• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.115-123
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• 2000

Pneumatic actuators are widely used in a variety of hazardous working environments. Any process that involves pneumatic actuation is also recognized as "eco-friendly". In most cases, applications of pneumatic actuators require only point-to-point control. In recent years, research efforts have been directed toward achieving precise position tracking control. In this study, a tracking position control method is proposed and experimentally evaluated for a linear positioning system. The positioning system is composed of a pneumatic actuator and a 3-port proportional valve. The proposed controller has an inner pressure control loop and an outer position control loop. A PID controller with feedback linearization is used in the pressure control loop to nullify the nonlinearity arising from the compressibility of the air. The position controller is also a PID controller augmented with the friction compensation by a neural network. Experimental results indicate that the proposed controller significantly improves the tracking performance.rformance.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.6446-6451
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• 2014

Pneumatic motors are quite attractive for many applications because of their competitive price, light-weight, easy assembly, safety in hazardous areas as well as other features, such as a good force/weight ratio and operation in exceptionally harsh environments. In contrast to these advantages, pneumatic motors have limited use in applications, particularly those requiring a fast and precise response. These undesirable characteristics are due to the high compressibility of air and from the nonlinearities in pneumatic systems. This paper presents the sliding mode controller based on 3-loop(SMCB3L), which increases the load stiffness to control the rotation angle of a pneumatic motor. The characteristics for the step responses and load disturbances of the proposed controller were compared with the conventional PID controller. The experimental results showed that a properly designed SMCB3L is capable of high positioning accuracy within ${\pm}0.05mm$. Furthermore, the load stiffness of the SMCB3L can be improved 3.5 fold compared to that of PID controllers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.18-21
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• 2011

In this study, basic research on the pressure control using driven pintle of modulatable thruster is presented. For this purpose, pintle thruster and pintle shape was developed. The actuator model was selected by calculating pintle load using Fluent software. Preliminary unsteady experimental results show that huge pressure oscillation is occurred as the pintle approach toward nozzle wall. From the preliminary experimental results, we could see possibility of pressure control of the modulatable thruster.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.533-541
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• 2011

This paper presents a frequency-response test performed on an antagonistic actuation system consisting of two Mckibben pneumatic artificial muscles and a pneumatic circuit with pressure valves. Varying switching frequency to pressure valves from 0.1 Hz to 5 Hz, parameters of a linear model were estimated optimally to predict dynamic characteristics of the antagonistic actuation. A model-base control scheme with estimated parameters was built for the precise trajectory tracking of the antagonistic structure and realized on a reconfigurable embedded control system, CompactRIO. Experimental results showed that the proposed model-based control scheme gave good performance in trajectory tracking comparing with a PD control scheme when square wave and sinusoidal wave were given as references to follow.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.529-538
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• 2002

콤바인 곡물 포대 자동화장치개발은 콤바인 운전자 및 작업자의 피로경감과 안전보호 및 작업성능의 향상을 기하기 위하여 행하여 졌으며, 본 연구의 개발은 기존의 콤바인 작업이 2명이 소요되는 것을 운전자 1명이 수확작업을 할 수 있도록 하며, 노동력의 절감과 작업의 편리성을 도모하고자 하였다. 이러한 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 곡물 포대의 정 위치화를 위해서 용량형 근접위치센서를 설치하였으며, 포대의 과다이송에 따른 모터의 부하를 최소화 하기위해 선단부와 슈트부에 각각 위치센서를 설치하여 포대의 위치를 제어하였다. 2) 곡물 투입장치부의 작동은 공기압축기와 공압실린더를 이용한 공압시스템을 사용하였으며, 곡물의 투입량제어는 슈트부 게이트의 열림시간을 제어하여, 곡물의 투입량을 제어하였다. 3) 포대 배출장치는 이송장치로부터 이송되어진 충진된 포대를 제 2의 포대가 충진하는 영역 밖으로 밸트 컨베이어를 이용 이송하도록 하였다. 4) 포대는 B3 포대의 경우가 가장 투입량이 많은 것으로 나타났으며, 가진을 한 경우가 하지 않은 경우보다 비교적 투입량이 많은 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 개발된 포대 자동화장치에서는 포대의 가진 장치를 장착하지 않았으며, 실험은 인위적으로 가진을 하여 실행하였으며, 향후 전체적인 장치의 성능 향상을 위해서 포대의 가진 장치가 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1697-1705
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• 2022

