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Automatic indoor progress monitoring using BIM and computer vision

  • Deng, Yichuan;Hong, Hao;Luo, Han;Deng, Hui
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2017.10a
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    • pp.252-259
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    • 2017
  • Nowadays, the existing manual method for recording actual progress of the construction site has some drawbacks, such as great reliance on the experience of professional engineers, work-intensive, time consuming and error prone. A method integrating computer vision and BIM(Building Information Modeling) is presented for indoor automatic progress monitoring. The developed method can accurately calculate the engineering quantity of target component in the time-lapse images. Firstly, sample images of on-site target are collected for training the classifier. After the construction images are identified by edge detection and classifier, a voting algorithm based on mathematical geometry and vector operation will divide the target contour. Then, according to the camera calibration principle, the image pixel coordinates are conversed into the real world Coordinate and the real coordinates would be corrected with the help of the geometric information in BIM model. Finally, the actual engineering quantity is calculated.

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A Study on the Performance Optimization of a Continuous Monitoring Method for Hazardous VOCs in the Ambient Atmosphere (환경대기 중 유해성 VOC에 대한 자동연속 측정방법의 성능 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • Son, Eun-Seong;Seo, Young-Kyo;Lee, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Min-Do;Han, Jin-Seok;Baek, Sung-Ok
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.523-538
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    • 2009
  • Recently, there has been a keen demand for real-time automatic monitoring of VOCs not only in Korea but other developed countries. We carried out this study to evaluate and to optimize the performance of a continuous automatic monitoring system for hazardous VOCs (HVOCs) in the ambient atmosphere, using an on-line GC system. The online system normally consisted of a Nafion dryer prior to a cold trap of an automatic thermal desorption apparatus and a GC system equipped with two detectors, i.e. PID and ECD. Preliminary tests conducted to check out any contamination of the system revealed an evidence of significant artifact formation of benzene, and it was found that the Nafion dryer (even brand new one) is the source of the benzene artifact. Thus, all the subsequent experiments in this study was carried out inevitably by removing the Nafion dryer. The on-line GC method was investigated with a variety of QC/QA performance criteria such as repeatability, linearity, lower detection limits, and accuracy. In order to find out the best operating condition for the on-line GC system, three different types (in terms of adsorption strength) of cold trap combinations were tested, i.e. (i) Tenax-TA and Carbopack-B combination (weak and hydrophobic); (ii) Tenax-TA, Carbopack-X and Carboxen-1000 combination (strong and hydrophilic); and (iii) Tenax-TA and Carbopack-X combination (medium and hydrophobic/hydrophilic). The USEPA TO-17 manual method was selected as a reference method to evaluate the performance of the on-line method. A series of experiments revealed that the system performance was superior to others when a cold trap packed with hydrophilic adsorbents (Tenax-TA/Carbopack-X/Carboxen-1000 combination) was used and operated at $25^{\circ}C$. However, the system with a cold trap packed with a combination of Tenax-TA and Carbopack-X is more recommended for field applications since the carboxen-1000 adsorbent is too sensitive to water vapor, and hence the performance of the system might be very unstable to humid samples or during rainy days. Furthermore, the precision and accuracy criteria of the Tenax-TA/ Carbopack-X combination were generally compatible with the triple adsorbents cold trap. The continuous automatic monitoring method is, thus, considered very useful to real-time monitoring to understand the variations of VOCs concentrations in ambient air, as it adopts much simpler procedures in sampling, analysis, and data integration steps than manual monitoring methods. However, it should be noted that there is a high possibility of benzene artifacts formation through the Nafion dryer, which is often installed to remove water vapor in air samples before being adsorbed onto the cold trap. Therefore, if a Nafion dryer is used in any studies of monitoring VOCs, the benzene contamination should be carefully examined before carrying out obtaining the data.

Development of Low-Cost Automatic Flight Control System for Unmanned Target Drone

  • Lee, Jang-Ho;Ryu, Hyeok;Kim, Jae-Eun;Ahn, Iee-Ki
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.367-371
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes development of automatic flight control system for an unmanned target drone which is operated by Korean army as for anti-air gun shooting training. Current target drone is operated by pilot control of on-board servo motor via remote control system. Automatic flight control system for the target drone greatly reduces work load of ground pilot and can increase application area of the drone. Most UAVs being operated now days use high-priced sensors as AHRS and IMU to measure the attitude, but those are costly. This paper introduces the development of low-cost automatic flight control system with low-cost sensors. The integrated automatic flight control system has been developed by integrating combining power module, switching module, monitoring module and RC receiver as an one module. The performance of automatic flight control system is verified by flight test.

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Development and Test of Automatic/Driverless Operation System for Standardized EMU (표준전동차 자동/무인운전장치 개발 및 주행시험)

  • 안태기;이수길;한성호;이관섭
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.154-160
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    • 2000
  • The automatic/driverless operation which are great important techniques in metro railway are required to increase higher safety, greater reliability, and transport capacity. To satisfy such demands, we must have the system design and testing technique for the railway system operation. These techniques are related to the onboard train control and communication systems which include TCMS(Train Control and Monitoring System), ATO(Automatic Train Operation), ATC(Automatic Train Control), and TWC(Train to Wayside Communication). These sub-systems must be interfacing with not only each others but also the signal system on the ground. We tested the train control system on Test line that has been developed on the basis of the standardized type EMU for korea railway systems. This test line which is located in Sangju, have been constructed for testing 7 & 8 line of Seoul Metro railway.

