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Development of an Automatic Cap Opening And Closing Device for Unmanned Chemical Manufacturing Processes (화학제조공정의 무인화를 위한 자동 캡 개폐장치 개발)

  • Jun-Sik Lee;Oh-Seong Kwon;Jun-Ho Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2024
  • Automatic production systems are constantly advancing technologies to improve productivity and safety. Specifically, liquid filling machines are primarily utilized to package products into drums after manufacturing process in the hazardous chemical industry. Most existing filling machines allow the operator to open the drum cap and inject the product directly or semi-automation. In this study, we have developed a cap opening and closing mechanism onto the existing drum filling machine, enabling automatic and safe cap manipulation while filling the product in the IBC tank. By applying the appropriate torque value through numerical analysis, we confirmed that the system worked without any problems during the process of opening and closing the cap. Therefore, it is expected that the developed machine will give more production and reduce human efforts without risk in the chemical packaging industry.

A Study on the Sharing Architecture of FMS for Small and Medium Enterprises on Distributed Heterogeneous Environments (분산이질환경에서 중소기업형 FMS공유구조에 대한 연구)

  • PARK JE-WOONG;KIM WON-JUNG
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.17 no.5 s.54
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    • pp.82-87
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    • 2003
  • A practical method to investigate the sharing architecture of FMS, for small and medium enterprises, on distributed heterogeneous environmental conditions is investigated. Because the industrial FMS model requires a reasonable size for actual work-site flexible operation, the initial facility expense is very heavy. The support for flexible cooperation of FMS, with some external different FMS, can reduce expenditures and provide greater functionality. While most FMS provide their operation process using an adequate mechanism, when used in isolation, such as island of automation, there is increasing demand for FMS that can cooperate. By exchanging intermediate products and information with other external FMS, products can be produced that cannot be produced alone, such as those that require various processes. This study first considers the sharing architecture of FMS for small and medium enterprises, and investigates the effects of the general sharing architecture of FMS on distributed heterogeneous environments, by using transducer approach to agentification. In this study, set-up station or in-out station takes charge of the gateway of intermediate products, and routes them among distributed heterogeneous FMS plants. The transducer approach is applied to web agent and set-up agent established interfaces, with system controller and setup controller. In this study, the FMS-established sharing architecture is able to obtain not only the internal flexibility, but also the external flexibility.

Development of 3 D.O.F parallel robot's simulator for education

  • Yoo, Jae-Myung;Kim, John-Hyeong;Park, Dong-Jin
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.2290-2295
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, it is developed simulator system of 3 D.O.F parallel robot for educate of expertness. This simulator system is composed of three parts ? 3 D.O.F parallel robot, controller (hardware) and software. First, basic structure of the robot is 3 active rotary actuator that small geared step motor with fixed base. An input-link is connected to this actuator, and this input-link can connect two ball joints. Thus, two couplers can be connected to the input-link as a pair. An end-plate, which is jointed by a ball joint, can be connected to the opposite side of the coupler. A sub-link is produced and installed to the internal spring, and then this sub-link is connected to the upper and bottom side of the coupler in order to prevent a certain bending or deformation of the two couplers. The robot has the maximum diameter of 230 mm, 10 kg of weight (include the table), and maximum height of 300 mm. Hardware for control of the robot is composed of computer, micro controller, pulse generator, and motor driver. The PC used in the controller sends commands to the controller, and transform signals input by the user to the coordinate value of the robot by substituting it into equations of kinematics and inverse kinematics. A controller transfer the coordinate value calculated in the PC to a pulse generator by transforming it into signals. A pulse generator analyzes commands, which include the information received from the micro controller. A motor driver transfer the pulse received from the pulse generator to a step motor, and protects against the over-load of the motor Finally, software is a learning purposed control program, which presents the principle of a robot operation and actual implementation. The benefit of this program is that easy for a novice to use. Developed robot simulator system can be practically applied to understand the principle of parallel mechanism, motors, sensor, and various other parts.

