• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.587-591
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• 2003

This study develops a neural network for solving optimization problems. Hopfield network has been used for such problems, but it frequently gives abnormal solutions or non-optimal solutions. Moreover, it takes much time for solving a solution. To overcome such disadvantages, this study adopts a neural network whose output nodes change with a small value at every evolution, and the proposed neural network is applied to solve ALB (Assembly Line Balancing) problems . Given a precedence diagram and a required number of workstations, an ALB problem is solved while achieving even distribution of workload among workstations. Here, the workload variance is used as the index of workload deviation, and is reflected to an energy function. The simulation results show that the proposed neural network yields good results for solving ALB problems with high success rate and fast execution time.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.483-498
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• 2018

Nowadays, with progresses in robotic science, the design and implementation of a mechanism for human-robot interaction with a low workload is inevitable. One notable challenge in this field is the interaction between a single human and a group of robots. Therefore, we propose a new comprehensive framework for single-human multiple-robot remote interaction that can form an efficient intelligent adaptive interaction (IAI). Our interaction system can thoroughly adapt itself to changes in interaction context and user states. Some advantages of our devised IAI framework are lower workload, higher level of situation awareness, and efficient interaction. In this paper, we introduce a new IAI architecture as our comprehensive mechanism. In order to practically examine the architecture, we implemented our proposed IAI to control a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under different scenarios. The results show that our devised IAI framework can effectively reduce human workload and the level of situation awareness, and concurrently foster the mission completion percentage of the UAVs.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.135-144
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• 1999

A major concern in Concurrent Engineering is the control and management of workload in a period of process. As a general rule, leveling the peak of workload in a certain period is difficult because concurrent processing is comprised of various processes, including overlapping, paralleling and looping. Therefore, workload management with resource constraints is so beneficial that effective methods to analyze design process This study presents a procedure to transform the IDEF3 process model into the precedence logic network model for more useful assessment of the process. This approach is expected to facilitate resolving resource constrained scheduling problems more systematically in Concurrent Engineering environment.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제22권51호
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• pp.231-240
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• 1999

A major concern in Concurrent Engineering is the control and management of workload in a period of process. As a general rule, leveling the peak of workload in certain period is difficult because concurrent processing is comprised of various processes, including overlapping, paralleling looping and so on. Therefore, the workload management with resource constraints is so beneficial that effective methods to analyze design process are momentous. This study presents the Timed Petri Nets approach of precedence logic networks, and provides an alternative for users to analyze constraint processes to resolve conflicts of resources. Another approach to Continuous Time Markov Chain using Stochastic Petri Nets is also proposed. These approaches are expected to facilitate resolving resource constrained scheduling problems more systematically in Concurrent Engineering environment.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.626-636
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• 2015

This paper proposes an adaptive multimodal in-vehicle information system for safe driving. The proposed system filters input information based on both the priority assigned to the information and the given driving situation, to effectively manage input information and intelligently provide information to the driver. It then interacts with the driver using an adaptive multimodal interface by considering both the driving workload and the driver's cognitive reaction to the information it provides. It is shown experimentally that the proposed system can promote driver safety and enhance a driver's understanding of the information it provides by filtering the input information. In addition, the system can reduce a driver's workload by selecting an appropriate modality and corresponding level with which to communicate. An analysis of subjective questionnaires regarding the proposed system reveals that more than 85% of the respondents are satisfied with it. The proposed system is expected to provide prioritized information through an easily understood modality.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2019

Mental workload (MWL) is a major consideration for the user interface design in nuclear power plants (NPPs). However, each MWL evaluation method has its advantages and limitations, thus the evaluation and control methods based on multi-index methods are needed. In this study, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) theory was adopted for assessment of interface designs in NPP based on operators' MWL. An evaluation index system and membership functions were established, and the weights were given using the combination of the variation coefficient and the entropy method. The results showed that multi-index methods such as performance measures (speed of task and error rate), subjective rating (NASA-TLX) and physiological measure (eye response) can be successfully integrated in FCE for user interface design assessment. The FCE method has a correlation coefficient compared with most of the original evaluation indices. Thus, this method might be applied for developing the tool to quickly and accurately assess the different display interfaces when considering the aspect of the operators' MWL.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 대기행렬이론의 대표적인 서버제어정책 중 D-정책과 T-정책이 혼합된 상황 하에서 운영되는 이산시간 대기행렬시스템을 다룬다. 베르누이 도착과정으로 시스템에 도착하는 고객들을 단일 서버가 선입선출로 서비스하며, 시스템 내에 서비스할 고객이 없으면 서버는 휴가를 떠났다가 돌아와서 대기 중인 고객들의 서비스시간의 총합(즉, 총 일량)이 D를 초과할 때까지 반복하여 휴가를 갖는다. 본 연구에서 다루는 시스템의 운영은 2차전지를 사용하는 모바일 디바이스의 효율적인 자원 활용의 모델링에 사용할 수 있다. 또한 통신·교통 시스템 분석에 적합한 것으로 잘 알려진 이산시간 시스템을 대상으로 하여 유연한 혼합 제어정책(DT-정책) 하에서 대기행렬시스템의 안정상태 대기시간과 체재시간을 하나의 틀 안에서 유도하였다는 데 그 의의가 있다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.443-451
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• 2018

