• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1833-1834
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 다수의 AGV를 운용하는 물류자동화창고에서 최단경로가 배정된 AGV의 주행도중 발생하는 충돌 및 교착 상태를 예측하고 이를 회피하는 알고리즘을 개발하고자 한다. 충돌 및 교착 상태는 최단 경로와 경로 점유시간을 비교함으로써 예측하고 이를 경로 선입에 따른 우선권 및 지연시간에 따른 우선권에 따라 회피할 AGV를 선정함으로써 충돌 회피에 따른 AGV의 총 운행시간을 최소화한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

The Flexible Management System (FMS) consists of parallel and concurrent machines, pieces of equipment, and carrying systems classified as buffers, tools, and routers, respectively. The concurrent flow of multiple productions in a system is competed with one another for resources and this resulting competition can cause a deadlock in FMS. Since a deadlock is a condition in which the excessive demand for the resources being used by others causes activities to stop, it is very important to detect and prevent a deadlock. Herein a new algorithm has been studied in order to detect and prevent deadlocks, after defining a relationship between the general places and resource share places in Petri nets like as DAPN: Deadlock Avoidance Petri Net. For presenting the results, the suggested algorithms were also adapted to the models that demonstrated FMS features.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.751-754
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 유연생산시스템에서의 교착상태 확인 및 회피 알고리즘을 추이적 행렬을 이용하여 제안한다. 추이적행렬은 플레이스와 플레이스간의 관계를 표현함으로 마킹의 흐름을 플레이스와 트랜지션간의 관계형에서 상태와 상태간의 관계를 표현함으로 상태의 변화 검증에 편리하다. 교착상태 확인 및 회피 알고리즘을 제시하고, 기존에 발표되어진 siphon과 DAPN알고리즘간의 비료 검토를 통하여 제안한 알고리즘의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.59-66
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• 2011

This work presents an algorithm for generating multi-RUN (m-RUN) deadlock avoidance policy based on simulated annealing algorithm. The basic idea of this method is to gradually improve the current m-RUN DAP after constructing an initial m-DAP by using simple m RUN DAPs. The search for a neighbor of the current m-RUN DAP is done by selecting and changing only one component of the current m-RUN, while accepting some unimproved solutions with some probability. It is examined for its performance by generating some sample system configurations.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.47-56
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• 2018

In this study, the focus is on the issue of whether a container terminal is facing the limitation of its productivity for serving mega-vessels with numerous containers. In order to enhance the terminal operations, a new conceptual design of the container handling system have been proposed. This research focuses on the rail-based container transport system and its operations. This system consists of rail-based shuttle cranes and rail-based transporters called flatcars. The deadlock problem for managing automated transporters in container terminals has been an important issue for a long measurement of time. Therefore, this study defines the deadlock situation and proposes its avoidance rules at the rail-based container transport system, which is required to handle numerous container throughput operations. The deadlock in the rail-based container transport system is classified into two parts: deadlock between cranes and flatcars; deadlock between flatcars. We developed the simulation model for use with characterizing and analyzing the rail-based container transport system. By running the simulation, we derived possible deadlock situations, and propose the several deadlock avoidance algorithms to provide results for these identified situations. In the simulation experiments, the performances of the deadlock avoidance algorithms are compared according to the frequency of deadlocks as noted in the simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.103-112
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• 2005

