• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.307-313
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• 2012

This paper proposes a hand-eye laser range finder (LRF) based welding plane recognition method for autonomous robotic welding. The robot welding is the process of joining a metal piece and the welding plane along the welding path predefined by the shape of the metal piece. Thus, for successful robotic welding, the position and direction of the welding plane should be exactly detected. If the detected position and direction of the plane is not accurate, the autonomous robotic welding should fail. For precise recognition of the welding plane, a line on the plane is detected by the LRF. For obtaining the line on the plane, the Hough transform is applied to the obtained data from the LRF. Since the Hough transform is based on the voting method, the sensor noise can be reduced. Two lines on the plane are obtained before and after rotation of the robot joint, and then the direction of the plane is calculated by the cross product of two direction vectors of two lines. For verifying the feasibility of the proposed method, the simulation with the robot simulator, RoboticsLab developed by Simlab Co. Ltd., is carried out.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.159-165
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• 2005

The characterization of radiological contamination inside pipes generated during the decommission of a nuclear facility is necessary before pipes can be recycled or disposed. But, existing direct measurements of radioactive contamination level using the survey-meter can not estimate the characteristic of contamination on a local area such as the pipe inside. Moreover, the measurement of surface contamination level using the indirect methods has many problems of an application because of the difficulty of collecting sample and contamination possibility of a worker when collecting sample. In this work, plastic scintillator was simulated by using Monte Carlo simulation method for detection of beta radiation emitted from internal surfaces of small diameter pipe. Simulation results predicted the optimum thickness and geometry of plastic scintillator at which energy absorption for beta radiation was maximized. In addition, the problem of scintillator processing and transferring the detector into the pipe inside was considered when fabricating the plastic detector on the basis of simulation results. The characteristic of detector fabricated was also estimated. As a result, it was confirmed that detector capability was suitable for the measurement of contamination level. Also, the development of a detector for estimating the radiological characteristic of contamination on a local area such as the pipe inside was proven to be feasible.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.455-463
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• 1998

RCCA(rod cluster control assembly) End-Tip suffers from neutron irradiation and constant vibration due to high-speed internal flow of primary coolant during plant operation. Such operating conditions cause the RCCA end-tip crackings around tile circumferential weldment of the end-tip, and in some cases, the defective end-tips were completly broken loose. However, no reliable inspection techniques for end-tip crackings were developed in the past, although some techniques exist for inspecting RCCA control rod wears. Therefore, NDE group at KEPRI has developed an ECT technique for the detection and the sizing of the end-tip crackings. The technique uses a specially designed surface-riding probe that can detect size of circumferential crackings with an accuracy of ${\pm}5.31%$ RMS error. This paper describes the ECT instrumentation including the ECT probes, calibration bars, as well as technical approaches.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.93.2-93.2
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• 2015

플라즈마를 포함한 반응성 가스 공정 분석용 사중극자 질량분석기의 필라멘트의 파손양상을 조사하였다. 또한 유전체 증착층이 이온원 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 이온원의 일반적인 가동 전압 조건에서 Poisson방정식을 이용하여 전위를 수치 해석으로 구하였다. 사용중 파손된 필라멘트의 파단면을 주사전자현미경으로 관찰결과, 수직으로 절단되는 양상과 직경이 점차 작아지면서 erosion되는 두가지 양상을 보였다. 또한 파단면은 표면균열과 패시팅(faceting) 현상을 보였다. 필라멘트 사용시 가장 큰 문제는 패시팅(faceting)이다. 대부분의 결정에서는 다른 결정면보다 에너지 준위가 낮은 결정면이 존재한다. W 원자는 고온에서 확산 또는 증발하여 표면에서 다시 응축할 때 표면 에너지를 최소화하기 위한 독특한 평형 형상이 만들어 지는데 이것이 패시팅의 구동력이다. 이때 국부적으로 단면적이 감소하는 곳이 생기는데, 이 지점이 집중적으로 가열되고 증발이 가속화하여 파손된다. 파단면을 EDS 분석결과, 산화물을 포함한 F, Fe 및 C이 검출되었다. 이 F과 C는 공정중 사용된 CF4의 분해에 의한 것으로 생각되며, 파손된 필라멘트를 Ar 유도결합 플라즈마로 처리한 결과 이 F, Fe 및 C의 양이 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.783-788
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• 2001

