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Sliding Mode Control Based on 3-Loop of a Pneumatic Motor (공압모터의 3-루프 기반 슬라이딩 모드 제어)

  • Kim, Geun-Mook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.6446-6451
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    • 2014
  • Pneumatic motors are quite attractive for many applications because of their competitive price, light-weight, easy assembly, safety in hazardous areas as well as other features, such as a good force/weight ratio and operation in exceptionally harsh environments. In contrast to these advantages, pneumatic motors have limited use in applications, particularly those requiring a fast and precise response. These undesirable characteristics are due to the high compressibility of air and from the nonlinearities in pneumatic systems. This paper presents the sliding mode controller based on 3-loop(SMCB3L), which increases the load stiffness to control the rotation angle of a pneumatic motor. The characteristics for the step responses and load disturbances of the proposed controller were compared with the conventional PID controller. The experimental results showed that a properly designed SMCB3L is capable of high positioning accuracy within ${\pm}0.05mm$. Furthermore, the load stiffness of the SMCB3L can be improved 3.5 fold compared to that of PID controllers.

Turret location impact on global performance of a thruster-assisted turret-moored FPSO

  • Kim, S.W.;Kim, M.H.;Kang, H.Y.
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.265-287
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    • 2016
  • The change of the global performance of a turret-moored FPSO (Floating Production Storage Offloading) with DP (Dynamic Positioning) control is simulated, analyzed, and compared for two different internal turret location cases; bow and midship. Both collinear and non-collinear 100-yr GOM (Gulf of Mexico) storm environments and three cases (mooring-only, with DP position control, with DP position+heading control) are considered. The horizontal trajectory, 6DOF (degree of freedom) motions, fairlead mooring and riser tension, and fuel consumptions are compared. The PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) controller based on LQR (linear quadratic regulator) theory and the thrust-allocation algorithm which is based on the penalty optimization theory are implemented in the fully-coupled time-domain hull-mooring-riser-DP simulation program. Both in collinear and non-collinear 100-yr WWC (wind-wave-current) environments, the advantage of mid-ship turret is demonstrated by the significant reduction in heave at the turret location due to the minimal coupling with pitch mode, which is beneficial to mooring and riser design. However, in the non-collinear WWC environment, the mid-turret case exhibits unfavorable weathervaning characteristics, which can be reduced by employing DP position and heading controls as demonstrated in the present case studies. The present study also reveals the plausible cause of the failure of mid-turret Gryphon Alpha FPSO in milder environment than its survival condition.

A Study on Realization of System in Wireless Location Awareness Technology Using Ubiquitous Active RFID (Active RFID를 이용한 실내 무선 위치 인식 기반 스마트 센서 빌딩 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Chang Duk
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 2006
  • This paper is wireless location awareness technology using RFID. We investigates the Location of the received Signal strength reported by RF Analyses of the data are performed to understand the underlying features of location fingerprints. The system is performed factors the extreme environmental Emit signal, which consists of a unique 5000 Terminals. The Location Service have become very popular in many service industries, purchasing and distribution logistics, industry, manufacturing companies and a parking place. The Technically optimal Solution would be the storage of Intelligence information in the most common form of electronic data-carrying device in use in everyday life is the smart card based upon a contact field (telephone smart card, bank cards). The method of an indoor positioning experiment system is compared using measured Location data and a charge of service. The result of research showed the following: first, to check out the mechanism between benefit of system installation and operation of Active RFID. Second, it contributed on indoor wireless location intelligence system efficiency.

