• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

An airless tire has advantages over the conventional pneumatic tire in terms of flat proof and maintenance free. According to the recently disclosed inventions on the airless tire, non-pneumatic tire (NPT) consists of the flexible polygon spokes. Considering the NPT structure, the spokes undergo the tension-compression cyclic loading while the tire rolls. Therefore the spokes of NPT are required to have both stiffness and resilience under the cyclic tensile-compressible loading. In general, if a material has a high stiffness, it shows a low elastic strain limit. In this paper, using the auxetic honeycomb structure with negative poissons's ratio, the spokes of NPT tire are designed to have both stiffness and resilience. Finite element based numerical simulation of the contact pressure of a NPT is carried out with ABAQUS.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.6446-6451
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• 2014

Pneumatic motors are quite attractive for many applications because of their competitive price, light-weight, easy assembly, safety in hazardous areas as well as other features, such as a good force/weight ratio and operation in exceptionally harsh environments. In contrast to these advantages, pneumatic motors have limited use in applications, particularly those requiring a fast and precise response. These undesirable characteristics are due to the high compressibility of air and from the nonlinearities in pneumatic systems. This paper presents the sliding mode controller based on 3-loop(SMCB3L), which increases the load stiffness to control the rotation angle of a pneumatic motor. The characteristics for the step responses and load disturbances of the proposed controller were compared with the conventional PID controller. The experimental results showed that a properly designed SMCB3L is capable of high positioning accuracy within ${\pm}0.05mm$. Furthermore, the load stiffness of the SMCB3L can be improved 3.5 fold compared to that of PID controllers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1697-1705
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• 2022

The safety of marine construction workers and marine pollution problems are occurring due to large-scale offshore construction. In particular, underwater construction work in the sea has a higher risk than other work, so it is necessary to apply an unmanned alternative system that considers the safety of the workers. In this paper, the ROV system for offshore construction has been developed for underwater unmanned work. A monitoring system was developed for position control through the control of underwater propellants, pneumatic gripper, and monitoring of underwater work. As a result of the performance evaluation, the underwater movement speed of the ROV was evaluated to be 0.89 m/s, and it was confirmed that the maximum load of the pneumatic gripper was 80 kg. In addition, the network bandwidth required for underwater ROV control and underwater video streaming was evaluated to be more than 300Mbps, wired communication at 92.7 ~ 95.0Mbit/s at 205m, and wireless communication at 78.3 ~ 84.8Mbit/s.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.280-284
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• 2002

This paper presents computer simulations of the stacking and transferring system for the fast freeform fabrication system. The stacking and transferring system is essential for the fast freeform fabrication system and its stable motion is very important for consistent stacking of the cut slices. The stacking and transferring system can be modeled as a pneumatic system. The system consists of air compressor, the control valve, and the cylinder. The governing parameters have been changed and the simulation results are shown to predict the time response of the system. The results show some parameters should be correctly tuned to obtain stable system response.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.533-541
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• 2011

This paper presents a frequency-response test performed on an antagonistic actuation system consisting of two Mckibben pneumatic artificial muscles and a pneumatic circuit with pressure valves. Varying switching frequency to pressure valves from 0.1 Hz to 5 Hz, parameters of a linear model were estimated optimally to predict dynamic characteristics of the antagonistic actuation. A model-base control scheme with estimated parameters was built for the precise trajectory tracking of the antagonistic structure and realized on a reconfigurable embedded control system, CompactRIO. Experimental results showed that the proposed model-based control scheme gave good performance in trajectory tracking comparing with a PD control scheme when square wave and sinusoidal wave were given as references to follow.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.74-83
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• 2011

For launcher applications, different from other applications, very high flow rate is required which can lead to supply pressure drop against required setting pressure. The supply pressure decrease is closely related to regulator characteristics. In this paper, supply pressure offset is investigated considering regulators as kinds of control systems. Pressure offset of self-operated regulator is analyzed with sensitive parameter defined as the ratio of valve travel to pressure offset. It is shown that pressure offset of self-operating regulator can be improved by incorporating proportional and integral controls and they can be materialized with pilot regulator systems.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.286-291
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• 2011

The hybrid vehicle has a good fuel economy with a electric type braking energy regeneration system. This paper introduced a novel pneumatic type braking energy regeneration system. The novel system use a scroll mechanism which have both compression function and expansion function. While vehicle is decelerating, the scroll machinery, being operated as a scroll compressor, compress a atmospheric air to save the vehicle's kinetic energy and reuse a compressed air which is reserved in a air tank while vehicle is accelerating. In order to analyze fuel improvements by applying braking energy regeneration system to a vehicle, we simulated the rate of braking energy regeneration through CVS-75 mode driving patterns.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.904-907
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• 2011

Various types of gases and propellants are used in launch vehicle. In order to fulfill the mission of the launch vehicle, the components and systems used in launch vehicle should ensure flawless operation in these environments. The pneumatic test is the test performed using compressed gas to prove requirements of the components and systems. This paper describes the requirements of the gas quality for pneumatic test, leak test method, and pneumatic test of the launch vehicle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.913-914
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• 2014

PE/PET 필름이 부착된 디스플레이 또는 유리기판 가공에 있어서 유리기판에 대한 고정은 필수 기술요소라 할 수 있다. 이러한 유리기판 위의 필름을 제거하기 위해서는 정밀한 절단기술이 필요하며, 평탄도가 일정하지 않는 유리기판에 대하여 균일한 압력을 가하여 일정한 평탄도를 유지하여 유리기판에 부착된 필름을 가공할 수 있다. 이러한 유리기판에 부탁된 필름을 가공할 수 있는 기술은 유리기판을 흡착시키는 공압기술과 정밀가공처리된 평탄도 $5[{\mu}m]$이상의 베이스(base)판 위에 유리기판을 고정할 수 있는 고정 압착시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 유리기판이나 표면의 부착된 필름커팅 시 유리기판위에 결함이 발생하지 않도록 유리기판을 흡착시키는 공압시스템 및 정밀가공시스템을 제안하고자 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1987.10b
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• pp.335-339
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• 1987

In this report, automatic packing equipment for dairy milk is presented. For food industry, Pneumatic System is widely applied because of it's environments. So, for the actuation, signal processing and sensing of this auto-packer, all pneumatic equipments was applied.