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Development of Automated Quantitative Spray Control System for High Quality Crop Cultivation (고품질 작물 재배를 위한 자동화 정량 방제 제어 시스템 개발)

  • Oh, Seung-Ho;Yang, Seong-Wook;Kim, Hyung-Chan;Kim, Do-Hyeon;Doh, Yang-Hoi
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.267-274
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    • 2017
  • Recently, several researches have been studied on agricultural automation system according to convergence of IT technology with agriculture. An automatic control system of the growth environment in crops is one of the these researches. The controls of damages caused by diseases and insects pest in crops are mainly carried out by manual mode or semi-automatic mode because of farmer's concerns for poor efficiency. But, this situation needs to be improved because it occurs various problems, such as human exposure to toxic pesticides, environmental pollution and waste due to drug overuse. In order to solve these problems, we developed an automatic quantity control system which based on the amount of pesticides for area under cultivation. The amount of pesticides is calculated according to the manufacturer's instruction for pesticides. To verify the effectiveness of our developed automatic system, we also compared with the systems of manual mode and the semi-automatic mode. The experimental results of a pest control performance of an automatic quantity control system showed that automatic system can reduce overuse of drugs. These results suggested that it can be expected to replace the existing system, with equivalent effectiveness to the manual mode.

Merging of Satellite Remote Sensing and Environmental Stress Model for Ensuring Marine Safety

  • Yang, Chan-Su;Park, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.645-652
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    • 2003
  • A virtual vessel traffic control system is introduced to contribute to prevent a marine accident such as collision and stranding from happening. Existing VTS has its limit. The virtual vessel traffic control system consists of both data acquisition by satellite remote sensing and a simulation of traffic environment stress based on the satellite data, remotely sensed data And it could be used to provide timely and detailed information about the marine safety, including the location, speed and direction of ships, and help us operate vessels safely and efficiently. If environmental stress values are simulated for the ship information derived from satellite data, proper actions can be taken to prevent accidents. Since optical sensor has a high spatial resolution, JERS satellite data are used to track ships and extract their information. We present an algorithm of automatic identification of ship size and velocity. It lastly is shown that based on ship information extracted from JERS data, a qualitative evaluation method of environmental stress is introduced.

Development of a Robotic Milking Cluster System (착유 자동화를 위한 로봇 착탈 시스템)

  • 이대원;최동윤;김현태;이원희;권두중;이승기;한정대
    • Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 2000
  • A Robotic milking cluster system with the manipulator for an automatic milking system was designed and built for farmer to work easily and comfortably during milking processing. The cluster system was composed of screws, cams and links for power transmission, DC motors, the Quick Basic one-chip microprocessor, the vision system for image processing, and tea-cups. Software, written in Visual C+ and Quick Basic, combined the function of image capture, image processing, milking cluster control, and control into one control. The unit was made to transfer from four fixed points to four teats with four teat-cups. Performance tests of the cluster unit, the fully integrated system, were conducted to attach and detach the teat-cup on the teat of a artificial cow. The transfer programming provided for a teat-cup milking loop during the system starts and comes back the original fixed point at the manipulator of it for milking. It transferred the teat-cup with a success rate of more than 70%. The average time it took ot perform the milking loop was about 20 seconds.

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Evaluation Criteria of Reliability on Transmission Control Unit for Passenger Car

  • Choi, M.;Ryu, S.;Lim, J.H.;Jeong, H.S.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.55-67
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    • 2010
  • There has been a recent upsurge in demand for the improvement of car reliability in the Northern American which is the primary market of South Korea automobile industry. It has been required that the warranty for transmission control unit for passenger cars directly related to passenger safety or security should be extended for 10 years and 160,000 km. In this paper, the test method for reliability and evaluation criteria is presented to evaluate the reliability on the automatic transmission controller. Reliability certification test can be roughly divided into two types: a quality test and life assessment test and a quality test can be subdivided into a basic performance test and environmental resistance test. There are 3 types of tests on the performance test for automatic transmission controller and environmental resistance test is composed of 14 items. Life test is performed with only the product passed this quality test. In this study, operation limit test at the high-temperatures, accelerated life test under specific temperature and accelerated life test for 2 or 3 stress levels are shown as a way for life test.

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Toward a paradigm for civil structural control

  • Casciati, S.;Chassiakos, A.G.;Masri, S.F.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.981-1004
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    • 2014
  • Structural control is a very broad field combining the areas of automatic control and structural engineering, with applications ranging from aerospace and mechanical engineering to building and civil infrastructure systems. In this paper, the focus is placed on civil engineering applications only. The goal is to address the issues concurring to form the scientific paradigm. As a resut, possible future directions of research into this field are identified.

