• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.286-291
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• 2002

우리의 축산업은 노동력의 감소와 노령화에 따른 일손 부족, WTO체제에 따른 시장 개방으로 어려움을 겪고 있으며, 앞으로도 계속될 전망이다 이런 여건을 극복하기 위해서는 생산성 향상 및 생산비 절감과 품질 향상을 통한 국제경쟁력을 갖추어야 한다. 현재 낙농은 낙농가의 감소와 호당 사육두수가 크게 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 이로 인해 경영의 전업화가 가속되고 있으며, 노동력 부족이라는 문제를 앉고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 기자제의 자동화와 기계화가 시급한 실정이다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.345-350
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• 2002

바이오테크놀로지(BT, biotechnology)는 21세기의 첨단과학기술로서 생명공학, 생물공학, 생물이용기술 등으로 불리우고 있으며(일농기학회, 2000), 이 중 실용화되고 있는 기술중의 하나가 식물조직의 배양기술이다(백, 1993), 현재 우리나라에서는 나리, 호접란 등의 우량묘 대량증식을 위하여 조직배양기술을 이용하고 있으나 배양공정의 대부분이 인력에 의존하고 있고 배양묘 생산에 소요되는 비용의 약 60% 정도가 노동비용에서 발생되고 있다(정, 1995). 따라서 배양묘 생산의 여러 과정 중에서 수작업에 의한 작업부분을 로봇 화하여 배양묘 생산비용을 절감하려는 연구개발이 활발히 수행되고 있으며, 이중 주목을 받고 있는 것은 배양기에서 증식된 소식물체의 적출, 절단, 이식과 같은 추후의 증식과정이다 이 공정은 노동집약적일 뿐만 아니라 공정의 수작업에 따른 절단의 불균일성, 품질저하, 조작의 미숙련성, 잡균오염의 위험성 등의 문제점이 로봇화로 해결 가능하기 때문이다. (중략)

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 2014

This study was conducted to determine the major patent and analyze the patent trend of unmanned and automated agricultural production for the open field operation. As a result of conducting a search for patent applications related to these technologies, 1,080 valid patents were selected by evaluating the relevance of the patents and removing noise patents. As a result of the country-based analysis using the selected valid patents, it was found out that the largest number of patent applications were filed in the United States with 541 cases, followed by Japan with 326 cases, the European Union with 128 cases, and Korea with 85 cases. Upon classifying the valid patents into core technology, the path generation and tracking technology accounts for 33% with 353 cases; the implementing control with environmental condition technology accounts for 22% with 236 cases; the robot design technology accounts for 21% with 228 cases; the plant and environment sensing technology accounts for 19% with 206 cases; the yield and quality monitoring technology accounts for 5% with 58 cases. Finally, 10 core patents were selected by performing a patent index evaluation. The United States registered all of the 10 core patents. The results showed that Korea falls behind in the open field-related unmanned and automated agricultural production, compared to other developed agricultural countries.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.305-314
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper was to design an effective control system of 1-axis exciter for a seat vibration test of agricultural tractors using MATLAB simulation. The developed simulation model was composed with a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic servo valve, a hydraulic cylinder and load system. Also it was verified by comparing the simulation results with experimental results of actual control system in order to optimize the control performance. And in order to improve its control performance, the designed PID controller in this research was tuned using Ziegler-Nichols 2nd law and zero's moving method of PID controller's transfer function. As the result of these research, the developed position control system was able to control the system's position accurately within 5% errors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1996.06c
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• pp.142-159
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• 1996

Engineering of automated tools for the agro-food industries and the rural world activities have to pick up two challenges : to answer the immediate important problems related to the situation of these industries, and to imaging the tools that their professional will need next century. Creating or modifying automated tools in the next few will be made taking into account parameters either technical (environmental protection, health and safety), or social and economical (investment , employment). There will be a strong interaction with disciplines like ecology, medicine, ergonomy, psycho-sociology , etc. , The partners for such a research, tools manufactures and users, should have an early involvement in its content, in order to find rapidly the solution to the drastic problems they are meeting. On a longer term , during the next 20 years , there will be an important evolution of the rural space management and of the food processes. This will imply the emergence of new types of activities and know-how's , with lines of automated tools to be invented and developed , like : micro-system for organic localized tasks -mobile and adaptive equipments highly autonomous for natural space actions - device for perception , decision and control reproducing automatically the expert behaviors of human operators. Design of such automated tools need to overcome technological difficulties like the automation of the expert-decision process, or the management of complex design.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.163-170
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide analysis of physiological, biomechanical responses occurring from the operation to lifting or twist lifting task appears frequently in agricultural work. Methods: This study investigated the changes of physiological factors such as heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV) and biomechanical factors such as physical activity and kinetic analysis in the task of twisting at the waist while lifting. Results: Heart rates changed significantly with the workload. The result indicated that the workload of 2 kg was light intensity work, and the workload of 12 kg was hard intensity work. Physical activity increased as the workload increased both on wrist and waist. Besides, stress index of the worker increased with the workload. Dynamic load to herniated discs was analyzed using inertial sensor, and the angular acceleration and torque increased with the workload. The proposed measurement system can measure the recipient's physiological and physical signals in real-time and analyzed 3-dimensionally according to the variety of work load. Conclusions: The system we propose will be a new method to measure agricultural workers' multi-dimensional signals and analyze various farming tasks.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.279-285
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• 2016

