• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2012

This paper considers a localization problem in time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. To estimate the position of a target tag, this paper suggests three localization algorithms that use benchmark tags. The benchmark tags are the same type as the target tag, but either the locations or distance of the benchmark tags are known. Two algorithms use the benchmarks for auxiliary information to improve the estimation accuracy of the other localization algorithms such as least squared estimator (LSE). The other one utilizes the benchmarks as essential tags to estimate the location. Numerical tests show that the localization accuracy can be improved by using benchmark tags especially when an algorithm using the LSE is applied to the localization problem. Furthermore, this paper shows that our benchmark algorithm is valuable when the measurement noise is large.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.64.1-64
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• 2002

$\textbullet$ Introduction $\textbullet$ CRA method for transient response control $\textbullet$ Benchmark problem and specifications $\textbullet$ Controller design using CRA method $\textbullet$ Concluding Remark

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.10 no.4_5
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• pp.443-458
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• 2012

The structural health monitoring (SHM) benchmark study on optimal sensor placement problem for the instrumented Canton Tower has been launched. It follows the success of the modal identification and model updating for the Canton Tower in the previous benchmark study, and focuses on the optimal placement of vibration sensors (accelerometers) in the interest of bettering the SHM system. In this paper, the sensor placement problem for the Canton Tower and the benchmark model for this study are first detailed. Then an information entropy based sensor placement method with the purpose of damage detection is proposed and applied to the benchmark problem. The procedure that will be implemented for structural damage detection using the data obtained from the optimal sensor placement strategy is introduced and the information on structural damage is specified. The information entropy based method is applied to measure the uncertainties throughout the damage detection process with the use of the obtained data. Accordingly, a multi-objective optimal problem in terms of sensor placement is formulated. The optimal solution is determined as the one that provides equally most informative data for all objectives, and thus the data obtained is most informative for structural damage detection. To validate the effectiveness of the optimally determined sensor placement, damage detection is performed on different damage scenarios of the benchmark model using the noise-free and noise-corrupted measured information, respectively. The results show that in comparison with the existing in-service sensor deployment on the structure, the optimally determined one is capable of further enhancing the capability of damage detection.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.1326-1338
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• 2017

The continuous energy Monte Carlo neutron transport code, MC21, was coupled to the CTF subchannel thermal-hydraulics code using a combination of Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) tools and in-house Python scripts. An MC21/CTF solution for VERA Core Physics Benchmark Progression Problem 6 demonstrated good agreement with MC21/COBRA-IE and VERA solutions. The MC21/CTF solution for VERA Core Physics Benchmark Progression Problem 7, Watts Bar Unit 1 at beginning of cycle hot full power equilibrium xenon conditions, is the first published coupled Monte Carlo neutronics/subchannel T-H solution for this problem. MC21/CTF predicted a critical boron concentration of 854.5 ppm, yielding a critical eigenvalue of $0.99994{\pm}6.8E-6$ (95% confidence interval). Excellent agreement with a VERA solution of Problem 7 was also demonstrated for integral and local power and temperature parameters.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.73-84
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• 1981

B$\Phi$rrensen proposed a coarse mesh, three-dimensional one-and-half group diffusion scheme for computing the gross power distribution in light water reactors as an alternative to the conventional fine mesh finite difference approach in dealing with three dimensional problems, which require a prohibitively long computing time. The method reported takes extremely small execution time. However, its computational accuracy has not been investigated yet. The B$\Phi$rrensen method is revised in this work and both efficiency and accuracy are examined by applying it to IAEA benchmark problem and RIS$\Phi$ benchmark problem. It is found that two modifications on core-reflector boundary conditions and B$\Phi$rrensen's model constants may improve computational accuracy of power distribution calculation.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.973-980
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to develop VDFT (Visual Basic based Density-coupled Flow and Transport), a numerical modeling code used to simulate density coupled flow equations used to simulate seawater intrusion in a two dimensional finite difference method. The VDFT code has the advantage of being intuitive and simple to use and has the advantage of utilizing the EXCEL Visual Basic platform, which is widely used for general business purposes. Generally, code developed for numerical simulation can be verified through representative example models called benchmark problem. In this study, we verified the VDFT code using benchmark problem called Henry Problem and Modified Henry Problem as well as two laboratory test data. The results of this study are analyzed the importance of each benchmark problems, validated VDFT code compared to those problems. In conclusion, the possibility of using VDFT code is diagnosed and the direction of future research is suggested.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.64-68
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• 1996

