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Phase Switching Mechanism for WiFi-based Long Distance Networks in Industrial Real-Time Applications

  • Wang, Jintao;Jin, Xi;Zeng, Peng;Wang, Zhaowei;Wan, Ming
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.78-101
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    • 2017
  • High-quality industrial control is critical to ensuring production quality, reducing production costs, improving management levels and stabilizing equipment and long-term operations. WiFi-based Long Distance (WiLD) networks have been used as remote industrial control networks. Real-time performance is essential to industrial control. However, the original mechanism of WiLD networks does not minimize end-to-end delay and restricts improvement of real-time performance. In this paper, we propose two algorithms to obtain the transmitting/receiving phase cycle length for each node such that real time constraints can be satisfied and phase switching overhead can be minimized. The first algorithm is based on the branch and bound method, which identifies an optimal solution. The second is a fast heuristic algorithm. The experimental results show that the execution time of the algorithm based on branch and bound is less than that of the heuristic algorithm when the network is complex and that the performance of the heuristic algorithm is close to the optimal solution.

Implementation of Fault Tolerant BBMD Mechanism in BACnet/IP Protocol (BACnet/IP 프로토콜에서 BBMD의 결함허용 기능 구현)

  • Cho, Su-Un;Hong, Seung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.10b
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    • pp.107-109
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    • 2005
  • BACnet(Building Automation and Control networks) is a standard data communication protocol designed specifically for building automation and control systems. BACnet provides BACnet/IP Protocol for data communication through the internet. BACnet device transmits BACnet broadcast messages and BACnet/IP messages using conventional IP technologies. Specially, BBMD(BACnet Broadcasting Management Device) is used to deliver BACnet broadcast messages. In this study, we propose a mechanism of fault tolerant BBMD in the BACnet/IP protocol. The Fault Tolerant BBMD mechanism(FTBM) improves the connectivity of BACnet/IP networks by inheriting the operation of BBMD in the networks. The FTBM is implemented with added functions to the original BACnet/IP protocol so that it can be applied together with original BACnet/IP devices. We also prove the FTBM's backward compatibility with original BACnet/IP protocol using experimental analysis.

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Distributed Prevention Mechanism for Network Partitioning in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Wang, Lili;Wu, Xiaobei
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.667-676
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    • 2014
  • Connectivity is a crucial quality of service measure in wireless sensor networks. However, the network is always at risk of being split into several disconnected components owing to the sensor failures caused by various factors. To handle the connectivity problem, this paper introduces an in-advance mechanism to prevent network partitioning in the initial deployment phase. The approach is implemented in a distributed manner, and every node only needs to know local information of its 1-hop neighbors, which makes the approach scalable to large networks. The goal of the proposed mechanism is twofold. First, critical nodes are locally detected by the critical node detection (CND) algorithm based on the concept of maximal simplicial complex, and backups are arranged to tolerate their failures. Second, under a greedy rule, topological holes within the maximal simplicial complex as another potential risk to the network connectivity are patched step by step. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm through simulation experiments.

Geometric Modeling and Trajectory Control Design for an Excavator Mechanism (굴삭기 작업장치부의 기하학적 동역학 모델링 및 궤적 제어에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, S.H.;Yoo, S.J.;Lee, K.I.
    • Transactions of The Korea Fluid Power Systems Society
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2007
  • During the last few decades, excavation automation has been investigated to protect the operator from the hazardous working environment and to relieve the cost of the skilled operator. Therefore, a number of modelling and controller design methods of the hydraulic excavator are proposed in many literatures to realize the excavation automation. In this article, a geometric approach far the multi-body system modeling is adopted to develop the excavator mechanism model that contains 4 kinematic loops and 12 links. Considering a simple soil mechanism model with a number of uncertain soil parameters, an adaptive trajectory tracking control strategy based on the developed excavator model is proposed. The improved performance of the designed controller over the simple PID controller is validated via the simulation study.

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Tobacco Retail License Recognition Based on Dual Attention Mechanism

  • Shan, Yuxiang;Ren, Qin;Wang, Cheng;Wang, Xiuhui
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.480-488
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    • 2022
  • Images of tobacco retail licenses have complex unstructured characteristics, which is an urgent technical problem in the robot process automation of tobacco marketing. In this paper, a novel recognition approach using a double attention mechanism is presented to realize the automatic recognition and information extraction from such images. First, we utilized a DenseNet network to extract the license information from the input tobacco retail license data. Second, bi-directional long short-term memory was used for coding and decoding using a continuous decoder integrating dual attention to realize the recognition and information extraction of tobacco retail license images without segmentation. Finally, several performance experiments were conducted using a largescale dataset of tobacco retail licenses. The experimental results show that the proposed approach achieves a correction accuracy of 98.36% on the ZY-LQ dataset, outperforming most existing methods.

