• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.37-42
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• 2014

Stable running is a very important factor when we are building a control system. But, sometimes malfunction of the system controller is caused by several reasons. To solve these problems, some systems have prepared a backup controller. In the generality of cases, making a backup controller is no easy work. Especially, it becomes more difficult when many backup controllers have to be embodied in one system. In this paper, the multi-backup function controller which was implemented in the form of the network type distributed control system will be suggested. Also, using Arago Disk System that has a structure for inner loop control, the validity of the proposed methods will be verified.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.4725-4747
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• 2020

Software defined networking (SDN) is considered to be one of the most promising paradigms in the future. To solve the scalability and performance problem that a single and centralized controller suffers from, the distributed multi-controller architecture is adopted, thus forms multi-domain SDN. In a multi-domain SDN network, it is of great importance to ensure a reliable control plane. In this paper, we focus on the reliability problem of multi-domain SDN against controller failure from perspectives of backup controller deployment and controller replication. We firstly propose a placement algorithm for backup controllers, which considers both the reliability and the cost factors. Then a controller replication mechanism based on shared data storage is proposed to solve the inconsistency between the active and standby controllers. We also propose a shared data storage layout method that considers both reliability and performance. Besides, a fault recovery and repair process is designed based on the controller backup and shared data storage mechanism. Simulations show that our approach can recover and repair controller failure. Evaluation results also show that the proposed backup controller placement approach is more effective than other methods.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.297-305
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• 2015

AFLS (Adaptive front lighting System) is being applied to improve safety in driving automotive at night. Safe embedded system for controlling head-lamp has to be tightly designed by considering safety requirement of hardware-dependent software, which is embedded in automotive ECU(Electronic Control Unit) hardware under severe environmental noise. In this paper, we propose an adaptive headlight controller with newly-designed symmetric angle sensor compensator, which is integrated with ECU-based adaptive front light system. The proposed system, on which additional backup hardware and emergency control algorithm are integrated, effectively detects abnormal situation and restore safe status of controlling the light-angle in AFLS operations by comparing result in symmetric angle sensor. The controlled angle value is traced into internal memory in runtime and will be continuously compared with the pre-defined lookup table (LUT) with symmetric angle value, which is used in normal operation. The watch-dog concept, which is based on using angle sensor and control-value tracer, enables quick response to restore safe light-controlling state by performing the backup sequence in emergency situation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.351-360
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• 2016

Rapid population growth with high living standards and high electronics use for personal comfort has raised the electricity demand exponentially. To fulfill this elevated demand, conventional energy sources are shifting towards low production cost and long term usable alternative energy sources. Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) are becoming popular as stand-alone power systems for providing electricity in remote areas due to advancement in renewable energy technologies and subsequent rise in prices of petroleum products. Wind and solar power are considered feasible replacement to fossil fuels as the prediction of the fuel shortage in the near future, forced all operators involved in energy production to explore this new and clean source of power. Presented paper proposes fuzzy logic based Energy Management System (EMS) for Wind Turbine (WT), Photo Voltaic (PV) and Diesel Generator (DG) hybrid micro-grid configuration. Battery backup system is introduced for worst environmental conditions or high load demands. Dump load along with dump load controller is implemented for over voltage and over speed protection. Fuzzy logic based supervisory control system performs the power flow control between different scenarios such as battery charging, battery backup, dump load activation and DG backup in most intellectual way.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.5200-5222
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• 2017

The separation of control plane and data plane in Software Defined Network (SDN) makes it flexible to control the network behavior, while also causes some inconveniences to the link failure recovery due to the delay between fail point and the controller. To avoid delay and packet loss, pre-defined backup paths are used to reroute the disrupted flows when failure occurs. However, it may introduce large overhead to build and maintain these backup paths and is hard to dynamically construct backup paths according to the network status so as to avoid congestion during rerouting process. In order to realize congestion aware fast link failure recovery, this paper proposes a novel method which installs multi backup paths for every link via source routing and per-hop-tags and spread flows into different paths at fail point to avoid congestion. We carry out experiments and simulations to evaluate the performance of the method and the results demonstrate that our method can achieve congestion aware fast link failure recovery in SDN with a very low overhead.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1990.10a
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• pp.367-371
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• 1990

