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Fundamental Studies for the Automatic Control System in the Greenhouse Using Microcomputer(II) -A Development of a Controller for an Automatic Control System- (마이크로컴퓨터에 의한 시설재배의 자동화에 관한 기초연구(II) -자동화 시스템의 종합제어기 개발-)

  • 김진현;김철수
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.73-86
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    • 1995
  • The automatic control system in the greenhouse have to be developed to the direction of considering various factors the variables such as condition of the cultivation and greenhouse, the properties and types of products. Therefore, it is more important to set up variables appropriately than the problems of automatic control system itself, and the automatic control system which satisfy these problems should be simplified in the aspect of operation. In addition, even the individual automations are not perfect yet, so more studies are required for the development of comprehensive automatic system in korea. This study was carried out to automatize environment control systems for greenhouse, especially from most intensive labor requiring parts such as watering, irrigating liquefied fertilizer, spraying chemicals, mixing and ventilation system, etc. The results are summarized as follows. 1. Control type tensiometer was expected to be desirable in the automation of watering system, therefore, a new tensiometer was designed and developed through this study. 2. The chemical spraying system developed through this study was found to be excellent in the aspect of operation. 3. When pulse type water discharge meter was used in the mixing of liquefied fertilizer and chemical solution, the error of mixing were range $\pm$0.1~0.15%. 4. The water level switch of electrod type used for controlling water level was found to be affective in both control performance and operation cost. 5. The water and level control system can be omitted if each tank size are standardized in accordance with greenhouse size, therefore, the installation cost might be significantly reduced. 6. The developed general controller was excellent in hardware parts, but still remained to be improved in software parts.

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Grain cultivation traceability system using ICT for smart agriculture (스마트 농업 구현을 위한 ICT기반 곡물 재배이력관리 시스템)

  • Kim, Hoon;Kim, Oui-Woong;Lee, Hyo-Jai
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.389-396
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, a cultivation traceability system to implement smart agriculture developed and implemented, and in particular, devised a system that manages the cultivation traceability of grains that are difficult to grow in smart farms. Mobile and web programs based on smart devices are designed, and the collected information is stored in a DB server and can be used as big data. In addition, real-time location information and agricultural activity information can be matched using an electronic map(Vworld) based on GIS/LBS applying GPS of a mobile device. By designing the cultivation traceability information DB required in the field, the farmhouse, farmers, and cultivation information were developed to make it easy for managers to use, and implemented mobile and web programs in the field. The system is expected to raise the quality and safety management capabilities to the next level in response to variables such as labor saving effect and climate change.

A Study on the Implementation of Digital Twin Architecture and Detailed Technology for Agriculture and Livestock Industry (농·축산 산업을 위한 디지털 트윈 아키텍처 및 세부 기술 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Deuk-Young;Kim, Se-Han;Lee, In-Bok;Yeo, Uk-Hyeon;Lee, Sang-Yeon;Kim, Jun-Gyu;Park, Se-Jun
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.398-408
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    • 2021
  • Since COVID-19, the world's food shortage population has more than doubled from 130 million to 270 million. In addition, as various issues related to the food industry such as climate change arise, the importance of agriculture and livestock is increasing. In particular, it is still difficult to utilize data generated in these field. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explain the limitations of using data based on fragmentary analysis and the necessity of Digital Twin. The additional objective was to propose an architecture and necessary technologies of a Digital Twin platform suitable for agricultural and livestock. It also proposed a Digital Twin-based service that could be used in the near future, such as labor reduction, productivity improvement, personalized consumption, transportation, and distribution by incorporating intelligent information convergence technology into facility horticulture and livestock farming.

Experimental Study on the Drawbar Pull and Structural Safety of an Onion Harvester Attached to a Tractor (트랙터 부착형 양파수확기의 작업 속도에 따른 견인 부하와 구조 안정성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Shin, Chang-Seop;Kim, Jun-Hee;Ha, Yu-Shin;Park, Tusan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.16-25
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    • 2019
  • Recently, due to labor shortages in rural areas within South Korea, the demand for upland-field machinery is growing. In addition, there is a lack of development of systematic performance testing of upland-field machinery. Thus, this study examined structural safety and drawbar pull based on soil properties, as a first step for systematic performance testing on the test bed. First, the properties of soil samples from 10 spots within the experimental site were examined. Second, the strain was measured and converted into stress on 8 points of an onion harvester that are likely to fail. More specifically, the chosen parts are linked to the power, along with the drawbar pull, using a 6-component load cell equipped between the tractor and the onion harvester. The water content of the soil ranged between 5.7%-7.5%, and the strength between 250-1171 kPa. The test soil was subsequently classified into loam soil based on the size distribution ratio of the sieved soil. The onion harvester can be considered as structurally safe based on the derived safety factor and the drawbar pull of 115-1194 kgf, according to the working speed based on agricultural fieldwork.