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A Study on the Process Simulation Analysis of the High Precision Laser Scriber (고정밀 레이저 스크라이버 장비의 공정 시뮬레이션 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Hyun-Jin;Park, Kee-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.56-62
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    • 2019
  • The high-precision laser scriber carries out scribing alumina ceramic substrates for manufacturing ultra-small chip resistors. The ceramic substrates are loaded, aligned, scribed, transferred, and unloaded. The entire process is fully automated, thereby minimizing the scribing cycle time of the ceramic substrates and improving the throughput. The scriber consists of the laser optical system, pick-up module of ceramic substrates, pre-alignment module, TH axis drive work table, automation module for substrate loading / unloading, and high-speed scribing control S/W. The loader / unloader unit, which has the greatest influence on the scribing cycle time of the substrates, carries the substrates to the work table that carries out the cutting line work by driving the X and Y axes as well as by adsorbing the ceramic substrates. The loader / unloader unit consists of the magazine up / down part, X-axis drive part for conveying the substrates to the left and right direction, and the vision part for detecting the edge of the substrate for the primary pre-alignment of the substrates. In this paper, the laser scribing machining simulation is performed by applying the instrument mechanism of each component module. Through this study, the scribing machining process is first verified by analyzing the process operation and work area of each module in advance. In addition, the scribing machining process is optimized by comparing and analyzing the scribing cycle time of one ceramic substrate according to the alignment stage module speed.

Configurable Smart Contracts Automation for EVM based Blockchains

  • ZAIN UL ABEDIN;Muhammad Shujat Ali;Ashraf Ali;Sana Ejaz
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.147-156
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    • 2023
  • Electronic voting machines (EVMs) are replacing research ballots due to the errors involved in the manual counting process and the lengthy time required to count the votes. Even though these digital recording electronic systems are advancements, they are vulnerable to tampering and electoral fraud. The suspected vulnerabilities in EVMs are the possibility of tampering with the EVM's memory chip or replacing it with a fake one, their simplicity, which allows them to be tampered with without requiring much skill, and the possibility of double voting. The vote data is shared among all network devices, and peer-to-peer verification is performed to ensure the vote data's authenticity. To successfully tamper with the system, all of the data stored in the nodes must be changed. This improves the proposed system's efficiency and dependability. Elections and voting are fundamental components of a democratic system. Various attempts have been made to make modern elections more flexible by utilizing digital technologies. The fundamental characteristics of free and fair elections are intractability, immutability, transparency, and the privacy of the actors involved. This corresponds to a few of the many characteristics of blockchain-like decentralized ownership, such as chain immutability, anonymity, and distributed ledger. This working research attempts to conduct a comparative analysis of various blockchain technologies in development and propose a 'Blockchain-based Electronic Voting System' solution by weighing these technologies based on the need for the proposed solution. The primary goal of this research is to present a robust blockchain-based election mechanism that is not only reliable but also adaptable to current needs.

Biomimetic Gyroscope Integrated with Actuation Parts of a Robot Inspired by Insect Halteres (평형곤을 모사한 생체모방형 구동부 일체형 각속도 센서)

  • Jeong, Mingi;Kim, Jisu;Jang, Seohyeong;Lee, Tae-Jae;Shim, Hyungbo;Ko, Hyoungho;Cho, Kyu-Jin;Cho, Dong-Il Dan
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.705-709
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    • 2016
  • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes are widely used in various robot applications. However, these conventional gyroscopes need to vibrate the proof mass using a built-in actuator at a fixed resonance frequency to sense the Coriolis force. When a robot is not moving, the meaningless vibration of the gyroscope wastes power. In addition, this continuous vibration makes the sensor vulnerable to external sound waves with a frequency close to the proof-mass resonance frequency. In this paper, a feasibility study of a new type of gyroscope inspired by insect halteres is presented. In dipterous insects, halteres are a biological gyroscope that measures the Coriolis force. Wing muscles and halteres are mechanically linked, and the halteres oscillate simultaneously with wing beats. The vibrating haltere experiences the Coriolis force if the insect is going through a rotational motion. Inspired by this haltere structure, a gyroscope using a thin mast integrated with a robot actuation mechanism is proposed. The mast vibrates only when the robot is moving without requiring a separate actuator. The Coriolis force of the mast can be measured with an accelerometer installed at the tip of the mast. However, the signal from the accelerometer has multiple frequency components and also can be highly corrupted with noise, such that raw data are not meaningful. This paper also presents a suitable signal processing technique using the amplitude modulation method. The feasibility of the proposed haltere-inspired gyroscope is also experimentally evaluated.