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A Study on the Construction of Dynamic Recursive Control Model through a Machine State Monitoring (기계상태 Monitoring을 통한 동적 Recursive 제어모형 구축에 관한 연구)

  • 윤상원;윤석환;신용백
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.17 no.30
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    • pp.107-116
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    • 1994
  • This paper formulates a dynamic monitoring and control model with a machine state by quality variations in a single lot production system. A monitoring model is based on estimate of machine state obtained using control theory. The model studied in this paper has a great advance from a point of view the combination between quality control (Sampling, Control Chart) and automatic control theory, and can be extended in a several ways.

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Design and Implementation of Automatic Incubator using LabVIEW (LabVIEW를 이용한 자동 부화시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • 윤봉준;박흥복
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.762-763
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    • 2002
  • Recently, automatic control or application of measuring instrument with computers is rapidly increasing. In this paper we designed automatic incubation system that has functions of control and monitoring of measuring instrument, analysis of measured data, and automatic control by using LabVIEW graphic program that can easily collect, control, analyze, and apply data. Then to inspect the system we produced Incubator. Internal environment is measured by a sensor and each device is setting and controlled to create the optimum environment after finding hatching environment of selected individual from Database file for incubation. Through this functions, problems of hatching rate and quality that were affected by minute change of hatching environment are dealt successfully with, and retrenchment of labor and cost is expected as well.

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Online automatic structural health assessment of the Shanghai Tower

  • Zhang, Qilin;Tang, Xiaoxiang;Wu, Jie;Yang, Bin
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.319-332
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    • 2019
  • Structural health monitoring (SHM) is of great importance to super high-rise buildings. The Shanghai Tower is currently the tallest building in China, and a complete SHM system was simultaneously constructed at the beginning of the construction of the tower. Due to the variety of sensor types and the large number of measurement points in the SHM system, an online automatic structural health assessment method with few computations and no manual intervention is needed. This paper introduces a structural health assessment method for the Shanghai Tower that uses the coefficients of an autoregressive (AR) time series model as structural state indicators. An analysis of collected data indicates that the coefficients of the AR model are affected by environmental factors, and the principal component analysis method is used to remove the influence of environmental factors. Finally, the control chart method is used to track the changes in structural state indicators, and a plan for online automatic structure health state evaluation is proposed. This method is applied to long-term acceleration and inclination data from the Shanghai Tower and successfully identifies the changes in the structural state. Overall, the structural state indicators of the Shanghai Tower are stable, and the structure is in a healthy state.

Evaluation of the Representativeness of Air Quality Monitoring Network in Seoul through Actual Measurement (대기오염도 실측에 의한 대기오염 자동측정망의 대표성 평가)

  • Jeon, Eui-Chan
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 1996
  • Simultaneous monitoring in many locations is necessary to evaluate the air quality and analyze future trend of a city, For this purpose, it is essential to install air pollution monitoring network. The first automatic air pollution monitoring network was introduced Seoul in 1973. As of 1995, 20 monitoring stations are now in operation. Concerning the management of the air pollution monitoring network, there was some argument among the relavant scholars, non-governmental organization(NGO) and the government organization. So far, there was no extensive evaluation and analysis about the network. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the representativeness of air quality monitoring network through actual measurement of the concentration of the air pollutant. The concentration of NOx was extensively measured widely in Seoul area three times using the TEA simple measuring technique. Even the judgement level for the area representativeness was lowered to 80%, Ssangmun-dong monitoring station tend to overestimate the pollutant concentration of the covered area. While, Sinlimdong monitoring station tend to underestimate the pollutant concentration of the covered area.

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Marine Environment Monitoring and Analysis System Model (해양환경 모니터링 및 분석 시스템의 모델)

  • Park, Sun;Kim, Chul Won;Lee, Seong Ro
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.2113-2120
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    • 2012
  • The study of automatic monitoring and analysis of marine environment in Korea is not enough. Recently, the marine monitoring technology is actively being studied since the sea is a rich repository of natural resources that is taken notice in the world. In particular, the marine environment data should be collected continuously in order to understand and analyze the marine environment, however the marine environment monitoring is limited in many area yet. The prediction of marine disaster by automatic collecting marine environment data and analyzing the collected data can contribute to minimized the damages with respect to marine pollution of oil spill and fisheries damage by red tide blooms and marine environment upsets. In this paper, we proposed the marine environment monitoring and analysis system model. The proposed system automatically collects the marine environment information for monitoring the marine environment intelligently. Also it predicts the marine disaster by analyzing the collected ocean data.

Evaluation of Applicability of Cable Force Monitoring System of Cable-stayed Bridge by Field Loading Test (재하시험을 통한 사장교의 케이블 장력 모니터링 시스템의 적용성 평가)

  • Kim, Jeong-Hoon;Song, Jae-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.13 no.1 s.53
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    • pp.205-213
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    • 2009
  • This study was planned to develop monitoring system of cable force to resolve cable force of cable-stayed bridge efficiently in a long-term plan. In the proposed monitoring system, firstly data are sampled from real-time acceleration record, secondly these sampled data are frequency analyzed by using the FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) algorism and lastly the analyzed results are averaged and generalized. For evaluating the applicability of this monitoring system, field loading test has performed in real cable-stayed bridge. In comparison with cable force by field manual calculation and cable force of monitoring system by semi-automatic calculation, the difference of calculated cable forces has within 1% error range and it is acceptable range. Additionally within negligible 5% error range of difference has occur between field manual calculation and monitoring system by automatic calculation. so monitoring system in this study has been verified to be reliable.