The safety of marine construction workers and marine pollution problems are occurring due to large-scale offshore construction. In particular, underwater construction work in the sea has a higher risk than other work, so it is necessary to apply an unmanned alternative system that considers the safety of the workers. In this paper, the ROV system for offshore construction has been developed for underwater unmanned work. A monitoring system was developed for position control through the control of underwater propellants, pneumatic gripper, and monitoring of underwater work. As a result of the performance evaluation, the underwater movement speed of the ROV was evaluated to be 0.89 m/s, and it was confirmed that the maximum load of the pneumatic gripper was 80 kg. In addition, the network bandwidth required for underwater ROV control and underwater video streaming was evaluated to be more than 300Mbps, wired communication at 92.7 ~ 95.0Mbit/s at 205m, and wireless communication at 78.3 ~ 84.8Mbit/s.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.424-427
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• 2002

Pneumatic control systems have the potential to provide high output power to weight and size ratios at a relatively low cost. However, they are mainly employed in open-loop control applications where positioning repeatability is not of great importance. This paper presents precision positioning control of pneumatic servo cylinder with on-off valve, Pneumatic low-friction cylinder with servo valve and DC servo motor under parameter variations. Basically positioning control uses PID controller, where needs a linearized model. A neural network is added to a PID controller to compensator nonlinearity of the system and an influence of friction force is consider as disturbance. The performances of the proposed algorithms were compared by experiments with them of PID controller. From those experiments is was shown that the proposed algorithms are more efficient about settling time, steady 7tate error and overshoot than PID control algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.82-87
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• 2007

Excavator has been used in wide field since the attachment in the end effect can be changeable according to the purpose of working. However, efficiency of work using excavator mainly depends on an operator's ability. For the purpose of improving the efficiency of work and reducing the fatigue of operator, the automatic excavator system has been researched. In this paper, the tracking control system of each links of excavator is designed before developing the automatic excavator system. In order to apply the tracking control system, the pneumatic excavator system is developed and the tracking control system is applied. For designing the tracking control system, the adaptive sliding mode control algorithm is proposed. The performance of the proposed control system is evaluated through experiments using the pneumatic excavator system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.40-45
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• 2001

This paper proposes a methodology for the small-displacement-movement of a piston and develops a hybrid control algorithm for the precision position control of a pneumatic rodless cylinder. The pneumatic system uses the voltage-proportional solenoid valves to minimum valve switching since the on/off type valves are create diffculties for accurate position control and induce a lot of valve switching. For the accurate position control a methodology for the small-displacement-movement of the piston is developed and identified experimentally. The main consideration on the development of the hybrid control law is to eliminate a stick-slip phenomenon in the pneumatic control system. This paper addresses these critical issues and presents experimental results for the pneumatic control system.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.127-132
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• 2003

In this paper. the pneumatic service robot with a hybrid type is developed. A pneumatic has the advantages of good compliance , high Payload-to-weight and payload-to-volume ratios. high speed and force capabilities. Using pneumatic actuators. which have low stiffness. the service robot can guarantee safety. By suggesting a new serial-parallel hybrid type for the service robot which separates into Positioning motion and orienting motion, we can achieve large workspace and high strength-to-moving-weight ratio at the same time. A sliding mode controller can be designed for tracking the desired output using the Lyapunov stability theory and structural properties of pneumatic servo systems. Through many experiments of circular trajectory. the Pneumatic service robot is evaluated and verified.