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Automatic Eggshell Crack Detection System for Egg Grading (계란 등급판정을 위한 파각란 자동 검사 시스템)

  • Choi, Wan-Kyu;Lee, Kang-Jin;Son, Jae-Ryong;Kang, Suk-Won;Lee, Ho-Young
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.348-354
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    • 2008
  • Egg grading is determined by exterior and interior quality. Among the evaluation methods for the egg quality, a candling method is common to identify eggs with cracked shells and interior defects. But this method is time-consuming and laborious. In addition, practically, it is challenging to detect hairline and micro cracks. In this study, an on-line inspection system based on acoustic resonance frequency analysis was developed to detect hairline cracks on eggshells. A roller conveyor was used to transfer eggs along one lane to the impact position where each of eggs rotated by the roller was excited with an impact device at four different locations on the eggshell equator. The impact device was consisted of a plastic hammer and a rotary solenoid. The acoustic response of the egg to the impact was measured with a small condenser microphone at the same position as the impact device was installed. Two acoustic parameters, correlation coefficient for normalized power spectra and standard deviation of peak resonant frequencies, were used to detect cracked eggs. Intact eggs showed relatively high correlations among the four normalized power spectra and low standard deviations of the four peak resonant frequencies. On the other hand, cracked eggs showed low correlations and high standard deviations as compared to the intact. This method allowed a crack detection rate of 97.6%.

A Study on the Construction CALS system and the Road Fine System Connections (건설CALS시스템과 과태료부과시스템의 연계방안 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Hak;Ju, Ki-Beom
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.6111-6117
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    • 2012
  • This paper is a type of business representatives who are responsible for the burden he want to relieve. In addition, to ensure transparency and to contribute to the Elimination of irregularities in cracking down on overcharging to research. In order to avoid duplicate entry of fixed checkpoints of modern equipment was installed in the automatic collection of information inspection. And, if the information is the same information to crack down imposed the Road Fine system linkage system Constrution CALS system to research. Land administration office imposed a fine after confirmation information to crack down on the auditory system, the auditory crackdown imposed fine and proceed to determine the status of your work since. This study was carried out and any future crackdown on overcharging gathering information for the efficient production of surgical intervention for improved accuracy considering that frequency.

Exophthalmometric values using White-light Scanning Interferometer (백색광 간섭계를 이용한 안구 돌출 값 측정)

  • Chang, Jung-soo;Kim, Young-kil
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.2341-2346
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    • 2017
  • The relative position of the eyeballs in the orbit can be a criterion for estimating multiple pathological conditions. Especially, it is useful to diagnose orbital fracture, thyroid eye disease, orbital tumor, and to evaluate the result of drug and surgical treatment. The Hertel and Naugle exophthalmometer, which are the most commonly used measuring instruments for measuring the prominence of the eye, are different from each other. Even if the same examiner repeatedly measures, it is inevitable. Also, even if the same exophthalmometer is different from the manufacturing company, the design of the fixed part of the orbit is different, and a measurement error is caused by the inspectors. In this paper, we propose a method of automatic measurement that can increase the accuracy and repeatability of measurement of exophthalmos using white light scanning interferometer, which is a 3D image measurement technique.

The Design of an Intelligent Assembly Robot System for Lens Modules of Phone Camera.

  • Song, Jun-Yeob;Lee, Chang-Woo;Kim, Yeong-Gyoo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.649-652
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    • 2005
  • The camera cellular phone has a large portion of cellular phone market in recent year. The variety of a customer demand makes a fast model change and the spatial resolution is changed from VGA to multi-mega pixel. The 1.3 mega pixel (MP) camera cellular phone was first released into the Korean market in October 2003. The major cellular phone companies released a 2MP camera cellular phone that supports zoom function and a 2MP camera cellular phone is settled down with the Korea cellular phone market. It makes a keen competition in price and demands automation for phone camera module. There is an increasing requirement for the automatic assembly to correspond to a fast model change. The hard automation techniques that rely on dedicated manufacturing system are too inflexible to meet this requirement. Therefore in this study, this system is designed with the flexibility concept in order to cope with phone camera module change. The system has a same platform that has X-Y-Z motion or X-Z motion with ${\mu}m$order accuracy. It has a special gripper according to the type of a component to be put together. If the camera model changes, the gripper may be updated to fit for the camera module. The controller of this system acquires the data sets that have the information about the assembly part by the tray. This information is obtained ahead of an inspection step. The controller excludes an inferior part to be assembled by using this information to diminish the inferior goods. The assembly jig used in this system has a function of self adjustment that reduces the tact time and also diminish the inferior goods. Finally, the intelligent assembly system for phone camera module will be designed to get a flexibility to meet model change and a high productivity with a high reliability.

