• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.311-317
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• 2024

Large-scale three-wheeled cleaning robots are utilized to clean large spaces such as warehouses and manufacturing plants where significant floor contamination occurs. Although there are autonomous cleaning robots, user-operated cleaning robots are often preferred because they are easy to repair and inexpensive. Therefore, workers have to spend extra time on cleaning, which reduces work efficiency. In this paper, we propose an autonomous driving system designed to automate the operation while maintaining the structure of existing cleaning robots. The contributions of this paper are as follows: 1) Hardware modules that control the driving and steering components. 2) A LiDAR-based autonomous driving system and path point generation system considering the mechanical characteristics of the cleaning robot. 3) The proposed system is implemented on an actual cleaning robot and driving tests are performed. As a result, when path planning is performed to cover the cleaning area, the average RMSE for each straight path is 0.0802 m, which is smaller than the minimum cleaning overlap of 0.3 m that occurs during the straight cleaning of the robot. This shows that the proposed system effectively covers the entire cleaning area.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.15-21
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• 2004

The removal of the dusts in the subway stations, tunnels, factories and buildings becomes issue for comfortable indoor and outdoor conditions. There has been used an automatic self-cleaning filter system to collect the dusts. In general, the collected particles are removed by water spray nozzles. The new design for improving the cleaning efficiency of collected dusts and reducing the supplied water is the concept of the plane array of demister filters and the twin-fluid nozzle for mixing compressed air and water in the automatic self-cleaning filter system. Results show that the cleaning efficiency of twin-nozzle filter systems is 99.1%, compared to 47% in the conventional filter system. Therefore the automatic self-cleaning filter system using twin-fluid nozzle filter systems reduces water supplied in the filter system, and increases cleaning efficiency and drying efficiency.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.553-561
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• 2009

This paper presents development of ROV-type underwater robot capable of cleaning ship hull in automatic mode. The purpose of developing this robot is for underwater cleaning to secure the safety of divers who inspect and clean the ship hull. The robot consists of the cleaning system with rotating brush mechanism, a car-like driving mechanism, inspection system using video, and overall control system for underwater communication and operation. In this paper, we present overall design process of the cleaning system and operating system and technical contents of the overall control system for the underwater cleaning robot.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.153-155
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• 2009

Cleaning robot system consists of four parts; navigation system for moving of robot, cleaning system, power system, and main system with cleaning algorithm. Navigation system is the most expensive part because it has motors and sensors which is high price. Navigation system is also essential to service robot system, but user should buy two systems which are service robot system and cleaning robot system. If it is possible to share navigation system, user can save money. In this paper, we design the cleaning robot system based on modular architecture.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.79-84
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• 2021

The fundamental element to be kept for big data analysis, artificial intelligence technologies and asset management system is a data quality, which could directly affect the entire system reliability. For this reason, the momentum of data cleaning works is recently increased and data cleaning methods have been investigating around the world. In the field of electric power, however, asset data cleaning methods have not been fully determined therefore, automatic cleaning algorithm of asset data for transmission cables has been studied in this paper. Cleaning algorithm is composed of missing data treatment and outlier data one. Rule-based and expert opinion based cleaning methods are converged and utilized for these dirty data.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.295-298
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• 2015

Ozone micro-bubble cleaning system was designed, and made to develop a unique technique to clean wafers by using ozone micro-bubbles. The ozone micro-bubble cleaning system consisted of loading, cleaning, rinsing, drying and un-loading zones, respectively. In case of the cleaning the silicon wafers of a solar cell, more than 99 % of cleaning efficiency was obtained by dipping the wafers at 10 ppm of ozone for 10 minutes. Both of long cleaning time and high ozone concentration in the wet-solution with ozone micro-bubbles reduced cleaning efficiency because of the re-sorption of debris. The cleaning technique by ozone micro-bubbles can be also applied to various wafers for an ingot and LED as an eco-friendly method.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.31 no.4 s.117
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• pp.376-384
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• 2006

This study was conducted to perform for comparative analysis of the cleaning efficiency on 3 kinds of cleaning liquid state, 3 steps of cleaning temperature $(45^{\circ}C,\;60^{\circ}C,\;70^{\circ}C,\;)$ and 6 steps of cleaning time (2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, 15 minute). 3 kinds of cleaning liquid state are the non fluidized bed, liquid fluidized bed and liquid/solid fluidized bed. UV spectrophotometer was used in estimation of cleaning efficiency, which it is experimental equipment using the absorptiometric analysis method. Cleaning efficiency by cleaning time was increase from 2.5 minutes to 15 minutes, liquid/siolid fluidized bed was indicated the highest cleaning efficiency among the 3 kinds of cleaning liquid state and $70^{\circ}C$ of cleaning temperature at liquid/solid fluidized bed was indicated the highest cleaning efficiency as 98% among the 3 steps of cleaning temperature.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.1
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• pp.94-98
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• 2012

The behavior of ozone micro bubble cleaning system was investigated to evaluate the solution as a new method of solar cell wafer cleaning in comparison with former conventional RCA cleaning. We have developed the ozone dissolution system in the ozonated water for more efficient cleaning conditions. The optimized cleaning conditions for solar cell wafer process were 10 ppm of ozone concentration and 12 minutes in cleaning periods, respectively. We have confirmed the cleaning reliability and cell efficiencies after ozone micro bubble cleaning. Using this new cleaning technology, it was possible to obtain higher efficiency, higher productivity, and fast tact time for applying cleaning in the fields on bare ingot wafer, LED wafers as well as the solar cell wafer.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.8-13
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• 2016

The micro drill bit automatic regrinding in-line system is a system that refurbishes drill bits used in a PCB manufacturing process. This system is able to refurbish drill bits with a minimum size of ø0.15-0.075mm that have previously been discarded. Beyond the conventional manual cleaning process using ultrasound, this system adopts a water jet cleaning system, making it capable of cleaning drill bits with a minimum size of ø0.15-0.075mm. This paper analyses various contact pressures applied to the surface of drill bits depending on the shooting pressure of the cleaning device and fluid velocity in order to optimize the nozzle location and to detect structural instability caused by the contact pressures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.779-790
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• 1993

A prototype of the feeding-milking robot was developed in the Hungarian Institute of Agricultural Engineering in 1988-89. Before starting with the operation tests the cleaning system had to be elaborated . The cleaning system has two parts. Those are the complete cleaning of the system, producing a practically sterile state, as well as flushing through the milking device between milking of two cows. Separate electronic sensor development was necessary for both system which can connect to the control system of the robot. To clean the system pneumatic air input was applied. As an effect of the local adjustment of the electronic control system optimal flow conditions can be formed what is more favourable comparing to the earlier solutions of cleaning due to the mechanical effect. In the flushing through overpressure air is applied. The air and the cleaning liquid input duration can be adjusted to the local conditions. The electronic control unit can be connected to the electric ircuits of robot.