A Study of Square-shaped moated burial precincts in Korea (한국 방향주구묘의 일고찰)

  • Lee, Won-Gwang
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.33
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    • pp.36-67
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    • 2000
  • Square-shaped moated burial precincts(方形周溝墓) can be classified into type I that has bridges only at the comers, type II that has bridges at the comers and sides, type III that has bridges only at the sides, type IV that is surrounded by the moat without bridges, type V that has its sides less than those of type I ~ V by 1 or 2, and type VI that has the round-shaped ground. But the time differences among the types are not known yet. For the burial appliances of square-shaped moated burial precincts, there are stone coffins, pit burials and jar burials. The major burial appliances situated in the mound are stone coffins and pit burials, and jar burials are subsidiary appliances that were buried at the shoulder part of the mound or at precincts. According to the case of Gwanchang-ri KM423, grave mounds, which arc closely related with the burial appliances, were built by heaping up the earth in and around the precinct as low as only enough to protect the burial appliances. Considering the relics unearthed in the burial compartment of KM437, the time when square-shaped moated burial precincts were formed is estimated to be the age when Songguk-ri type earthenware and clay stripes earthenware co-existed. It was the early Iron Age when ironware began to sp read in this country. Emerging first in that age, square-shaped moated burial precincts were presumably formed until around the end of BC or the beginning of AD, when KM404 and KM423, which were unearthed with plain earthenware, grey earthenware and ironware, were formed. When analyzing the form of small-sized graveyards in precincts, the unearthed relics and the locations, the people who formed square-shaped moated burial precincts were considered as those who had a culture comprising clay stripes earthenware, which appears newly in the Songguk-ri type earthenware of native, and ironware, and a settled agricultural society based on paddy fields and labor forces of family units.

Soil Characterization of the Field where Rice has been Cultivated during Five Years (최근 5년간 벼농사 논의 토양 특성 연구)

  • Cha, Eun-Jin;Lee, Jin-Kyeong;Jang, Min-Ho;Choi, Min-A;Kim, Jae-Hyun;Han, Seung-Je;Park, Jin-Hee;Shin, Chang-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2021
  • The study for soil has been conducted separately by several areas such as soil mechanics and soil chemistry. Soil is important in terms of prediction of how the plant grow with nutrient requirement. Also, soil is important for machines to work on to solve labor shortage and save farmers from harsh environment during farm work. To meet diverse needs related to soil in agriculture, the soil related study needs to be conducted synthetically. Thus, we tried to obtain the data related to soil chemistry including pH and Electrical Conductivity (EC) with data related to soil mechanics including Cone Index (CI), moisture content, soil classification. Specifically, the condition of the field was set to be cultivated at least for five years continuously at a first step. The soil was taken from 30 sites. CI was obtained using the soil penetrometer and soil classification was conducted using sieve analysis with eight kinds of sieve. The soil was taken on December when is during winter in Korea. There was variation of data including moisture content and CI.

Development of AI-based Cognitive Production Technology for Digital Datadriven Agriculture, Livestock Farming, and Fisheries (디지털 데이터 중심의 AI기반 환경인지 생산기술 개발 방향)

  • Kim, S.H.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.54-63
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    • 2021
  • Since the recent COVID-19 pandemic, countries have been strengthening trade protection for their security, and the importance of securing strategic materials, such as food, is drawing attention. In addition to the cultural aspects, the global preference for food produced in Korea is increasing because of the Korean Wave. Thus, the Korean food industry can be developed into a high-value-added export food industry. Currently, Korea has a low self-sufficiency rate for foodstuffs apart from rice. Korea also suffers from problems arising from population decline, aging, rapid climate change, and various animal and plant diseases. It is necessary to develop technologies that can overcome the production structures highly dependent on the outside world of food and foster them into export-type system industries. The global agricultural industry-related technologies are actively being modified via data accumulation, e.g., environmental data, production information, and distribution and consumption information in climate and production facilities, and by actively expanding the introduction of the latest information and communication technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence. However, long-term research and investment should precede the field of living organisms. Compared to other industries, it is necessary to overcome poor production and labor environment investment efficiency in the food industry with respect to the production cost, equipment postmanagement, development tailored to the eye level of field workers, and service models suitable for production facilities of various sizes. This paper discusses the flow of domestic and international technologies that form the core issues of the site centered on the 4th Industrial Revolution in the field of agriculture, livestock, and fisheries. It also explains the environmental awareness production technologies centered on sustainable intelligence platforms that link climate change responses, optimization of energy costs, and mass production for unmanned production, distribution, and consumption using the unstructured data obtained based on detection and growth measurement data.

