• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

The overall goal of a safety based railroad system is either to eliminate hazards in designing or to minimize the possibility of it. In order to indicate system safety or low risk although it may not be possible to achieve zero risk conditions, first, it shall ensure that any disasters would occur due to system operation because the prescribed specifications are properly fulfilled and there are no failures of any kind. Second, the risk of faults or failures leading to a mishap must be eliminated or minimized by using fault-tolerance or fail-safe procedures. This paper will attempt to summarize the personal and social risk criterion at widely scattered points, presently used as a safety approach in all over EU, in order to establish the step by step procedures of the detailed standard for railway facilities. In addition, we present the new safety analysis method using the SIL-based evaluation standard and the Reachability Graph of the Petri Net.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.149-156
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• 2012

This paper suggests the data transmission technology for applying to the actual railway line based on the technological trends and theories for the wireless Mesh techniques. This paper presents a technical basis that is applicable to the economic and efficient use of frequency and to the development of a Communication Based Train Control System by demonstrating its Applicability, Availability, Reliability and Safety for the train control system of the radio frequency of the bandwidth of 5.7 GHz at the experiments.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.23-30
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• 2016

ccording to the airport railroad linkage facility expansion project constructing a connecting line to the airport railway and improving the signal system and Gyeongui Susaek Station, a high-speed train is able to run directly from Gyeongbu and Honam to the airport railway. According to mixed operation of high-speed Korea Train Express (KTX) and Airport Railroad Express (AREX) trains, to establish ERTMS/ETCS L1 ATP to operate the KTX train, the signaling system of the AREX train is the same as the existing ATC/ATO, but its operation became impossible because the high-speed train causes mutual interference between the "high-speed train (KTX) and AREX ground signaling equipment" and between the "AREX train and KTX (high-speed train) ATP ground equipment." Thus, it was necessary to have a supplemental technical interference analysis comparing the characteristics of the AREX beacon and the KTX balise. So, we resolve the problems of mutual interference between the "high-speed train (KTX) and AREX ground signaling equipment" and between the "AREX train and KTX (high-speed train) ATP ground equipment" with a test using an actual train, and we confirm the technical validity with three types of test module.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.87-92
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• 2010

Urban transit system must secure fast, safe and reliable transportation capacity as a metropolitan mass transit. For this purpose, it is important to make all the sub-systems (which consist of EMU, power feeding, signaling & telecommunication, railway, platform facility, and control system and so on) work well. To operate all the systems effectively and reliably, a maintenance measure optimal to each system's characteristics is needed to be established and executed. So, highly reliable maintenance should be performed. But, EMU maintenance methods suitable to its own model and EMU lines are not yet introduced. This study examined few examples mainly to secure reliability on a maintenance quality in operating method and the features of train maintenance system based on travel distance.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1008-1015
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• 2007

The primary purpose of the safety management is to prevent the loss of lives or physical damages arising from potential hazards in the railroad signaling system. Since such potential hazards may occur at any time during the system life cycle from design and development to maintenance, safety management activities have to be continuously taken in the course of the system life cycle. The identification of potential hazards is the early step of the safety management. However, such identification activities have to be continued during the system life cycle. Further, they have to be closely linked with system functions to prevent functional problems. This study provides a systematic approach to identification of potential hazards for their tracking and management during the system life cycle to assure the identification and definition of the most appropriate hazards.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.604-611
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• 2009

A dP/dV feedback-controlled MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) method for photovoltaic power systems using II-SEPIC (Isolated Inverse-SEPIC; Single Ended Primary Inductance Converter) is presented and a current-mode dP/dV feedback-controlled MPPT method is devised to apply for the PV power converter system. A control strategy for the current-mode dP/dV feedback control system is developed in this paper and the proposed MPPT shows relatively satisfactory dynamics against rapidly changing insolation conditions. In order to verify the validity and effectiveness of the proposed method, simulations and experiments of the PV power system using II-SEPlC converter are performed. These simulation and experiment results show that the proposed method enables the PV power system to extract maximum power from the photovoltaic module against the solar insolation variation.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.964-967
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• 2006

Korea Railroad Research Institute (the following 'KRRI') built AGT test line in Gyeong San-city, Kyongsang-bukdo province, Korea on August, 2004. This test line is exclusively used for the test of the driverless rubber-tired AGT system, and applied with research result of AGT System Development Project like vehicles, power supply, control and signaling, track and infrastructure system. The test line is available for the test of rubber tired AGT system's performance, function, safety. In this paper, we described the operation system of test line for the test of performance, safety, reliability, and also system operation in emergency. Finally we present the operation result of test line.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.96.6-96
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• 2001

A high peak power demand at substations will result under Moving Block Signalling (MBS) when a dense queue of trains begins to start from a complete stop at the same time in an electrified railway system. This may cause the power supply interruption and in turn affect the train service substantially. In a recent study, measures of Starting Time Delay (STD) and Acceleration Rate Limit (ARL) are the possible approaches to reduce the peak power demand on the supply system under MBS. Nevertheless, there is no well-defined relationship between the two measures and peak power demand reduction (PDR). In order to attain a lower peak demand at substations on different traffic conditions and system requirements, an expert system is one of the possible approaches to procure the appropriate use of peak demand reduction measures ...

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.12
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• pp.1747-1751
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• 2014

Interlocking system along with point machine for efficient route control secures safety of train operation by interchanging information each other. However, various types of interlocking system and point machine operating on bender specific interface bring obstacles to effective maintenance and safety. In this paper, we have investigated on interface methods to suggest standard interface module applicable to various operating system