• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.III
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• pp.551-559
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• 2000

An integrated on-line inspection system was constructed with seven cameras, half mirrors to split images, 720 nm and 970 nm band pass filters, illumination chamber having several tungsten-halogen lamps, one main computer, one color frame grabber, two 4-channel multiplexors, and flat plate conveyer, etc., so that a total of seven images, that is, one color image from the top side of an apple and two B/W images from each side (top, right and left) could be captured and displayed on a computer monitor through the multiplexor. One of the two B/W images captured from each side is 720nm filter image and the other is 970nm. With this system an on-line grading software was developed to evaluate appearance quality. On-line test results to the Fuji apples that were manually fed on the conveyer showed that grading accuracies of the color, defective and shape were 95.3%, 86% and 91%, respectively. Grading time was 0.35 sec per apple on an average. Therefore, this on-line grading system could be used for inspection of the final products produced from an apple sorting system.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.456-462
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• 2015

KS F 3020-침엽수구조용재 기준에 따라 국산 소나무(Pinus densiflora) $38{\times}140{\times}3600mm$ 구조용 제재목 365개에 대하여 기계등급구분을 실시하고, 휨허용응력을 산출하여 현재 적용되는 KS기준허용응력과 비교 분석하였다. 휨허용응력 계산을 위하여 5% 휨강도 하한값을 75% 신뢰수준의 비모수적 방법, 2-parameter 그리고 3-parameter Weibull 분포를 가정한 모수적 방법, 휨강도-휨탄성계수 직선회귀 방법, 총 4가지 분석방법을 사용하여 결정하였다. 기계등급 E8, E9, E10 만이 비모수적 방법의 통계 처리가 가능한 자료 수를 얻었으며, 휨강도-휨탄성계수 직선회귀 방법은 이론적으로 모든 등급에 대한 5% 하한값 결정이 가능함을 보여주었다. 결정된 등급별 휨허용응력은 기준허용응력에 비하여 모두 낮은 값을 나타내었으며 이것은 과소설계의 위험성이 있는 것으로 현행 기계등급구분체계의 문제점으로 파악되었다. 이러한 문제는 구조설계 신뢰성과 관련하여 반드시 개선되어야 할 것으로, 휨강도-휨탄성계수 조합 등급 도입이 필요할 것으로 생각되었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2001년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.363-366
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• 2001

현재 육안에 의한 피혁의 등급 판정 과정은 장시간 시 피로에 의한 일관성 결여로 인해 판정 결과에 대한 신뢰성을 주지 못한다. 따라서 피혁의 품질을 결정하기 위한 객관적인 지표와 이를 기준으로 등급 판정 과정의 자동화가 필요하다. 본 논문에서 적용된 피혁 자동 선별 시스템은 피혁에 대한 정보를 취득하는 과정과 이들 정보로부터 등급을 판정하는 과정으로 구성된다. 피혁의 품질은 조밀도와 결함의 종류 및 분포도와 같은 피혁 정보에 의해 결정된다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 카메라에 의해 획득된 흑백 영상으로부터 피혁의 조밀도 및 결함에 대한 정보를 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 조밀도에 대한 정보는 원 영상을 주파수 영역으로 변환한 후 나타나는 퓨리에 스펙트럼 분포의 특징 값들에 의해서 추출된다. 그리고 결함에 대한 정보는 전처리 과정을 거친 영상으로부터 경계선 검출 후 검색 윈도우를 사용하여 윈도우에 해당하는 픽셀들의 통계적 수치에 의해서 검출된다. 피혁 전체에 대한 정보들은 피혁의 등급을 판정하는 지표로 사용되며 실제 머신 비젼 시스템에 적용된다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1990년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.113-116
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• 1990

This study is designed to analyze the variation of grading and shape of aggregate with the number of rotations of Los-Angeles abrasion machine, and is aimed to analyze the effect of slump and compressive strength of strength of concrete with the shape of coarse aggregate by the abrasion act.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.163-171
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• 2011

Because Japanese cedar shows lower mechanical performance, glued-laminated timber (glulam) can be a better way to utilize Japanese cedar for structural purpose. However, low yield of higher grade lamination from log makes it difficult to design structural glulam. This study was aimed to increase the yield of higher grade lamination and provide higher efficiency of manufacturing structural lamination by ultrasonic log sorting technology. Logs were sorted by an existing log grading rule regulated by Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI). It was found that the KFRI log grading rule contributed to finding better logs in viewpoint of the volumetric yield and it can reduce the number of rejected lumber by visual grading. However, it could not identify better logs to produce higher-grade products. To find an appropriate log-sorting-method for structural products, log diameter and ultrasonic time of flight (TOF) for the log were considered as factors to affect mechanical performance of resulting products. However, it was found that influence of log diameter on mechanical performance of resulting products was very small. The TOF showed a possibility to sort logs by mechanical performance of resulting products even though a coefficient of correlation was not strong (R = 0.6). In a case study, the log selection based on the ultrasonic TOF of the log increased the yield of the outermost tension lamination (E8 or better grade, KS F 3021) from 2.6% to 12.5% and reduced LTE5 (lower than E5 grade) lamination from 43.6% to 10.3%, compared with the existing KFRI log grading rule.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2020

