• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2008

In spite of rapidly increasing interests in digital manufacturing, there still lacks of a systematic approach in manufacturing line flow analysis via modeling and simulation; currently, the parameters for designing manufacturing line are defined by being solely based on engineers experiences. The paper proposes an application of the genetic algorithm to a discrete event line simulation finding optimal set of parameters for manufacturing line balancing problem. The proposed method has been applied to two example problems-one is a simple manufacturing model and the other for shipyard industry-in order to demonstrate its validity and usefulness.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.129-138
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• 2001

The paper presents an implementation procedure of assembly line for ABS motor, which is composed of four subassemblies-yoke, grommet, housing and armature. The characteristics of ABS motor and its assembly processes are analysed, and the automation possibility of each process is examined in order to decrease assembly time. The assembly machines and facilities are then selected for automatic assembly, and the layout of the selected facilities is determined. Finally, task allocation of each worker is achieved by assembly line balancing to increase assembly productivity and efficiency. The line efficiency is also analyzed using simulation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.112-121
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• 2005

This paper is concerned with smooth trajectory generation of biped robot which has inverted pendulum type balancing weight. Genetic algorithm is used to generate the trajectory of the leg and balancing weight. Balancing trajectory can be determined by solving the second order differential equation under the condition that the reference ZMP (Zero moment point) is settled. Reference ZMP effect on gait pattern absolutely but the problem is how to determine the reference ZMP. Genetic algorithm can find optimal solution under the high order nonlinear situation. Optimal trajectory is generated when use genetic algorithm which has some genes and a fitness function. In this paper, minimization of balancing joints motion is used for the fitness function and set the weight factor of the two balancing joints at the fitness function. Inverted pendulum type balancing weight is very similar with human and this model can be used fur humanoid robot. Simulation results show ZMP trajectory and the walking experiment made on the real biped robot IWR-IV.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.389-394
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• 2015

This paper proposes a series-connected power conversion system that integrates a photovoltaic power conditioner and a charge-balancing circuit. In conventional methods, a photovoltaic power conditioner and a cell-balancing circuit are needed for photovoltaic systems with energy storage devices, which results in a complex configuration and high cost. To overcome these problems, a series-connected DC-DC power conditioning system that integrates a photovoltaic power conditioner with a charge-balancing circuit is proposed. During the generation, the system operates as power conditioner only, whereas it operates as a cell balancing circuit during the rest time. For the analysis, the operating principle of the circuit and the controller design are done by PSIM simulation. For verification, a hardware prototype with 48-W photovoltaic modules has been implemented. Results verified that the modularized photovoltaic power conversion system with a series-connected storage successfully works with the proposed method.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.776-787
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• 2000

Write requests which stored in disk cache of the RAID5 controller should be destaged to disk arrays according to the destage algorithm. As the response performance of the parallel IO request is being hit by the effect of the destage, several destage algorithms have been studied to enhance the performance of he RAID5 controller. Among the destage algorithms, the load balancing destage algorithm has better performance than other destage algorithms when system load is highly increased. But the load balancing destage algorithm gives priority to load balance among the disks in disk arrays, therefore, when some disks are affected by the very heavy system load caused by small data requests, the load balancing destage algorithm cannot enhance the performance of parallel IO requests effectively since it makes effort to maintain the load balance without the benefit of the locality of the write requests. This paper proposes a new RAID5 controller that applied reference-load balancing destage algorithm which decides the destage priority based on the reference history and load distribution of the disks. The simulation results show that RAID5 controller with the reference-load balancing destage algorithm has better performance than previous load balancing destage algorithm.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.829-838
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• 2016

This paper focuses on the engineering trade-offs in designing capacitor voltage balancing schemes for modular multilevel converters (MMC) HVDC: regulation performance and switching loss. MMC is driven by the on/off switch operation of numerous submodules and the key design concern is balancing submodule capacitor voltages minimizing switching transition among submodules because it represents the voltage regulation performance and system loss. This paper first introduces the state-of-the-art MMC-HVDC submodule capacitor voltage balancing methods reported in the literatures and discusses the trade-offs in designing these methods for HVDC application. This paper further proposes a submodule capacitor balancing scheme exploiting a control signal to flexibly interchange between the on-state and the off-state submodules. The proposed scheme enables desired performance-based voltage regulation and avoids unnecessary switching transitions among submodules, consequently reducing the switching loss. The flexibility and controllability particularly fit in high-level MMC HVDC applications where the aforementioned design trade-offs become more crucial. Simulation studies for MMC HVDC are performed to demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed capacitor voltage balancing algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.3094-3109
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• 2014

