• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.238-244
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• 2022

Maintenance works of offshore wind turbines could take a longer time, which causes the reduction of their energy production efficiency, than those of onshore wind turbines owing to severe offshore environment. Subsequently, preventive maintenance measures are required to increase the production efficiency. Thus, we proposed a wheel-based Underwater Pole Climbing Robot (UPCR) platform, which was aimed at the periodic inspection and maintenance of the substructures of the offshore wind turbines, with three advantages: high speed, good mobility and low power consumption. In the proposed platform, a self-locking system using a gripper module was adopted for preventing slippery problem and a dual configuration was chosen for moving on a branched structure. As a result, the proposed robot was able to continuously climb, preserve it's position at the pole without consuming energy, and move from the pole to the other branched pole. The results of this research show that the UPCR has basic moving capabilities required for the underwater work for the substructures of the offshore wind turbines.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.202-207
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• 2013

In the paper, we design a autonomous mobile robot for freight transportation and propose an operation method of the robot in the warehouse. In order to implement autonomous navigation, it is needed to recognize the position of the robot and track the path to the target. Previous methods are hard to change the workspace environment and need high cost to install and keep a maintenance of the system. The lifter of freight transportation robot is designed to load and unload a baggage through up and down motion. Also, ultrasonic sensor, RFID, QR-code and camera sensor is used to carry out various functions while the robot navigates in the various environment. We design an operation method of the mobile robot in order to effectively arrive a goal position and transport a freight. The proposed methods are verified through various experiments.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.940-948
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• 2007

The Advanced Spent Fuel Conditioning Process(ACP), which is the process of the reduction of uranium oxide by lithium metal in a high temperature molten salt bath for spent fuel, was developed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). Since the ACP equipment is located in an intense radiation field (hot cell) as well as in a high temperature, it must be remotely operated and maintained. The ACP hot cell is very narrow so the workspace of the wall-mounted mechanical Master-Slave Manipulators(MSMs) is restricted. A Bridge Transported Servo Manipulator(BTSM) system has been developed to overcome the limitation of an access that is a drawback of the mechanical MSMs. The BTSM system consists ot a bridge crane with telescoping tubeset, a slave manipulator, a master manipulator, and a control system. We applied a bilateral position-position control scheme with friction compensation as force-reflecting controller. In this paper, the transmission characteristics on the tendon-and-pulley train is numerically formulated and analyzed. Also, we evaluate the performance of the force-reflecting servo manipulator.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.957-958
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 공정 내 인체 끼임 사고 및 저출산 고령화 시대 등의 문제들로 인한 인력 감소 문제들을 해결하기 위하여 인공지능 기반의 모빌리티 플랫폼을 개발하였다. 본 플랫폼은 yolo-v4 기반으로 로봇이 공정 내부를 이동하면서 공정 내 불량 와이어를 검출하여 공정 유지보수 관리자에게 알려 주고 실시간으로 공정 내부 상황을 무선으로 모니터링할 수 있는 기술을 연구하였다. 또한, 로봇에는 무선 충전 기능을 갖추고 있어 추가적인 공정 내 인체 끼임 사고 등을 예방할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구 결과에서는 불량 와이어 검출 시, 평균 92.1%의 정확도를 보였으며, 공정 제품에 대한 양품, 불량품의 검출은 평균 98%의 정확도를 보였다. 또한, 실시간 무선 영상 모니터링는 24fps로 전송되어 공정 내부를 살피는 것에 유의미한 결과를 보였다.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.325-339
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• 2008

In this paper, we developed a module that can execute the data acquisition of the real-time measured radiant rays in the specific part of the nuclear power station. This module that includes the RF communication function, paces around the power station, being loaded on robot and can obtain the generated radiant rays in the various places through the detecting devices. It is considered that this new developed radiant rays acquisition method will have the higher degree of efficiency as compared with the existing method and reduce the expenses of the maintenance and repair work.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.144-149
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• 2019

This paper describes the results of a study on the unmanned maintenance robot that simultaneously performs the cleaning and inspection of the photovoltaic panels. The robot has a special adsorptive device, an infrared sensor, a vacuum level sensor and a camera. The robot uses two SSC (Sliding Suction Cup) adsorptive devices to move up and down the slope. First, the forces generated when the robot moves up the slope are mechanically analyzed, and the required design and control of the adsorption system are suggested. The robot was designed and manufactured to operate stably by using the presented results. Next, the normal force between the panel and the wheel was measured to confirm that the robot was manufactured and operated as intended, and the robot motion was tested on the inclined panel. It has been proven that robots are well designed and built to clean and inspect sloped panels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.69-71
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• 2023

