• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1055-1079
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• 2014

Substructure shake table testing is a class of real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS). It combines shake table tests of substructures with real-time computational simulation of the remaining part of the structure to assess dynamic response of the entire structure. Unlike in the conventional hybrid simulation, substructure shake table testing imposes acceleration compatibilities at substructure boundaries. However, acceleration tracking of shake tables is extremely challenging, and it is not possible to produce perfect acceleration tracking without time delay. If responses of the experimental substructure have high correlation with ground accelerations, response errors are inevitably induced by the erroneous input acceleration. Feeding the erroneous responses into the RTHS procedure will deteriorate the simulation results. This study presents a set of techniques to enable reliable substructure shake table testing. The developed techniques include compensation techniques for errors induced by imperfect input acceleration of shake tables, model-based actuator delay compensation with state observer, and force correction to eliminate process and measurement noises. These techniques are experimentally investigated through RTHS using a uni-axial shake table and three-story steel frame structure at the Johns Hopkins University. The simulation results showed that substructure shake table testing with the developed compensation techniques provides an accurate and reliable means to simulate the dynamic responses of the entire structure under earthquake excitations.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.739-748
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• 2010

The increased integration of fuel cells with power electronics, critical loads, and control systems has prompted recent interest in accurate electrical terminal models of the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. Advancement in computing technologies, particularly parallel computation techniques and various real-time simulation tools have allowed the prototyping of novel apparatus to be investigated in a virtual system under a wide range of realistic conditions repeatedly, safely, and economically. This paper builds upon both advancements and provides a means of optimized model construction boosting computation speeds for a fuel cell model on a real-time simulator which can be used in a power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) application. Significant improvement in computation time has been achieved. The effectiveness of the proposed model developed on Opal RT's RT-Lab Matlab/Simulink based real-time engineering simulator is verified using experimental results from a Ballard Nexa fuel cell system.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.143-153
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• 1998

In this reaserch, a program for real time simulation of a vehicle is developed. This program uses relative coordinates to save the computation time and BDF(Backward Difference Formula) to integrate system variables. Numerical tests were performed for J-turn and Lane change steering, respectively. The validity of the program is proved by the ADAMS package. Numerical results showed that the proposed implicit method is more stable in carrying out the numerical integration for vehicle dynamics than the explicit method. Hardware requirements for real time simulation are suggested.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2002

실시간 객체지향 분산 컴퓨팅은 객체 네트워크 형태에서 분산된 컴퓨터 시스템 구조와 관련 된 실시간 분산 컴퓨팅의 한가지 형태이다. 최근에 실시간 응용분야에 적합한 기존의 객체지향 시스템 구조를 확장한 몇 가지 의 구조가 제안되었다. 실시간 시뮬레이션 프로그램의 하나인 시간 및 메시지 트리거 객체지향 프로그램밍이 분산된 시간 트리거 시뮬레이션으로 설계될 수 있으며, 일반적이고 보편적인 설계 타입으로서 사용되고, 하나 의 실시간 시뮬레이션 패러다임으로 제안하였다. 실시간 객체지향 프로그램밍은 안전을 중요시하게 여기는 응용분야에 적용할 수 있으며, 실시간 운영체제 시스템 커널로서 객체지향 프로그램밍 언어인 비쥬얼 C++언어로 작성되었다. 응용 시스템에서 실시간 서비스를 보장하기 위한 설계자들의 노력을 현저하게 줄일 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1131-1150
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• 2014

One of the issues in extending the range of applicable problems of real-time hybrid simulation is the computation speed of the simulator when large-scale computational models with a large number of DOF are used. In this study, functionality of real-time dynamic simulation of MDOF systems is achieved by creating a logic circuit that performs the step-by-step numerical time integration of the equations of motion of the system. The designed logic circuit can be implemented to an FPGA-based system; FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) allows large-scale parallel computing by implementing a number of arithmetic operators within the device. The operator splitting method is used as the numerical time integration scheme. The logic circuit consists of blocks of circuits that perform numerical arithmetic operations that appear in the integration scheme, including addition and multiplication of floating-point numbers, registers to store the intermediate data, and data busses connecting these elements to transmit various information including the floating-point numerical data among them. Case study on several types of linear and nonlinear MDOF system models shows that use of resource sharing in logic synthesis is crucial for effective application of FPGA to real-time dynamic simulation of structural response with time step interval of 1 ms.

• KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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• 제11A권4호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2001

The KEPS(KEPCO＇s Enhanced Power system Simulator) Real Time Digital Simulator(RTDS) is the largest real time power system simulator ever built. A power system which includes 320 (3-phase) buses and 90 generators has been modeled and run in real time. Since such large-scale systems were involved, it was not practical to validate them using non-real time electro-magnetic transient programs such as EMTDC™ or EMTP. Instead, the results of the real time electromagnetic transient simulation were validated by comparing to transient stability simulations run using PTI's PSS/E™ program. The comparison of results from the two programs is very good in almost all cases. However, as expected, some differences did exist and were investigated. The differences in the results were primarily traced to the fact that the electromagnetic transient solution algorithm provides more detail solutions and therefore greater accuracy than the transient stability algorithm. After finding very good comparison of results between RTDS Simulator and PSS/E, and after investigating the discrepancies found, KEPCO gained the necessary confidence to use the large-scale real time simulator to analyze and develop their power system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.535-538
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• 2005

Today, most fixed-wing aircrafts are equipped with the antiskid brake system. It can modulate braking moments in the wheels optimally, when an aircraft is landing. So it can reduce landing distance and increase safeties. The antiskid brake system for an aircraft are mainly composed of braking moment modulators (hydraulic control valves) and brake control unit. In this paper, a Mark IV type - fully digital - brake controller is studied. For the development of its control algorithms, a 5-DOF (Degree of Freedom) aircraft landing model is composed in the form of matlab/simulink model at first. Then, braking moment control algorithms using wheel decelerations and slips are made. The developed algorithms are tested in software simulations using state-flow toolboxes in matlab/simulink model. Also, a real-time simulation systems are made, which use hydraulic brake systems of a real aircraft, pressure control valves and its controller as hardware components of HIL(Hardware In-the-Loop) simulation. Algorithms tested in software simulations are coded into the controller and the real-time landing simulations are made in very severe road conditions. The real-time simulation results are presented.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 큰 회전 변형이 일어나는 가는 막대를 실시간에 시뮬레이션하는 기법을 제안한다. 가는 막대는 로프나 머리카락과 같이 일차원적인 구조를 표현하는데 널리 사용될 수 있다. 시각적으로 사실적인 가는 막대의 애니메이션을 실시간에 생성하는 것은 컴퓨터 그래픽스분야에서 오랫동안 주요한 도전 과제였다. 본 논문에서는 연속체 역학에 기반한 지배방정식을 세우고 이를 실시간에 적분하는 가는 막대구조를 위한 모달와핑기법을 개발한다. 이와같은 새로운 시뮬레이션 기법은 삼차원 솔리드를 위해 개발된 종전의 모달 와핑 기법을 확장한 것이다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 매우 많은 정점으로 이루어진 가는 막대 구조의 큰 휨과 꼬임변형도 실시간에 사실적으로 생성할 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권11B호
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• pp.1659-1666
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• 2010

고기동 유도탄들은 다양한 탄내 인터페이스와 빠른 유도 조종 루프를 가진다. 그러므로 Hardware-in-the-Loop(HWIL) 시뮬레이션 제어 시스템은 고성능의 연산기능 및 하드웨어 인터페이스 기능을 가져야 하며, 실시간 운영체제, 임베디드 시스템, 자료 통신, 실시간 하드웨어 제어와 같이 다양한 IT 분야를 융합하여 개발되어야 한다. 이 논문은 고기동 유도탄의 HWIL 시뮬레이션을 수행하기 위한 제어 시스템 설계 기법으로 시스템 하드웨어 구성, 고성능의 다중 프로세서를 사용하기 위한 업무 할당 알고리즘, HWIL 시뮬레이션 실시간 연산 및 제어 기법, 프로세서 통신 기법, 실시간 자료 획득 기법을 제시한다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2013년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.85-86
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• 2013

This paper describes the physical configuration and features of the advanced control and protection devices, and operation control and monitoring system that are connected to a real time simulator for LS Industrial System 80kV 60 MW Jeju HVDC Pilot Project. Highlight of simulation result are provided to demonstrate the control and protection functionality.