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A Study on Integrity Monitoring Improvement of the DGPS Reference Station (DGPS 기준국 무결성 감시 체계 고도화 방안 연구)

  • Cho, Deuk-Jae;Park, Sang-Hyun;Choi, Jin-Kyu;Suh, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.509-514
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    • 2007
  • The importance of the GPS is becoming larger and larger since it is one of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems and is regarded as a national infrastructure in the field positioning and timing Nowadays many researches avoiding and/or minimizing economic loss caused by unexpected fault of the GPS are being carried out because GPS fault can give a large impact on social security system as well as economic system NDGPS network which has been authorized by the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries provides services for marine users and evolved into a national infrastructure for GNSS users. Many researchers and engineers are doing research work in order to apply the NDGPS network to other fields. From this trend, it can be expected that the integrity and related functions for the NDGPS users will become more important than before. This paper analyzes integrity informations about the real GNSS fault and proposes method on integrity monitoring improvement of the DGPS reference station.

Location Based Subway Information Service Using Bluetooth (블루투스를 이용한 위치기반 지하철 정보 서비스)

  • Cheong, Seung-Ho;Kim, Dae-Ok;Park, Chong-Kwang;Kim, Kwang-Hwan;Lee, Eun-Chul;Kim, Kyo-Sun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10c
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    • pp.163-165
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    • 2006
  • The subway passengers are usually alert to the current location of the train in order not to miss the destination or transfer stations. The Global Positioning System (GPS), although expensive, can give an alarm if properly programmed, but cannot receive the satellite signals, underground. Therefore, a novel approach to context-aware location-based subway information system is motivated. The passengers, who are equipped with mobile devices such as laptop, PDA, and mobile phone as clients of the Personal Area Network (PAN), request the Bluetooth connection to the server which is installed in each car of the train. While the sorrel broadcasts the location-based information including the previous station, the current velocity of the train, the distance and time to the next station, the clients provide additional services based on the recognized context of the information, and what the passengers individually want. The services are spontaneous and autonomous rather than passive. The services include not only the information on the nearby stations, exit numbers, connection buses but also the location-based alarms which can be set specific to various personal requests, and sounded by the location of the train rather than time. Whereas the arrival time may not be accurate due to the delays of the train, the location can be accurately traced and broadcast by the server. Also, the clients do not need any expensive systems like GFS. Towards validating the proposed approach, we implemented a Bluetooth PAN including a PC server, two PDA clients and a laptop client. We modeled a train on the Incheon Subway Line #1 and a train on the Seoul-to-Incheon Line on the server, simulated the virtual trains together with the real clients. and verified that all the services were successfully provided.

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Development of A Software Tool for Automatic Trim Steel Design of Press Die Using CATIA API (CATIA API를 활용한 프레스금형 트림스틸 설계 자동화 S/W 모듈 개발)

  • Kim, Gang-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 2017
  • This paper focuses on the development of a supporting S/W tool for the automated design of an automotive press trim die. To define the die design process based on automation, we analyze the press die design process of the current industry and group repetitive works in the 3D modeling process. The proposed system consists of two modules, namely the template models of the trim steel parts and UI function for their auto-positioning. Four kinds of template models are developed to adapt to various situations and the rules of the interaction formula which are used for checking and correcting the directions of the datum point, datum curve, datum plane are implemented to eliminate errors. The system was developed using CATIA Knowledgeware, CAA(CATIA SDK) and Visual C++, in order for it to function as a plug-in module of CATIA V5, which is one of the major 3D CAD systems in the manufacturing industry. The developed system was tested by applying it to various panels of current automobiles and the results showed that it reduces the time-cost by 74% compared to the traditional method.

iSchool Movement: A Critical Discourse Analysis (iSchool 논의에 대한 비판적 담론분석)

  • Jang, Durk-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.135-154
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    • 2015
  • The objective of this study is to analyze such discourse as mission statements and objectives, goals, and strategic plan of iSchools. Educational changes created by the digital reality and prevalent information systems and computers became an increasingly important part of library and information science. As a result, library and information schools joined iSchools as the cooperative effort to advance and to understand the rapid changes. These positioning validated the missions, objectives, goals of iSchools and thus an analysis of these documents can lead the way to the future of LIS education. For this job a qualitative analysis were performed to scrutinize the awareness of, support for and involvement with the field among key constituencies.

