• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.223-231
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• 2021

In this paper describes the research and development of a pipe robot for pipe rehabilitation construction of old water pipes. After the water supply pipe construction, the pipe is leaking, damaged, and aging due to corrosion. Eventually, resistance to the flow of water in lower supply efficiency and contaminated water such as rusty water, finally in various consumer complaints. In order to solve this problem, rehabilitation construction robot technology is required to secure the construction quality of pipe rehabilitation construction and restore the function of the initial construction period. The developed pipe rehabilitation construction robot required a hydraulic actuator for high traction and was equipped with a small hydraulic supply device. In addition, we have developed a hydraulic cylinder and a link system that supports the pipe inner diameter to develop a single pipe robot corresponding to 500 to 800mm pipe diameter. The analysis and experimental verification of the driving performance and unit function of the developed pipe reconstruction robot are explained, and the result of the integrated performance test of the pipe reconstruction robot at the water supply pipe network site is explained.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.402-402
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• 2000

MFL(Magnetic Flux Leakage) methods are used extensively for inspection of ferromagnetic materials. As an example, pipelines that are buried underground are inspected using MFL methods. By the MFL methods, ferromagnetic pipelines are magnetized by a permanent magnet or an electromagnet and then flux leakage is detected at the defection position. In this paper, we perform modeling of the magnetized pipelines. Also we propose the method localization of th defected areas. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified experimentally.

• 월간 기계설비
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• no.12 s.209
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• pp.34-43
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• 2007

환경부는 산하 수처리선진화사업단에서 수돗물 수질개선대책의 일환으로 연구개발한 옥내급수관 진단, 세척 및 갱생기술을 적용, 서울시와 공동으로 시범사업을 실시한다고 밝혔다. 이 사업은 서울 둔촌동 주공아파트 2개동 80세대를 대상으로 약 1억2000만원의 예산을 들여 지난 8월 말부터 시행, 수돗물 녹물발생 방지를 위한 갱생기술의 완성도를 검증·확인한다는 것. 기존 옥내급수관 갱생기술은 평균 관직경 15mm인 소형관에 대한 정밀시공이 어려워 녹이 재발하는 경우가 많았다. 하지만 이번에 개발된 기술은 수도관 내부의 녹 제거 및 관 내부 표면이 균일토록 코팅할 뿐 아니라 시공 후 마이크로 로봇을 이용, 관 내부 촬영 및 절연도 체크를 통해 코팅 완성도를 확인, 녹 재발 가능성을 미연에 방지한다. 이번 기술이 검증되면 환경부는 선박배관, 빌딩, 냉각수배관, 소화용배관, 산업용배관 등에도 확대 적용하고 해외진출을 통해 물산업 육성 아이템으로 발전시킬 계획이다. 한편 환경부는 지난 2005년 수도법을 개정, 건축연면적 6만$m^2$이상 다중이용건축물과 연면적5,000$m^2$이상 국.공립 공공시설은 준공 5년 후부터 매년 수질검사를 실시, 결과에 따라 수도관을 세척·갱생 또는 교체토록 올해 1월부터 의무화 하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.309-310
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2009

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.2030-2039
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• 2001

Recently, various inpipe inspection robots are developed and its effective values are increased in industrial use. However, it is so difficult to make a inpipe inspection robot system which has flexible mobility and accuracy of inspection in pipelines. Especially, it is very important to know the exact crack position. In this paper, we are to present a lately developed inpipe inspection robot system which can resolve the above Problems. The robot is configured as an articulated structure like a snake. Two active driving vehicles are located in front and rear of the inspection robot respectively and passive modules such as a nondestructive testing module and a control module are chained between the active vehicles. Special feature of the robot system is a ground interface, which is able to show informations of robot and pipelines. By using this, so called virtual map in this paper, user is able to know the pipelines'feature and crack position.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.816-821
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• 2004

The outlet feeder pipe thinning in a PHWR (Pressured Heavy Water Reactor) is caused by high pressure steam flow inside the pipe, which is a well known degradation mechanism called FAC (Flow Assisted Corrosion). In order to monitor the degradation, the thickness of the outlet bends closed to the exit of the pressure tube should be measured and analyzed at every official overhaul. This paper develops an automatic feeder pipe inspection system that can minimize the irradiation dose by automating the measurement process. The robot can move by itself on the feeder pipe by using an inch worm mechanism, which is constructed by two gripper bodies that can fix their body on the pipe and one extendable and retractable body connected the two gripper bodies to move forward and backward.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.219-225
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• 2015

Because a hydraulic actuator has high power and force densities, this allows the weight of the robot's limbs to be reduced. This allows for good dynamic characteristics and high energy efficiency. Thus, hydraulic actuators are used in some exoskeleton robots and quadrupedal robots that require high torque. Force control is useful for robot compliance with a user or environment. However, force control of a hydraulic robot is difficult because a hydraulic servo system is highly nonlinear from a control perspective. In this study, a nonlinear model was used to develop a simulation program for a hydraulic servo system consisting of a servo valve, transmission lines, and a cylinder. The problems and considerations with regard to the force control performance for a hydraulic servo system were investigated. A force control method using the nonlinear model was proposed, and its effect was evaluated with the simulation program.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.32-40
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• 2010

This paper proposes the technique of estimating the pipe thickness using the measured group velocity. To measure the group velocity from the accelerometer data in the frequency domain, Wigner-Ville distribution is utilized, which interprets the waveform of the shock wave. Using this measured group velocity, this paper proposes the technique to estimate the thickness of pipes with the impact on the pipe. The group velocity is estimated by the modeling correlation between the group velocity and the thickness of the pipe based on the propagation velocities. The correlation model between thickness and group velocity has been proved through the real experiments. The measured group velocity in the frequency-domain is the maximum at the center frequency of the bending waves in the modeling of the group velocity. In addition to these, a smoothing technique for analyzing lamb wave Wigner-Ville distribution has been introduced to improve the reliability of the data acquisition.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.54-61
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• 2022

Ship is a huge system including a variety of pipe arrangements. Pipes are installed according to the design layout, however the end poistion of pipes are not well matched owing to its measurement and construction errors. In this situation, the customized pipe fitting is frequently designed to connect with both pipes, the position of which are manually measured. This paper focused that these two coordinates are measured by point cloud from RGBD sensor and the relative transformation induced by positional and orientational differences is calculated by inverse kinematics in robotics theory. Therefore, the result applies for the methodology of the pipe connection design. The pipe coordinate that is estimated by the matching and the probabilistic RANSAC method will be verified by experiments. The kinematic design parameters are computationally calculated by using the minimum degree of freedom that connects both pipe coordinates.