• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.916-921
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• 2024

The control rod worth sensitivity to the neutron detector position in the rod drop experiment is studied by the time-dependent Monte Carlo (TDMC) neutron transport calculations for AGN-201K educational reactor and the Kyoto University Critical Assembly. The TDMC simulations of the rod drop experiments are conducted by the Seoul National University Monte Carlo (MC) code, McCARD, yielding time-dependent neutron densities at detector positions. The detector-position-dependent results of the total control rod worth calculated by the extrapolation, the integral counting, and the inverse methods are compared with the numerical reference using the MC eigenvalue calculations and the experimental results. From these comparisons, it is observed that the total control rod worth can be estimated with a considerable difference depending on the detector position through the rod drop experiment. The proposed TDMC simulation of the rod drop experiment can be applied for searching a better detector position or quantifying a bias for the control rod worth measurement.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.598-608
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• 2014

소방대상물에서의 경보설비는 실내에 있는 사람들에게 화재를 최초로 알려주는 설비로써, 보다 많은 사람들을 대피시킬 수 있도록 하는 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 이에 자동화재탐지설비와 같은 경보설비의 최초동작을 빠르게 하기 위한 연구가 필요하다. 이러한 자동화재탐지설비에서 감지기의 동작은 설치위치와 화원의 위치에 따른 영향을 가장 많이 받는다. 그럼에도 불구하고 국내의 감지기 설치 기준은 설치 위치와 화원의 위치는 중시하지 않고 면적과 높이에 따른 화재감지기 설치에 대한 사항만을 규정하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 실내에 열감지기와 보를 설치하고, 일반적인 화재를 가정하여 5 개소의 화원을 발생시켜 설치된 감지기의 동작시간을 측정하였고, 감지기의 설치위치와 화원의 위치를 고려한 화재실험을 통하여 열감지기의 동작특성을 분석한 것으로 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 열감지기는 벽면에 근접하게 설치된 감지기에서 작동지연현상이 보였으며, 벽면에서 적어도 22cm 이상 이격해서 설치하여야 한다. 화원이 보 외측에 존재할 때 감지기는 보에서 55cm 이격한 거리에서 동작이 가장 빨랐다. 또한 화원에 근접한 감지기와 가장 늦게 동작한 감지기의 동작시간의 차이는 피난거리로 환산하였을 때 최대 115 m 의 피난거리가 확보되는 것으로 나타났다. 이를 통하여 적합한 위치와 적응성을 고려한 감지기의 선택은 피난개시 시간을 최소화시켜 줄 수 있는 것을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.1718-1733
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• 2023

The virtual Frisch-grid method for room-temperature radiation detectors has been widely used because of its simplicity and high performance. Recently, side electrodes were separately attached to each surface of the detectors instead of covering the entire detector surface with a single electrode. The side-electrode structure enables the measurement of the three-dimensional (3D) gamma-ray interaction in the detector. The positional information of the interaction can then be utilized to precisely calibrate the response of the detector for gamma-ray spectroscopy and imaging. In this study, we developed a 3D position-sensitive 5 × 5 × 12 mm³ cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) detector and applied a flattening method to correct detector responses. Collimated gamma-rays incident on the surface of the detector were scanned to evaluate the positional accuracy of the detection system. Positional distributions of the radiation interactions with the detector were imaged for quantitative and qualitative evaluation. The energy spectra of various radioisotopes were measured and improved by the detector response calibration according to the calculated positional information. The energy spectra ranged from 59.5 keV (emitted by ²⁴¹Am) to 1332 keV (emitted by ⁶⁰Co). The best energy resolution was 1.06% at 662 keV when the CZT detector was voxelized to 20 × 20 × 10.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권9호
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• pp.3398-3402
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• 2022

We fabricated a 15 m long position-sensitive plastic scintillation optical fiber (PSOF) detector consisting of a PSOF, two photomultiplier tubes, four fast amplifiers, and a digitizer. A single PSOF was used as a sensing part to estimate the gamma-ray source position, and ¹³⁷Cs, an uncollimated solid-disk-type radioactive isotope, was used as a gamma-ray emitter. To improve the sensitivity, accuracy, and measurement time of a PSOF detector compared to those of previous studies, the performance of the amplifier was optimized, and the digital signal processing (DSP) was newly designed in this study. Moreover, we could measure very low dose rates of gamma-rays with high sensitivity and accuracy in a very short time using our proposed PSOF detector. The results of this study indicate that it is possible to accurately and quickly locate the position of a very low dose rate gamma-ray source in a wide range of contaminated areas using the proposed position-sensitive PSOF detector.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.833-836
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• 1995

