• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.855-860
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• 2006

컨테이너 터미널과 같이 다수의 AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle)를 한정된 공간에서 동시에 운용하는 환경에서는 AGV의 작업생산성에 악영향을 주는 충돌, 데드락(deadlock), 라이브락(liveiock)이 발생할 확률이 높다. 또한, AGV의 가/감속 운동은 AGV의 주행시간을 예측하기 어렵게 만들기 때문에 AGV 라우팅을 더욱 어렵게 만드는 요인이다. 본 논문에서는 AGV 사이의 충돌, 데드락, 라이브락을 방지하기 위해 점유영역 예약테이블(Occupancy Area Reservation table; OAR table)을 이용하는 방법과 최적주행경로를 선택하기 위해 가감속 운동을 고려하여 AGV의 주행시간을 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 시간중심 시뮬레이 션(time-driven simulation)을 통해 제안방안을 실험 한 결과 제안방안의 효과를 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.543-568
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• 2013

This study explores the floor micro-vibrations induced by the automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in liquid-crystal-display (LCD) factories. The relationships between moving loads and both the vehicle weights and speeds were constructed by a modified Kanai-Tajimi (MKT) power spectral density (PSD) function whose best-fitting parameters were obtained through a regression analysis by using experimental acceleration responses of a small-scale three-span continuous beam model obtained in the laboratory. The AGV induced floor micro-vibrations under various AGV weights and speeds were then assessed by the proposed regressional MKT model. Simulation results indicate that the maximum floor micro-vibrations of the target LCD factory fall within the VC-B and VC-C levels when AGV moves at a lower speed of 1.0 m/s, while they may exceed the acceptable VC-B level when AGV moves at a higher speed of 1.5 m/s. The simulated floor micro-vibration levels are comparable to those of typical LCD factories induced by AGVs moving normally at a speed between 1.0 m/s and 2.0 m/s. Therefore, the numerical algorithm that integrates a simplified sub-structural multi-span continuous beam model and a proposed regressional MKT moving force model can provide a satisfactory prediction of AGV-induced floor micro-vibrations in LCD factories, if proper parameters of the MKT moving force model are adopted.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2017

세계는 급속한 IT 기술의 발달과 생명공학의 발달로 인간 수명이 급격하게 연장되어 노령화가 사회문제가 되는 시대에 살고 있다. 이러한 노령화 문제는 제조공장 또는 물류창고의 물류운송공장에서의 인력을 대신할 수 있는 무인운반차가 대체로 옮겨지고 있다. 이러한 무인운반차 사용의 증가세는 매년 큰 폭으로 상승하고 있으며, 스마트공장 내에서만 사용하던 무인운반차는 항만의 거대한 컨테이너를 운반할 수 있는 컨테이너 운반용으로 변모하고 있어 실내에서 실외로 그 활용성을 더욱 확장하고 있다. 이렇게 활용도가 증가하고 있는 무인운반차의 중요도가 높아짐에 따라 이를 제어하는 RCS(Remote Control System)의 중요성도 역시 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 무인운반차 RCS의 품질평가체제의 확립을 위해 다양하게 발전하고 있는 무인운반차의 특성과 기술동향 그리고 무인운반차 RCS의 기술적 특징을 조사 분석하여 이를 바탕으로 무인운반차 RCS의 신뢰확보를 위해 국제품질평가 표준인 ISO/IEC 25000 시리즈를 참조하여 기능적합성과 사용성의 평가항목을 도출하고, 도출된 기능접합성과 사용성의 평가항목을 통해 평가모델을 개발하고자 한다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