Occurrence of apple-skin wound, changes of input labor and changes of apple weight and flesh firmness by apple stalk cutting in 'Fuji' apple (사과의 과경절단이 과피에 상처발생, 작업노력 저장시 과중, 경도에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung, H.W
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2006
  • When apples are picked or selected by grader, the rate of wound occurrence on the skin by apple stalk is remarkably high if the apple was bigger than 3 size during the harvest time. Except this case, the other sizes showed very little similarity. The crop of apple per 1 minute was 2.9kg without cutting fruit stalk, whereas only 1.1kg of the apples were obtained due to cutting the fruit stalk. Thereby, the harvesting without cutting fruit stalk is highly effective in terms of productivity rather than cutting the fruit stalk. As far as the wound occurrence rate on apple skin by apple stalk of distance between grader's dish and accumulated board is concerned, the grader which has no distance showed quite low rate of wound occurrence compared with those grader with 3cm or 8cm distance. When the apple was being stored, there was no difference in firmness between the cut stalk apple and the uncut stalked apple, however there was slightly more weight loss in the cut stalk apple than uncut stalk apple.

Current Status and Practices of 'Dali Village Farm Music' (울산달리농악의 연행 현황과 판제)

  • Choi, Heung-Kee;Choi, Ho-Gon;Oh, Hyun-Jung
    • (The) Research of the performance art and culture
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    • no.39
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    • pp.835-861
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    • 2019
  • Ulsan was selected as an industrial and industrial city, a leading city of Korean economic development in the 1960s, and it was rapidly changed social environment with the influx of many labor population. This change has had a great impact on the traditional customs of the region, and the traditional intangible culture has disappeared or disappeared, which requires urgent protection of intangible cultures compared to other regions. This study suggests the current situation to restore the agricultural music made up of the three-time customs recorded in the 1930s in Ulsan Dali area. The research method is literature research and field research. First, the literature analyzes the farming music in connection with the farming work performed in the Ulsan Dali area in 1936, and secondly, The field survey was based on the current situation of restoring farm music at the Nam-gu Cultural Center in Ulsan. The results of the research were observed in the Ulsan area, which has disappeared rapidly. In addition, it revealed the status of being handed down from 'Kim Dal-oh', a traditional farmer who worked at Ulsan Cultural Center, to 'Kim Se-ju', who is trying to restore the farm music.

Recent Applications of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) on Screen-Printed Electrodes for Pesticide Detection

  • Adilah Mohamed Nageib;Amanatuzzakiah Abdul Halim;Anis Nurashikin Nordin;Fathilah Ali
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2023
  • The overuse of pesticides in agricultural sectors exposes people to food contamination. Pesticides are toxic to humans and can have both acute and chronic health effects. To protect food consumers from the adverse effects of pesticides, a rapid monitoring system of the residues is in dire need. Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) on a screen-printed electrode (SPE) is a leading and promising electrochemical sensing approach for the detection of several residues including pesticides. Despite the huge development in analytical instrumentation developed for contaminant detection in recent years such as HPLC and GC/MS, these conventional techniques are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Additionally, the imprinted SPE detection system offers a simple portable setup where all electrodes are integrated into a single strip, and a more affordable approach compared to MIP attached to traditional rod electrodes. Recently, numerous reviews have been published on the production and sensing applications of MIPs however, the research field lacks reviews on the use of MIPs on electrochemical sensors utilizing the SPE technology. This paper presents a distinguished overview of the MIP technique used on bare and modified SPEs for the detection of pesticides from four recent publications which are malathion, chlorpyrifos, paraoxon and cyhexatin. Different molecular imprint routes were used to prepare these biomimetic sensors including solution polymerization, thermal polymerization, and electropolymerization. The unique characteristics of each MIP-modified SPE are discussed and the comparison among the findings of the papers is critically reviewed.