수중음파전달 모델은 benchmark 시험을 통해 정확도, 적용범위, 계산시간 등의 성능을 평가받는다. 본 논문에서는 analytic 모델, 정상 모드 모델(normal mode model), 포물선 방정식 모델(parabolic equation model), 가우시안 빔 모델(Gaussian beam model), 스펙트럼 모델(spectral model) 등 거리의존 모델에 대해 benchmark 시험을 수행하였으며, benchmark 시험은 다음과 같은 세 가지 거리의존 해양환경으로 나누어 실시했다 : 1) 해수면과 해저면이 Dirichlet 경계조건인 이상 쐐기 문제(ideal wedge problem), 2) 해수면은 앞서 말한 Dirichlet 경계조건이나 해저면은 전달 손실이 있는 손실 통과 해저면 쐐기 문제(penetrable lossy bottom wedge problem), 3) 해수면은 앞서 말한 Dirichlet 경계조건이고 해저면은 Neumann 경계조건으로 서로 평행이면 음파전달 속도가 거리방향 의존인 경우, 경우 1은 anaytic 모델을 사용하고 경우 2는 정상 모드 모델, 포물선 방정식 모델, 스펙트럼 모델을 사용하였으며, 경우 3에 대해서는 가우시안 빔 모델과 포물선 방정식 모델을 사용하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.22-22
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• 2000

This study investigates the use of mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ and $\mu$-synthesis to construct a robust controller for the benchmark problem. The model treated in the problem is a coupled three-inertia system which reflects the dynamics of mechanical vibrations. We, first adopt the mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ the to design a feedback controller K(s). Next, $\mu$-synthesis method is applied to the overall system to make use of structured parametric uncertainty.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.10 no.4_5
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• pp.411-426
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• 2012

The Canton Tower (formerly named Guangzhou New TV Tower) of 610 m high has been instrumented with a long-term structural health monitoring (SHM) system consisting of over 700 sensors of sixteen types. Under the auspices of the Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structures Technology (ANCRiSST), an SHM benchmark problem for high-rise structures has been developed by taking the instrumented Canton Tower as a host structure. This benchmark problem aims to provide an international platform for direct comparison of various SHM-related methodologies and algorithms with the use of real-world monitoring data from a large-scale structure, and to narrow the gap that currently exists between the research and the practice of SHM. This paper first briefs the SHM system deployed on the Canton Tower, and the development of an elaborate three-dimensional (3D) full-scale finite element model (FEM) and the validation of the model using the measured modal data of the structure. In succession comes the formulation of an equivalent reduced-order FEM which is developed specifically for the benchmark study. The reduced-order FEM, which comprises 37 beam elements and a total of 185 degrees-of-freedom (DOFs), has been elaborately tuned to coincide well with the full-scale FEM in terms of both modal frequencies and mode shapes. The field measurement data (including those obtained from 20 accelerometers, one anemometer and one temperature sensor) from the Canton Tower, which are available for the benchmark study, are subsequently presented together with a description of the sensor deployment locations and the sensor specifications.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.46-58
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• 2002

An inverse method is introduced to construct benchmark problems for the numerical solution of initial value problems. Benchmark problems constructed through this method have a known exact solution, even though analytical solutions are generally not obtainable. The solution is constructed such that it lies near a given approximate numerical solution, and therefore the special case solution can be generated in a versatile and physically meaningful fashion and can serve as a benchmark problem to validate approximate solution methods. A smooth interpolation of the approximate solution is forced to exactly satisfy the differential equation by analytically deriving a small forcing function to absorb all of the errors in the interpolated approximate solution. A multi-variable orthogonal function expansion method and computer symbol manipulation are successfully used for this process. Using this special case exact solution, it is possible to directly investigate the relationship between global errors of a candidate numerical solution process and the associated tuning parameters for a given code and a given problem. Under the assumption that the original differential equation is well-posed with respect to the small perturbations, we thereby obtain valuable information about the optimal choice of the tuning parameters and the achievable accuracy of the numerical solution. Illustrative examples show the utility of this method not only for the ordinary differential equations (ODEs) but for the partial differential equations (PDEs).