In this paper, a novel relation between the weighting matrix Q in LQR and the eigenstructure of the desired closed-loop system is proposed. Thus, the state feedback gain with the desired eigenstructure in the LQR can be obtained. The proposed scheme is applied to design a simple 3rd-order system and a flight control system design to show the usefulness of the scheme.

본 논문에서는 상태행렬과 입력행렬에 시변 불확실성이 있는 선형시스템에 대한 강인 추적 제어기를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 대상으로 하는 불확실성은 block-diagonally structured uncertainty와 norm bounded uncertainty인데 모두 정합 조건을 만족시킬 필요는 없다. 폐루프 시스템이 불확실성하에서 안정할 수 있는 조건을 제시하고 이 조건이 선형행렬 부등식으로 나타낼 수 있음을 보인다. 추적 오차를 줄이고 오차 감소 비율을 증가시킬 수 있는 최적화 방법도 제아한다. 또한 불확실성의 크기가 0으로 줄어들면 추적 오차도 0으로 줄어듬을 보인다.

In this paper, we point out the possibility of the divergence of control input caused by the estimation error of delay-time when general iterative learning algorithms are applied to a class of linear dynamic systems with time-delay in which delay-time is not exactly measurable, and then propose a new type of iterative learning algorithm in order to solve this problem. To resolve the uncertainty of delay-time, we propose an algorithm using holding mechanism which has been used in digital control system and/or discrete-time control system. The control input is held as constant value during the time interval of which size is that of the delay-time uncertainty. The output of the system tracks a given desired trajectory at discrete points which are spaced auording to the size of uncertainty of delay-time with the robust property for estimation error of delay-time. Several numerical examples are given to illustrate the effeciency of the proposed algorithm.

이 논문에서는 다항식 서로소 인수로 표시되는 위너-호프 제어기의 계산상의 어려움을 극복하기 위하여 상태공간 변수 공식이 개발되었다. 위너-호프 인수 행렬을 이용하여 주어진 다항식 서로소 인수로부터 안정 유리행렬의 서로소 인수를 구하였으며 이 결과를 이용하여 위너-호프 제어기의 공식을 유리행렬의 서로소 인수로 표현한 후 이를 이용하여 상태공간 계수를 구하였다.

This paper studies the problem of computing the Hankel singular values and vectors in the input delay systems. It is shown that the Hankel singular values are solutions to a transcendental equation and the Hankel singular vectors are obtained from the kernel of the matrix. The computation is carried out in state space framework. Finally, Hankel approximation of a simple example shows the usefulness of this study.

In this paper, we present the PID control method for the controlling flow rate of highly complicated nonlinear Left Ventricular Assist Device(LVAD) with pneumatically driven mock circulatory system. Beat Rate (BR), Systole-Diastole Rate (SDR) and flow rate are used as the main variables of the LVAD system. System modeling is completed using the neural network with input variables (BR, SDR, their derivatives, actual flow) and an output valiable(actual flow). Then, as the basis of this model, we perform the simulation of PID control to predict the performance and tendency of the system and control the flow rate of LVAD system using the PID controller. The ability and effectiveness of identifying and controlling a LVAD system using the proposed algorithm will be demonstrated through computer simulation and experiments.

When we control the level of the steam generator in the nuclear power plants, a swell and shrink arises from many disturbances such as feed water rate, feed water temperature, main steam flow rate, and coolant temperature. If we use the conventional type of PI controller in this system, we will not have stability during controlling at lower power, the removal function of disturbances, and a load follow-up control effectively. In this paper, we study the application of a 2-Degree of Freedom(2-DOF) PID controller to the level control of the steam. generator of nuclear power plants through the simulation and the experimental steam generator. We use the parameters $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\gamma$ of the 2-DOF PID controller for the removal of disturbances and the parameters Kp,Ti,Td of the conventional type of PID controller for controlling setpoint. The back-propagation learning algorithm of neural network is used for tuning the 2-DOF PID controller. We can find satisfactory results of the removal of the disturbances and the tracking function in the change of setpoint through the simulation and experimental steam generator.

