• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.213-218
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• 2003

Because of the development of digital technology, modern digital instrumentation & control systems are being innovativly developed in industrial plants. Whereas, many analog systems are still being used in nuclear plants, because of the demerits of digital equipment. As known, the demerits of digital equipment are the uncertainty and weaknesses in ambient environments such as smoke & electromagnetic interference In an Integral Reactor, a digital I&C system will be composed of microprocessor, memory and network card. Designers will apply new technique for digital equipment. Thus, it is important for digital I&C systems to operate according to designed functions & performance in the ambient environments during a life cycle. Digital I&C systems should have tolerance in such environments and environment qualification should be concluded To acquire electromagnetic interference qualification of digital equipment, this paper suggests an EMI test requirement. Designers should consider the electromagnetic compatibility and test digital equipment according to each test procedure. This paper involves an EMI test requirement and the results analysis of EUT(Equipment Under Test). Test result analysis will be used as electromagnetic compatibility design guides for Integral Reactor I&C systems.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.839-847
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• 2011

원자력발전소의 계측제어계통은 제어, 감시기능을 수행하여 안전운전을 위한 두뇌 역할을 하는 핵심적인 분야이다. 최근 계측제어계통은 마이크로프로세서기반의 디지털 기술을 받아들여 디지털화되었다. 그러나 계측제어계통의 디지털시스템은 아날로그 기반 시스템에 비해 사이버위협에 매우 취약하여, 사이버공격에 의해 발전소 안전에 부정적인 영향을 받을 수 있다. 따라서 사이버침해에 대응할 수 있는 사이버 보안 대책이 계측제어계통에 요구된다. 사이버 보안성이 우수한 계통 설계를 위해서는 계측제어계통을 구성하는 자산에 대한 효과적인 자산분석이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 원자로 계측제어설계의 사이버보안 적합성을 분석하기 위한 전 단계로 계측제어계통의 디지털 자산을 분석하기 위한 방법론을 제안한다. 제안된 디지털자산 분석 방법은 자산식별, 식별된 자산에 대한 평가방법으로 구성된다. 제안된 자산분석방법은 원자력발전소 계측제어계통의 사이버보안을 위한 자산분석에 응용하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권10호
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• pp.1852-1858
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• 2007

To Increase availability and to enhance the safety, the modernization of Instrumentation & Control (I&C) systems is considered. The extended use of the digital technology lets nuclear power plants(NPPs) to replace their old analog systems with some proven digital systems. To adapt digital equipment to plants effectively and systematically, however, there must be an essential prerequisite, which is to evaluate current I&C equipment. This paper shows a practical methodology to evaluate the current status and reliability of I&C systems of NPPs using Reliability Evaluation System(RES) before performing upgrades or replacements for systems. The proposed method was applied to KORI Unit 2. The proposed method shows the current status of operating I&C systems effectively for upgrading I&C systems.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.697-708
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• 2012

The majority of instrumentation and control (I&C) systems in today's nuclear power plants (NPPs) are based on analog technology. Thus, most existing I&C systems now face obsolescence problems. Existing NPPs have difficulty in repairing and replacing devices and boards during maintenance because manufacturers no longer produce the analog devices and boards used in the implemented I&C systems. Therefore, existing NPPs are replacing the obsolete analog I&C systems with advanced digital systems. New NPPs are also adopting digital I&C systems because the economic efficiencies and usability of the systems are higher than the analog I&C systems. Digital I&C systems are based on two technologies: a microprocessor based system in which software programs manage the required functions and a programmable logic device (PLD) based system in which programmable logic devices, such as field programmable gate arrays, manage the required functions. PLD based systems provide higher levels of performance compared with microprocessor based systems because PLD systems can process the data in parallel while microprocessor based systems process the data sequentially. In this research, a bistable trip logic in a reactor protection system (RPS) was developed using very high speed integrated circuits hardware description language (VHDL), which is a hardware description language used in electronic design to describe the behavior of the digital system. Functional verifications were also performed in order to verify that the bistable trip logic was designed correctly and satisfied the required specifications. For the functional verification, a random testing technique was adopted to generate test inputs for the bistable trip logic.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.184-195
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• 2004

The multi-tasking feature of digital I&C equipment could increase risk concentration because the I&C equipment affects the actuation of the safety functions in several ways. Anticipated Transient without Scram (ATWS) is a typical case of safety function failure in nuclear power plants. In a conventional analysis, mechanical failures are treated as the main contributors of the ATWS. This paper quantitatively presents the probability of the ATWS based on a fault tree analysis of a Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant is also presented. An analysis of the digital equipment in the digital plant protection system. The results show that the digital system severely affects the ATWS frequency. We also present the results of a sensitivity study, which show the effects of the important factors, and discuss the dependency between human operator failure and digital equipment failure.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2010