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A Case Study of Concrete Pavement Deterioration by Alkali-Silica Reaction in Korea

  • Hong, Seung-Ho;Han, Seung-Hwan;Yun, Kyong-Ku
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 2007
  • The concrete pavement of the Seohae Highway in Korea has suffered from serious distress, only four to seven years after construction. Deterioration due to Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) has seldom been reported per se in Korea, because the aggregate used for the cement concrete has been considered safe against alkali-silica reaction so far. The purpose of this study is to examine the deterioration caused by an alkali-silica reaction of concrete pavement in Korea. The investigation methods included visual inspection and Automatic Road Analyzer (ARAN) analysis of surface cracks, coring for internal cracks, stereo microscopic analysis, scanning electronic microscope (SEM) analysis, and electron dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX) analysis. The results are presented as follows: the crack pattern of the concrete pavement in Korea was longitudinal cracking, map cracking or D-cracking. Local areas of damage were noticed four to five years after construction. The cracks started from edges or joints and spread out to slabs. The most intensive cracking was observed at the intersection of the transverse and longitudinal joints. Where cracking was the most intense, pieces of concrete and aggregate had spalled away from top surface and joint interface area. The progress of deterioration was very fast. The reaction product of alkali-silica gel was clearly identified by its generally colorless, white, or very pale yellow hue seen through a stereo optical microscopy. The typical locations of the reaction product were at the interface between aggregate and cement paste in a shape of a rim, within aggregate particles in the cracks, and in the large void in the cement paste. Most of the white products were found at interface or internal aggregates. SEM and EDX analysis confirmed that the white gel was a typical reaction product of ASR. The ASR gel in Korea mainly consisted of Silicate (Si) and Potassium (K) from the cement. The crack in the concrete pavement was caused by ASR. It seems that Korea is no longer safe from alkali-silica reaction.

Automatic Noncontact Ultrasonic Inspection Technique (비접촉식 초음파탐상방법 자동화 기술)

  • Kim, Y.G.;Ahn, B.Y.;Lee, S.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 1994
  • A system for EMAT, which generates ultrasound by electro-magnectic forces and performs nondestructive testing in noncontact, was established. By linking it with a 3 axis scanning system and a data acquisition and processing system the automation of EMAT testing was attempted. A EMAT sensor was fabricated and the directivity pattern of it was measured. To be suitable automation, it has a transmitter and a receiver in one case and the main beam direction of it can be controlled by the frequency of driving signal. A program which controls the EMAT system, the 3 axis scanner and the data acquisition and processing system was developed. It also processes acquired data and displays the processing results. IBM-PC/AT compatible PC was used as main controller and the stratage of the program is emulation of real devices on the PC monitor. To provide the performance of the established EMAT system, two aluminium blocks containing artificial flaws and a welded aluminium block were tested. The result of the tests were satisfactory.

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Classification of Surface Defects on Cold Rolled Strips by Probabilistic Neural Networks (확률신경회로망에 의한 냉연 강판 표면결함의 분류)

  • Song, S.J.;Kim, H.J.;Choi, S.H.;Lee, J.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.162-173
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    • 1997
  • Automatic on-line surface inspection systems have been applied for monitoring a quality of steel strip surfaces. One of the important issues in this application is the performance of on-line defect classifiers. Rule-based classification table methods which are conventionally used for this purpose have been suffered from their low performances. In this work, probabilistic neural networks and the enhanced classification tables which are newly proposed here are applied as alternative on-line classifiers to identify types of surface defects on cold rolled strips. Probabilistic neural networks have shown very excellent performance for classification of surface defects.

