• 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.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권10호
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• pp.1448-1453
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an alternative method of communication to improve the reliability of in-vehicle networks by jointly using wireless communication networks. Wired Communication networks have been used in vehicles for the monitoring and the control of vehicle motion, however, the disconnection of wires or hardware fault of networks may cause a critical problem in vehicles. If the network manager detects a disconnection or faults in wired in-vehicle network like the Controller Area Network(CAN), it can redirect the communication path from the wired to the wireless communication like the Zigbee network. To show the validity and the effectiveness of the proposed in-vehicle network architecture, we implement the Electronic Stability Control(ESC) system as ECU-In-the-Loop Simulation(EILS) and verify that the control performance can be kept well even if some hardware faults like disconnection of wires occur.

• 풍력에너지저널
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.60-68
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• 2024

In this study, a hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) environment was established using MATLAB/Simulink to simulate and verify the power performance of a wind turbine. The target wind turbine was selected as the NREL 5 MW model, and modeling was performed based on the disclosed specifications. The HILS environment consists of a PC equipped with a MATLAB/Simulink program, a programmable logic controller (PLC) for uploading and linking control algorithms, and data acquisition (DAQ) equipment to manage wind turbine data input and output. The operation of the HILS environment was carried out as a procedure of operation (PC) of the target wind turbine modeled based on MATLAB/Simulink, data acquisition (PLC) of control algorithms, control command calculation (PLC), and control command input (PC). The simulation was performed using the HILS environment under turbulent wind conditions and compared with the simulation results performed under the same conditions in the HILS environment using the commercial program Bladed for performance verification. From the comparison, it was found that the dynamic simulation results of the Bladed HILS and the MATLAB HILS were close in power performances and the errors in the average values of rotor rotation speed and power generation between the two simulations were about 0.44 % and 3.3 %, respectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.2366-2380
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• 2024

In this study, a high-speed template matching system is proposed for wafer-vision alignment. The proposed system is designed to rapidly locate markers in semiconductor equipment used for wafer-vision alignment. We optimized and implemented a template-matching algorithm for the high-speed processing of high-resolution wafer images. Owing to the simplicity of wafer markers, we removed unnecessary components in the algorithm and designed the system using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to implement high-speed processing. The hardware blocks were designed using the Xilinx ZCU104 board, and the pyramid and matching blocks were designed using programmable logic for accelerated operations. To validate the proposed system, we established a verification environment using stage equipment commonly used in industrial settings and reference-software-based validation frameworks. The output results from the FPGA were transmitted to the wafer-alignment controller for system verification. The proposed system reduced the data-processing time by approximately 30% and achieved a level of accuracy in detecting wafer markers that was comparable to that achieved by reference software, with minimal deviation. This system can be used to increase precision and productivity during semiconductor manufacturing processes.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2023

로봇은 군사 분야로까지 활용 범위를 넓히며 다가올 미래전에서 감시경계, 적군 탐지 등 중요한 임무를 맡게 될 것으로 전망된다. 군집 로봇은 다수라는 장점으로 단일 로봇이 수행하기 어렵거나 오랜 시간이 소요된 임무를 보다 효율적으로 수행할 수 있다. 상호 간 인지 및 협업이 필수인 군집 로봇은 방대한 데이터를 주고 받으며, 이로 인해 SW의 검증이 점점 더 어려워지고 있다. 임무 검증의 신뢰성을 높이기 위해 사용하는 Hardware-in-the-loop simulation은 복잡한 군집 로봇의 SW 검증을 가능하게 하나, HILS 장치와 시뮬레이터 간 주고 받는 검증 데이터의 양이 검증 대상 시스템 수에 따라 기하급수적으로 증가하여 통신 과부하가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 군집 로봇의 임무 검증에서 발생하는 통신 과부하 문제를 해소하기 위해 디지털 트윈 기반의 통신 최적화 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 Digital Twin based Multi HILS Framework 하에서 Network DT은 Network Controller 알고리즘을 통해 임무 시나리오에 따라 각 로봇에게 네트워크 자원을 효율적으로 할당할 수 있으며, 군집에 참여하는 개별 로봇들이 요구하는 Sensor Generation Rate를 모두 만족시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 데이터 전송에 대한 실험 결과 패킷 손실 비율을 기존 15.7%에서 약 0.2%로 감소시킬 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2320-2322
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• 2004

전자제어식 미끄럼방지 제동장치 (ABS, Antilock Brake System)는 차량의 급제동시 발생할 수 있는 바퀴의 슬립을 방지하여 차량의 제동거리를 단축시키고 주행 성능을 향상시키는 차량 내 안전장치이다. 지난 몇 년 동안 공압식 제동시스템을 사용하는 대형차량에 적합한 미끄럼방지 제동 제어기를 연구해 왔다. 이 제어기는 바퀴의 슬립율과 그 변화량을 이용한 제어 법칙을 유도하여, 제어 파라미터로 사용하고 있다. 이러한 제어 파라미터의 튜닝에는 맡은 반복적인 실험이 요구된다. 이러한 요구에 부응하기 위하여 차량의 제동을 실시간으로 모사 할 수 있는 HILS (Hardware In-the Loop Simulation) 시스템을 개발, 구축하였다. 개발 HILS는 공압식 브레이크 시스템 및 14 자유도를 가지는 차량 동역학 모델 및 타이어-바퀴 동역학을 소프트웨어 모델로 사용하고, 개발 중인 전자제어식 미끄럼 방지 제동 제어기를 하드웨어로 사용하여, 바퀴속도 센서 신호 모의 장치 및 공압 엑추에이터 모의 신호등의 인터페이스 장치를 사용하여 제동중인 차량의 상태를 실시간으로 시뮬레이션 및 감시할 수 있다. 이 개발 HILS를 이용하여 제동 제어기의 제어 파라미터의 튜닝을 짧은 시간에 성공적으로 끝낼 수 있었을 뿐만 아니라, HILS 실험을 마친 제어기는 미끄럼 방지 제동 시험장에서 실차 주행 시험을 무사히 마침으로써, 개발 기간과 비용을 절감할 수 있는 하드웨어를 이용하는 시뮬레이션의 효용성을 간접적으로 증명하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.967-975
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• 2010