An automation method for GUI test using a UIA library (UIA 라이브러리를 이용한 GUI 테스트 자동화 방법)

  • Choi, Chang-Min;Chung, In-Sang;Kim, Hyeon-Soo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.18D no.5
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    • pp.343-356
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    • 2011
  • When preparing test cases and running the test the existing GUI test tools require many tester's interventions. To cope with such problem this paper suggests a new method to build test cases for GUI test. This method identifies the potential control flows within the GUI and constructs the GUI map. The UIA library in .NET Framework is used to extract information about the GUI controls and the GUI map is constructed by the extracted information. Test scenarios are generated from the extracted information about the GUI controls using the grouping mechanism. Based on the grouping mechanism, various test scenarios which are test cases in GUI tests can be made by replacing a GUI control by another one in the same group. The existing GUI test tools do not support the concept of test coverage. Since, however, our method survey which part of the GUI map is executed or not during running the test, the test coverage can be measured by using the GUI map.

Deep Learning-Based Automation Cyber Attack Convergence Trend Analysis Mechanism for Deep Learning-Based Security Vulnerability Analysis (사이버공격 융합 동향 분석을 위한 딥러닝 기반 보안 취약점 분석 자동화 메커니즘)

  • Kim, Jinsu;Park, Namje
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.99-107
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    • 2022
  • In the current technological society, where various technologies are converged into one and being transformed into new technologies, new cyber attacks are being made just as they keep pace with the changes in society. In particular, due to the convergence of various attacks into one, it is difficult to protect the system with only the existing security system. A lot of information is being generated to respond to such cyber attacks. However, recklessly generated vulnerability information can induce confusion by providing unnecessary information to administrators. Therefore, this paper proposes a mechanism to assist in the analysis of emerging cyberattack convergence technologies by providing differentiated vulnerability information to managers by learning documents using deep learning-based language learning models, extracting vulnerability information and classifying them according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

A Design of Authentication Mechanism for Secure Communication in Smart Factory Environments (스마트 팩토리 환경에서 안전한 통신을 위한 인증 메커니즘 설계)

  • Joong-oh Park
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2024
  • Smart factories represent production facilities where cutting-edge information and communication technologies are fused with manufacturing processes, reflecting rapid advancements and changes in the global manufacturing sector. They capitalize on the integration of robotics and automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the convergence of artificial intelligence technologies to maximize production efficiency in various manufacturing environments. However, the smart factory environment is prone to security threats and vulnerabilities due to various attack techniques. When security threats occur in smart factories, they can lead to financial losses, damage to corporate reputation, and even human casualties, necessitating an appropriate security response. Therefore, this paper proposes a security authentication mechanism for safe communication in the smart factory environment. The components of the proposed authentication mechanism include smart devices, an internal operation management system, an authentication system, and a cloud storage server. The smart device registration process, authentication procedure, and the detailed design of anomaly detection and update procedures were meticulously developed. And the safety of the proposed authentication mechanism was analyzed, and through performance analysis with existing authentication mechanisms, we confirmed an efficiency improvement of approximately 8%. Additionally, this paper presents directions for future research on lightweight protocols and security strategies for the application of the proposed technology, aiming to enhance security.

An OSI and SN Based Persistent Naming Approach for Parametric CAD Model Exchange (기하공간정보(OSI)와 병합정보(SN)을 이용한 고유 명칭 방법)

  • Han S.H.;Mun D.H.
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.27-40
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    • 2006
  • The exchange of parameterized feature-based CAD models is important for product data sharing among different organizations and automation systems. The role of feature-based modeling is to gonerate the shape of product and capture design intends In a CAD system. A feature is generated by referring to topological entities in a solid. Identifying referenced topological entities of a feature is essential for exchanging feature-based CAD models through a neutral format. If the CAD data contains the modification history in addition to the construction history, a matching mechanism is also required to find the same entity in the new model (post-edit model) corresponding to the entity in the old model (preedit model). This problem is known as the persistent naming problem. There are additional problems arising from the exchange of parameterized feature-based CAD models. Authors have analyzed previous studies with regard to persistent naming and characteristics for the exchange of parameterized feature-based CAD models, and propose a solution to the persistent naming problem. This solution is comprised of two parts: (a) naming of topological entities based on the object spore information (OSI) and secondary name (SN); and (b) name matching under the proposed naming.