본 논문에서는, LSI 적층 기술을 이용한 실시간 처리 마이크로 비젼의 개발을 소개하고 있다. 새롭게 개발된 LSI 적층기술을 이용하여, 영상신호의 증폭, 변환, 연산처리등의 기본기능을 가지는 다수의 LSI 웨이퍼를 적층한다. 각 층간의 고밀도 수직배선을 통하여 대량의 영상정보를 동시에 전달하므로써, 대규모 동시 병렬처리를 가능하게 하며, 다수의 층에 걸쳐 파이프 라인 처리가 이루어진다. VLSI 설계시스템을 이용하여, 윤곽 검출기능을 가지는 테스트 칩을 설계(2 .mu.m CMOS design rule)하고, 시뮬레이션을 통하여 양호한 동작(처리시간 10 .mu.s)을 확인하고 있다. 시험제작을 위해서는, 새롭게 개발된 LSI 적층기술이 이용된다. 영상처리의 기본회로가 실려있는 웨이퍼의 기반을 30 .mu.m 의 두께까지 연마하고, 개발된 웨이퍼 aligner를 이용하여 수직배선이 형성된 상하 두 개의 웨이퍼를 미세조정하면서 접착한다. 이상의 제작과정을 반복하여 두께 1mm이하의 인공망막과 같은 마이크로 비젼을 제작한다.

This paper proposes an algorithm to obtain the time-to-contact between an observer and a target and surface orientation of the target. These two physical elements are computed from the image deformation of a known shape, which is extracted by supervised classification of detected line segments based on MAP and Mahalanobis distance. The proposed algorithm was applied to the natural outdoor traffic scene and would contribute to the development for a collision avoidance system.

A majority of industrial robots are controlled by a simple joint servo control of joint actuators. In this type of control, the performance of control is greatly influenced by the joint interaction torques including Coriolis and centrifugal forces, which act as disturbance torques to the control system. As the speed of the robot increases, the effect of this disturbance torque increases, and hence makes the high speed - high precision control more difficult to achieve. In this paper, the joint disturbance torque of robots is analyzed. The joint disturbance torque is defined using the coefficients of dynamic equation of motion, and for the case of a 2 DOF planar robot, the conditions for the minimum and maximum joint disturbance torques are identified, and the effect of link parameters and joint variables on the joint disturbance torque are examined. Then, a solution to the optimal path placement problem is propose that minimizes the joint disturbance torque during a straight line motion. The proposed method is illustrated using computer simulation. The proposed solution method can be applied to a class of robots that are controlled by independent joint servo control, which includes the vast majority of industrial robots.

A robot control scheme for specific application a line-tracking system is newly presented. To improve the performance of line-tracking, robot arm dynamics and torque constraints are incorporated into the control scheme. The tracking problem for the workpiece on a variable-speed conveyor is formulated as an optimal tracking problem with specific criteria. Dividing the conveyor speed into the nominal term and the perturbed term, a two-stage control strategy is employed to cope with the nonlinearity and uncertainty of the robot-conveyor system. Simulation results are given to verify good tracking performance with fast cycle time and high accuracy in a robotic workcell.

In this paper, output precision characteristics of a planar 6 degree-of-freedom parallel mechanisms are investigated, where the 6 degree-of-freedom mechanism is formed by adding an additional link along with an actuated joint in each serial subchain of the planar 3 degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism. Kinematic analysis for the parallel mechanism is performed, and its first-order kinematic characteristics are examined via kinematic isotropic index, maximum and minimum input-output velocity transmission ratios of the mechanisms. Based on this analysis, two types of planar 6 degrees-of-freedom parallel manipulators are selected. Then, dynamic characteristics of the two selected planar 6 degree-of-freedom parallel mechanisms, via Frobenius norms of inertia matrix and power modeling array, are investigated to compare the magnitudes of required control efforts of both three large actuators and three small actuators when the link lengths of three additional links are changed. It can be concluded from the analysis results that each of these two planar 6 degrees-of-freedom parallel mechanisms has an excellent control-in-the-small characteristics and therefore, it can be very effectively employed as a high-precision macro-micro manipulator when both its link lengths and locations of small and large actuators are properly chosen.

