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Behaviors of the Spacers on the Galloping of Power Transmission Lines

  • Kim, Hwan-Seong;Nguyen, Tuong-Long;Byun, Gi-Sig
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.128-133
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we have proposed a method by using virtual simulation to calculate the behaviors of spacers to avoid conductor galloping with the hanging composite polymer spacer between conductors on different phases. We have considered with three types of modeling considerations for the analysis of galloping in power transmission lines, such as iced-single conductors without spacer, iced-single conductors with spacers, and iced-two bundle conductors with spacers. In simulation, the finite element method is used to calculate the structural response with geometric nonlinear behavior. The iced conductor is modeled by two beam-element faces with which it is connected. The ANSYS program is applied too. First, the calculation results show that the two beam-element model is very suitable to make a virtual simulation. Second, the amplitude of conductor galloping is reduced after hanged spacers. Third, when number of spacer is increased, the maximum magnitude of natural frequency of iced conductor will reduce. Final, the behaviors of spacers are verified in viewpoint of standard cases.

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Systems Engineering Method to Develop Multiple BMI Nozzle Inspection System for APR1400

  • Abdallah, Khaled Atya Ahmed;Nam, GungIhn
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.25-40
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    • 2016
  • The Systems Engineering (SE) approach is characterized by the application of a structured engineering methodology for the design of a complex system or component. In this study, the SE methodology is used to design a nondestructive inspection system for Bottom Mounted Instrumentation (BMI) nozzles. We developed a system that enables nondestructive inspection of BMI nozzles during regular refueling outage without removing the reactor internals. A special ultrasonic (UT) probe is introduced to scan and detect cracks within the weld region of the nozzle. A 3D model of the inspection structure system was developed along with the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and internals which permits a virtual 3D simulation of the operation to check the design concept and effectiveness of the system and to provide a good visualization of the system. This approach allows for a virtual walk through to verify the proposed BMI nozzle inspection system.

Moving obstacle avoidance of a robot using avoidability measure (충돌 회피 가능도를 이용한 로봇의 이동 장애물 회피)

  • Ko, Nak-Yong;Lee, Beom-Hee
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.169-178
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    • 1997
  • This paper presents a new solution approach to moving obstacle avoidance problem of a robot. A new concept, avoidability measure(AVM) is defined to describe the state of a pair of a robot and an obstacle regarding the collision between them. As an AVM, virtual distance function(VDF) is derived as a function of three state variables: the distance from the obstacle to the robot, outward speed of the obstacle relative to the robot, and outward speed of the robot relative to the obstacle. By keeping the virtual distance above some positive limit value, the robot avoids the obstacle. In terms of the VDF, an artificial potential is constructed to repel the robot away from the obstacle and to attract the robot toward a goal location. At every sampling time, the artificial potential field is updated and the force driving the robot is derived from the gradient of the artificial potential field. The suggested algorithm drives the robot to avoid a moving obstacle in real time. Since the algorithm considers the mobility of the obstacle and robot as well as the distance, it is effective for moving obstacle avoidance. Some simulation studies show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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V&V of Integrated Interoperability System for LVC Simulation on Aircraft Weapon System (항공무기체계 LVC 시뮬레이션을 위한 통합연동시스템 V&V)

  • Oh, Jihyun;Jang, Young Chan;Kim, Cheon Young;Jee, Cheol Kyu;Hong, Young Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.326-334
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    • 2015
  • This paper describes the verification and the validation about the development of the integrated interoperability system for live, virtual, and constructive simulations on the aircraft weapon system. The proposed integrated interoperability system provides the framework and application softwares for implementing a synthetic environment emulating real-world environment among distributed simulation models, which are a mission model and an air combat model of a constructive level, an tactical simulator of a virtual level, and simulated ACMI of a live level. In this paper, we verify requested functions through an developmental test and evaluation, and validate operability and usability through conducing integrated LVC scenarios on the integrated interoperability system.

The Implementation Methodology of Client-Server Architecture for Distributed Measurement System (분산 계측 시스템을 위한 클라이언-서버 아키텍쳐 구현 방안)

  • Song, Min-Gyu;Byun, Do-Young;Je, Do-Heung;Kim, Kwang-Dong;Roh, Duk-Gyoo;Oh, Se-Jin;Lee, Bo-Ahn
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.11c
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    • pp.441-443
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    • 2004
  • With the rapid development of the Internet over the recent years, in conjunction with the transmission protocol TCP/IP and the latest version of hypertext(HTML) facilities, new opportunities have come into existence for the use of the network for the remote control of experiments and the other practical systems in engineering education. Using graphical software environments in client-server systems, remote control and monitoring system can be easily designed. Client-server systems have some general advantages when compared with simple Remote-Access Systems. In this paper we present a client-server architecture for the distributed measurement system of instrumentation over the Internet. The proposed solution allows multi-user, multi-instruments sessions to be obtained by means of a queuing process and provides instrument lock capability. Client applications can be easily developed by using conventional high-level programming languages or well-assessed virtual instrumentation frameworks.