The Position Sensitive Detector(PSD) is an useful which can be used to measurement the position of an incidence light in detail and in real-time. In this paper, light sources, to be predefinded positions, are used as landmarks and the 2-D PSD signals are used to compensate the position of a running mobile robot. To induce the position compensation algorithm, first, we inspect the error factor, make the error model, and evaluate the error covariance matrix between the real position and estimated position in dead reckoning system. Next we obtain an optimal position compensation algorithm to update the estimated position using extended Kalman filler by the relation of the external light position and it's PSD signal. Through the simulation of navigating a robot the effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2001

In this paper, PSD(Position Sensitive Detector) sensor system that estimates position for moving objects in 2D plane is developed. PSD sensor is used to measure the position the position of and incidence light in real-time. To get the position of light source of moving target, a new parameter calibration algorithm and neural network technique are proposed and applied. Real-time position measurements of the mobile robot with light source is examined to validate the proposed method. It is shown that the proposed technique provides accurate position estimation of the moving object.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제48권12호
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• pp.1537-1543
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• 1999

In this paper, PSD(Position Sensitive Detector) sensor system that estimates position for moving objects in 2D plane is developed. PSD sensor is used to measure the position of an incidence light in real-time. To get the position of light source of moving target, a new parameter calibration algorithm and neural network technique are proposed and applied. Real-time position measurements of the mobile robot with light source is examined to validate the proposed method. It is shown that the proposed technique provides accurate position estimation of the moving object.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.330-336
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• 1996

An real-time active beacon localization system for mobile robots is developed and implemented. This system permits the estimation of robot positions when detecting light sources by PSD(Position Sensitive Detector) sensor which are placed sparsely over the robots work space as beacons(or landmarks). An LSE(Least Square Estimation) method is introduced to calibrate the internal parameters of a model for the beacon and robot position. The proposed system has two operational modes of position estimation. One is the initial position calculation by the detection of two or more light sources positions of which are known. The other is the continuous position compensation that calculates the position and heading of the robot using the IEKF(Iterated Extended Kalman Filter) applied to the beacon and dead-reckoning data. Practical experiments show that the estimated position obtained by this system is precise enough to be useful for the navigation of robots.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.916-919
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• 1996

An real-time active beacon localization system for mobile robots is developed and implemented. This system permits the estimation of robot positions when detecting light sources by PSD(Position Sensitive Detector) sensor which are placed sparsely over the robot's work space as beacons(or landmarks). An LSE(Least Square Estimation) method is introduced to calibrate the internal parameters of a model for the beacon and robot position. The proposed system has two operational modes of position estimation. One is the initial position calculation by the detection of two or more light sources positions of which are known. The other is the continuous position compensation that calculates the position and heading of the robot using the IEKF(Iterated Extended Kalman Filter) applied to the beacon and dead-reckoning data. Practical experiments show that the estimated position obtained by this system is precise enough to be useful for the navigation of robots.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.792-798
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 웨이퍼 영상에서 다이 위치를 인식하기 위한 새로운 코너점 검출 방법을 제안한다. 웨이퍼 다이 위치 인식은 WSCSP(Wafer Scale Chip Scale Packaging)기술에 필수적인 과정으로서 웨이퍼 윗면의 다이 패턴을 얼마나 정확히 인식하느냐에 따라서 후 공정의 정확도가 결정된다. 본 논문에서는 정확한 다이 위치를 인식하기 위하여 계층적 명암 영상 코너 검출 방법을 제안한다. 새로운 코너 검출자는 코너 영역을 마스크 크기에 따라서 동심원으로 나누어 각각의 동심원에서의 코너성과 방향성을 구하여 정확한 코너점을 검출하도록 하였다. 또한 계층적 구조를 가지고 처리하여 기존의 명암 영상코너 검출자 보다 더 빠른 처리 속도를 얻을 수 있도록 하였다.