This paper deals with the detection, feature extraction and classification of surface defects in cold rolled strips. Inspection systems are one of the most important fields in factory automation. Defects such as slipmark and dullmark can be effectively detected with a Gaussian matched filter because their shapes are similar to Gaussian. It is justified that the proposed WF(Wavelet Frame) method could be regarded as multiscale Gaussian matched filter which can be applied to the inspection of cold rolled strip. After a wavelet frame transform, the entropies and moments are computed for each subband which pass through both local low pass filter and nonlinear operator. With these features as input, a MLP(Multi Layer Perceptron) is used as a classifier. The proposed inspection method was applied to the real images with defects, and hence showed good performance. The role of each extracted feature is analyzed by KLT(Karhunen-Loeve Transform).

A FOV, that stands for "Field Of View", refers to the maximum area where a camera could be wholly seen. If a FOV of CCD camera cannot the cover overall inspection area, the overall inspection area should be divided into sub-areas of size FOV. In this paper, we propose a new neural network-based FOV generation method by using a newly modified self-organizing map(SOM) which has multiple structure based on a self-organizing map, and uses new training rule that is composed of the movement, creation and deletion terms. Then, experiment results using real PCB indicate the superiority of the method developed in this study to the existing sequential method.al method.

When a device is mounted on the PCB, it is impossible to have zero defects due to many unpredictable problems. Among these problems, devices with bent corner leads due to mis-handling and which are not placed at a given point measured along the axis are principal problem in SMT(Surface Mounting Technology). It is obvious that given the complexity of the inspection task, the efficiency of a human inspection is questionable. Thus, new technologies for inspection of SMD(Surface Mounting Device) should be explored. An example of such technologies is the Automated Visual Inspection(AVI), wherein the vision system plays a key role to correct this problem. In implementing vision system, high-speed and high-precision are indispensable for practical purposes. In this paper, a new algorithm based on the Radon transform which uses a projection technique to inspect the FIC(Flat Integrated Circuit) device is proposed. The proposed algorithm is compared with other algorithms by measuring the position error(center and angle) and the processing time for the device image, characterized by line scan camera.

A full-scope replica type simulator whose MCR(main control room) has the same features and operation functions as MCR of the reference power plant has been developed for a fossil power plant. This simulator was developed with the model of Poryung Fossil Power Plant #3,4 which is the standard model of the Korean fossil power plant. It is the first localized simulator for the supercritical, variable boiler pressure type fossil power plant. The simulator provides various kinds of accidents which are in normal plant operation and thus enables operators to recover or reduce possible damages. To design and develop this kind of simulator, we need to integrate high technologies such as system analysis, plant operation and system integration of mechanics, physics, computer science. CASE(Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools were used to develop the dynamic model. This simulator will greatly contribute to the improvement of the safety and efficiency of the fossil power plant by implementing operator training. In this paper, the outline of software and hardware configuration and characteristics of the simulator are described, and the results of 30%, 50%, 75%, 100% load operation test will be discussed.

본 논문에서는 한국형 원자력 발전소의 기준모델인 영광 3,4호기 운전원 훈련용 시뮬레이터의 모델링 절차와 ABB-CE 원전의 독특한 계통인 CPC/COLSS (Core protection Calculator/Core Operating Limit Supervisory System) 계통에 대한 모델링을 전개허고 있다. CPC/COLSS는 원자로를 포함하는 냉각재계통(NSSS)과 핵연료의 건전성을 보장하기위한 계통으로서 감시및 보호 과정에서의 계산을 디지털화시킴으로서 정확성과 함께 원자로의 안정성을 향상시킨 특색있는 계통이다. 따라서 영광 3,4호기 시뮬레이터에서는 CPC/COLSS 계통에 대한 정확한 모델링을 하여 시험을 통해 성능및 기능에 대한 검증을 마침으로서 CPC/COLSS 시뮬레이션 모델 개발이 성공적으로 되었고 영광 3,4호기 운전 특성에 맞는 시뮬레이터를 개발하였다.

This paper describes a contact position detection method of a capacitive touch screen panel. The proposed method is composed of a circuited compensating algorithm generating an output signal having phase difference to an input signal associated with contact position, converts both input and output signals into digital waveform (5V logic), and calculates the phase difference. Finally, position information with the phase difference is obtained by using a low-cost microprocessor, which is convenient to compensate non-linearity error. The proposed method, that computes phase difference directly, has advantages in feasibility and cost because it minimizes the use of analog devices; rather, it utilizes, cost effective digital circuit. Analytical results are also given.