In this paper, a real-time fault tolerant control system has been designed for the cooling system of the spent fuel pool storage. The fault tolerant control system consists of the fault detection part, the redundant actuator part(main and backup pumps) and the controller implemented on programmable. logic controller. This paper considers only the actuator fault whose detection is accomplished using Friedland's separated bias estimation method. This paper also shows the real-time experimental results from which it can be concluded that the designed fault tolerant control system exhibits satisfactory performance.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.477-480
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• 2017

전기이중층 Capacitor는 대전력을 쉽게 충방전할 수 있는 전력저장장치로 순간전압강하 보상장치, 정전대책장치, 회생전력 흡수장치 등 적용하는 범위가 광범위하게 확대되고 있다. 전기이중층 Capacitor의 산업용 응용분야로서 제어회로 전원에 많이 사용되고 있는 ATX 전원의 Backup소자로서 전기이중층 Capacitor를 적용하고 있다. 본고에서는 ATX 전원에 전기이중층 Capacitor M-CAP을 응용한 사례를 소개하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.2795-2798
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 국내에서 개발하고 있는 과학로켓용 발사통제시스템(FCS, Fire Control System)의 시퀀스제어의 처리 영역을 PLC 시스템을 사용하여 구현하였다. 프로세서의 이중화를 통하여 Hot Backup 시스템을 구축하고 ControlNet 네트워크［l］［2］를 기반으로 하는 프로세서와 I/O 간의 통신을 이용하였다. 먼저 로켓 발사통제시스템의 개요 및 주요 임무에 대하여 설명하고 기존에 사용된 발사통제시스템 구성을 분석하였다. PLC 시스템의 개요와 CPU 동작 내용 그리고 ControlNet 통신방식에 대하여 설명하고 프로세서를 이중화한 시스템을 제안하였다. 또한 이중화된 프로세서의 Switchover［2］방법을 알아보고 이러한 조건에 따른 PLC 시스템을 응용한 발사 통제시스템을 구성하여 이를 위해 작성된 시스템 운용 Ladder Diagram 프로그램에 대한 기술을 논하였다. 개발된 PLC 시스템의 구성을 제시하고 발사체 및 각종 지원시설과 연계한 시험을 통하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.111-111
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• 2000

The research of network system, being used to reduce automotive wiring harness, is reaching to the development of by-wire system. It is by-wire system that apply IVN(In-Vehicle-Network) to steering, braking system, and it has the advantage of mass-decreasing, easy to diagnose fault and so on. But until now, many developed device can't satisfied with reliability that system have ever had. So redundancy of each network module, i.e., It is only way to make backup module. This paper researches development of network module and redundancy management of backup module when error occurred for implementation of brake-by-wire system.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1454-1470
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• 2014

This paper propose a new power conditioner topology with intelligent power management controller that integrates multiple renewable energy sources such as solar energy, wind energy and fuel cell energy with battery backup to make best use of their operating characteristics and obtain better reliability than that could be obtained by single renewable energy based power supply. The proposed embedded controller is programmed for maintaining a constant voltage at PCC, maximum power point tracking for solar PV panel and WTG and power flow control by regulating the reference currents of the controller on instantaneous basis based on the power delivered by the sources and load demand. Instantaneous variation in reference currents of the controller enhances the controller response as it accommodates the effect of continuously varying solar insolation and wind speed in the power management. The power conditioner uses a battery bank with embedded controller based online SOC estimation and battery charging system to suitably sink or source the input power based on the load demand. The simulation results of the proposed power management system for a standalone solar/WTG/fuel cell fed hybrid power supply with real time solar radiation and wind velocity data collected from solar centre, KEC for a sporadically varying load demand is presented in this paper and the results are encouraging in reliability and stability perspective.