• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.359-367
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• 2013

The amount of international trade is rapidly increasing as a result of globalization. It is well known that as the size of a vessel becomes larger, the transportation cost per container decreases. That is, the economy-of-scale holds even in maritime container transportation. As a result, the sizes of containerships have been steadily increased for reducing transportation costs. In addition, various handling technologies and handling equipment have been introduced to increase the throughput capacities of container terminals. Quay crane (QC) that carries out load/unload operations plays the most important role among various handling equipment in terminals. Two typical examples of advanced QC concepts proposed so far are double trolley QC and supertainer QC. This paper suggests a method of estimating the expected value and the standard deviation of the container handling cycle time of the advanced QCs that involve several handling components which move at the same time. Numerical results obtained by the proposed estimation procedure are compared with those obtained by simulation studies. In order to demonstrate the advantage of advanced QCs, we compared their expected cycle times with those of a conventional QC.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1622-1625
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• 2003

RMQC, rail mounted quay crane, lifts and moves large container by means of hoist and trolley motion on the dock. Our company is trying to develop advanced RMQC applying the concepts of elevator hoist and container conveyer for the automation and high efficiency in handling the boxes. Prior to the development of new products, it is necessary to check the capacity of conventional crane for reference. The program simulates container-handling rates and gives some design factors for the conventional cranes.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.215-219
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• 2008

최근 물류의 양이 증가함에 따라 컨테이너를 사용한 해상 물동량이 급격히 증가되어 부두에서 처리하여야할 컨테이너 양이 많이 증가되었다. 이에 항만에서의 물류비용 절감을 위해 항만 자동화에 관한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 항만의 자동화는 선박에서 컨테이너를 운반할 트레일러가 통과하는 RFID를 이용한 게이트의 자동화, 정박한 선박에 실려 있는 화물을 취급하는 Quay-Side 컨테이너 크레인(QC)의 자동화, 야드에서 컨테이너를 이적하는 갠트리크레인(GC), 게이트 사이에서 컨테이너를 수송하는 컨테이너 트랜스 포터의 자동화로 크게 분류할 수 있다. 부두의 운용 효율을 증가시키기 위해서는 야드 크레인의 정확한 위치 검출이 상당히 중요한 과제이다. 본 논문에서는 UWB위치인식 시스템을 적용한 야드 크레인의 자동화에 대하여 논의하고 개발방향을 제안한다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1109-1113
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• 2004

RMQC, rail mounted quay crane, lifts and moves large container by means of hoist and trolley motion on the dock. Our company is trying to develop advanced RMQC applying the concepts of elevator hoist and container conveyer for the automation and high efficiency in handling the boxes. Prior to the development of new products, it is necessary to check the capacity of the new systems using simulation program. The program simulates container-handling rates and gives some design factors for the new-type cranes.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.211-216
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• 2014

In general, gantry robot is very useful handling of heavy objects. But rope-driven yard cranes must have a little of sway and skew motion because ropes are passive mechanical device. So many researches have been concentrated on anti-sway algorithm controlling trolley speed. These approaches require sway angle. But it is very difficult to know sway angle and its derivative. Therefore control algorithm of trolley speed is not practical in general. On the contrary, control strategy using auxiliary rope is very useful to sway control of yard crane because rope length is shorter than quay-side container cranes. In this paper, we derive equations of motion of trolley system which have anti-sway controller to use auxiliary rope. And we propose the control strategy and analyse the behavior of the proposed system.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.198-204
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• 2011

Recently, several problems have occurred in the space, infra-structure, and facility of the contiguity of existing harbors due to the trend of enlarged container vessels. In this regard, the Mobile Harbor has been proposed conceptually in this study as an effective solution for these problems. The concept is that of a transfer loader that transfers containers from a large container ship to the harbor on land, and is a catamaran type floating barge. The catamaran-type vessel is well known for its advantage in maneuverability, resistance, and effectiveness for working on board. For the safe and effective operation of the two floating bodies (a container ship and the mobile harbor in the near sea detached from the quay), robot arms, novel crane systems, and pneumatic fenders are specially devised with an additional mooring facility or DP (dynamic positioning) system. In this study, this concept is to be verified through comparison and simulation studies under various environmental conditions. It is shown that the proposed concept is in general feasible but there are several areas for further investigation and improvement.