본 논문은 YOLO 기반 모델의 철도 시스템 내 선로 고정장치 탐지 성능을 비교하고 분석한다. 여기서 철도 시스템은 열차가 주행하기 위한 선로, 침목, 패스너 등의 구성요소를 포함한다. 침목은 지반과 직접적으로 연결되며, 선로를 지반 위에 안정적으로 지지하고 궤간을 정확하게 유지하는 역할을 한다. 또한, 패스너는 선로를 침목에 단단히 고정시키는 역할을 한다. 이러한 선로 고정장치의 부재는 인명 사고로 이어질 수 있어 지속적인 관리와 유지 보수가 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 철도 시스템의 선로 고정장치 탐지를 위해 YOLO V5 및 V8 딥러닝 모델의 적용 가능성을 실험적으로 접근하며, 두 모델의 탐지 성능을 비교한다. 실험 결과, YOLO V8 및 V5 모델은 모두 뛰어난 성능을 보이는데, 특히 YOLO V8 모델이 더욱 우수한 성능을 보인다. 이로써 YOLO 알고리즘은 선로 고정장치 탐지에 적합하다는 것을 증명한다. 그러나 일부 False Positive Sample이 관측되었음을 확인하고, 이로부터 모델 성능의 개선이 필요하다는 결론을 도출하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.180-185
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• 2003

The increase of traffic over a bridge has been emerged as one of the most severe problems in view of bridge maintenance, since the load effect caused by the vehicle passage over the bridge has brought out a long-term damage to bridge structure, and it is nearly impossible to maintain operational serviceability of bridge to user's satisfactory level without any concern on bridge maintenance at the phase of completion. Moreover, bridge maintenance operation should be performed by regular inspection over the bridge to prevent structural malfunction or unexpected accidents front breaking out by monitoring on cracks or deformations during service. Therefore, technical breakthrough related to this uninterested field of bridge maintenance leading the public to the turning point of recognition is desperately needed. This study has the aim of development on automated inspection system to lower surface of bridge superstructures to replace the conventional system of bridge inspection with the naked eye, where the monitoring staff is directly on board to refractive or other type of maintenance .vehicles, with which it is expected that we can solve the problems essentially where the results of inspection are varied to change with subjective manlier from monitoring staff, increase stabilities in safety during the inspection, and make contribution to construct data base by providing objective and quantitative data and materials through image processing method over data captured by cameras. By this system it is also expected that objective estimation over the right time of maintenance and reinforcement work will lead enormous decrease in maintenance cost.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.1935-1944
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• 1994

FMS is a distributed system composed of various programmable manufacturing hardware such as robots and NC machines. For the autonomous operation of such a system, an integrated software layer for the control and monitoring in needed on top of the manufacturing hardware. However, constructing and maintaining such a software layer is difficult due to the complexity of a underlying FMS and its frequently changing nature. To cope with this problem, this paper proposes an object-oriented FMS integration model, in which objects acting as virtual manufacturing cells are instantiated for each physical cell in the underlying object-oriented database. Various other entities involved in manufacturing processes and their relationship to the cell objects are also captured in the database. This paper describes the structure of this object-oriented FMS database on our prototype implementation called FREE.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.133-146
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• 1999

오늘날의 산업용 로봇, CNC 공작기계 및 여러 산업설비들은 시스템간에 관계가 복잡하게 연결되어 높은 신뢰성(reliability)을 달성하여 왔다. 그러나 가동시 발생하는 결과의 고장 가능성은 적은 반면에, 고장 발생의 파급 효과는 매우 높은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 복잡한 구조의 산업설비들에 대한 안전진단 결과들을 적절하게 분석하고 관리할 필요성이 크게 대두되고 있다. 이러한 안전진단 작업은 여러 가지 정량적ㆍ정성적인 방법들을 포함하는 전형적인 분석방법이 필요하다. 최근에는 고장탐색, 진단처리 작업 및 신뢰성 분석 작업에 지식기반(knowledge-based)을 기초로한 퍼지 전문가 시스템을 적용하고자 하는 시도가 많이 이루어지고 있다. 안전진단 분석에 관한 일반화된 지식은 이들 후속 단계들에서 상당히 효율적일 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 연구를 수행하기에는 지금까지 상대적으로 열악한 계산 도구들을 이용하였기 때문에 안전진단 분석을 행하기에는 한계가 있었다. 그러나 오늘날 컴퓨터를 이용하여 위의 여러 단계들의 수행과정에 안전진단 분석을 행할 수 있는 적절한 방법으로써, 지식-기반(knowledge-base) 전문가 시스템들을 이용하는 방법을 연구하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 시스템의 설계단계 뿐만 아니라, 시스템의 가동ㆍ유지ㆍ보수ㆍ수리시에도 비전문가가 고장안전진단을 수행할 수 있도록 하는데 목표를 두었다.