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효율적인 후판 재고관리를 위한 RFID 스캐닝 로봇 시스템 개발

Development of Robotic System based on RFID Scanning for Efficient Inventory Management of Thick Plates

  • 투고 : 2016.09.13
  • 심사 : 2016.10.07
  • 발행 : 2016.10.31
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초록

본 제철 공장의 후판 재고관리 자동화는 오래전부터 해결하지 못한 난제이었으며, 현재도 효율적인 후판 재고관리를 위해 제철업계에서 부단히 노력 중에 있다. 그동안 후판 적재의 환경적 특성 상 후판의 자동 인식을 위해 진보된 기술 적용이 쉽지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 자동 인식이 어려운 적재 상태에서 후판의 RFID 태그를 자동으로 스캔하여 인식한 후 후판 정보를 취득함으로써 신속하고 정확한 후판의 재고관리가 가능한 RFID기반 후판 스캐닝 로봇 시스템을 제안한다. RFID기반 후판 스캐닝 로봇 시스템은 후판을 끌어올려 이동시키는 크레인에 장착되어 운용된다. 후판에 부착된 태그 정보를 자동으로 식별하기 위해 후판 태그 전용으로 개발된 후판 전용 리니어 다이폴 안테나를 탑재하였고, 후판 전용 리니어 다이폴 안테나가 x축과 y축을 이동하면서 후판 태그의 위치를 스캐닝함으로써 태그의 정보를 취득한다. 시스템에 의해 취득된 태그 정보는 개발된 후판 재고관리 소프트웨어에 의해 재고 및 적치관리에 이용된다. 제안한 시스템은 개발되어 현장 성능평가를 통해 시스템의 효율성을 검증하였으며, 후판태그 인식율은 99.9%, 최대 인식거리는 320cm의 실험 결과를 보여 기존 상용 안테나에 비해 개발된 후판 전용 안테나의 성능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

Automation of inventory management in a steel plate factory was a difficult problem unresolved for a long time. And now, it is also necessary to work diligently in the steel industry on efficient inventory management of thick plates. So far, the environmental characteristics of stacked thick plates means it is not easy to apply advanced technology for their automatic identification. In this paper, we propose a thick-plate robotic scanning system based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) that can provide quick and accurate inventory management by acquiring plate information after the scanning automatically recognizes the RFID tags under difficult load conditions. This system is equipped with a crane to move the plates in a pulled-up operation. It is equipped with a plate-only linear dipole antenna only for scanning the position of the plate tag. Only the linear dipole antenna, while moving the x-axis and y-axis information, automatically identifies the tag information attached to the plate. The tag information acquired by the system is used for stockpiling and is managed by steel plate inventory control software. The effectiveness of the proposed system is verified through field performance evaluation. As a result, the recognition rate of the plate tags is 99.9% at a maximum distance of 320 cm. The developed thick-plate antenna showed excellent performance compared to an existing commercial antenna.

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