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A Study on Automatic Control Systems for Seawater Desalination Plants (해수 담수화 플랜트 제어 시스템 구성 방안 연구)

  • Ju, Young-Duk;Kim, Kyeong-Beom;Kim, Jin
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the plant industries are being activated and plant control systems use various technologies. Because the optimized design for the plants is very important for the reducing of operation and maintenance costs, automatic control systems become more important. Plant control systems consist of the master controller, the plant networks, the programming environment for engineering, monitoring software and the field devices. The control systems should have reliability, availability and safety. Modular architecture of hardware and software makes flexible configuration of the control systems. Each component should have diagnostic functions. It follows industrial standards and makes open systems. Open systems increase accessibility against the data which is distributed in the plants. The controllers including processor and communication modules use the up-to-date technology. They have real time and fault tolerant function by duplicating processors or networks. It also enables to make the distributed control systems. The distributed architecture makes more scalable main control system. Automatic control systems can be operated with better performance. In this paper, we analyzed the requirements of the seawater desalination plants and made some consideration facts for developing the optimized controller. Also we described the design concept of the main controller, which consists of several modules. We should validate and complement the design for the reliability and better performance.

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Problems of Mobile Voting and System Requirements for the Solutions: Literature Review and Internet Survey (모바일 투표의 문제점 및 이를 극복하기 위한 모바일 투표 시스템 요구사항 - 문헌 사례 연구와 인터넷 설문 중심으로)

  • Choi, Jong Myung;Kim, Na Young;Ha, Sang Bok;Im, Yang June;Son, Young Woo;Kho, Hyung Dae
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2013
  • Mobile voting has been considered as a promising technology, but it has not been used widely or popular enough in the world. We think this situation is caused by immature technologies of mobile voting and no agreement among people in our society. In this paper, we reviewed literature on electronic voting systems in order to find out technical issues on mobile voting system, and we also surveyed people's opinions via the Internet in order to understand what they worry about mobile voting. From the literature review, we understand that the existing electronic voting systems did not consider security, robustness, and reliability issues enough. From the survey, we also get to know that people worry about "manipulation of the result of mobile voting" mostly. Our work can help researchers on mobile voting to consider the ways or technologies that convince people of the reliability of mobile voting.

A study on improving the usability of records of policy management system operation (방침경영시스템 운영기록의 유용성 제고에 관한 고찰)

  • Syn, Dong-Sig;Pack, Jong-Yop;Lim, Kyung-Sik;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.213-222
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    • 2009
  • Two functions are considerable in the record management of policy management system operation. The first one is to prove that shows the conforming status of the management system requirements. The second one is to prove that shows the performing status whether the policy management system is operating effectively to the company. However, the second function requires the high level data analysis techniques, and it is more important for the decision making of the company operations. That is, the second function is more closer than the first function to the top manager's policy management tool. This paper is prepared to offer a study on the desirable record management which is necessary to the scientific decision making process. The scientific decision making requires the analysis of data derived from the reliable records. It is also aimed to enlighten the relations between the reliability of records and the adoption of the results of analysis in associated with the top manager's decision making.

Development of Message Oriented Middleware for Operational Flight Program in Avionics (항공전자 비행운영프로그램을 위한 메시지 기반 미들웨어 개발)

  • Kim, Jong-Moon;Kim, Ki-Il
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.299-305
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    • 2016
  • It is require to design the next generation avionics system while considering applicability under open architecture where standerd communication module is used. In this situation, if the existing schemes cannot guarantee new requirement, new system development is demanded. In this paper, we present design, implementation, and testing procedure for message based middleware to support operational flight program on avionics. System architecture include mission computer (MC) and large area display (LAD) over standard socket communication based on reliable Ethernet. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed middleware can guarantee real-time with 20msec as well as reliability requirements with no lost packet.

Stability Enhancement of a Hybrid Micro-grid System in Grid Fault Condition

  • Ambia, Mir Nahidul;Al-Durra, Ahmed;Caruana, Cedric;Muyeen, S.M.
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 2013
  • Low voltage ride through capability augmentation of a hybrid micro-grid system is presented in this paper which reflects enhanced reliability in the system. The control scheme involves parallel connected multiple ac-dc bidirectional converters. When the micro-grid system is subjected to a severe voltage dip by any transient fault single power converter may not be able to provide necessary reactive power to overcome the severe voltage dip. This paper discusses the control strategy of additional power converter connected in parallel with main converter to support extra reactive power to withstand the severe voltage dip. During transient fault, when the terminal voltage crosses 90% of its pre-fault value, additional converter comes into operation. With the help of additional power converter, the micro-grid system withstands the severe voltage fulfilling the grid code requirements. This multiple converter scheme provides the micro-grid system the capability of low voltage ride through which makes the system more reliable and stable.

Reliability on the Unintended Trips of Residual Current Operated Circuit Breakers due to Surge Currents (서지전류에 의한 누전차단기의 의도하지 않은 트립에 대한 신뢰성)

  • Lee, Bok-Hee;Kim, Sang-Hyun;Kim, Yoo-Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.79-84
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    • 2012
  • As the huge economical loss and function paralysis of information technology-based systems can be caused by the misoperation of residual current devices(RCDs) due to surge voltages and currents, RCDs shall not operate by surge currents. In this paper, in order to evaluate the reliability of residual current operated circuit-breakers with integral overcurrent protection for household and similar uses((RCBOs) stressed by surges, the unintended trip characteristics of RCBOs under surge currents were experimentally investigated using the combination wave generator. Seven different types of single-phase RCBOs being present on the domestic market were investigated according to KS C IEC 61009-1 standard. As a result, all kinds of specimens were satisfied the requirements for 0.5 [${\mu}s$]/100[kHz] ring wave impulse currents. Most of specimens stressed by the 8/20[${\mu}s$] impulse current tripped at least one or more, and some of them were broken down during consecutive tests. It was found that only one type of specimens meets the L-N mode immunity to the combination wave of 1.2/50[${\mu}s$] impulse voltage and 8/20[${\mu}s$] impulse current.