There have been a lot of efforts on the improvement for the ride comfort and handling stability of the combat vehicles. Especially most of vehicles for military purpose have bad inertial condition and severe operating condition such as the rough road driving, and need a high mobility in the emergency status. It is necessary to apply the controlled suspension system in order to improve the vehicle mobile stability and ride comfort ability of crews. A feasibility study is performed on the application of the semi-active suspension system with a magneto-rheological controlled shock absorber for a $6{\times}6$ combat vehicle. First, the dynamic simulation model of the vehicle including the control model for the semi-active suspension system was executed. Based on this model, a hardware-in-the-loop simulation(HILS) system which has a semi-active suspension controller hardware was constructed. After full vehicle simulations were performed in virtual proving courses with this system, the semi-active suspension system was proven to give better ride comfort and handling stability in comparison with the conventional passive suspension system.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.107-117
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• 2005

A distributed hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) platform is developed for designing an automotive engine control system. The HILS equipment consists of a widely used PC and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) I/O boards instead of a powerful computing system and custom-made I/O boards. The distributed structure of the HILS system supplements the lack of computing power. These features make the HILS equipment more cost-effective and flexible. The HILS uses an automatic code generation extension, REAL-TIME WORKSHOP$^{ (RTW$^{) of MATLAB$^{ tool-chain and RT-LAB$^{, which enables distributed simulation as well as the detection and generation of digital event between simulation time steps. The mean value engine model, which is used in control design phase, is imported into this HILS. The engine model is supplemented with some I/O subsystems and I/O boards to interface actual input and output signals in real-time. The I/O subsystems are designed to imitate real sensor signals with high fidelity as well as to convert the raw data of the I/O boards to the appropriate forms for proper interfaces. A lot of attention is paid to the generation of a precise crank/ earn signal which has the problem of quantization in a conventional fixed time step simulation. The detection of injection! command signal which occurs between simulation time steps are also successfully compensated. In order to prove the feasibility of the proposed environment, a simple PI controller for an air-to-fuel ratio (AFR) control is used. The proposed HILS environment and I/O systems are shown to be an efficient tool to develop various control functions and to validate the software and hardware of the engine control system.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제18D권3호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2011

모바일 기기는 유연한 이동성을 제공하는 대신에 제한된 자원을 가지고 있는 휴대용 장치로서, 최근에는 단순한 몇 가지의 기능만 제공하던 기존의 한계를 넘어서 많은 부가기능들을 추가적으로 제공하고 있다. 하지만 낮은 성능의 프로세서와 제한된 배터리용량으로 인해 사용자가 만족할 수 있는 성능을 제공하지 못하는 문제점이 발생하고 있다. 이러한 성능이슈는 하드웨어 교체를 통해 쉽게 해결될 수 있으나, 제품가격 상승이라는 치명적 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 성능이슈와 제품가격 상승 이라는 두 가지 문제를 동시에 해결하기 위하여 사용자 체감성능을 개선하는 방법을 제시한다. 사용자 체감성능은 사용자가 화면터치 또는 키패드를 통해 모바일 기기에 화면갱신 명령을 입력하고 모바일 기기의 출력장치인 LCD화면에 화면구성을 완료하는데 까지 걸리는 시간이 매우 중요한 요소이다. 모바일 기기는 물리적으로 작은 LCD화면을 사용하기 때문에 한번에 보여줄 수 있는 데이터의 양이 제한적이다. 화면을 구성하기 위해서 LCD화면에 보여줄 수 있는 양의 데이터만 사용한다면 빠른 화면구성을 할 수 있다. 이렇게 최소한의 데이터를 계산하고 DB에서 가져와 빠른 화면구성을 할 수 있도록 하는 Controller를 기존의 MVC 패턴에 추가한 MVC+Prefetch Controller 패턴을 제안한다. 제안한 패턴을 사용하면 사용자가 만족할 만한 체감성능을 보장할 수 있다. MVC+Prefetch Controller 패턴을 삼성전자 휴대폰 모델 S8500에 적용하여 사용자 체감성능 개선을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.136-144
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• 2014

The existing conventional motion controller does not perform well in the presence of nonlinear properties, uncertain factors, and servo lag phenomena of industrial actuators. Hence, a feasible and effective fuzzy self-tuning proportional integral derivative (PID) and feed-forward control scheme is introduced to overcome these problems. In this design, a fuzzy tuner is used to tune the PID parameters resulting in the rejection of the disturbance, which achieves better performance. Then, both velocity and acceleration feed-forward units are added to considerably reduce the tracking error due to servo lag. To verify the capability and effectiveness of the proposed control scheme, the hardware configuration includes digital signal processing (DSP) which plays the main role, dual-port RAM (DPRAM) to guarantee rapid and reliable communication with the host, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to handle the task of the address decoder and receive the feed-back encoder signal, and several peripheral logic circuits. The results from the experiments show that the proposed motion controller has a smooth profile, with high tracking precision and real-time performance, which are applicable in various manufacturing fields.