• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제35권3호
• /
• pp.197-205
• /
• 2010

An automatic echelon feeder of brown rice was presented for quality inspection system using color image processing. A echelon feeder was developed with vibratory feeder and cylindrical indent singulator having oblique light. The vibratory feeder consisted of a hopper, electromagnetic vibrator and multichannel grooves and supply the grain sample to the singulator. The feeding performance such as feed rate, blocking frequency of the channel was dependent on the size of groove and vibration pattern. A cylindrical indent singulator consisted of a rotating cylinder, prisms and a tungsten-halogen light source. It delivered grain kernels under the camera in a echelon form and illuminate the kernels with oblique ray and ambient light. The size of the indents installed on the surface of the rotating cylinder was determined by the dimensions of the paddy and a small triangular prism was placed in each indent to apply $ 20^{\circ}$ oblique light to the grain kernel.

• 국제학술발표논문집
• /
• The 1th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
• /
• pp.808-813
• /
• 2005

Effective cost management requires reliable cost estimates at every stage of project development. The primary purpose of this research is to develop systematic modeling procedures and an automatic computing program for infrastructure estimating in the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The computing system toggles between project input information and segregated district unit prices for highway work item quantity estimates associated with earthwork and landscape, subgrade treatments and base, surface courses and pavement, structures, miscellaneous construction, and lighting, signing, markings and signals. This quantity-based approach was chosen because of the conventional approach lacking of quantity information until primary design is complete.

• 한국가금학회지
• /
• 제22권4호
• /
• pp.233-238
• /
• 1995

A computer vision system was built to generate images of a single, stationary egg. This system includes a CGD camera, a frame grabber, and incandescent back lighting system. Image processing algorithms were developed to inspect egg shell and to sort eggs. Those values of both gray level and area of dark spots in the egg image were used as criteria to detect holes in egg and those values of both area and roundness of dark spots in the egg image were used to detect cracks in egg. For a sample of 300 eggs, this system was able to correctly analyze an egg for the presence of a defect 97.5% of the time. The weights of eggs were found to be linear to both the projected area and the perimeter of eggs viewed from above. Those two values were used as criteria to sort eggs. The coefficients of determination(r$^2$) for the regression equations between weights and those two values were 0.967 and 0.972 in the two sets of experiment. Accuracies in grading were found to be 95.6% and 96.7% as compared with results from sizing by electronic weight scale.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국철도학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.188-193
• /
• 2008

According to introduce KTX in Korea, rail-road bridge section of KTX was increased approximately 50% of the total length. Bridge is required periodic inspection and check to prevent accident and hazard because various damage which have effects on traffic and replacement of damaged parts is difficult. Specifically, the train as large-scale transportation because accidents led to great damage, preventing these accidents are critical. Well-organized management and maintenance systems are required to prevent the accidents. In the case of roadway bridge, bridge inspection vehicle is used to deploy inspectors in roadway bridge. However, this method requires a lot of time and efforts, and inspectors are exposed to potential hazard. Also, surrounding environment like poor lighting system or electric wire could harm the inspector while repairing. Due to this reason, automatic repairing and inspecting system have been introduced to replace the old methods. Management system of the railroad bridge track for trains uses various advanced equipments, but whereas roadway bridge management system is lacking these efforts. As a result of that, this study looks over the existing management method. and review the method to apply the Bridge Inspection Robot in railroad bridge. Moreover, this study suggests future management technology using inspection robot.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
• /
• pp.1121-1124
• /
• 1998

Inchon International Airport(IIA) is constructed for Northeast Asia Gate as is important for IIA to become a 21 century's leader in the world, as is planned for open at december 2000 as a important economic link for unified korea. Airport Power Information System(APIS) is designed through investigation of advanced domestic and international example. In addition to power facility operation it is designed for using an information infrastructure of whole airport. APIS is newly designed for uninterupted power supply, effective power management, information infrastructure's construction. making a profit by positively introduction of new technology for collection and conservation of power related data, correlation with airport infra systems, data interrelative arrangement about related systems like outdoor lighting system and automatic measuring record, CCTV systems for remote power facility monitoring, and promotion of management ability in the emergency status.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
• /
• 제40권4호
• /
• pp.206-213
• /
• 2003

본 논문에서는 고성능의 하드웨어 장비가 아닌 일반적으로 사용되는 개인용 컴퓨터와 CCD 카메라를 이용하여 자동으로 경량기포 콘크리트(autoclaved lightweight concrete) 블록간의 상하 경사도, 두께의 불균일성, 그리고 불량 여부를 판별할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 치수측정 및 불량검사 자동화 알고리즘은 실제 작업환경을 고려하여 일반적인 조명조건에서의 전처리과정과 작업공정내의 피사체의 진동을 고려한 단위길이 결정방법, 카메라의 곡률보정에 의한 치수오차 보정 방법 등을 적용하였으며, 실제공정에서의 실험 결과를 통해 블록군의 계측에 있어서 0.8초 이내에 측정오차 1%이내의 데이터를 산출해 냄으로서 제안한 불량검사 자동화시스템의 신뢰성을 검증할 수 있었다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
• /
• 제45권5호
• /
• pp.417-428
• /
• 2017

