• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.875-882
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• 2010

Nowadays, the global market requires a variety of products and shorter life cycle to fulfill the diverse demands of customers. To survive in the turbulent and competitive markets, automobile assembly companies must design and implement manufacturing systems that respond rapidly to market demands. In this paper, methods for reconfiguring system based on modular concept is proposed using AR(Augmented reality) technologies. First, the relationship matrixes between change drivers and system components are generated to divide existing manufacturing system to each module. And, new change drivers are selected based on required function in new system. Through the modification of relationship matrix, the concept design of new system is proposed and implemented in AR environment. Finally, according to proposed methods and procedure in this paper, the existing cockpit assembly system is reconfigured to spare tire assembly system as a case study. As the use of the modular-based reconfiguration method in AR environment, the time and cost for reconfiguring manufacturing system will be reduced dramatically.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2015-2018
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• 2005

In this paper, we are willing to prepare the reasonable optimization, Combinatorial Optimization and Genetic Algorithm. Thus we define position status of end-effect (or terminative link module) using promised form, (G, M(G), A(G), and so on.). For this preparing step, the reorganizing procedure of Link and Joint Module is necessary, like as enumerating the kinematically identical assembly group of several links and joints. Thus, we draw a G, directed graph in a first step. Because, directed graph contains the path information between adjacent Link Module and Joint Module. From the directed graph,G, we can incite the Incidence Matrix, M(G). The incidence matrix, M(G), contains the contact information of the Link (Joint) Module and the type of Link (Joint). At the end of this paper, we generalize the modular information as a matrix form, A(G). From this matrix, we can make a population of assembly status. That is the finial output of this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.620-623
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• 2002

To cope with the challenge of competitive market, manufacturing system needs to be agile in terms of its reconfigurability and scalability. For a system to be adapted to changed requirements, decision support tools such as configurator have to be provided. This paper introduces the basic framework of a configurator for assembly system Based on the factory data model(FDM) depicting the overall structure of a manufacturing system, functions of the configurator are described, i.e., requirements analysis, module selection and configuration optimization.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.270-276
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• 2016

This paper proposes a design methodology of self-reconfigurable kinematics and control engine for modular and reconfigurable robots. A modular manipulator has been proposed to meet the requirement of task adaptation in versatile needs for service and industrial robot area and the function of self-reconfiguration is required to extend the application of modular robots. Kinematic and dynamic contexts are extracted from the module and assembly information and related codes are automatically generated including controller. Thus a user can easily build and use a modular robot without professional knowledge. Simulation results are presented to verify the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.8940-8947
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• 2015

Mixed-model assembly line has been widely used in automotive assembly industry to quickly respond the diverse product demands. But, this model can lead to part confusion, which is a source for assembly errors when parts are physically interchangeable in a mixed-model assembly line. With the recent application of new technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) to the assembly process, real-time information has become available in this manufacturing systems through IT infrastructures. At first, this paper presents an RFID application for assembly processes, specifically, for a mixed-model assembly line. Thus, to ensure that parts be picked accurately, each cockpit module on the assembly line is attached with a RFID tag and the tag is scanned using a RFID reader and recognizes the vehicle, and each part of the cockpit module is attached with a barcode and the barcode is scanned by a barcode reader and each part is identified correctly for the vehicle. Second, this paper presents a ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol-based application for a reconfigurable mixed-model assembly line of cockpit module to reduce the assembly errors and the cost of the change/reconfiguration on the assembly lines due to the various orders and new models from the motor company, avoiding the wiring efforts and inconvenience by wiring between the several RFID devices and the IT server system. Finally, we presents the operation results for several years using this RFID/ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol-based cockpit module assembly line.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.15-32
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• 2000

이 글은 1999년 제49차 CIRP General Assembly에서 Key Note Paper로 발표되었던 논문을 전재한 것이다. CIRP는 생산공학분야의 가장 중요한 국제학술대회 중 하나로, Key Note Session에서는, 각 분야의 대표적 연구자들이 해당 분야의 현황과 추세를 매년 조사한 내용들이 발표된다. 지난해 생산시스템 분야에서 주목해야 할 주제로서 재구성형 생산 시스템(Reconfigurable manufacturing system ; RMS)이 선정되어, 미국, 일본, 유럽의 일곱명의 전문가에 의해 정리된 내용을, Michigan 대학의 Koren 교수가 취합, 편집 및 발표하였다. 원문 요약은 아래와 같다. 21세기 제조업체들은, 글로벌한 경쟁과 예측 불가능하게 급변하는 시장에 효과적으로 대응하여야 할 것이다. 경쟁력을 유지하기 위해서는, 효율적이면서도 시장변화에 조속히 대처 할 수 있는 새로운 생산시스템을 보유하여야 한다. 시장변화에 대한 효율적이며 신속한 대응을 위한 엔지니어링 기술로서 재구성 기술(reconfigurability)이 필요하다. 새로운 생산 방식으로서 재구성형 생산 시스템은, 재구성이 가능한 기계들과 제어 장치, 그리고 그것들을 체계적으로 설계하고 신속하게 초기 가동 관리(ramp-up)하기 위한 방법론으로 이루어진다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.452-462
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• 2008

In this paper, we address issues associated with the real-time implementation of the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II (or MUSICAM) and MPEG-4 ER-BSAC decoders for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) on TMS320C64x+ that is a fixed-point DSP processor with a clock speed of 330 MHz. To achieve the real-time requirement, they should be optimized in different steps as follows. First of all, a C-code level optimization is performed by sharing the memory, adjusting data types, and unrolling loops. Next, an algorithm level optimization is carried out such as the reconfiguration of bitstream reading, the modification of synthesis filtering, and the rearrangement of the window coefficients for synthesis filtering. In addition, the C-code of a synthesis filtering module of the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II decoder is rewritten by using the linear assembly programming technique. This is because the synthesis filtering module requires the most processing time among all processing modules of the decoder. In order to show how the real-time implementation works, we obtain the percentage of the processing time for decoding and calculate a RMS value between the decoded audio signals by the reference MPEG decoder and its DSP version implemented in this paper. As a result, it is shown that the percentages of the processing time for the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II and MPEG-4 ER-BSAC decoders occupy less than 3% and 11% of the DSP clock cycles, respectively, and the RMS values of the MPEG-1/2 Layer-II and MPEG-4 ER-BSAC decoders implemented in this paper all satisfy the criterion of -77.01 dB which is defined by the MPEG standards.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.257-271
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• 2010

As the end of photolithographic integration era is approaching fast, numerous nanoscale devices and systems based on novel nanoscale materials and assembly techniques are recently emerging. Notably, various reconfigurable architectures with considerable promise have been proposed based on nanowire crossbar structure as the primitive building block. Unfortunately, high-density sys-tems consisting of nanometer-scale elements are likely to have numerous physical imperfections and variations. Therefore, defect-tolerance is considered as one of the most exigent challenges in nanowire crossbar systems. In this work, three different defect-avoidant logic mapping algorithms to circumvent defective crosspoints in nanowire reconfigurable crossbar systems are evaluated in terms of various performance metrics. Then, a novel method to find the most cost-effective repair solution is demonstrated by considering all major repair parameters and quantitatively estimating the performance and cost-effectiveness of each algorithm. Extensive parametric simulation results are reported to compare overall repair costs of the repair algorithms under consideration and to validate the cost-driven repair optimization technique.