An intelligent excavator can be divided into Machine Guidance (MG), semi-automatic, and unmanned by technology. The MG technology excavator is equipped with a tilt sensor on each link of the excavator and a GPS is installed on the excavator body to inform the user of the position of the excavator bucket end. Machine control (MC) technology that assists the user's work can be divided into semi-automatic and fully automatic technology. The semi-automatic MC equipment has already been commercialized by Komatsu and Caterpillar. The MC excavator is equipped with an electro-hydraulic system, sensors and controllers to control the excavator bucket end according to the user's needs. In this study, the semi-automated excavator modified based on manual excavator, is equipped with an electro-hydraulic system, a controller system, multi-sensors and a control algorithm is developed to assist in excavation work such as leveling and grading. By applying the developed technology, it was possible to confirm productivity improvement compared to manual digging and leveling work. In the future, further research to improve the accuracy of the hydraulic precision control and collaborative work with heterogeneous construction equipment such as dump truck and automated collaboration tasks technology could be developed.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.446-455
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• 2015

국내외 기계등급제재목(구조재 및 층재)의 등급기준 및 설계강도 산출방법을 비교 분석하고 국내 제재산업 실정을 고려한 평균 탄성계수(modulus of elasticity, 이하 MOE) 기준방법 적용을 제안하였다. 먼저 올바른 기계등급제재목 기준 정착을 위해 기계등급구조재와 기계등급층재의 공통점과 차이점을 설명하였다. 최소 고정 MOE 기준 등급을 사용하는 국내 기준은 등급구분에는 편리하나 휨강도(modulus of rupture, 이하 MOR) 예측과 자원이용도 측면에서는 효율성이 낮은 것으로 파악되었다. 해외에서 사용되는 평균 MOE 기준 방법은 초기 컴퓨터 기반 작동을 요구하나 MOR-MOE 직선회귀에 근거한 합리적인 MOR 예측과 품질관리 측면에서 효율성이 높은 것으로 분석되었다. 무엇보다도 현 국내 기계등급구조재 등급체계는 수종별 강도 특성을 반영하지 못하고 있다는 것이 가장 큰 문제점으로 분석되었으며 이러한 결과를 기반으로 MOR-MOE 직선회귀분석에 근거한 기계등급제재목 등급기준 및 기준설계값 산출방법 적용을 제안하였다. 이를 통하여 궁극적으로 부가가치가 높은 국산 기계등급구조재 생산 활성화를 이루고, 기계 등급구조재의 층재 전용 가능에 따른 구조용 집성재 가격경쟁력 제고 효과를 얻을 수 있다고 사료되었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.231-238
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• 2003

Rose and chrysanthemum are the most popular flowers in Korean floriculture. Sorting flowers is a labor intensive operation in cultivation of the cut flowers and needed to be mechanized. Machine vision is one of the promising solutions for this purpose. This study was carried out to develop hardware and software of a cut flower sorting system using machine vision and to test its performance. Results of this study were summarized as following; 1. Length of the cut flower measured by the machine vision system showed a good correlation with actual length of the flower at a level of the coefficients of determination (R$^2$) of 0.9948 and 0.9993 for rose and chrysanthemum respectively and average measurement errors of the system were about 2% and 1% of the shortest length of the sample flowers. The experimental result showed that the machine vision system could be used successfully to measure length of the cut flowers. 2. Stem diameter of the cut flowers measured by the machine vision system showed a correlation with actual diameter at the coefficients of determination (R$^2$) of 0.8429 and 0.9380 for rose and chrysanthemum respectively and average measurement errors of the system were about 15% and 7.5% of the shortest diameter of the sample flowers which could be a serious source of error in grading operation. It was recommended that the error rate should be considered to set up grading conditions of each class of the cut flowers. 3. Bud maturity of 20 flowers each judged using the machine vision system showed a coincidence with the judgement by inspectors at ranges of 80%∼85% and 85%∼90% for rose and chrysanthemum respectively. Performance of the machine vision system to judge bud maturity could be improved through setting up more precise criteria to judge the maturity with more samples of the flowers. 4. Quality of flower judged by stem curvature using the machine vision system showed a coincidence with the judgement by inspectors at 90% for good and 85% for bad flowers of both rose and chrysanthemum. The levels of coincidence was considered as that the machine vision system used was an acceptable system to judge the quality of flower by stem curvature.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.488-492
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• 2007

Since Equipment-Noises occurring in machine room penetrate wall-body and travel to the adjacent room in the form of air-borne sound and structure-borne sound, it is appearing as the main factor that injures a peaceful residential environment, and due to this, such noise-damage is currently increasing rapidly. Consequently, despite the measures for sound-insulation and soundproof against the equipment-noise penetrated wall-body is urgently required, but as the subjective evaluation considered for psychological response about the equipment-noise was not practiced, many dissatisfactions are still raising even after some measure was taken. On such point of view, this Research, at the spot, has actually measured the equipment-noise that had permeated various wall-bodies, and examined its physical characteristics, thence based upon this, has conducted Psycho-Acoustics Experiment and investigated the interrelation between the physical evaluation value and psychological reaction value. It is considered that such study result could be utilized as the useful material at the time of establishment of the Grading Standard for the insulation performance against the Architectural Plumbing Noise, in the future.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.225-234
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• 1999

This study was performed as a basic research for establishing an objective quality evaluation method on whole bulbs of garlic. The size of a whole bulb of garlic, the number and the uniformity of complete individual garlics, and the existence of bad individual garlics in the whole bulb of garlic were selected as quality grading factors. Quality discrimination algorithms with machine vision techniques were developed and verified for the four factors based on morphological and physical features of whole bulbs of garlic. Based on the results, the size discrimination by the projected area of a whole bulbs of garlic suggested four grading levels and the algorithm for predicting the number of complete individual garlics based on the peaks on its projected boundary showed ${\pm}$0.78 prediction error. In addition, the uniformity represented by coefficient of variation could be divided into four levels, but the algorithm for discriminating the existence of bad individual garlics in a whole bulb of garlic was not effective.