자동화 컨테이너 터미널의 생산성을 향상시키기 위해서는 장치장과 안벽 사이를 오가며 컨테이너를 운반하는 무인유도 차량(Automated Guided Vehicle: AGV)들이 효율적으로 주행하여 제 시간에 필요한 위치에 도착함으로써 연계 작업들의 지연을 최소화하여야 한다, 만일 AGV들이 목적지까지 주행하여야 하는 거리가 길거나 주행 중에 다른 AGV들과의 충돌이나 교축을 피하기 위하여 대기하여야 하는 상황이 빈번히 발생하면 주행 효율이 떨어지게 된다, 주행 경로의 길이를 줄이기 위하여 경로들을 보다 유연하게 설정할 수 있게 허용하면 경로들간의 교차 가능성이 높아져 교통 통제가 어려워지고 결과적으로 충돌과 교착이 발생할 가능성은 높아진다. 특히 교착을 사전에 방지하기 위하서는 문제가 발생할 소지가 있는 영역을 미리 파악하여 일부 영역을 다른 AGV들이 점유하지 못하도록 제한하여야 하는데, 이는 자칫 AGV 주행 공간의 활용도를 떨어뜨릴 수 있다. 또한 교착의 파악과 이를 방지하기 위한 제어는 실시간에 이루어져야 하므로 연산 부담이 상당하다. 본 논문에서는 유연한 주행 경로 설정이 가능하며 주행 공간을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있는 주행 경로 표현법과 충돌 방지 방안을 제안한다. 또한 교착 발생 가능성을 사전에 파악하고 회피(avoidance)하는데 소요되는 연산비용을 줄여 실시간 적용 가능성을 높이기 위하여 교착해결(deadlock resolution)에 기반을 둔 AGV 주행 관리 방안을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방안의 효율성을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증해 보았다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2009

Since a deadlock is a condition in which the excessive demand for the resources being used by others causes activities to stop, it is very important to detect and prevent a deadlock. About the deadlock detection analysis methods are may divide like as Siphon, DAPN and transitive matrix, but it's very difficult to evaluate the performance. Since DES (Discrete Event Systems) is NP-hard, and these detection and avoidance methods used various factors in each technique, it's made difficult to compare with each other's. In this paper, we are benchmarked these deadlock detection analyze methods based on the complexity, the detection time and the understanding after approached to one example.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.8 s.179
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• pp.2131-2142
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• 2000

As recent production facilities are usually operated with unmanned material-handling system, the development of an efficient schedule with deadlock avoidance becomes a critical problem. Related researches on deadlock avoidance usually focus on real-time control of manufacturing system using deadlock avoidance policy. But little off-line optimization of deadlock-free schedule has been reported. This paper presents an optimization method for deadlock-free scheduling for Job-Shop system with no buffer. The deadlock-free schedule is acquired by the procedure that generates candidate lists of waiting operations, and applies a deadlock avoidance policy. To verify the proposed approach, simulation resultsare presented for minimizing makespan in three problem types. According to the simulation results the effect of each deadlock avoidance policy is dependent on the type of problem. When the proposed LOEM (Last Operation Exclusion Method) is employed, computing time for optimization as well as makespan is reduced.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.25-43
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• 2005

In modern automated container terminals, automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems are considered a viable option for the horizontal tansportation of containers between the stacking yard and the quayside cranes. AGVs in a container terminal move rather freely and do not follow fixed guide paths. For an efficient operation of such AGVs, however, a sophisticated traffic management system is required. Although the flexible routing scheme allows us to find the shortest possible routes for each of the AGVs, it may incur many coincidental encounters and path intersections of the AGVs, leading to collisions or deadlocks. However, the computational cost of perfect prediction and avoidance of deadlocks is prohibitively expensive for a real time application. In this paper, we propose a traffic control method that predicts and avoids some simple, but at the same time the most frequently occurring, cases of deadlocks between two AGVs. More complicated deadlock situations are not predicted ahead of time but detected and resolved after they occur. Our method is computationally cheap and readily applicable to real time applications. The efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed methods have been validated by simulation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.443-451
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• 2001

This paper addresses an on-line scheduling method for track systems in semiconductor fabrication. A track system is a clustered equipment performing photolithography process in semiconductor fabrication. Trends toward high automation and flexibility in the track systems accelerate the necessity of the intelligent controller that can guarantee reliability and optimize productivity of the track systems. This paper proposes an-efficient on-line scheduling method that can avoid deadlock inherent to track systems and optimize the productivity. We employ two procedures for the on-line scheduling. First, we define potential deadlock set to apply deadlock avoidance policy efficiently. After introducing the potential deadlock set, we propose a deadlock avoidance policy using an on-line Gantt chart, which can generate optimal near-optimal schedule without deadlock. The proposed on-line scheduling method is shown to be efficient in handling deadlock inherent to the track systems through simulation.