In this paper, a platform design of caterpillar typed electrical vehicle is proposed. Nowadays, there have been many researches on mobile robots in the various ways. Many different fields such as military, exploration, agricultural assistance and disaster relief have applied the mobile robot. Design condition of stable angle, upset angle is reflect to caterpillar typed electrical vehicle. To experiment, developed a caterpillar typed electrical vehicle and design a driving controller. Developed caterpillar typed electrical vehicle is tested about operating and driving. Test environment is consisted of driving on flatland and climbing 15 degree and outdoor 40 degree slope. It is confirmed that developed tracked electric vehicular robot can driving and climbing.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.138-148
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• 2013

Purpose: Determining an appropriate path is a top priority in order for a robot to maneuver in a dynamically efficient way especially in a pick-and-place task. In a non-standardized work environment, current robot arm executes its motion based on the kinematic displacements of joint variables, though resulting motion is not dynamically optimal. In this research we suggest analyzing and applying motion patterns of the human arm as an alternative to perform near optimum motion trajectory for arbitrary pick-and-place tasks. Methods: Since the motion of a human arm is very complicated and diverse, it was simplified into two links: one from the shoulder to the elbow, and the other from the elbow to the hand. Motion patterns were then divided into horizontal and vertical components and further analyzed using kinematic and dynamic methods. The kinematic analysis was performed based on the D-H parameters and the dynamic analysis was carried out to calculate various parameters such as velocity, acceleration, torque, and energy using the Newton-Euler equation of motion and Lagrange's equation. In an attempt to assess the efficacy of the analyzed human motion pattern it was compared to the virtual motion pattern created by the joint interpolation method. Results: To demonstrate the efficacy of the human arm motion mechanical and dynamical analyses were performed, followed by the comparison with the virtual robot motion path that was created by the joint interpolation method. Consequently, the human arm was observed to be in motion while the elbow was bent. In return this contributed to the increase of the manipulability and decrease of gravity and torque being exerted on the elbow. In addition, the energy required for the motion decreased. Such phenomenon was more apparent under vertical motion than horizontal motion patterns, and in shorter paths than in longer ones. Thus, one can minimize the abrasion of joints by lowering the stress applied to the bones, muscles, and joints. From the perspectives of energy and durability, the robot arm will be able to utilize its motor most effectively by adopting the motion pattern of human arm. Conclusions: By applying the motion pattern of human arm to the robot arm motion, increase in efficiency and durability is expected, which will eventually produce robots capable of moving in an energy-efficient manner.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.186-195
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• 2008

In this paper, a prototype tele-operative system with a mobile base was developed in order to automate cultivation of house melon. A man-machine interactive hybrid decision-making system via tele-operative task interface was proposed to overcome limitations of computer image recognition. Identifying house melon including position data from the field image was critical to automate cultivation. And it was not simple especially when melon is covered partly by leaves and stems. The developed system was composed of 5 major modules: (a) main remote monitoring and task control module, (b) wireless remote image acquisition and data transmission module, (c) three-wheel mobile base mounted with a 4 dof articulated type robot manipulator (d) exchangeable modular type end tools, and (e) melon storage module. The system was operated through the graphic user interface using touch screen monitor and wireless data communication among operator, computer, and machine. Once task was selected from the task control and monitoring module, the analog signal of the color image of the field was captured and transmitted to the host computer using R.F. module by wireless. A sequence of algorithms to identify location and size of a melon was performed based on the local image processing. Laboratory experiment showed the developed prototype system showed the practical feasibility of automating various cultivating tasks of house melon.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.30-35
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• 2021

In this study, we developed an automatic module changer for agricultural implements for using in unmanned agricultural robots. An automatic module changer is attached by lowering from the top to bottom of the implements and fixing the four fastener bars attached to the implements in combination. The lift function was implemented using seesaw-type structures to keep the engagement point constant when the automatic module changer climbs and descends, and the switching function of the automatic module changer was implemented using the link device in the cam structure. We developed an algorithm to check the presence of attachment and opening/closing of the workpiece using limit switches and verified the performance through combination assessment and weight lift test to assess whether the combination was within the error range.