본 논문에서는 항공기 조종사 지능형 헬멧시현시스템(IHDS, Intelligent Helmet Display System)의 아키텍쳐 설계, 단위 구성품 설계, 핵심 소프트웨어 설계내용(헬멧 자세추적, 고도오차 보정 소프트웨어)을 기술하며, 단위시험 및 통합시험에 대한 결과를 기술한다. 세계적인 최신 헬멧시현시스템 개발 추세를 반영하여 3차원 전자지도 시현, FLIR(Forward Looking Infra-Red) 영상시현, 하이브리드형 헬멧자세추적, 바이저 반사형광학계, 야시카메라 영상시현 및 경량 복합소재 헬멧쉘 등의 사양을 설계에 적용하였다. 특히 3차원 전자지도 데이터의 고도오차 자동보정 기법, 고정밀 영상정합 기법, 다색(Multi-color) 조명광학계, 회절소자를 이용한 투과형 영상발광면, 헬멧자세 추정시간을 최소화하는 추적용 카메라, 장/탈착형 야시카메라, 머리 밀착용 에어포켓 등의 신개념의 설계를 제안하였다. 모든 시스템 구성품의 시제작을 완료한 후 단위시험과 시스템 통합시험을 수행하여 기능과 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
• /
• 제15권2호
• /
• pp.69-81
• /
• 2010

LCD 모니터의 백라이트로 CCFL 형광체를 많이 사용하고 있으나 그 불량여부는 육안에 의존하고 있다. 육안 검사를 함으로써 부품에 대한 일관성 있는 검사가 결여되고, 노동집약적인 검사로 인해 산업적 재해가 발생할 수 있다. 따라서, CCFL 불량유무를 판별하기 위해서 물리적 촬영 환경과 영상처리 알고리즘은 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 CCFL 형광체를 검사하기 위한 촬영환경에 대하여 설명하고, 촬영환경 중 돔 근거리 조명과 점원거리 조명에서의 몇 가지 불량판별 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 불량을 포함한 CCFL 형광체를 사용하여 실험을 수행하였고, 그 결과 제안한 촬영환경과 알고리즘은 불량 판별율 98.32 %와 과검율 4.88 %의 성능을 나타내었다.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
• /
• 제5권3호
• /
• pp.157-163
• /
• 2019

현재까지 피크완화 및 에너지 절감을 위해 한국전력공사 120여개 사옥에 K-BEMS (KEPCO Building Energy Management System)가 운영 중이다. 이 시스템은 PV, PCS, BESS, EMS 등으로 구성되어 있으며 건물에너지 수요예측을 기반으로 BESS, PV 등을 활용하여 에너지 관리를 도모하고 있다. 이 시스템은 단기 과거데이터에 신경망기법을 단순 적용하여 수요를 예측함에 따라 예측 정확도가 높지 않고 운영자 수작업을 통한 BESS 충방전으로 피크 저감이 곤란하며 운영 경제성 제고가 어려운 실정이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 전력연구원에서는 2016년부터 3년간 연구과제를 수행하였는데 이를 통해 에러를 최소화하며 높은 신뢰도를 가지는 실시간 수요예측기법과 이에 기반한 BESS충방전 최적화 자동화 기술 개발, 성능을 검증하였기에 이를 본 논문에서 소개하고자 한다.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제4권1호
• /
• pp.8-15
• /
• 2003

In Korea, quality evaluation of dried oak mushrooms are done first by classifying them into more than 10 different categories based on the state of opening of the cap, surface pattern, and colors. And mushrooms of each category are further classified into 3 or 4 groups based on its shape and size, resulting into total 30 to 40 different grades. Quality evaluation and sorting based on the external visual features are usually done manually. Since visual features of mushroom affecting quality grades are distributed over the entire surface of the mushroom, both front (cap) and back (stem and gill) surfaces should be inspected thoroughly. In fact, it is almost impossible for human to inspect every mushroom, especially when they are fed continuously via conveyor. In this paper, considering real time on-line system implementation, image processing algorithms utilizing artificial neural network have been developed for the quality grading of a mushroom. The neural network based image processing utilized the raw gray value image of fed mushrooms captured by the camera without any complex image processing such as feature enhancement and extraction to identify the feeding state and to grade the quality of a mushroom. Developed algorithms were implemented to the prototype on-line grading and sorting system. The prototype was developed to simplify the system requirement and the overall mechanism. The system was composed of automatic devices for mushroom feeding and handling, a set of computer vision system with lighting chamber, one chip microprocessor based controller, and pneumatic actuators. The proposed grading scheme was tested using the prototype. Network training for the feeding state recognition and grading was done using static images. 200 samples (20 grade levels and 10 per each grade) were used for training. 300 samples (20 grade levels and 15 per each grade) were used to validate the trained network. By changing orientation of each sample, 600 data sets were made for the test and the trained network showed around 91 % of the grading accuracy. Though image processing itself required approximately less than 0.3 second depending on a mushroom, because of the actuating device and control response, average 0.6 to 0.7 second was required for grading and sorting of a mushroom resulting into the processing capability of 5,000/hr to 6,000/hr.