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A Study of Hull Stress Monitoring System considering Thermal Effect

  • Shim, Chun-Sik;Kang, Joong-Kyoo;Heo, Joo-Ho
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.121-126
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents hull stress monitoring system installed in LNGC damaged by a Typhoon Elongation/contraction of removed areas has been assessed in terms of possible residual stress that will take place in replaced blocks when the applied load is removed. The bending moment of a vessel changes actually in terms of loss of longitudinal members and the change of weight distribution in repair procedure. The change of bending moment affects mainly in hull stress of longitudinal members. Hull stress monitoring system was installed on upper deck to prove LNGC stable in the criteria to be less than 40MPa during the period of repair procedure. A temperature measuring system was also installed to exclude the additional stress due to thermal effect from the measured hull stress. As a result, the hull stress was modified with the data measured by the temperature measuring system. This hull stress considering thermal effect was used as a guide stress to check the safety of LNGC during the period of repair procedure.

A Study on the Cost-Effective Personalized Plantar Pressure Measurement System

  • Kang, Ji-Woo;Kwon, Young-Man;Lim, Meoung-Jae;Chung, Dong-Kun
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2019
  • Plantar pressure data can be used not only for walking patterns in daily life, but also for eating, health care, and disease prevention. For this reason, the importance of plantar pressure measurement has recently increased. However, most systems that can measure both static and dynamic plantar pressure at the same time are expensive, not portable, and not universal. In this study, we propose a system that effectively reduces the number of sensors in plantar pressure system. Through this, we want to increase the economics and practicality by reducing the size and weight of the system, as well as the power consumption. First, for static plantar pressure and dynamic plantar pressure, the values measured by existing precision instruments are analyzed to determine how many measurement parts the insole is divided into. Next, for the divided measuring parts, the position of the sensor is determined by calculating the Center of Pressure (COP) for each part with the values of all dynamic and static plantar pressure sensors. Finally, in order to construct a personalized plantar pressure measurement system, we propose a weighting method for the static plantar pressure COP and the dynamic plantar pressure COP for each part.

The Effect of Aircraft Parking Environment on Atmospheric Corrosion Severity (항공기 주기환경이 대기부식위험도에 미치는 영향)

  • Yun, Juhee;Lee, Dooyoul;Park, Sungryul;Kim, Min-Saeng;Choi, Dongsu
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.94-104
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    • 2021
  • Atmospheric corrosion severity associated with aircraft parking environment was studied using metallic specimens, and temperature and humidity sensors installed at each aircraft operating base. Data were analyzed after a year of exposure. Silver was used to measure chloride deposition by integrating X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy depth profiles. Carbon steel was utilized to determine the corrosion rate by measuring the weight loss. The time of wetness was determined using temperature and humidity sensor data. Analysis of variance followed by Tukey's "honestly significant difference" test indicated that atmospheric environment inside the shelter varied significantly from that of unsheltered parking environment. The corrosion rate of unsheltered area also varies with the roof. Hierarchical clustering analysis of the measured data was used to classify air bases into groups with similar atmospheric corrosion. Bases where aircraft park at a shelter can be grouped together regardless of geographical location. Unsheltered bases located inland can also be grouped together with sheltered bases as long as the aircraft are parked under the roof. Environmental severity index was estimated using collected data and validated using the measured corrosion rate.

Relationship between Mechanical Properties and Porosity of Porous Polymer Sheet Fabricated using Water-soluble Particles (수용성 입자를 이용한 다공성 폴리머 구조체의 공극률 향상과 기계적 물성과의 관계)

  • So, Sae-Rom;Park, Suk-Hee;Park, Sang-Hu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2018
  • A polymer porous sheet, which can be applied to diverse wearable devices, has some advantages such as light-weight, high flexibility, high elongation, and so many others. In order to fabricate a porous sheet, water-soluble particles like sugar were utilized frequently, and there has been great advances. However, with our best knowledge, there are not enough reports on the mechanical behavior of porous sheets having different porosity. So, in this work, we tried to find out the relationship between porosity and mechanical deformation of a porous sheet. The process parameters such as a particle size, sheet thickness and PDMS mixing ratio with curing agent were analyzed on the effect of increasing the porosity of a sheet. Also, mechanical deformation of a sheet was tested using a tensile experiment. Through the experimental results, we make a conclusion that a highly porous sheet with thin thickness has high flexibility, and it deformed nearly double elongation comparing to worst one among nine cases.

Constraint-Combined Adaptive Complementary Filter for Accurate Yaw Estimation in Magnetically Disturbed Environments

  • Jung, Woo Chang;Lee, Jung Keun
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2019
  • One of the major issues in inertial and magnetic measurement unit (IMMU)-based 3D orientation estimation is compensation for magnetic disturbances in magnetometer signals, as the magnetic disturbance is a major cause of inaccurate yaw estimation. In the proposed approach, a kinematic constraint is used to provide a measurement equation in addition to the accelerometer and magnetometer signals to mitigate the disturbance effect on the orientation estimation. Although a Kalman filter (KF) is the most popular framework for IMMU-based orientation estimation, a complementary filter (CF) has its own advantages over KF in terms of mathematical simplicity and ease of implementation. Accordingly, this paper introduces a quaternion-based CF with a constraint-combined correction equation. Furthermore, the weight of the constraint relative to the magnetometer signal is adjusted to adapt to magnetic environments to optimally deal with the magnetic disturbance. In the results of our validation experiments, the average and maximum of yaw errors were $1.17^{\circ}$ and $1.65^{\circ}$ from the proposed CF, respectively, and $8.88^{\circ}$ and $14.73^{\circ}$ from the conventional CF, respectively, showing the superiority of the proposed approach.

