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Lifting Load Recording and Management Method of the Lift for Construction Based Sensing Information

  • Taekyu Ko;Joonghwan Shin;Kyuhyup Lee;Soonwook Kwon;Chung-Suk Cho;Suwan Chung;Goeun ,Choi
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.125-135
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    • 2022
  • While buildings in recent days become taller and larger, many problems occur during the management of construction. Particularly, as the vertical movement of manpower and materials during construction has become longer while the lifting frequency and load increase, the need for a good lifting management practice is also increasing. Therefore, this study presents a real-time lifting performance monitoring system that can store and manage lifting records for construction management. Through review of literature and preceding studies related to construction lift, the concept of lift planning and operation management was understood, leading to the development of a system to monitor lifting operation and performance information. This system enabled quick measurement of the lifting performance during construction phase while responding to changes in the project schedule. To verify this system, a case study was conducted in which the current status and characteristics of the sensing-based lifting performance were derived.

Vacuum Infusion System for Manufacture Process Convergence and Automation of Boat (보트제작 공정융합과 자동화를 위한 베큠인퓨전 시스템 구현)

  • Yoon, Dal-Hwan;Xiang, Zhao;Lee, Cheol-Ho
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.274-280
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we have developed the vacuum infusion automation system for the safety and quality advancement of the boat. It is necessary for the precise mixing rate of resinoid and curingagent to inject in an inner ship and deck at short time. We need for the optimal condition to a strengthen construction of boat. This one can solve the post deformability of the strengthen structure and can control the precise mixing rate of resinoid and curingagent to the resinoid fluidity and flowing rate per time. Under these condition, we can advance the an quality construction that based on the model and database information of the boat. Also, we can have an effective process management and retrench the production cost.

Ontology based Integrated Construction Information Management for Modernized Traditional Housing (Hanok)

  • Lee, Heewoo;Lee, Yunsub;Jin, Zhenhui;Gebremichael, Dagem Derese;Jung, Youngsoo
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.162-169
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    • 2022
  • In an attempt to disseminate modernized Korean traditional housing (Hanok), a ten-year research project was initiated in 2010 by the Korean Government to reduce the construction cost, improve the facility performance, and automate the Hanok construction industry. To meet these objectives, various research areas, including public policies, planning methods, design standards, new building materials, construction standards, maintenance procedures, advanced project management tools, and integrated IT applications have been developed. In addition, comprehensive technologies developed were applied to the ten pilot Hanok buildings to validate the real-world performance as part of the research project. To further facilitate the digital transformation of the Hanok industry by using the research results, it is required to disseminate the developed technologies in an automated and standardized manner. In particular, it is crucial to systematize and manage the interoperability of various technical data and accumulated historical data for different business functions, especially within the highly fragmented industry. In this context, this paper proposes an ontology-based Hanok information dissemination platform to enable industry-wide automated knowledge and information sharing. The system architecture, standardized historical database, and advanced analytics based on ontology web language (OWL) for the Hanok industrialization platform are introduced.

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New Seed Detection by Shape Analysis for Construction of Vascular Structures

  • Shim, Hack-Joon;Lee, Hyun-Joon;Yun, Il-Dong;Lee, Sang-Uk
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.427-433
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    • 2010
  • Although tracking methods are efficient and popular for vessel segmentation, they require a seed to initiate an instance of tracking. In this paper, a new method to detect new seeds for tracking of arterial segments from CT angiography (CTA) and to construct a vascular structure is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on shape analysis of connected components in a volume of interest around a vessel segment which was already extracted by tracking. The eigenvalues of the covariance matrix are used as the shape features for detection. The experimental results on actual clinical data showed that the results totally revealed the arterial tree not hindered by bone or veins. In visual comparison to a method which combines registration and subtraction of both pre-contrast and post-contrast CT volumes, the proposed method produced comparable results to the reference method and were confirmed of its feasibility for clinical use of reducing the cost and burden of patients.

A Study on the Bucket Loading Characteristics for Wheel-loader Loading Automation (휠로더 굴착 자동화를 위한 버킷 부하특성 연구)

  • Seo, Dong-Kwan;Seo, Hyun-Jae;Kang, In-Pil;Kwon, Young-Min;Lee, Sang-Hoon;Hwang, Sung-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.33 no.11
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    • pp.1332-1340
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    • 2009
  • The front end wheel loader is widely used for the loading of materials in mining and construction fields. It has repetitive digging, loading and dumping procedures. The bucket is subjected to large resistance force from the soil during scooping. We considered the soil reaction force characteristics from scooping procedure, the protection by overload and automatic scooping mode algorithm. The main topic of this paper is the analysis of the soil reaction force characteristics. The analysis of soil mechanics is carried out and the developed soil model is verified by experimental results from the simplified experimental equipment. A simplified model of the soil shape and bucket trajectory is used to determine the scooping direction based on an estimation of the resistance force applied on the bucket during the scooping motion. In the future, this model will be used for the generation of an appropriate path for the wheel loader automation.

