• IE interfaces
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.316-324
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• 2002

Automated Guided Vehicles are widely used as an essential material handling system for FMS to provide flexibility and efficiency. We suggest a new dispatching rule based on priority function which considers urgency and empty vehicle travel time under finite buffer capacity. We evaluate the performance of the proposed rule by comparing the performance of Shortest Travel Time/Distance(STT/D) rule in terms of machine utilization, throughput and WIP level using simulation. The simulation results show that the suggested dispatching rule is robust and provides better machine utilization, throughput with comparable WIP level compared to STT/D rule.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.9 s.174
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• pp.93-98
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• 2005

The purposes of this paper are the review and derivation of design characteristics for the new construction of the practical flexible manufacturing system. The basic ideas to analyze the manufacturing system which is the automatically operated are dependant on the various manufacturing procedures in factory. The practical flexible manufacturing systems have various mechanical subsystems appropriated fur the final manufacturing products. Therefore the systems have the various kinds of hardwares as well as softwares. We study the software for the practical flexible manufacturing system designed and developed in the Halla University with the related company. Specially the design concepts and using specifications of all subsystems which are composed of mechanical and electronic movements of the product are analyzed and introduced in this dissertation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.333-338
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• 1993

In this paper, we introduce an industrial three degree of freedom manipulator which loads/unloads various freight on an AGV(automated Guided Vehicle). We design and implement the industrial controller for the manipulator with P-I) gain variation method. Since this battery-powered manipulator is opten driven in an instufficient power condition, the gravity effects on the robot joints can be a significant problem. The objectives of this paper are twofold : the presentation of a PI)-controller which can compensate the gravity effects, and the design and implementation of an industrial three degree of freedom manipulator for loading/unloading.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1117-1123
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• 2005

This paper deals with a new automated guided vehicle (AGV) control system for distributed control. Proposed AGV control system adapts the multi-agent technology. The system is composed of two types of controller: routing and order. The order controller is in charge of assignment of orders to AGVs. Through the bidding-based negotiation with routing controllers, the order controller assigns a new order to the proper AGV. The order controller announces order information to the routing controllers. Then the routing controllers generate a routing schedule for the order and make a bid according to the routing schedule. If the routing schedule conflicts with other AGV's one, the routing controller makes an alternative through negotiation with other routing controllers. The order controller finally evaluates bids and selects one. Each controller consists of a set of agents: negotiation agent, decision making agent and communication agent. We focus on the agent architecture and negotiation-based AGV scheduling algorithm. Proposed system is validated through an exemplary scenario.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.53-69
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• 1994

Deadlock in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) which refers to the stop state of job flow in the system can be commonly occurred in operating FMS. This state mainly due to bad movements of jobs and commonly job routings should be avoided to maximize the utilization of high-capital resources in this study, the deadlock generated from the conflict between flow objects competing to occupy space resources in FMS is investigated. Capacity Designated Directed Graph (CDG) is constructed to represent the space resources and flow object routings. From the characteristics of CDG, an algorithm for the detection of the deadlock possibility is proposed. Finally two deadlock avoidance rule are proposed and implemented in the control on Automated Guided Vehicle system in an FMS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.177-184
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• 2000

This study is to choose the most proper model for AGV throughout simulation of behavior of suspension to reduce trial and error because there is no AGV treating heavy weight at harbor loading and unloading at home. Therefore, we estimate the vibration modes of the various suspensions applied to AGV, which is over 75 ton included the weight of two containers using the Matlab in the case of G and 5G, one of the simulation programs.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.24-34
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• 2008

본 논문은 존 조정하에서의 자동반송차량 네트워크에서 발생하는 고착을 해결하기 위한 두 가지 효과적인 알고리듬을 소개한다. 이 알고리듬들은 특별히 양방향 네트워크에 알맞도록 고안되었다. 사이클 제거 알고리듬은 고착을 예방하기 위한 차량의 안전한 라우트를 결정하나, 그래프 축소 알고리듬은 고착을 회피하기 위하여 미래 잠재적인 고착 발생 조건을 결정한다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 알고리듬들의 성능을 비교 분석한 결과 작업물의 이동 횟수와 알고리듬의 시간 복잡성 측면에서 그래프 축소 알고리듬이 사이클 제거 알고리듬 보다 우수함을 나타내었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.330-335
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• 1993

This paper presents an efficient solution for a class of forbidden state problems by introducing a cyclic timed controlled marked graphs (TCMG's), a special class of timed controlled Petri nets (TCPN's) as a model of a class of discrete event systems (DES's). The state feedback control is synthesized, which is maximally permissive while guaranteeing the forbidden states will be avoided. The practical applications or tire theoretical results for an automated guided vehicle (ACV) coordination problem in a flexible manufacturing facility is illustrated.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.793-798
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• 1991

Implementation of AGVS (Automated Guided Vehicle System) in CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing System) generally requires substantial study to optimize design and performance of the guide path. Traditional mathematical approaches have been used with limited success to analyze AGVS. These approaches, however, do not provide a practical opportunity to use by path designers. This paper presents a new approach based on Jules in designing and assessing AGV path to have better design of the closed-loop layout. A framework for the approach is proposed and a case study is reported to demonstrate the framework. Deletion of seldom used paths and addition of bypasses to solve the congestion problem are conducted automatically through simulation expefiments. To visualize die results a graphic control program is developed and integrated with AutoMod/AutoGram simulation package.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.586-589
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• 2001

This paper focuses on a method to connect mobile devices such as mobile robot, Automated Guided Vehicle(AGV) to a fieldbus. In this paper, the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN is used to extend a Profibus-DP network for the mobile devices. In order to integrate these two networks, a protocol converter is developed with two process(i.e., master process of Profibus-DP and virtual master process of IEEE 802.11) and an transmission buffer. Futhermore, a virtual polling algorithm is developed at the protocol conveter in order to satisfy real-time requirements on data communication.