Controlling industrial vehicle operated by human in warehouse was not simple since the information transfer for controlling the vehicle was not easy. However, as the technology for the WMS (Warehouse Management System) has been advanced and the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) has come into wide use in a workplace, the control of man-operated vehicle became less difficult as do to AGVS (Automated Guided Vehicle System). This study examines the ways to improve the efficiency of warehouse operation through introducing rule of task assignment for the vehicles, particularly forklift. This study, basically, refer to AGV operation policy because a great number of studies for AGV dispatching rule have been done and the mechanism for the controlling vehicles is very similar. The workers in field prefer to simple dispatching rules such as Shortest Retrieval Time First (SRTF), Shortest Travel Time First (STTF), and Longest Waiting Time First (LWTF). However, these rules have potential disadvantage. Thus, several rules made up by combining rules mentioned above are introduced and these new rules use threshold value or evaluation formula. The effectiveness of these new rules are tested by simulation and the results are compared. This study proposes favorable dispatching rules for forklift in warehouse for the efficiency of the vehicle operation and stability of service level.

• 한국정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보시스템학회 1996년도 추계학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.199-204
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• 1996

It is discussed how to determine the home location of idle vehicles in an AGVS with a loop guide path in a way of maximizing the request-call response probabilities for all demand. Optimal home position is selected by solving the simultaneous equations easily. Static positioning strategy is analyzed in which a single home position is allocated to which every vehicle is routed whenever it becomes idle. The cases of unidirectional guidepath is considered only. We provide a numerical example to illustrate the search algorithm developed for the case and compare the searched optimal solutions with the others.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

In industry AGV's(automated guided vehicles) that can detect and follow guidelines drawn on the factory floor using magnetic or optical sensors are widely used. However, such AGV's without preview capability cannot effectively avoid collision with obstacles that may occasionally pass through the guideline. Furthermore, without preview information, they consume much energy at the right angle corners as they have to make sudden directional change. Also, the risk of dropping payloads increases in such situations. In this study, infrared preview sensors were adopted to a mobile robot for detecting not only the current position but also the forward position of the guideline and the preview control technique was applied to optimally control the mobile robot's motion using the information from the infrared preview sensors. Then the effectiveness of this approach was investigated through a series of experiments. The experimental result shows that the proposed approach is effective for safety enhancement as well as for better efficiency.

• 산업공학
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• 제15권3호
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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.

• 산업공학
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• 제17권spc호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to develop and show the efficiency of the URL(Unload Request Logic) and LRL(Load Request Logic) of the dispatcher in the Fab(Fabrication) Manufacturing Execution System. These logics are the core procedures which control the material(wafer and glass substrate) flow efficiently in the semiconductor and LCD fab considering inter-bay as well as intra-bay material flow. We use the present and future status information of the system by look-ahead and the information about the future transportation schedule of Automated Guided Vehicles. The simulation results show that the URL and LRL presented in this paper reduce the average lead time, average and maximum WIP level, and the average available AGV waiting time.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.826-831
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• 1991

Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS), which is an element of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), is a widely used material handling equipment with conveyors and Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs). Until now the evaluation of operational policies of AS/RS and control algorithms is done theoretically or by computer simulations. In this study, a real-time control and monitoring software of an AS/RS is also developed by making actually moving AS/RS miniature. A PC-based real-time monitoring program can control the AS/RS directly through the communication port. The monitoring program has additional functions such as storage/retrieval management, inventory management, and statistics management. The program can not only collect the necessary statistics but monitor the current action of the AS/RS concurrently.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2002년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.241-244
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• 2002

Recently, the size of glass panel is increased to $1250 mm{\times}1100 mm{\times}0.7 mm$, whose mass is 2.65 kg, which requires much stiffer robot structure. In addition to the high stiffness, the robot hands and wrists for glass panel handling should have miller surface finishing of its outer surface to prevent particles and dusts from adhering on the surface. The maximum height of the robot structure should not be larger than 1500 mm because other automated guided vehicles (AGV) and transfer equipments have been designed within this size limit. The difference of maximum deflections of the four ends of the hands before and after loading the glass panel should be less than 2.0 mm. In this work, the robot hands and wrists for handling large glass panel displays were designed based on the axiomatic design using the finite element method along with optimization routine.