Field Test of Automated Activity Classification Using Acceleration Signals from a Wristband

  • Gong, Yue;Seo, JoonOh
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2020.12a
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    • pp.443-452
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    • 2020
  • Worker's awkward postures and unreasonable physical load can be corrected by monitoring construction activities, thereby increasing the safety and productivity of construction workers and projects. However, manual identification is time-consuming and contains high human variance. In this regard, an automated activity recognition system based on inertial measurement unit can help in rapidly and precisely collecting motion data. With the acceleration data, the machine learning algorithm will be used to train classifiers for automatically categorizing activities. However, input acceleration data are extracted either from designed experiments or simple construction work in previous studies. Thus, collected data series are discontinuous and activity categories are insufficient for real construction circumstances. This study aims to collect acceleration data during long-term continuous work in a construction project and validate the feasibility of activity recognition algorithm with the continuous motion data. The data collection covers two different workers performing formwork at the same site. An accelerator, as well as portable camera, is attached to the worker during the entire working session for simultaneously recording motion data and working activity. The supervised machine learning-based models are trained to classify activity in hierarchical levels, which reaches a 96.9% testing accuracy of recognizing rest and work and 85.6% testing accuracy of identifying stationary, traveling, and rebar installation actions.

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A Priority and Impact Factor Analysis of Construction Management Tasks for Decreasing Change Orders and Defect Repairs in Cancer Treatment Center Projects (암센터 의료시설의 설계변경과 하자보수의 감소를 위한 중점 관리공사 분석)

  • Lee, Chijoo;Lee, Ghang;Sim, Jaekyang
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2013
  • The complexity of constructing medical institutions is higher than that of general buildings, and many change orders in the design and defect repairs in the construction phase are required due to strict government regulations. The priority control of constructions and impact factors of medical institutions were analyzed in this study, and difficulties in the control in the design and construction phase were identified. First, the priority management factors that were identified were as follows: architecture, facilities, and electricity. Second, 1) priority management in constructions and factors resulting in change orders and 2) priority management in constructions involving defect repair were analyzed. Third, the importance recognized by the construction managers were analyzed. The priority management in constructions and factors that were recognized by the construction manager were deducted as having low importance, although there were many change orders and defects. The work of finishing, wall building, joining, office automation and communication function, and lighting were analyzed in the design phase, and waste, the office automation and communication function, ceilings, contamination control, and plumbing were analyzed in the construction phase. The results showed that there will be a decrease in change orders and defects if the concentration of the manager was elevated and priorities were managed.

The Design and Implementation of Class Relation Information Tool from C++ Code (C++ 코드로부터 클래스 관련 정보 생성 도구의 설계 및 구현)

  • Jang, Deok-Cheol;Park, Jang-Han
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.818-830
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    • 2000
  • Automation tools for program analysis are needed in order to program understand and maintain, extract the characteristics of object-oriented program such as class name, member function and data member. In this paper, we carried out design and implementation of the automation tool for effective maintenance of object-oriented software. Being based on Reverse Engineering, this approach extracts class relationship information from C++ source code and generates object-oriented model of class diagram using UML as the standard object-oriented methodology. Therefore, this paper provides developers visualized including class information, definitions of classes, inheritance relationships, set relationships, and simple reference relationships. Finally in this paper, we propose a method that construct class relationship information to table in analysis state and make form of table construction to link form so tat developers can perform understanding and maintaining program efficiently. And this method enable to restructure and reuse in object-oriented model.

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Simultaneous Tracking of Multiple Construction Workers Using Stereo-Vision (다수의 건설인력 위치 추적을 위한 스테레오 비전의 활용)

  • Lee, Yong-Ju;Park, Man-Woo
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2017
  • Continuous research efforts have been made on acquiring location data on construction sites. As a result, GPS and RFID are increasingly employed on the site to track the location of equipment and materials. However, these systems are based on radio frequency technologies which require attaching tags on every target entity. Implementing the systems incurs time and costs for attaching/detaching/managing the tags or sensors. For this reason, efforts are currently being made to track construction entities using only cameras. Vision-based 3D tracking has been presented in a previous research work in which the location of construction manpower, vehicle, and materials were successfully tracked. However, the proposed system is still in its infancy and yet to be implemented on practical applications for two reasons. First, it does not involve entity matching across two views, and thus cannot be used for tracking multiple entities, simultaneously. Second, the use of a checker board in the camera calibration process entails a focus-related problem when the baseline is long and the target entities are located far from the cameras. This paper proposes a vision-based method to track multiple workers simultaneously. An entity matching procedure is added to acquire the matching pairs of the same entities across two views which is necessary for tracking multiple entities. Also, the proposed method simplified the calibration process by avoiding the use of a checkerboard, making it more adequate to the realistic deployment on construction sites.

3-D Laser Measurement using Mode Image Segmentation Method

  • Moon Hak-Yong;Park Jong-Chan;Han Wun-Dong;Cho Heung-Gi;Jeon Hee-Jong
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.104-108
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, the 3-D measurement method of moving object with a laser and one camera system for image processing method is presented. The method of segmentation image in conventional method, the error are generated by the threshold values. In this paper, to improve these problem for segmentation image, the calculation of weighting factor using brightness distribution by histogram of stored images are proposed. Therefore the image erosion and spread are improved, the correct and reliable informations can be measured. In this paper, the system of 3-D extracting information using the proposed algorithm can be applied to manufactory automation, building automation, security guard system, and detecting information system for all of the industry areas.

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