Electrical Engineering Design Method Based on Neural Network and Application of Automatic Control System

  • Zhe, Zhang;Yongchang, Zhang
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.755-762
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    • 2022
  • The existing electrical engineering design method and the dynamic objective function in the application process of automatic control system fail to meet the unbounded condition, which affects the control tracking accuracy. In order to improve the tracking control accuracy, this paper studies the electrical engineering design method based on neural network and the application of automatic control system. This paper analyzes the structure and working mechanism of electrical engineering automation control system by an automation control model with main control objectives. Following the analysis, an optimal solution of controllability design and fault-tolerant control is figured out. The automatic control power coefficient is distributed based on an ideal control effect of system. According to the distribution results, an automatic control algorithm is based on neural network for accurate control. The experimental results show that the electrical automation control method based on neural network can significantly reduce the control following error to 3.62%, improve the accuracy of the electrical automation tracking control, thus meeting the actual production needs of electrical engineering automation control system.

Design of a High Stiffness Machining Robot Arm with Double Parallel Mechanism (기계가공작업을 위한 강성이 큰 2단 평행구조 로보트 암 설계)

  • 이민기
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.22-37
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    • 1995
  • Industrial robot has played a central role in the production automation such as welding, assembling, and painting. There has been, however, little effort to the application of robots in machining work(grinding, cutting, milling, etc.) which is typical 3D work. The machining automation requires a high stiffness robot arm to reduce deformation and vibration. Conventional articulated robots have serially connecting links from the base to the gripper. So, they have very weak structure for he machining work. Stewart Platform is a typical parallel robotic mechanism with a very high stiffness but it has a small work space and a large installation space. This research proposes a new machining robot arm with a double parallel mechanism. It is composed of two platforms and a central axis. The central axis will connect the motions between the first and the second platforms. Therefore, the robot has a large range of work space as well as a high stiffness. This paper will introduce the machining work using the robot and design the proposed robot arm.

A Robot End-effector for Biopsy Procedure Automation with Spring-Triggered Biopsy Gun Mechanism (스프링 격발형 생검총 구조를 가진 생검 시술 자동화 로봇 말단장치)

  • Won, Jong-Seok;Moon, Youngjin;Park, Sang Hoon;Choi, Jaesoon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.590-596
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    • 2016
  • Biopsy is a typical needle type intervention procedure performed under radiographic image equipment such as computed tomography (CT) and cone-beam CT. This minimal invasive procedure is a simple and effective way for identifying cancerous condition of a suspicious tissue but radiation exposure for the patients and interventional radiologists is a critical problem. In order to overcome such trouble and improve accuracy in targeting of the needle, there have been various attempts using robot technology. Those devices and systems, however, are not for full procedure automation in biopsy without consideration for tissue sampling task. A robotic end-effector of a master-slave tele-operated needle type intervention robot system has been proposed to perform entire biopsy procedure by the authors. However, motorized sampling adopted in the device has different cutting speed from that of biopsy guns used in the conventional way. This paper presents the design of a novel robotic mechanism and protocol for the automation of biopsy procedure using spring-triggered biopsy gun mechanism. An experimental prototype has been successfully fabricated and shown its feasibility of the automated biopsy sequence.

The UV Laser Ablation of Cr film on Glass Substrate (UV레이저를 이용한 Cr 박막의 어블레이션)

  • Yoon, Kyung-Ku;Lee, Seong-Kuk;Kim, Jae-Gu;Choi, Doo-Sun;Whang, Kyung-Hyun;Jung, Jae-Kyoung;Jang, Won-Suk;Na, Suck-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.134-139
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    • 2000
  • In order to understand the removal mechanism and seek the optimal conditions. KrF excimer laser ablation of Cr films on glass substrates is investigated. The surface morphology of the laser-irradiated spot is examined by SEM. The measured single-shot ablation rate is found to be about two times the result of numerical analysis based on a surface vaporization model and heat conduction theory. Surface morphology examination indicates that the Cr film is removed by the sequence of melting-surface vaporization-,melt expulsion by plasma recoil and that the outmost ripple of the diffraction pattern gives a strong effect on the morphology of molten Cr during the melting and vaporization processes. To seek the optimal process parameters for micro patterning morphological investigation is carried out experimentally on samples having different chromium film thicknesses. Optimal processing conditions are determined to enhance the accuracy and quality of thin film removal for micro patterning.

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Experimental Study of Developing D/B for Polishing Automation of Die and Mold (금형면 자동 다듬질 장치의 D/B 구축을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • 안유민
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.80-86
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    • 2000
  • Although polishing process take 30-50% of whole process of manufacturing die and mold it has not been fully automat-ed yet. Considering current trend of manufacturing it is necessary to study on polishing automation. To accomplish automation reliable database must be developed. For developing it polishing mechanism should be defined and a general empirical formula that can be applied widely should be created. In this paper it is found that polishing process must be separated into 2 process such as removing cusp and getting fine surface process and the polishing parameter which is com-posed of major machining parameters and normalization of data can be applied efficiently in making reliable database.

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