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A Study on Implementation of Dynamic Safety System in Programmable Logic Controller for Pressurized Water Reactor

  • Kim, Ung-Soo;Seong, Poong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1996.11a
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    • pp.91-96
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    • 1996
  • The Dynamic Safety System (DSS) is a compute. based reactor protection system that has fail-safe nature and perform dynamic self-testing. In this paper, the implementation of DSS in PLC is presented for PWR. In order to choose adequate PLC implementation model of DSS, the reliability analysis is performed. The KO-RI unit 2 Nuclear power plant is selected as the reference plant, and the verification is carried out using the KO-RI unit 2 simulator FISA-2.

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A Study on Safety for Computer Based Railway Signaling Control System (컴퓨터기반 철도신호제어시스템의 안전성 확보에 관한 연구)

  • SHIN Ducko;LEE Jongwoo
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.53 no.11
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    • pp.641-646
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    • 2004
  • Computer system is widely used for controlling systems such as nuclear power plant, train speed control and air plane control. The failure of computerized controlling system can be arrived to catastrophic accident, so the safety ensuring of computerized controlling system is very important. This paper shows how to improve and ensure the safety of computerized systems. In this paper, we show how to identify, analyze hazards of the computerized system and to demonstrate risk of the system. Finally, we show how to adopt safety techniques for improving safety of the target system.

Numerical Experiments on the Stability of Euler Equations of the Performance Test of Safety Structures (안전 구조물의 퍼포먼스 측정시 나타나는 Euler 방정식의 수치해석적 안정성)

  • 고만기;우광성
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 1994
  • To design and study the dynamic performance of safety structures, crash tests are needed. Method to get the angular accelerations at the time of impact by integating the Euler equations are introduced. Numerically stable 9-array system contains several 7 and 8-array sub-systems in it. Numerical stability of those latent sub-systems are studied using test files. All of the 8-array subsystems were found to be numerically stable. Six of the 7-array sub-systems were stable and other six of the 7-array sub-systems were unstable. Using this findings fail-safe measurement system can be developed.

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A Study on the Fail Safety Logic of Smart Air Conditioner using Model based Design (모델 기반 설계 기법을 이용한 지능형 공조 장치의 이중 안전성 로직 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Ho;Kim, Byeong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.1372-1378
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    • 2011
  • The smart air condition system is superior to conventional air condition system in the aspect of control accuracy, environmental preservation and it is foundation for intelligent vehicle such as electric vehicle, fuel cell vehicle. In this paper, failure analyses of smart air condition system will be performed and then sensor fusion technique will be proposed for fail safety of smart air condition system. A sensor fusion logic of air condition system by using CO sensor, $CO_2$ sensor and VOC, $NO_x$ sensor will be developed and simulated by fault injection simulation. The fusion technology of smart air condition system is generated in an experiment and a performance analysis is conducted with fusion algorithms. The proposed algorithm adds the error characteristic of each sensor as a conditional probability value, and ensures greater accuracy by performing the track fusion with the sensors with the most reliable performance.

State of the Art on Terrestrial Radionavigation System and Its Applications for Maritime PNT Service

  • Seo, Kiyeol;Fang, Tae Hyun;Park, Sang Hyun
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.229-238
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    • 2022
  • This paper addresses on the International technical trends, standards, and development status of terrestrial radionavigation system to provide more accurate and fail-safe Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Information available in maritime navigation environment. We analyze the performance result of pilot service in enhanced Long range navigation (eLoran) testbed environment using Low Frequency (LF) signal, and describe the development status of Ranging-Mode (R-Mode) system using Medium Frequency (MF) and Very High Frequency (VHF) to meet the Harbor Entrances and Approaches (HEA) requirement of International Maritime Organization (IMO) within 10m position accuracy. Furthermore, we present an architecture for integrated service of satellite-terrestrial navigation system and future maritime applicable fields. As the core information infrastructure of future navigation for 4th industrial revolution, this paper will be contributed to determining the direction of present and future to provide fail-safe PNT service with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based on the technical enhancement of terrestrial integrated navigation system.

