• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.149-154
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• 2017

Recently, container terminal operators have made efforts to develop an efficient remarshalling plan in response to the increase in automation of equipment handling and transport of containers in the terminals. Usually, containers are handled by multiple AYCs(automated yard cranes) in-yard in an automated container terminal, and terminal operators establish a remarshalling plan using slack time to increase the efficiency of ship operation. This study develops the optimal mathematical model through mixed integer programming as a solution to the problem of dispatching multiple AYCs. Considering the difficulty of direct application to the field due to computation time, we analyze the five prototypical dispatching rules for real world adaptation. A numerical experiment found that the maximum weight ratio (MR) rule and the maximum weight (MW) rule are the ideal dispatching solutions to the multiple AYCs dispatching problem.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.25-35
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• 1998

정부는 자동화컨테이너터미널을 구축하기 위한 기초연구를 수행하고 있다. 자동화컨테이너터미널은 선박하역을 담당하는 컨테이너 크레인과 애드크레인을 무인 혹은 유/무인 자동제어가 가능하도록 설계하고 선박과 야드간 이동은 AGV를 이용하여 자동화함으로써 생산성 향상, 인건비 절감 등을 목표로 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 1척의 선박이 접안할 수 있는 가상의 자동화컨테이너터미널에서 컨테이너 크레인 수, AGV 대수, 야드 크레인수 등을 변화시켜가면서 터미널의 생산량을 추정할 수 있는 시뮬레이션 모델을 개발하여 제시하였다. 또한 향후 자동화컨테이너터미널의 최적 설계 및 운영을 위한 시뮬레이터를 개발하기 위한 구상을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.215-219
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• 2008

Recently, a container shipping volume has increased dramatically and continued on a trend of rapid growth, and so the number of container handled at the port increase. therefore, it's increasing about concern of harbor automatism to save distribution costs in harbor. harbor automatism classifies into four large automatism's, gate automatism by using RFID that trailer come with burdening the container to be loaded on ships go though with RFID and Quay-Side container crane automatism that treats cargos loading on ships and automatism of CG that loads containers from yard, and automatism of container transporters that carries containers in between gates. To increase the using efficiency of harbor, detecting exact location of yard crane is very important matter. In this paper, propose about yard crane automatism applied UWB Location system and the development direction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.907-910
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• 2007

Recently, a container shipping volume has increased dramatically and continued on a trend of rapid growth, and so the number of container handled at the port increase. therefore, it's increasing about concern of harbor automatism to save distribution costs in harbor. harbor automatism classifies into four large automatism's, gate automatism by using RFID that trailer come with burdening the container to be loaded on ships go though with RFID and Quay-Side container crane automatism that treats cargos loading on ships and automatism of CG that loads containers from yard, and automatism of container transporters that carries containers in between gates. To increase the using efficiency of harbor, detecting exact location of yard crane is very important matter. In this paper, it intends to discuss about yard crane automatism applied UWB Ranging system and bring up the development direction.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.219-226
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• 2020

The container terminal operators established a re-marshalling plan to reduce the loading operation time and the release operation time. Re-marshalling is to rearrange the containers in the container yard to the advantageous position to shorten the working time using the spare time of the automated yard crane. This study assumed the automated container terminal with a perpendicular layout and deals with the inter-bay re-marshalling planning problem in a yard block. The inter-bay re-marshalling plan determines the container to be moved, the location to be relocated, and the sequence of relocation operations. This study presents a mixed integer programming model that simultaneously determines the storage location and the operation sequence while satisfying the spatial availability during the re-marshalling. Numerical experiments are conducted to understand re-marshalling operation using a beam search method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.57-65
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• 2010

This paper describes the method of efficient container number recognition in colored container image with number plate at ATC(Automatic Transfer Crane) in container terminal yard. At the Sinseondae terminal gate in Busan, the container number recognition system is installed by "intelligent port-logistics system technology development", that is government research and development project. It is the method that it sets up the tunnel structure inside camera on the gate and it recognizes the container number in order to recognize the export container cargo automatically. However, as the automation equipment is introduced to the container terminal and the unmanned of a task is gradually accomplished, the container number recognition system for the confirmation of the object of work is required at ATC in container terminal yard. Therefore, the container number recognition system fitted for it is necessary for ATC in container terminal yard in which there are many intrusive of the character recognition through image including a sunlight, rain, snow, shadow, and etc. unlike the gate. In this paper, hardware components of the camera, illumination, and sensor lamp were altered and software elements of an algorithm were changed. that is, the difference of the brightness of the surrounding environment, and etc. were regulated for recognize a container number. Through this, a shadow problem, and etc. that it is thickly below hung with the sunlight or the cargo equipment were solved and the recognition time was shortened and the recognition rate was raised.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.163-170
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• 2004

Since 1960s, a container shipping volume has increased dramatically and continuous on a trend of rapid growth, and so the number of containers handled at the port increases. The position measurement of the yard crane is very important for improving the operating efficiency of the port. This paper describes the method to measure the absolute position of yard crane accurately and rapidly, using both the output pulse of an encoder and infrared sensors. The crane position is calculated by counting the output pulse of an incremental encoder, which is mounted on the wheel in the crane. By the way, the wheel slippage on rail may cause some errors in the crane position information obtained from encoder pulse, and the infrared sensor is used to compensate for errors in the crane position information. The performance of proposed method is verified on experimental results with the simulator of yard crane, the size of which is about 1/10 with the real crane.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.113-119
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• 2002

Recently, an automatic crane control system is required with high speed and rapid transportation. During the operation of crane system in container yard it is necessary to control the crane trolley position and loop length so that the swing of the hanging container is minimized We can do development of unmanned automation control system using automation travel control technique and anti-sway technique in crane system. Therefore, we designed a controller for Automation travel control to control the transfer crane system. Analyzed crane system through simulation, and proved excellency of control performance than other conventional controllers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.280-281
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• 2010

컨테이너의 효율적인 이송은 작업 시간이 곧 비용으로 연결되는 항만에서 가장 중요한 요소이다. 따라서 1990년대 중반부터 세계항만은 RMGC(Rail-Mounted Gantry Crane), RTGC(Rubber-Tired Gantry Crane)등의 크레인이 개발되어 야드에서 컨테이너를 적재하는데 널리 이용되어 오고 있으며, 특히 최근에는 CCD카메라, 각종 센서 둥을 이용하여 트랜스퍼 크레인의 무인화를 위해 수많은 연구가 진행되었고 실용화 된 많은 기술들이 현장에서 사용되고 있으나, 여전히 많은 부분이 연구를 필요로 한다. 특히 RTGC의 경우 RMGC에 비해 무인 자동화 연구개발은 미비한 수준이다. 따라서 본 논문에서 RTGC의 무인자동화 작업을 위한 가장 기초라고 볼 수 있는 수학적 모델링을 기반으로한 고정밀도 주행제어기를 설계하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.359-367
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• 2005

In order to increase the productivity of container terminals, automation is being considered seriously in nowadays. A yard is usually automated by running autumated RMGs (rail mounted gantries) which may require somewhat a different stacking strategy to archive a better performance. In this paper, we present a simulation model for RMGs and summarize experimental results with two different stacking strategies applied to a horizontal block which has two non-crossable RMGs. The concentrating strategy, which stacks containers belong to a single ship together and dedicateds each RMG to either ship services or external truck services, showed a good performance in ship unloading. In the contrast, the distributing strategy, which partitions a block into two regions and binds each RMG to one of the regions to improve the productivity of ship services by running each RMG alternately, is suggested for blocks of exporting.