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Local Collision Avoidance of Multiple Robots Using Avoidability Measure and Relative Distance

  • Ko, Nak-Yong;Seo, Dong-Jin;Kim, Koung-Suk
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.132-144
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents a new method driving multiple robots to their goal position without collision. To consider the movement of the robots in a work area, we adopt the concept of avoidability measure. The avoidability measure figures the degree of how easily a robot can avoid other robots considering the velocity of the robots. To implement the concept to avoid collision among multiple robots, relative distance between the robots is proposed. The relative distance is a virtual distance between robots indicating the threat of collision between the robots. Based on the relative distance, the method calculates repulsive force against a robot from the other robots. Also, attractive force toward the goal position is calculated in terms of the relative distance. These repulsive force and attractive force are added to form the driving force for robot motion. The proposed method is simulated for several cases. The results show that the proposed method steers robots to open space anticipating the approach of other robots. In contrast, since the usual potential field method initiates avoidance motion later than the proposed method, it sometimes fails preventing collision or causes hasty motion to avoid other robots. The proposed method works as a local collision-free motion coordination method in conjunction with higher level of task planning and path planning method for multiple robots to do a collaborative job.

Active Damping of LCL Filter for Three-phase PWM Inverter without Additional Hardware Sensors (추가적인 센서가 필요 없는 3상 PWM 인버터의 LCL 필터 능동댐핑)

  • An, Byoung-Woong;Shin, Hee-Keun;Kim, Hag-Wone;Cho, Kwan-Yuhl;Han, Byoung-Moon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, a new active damping method of LCL filter without capacitor voltage sensors is proposed for 3 phase PWM Inverter. Normally, L filter or LCL filter is used as an output filter of grid connected PWM inverter. An LCL filter has more excellent performance than L filter to reduce harmonic current, so the small inductance value can be used. However, the resonance problem in LCL filter is happen due to the zero impedance by the addition of LC branch. To solve the resonance problem, the various active damping method has been proposed so far. Generally, the virtual resistor active damping methods is required to additional hardware sensors for measurement of capacitor voltage and current. In this paper, the new active damping method is proposed without any capacitor voltage or current sensors. In the proposed method, the resonance component of the capacitor voltage of LCL filter can be observed by a simple MRAS(Model Reference Adaptive System) observer without additional hardware sensors, and this component is suppressed by feedforward compensation. The validity of the proposed method is proven by simulation and experiment on the 3-phase PWM inverter system.

AndroScope: An Insightful Performance Analyzer for All Software Layers of the Android-Based Systems

  • Cho, Myeongjin;Lee, Ho Jin;Kim, Minseong;Kim, Seon Wook
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 2013
  • Android has become the most popular platform for mobile devices. However, Android still has critical performance issues, such as "application not responding" errors and hiccups resulting from garbage collection. Many phone vendors have tried to resolve the problems by characterizing and improving the performance. However, there are few insightful performance analysis tools for the Android-based systems. This paper presents AndroScope, which is a performance analysis tool for both the Android platform (Dalvik virtual machine, core libraries, Android libraries, and even Linux kernels) and its applications. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first tool to collect and analyze performance data from all the software layers of the Android-based systems. AndroScope offers a trace mechanism to collect such deep and wide performance data as hardware performance counters, time, and memory usage. In addition, the tool includes TraceBridge, which is a middleware for the fast handling of mass logs. Moreover, AndroScope offers an integrated graphical user interface with the Android software development kit to display a great volume of the detailed performance data.

Positional correction of a 3D position-sensitive virtual Frisch-grid CZT detector for gamma spectroscopy and imaging based on a theoretical assumption

  • Younghak Kim ;Kichang Shin ;Aleksey Bolotnikov;Wonho Lee
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.5
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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.

Development of IEEE 802.11 based virtual polling algorithm for real time industrial environments (실시간 산업환경을 위한 IEEE 802.11기반 가상 폴링 알고리즘 개발)

  • Park J.H.;Ha K.N.;Lee K.C.;Lee S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1013-1017
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes an effective algorithm, P-DCF(Polling DCF) to satisfy real-time requirements in the industrial environments, based on 802.11 DCF protocols. Theoretical analysis and actual experiments are carried out, which shows that the proposed P-DCF brings several benefits: 1) it reduces the time delay for frame transmission 2)it guarantees bounded upper limit of maximum transmission delay 3) it maintains fairness

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