• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.838-848
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• 2015

One of the most important operations in nuclear power plants is load following, in which an imbalance of axial power distribution induces xenon oscillations. These oscillations must be maintained within acceptable limits otherwise the nuclear power plant could become unstable. Therefore, bounded xenon oscillation is considered to be a constraint for the load following operation. In this paper, the design of a sliding mode control (SMC), which is a robust nonlinear controller, is presented.SMCis ameansto control pressurized water nuclear reactor (PWR) power for the load following operation problem in a way that ensures xenon oscillations are kept bounded within acceptable limits. The proposed controller uses constant axial offset (AO) strategy to ensure xenon oscillations remain bounded. The constant AO is a robust state constraint for the load following problem. The reactor core is simulated based on the two-point nuclear reactor model with a three delayed neutron groups. The stability analysis is given by means of the Lyapunov approach, thus the control system is guaranteed to be stable within a large range. The employed method is easy to implement in practical applications and moreover, the SMC exhibits the desired dynamic properties during the entire output-tracking process independent of perturbations. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller in terms of performance, robustness, and stability. Results show that the proposed controller for the load following operation is so effective that the xenon oscillations are kept bounded in the given region.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1141-1142
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• 2011

An electrical vehicle (EV) is a huge issue in the automotive industry. The EV have many electrical units: electric motors, batteries, converters, ets. The DC power distribution system (PDS) is essential for the EV. The DC PDS offers many advantages. However, multiple loads in the DC PDS may affect the severe instability on the DC bus voltage. Therefore, a voltage bus conditioner (VBC) may use the DC PDS. The VBC is used to mitigate the voltage transient on the bus. In this paper, sliding mode controller (SMC) is designed for the VBC of DC PDS in the EV. The simulation results by PISM simulation package are presented for validating the proposed control technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.131-134
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• 2002

일반적인 산업현장에서 많이 사용되는 이중탱크 시스템은 동작점 근방에서 선형화하는 고전제어기법을 사용한 것으로서 큰 시간지연과 비선형성으로 인해 정확한 수학적 모델링이 어렵고 모델링을 하더라도 넓은 동작 영역에서 만족스로운 결과를 얻기 어렵다. 따라서, 비교적 모델링에 대한 의존도가 낮은 퍼지, 신경회로망, 유전알고리즘 등의 지능제어 기법들도 제안되고 있다. 그러나 이들 제어기 역시 외란이나 다양한 동작 모드들에 따른 제어기 변수들의 적응성 저하로 인해 안정화 가능 영역이 협소해 지는 것은 물론 시스템의 불안정 현상도 초래한다. 이에 반해, SMC(sliding mode controller)는 변수의 변동, 외란에 둔감한 강점을 갖고 있지만, 시스템의 상태에 따른 슬라이딩 평면 설정의 곤란성과 채터링(chattering)이 존재하는 문제점 이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이중 탱크 시스템의 정밀한 수위 제어를 위하여, GA과 FLC를 사용하여 최적 변수로 설정 할 수 있게 하고, 채터링 저감을 위해 시스템 동특성 변동과 외란 에 강인한 GA-FSMC(genetic algorithm fuzzy sliding mode controller)를 제안하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 종래의 제어기의 제어결과와 비교함으로써 제안하는 GA-FSMC의 우수성을 입증하고자 한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.93-99
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• 2003

One of the methods to simplify the design process for a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is to reduce the number of variables representing the rule antecedent. This in turn decreases the number of control rules, membership functions, and scaling factors. For this purpose, we designed a single-input FLC that uses a sole fuzzy input variable. However, it is still deficient in the capability of adapting some varying operating conditions although it provides a simple method for the design of FLC's. We here design two simple-structured adaptive fuzzy logic controllers (SAFLC's) using the concept of the single-input FLC. Linguistic fuzzy control rules are directly incorporated into the controller by a fuzzy basis function. Thus some parameters of the membership functions characterizing the linguistic terms of the fuzzy control rules can be adjusted by an adaptive law. In our controllers, center values of fuzzy sets are directly adjusted by an adaptive law. Two SAFLC's are designed. One of them uses a Hurwitz error dynamics and the other a switching function of the sliding mode control (SMC). We also prove that 1） their closed-loop systems are globally stable in the sense that all signals involved are bounded and 2） their tracking errors converge to zero asymptotically. We perform computer simulations using a nonlinear plant.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.575-583
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• 2001

It is hard to obtain good robust performance and robust stability for uncertain and time-varying system. The robust 2-DOF controller is frequently used to obtain the desired response and the good robustness. Two controllers can be independently designed. Generally, one controller reduces sensitivity to parameter variations, nonlinear effects, and other disturbances. On the other hand, the other controller reduces the error between the desired command and output. In this paper, the various robust perfect MFCs(model-following controllers) combined with TDC(Time Delay Control) are designed, and the imperfect stable MFC combined with TDC and SMC(Sliding Mode Control) is proposed. These controllers are based on the method of designing robust 2-DOF controllers for dynamic system with uncertainty. The performance of the proposed imperfect sable MFC has been evaluated through computer simulations. The simulation results indicate that the proposed controller shows the excellent performance characteristics for an overhead crane with uncertain and time-varying parameters.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.131-145
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• 2015

