• Title/Summary/Keyword: Automation in Construction

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The upgrade of coordination program for distribution automation system (배전자동화용 보호협조프로그램 개선)

  • Seol, Leel-Ho;Ha, Bok-Nam;Park, Shin-Yeol;Jung, Young-Beom;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.629-631
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    • 2005
  • The DASPRO (Protection Coordination Program for DAS) is one of the application programs for Distribution Automation System (DAS) of the KEPCO. Application programs developed by KEPCO provide optimal operation in distribution network. The DASPRO includes diverse functions to operate network as construction of database using existing information. creation of diagram for protection coordination. calculation of fault current. evaluation network. power quality monitoring, etc. The DASPRO can examine validity of setting values for protective devices by comparing to T-C curves. Unless the protection coordination is correct, the most suitable setting value for protection devices are displayed on the screen. In this paper, I will introduce the contents of the DASPRO.

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Design of portable Lonworks Network Installation Tool (휴대 가능한 Lonworks 네트워크 설치 장비의 설계)

  • Lee, Hee-Chan;Kim, Myung-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10c
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    • pp.127-129
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    • 2006
  • The distributed control system is used in wide control fields. Factory automation, home network and building automation are good examples. Lonworks that Echelon company has been developing and providing since 1991 is one of popular distributed control systems. Lonwork system is support various communication media, especially it has a feature that supports communication through the power line. When Constructing Lonworks network in a construction field, the experts, who can treat Lonworks bring laptops that LNS and Lonmaker installed, install the network. However this way takes long time to construct the network and needs the experts. To resolve this problem, this paper suggests that a design of Lonworks network installation machine that is easy to use for everyone and portable. Non-experts can install Lonworks network by using this machine so they can reduce fare for installation of network and time to install.

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Geometric Modeling and Trajectory Control Design for an Excavator Mechanism (굴삭기 작업장치부의 기하학적 동역학 모델링 및 궤적 제어에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, S.H.;Yoo, S.J.;Lee, K.I.
    • Transactions of The Korea Fluid Power Systems Society
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2007
  • During the last few decades, excavation automation has been investigated to protect the operator from the hazardous working environment and to relieve the cost of the skilled operator. Therefore, a number of modelling and controller design methods of the hydraulic excavator are proposed in many literatures to realize the excavation automation. In this article, a geometric approach far the multi-body system modeling is adopted to develop the excavator mechanism model that contains 4 kinematic loops and 12 links. Considering a simple soil mechanism model with a number of uncertain soil parameters, an adaptive trajectory tracking control strategy based on the developed excavator model is proposed. The improved performance of the designed controller over the simple PID controller is validated via the simulation study.

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Feasibility Study for Introducing Window Cleaning Device (유리창 청소작업의 자동화 장비 도입에 대한 타당성 분석)

  • Kim, Kyoon-Tai
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.612-618
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    • 2020
  • In recent years, the demand for external window cleaning has increased, but the process is a very dangerous manpower-dependent operation. In addition, it is difficult to clean at the desired frequency in a business that values cleanliness. Therefore, there is a need to automate this work. This paper presents the concept of a device that can be attached to a specific window and clean the window continuously. The economic feasibility of this device was analyzed. The estimated manufacturing cost of the equipment was approximately 10 million won, but the possible investment cost was at least 9.8 million won for five years of endurance and 103 million won for 10 years of endurance. Therefore, the expected savings well exceed the equipment cost, and it was evaluated as having economic feasibility. Since this study analyzed only quantitative indicators, the expected cost reduction due to a reduction in safety accidents, productivity improvement, construction time reduction, and quality improvement was not considered. Therefore, it is expected that the calculated economic feasibility will be more accurate if the cost reduction effect by the automation equipment is calculated by adding the expected values not considered in this study.

Analysis of patented technology for deriving eco-friendly road cutter design elements (친환경 도로커터기 설계요소 도출을 위한 특허기술 분석)

  • Jun, Young-Hun;Kim, Kyoon-Tai;Kim, Kyong-Hoon;Ok, Chi-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2019.11a
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    • pp.124-125
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    • 2019
  • The use of road cutters in the maintenance of obsolete underground facilities maintains polluting dust, cutting sludge, etc, polluting the air environment, soil, and water, causing civil complaints caused by noise, and consequently interrupting work. Therefore, it is time for eco-friendly pavement cutting technology for fugitive dust and cutting sludge emission management and noise management. This study was based on research by the development of eco-friendly pavement cutting technology in urban areas. In this study, the current state of existing road cutters is investigated and the patented technology analysis of road cutters is conducted to derive the design elements of eco-friendly pavement cutting technology.

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Building Information Modeling for Temporary Structure Planning and Safety Analysis (BIM을 활용한 가설물 계획 및 안전 관리)

  • Kim, Kyungki;Cho, Yong Kwon;Park, Man-Woo
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.12-18
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    • 2016
  • The entire construction safety is significantly influenced by proper uses of temporary structures. However, in current practices, temporary structures are used without sufficient planning and analysis on their impact on safety. Consequently, problems in worker safety and loss of productivity are frequently caused related to temporary structures. This paper introduces an approach that uses Building Information Modeling (BIM) to automatically create temporary structures as part of construction plans and identifies potential safety hazards related to the temporary structures. In this study, the type of temporary structure is limited to scaffolding. Automation algorithms were developed and applied to (1) analyze daily construction site conditions (2) create required scaffolding objects, and (3) identify potential safety hazards related to scaffolding. A case study using a real-world construction project demonstrated that scaffolding objects were properly created based on user-input and potential safety hazards were successfully identified without human intervention.