Analysis of I-P Curve Characteristics by the temperature of Solenoid Valve for Automatic Transmission (자동변속기 SOLENOID 밸브의 온도에 의한 전류(I)-제어압(P)특성 분석)

  • Choi, Y.Y.;Seo, S.H.;Lee, S.H.;Yang, H.S.
    • 유공압시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2010
  • Various transmission technologies have been developed to satisfy environmental issues recently. Especially, the technology of the proportional control solenoid valve (PCSV) to ensure high level performance by electronic control has been studied. This study builds an analysis process for designing of the PCSV and characteristic predictions.

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A Study on the Automatic Berthing Control of a Ship by Artificical Neural Network (인공신경망에 의한 선박의 자동접안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Keon;Lee, Gyoung-Woo;Lee, Seong-Jae;Jeong, Sung-Ryong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 1997
  • Along with the rapid growth of shipping and transportation , the size of a ship larger and larger. Low speed maneuverabililty of a full ship has been received a great deal of attention concerting about the navigation safety, especially in the harbour area of waterway. And, the iperation of the full ship in harbour area is one fo tehmost difficult technique. Usually highly experienced experts can make a suitable decision considering various propeller ,rudder actions and environmental conditions. The Artificial Neural Network is applied to the automatic berthing control of a ship. The teaching data are made by the berthing simulation of a ship on the computer. And, the layer neural network is used and the 'Error Back-Propagation Algorithm' is used to teach the neural network. Finally, it is shown that the berthing control is successfully done by the established neural network.

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The Development of the Automatic Discharge Acquisition & Management System (ADAMS) using Ubiquitous Technique

  • Park, Jae-Young;Oh, Byoung-Dong;Jeon, Seon-Mee;Kim, Jae-Bok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.488-493
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    • 2006
  • Accurate river discharge is the most important factor in managing river basins and for successfully maintaining total maximum daily loads in Korea. It is not easy to measure the discharge directly in large rivers owing to physical and environmental constraints, even after investing much time and money. Recently, to overcome these historical drawbacks in river discharge measurement, we have developed the Automatic Discharge Acquisition & Management System (ADAMS) that scans the river cross-section and measures each cell $(1m{\times}1m)$ velocity using HADCP. The hardware system is composed of an HADCP sensor and winch, as well as a PC and software system for the discharge calculation module and hardware control module. It is controlled remotely via the internet and uses the velocity-depth integration method and the velocity-contour method for calculating river discharges. The characteristics of ADAMS are a ubiquitously accessible system, featuring real time automatic discharge measurement, remote control via the internet. The results using ADAMS at the Jindong stage site show less than 5% uncertainty and are 4 times more efficient than the ADCP & Q-boat system. This system can be used to measure any large river, river mouth or tributary river affected by backwater, all of which have a very difficult measuring real time discharge. The next generation of ADAMS will feature an upgrade to increase portability and GPS integration.

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Smart Farm Control System for Improving Energy Efficiency (에너지 효율 향상을 위한 스마트팜 제어 시스템)

  • Choi, Minseok
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.331-337
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    • 2021
  • The adaptation of smartfarm technology that converges ICT is increasing productivity and competitiveness in the agriculture. Technologies have been developed that enable environmental monitoring through various sensors and automatic control of the cultivation environment, and researches are underway to advance smartfarm technology using data generated from smartfarms. In this paper, an environmental control method to reduce the energy consumption of a smartfarm by using the environment and control data of the smartfarm is proposed. It was confirmed that energy consumption could be reduced compared to an independent environmental control method by creating an environmental prediction model using accumulated environmental data and selecting a control method to minimize energy consumption in a given situation by considering multiple environmental factors. In the future, research is needed to obtain higher energy efficiency through the advancement of the predictive model and the improvement of the complex control algorithms.

A Study on Quality Control Method for Minutely Rainfall Data (분 단위 강우자료의 품질 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Seok;Moon, Young-Il
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2015
  • Rainfall data is necessary component for water resources design and flood warning system. Most analysis are used long-term hourly data of surface synoptic stations from the Meteorological Administration, Ministry of land, Infrastructure and Transport and others. However, It will be used minutely data of more high density automatic weather stations than surface synoptic stations expecting to increase the frequency of heavy precipitation. But minutely data has a problem about quality of rainfall data by auto observation. This study analyzed about quality control method using automatic weather station's minutely rainfall data of meteorological administration. It was performed assessment of the quality control that was classified quality control of miss Data, outlier data and rainfall interpolation. This method will be utilized when hydrological analysis uses minute rainfall data.