디지털 계측제어계통을 발전소에 적용하기 전에 시험 및 검증하기 위하여 500MW급 표준화력발전소 시뮬레이터 모델을 개발하고 터빈 제어시스템과 연계하였다. 선택된 디지털 계측제어계통의 성능시험 시, 해당되는 시뮬레이터 모델은 조정할 수 없는 발전소 디지털 계측제어계통과 교체된다. 시뮬레이터 모델 및 제어시스템의 입출력은 연계장치에 있는 LabView 프로그램을 사용하여 연결되었다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이터 모델 및 디지털 계측제어계통을 연계하는 방법론에 대하여 기술하고, 정상운전, 과도상태 및 고장인가 시 수행된 검증시험 결과를 제시하였다. 시뮬레이터 모델을 사용한 디지털 계측제어계통의 종합검증을 통하여 시뮬레이터가 디지털 제어시스템을 발전소에 적용하기 위한 시험장치로 사용될 수 있는 방법론을 개발하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.692-701
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• 2019

Recently, instrumentation and control (I&C) systems in nuclear power plants have undergone digitalization. Owing to the unique characteristics of digital I&C systems, the reliability analysis of digital systems has become an important element of probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). In a reliability analysis of digital systems, fault-tolerant techniques and their effectiveness must be considered. A fault injection experiment was performed on a safety-critical digital I&C system developed for nuclear power plants to evaluate the effectiveness of fault-tolerant techniques implemented in the target system. A software-implemented fault injection in which faults were injected into the memory area was used based on the assumption that all faults in the target system will be reflected in the faults in the memory. To reduce the number of required fault injection experiments, the memory assigned to the target software was analyzed. In addition, to observe the effect of the fault detection coverage of fault-tolerant techniques, a PSA model was developed. The analysis of the experimental result also can be used to identify weak points of fault-tolerant techniques for capability improvement of fault-tolerant techniques

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2008

Good diagnostics improves both the safety and system unavailability of digital safety systems. The measure of a diagnostic capability is called the Coverage Factor. Because the Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) provides information on the failure rates and failure mode distributions necessary to calculate a diagnostic coverage factor for a component, the FMEDA can be used as a useful tool to calculate it. Through performing FMEDA on a digital signal processor (DSP) board used in a digital safety system, it is shown that some components of the DSP board can be replaced or improved to satisfy the required diagnostic coverage. That is, the FMEDA can serve as a useful verification tool to design a diagnostic capability for the DSP board.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제9C권3호
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• pp.439-444
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• 2002

본 논문은 무선인터넷서되스의 기반기술인 무선CATV 시스템 방식중에 디지털 MMDS(Multipoint Multichannel Distribution System)의 시스템 파라미터에 따른 링크버짓 분석과 송신 출력과 변조방식에 따른 셀반경을 제시한다. 또한, 본 논문에서는 셀 분할에 따른 C/I와 가입자수를 제시한다. 본 논문에서, 디지털 MMDS의 시스템 파라미터에 따른 링크버짓 분석한 결과를 토대로 0dBW에서 -9dBW가지 송신출력과 QPSK, 16QAM, 그리고 64QAM 변조방식에 따라 구한 결과의 셀 반경은 최대 134km에서 최소 4.3km가지 가능했다 또한, 본 논문에서, 4섹터, 6섹터 그리고 8섹터 셀에서, 편파, 주파수 대역, 주파수 재사용 빈도, C/I에 따라 구한 결과의 가입자수는 최대 5,200DSI(Digital Subcriber Interface)에서 최소 1,300DSI까지 가능했다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.251-255
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• 2009

In the non-contact 3-dimensional (3D) shape measurements, the fringe pattern projection method based on the phase-shifting technique has been considered very effective for its high speed and accuracy. The digital fringe projector in particular has great flexibility in generating fringe patterns since the patterns can be controlled easily by the computer program. In this work, we have developed a high-speed digital laser grating projection system using a laser diode and a polygon mirror, and evaluated its performance. It has been demonstrated that all the optical measurements required to find out the profile of a 3D object could be carried out within 31 ms, which confirmed the validity of our 3D measurement system. The result implies the more important fact that the speed in 3D measurement can be enhanced remarkably since, in our novel system, there is no device like a LCD or DMD whose response time limits the measurement speed.