Automation of BIM Material Mapping to Activate Virtual Construction (가상건설 활성화를 위한 BIM 재질 매핑 자동화 기술)

  • Seo, Myoung Bae
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 2020
  • Recently, BIM has become mandatory in the construction field, research on various use cases is increasing. In particular, when virtual reality technology, one of the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, and BIM are combined, it can be used in various fields such as preliminary design review and construction simulation. Until now, however, virtual reality grafting technology is only used as a simple prototype or as a model house. Also, it is difficult to activate virtual construction because it is expensive to produce high-quality virtual reality contents. Therefore, in this paper, in order to increase the utilization and quality of the virtual construction field, a study was conducted to shorten the material mapping time, which takes a lot of time when producing virtual reality contents using BIM. To this end, object properties were assigned to enable material mapping in the BIM model, and materials most used in the construction field were configured, and automated material function development and final tests were conducted that automatically map properties and materials. For the test, 10 models were used and the test was repeated three times, and the productivity improvement of about 50.16% was finally achieved. In the future, we plan to conduct research on physical data weight reduction based on the advanced material mapping automation function and the large-capacity BIM model.

A Study of Automation for Examination Analysis of Inservice Inspection for Nuclear Power Plant (I) (원자력발전소(原子力發電所) 가동중(稼動中) 검사(檢査)의 시험분석(試驗分析)을 위한 자동화연구(自動化硏究) (I))

  • Kim, W.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.34-47
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    • 1985
  • The developing country, KOREA where does not possess the natural resources for traditional energy such as oil and gas, so. The nuclear energy is the most single reliable source available for closing the energy gap. For these reason, It is inavoidable to construct the nuclear power plant and to develop technology related nuclear energy. The rate of operation in large nuclear power facilities depends upon the performance of work system through design and construction, and also the applied technology. Especially, it is the most important element that safety and reliability in operation of nuclear power plant. In view of this aspects, Nuclear power plant is performed severe examinations during preservice and inservice inspection. This study provide an automation of analysis for volumetric examination which is required to nuclear power plant components. It is composed as follows: I. Introduction II. Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant ${\ast}$ General Requirement. ${\ast}$ Principle and Methods of Ultrasonic Test. ${\ast}$ Study of Flaw Evaluation and Design of Classifying Formula for Flaws. III. Design of Automation for Flaw Evaluation. IV. An Example V. Conclusion In this theory, It is classifying the flaws, the formula of classifying flaws and the design of automation that is the main important point. As motioned the above, Owing to such as automatic design, more time could be allocated to practical test than that of evaluation of defects, Protecting against subjective bias tester by himself and miscalculation by dint of various process of computation. For the more, adopting this method would be used to more retaining for many test data and comparative evaluating during successive inspection intervals. Inspite of limitation for testing method and required application to test components, it provide useful application to flow evaluation for volumetric examination. Owing to the characteristics of nuclear power plant that is highly skill intensive industry and has huze system, the more notice should be concentrated as follows. Establishing rational operation plan, developing various technology, and making the newly designed system for undeveloped sector.

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Quantitative Analysis of Construction Site Layout: A Usability Evaluation Study (건설현장배치 수준의 정량적 평가: 사용성평가 방법을 활용하여)

  • Park, Seonghun;Kim, Tae Wan;Son, Bosik
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.34-42
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    • 2022
  • Construction site layout is attracting attention as efficient use of construction site space greatly affects the duration and cost of the overall construction. Therefore, there are many studies that automate and optimize construction site layout planning. However, the usability of construction site, which consists of goal variables of the studies, has still been unknown. Therefore, the authors present the evaluation criteria for usability of construction site layout and evaluate the usability of domestic construction sites through user survey. Furthermore, the difference in usability between construction site managers and construction site workers was confirmed. As a result of the survey, domestic construction site layout had a low effectiveness and had the lowest score in the environment category. In addition, construction site workers scored lower overall than construction site managers. Through such usability evaluation results, it contributed to the construction site layout theory by assessing current construction site layout practice and suggesting an improvement direction for automating site layout planning.

A Study on the Performance Evaluation of a Tele-operated Hume Concrete Pipe Laying Machine (흄관매설 자동화 장비의 성능평가에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu Yeon-Taek;Park Sang-Jun;Byun Woong-Ho;Kim Young-Suk;Lee Jun-Bok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.634-637
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    • 2003
  • A tele-operated hume concrete pipe laying machine has been developed to solve several problems on safety, quality, productivity, etc. It is required to propose a performance evaluation model and methodology in order to measure productivity, economic feasibility, quality and safety. The primary objective of this study is to propose a model and methodology for the performance evaluation of the developed tele-operated hume concrete pipe laying machine. Furthermore, this study evaluates its performance compared with the existing hume pipe laying work by using data which obtained in field trials. It is anticipated that the proposed model and methodology might be effectively used in analyzing the performance of other automation robots.

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