This paper proposes a load balanced reliable routing protocol called LBR (Load Balanced Reliable routing) in wireless networks. The LBR protocol transmits messages through a reliable path considering the balancing of the traffic load. Recently, the authors have proposed a multipath-based reliable routing protocol called MRFR, which is an appealing protocol for fault tolerant reliable data transmission. However, However, MRFR has no concern with the problem of load balancing, which results in increasing congestion and consuming high energy at some network nodes. As a result, the problem affects negatively the performance of the network. Taking account of load balancing as a route selection criteria can avoid routing through the congested nodes and allows to find better routes. In this paper, we extend MRFR by considering load balancing in the route discovery process of reliable communication. The simulation results showed that the proposed protocol outperforms AODV in terms of end-to-end delay, packet delivery radio, and average jitter. Compared to MRFR, the LBR protocol has the same packet delivery ratio, and obtains a better efficiency of load balancing.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권5A호
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• pp.502-510
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 트리 기반의 센서네트워크에서 전력소모의 균형을 이루기 위한 시간 슬랏을 할당하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 트리 토폴로지를 갖는 센서네트워크에서는 낮은 트리 깊이를 갖는 노드들이 더 많은 패킷을 처리하기 때문에 더 많은 전력을 소모한다. 따라서, 네트워크 생명이 단축되는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 슬랏 스케줄링 알고리즘은 각 노드에게 수신 슬랏들을 먼저 할당하고 송신 슬랏들을 할당한다. 이러한 할당 방식은 패킷 결합과 필터링을 용이하게 하기 때문에 낮은 트리 깊이에 위치한 노드들의 부하를 감소시키는 효과가 있다. 시뮬레이션을 사용하여 제안한 알고리즘을 TreeMAC 에서 제안한 프레임-슬랏 할당 알고리즘과 비교함으로써 전력소모의 균형을 이룬다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.270-274
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• 2019

In this study, simulation structure analysis was performed for the differential gear system for passenger cars as a prerequisite for the design of the balancing module. The differential gear system was modeled by using CATIA and simulation structure analysis was performed using ANSYS software. The material of the modeled differential gear system uses the mechanical properties of S45C (Q&T). In the structural analysis of the differential gear, the areas where the maximum stress and the maximum strain occurred can be identified. The maximum stress and maximum strain occurred in the pitch circle of the bevel gear. In evaluating the safety factor, it was found that sufficient safety factor was secured. Based on the analysis results for the differential gear, it is expected that it will be a good reference if we design the balancing module device.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제15D권1호
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• pp.73-86
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• 2008

최근 RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) 기술은 사물에 대한 자동적인 인식을 가능케 함으로써 물류, 의료, 식품관리 등과 같은 분야에 적용되고 있다. 부하 분산은 과부하 상태인 노드로부터 부하가 적은 노드로 작업 부하를 이동시켜 시스템의 확장성을 향상시키는 기본 기술이다. 시스템의 부하를 예측하기 어렵고 부하량의 편차가 큰 경우에는 적응적 부하 분산이 효과적인 것으로 알려져 있다. RFID 미들웨어는 많은 수의 리더로부터 수신된 태그 정보를 효율적으로 처리하기 위하여 기존의 부하 분산기술이 도입될 필요가 있다. RFID 시스템이 부하량을 예측하기 힘들고 편차가 큰 환경에 적용될 경우 실행시간에 시스템의 전체 부하량에 따라 적합한 정책으로 변경할 수 있는 적응적 부하 분산 기법을 사용하는 것이 바람직하다. 본 논문에서는 RFID 미들웨어에 적응적 부하 분산 기법을 도입하기 위한 접근 방법과 결과를 제시한다. 먼저 RFID 미들웨어의 작업 부하 모델을 결정한다. 그리고 부하 모델을 바탕으로 다양한 부하 분산 정책을 시스템의 부하 상태 별로 적용하여 시스템의 부하 상태에 적합한 부하 분산 정책을 선택한다.