$P^M_{\lambda}$-service policy is a workload dependent hysteretic policy. The policy has two service states comprised of the ordinary stage and the fast stage. An ordinary service stage is initiated by the arrival of a customer in an idle state. When the workload of the server surpasses threshold ${\lambda}$, the ordinary service stage changes to the fast service state, and it continues until the system is empty. These service stages alternate in this manner. When the cost of changing service stages is high, the hysteretic policy is more efficient than the threshold policy, where a service stage changes immediately into the other service stage at either case of the workload's surpassing or crossing down a threshold. $P^M_{\lambda}$-service policy is a modification of $P^M_{\lambda}$-policy proposed to control finite dams, and also an extension of the well-known D-policy. The distributions of the stationary workload of $P^M_{\lambda}$-service policy and its variants are studied well. However, there is no known result on the sojourn time distribution. We prove that there is a relation between the sojourn time of a customer and the first up-crossing time of the workload process over the threshold ${\lambda}$ after the arrival of the customer. Using the relation and the duality of M/G/1 and G/M/1 queues, we obtain conditional sojourn time distributions in M/G/1 and G/M/1 queues under the policy.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2014

The application of advanced Main Control Room(MCR) is accompanied with lots of changes and different forms and features through the virtue of new digital technologies. The characteristics of these digital technologies and devices give many opportunities to the interface management, and can be integrated into a compact single workstation in advanced MCR so that workers can operate the plant with minimum physical burden under any operation conditions. However, these devices may introduce new types of human errors and thus a means to evaluate and prevent such errors is needed, especially those related to characteristics of digital devices. This paper reviewed the new type of human error hazards of tasks based on digital devices and surveyed researches on physiological assessment related to human error. An experiment was performed to verify human error hazards by physiological responses such as EEG which was measured to evaluate the cognitive workload of operators. And also, the performances of four tasks which are representative in human error hazard tasks based on digital devices were compared. Response time, ${\beta}$ power spectrum rate of each task by EEG, and mental workload by NASA-TLX were evaluated. In the results of the experiment, the rate of the ${\beta}$ power was increased in the task 1 and task 4 which are searching and navigating task and memory task of hierarchical information, respectively. In case of the mental workload, in most of evaluation items, task 1 and 4 were highly rated comparatively. In this paper, human error hazards might be identified by highly cognitive workload. Conclusively, it was concluded that the predictive method which is utilized in this paper and an experimental verification can be used to ensure the safety when applying the digital devices in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs).

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권11S호
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• pp.3732-3838
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• 2000

급속한 인터넷 사이트와 이용자들의 증가로 인해 이용자들의 요구에 부응하는 정보를 위한 검색 엔지들의 개발이 가속화되고 있다. 이로 인해 많은 검색엔진들의 문서 수집 활동으로 인한 대상 호스트들에 대한 부하가 초래되었고, 방대한 양의 새로운 정보가 추가되어 가는 상황에서 모든 정보의 주기적인 갱신이 필요하게 되었다. 이러한 시대적인 상황과 검색시스템의 기본요건이 빠른 속도와 정확한 정보 수집을 이루기 위하여 방대한 호스트내의 문서를 수집할 수 있는 기술의 필요성이 높아졌으며, 이용자들의 다양한 요구와 WWW(World Wide Web)간의 상호 유기적인 작용을 위한 검색 엔진의 역할이 더욱 커지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존에 제시되었던 로봇 에이전트 시스템에 대한 비교 분석 후 이들을 보완하여 대상 서버에 대한 부하량 측정치와 로봇이 수집 활동 시에 체험한 부하량을 함께 고려하여 문서수집이 빠른 시간 내에 이루어지며 대상 서버에 과도한 부하를 주지 않는 로봇 에이전트와 원격 관리 시스템을 설계 및 구현한다.