• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.119-130
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• 1996

Welding is one of the important technologies in shipbuilding industry. Automation and productivity promotion of welding contribute to the cost saving of ship production. The quality and productivity of welding are dependent on the quality and suitability of technical information supplied by engineering parts. This paper describes the research results of welding information system for ship. The system can be used for the development of CIMS for shipbuilding. For this work, the welding information related to the ship Production were analyzed in detail. Object-oriented technique is applied to represent the complex and various welding information. To process the extend amount of the welding information of ship, database system was constructed. A pilot system for the bulk carrier ship was developed and can be used with ease by programming of event-driven method and implementaion of graphical user interlace.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.160-161
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• 2023

Currently, the ship's passage planning relies on the navigator officer's knowledge and empirical methods. However, as ship autonomous navigation technology has recently developed, automation technology for passage planning has been studied in various ways. In this study, we intend to generate an optimal route for a ship based on Q-learning, one of the reinforcement learning techniques. Reinforcement learning is applied in a way that trains experiences for various situations and makes optimal decisions based on them.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.486-492
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• 2005

A practical recursive WLS (weighted least squares) algorithm is proposed to estimate relative range using LOS (line-of-sight) information for ASM (anti-ship missile) application. Apart from the previous approaches based on the EKF (extended Kalman filter), to ensure good convergence properties in long range engagement situations, the proposed scheme utilizes LOS rate measurements instead of conventionally used LOS angle measurements. The estimation error property for the proposed filter is investigated and a simple error compensator is devised to enhance its estimation error performances. Simulation results indicate that the proposed filter produces very accurate range estimates with extremely small computations.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.418-424
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• 2005

For the safety and cost reduction of the navigation in the sea, we need automatic and intelligent system for the ship. For the ship automation, we need a route planning based on GPS and the nautical chart. In this paper, we propose a route planning technique using point of contact of the obstacle and treecreation technique. The efficiency of the proposed technique is proved by comparing with A* search technique that is the most famous search technique for route planning from the optimal point of view.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.141-153
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• 1999

This paper presents the design and implementation of Internet-based message transfer agent via INMARSAT-C between the land and ship for the convenient message transfer service using the Internet mail or Web. In order to achieve these purpose, overall system configuration for communication between the land and ship, agent modules and database for managing transmission and receiving data are described. For the validity evaluation of this paper, message parsing, database, message format and X.25 interface modules are implemented and tested. Based on the result, the capabilities of ship automation system and ownship database access are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.110-112
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• 2012

Education and training of technical staff for the new generation technological equipment has a vital importance for developing countries in order to maintain sustainable development and keep up with new generation technologies. Mechatronics the synergistic combination of mechanical, electronic and software engineering from an engineering perspective to serve the purposes of controlling advanced hybrid systems is a product of new generation technology which can be given as a sample to this phenomenon. Recent marine engines are combination of heavy industry with high technology. Nowadays, ships are built in full automation and equipped with computer controlled mechatronics systems. However, finding qualified officer and engineers who can operate, maintain, control and repair when it is required such full automatic systems with knowledge of a new generation system became a serious issue. Due to importance of this fact STCW Manila amendment has new training and certification requirements for electro-technical officers. In this paper, Mechatronics applications on ship are introduced, importance of it highlighted and a new syllabus is proposed for the training of marine engineers to be nurtured with mechatronics knowledge as it is required.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.719-723
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• 1997

The welding automation in ship manufacturing process,especially in the sub-assembly line is considered to be a difficult job because the welding part is too huge, various, unstructured for a welding robot to weld fully automatically. The weld orocess at the sub-assembly line for ship manufacturing is to joint the various stiffener on the base panel. In order to realize automatic robot weld in sub-assembly line, robot have to equip with the sensing system to recognize the position of the parts. In this research,we developed a vision system to detect the position of base panle for sub-assembly line is shipbuilding process. The vision system is composed of one CCD camera attached on the base of robot, 2-500W halogen lamps for active illumination. In the image processing algorithm,the base panel is represented by two set of lines located at its two corner through hough transform. However, the various noise line caused by highlight,scratches and stiffener,roller in conveyor, and so on is contained in the captured image, this nosie can be eliminated by region segmentation and threshold in hough transform domain. The matching process to recognize the position of weld panel is executed by finding patterns in the Hough transformed domain. The sets of experiments performed in the sub-assembly line show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.162-174
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• 2014

Most shipbuilding scheduling research so far has focused on the load level on the dock plan. This is because the dock is the least extendable resource in shipyards, and its overloading is difficult to resolve. However, once dock scheduling is completed, making a plan that makes the best use of the rest of the resources in the shipyard to minimize any additional cost is also important. Block assignment planning is one of the midterm planning tasks; it assigns a block to the facility (factory/shop or surface plate) that will actually manufacture the block according to the block characteristics and current situation of the facility. It is one of the most heavily loaded midterm planning tasks and is carried out manually by experienced workers. In this study, a method of representing the block assignment rules using a diagram was suggested through analysis of the existing manual process. A block allocation program was developed which automated the block assignment process according to the rules represented by the diagram. The planning scenario was validated through a case study that compared the manual assignment and two automated block assignment results.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.70-76
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• 2013

For high power high step-down dc-dc conversion applications, conventional three-level dc-dc converters are subject to extreme duty cycles or increased volume and cost due to the use of transformers. In this paper, a transformerless three-level dc-dc buck converter with a high step-down conversion ratio is proposed. The converter comprises two asymmetrical half bridges, which are of the neutral point clamped structures. Therefore, the output pulse voltage of the converter can be obtained in terms of the voltage difference between the two half bridges. In order to realize harmonious switching of the converter, a modulation strategy with capacitor voltages self balance is presented. According to the deduced output dc voltage function, transformerless operation without extreme duty cycles can be implemented. Experimental results from a 1kW prototype verify the validity of the proposed converter. It is suitable for ship electric power distribution systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.387-390
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• 2009

Digital devices that apply Ubiquitous-IT Convergence in ship manufacture are used as ship automation device. Need sailing data recording of ship black box that equip integrity and consecutiveness as legal confesser fare that inquire responsibility whereabouts of disaster such as fire of ship. It is research that create Forensic data from ship black box using Multidimensional networking that use ZigBee radio short distance communications division Wireless LAN with short distance RFID sensor that is used in ship in this treatise, UWB communication, GPS and artificial satellite. Sailing recording of shipping that is recorded to black box is transmited, and stores doubly by real time on ship insurance company and ship administration recording membrane using SHA-1 hash function and secure consecutiveness and integrity as Forensic data through artificial satellite encoding by 3DES 1024bit.