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Preliminary design of a production automation framework for a pyroprocessing facility

  • Shin, Moonsoo;Ryu, Dongseok;Han, Jonghui;Kim, Kiho;Son, Young-Jun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.478-487
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    • 2018
  • Pyroprocessing technology has been regarded as a promising solution for recycling spent fuel in nuclear power plants. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has been studying the current status of equipment and facilities for pyroprocessing and found that existing facilities are manually operated; therefore, their applications have been limited to laboratory scale because of low productivity and safety concerns. To extend the pyroprocessing technology to a commercial scale, the facility, including all the processing equipment and the material-handling devices, should be enhanced in view of automation. In an automated pyroprocessing facility, a supervised control system is needed to handle and manage material flow and associated operations. This article provides a preliminary design of the supervising system for pyroprocessing. In particular, a manufacturing execution system intended for an automated pyroprocessing facility, named Pyroprocessing Execution System, is proposed, by which the overall production process is automated via systematic collaboration with a planning system and a control system. Moreover, a simulation-based prototype system is presented to illustrate the operability of the proposed Pyroprocessing Execution System, and a simulation study to demonstrate the interoperability of the material-handling equipment with processing equipment is also provided.

Medical Data Base Controlled By Medical Knowledge Base

  • Chernyakhovskaya, Mery Y.;Gribova, Valeriya V.;Kleshchev, Alexander S.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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    • 2001.01a
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    • pp.343-351
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    • 2001
  • World practice is evidence of that computer systems of an intellectual support of medical activities bound up with examination of patients, their diagnosis, therapy and so on are the most effective means for attainment of a high level of physician\`s qualification. Such systems must contain large knowledge bases consistent with the modern level of science and practice. To from large knowledge bases for such systems it is necessary to have a medical ontology model reflecting contemporary notions of medicine. This paper presents a description of an observation ontology, knowledge base for the physician of general tipe, architecture, functions and implementation of problem independent shell of the system for intellectual supporting patient examination and mathematical model of the dialog. The system can be used by the following specialist: therapeutist, surgeon, gynecologist, urologist, otolaryngologist, ophthalmologist, endocrinologist, neuropathologist and immunologist. The system supports a high level of examination of patients, delivers doctors from routine work upon filling in case records and also automatically forms a computer archives of case records. The archives can be used for any statistical data processing, for producing accounts and also for debugging of knowledge bases of expert systems. Besides that, the system can be used for rise of medical education level of students, doctors in internship, staff physicians and postgraduate students.

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Design of Network-based Automation System for Detecting Metallic Objects in Food and Livestock (식품 및 축산물 금속검출기를 위한 네트워크 기반 자동화 시스템 설계)

  • Hang-Seok Cho;Dongik Lee
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2023
  • This paper presents a network-based automation system for the detection of metallic objects in food and livestock. A metal detector is a core equipment used for the inspection required by HACCP. Since the existing metal detectors are manufactured as a single-body equipment, it is difficult to take into account various user requirements for the system. In order to overcome the drawback, this study presents a network-based automation system for metal detector utilizing an industrial fieldbus and modular components. The proposed system can effectively consider the various customer requirements and control schemes. The proposed system can also achieve the improvement in speed and success rate of detecting metallic objects. The effectiveness of the proposed system is demonstrated through a various experiments.

Automation of the brewing process (맥주 공정의 자동화)

  • 백운화;고의찬;남성우;심정우;김창국
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1987.10b
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    • pp.667-669
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    • 1987
  • This paper deals with the automation of the brewing process using digital computer. The work has been carried out to develop real-time control software for fermentation process. From the application of the system, quality improvement and effective process management are achieved.

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Implementation of the BLDC Motor Speed Control System using VHDL and FPGA (VHDL과 FPGA를 이용한 BLDC Motor의 속도 제어 시스템 구현)

  • Park, Woon Ho;Yang, Oh
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents the implementation for the BLDC motor speed control system using VHDL and FPGA. The BLDC motor is widely used in automation for its good robustness and easy controllability. In order to control the speed of the BLDC motor, the PI controller used for static RPM output of the BLDC motor to variations in load. In addition, by using the DA converter, we were able to monitor the BLDC motor reference speed and the current speed through real time. The motor speed command and the parameters of the PI speed controller were modified easily by the FPGA and the AD converter. Finally, in order to show the feasibility of the control algorithm the speed control characteristics of the motor was monitored using an oscilloscope and the DA converter. Further, the speed control system was designed in this paper has shown the applicability of the drive system of the factory automation.