A 2-GHz 8-bit Successive Approximation Digital-to-Phase Converter (2 GHz 8 비트 축차 비교 디지털-위상 변환기)

  • Shim, Jae Hoon
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.240-245
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    • 2019
  • Phase interpolation is widely adopted in frequency synthesizers and clock-and-data recovery systems to produce an intermediate phase from two existing phases. The intermediate phase is typically generated by combining two input phases with different weights. Unfortunately, this results in non-uniform phase steps. Alternatively, the intermediate phase can be generated by successive approximation, where the interpolated phase at each approximation stage is obtained using the same weight for the two intermediate phases. As a proof of concept, this study presents a 2-GHz 8-bit successive approximation digital-to-phase converter that is designed using 65-nm CMOS technology. The converter receives an 8-phase clock signal as input, and the most significant bit (MSB) section selects four phases to create two sinusoidal waveforms using a harmonic rejection filter. The remaining least significant bit (LSB) section applies the successive approximation to generate the required intermediate phase. Monte-Carlo simulations show that the proposed converter exhibits 0.46-LSB integral nonlinearity and 0.31-LSB differential nonlinearity with a power consumption of 3.12 mW from a 1.2-V supply voltage.

Noise Removal using Normal Distribution and Pixel Characteristics in AWGN Environments (AWGN 환경에서 정규분포와 화소특성을 이용한 잡음제거)

  • Cheon, Bong-Won;Kim, Nam-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.426-428
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    • 2019
  • Digital images are compromised by noise for various reasons, such as camera sensor malfunctions and hardware errors. Since AWGN can be found in most of electronic equipment, AWGN removal is essential in various image processing processes. In this paper, we propose a filter algorithm that eliminates noise considering the pixel characteristics in AWGN environments. In order to compensate this, the filtering range is set considering the distribution of the pixels inside the mask. The output of the filter suitable for each component is adjusted by adding or subtracting the weight according to the normal distribution. Set the output. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we compared it with the existing method using simulation.

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3D Costmap Generation and Path Planning for Reliable Autonomous Flight in Complex Indoor Environments (복합적인 실내 환경 내 신뢰성 있는 자율 비행을 위한 3차원 장애물 지도 생성 및 경로 계획 알고리즘)

  • Boseong Kim;Seungwook Lee;Jaeyong Park;Hyunchul Shim
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.337-345
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we propose a 3D LiDAR sensor-based costmap generation and path planning algorithm using it for reliable autonomous flight in complex indoor environments. 3D path planning is essential for reliable operation of UAVs. However, existing grid search-based or random sampling-based path planning algorithms in 3D space require a large amount of computation, and UAVs with weight constraints require reliable path planning results in real time. To solve this problem, we propose a method that divides a 3D space into several 2D spaces and a path planning algorithm that considers the distance to obstacles within each space. Among the paths generated in each space, the final path (Best path) that the UAV will follow is determined through the proposed objective function, and for this purpose, we consider the rotation angle of the 2D space, the path length, and the previous best path information. The proposed methods have been verified through autonomous flight of UAVs in real environments, and shows reliable obstacle avoidance performance in various complex environments.

Study of the Fall Detection System Applying the Parameters Claculated from the 3-axis Acceleration Sensor to Long Short-term Memory (3축 가속 센서의 가공 파라미터를 장단기 메모리에 적용한 낙상감지 시스템 연구)

  • Jeong, Seung Su;Kim, Nam Ho;Yu, Yun Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.10a
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    • pp.391-393
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, we introduce a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based fall detection system using TensorFlow that can detect falls occurring in the elderly in daily living. 3-axis accelerometer data are aggregated for fall detection, and then three types of parameter are calculated. 4 types of activity of daily living (ADL) and 3 types of fall situation patterns are classified. The parameterized data applied to LSTM. Learning proceeds until the Loss value becomes 0.5 or less. The results are calculated for each parameter θ, SVM, and GSVM. The best result was GSVM, which showed Sensitivity 98.75%, Specificity 99.68%, and Accuracy 99.28%.

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App-based Pet Obesity Management Feeding System (앱 기반 애완동물 비만 관리 급식 시스템)

  • Min-Seok Choi;Chan-Wook Choi;Sun-Ho Song;Jun-Kyo Oh;Young-Oh Han
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.275-282
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    • 2024
  • This paper proposes an app-based feeder that performs functions such as distributing food and measuring exercise amount and a wearable collar that measures activity level to manage pet obesity in modern society where the obesity rate of pets is increasing. The wearable collar measures the pet's activity level and suggests the appropriate amount of food based on the average daily activity level. We studied an app-based pet feeding system that can provide the appropriate amount of feed per day through an app to enable obesity management even in unexpected situations.