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Ionized Fe Objects in UWIFE survey and IGRINS

  • Kim, Yesol;Koo, Bon-Chul;Pyo, Tae-Soo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.54.1-54.1
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    • 2017
  • The UKIRT Wide-field Infrared survey for Fe+(UWIFE) is an unbiased survey of the first Galactic quadrant, with narrow-band filter centered on $1.644{\mu}m$. This survey covers $7^{\circ}$ < l < $62^{\circ}$ and |b| < $1.5^{\circ}$, where active interaction of stars and interstellar medium is expected. With median seeing of 0.8 arcsec, 5 - sigma detection limit of 18.7 mag and surface brightness limit of $8.1{\times}10^{-20}W\;m^{-2}arcsec^{-2}$, this survey gives an opportunity to statistically study Galactic [Fe II] - emitting sources for the first time. In order to identify Ionized Fe Objects (IFOs) in survey area systematically, we conducted visual inspection and automatic detection simultaneously. Total of ~300 extended IFOs are identified, most of them are found out to be part of supernova remnants (SNRs), young stellar objects, HII regions and planetary nebulae. The majority of IFOs are new discoveries which reveal shocked structures in high-extinction region. Spatial distribution of IFOs suggest that they trace Galactic structure. As a part of spectroscopic follow-up, we observed SNR candidate IFO J183740.829-061452.41 with IGRINS (Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph, Yuk+2010), mounted on 2.7m Harlan Smith telescope. This unknown arc-like, 6'-long IFO is coincident with inner part of radio continuum loop G25.8+0.2, which has been known as HII region. However, interior of this radio shell is filled with diffuse soft X-ray emission, and possible association of hard X-ray pulsar / pulsar wind nebula makes the nature of the IFO unclear. The H and K-band 2D spectrum shows shock-ionized [Fe II] filaments, which is apart from photoionized HII filaments. In this presentation we present basic statistics of newly identified IFOs, as well as the follow-up study of IFO J183740.829-061452.41.

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Detection of tension force reduction in a post-tensioning tendon using pulsed-eddy-current measurement

  • Kim, Ji-Min;Lee, Jun;Sohn, Hoon
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.65 no.2
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    • pp.129-139
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    • 2018
  • Post-tensioning (PT) tendons are commonly used for the assembly of modularized concrete members, and tension is applied to the tendons during construction to facilitate the integrated behavior of the members. However, the tension in a PT tendon decreases over time due to steel corrosion and concrete creep, and consequently, the stress on the anchor head that secures the PT tendon also diminishes. This study proposes an automatic detection system to identify tension reduction in a PT tendon using pulsed-eddy-current (PEC) measurement. An eddy-current sensor is installed on the surface of the steel anchor head. The sensor creates a pulsed excitation to the driving coil and measures the resulting PEC response using the pick-up coil. The basic premise is that the tension reduction of a PT tendon results in stress reduction on the anchor head surface and a change in the PEC intensity measured by the pick-up coil. Thus, PEC measurement is used to detect the reduction of the anchor head stress and consequently the reduction of the PT tendon force below a certain threshold value. The advantages of the proposed PEC-based tension-reduction-detection (PTRD) system are (1) a low-cost (< $ 30), low-power (< 2 Watts) sensor, (2) a short inspection time (< 10 seconds), (3) high reliability and (4) the potential for embedded sensing. A 3.3 m long full-scale monostrand PT tendon was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed PTRD system. The PT tendon was tensioned to 180 kN using a custom universal tensile machine, and the tension was decreased to 0 kN at 20 kN intervals. At each tension, the PEC responses were measured, and tension reduction was successfully detected.

Study on the Generation Methods of Composition Noun for Efficient Index Term Extraction (효율적인 색인어 추출을 위한 합성명사 생성 방안에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Jin;Park, Mi-Seong;Choe, Jae-Hyeok;Lee, Sang-Jo
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.1122-1131
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    • 2000
  • The efficiency of thesytem depends upon an accurate extraction capability of index terms in the system of information search or in that of automatic index. Therefore, extraction of accurate index terms is of utmost importance. This report presents the generation methods of composition noun for efficient index term extraction by using words of high frequency appearance, so that the right documents can be found during information search. For the sake of presentation of this method, index terms of composition noun shall be extracted by applying the rule of composition and disintegration to the nouns with high frequency of appearance in the documents, such as those with upper 30%∼40% of frequency ratio. In addition, for he purpose of effecting an inspection of validity in relation to a composition of high frequency nouns such as those with upper 30∼40% of frequency ratio as presented in this report, it proposes an adequate frquency ratio during noun composition. Based upon the proposed application, in this short documents with less than 300 syllables, low frequency omissions were noticed, when composed with nouns in the upper 30% of frequency ratio; whereas the documents with more than 30 syllables, when composed with nouns in he upper 40% of frequency ration, had a considerable reduction of low frequency omissions. Thus, total number of index terms has decreased to 57.7% of these existing and an accurate extraction of index terms with an 85.6% adequacy ratio became possible.

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