An Efficient Broadcast Technique for Vehicular Networks

  • Ho, Ai Hua;Ho, Yao H.;Hua, Kien A.;Villafane, Roy;Chao, Han-Chieh
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.221-240
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    • 2011
  • Vehicular networks are a promising application of mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper, we introduce an efficient broadcast technique, called CB-S (Cell Broadcast for Streets), for vehicular networks with occlusions such as skyscrapers. In this environment, the road network is fragmented into cells such that nodes in a cell can communicate with any node within a two cell distance. Each mobile node is equipped with a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit and a map of the cells. The cell map has information about the cells including their identifier and the coordinates of the upper-right and lower-left corner of each cell. CB-S has the following desirable property. Broadcast of a message is performed by rebroadcasting the message from every other cell in the terrain. This characteristic allows CB-S to achieve an efficient performance. Our simulation results indicate that messages always reach all nodes in the wireless network. This perfect coverage is achieved with minimal overhead. That is, CB-S uses a low number of nodes to disseminate the data packets as quickly as probabilistically possible. This efficiency gives it the advantage of low delay. To show these benefits, we give simulations results to compare CB-S with four other broadcast techniques. In practice, CB-S can be used for information dissemination, or to reduce the high cost of destination discovery in routing protocols. By also specify the radius of affected zone, CB-S is also more efficient when broadcast to a subset of the nodes is desirable.

STRATEGIC POSITIONING OF SEA LEVEL GAUGES FOR EARLY CONFIRMATION OF TSUNAMIS IN THE INTRA-AMERICAS SEA

  • Henson, Joshua I.;Muller-Karger, Frank;Wilson, Doug;Maul, George;Luther, Mark;Morey, Steve;Kranenburg, Christine
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.29-33
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    • 2006
  • The potential impact of past Caribbean tsunamis generated by earthquakes and/or massive submarine slides/slumps, as well as the tsunamigenic potential and population distribution within the Intra-Americas Sea (IAS) was examined to help define the optimal location for coastal sea level gauges intended to serve as elements of a regional tsunami warning system. The goal of this study was to identify the minimum number of sea level gauge locations to aid in tsunami detection and provide the most warning time to the largest number of people. We identified 12 initial, prioritized locations for coastal sea level gauge installation. Our study area approximately encompasses $7^{\circ}N$, $59^{\circ}W$ to $36^{\circ}N$, $98^{\circ}$ W. The results of this systematic approach to assess priority locations for coastal sea level gauges will assist in developing a tsunami warning system (TWS) for the IAS by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's Regional Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE-GOOS).

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Vehicle Dynamics and Road Slope Estimation based on Cascade Extended Kalman Filter (Cascade Extended Kalman Filter 기반의 차량동특성 및 도로종단경사 추정)

  • Kim, Moon-Sik;Kim, Chang-Il;Lee, Kwang-Soo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.9
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    • pp.208-214
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    • 2014
  • Vehicle dynamic states used in various advanced driving safety systems are influenced by road geometry. Among the road geometry information, the vehicle pitch angle influenced by road slope and acceleration-deceleration is essential parameter used in pose estimation including the navigation system, advanced adaptive cruise control and others on sag road. Although the road slope data is essential parameter, the method measuring the parameter is not commercialized. The digital map including the road geometry data and high-precision DGPS system such as DGPS(Differential Global Positioning System) based RTK(Real-Time Kinematics) are used unusually. In this paper, low-cost cascade extended Kalman filter(CEKF) based road slope estimation method is proposed. It use cascade two EKFs. The EKFs use several measured vehicle states such as yaw rate, longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration and wheel speed of the rear tires and 3 D.O.F(Degree Of Freedom) vehicle dynamics model. The performance of proposed estimation algorithm is evaluated by simulation based on Carsim dynamics tool and T-car based experiment.