Method of Conducting and Verification for Failure Mode Effect Test of Rotary Automatic Flight Control System Software (회전익 자동비행제어시스템 소프트웨어의 FMET 수행 및 검증 방안)

  • Yeom, WooSung;Ha, Seokwun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2020
  • It is necessary to develop digital flight control system by digital control technology to ensure stability and maneuverability of rotary helicopter. It is important to meet functional requirements of helicopter flight control system OFP and verify system reliability directly linked to flight safety as a core technology that avoids the transfer of technology by overseas advanced helicopter manufacturer. In this paper, we studied how to perform FMET for operational flight program of rotary automatic flight control system.

The development of radiation lifetime measuring module for KAEROT/m2 (KAEROT/m2용 방사선 수명 측정모듈 개발)

  • Lee, Nam-Ho;Kim, Seung-Ho;Kim, Yang-Mo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.793-796
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    • 2003
  • The electronics of a mobile robot ill nuclear facilities is required to satisfied the reliability to sustain survival in its radiation environment. To know how much radiation the robot has been encountered to replace sensitive electronic parts, a dosimeter to measure total accumulated dose is necessary. Among many radiation dosimeters or detectors, semiconductor radiation sensors have advantages in terms of power requirements and their sires over conventional detectors. This paper describes the use of the radiation-induced threshold voltage change of a commercial power pMOSFET as an accumulated radiation dose monitoring mean and that of the photo-current of a commercial PIN Diode as a dose-rate measurement mean. Commercial p-type power MOSFETs and PIN Diodes were tested in a Co-60 gamma irradiation facility to see their capabilities as radiation sensors. We found an inexpensive commercial power pMOSFET that shows good linearity in their threshold voltage shift with radiation dose and a PIN diode that shows good linearity in its photo-current change with dose-rate. According to these findings, a radiation hardened hybrid electronic radiation dosimeter for nuclear robots has been developed for the first time. This small hybrid dosimeter has also an advantage in the point of view of reliability improvement by using a diversity concept.

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Performance Analysis of Multimedia-Oriented Error Controll Mechanism over ATM Networks (ATM 상에서 멀티미디어 지향 오류 제어 기법의 성능 분석)

  • Choe, Won-Geun;An, Sun-Sin
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.827-838
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    • 1999
  • 멀티미디어 통신에서 통신 성능에 관련된 요구 사항들은 QoS 매개 변수들로서 서술된다. QoS매개 변수들에서 중요한 매개 변수 중의 하나가 전송 신뢰성이다. QoS 매개 변수로서의 신뢰성은 오류 감지, 보고 그리고 정정 기법으로 정의된다. 하지만 기존의 오류 제어 기법들은 멀티미디어 데이타의 통합된 관점을 고려하지 않았다. 그래서 우리는 MEC(multimedia-oriented error control)라고 명명된 오류 제어 기법을 제안하였다. 1 본 논문에서는 MEC기법의 성능을 조사 하였다. 성능평가 결과는 MEC기법이 기존의 오류 제어 기법보다도 낮은 전송지연(lower delay)과 호손율(blocking probability) 을 갖는다는 것을 볼 수 있었다. 결국 제안된 MEC기법은 수송 프로토콜에게 유연성과 높은 성능을 갖도록 해준다.Abstract Communication performance requirements are described as QoS parameters in multimedia communication. One of the important QoS parameters is the reliability of the transfer. As a QoS parameter, the reliability defines error detection, report and correction mechanisms. Conventional error control mechanisms, however, do not consider the integrated viewpoint of multimedia data. So we have proposed the MEC(multimedia-oriented error control). 1 In this paper, we have investigated the performance evaluation of the MEC. The results show that the MEC mechanism provides lower transfer delay and blocking probability than those of the conventional error recovery mechanism. Therefore, the proposed MEC mechanism makes the transport protocol have the flexibility and high performance.

Development of Korean Maintainability-Prediction Software for Application to the Detailed Design Stages of Weapon Systems (무기체계의 상세설계 단계에 적용을 위한 한국형 정비도 예측 S/W 개발)

  • Kwon, Jae-Eon;Kim, Su-Ju;Hur, Jang-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.102-111
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    • 2021
  • Maintainability is a major design parameter that includes availability as well as reliability in a RAM (reliability, availability, maintainability) analysis, and is an index that must be considered when developing a system. There is a lack of awareness of the importance of predicting and analyzing maintainability; therefore, it is dependent on past-experience data. To improve the utilization rate, maintainability must be managed as a key indicator to meet the user's requirements for failure maintenance time and to reduce life-cycle costs. To improve the maintainability-prediction accuracy in the detailed design stage, we present a maintainability-prediction method that applies Method B of the Military Standardization Handbook (MIL-HDBK-472) Procedure V, as well as a Korean maintainability-prediction software package that reflects the system complexity.