 수신한 수신기에서 TOF를 파악하여 이를 거리로 환산한 다음 위치정보를 계산한다. 초음파의 전파시간(TOF: Time of Flight)은 주기인식 방법을 통해 파악한다. 또한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅을 위한 인식 영역의 확장을 위해 셀 매칭 기법과 부호화된 초음파 기법을 제안한다. 초음파 위치인식 시스템인 U-SAT을 사용하여 주기인식 기법의 유용성을 입증하기 위하여 다양한 거리에서 실험을 수행하였다. 또한 셀 매칭 기법에 의한 영역 확장에서도 위치 측정의 정확도를 검증하였으며 부호화된 초음파 기법의 분석으로 그 유용성도 입증하였다. 그 결과로 인해 저가격, 높은 갱신율, 그리고 상대적으로 뛰어난 정밀도의 입장에서 GPS가 적용될 수 없는 환경에서의 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 위치인식 시스템으로서의 가능성을 입증하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.185-197
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• 2013

We developed a simultaneous strain measurement and damage detection technique using a pair of surface-mounted piezoelectric transducers and a fiber connecting them. This is a novel sensor configuration of the fiber acoustic wave (FAW) piezoelectric transducer. In this study, lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) transducers are installed conventionally on a plate's surface, which is a technique used in many structural health monitoring studies. However, our PZTs are also connected with an optical fiber. A FAW and Lamb wave are simultaneously guided in the optical fiber and the structure, respectively. The dependency of the time-of-flight of the FAW on the applied strain is quantified for strain sensing. In our experimental results, the FAW exhibited excellent linear behavior and no hysteresis with respect to the change in strain. On the other hand, the well-known damage detection function of the surface-mounted PZT transducers was still available by monitoring the waveform change in the conventional Lamb wave ultrasonic path.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.838-841
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• 2003

This paper shows results on the application of optical fiber sensors(OFS) for locations of ultrasonic signals in silicon insulating oil. The OFS system based on the principle of Sagnac interferometry has been designed and established for this work. The hollowed cylindrical mandrel wound by single mode optical fiber was used as a sensing component and ultrasonic signals which simulate the partial discharge In the oil have been generated by PZT actuator operated with function generator. The experimental results shows that the OFS has a excellent performance for the PD location with resolutions less than 1$^{\circ}C$ error range in the miniature insulating oil tank.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2023

In general, in order to operate an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in an underwater environment, a navigation system such as a Doppler Log (DVL) using a Doppler phenomenon of ultrasonic waves is used for speed and direction estimation. However, most of the ultrasonic sensors in underwater is large for long-distance sensing and the cost is very high. In this study, not only canal neuromast on the fish's lateral lines but also superficial neuromast are studied on the simulation to obtain pressure values for each pressure sensor, and the obtained pressure data is supervised using spherical CNN. To this end, through supervised learning using pressure data obtained from a pressure sensor attached to an underwater vehicle, we can estimate the speed and angle of the underwater vehicle in a quasi-static underwater environment and propose a method for a non-ultrasonic based navigation system.

• Composites Research
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.288-292
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 전영역 초음파전파영상화 시스템이라 불리는 새로운 초음파전파영상화 장치를 소개한다. 본 시스템은 비파괴적으로 구조를 2 축 선형 이동 스테이지 기반으로 검사한다. 일치된 초음파 센싱과 가진 레이저 빔이 구조를 스캔하며 동시에 펄스-에코 모드 레이저 초음파를 수집한다. 이 과정은 스캔영역만큼 큰 두께 방향의 전영역 초음파를 생성하는 것을 가능하도록 한다. 본 시스템을 사용하여 실제로 운용 중인 알루미늄 허니콤 구조 기반의 CN-235의 도색된 샌드위치 조종면를 검사 및 평가하고 구조 검사 결과로써 전영역 초음파전파 영상을 소개하였으며 기존 초음파 탐상 기법의 결과와 비교하여 성능 및 민감도를 검증하였다.