User interface of Home-Automation for the physically handicapped Person in wearable computing environment (웨어러블 환경에서의 수족사용 불능자를 위한 홈오토메이션 사용자 인터페이스)

  • Kang, Sun-Kyung;Kim, Young-Un;Han, Dae-Kyung;Jung, Sung-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.187-193
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    • 2008
  • Interface technologies for a user to control home automation system in wearable computing environment has been studied recently. This paper proposes a new interface method for a disabled person to control home automation system in wearable computing environment by using EOG sensing circuit and marker recognition. In the proposed interface method, the operations of a home network device are represented with human readable markers and displayed around the device. A user wearing a HMD, a video camera, and a computer selects the desired operation by seeing the markers and selecting one of them with eye movement from the HMD display The requested operation is executed by sending the control command for the selected marker to the home network control device. By using the EOG sensing circuit and the marker recognition system a user having problem with moving hands and fit can manipulate a home automation system with only eye movement.

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Fuzzy Logic Controller for a Mobile Robot Navigation (퍼지제어기를 이용한 무인차 항법제어)

  • Chung, Hak-Young;Lee, Jang-Gyu
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1991.07a
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    • pp.713-716
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    • 1991
  • This paper describes a methodology of mobile robot navigation which is designed to carry heavy payloads at high speeds to be used in FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System) without human control. Intelligent control scheme using fuzzy logic is applied to the navigation control. It analyzes sensor readings from multi-sensor system, which is composed of ultrasonic sensors, infrared sensors and odometer, for environment learning, planning, landmark detecting and system control. And it is implemented on a physical robot, AGV(Autonomous Guided Vehicle) which is a two-wheeled, indoor robot. An on-board control software is composed of two subsystems, i.e., AGV control subsystem and Sensor control subsystem. The results show that the navigation of the AGV is robust and flexible, and a real-time control is possible.

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Ship information system: overview and research trends

  • Liu, Sheng;Xing, Bowen;Li, Bing;Gu, Mingming
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.670-684
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    • 2014
  • Ship Information Systems (SISs) have been one of the main research focuses in ship design and become a multidisciplinary area. With these growing research trends, it is important to consolidate the latest knowledge and information to keep up with the research needs. In this paper, the SIS and its different forms are introduced and discussed. The beginning of this paper discusses the history and evolution of SIS. The next part of this paper focuses on different fields and research areas such as networking technology, information fusion, information decision, message display, ship control in real-time SISs. A Semi-Physical Simulation Platform (SPSIM) designed for SIS research and its running effect through a new Fuzzy-PID fusion algorithm are introduced in this paper then. A brief literature survey and possible future direction concerning each topic is included.

Home Automation System using Intelligent Mobile Robot (지능형 이동 로봇을 이용한 홈오토메이션 시스템)

  • Ahn, Ho-Seok;Choi, Jin-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.486-491
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes the system model that is more efficient and active than formal home automation system and it can conquer the limits of formal one using intelligent mobile robot. This system uses specialized intelligent mobile robot for home environment and the robot moves around home instead of human. We call the system model to HAuPIRS (Home Automation system using PDA based Intelligent Robot System). HAuPIRS control architecture is composed three parts and each part is User Level, Cognitive Level, Executive Level. It is easy to use system and possible to extend the home apparatus from new technology. We made the PBMoRo System (PDA Based Mobile Robot System) based on HAuPIRS architecture and verified the efficiency of the system model.

Development of a Remote Control Equipment For Farm Automation (농촌 자동화를 위한 원격 제어 장치 개발)

  • Choi, Jong-Jun;Park, Sang-Ho;Choi, Young-Kiu
    • 전자공학회논문지 IE
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this paper is to build a system applicable to floriculture, hydroponics and vinyl house agriculture by a development of remote control equipments using programmable logic controllers (PLC). Remote factory automation and home automation systems have been developed and used due to the rapid progress in the fields of information and automation; however, the systems are so expensive that their applications have not been feasible in agriculture. So we have developed simple modules for PLC to replace the expensive conventional systems. The developed systems have potentials to be applied to automation systems in agricultural industry. Technologies for motor control, microprocessor, PLC programming and wireless interface are developed and implemented in the form of application modules of our systems, and our system is applicable to the remote form automation of floriculture and hydroponics.