Voids created with concrete construction or deterioration result in serious weakness from the aspects of both structural and durable function. Ultrasonic method using image processing technique was used for detecting pattern of voids in concrete in this study Experimental investigation was carried out for three types(patterns) of void in concrete. The effect of curing period of concrete and ultrasonic measurement method was also investigated. As a result it has been verified that the semi-direct measurement method is more effective than the other methods for detecting pattern of voids in concrete in ultrasonic method using image processing technique. The longer the curing period of concrete is, the better the detection accuracy of void pattern can be obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.245-250
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• 2002

A successful on-line monitoring system for conventional machining operations has the potential to reduce cost, guarantee consistency of product quality, improve productivity and provide a safer environment for the operator. In fee-shape machining, typical signs of tool problems such as vibration, noise, chip flow characteristics and visual signs are almost unnoticeable without the use of special equipment. These characteristics increase the importance of automatic monitoring in fine-shape machining; however, sensing and interpretation of signals are more complex. In addition, the shafts of the micro-tools break before the typical extensive cutting edge of the tool gets damaged. In this study, the existence of a relationship between the characteristics of the cutting force and tool usage was investigated, and tool breakage detection algorithm was developed and the fellowing results are obtained. In data analysis, didn't use a relative error compare which mainly used in established experiment and investigated tool breakage detection algorithm in time domain which can detect AE and cutting force signals more effective and accurate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.1229-1232
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• 2001

코일에 고주파전압을 걸면 교류자계가 발생하며 이 자게 내의 금속재료에 와전류가 발생하는데 와전류는 재료의 재질, 결함, 이종금속, 형상변화 등에 의해 그 발생상태가 다르기 때문에 검출용 코일에서 얻어진 신호성분을 해석함으로써 재료의 비파괴검사가 가능하다. 원자력발전소에서는 증기발생기와 열교환기를 정기적으로 이 와전류 탐상검사를 수행하고 결함상태를 평가하여 그 결과를 대용량 Media에 저장한다. 본 논문에서는 평가결과 정보를 추출하고 변환 처리하여 RDBMS에 입력 관리하는 과정과 다양한 형태의 열교환기 Tubesheet를 편집하는 기능, 사용자의 검색조건 선택에 따라 데이터베이스를 Query하여 Tubesheet에 Mapping 처리하는 기능, 검사주기 및 기기별로 평가결과를 비교 분석할 수 있는 통계/보고서 기기사양정보 및 검사정보관리 등 제반 Application 시스템 구현 결과를 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.59-60
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• 2015

반도체 공정에서는 소자 내부의 물리량 계산을 통해 결점를 검출하는 시뮬레이션을 수행하게 된다. 이를 위해 3차원적 형상을 표현하여 물리적 미분 방정식을 계산하는 유한 차분 시간 영역 알고리즘(Finite-Difference Time-Domain, 이하 FDTD)과 같은 수치해석 기법이 사용된다. 반도체 테스트 범위의 확장으로 인해 시뮬레이션 사이즈 또한 커지고 있는 추세이다. 이에 따라 하나의 프로세서에서 수행할 수 없는 문제가 발생하기도 한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 openMP와 MPI를 이용한 하이브리드 컴퓨팅 기법을 바탕으로 다중 GPU 제어를 통해 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하였으며 정상 동작함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 1991

A measurement system for magnetic anisotropy was built. The torque acting on the disc or sperical samples placed in uniform magnetic field was detected with a capacitive transducer which is connected with a transformer ratio-arm bridge. The output of the bridge was amplified with a lock-in amplifier. The cubic anisotropy constant for (100) of 3% Si-Fe was $3.3{\times}10^{4}\;J/m^{3}$. The calibration for the system was carried out with the shape anisotropy of a thin Ni wire.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.79-86
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• 2001

The signal pattern recognition method by acoustic emission signal is applied to detect and classify the defects of a journal bearing in a power plant. AE signals of main defects such as overheating, wear and corrosion are obtained from a small scale model. To detect and classify the defects, AE signal pattern recognition program is developed. As the classification methods, the wavelet transformation analysis, the frequency domain analysis and time domain analysis are used. Among three analyses, the wavelet transformation analysis is most effective to detect and classify the defects of the journal bearing..