The voltage-source inverters (VSI) supplying a motor drive are prone to open transistor faults. To address this issue in fault-tolerant drives applicable to electric vehicles, a new open transistor fault diagnosis (FD) method is presented in this paper. According to the proposed method, in order to define the FD index, the phase angle of the converter output current is estimated by a simple trigonometric function. The proposed FD method is adaptable, simple, capable of detecting multiple open switch faults and robust to load operational variations. Keeping the FD in mind as a mandatory part of the fault tolerant control algorithm, the FD block is applied to a five-phase converter supplying a multiphase fault-tolerant PM motor drive with non-sinusoidal unbalanced current waveforms. To investigate the performance of the FD technique, the fault-tolerant sliding mode control (SMC) of a five-phase brushless direct current (BLDC) motor is developed in this paper with the embedded FD block. Once the theory is explained, experimental waveforms are obtained from a five-phase BLDC motor to show the effectiveness of the proposed FD method. The FD algorithm is implemented on a field programmable gate array (FPGA).

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.378-379
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• 2019

본 논문은 LCL 필터를 사용하는 3상 계통연계 인버터의 그리드 전류 오차를 개선하고 고조파 왜곡 현상을 억제하기 위해 다중 공진제어 기법을 슬라이딩 평면에 적용한 슬라이딩 제어기(SMC)를 제시한다. 일반적으로 시스템 파라미터가 변경되거나 계통에 외란이 발생할 경우 슬라이딩 평면이 표류하는 현상이 나타나며 이러한 표류 현상은 시스템 정상상태 오차와 시스템에 고조파 왜곡 현상을 일으키고 계통연계 인버터의 전류 품질에 심각한 영향을 미치게 된다. 이러한 현상을 해결하기 위해 적분 함수가 추가된 SMC가 제안되었으나 해당 제어기는 효과적으로 정상상태 오차를 제거하는 반면 슬라이딩 평면의 표류현상을 충분히 줄여주지 못하는 한계를 가지고 있다. 이러한 정상상태 오차와 표류현상을 제거하기 위해 다중 공진제어 조건을 슬라이딩 평면 함수에 추가한 제어기를 제시한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.489-497
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• 2010

This paper presents the design of hardware platform, which is a test bed for the navigation system and hovering type AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) under the OCP (Open Control Platform). The developed AUV test bed consists of two hulls, four thrusters, and the navigation system which uses a SBC2440II with IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). And the SMC (Sliding Mode Control) is chosen for the diving and steering control of the AUV. This paper uses ACE/TAO RTEC (Real-Time Event Channel) as a middleware platform in order to control and communicate in the developed AUV test bed. In this paper, two computers are used and each of them is dedicated for the specific purpose, the first computer is used as the SMC module and the middleware platform for the ACE/TAO RTEC and the second computer is used for the sensor controller. We analyze the performance of the AUV test bed under the OCP.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.373-397
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• 2020

Heave compensation is a vital part of various marine and offshore operations. It is used in various applications, including the transfer of cargo between two vessels in the open ocean, installation of topsides of an offshore structure, offshore drilling and for surveillance, reconnaissance and monitoring. These applications typically involve a load suspended from a hydraulically powered winch that is connected to a vessel that is undergoing dynamic motion in the ocean environment. The goal in these applications is to design a winch controller to keep the load at a regulated height by rejecting the net heave motion of the winch arising from ship motions at sea. In this study, we analyze and compare the performance of various control algorithms in stabilizing a suspended load while the vessel is subjected to changing sea conditions. The KCS container ship is chosen as the vessel undergoing dynamic motion in the ocean. The negative of the net heave motion at the winch is provided as a reference signal to track. Various control strategies like Proportional-Derivative (PD) Control, Model Predictive Control (MPC), Linear Quadratic Integral Control (LQI), and Sliding Mode Control (SMC) are implemented and tuned for effective heave compensation. The performance of the controllers is compared with respect to heave compensation, disturbance rejection and noise attenuation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.317-320
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• 1999

A robust end time optimal conかof strategy for dual-stage servo system is presented. The time optimal trajectory for a mass-damper system is determined and given os a reference input to the servo system. The feedback controller is constructed so that the fine stage tracks the coarse stage errors and robustly designed as the“perturbation compensated sliding mode control(PCSMC)”law, a combination of slid-ing mode controller(SMC) and perturbation observer(PO). In addition, a null motion controller which regulates the fine stage at its neutral position is designed based on the“dynamic consistency”So, the overall dual-stage servo system exhibits the robust and time-optimal performance. The inherent merit and performance of the dual-stage system will be shown.