Requirement Management System of the Constructing Railway Safety Test Facilities adopting the Model-Based Systems Engineering (모델기반 시스템엔지니어링 접근을 통한 철도안전시험설비구축사업 요건관리 체계)

  • Kim, Yun-Mi;Choi, Kyoung-Jin;Cho, Youn-Ok
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.382-387
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    • 2009
  • Requirement management is an important phase that has a significant influence on the project success. As a risk to a project fail is getting bigger, people adopt Systems Engineering method to the development of the effective requirement management. Accordingly, Railroad Safety Technology R&D Corps. is progressing the plan of the construction of Railway Safety Test Facilities as a part of the Railway Total Safety Project to enhance the railway safety, and carrying out researches on effective requirement management methods with Systems Engineering techniques. To support that, we introduce the Systems Engineering Requirement Management Process and propose the more effectual management method of constructing the Railway Safety Test Facilities applying the model-based systems engineering tool to the research.

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A Basic Study on the Improvement of Software Reliability of Signaling Safety System (신호보안시스템의 소프트웨어 신뢰성 향상에 관한 기초연구)

  • 김종기;이종우;정의진;조봉관
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2001
  • Railway signaling safety system organizes equipments and facilities of railway, increases transport efficiency and assures safe operation of railway. In the early days of signaling system railway managers made sure of safety by using relay logic technology based on fail-safe concept. But the development result of computer and science having been introduced to railway industry, railway signaling equipments begin to be operated through micro electronic control system. Accordingly high speed and high density operation of train became possible. Software reliability and safety technology that controls important systems of railway was highlighted. In the middle of 1990s the standard or guideline of railway reliability and safety were studied and established, and are being reviewing in Europe, Japan etc. Our reliability and safety technology have depended largely on foreign countries. In this study we performed a basic study about the reliability of software that controls the railway signaling system.

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Performance Verification of Deploy/Stow-type Calibration Mechanism with Dual-function of Launch Locking and Fail-Safe (단일장치로 발사환경구속 및 결함안전기능이 가능한 전개수납형 교정 메커니즘의 기능검증)

  • Lee, Myeong-Jae;Kim, Tae-Gyu;Jo, Mun-Shin;Oh, Hyun-Ung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.10
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    • pp.895-903
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    • 2016
  • Spaceborne imaging sensors require periodic calibrations using an on-board calibration device for an image quality of observation satellites. The on-board calibration device consists of a blackbody to provide uniform radiance temperatures and calibration mechanism with a function of stow and deploy to target the blackbody during the calibration. Among these devices, the calibration mechanism is required to implement a fail-safe function to prevent blocking of the main optical path when the mechanism stops at a certain position during on-orbit calibration. In addition, structural safety of the mechanical driving part of the mechanism within the launch environment must be guaranteed. In this study, we proposed a deploy/stow-type calibration mechanism that provides launch-lock and fail-safe function. The effectiveness of the functionality of the proposed mechanism was validated through functional test using engineering model.

The Development of Blade Pitch System Using Super Capacitor Storage (슈퍼 커패시터를 장착한 풍력발전용 피치 시스템 개발)

  • Choi, Hee-young;Ryu, Ji-su;Lee, Sang-ho
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2012.07a
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    • pp.311-312
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    • 2012
  • Blade pitch control system monitors and adjusts angle of the blades and controls rotation speed of blades. This paper shows 2MW pitch system hardware and electric part. Blade pitch system consists of pitch drive, gear box, motor and energy storage. Fieldbus is base on CANopen protocol. Fail-Safe system moves the blades to a safety position in case of any fault condition. The super capacitor energy storage provides emergency back up to the Pitch servo driver during feathering the blades. This paper studied Blade pitch servo driver and a bi-directional DC-DC converter for fail-safe system.

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Quantitative Reliability Assessment for Safety Critical System Software

  • Chung, Dae-Won
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.386-390
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    • 2007
  • At recent times, an essential issue in the replacement of the old analogue I&C to computer-based digital systems in nuclear power plants becomes the quantitative software reliability assessment. Software reliability models have been successfully applied to many industrial applications, but have the unfortunate drawback of requiring data from which one can formulate a model. Software that is developed for safety critical applications is frequently unable to produce such data for at least two reasons. First, the software is frequently one-of-a-kind, and second, it rarely fails. Safety critical software is normally expected to pass every unit test producing precious little failure data. The basic premise of the rare events approach is that well-tested software does not fail under normal routine and input signals, which means that failures must be triggered by unusual input data and computer states. The failure data found under the reasonable testing cases and testing time for these conditions should be considered for the quantitative reliability assessment. We presented the quantitative reliability assessment methodology of safety critical software for rare failure cases in this paper.