• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.8-13
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• 2014

The effect of several parameters to minimize the braking response time has been investigated in this study. The experimental rigs were developed and the results of the experement compared with those of simulation obtained from the net work fluid flow system analysis code (FLOWMASTER). The braking response time and pressure loss were observed at separated braking port and found out that the response time can be reduced by considering the pipe length and environmental thermal conditions. The correlation equation was also presented to predict the pressure loss at various tank pressure.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.102-113
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• 1996

An experimental and theoretical study on a pneumatic servo system has been conducted using on-off valves and a pneumatic cylinder. A V/I converter has been designed for rapid rising and falling of the solenoid current, which significantly improves the positioning accuracy and settling time of the servo system by shortening the valve opening time. Pulse width modulation was modified to operate on-off valves effectively. A state feedback controller which feeds back position, velocity and acceleration is used to control the system. The influence of controller gains on the system performance is studied to develop a scheme that automatically adjusts the gains using fuzzy logic theory. It is shown experimentally that the proposed fuzzy logic tuner works satisfactorily. A new method for measurements of valve effective areas is proposed, and a partially polytropic model is applied to simulation of the pneumatic system. Simulated results show good agreement with experimental data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.530-535
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• 2002

Pneumatic control system has been applied to build many industrial automation systems. But most of them are sequence control type because of their low costs, safety, reliability, etc. Pneumatic servo system is rarely applied to real industrial fields because accurate position control is very difficult due to its nonlinearity and compressibility of air. In pneumatic servo control system, a pneumatic servo valve can be applied, But it is very expensive and has no advantage of low cost compared with a common pneumatic system. This paper is concerned with the accurate position control of a rodless pneumatic cylinder using on/off solenoid valve. A novel Intelligent Modified Pulse Width Modulation(MPWM) is newly proposed. The control performance of this pneumatic cylinder depends on the external loads. To overcome this problem, switching of control parameter using artificial neural network is newly proposed, which estimates external loads on rodless pneumatic cylinder using this training neural network. As an underlying controller, a state feedback controller using position, velocity and acceleration is applied in the switching control the system. The effectiveness of the proposed control algorithms are demonstrated through experiments nth various loads.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.90-96
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• 2008

A pneumatic system was proposed to evaluate displacement accuracy of the pneumatic actuator without external load and to analyze capability of integration of the proposed valve system. The proposed pneumatic system consisted of a combination of pneumatic valves, two proximity sensors, and a programmable logic controller(PLC). The position controller is based on the PLC controller connected with the proximity sensors. Displacement accuracy of the pneumatic cylinder stroke was tested by varying air pressures of the supply and discharge-side and strokes of the pneumatic cylinder. The displacement accuracy of the pneumatic cylinder stroke increased as the supply and discharge side of air pressure increased at the stroke length of 133mm. Also the displacement accuracy increased as the stroke length increased with a fixed supply and discharge side of air pressure of the pneumatic cylinder as 3.5 and $4.5kg/cm^2$, respectively. The most accurate displacement of the pneumatic cylinder(i.e., standard deviation of 0.01 mm) was obtained at the supply and discharge side of air pressure of 4.0 and $5.0kg/cm^2$, respectively, and strokes of 170 and 190 mm among arbitrarily selected supply and discharge side air pressures and strokes.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.25-36
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• 2011

압축공기 중의 수분은 공압설비의 모든 요소에 중대한 해를 입히며 밸브의 고착, 계기의 막힘 또는 공압기기의 오작동을 일으키며 생산하는 제품의 질에 있어서도 많은 해를 입혀서 제품의 질을 떨어뜨리는 역할을 하게 된다. 따라서 수분을 제거하는 방법이 필요하며 기존의 냉동식 및 흡착식을 대신하여 분리막 법이 적용될 수 있다. 현재 제습용 기체분리막 모듈은 적용이 시작된 단계에 있다. 제습용 기체분리막은 의료기기, 분석기기, Instrument air 장비에 응용이 진행되고 있다. 최근 들어 선진각국 뿐만 아니라 국내에서도 막소재 개발, 복합막 개발, 모듈 개발, 시스템 설계 및 제작 기술 개발이 진행되고 있다. 현재로서는 제습막공정에 적합한 막소재의 개발이 시급하지만 이후 적용확대를 위해서는 제습용 기체분리막의 신뢰성 향상을 위한 다각도의 노력이 필요하다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.63-72
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• 2010

MOV(Main Oxidizer shut-off Valves) control the combustion of launch vehicle systems by the supply and the isolation of liquid oxygen to a main combustion chamber in launch vehicle systems. Moreover, the MOV should secure a constant flow rate of liquid oxygen for combustion instability in the steady operational state. Although it has been showed that a EM(Engineering Model) with a high discharge coefficient value compared with the TM(Technology Model) fills the overall performance requirements, additional design modifications in some critical parts of the EM were conducted to improve the performance. The configurations of the pressure-control body, the middle flange, and the rips of the inlet body of the EM were modified and the performance tests have been performed with test models. Consequently, the intended improvements have been verified by the performance tests.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.1917-1923
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• 2010

This study focuses on model identification and a 2-DOF PID control algorithm for cooling processes; a pneumatic butterfly-type control valve is used for this purpose. The mathematical model is a transfer function composed of a time delay and a second-order delay system. The control valve is identified as a first-order delay system with a time delay and included in the controlled plant. From the experimental data sets for a demo plant, the model parameters are identified, and the 2-DOF PID control gains are analytically derived by Kitamori's method. We show via a computer simulation and an experimental test that the performance of the proposed 2-DOF PID control system is better than that of a conventional 1-DOF PID control system.

• Transactions of The Korea Fluid Power Systems Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.20-24
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• 2006

Air balancer is a conveyance cargo-handling machine, used in assembly and process lines of car and machining industries. This can lift up an object, the weight of which is from 5 to 200 kg, and moves it to a position. As industrial technologies evolve, it is required to move an object and fit it into a specified position with greater accuracy, rather than performing simple tasks such as lifting objects up and down as conventional ones do. There is also a demand to handle an object with one hand, rather than with two hands,. Through designs of manifold unit for an air balancer function, pilot regulator unit to keep pressure constant, hand unit for an accurate load perception function, and air balancer circuit, this study enables everybody to work it with ease and convenience. Experiments and comparisons were conducted for the performance evaluation of the circuit.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1325-1329
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• 2012

This study suggests an indoor screen shooting system that can be connected with diverse graphic contents, through developing a gun only for indoor shooting and developing high-speed laser recognition algorithm. The dedicated gun has strong durability and was applied pneumatic solenoid valve control and invisible laser. The aim is to commercialize the indoor screen shooting system by developing a method of interacting with graphic engine through recognizing invisible laser at high speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1992.04a
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• pp.380-384
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• 1992

The position control of a pneumatic cylinder suing low cost on-off valves is studied. The valve control band(VCB) was proposed toget fast response and toprevent solenoid valves from unnecessary switching at the beginning of response. A learning algorithm was used to compensate the nonlinearity and complexity in mathematical modelling of pheumatic on-off controlled positioning systems. In this algorithm, the desired performance index and modified learning rate, were proposed to improvespeed and convergence of learning control. It is shown experimentally that the proposed algorithm is robust to changes of system parameters: the setting time less than 1.0 sec and the error bound of .+-. 0.1 mm can be obtained. The effects of supply pressure, size of switching valves and the effect of multiple valves are discussed, and computer simulation onthe dynamic performances of the pneumatic system is also presented.