• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6D
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• pp.859-869
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• 2008

These days, almost every industry's production line has become automatic and this phenomenon brought a lot of benefits such as increase in productivity and economical effect, assurance in industrial safety, better quality and compatibility. However, unlike industrial production line, in construction industry, automation has number of barriers like uncertainty incidents and intellectual judgment to make ability to make solution out of it. Therefore construction industry is still demanding use of construction machine through labor. Due to this matter operational labor in construction industry is aging and fading. To solve these problem, in developed nations like Europe, US or Japan are keep researching for the automation in construction and road pavement, strengthening and some other simple operations have been worked through automation but in civil engineering site, automation research is still low despite of its importance in constructional site. For automating civil engineering operation, effective operational plan have to be set by analyzing ground information acquainted. If skillful worker apply heuristics, trial & error can be reduced with increased safety and the effective work plan can be established. Hence, this research will introduce Intellectual Task Planning System for Intelligent Excavating System's effective work plan and heuristics applied in each steps.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2013

Excavation is an important work in mining, earth removal and general earthworks. Nowadays, automation in excavator has been studied by several researchers. In the excavator research methods, simulation is one of the low cost methods for applied to test safely. In this paper, designed a virtual hydraulic excavator that with the control and the dynamic. At first, the simulation of hydraulic system for excavator's attachment such as boom, arm and bucket using Matlab/Simhydraulic is presented. Second, the dynamic model of excavator is distributed to combine with the hydraulic system. For controlling this system, electric joysticks are used to operate the orifice open areas in Main Control Valve. The simulation result is described to analysis the performance of this virtual excavator.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.38-47
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• 2019

In this paper, a real-time simulation model of an excavator using Amesim was proposed, considered the operation of functional valves with the main control valve (MCV). The hydraulic system models including the pump and MCV have been developed. The kinematic and dynamic models of the manipulator have also been developed, to confirm the behavior of the excavator. The MCV model includes various functional valves such as the regenerative valves, holding valves, swing and boom priority valves, and regen-cut valves so that simulations similar to real excavators can be performed. Additionally, to obtain the real-time calculation performance, the parts with no major influence on the dynamic behavior were simplified, high frequency factors were removed, and parameters were optimized. The models were compared with each other through the numerical analysis with variable time-step and fixed time-step, and the results were verified by comparison with the results of the actual vehicle tests.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.801-805
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• 2008

Today, hydraulic systems play an important role in modern industry for the reasons that hydraulic actuator systems take many advantages over other technologies with high durability and the ability to produce large forces at high speeds. In recent years, electro-hydraulic actuator systems, which combine electric and hydraulic technology into a compact unit, have been adapted to a wide variety of force, speed and torque requirements. Moreover these systems resolve energy consumption and noise problems characteristic existed in the conventional hydraulic systems. Therefore, these systems have a wide range application fields especially in an excavator. So the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate efficiency of the energy saving and present some control algorithms which apply to electro-hydraulic actuator system in the bucket of the excavator. Experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system with various external loads as in real working conditions.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.23-29
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• 2013

The excavator is used in a variety of construction environments. There are many kinds of risk like falling rocks or harmful dust. The excavator cabin protects the operator not only from these harmful environments but also provides a comfortable working environment. By the way, the excavator cabin consumes a lot of energy for cabin air conditioner. For this reason, the research is required to reduce energy consumption. This study suggests the air conditioning system for excavator using forced exhaust. First, the forced exhaust system simulated by AMESim tool and surveyed the applicability. Using AMESim simulation, it was investigated the effect of cabin inside temperature by intake flow rate and intake air temperature. The experiment executed using the 1.5 ton excavator and field tested according to the intake flow rate. Finally, verified the applicability on the air conditioning system for excavator using forced exhaust.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.157-158
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• 2023

본 연구는 건설기계에 의한 협착 및 충돌재해의 예방을 위해 사용하고 있는 스마트 안전관리 시스템 중 건설기계 근접 방지시스템의 재해예방 효과를 분석하여 그 안전성을 실증하고자 하였다. 건설기계 중 재해다발 및 위험성이 높은 굴삭기를 대상으로 스마트 안전관리 시스템의 유무에 따라 근로자(1,000명 기준)의 행동 변화를 라이다 센스 장비를 활용하여 분석하였다. 근로자-건설기계와 최단 이격거리, 위험구역 내 근로자의 체류시간, 위험구역 주변 근로자의 이동 경로 및 체류시간에 따른 근로자의 분포도 등 근로자의 행동 패턴을 분석한 결과스마트 안전관리 시스템을 설치한 건설기계가 미설치한 건설기계보다 근로자와의 이격거리 확보와 위험구역내 체류시간을 단축한 결과를 도출하였다. 이는 스마트 안전관리 시스템이 건설기계와 관련한 협착 및 충돌 등에 의한 재해로부터 근로자의 안전성을 확보한 결과라 분석되었다.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2019

The HPM (High-speed Power Matching) system is an electro-hydraulic control system. It directly controls the swash plate of the pump by selecting four-loop logic based on joystick signals, pump flow, and pressure signal to improve the efficiency and controllability of construction machines. In the NFC (Negative Flow Control) system, a typical pump control system using conventional open center type MCV, the loss is continuously generated by flow through the center bypass line even when the excavator is not in operation. Also, due to the slow response of the pump that indirectly controls the flow rate using the pressure regulator, peak pressure occurs at the start or stop of the operation. Conversely, the HPM system uses an MCV without center-by-pass flow path and the swash plate of a pump for the HPM is controlled by a high-speed proportional flow control valve. As a result, the HPM system minimizes energy loss in standby state of the excavator and enables peak pressure control through rapid electro-hydraulic control of a pump. In this paper, the concept of the HPM system algorithm is introduced and the hydraulic system efficiency is compared with the NFC system using the excavator SAT (System Analysis Tool).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.398-398
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• 2000

Since there is a blind zone in driver's view around the excavator, industrial accidents between the equipment and the workers within the zone have been occurred frequently. The purpose of this paper is to develop a obstacle recognition system which can prevent such an accident by providing the driver with the information on direction and distance of the obstacle within the blind zone. We designed the ultrasonic sensor based obstacle recognition system which consists of sensor arrays and a control unit connected via CAN(controller area network). The Cross-correlation technique and histogramic probability distribution method are used as a reliable obstacle detection algorithms to remove the environmental noise. The experimental results using a real excavator show the effectiveness of the system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.716-719
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• 1997

An integrated program of driving simulator has been developed for excavators using the Motif, OpenGL, and C compiler. The developed program not only offers a GUI but also covers graphic algorithms, therefore, the user can easily run the driving simulator whose components include a simplified visual graphics system. Several graphics technique are combined and applied to the simulator program in order to increase the speed of graphical representation, which access computer memories, mix 2D models with 3D ones, and use the basic position detection method. A text format environment file has been utilized for organizing more flexible driving circumstances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.585-588
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• 1995

In this study, the analysis of the static and dynamic characteristics of the load-sensitive hydraulic pump control system used in the hydraulic excavator was performed by hydraulic circuit ananlysis program. Thess results was verified by the experimental data of the hydraulic excavtor system. The responses on effective parameters of system at the controllable region and the pressure variation of the pump used in hydraulic excavator system was studied to enhance the static performace of the system. the parameter enhance dynamic sharacteristics was considerd.