• Title/Summary/Keyword: Computer Control of the Signaling System

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Development of Interlocking Inspection Simulator for Electronic Interlocking System (전자연동장치를 위한 연동검사시스템의 개발)

  • Lee, Jae-Ho;Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Park, Young-Soo;Park, Gui-Tae
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.70-76
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of interlocking system in railway is to prevent the route for a train being set up and its protecting signal cleared if there were already another, conflicting route set up and the protecting signal for that route cleared. Recently, conventional relays circuitry in industrial field is replaced to computer-based control systems according to the advance of computer and communication technology. Therefore, interlocking systems in railway field are rapidly changing from existing relay-based interlocking system to computer-based electronic ones that executes the vital interlocking logic to assure the safety train routes at trackside signaling equipment room using electronic circuits. So it is very important to verify the performance of developed electronic interlocking system by plentiful laboratory testing before actually application in the railway system. However the laboratory testing in the present state of railway signaling is preformed individually by manual, so very much test time and cost are required. To solve these problems, we are developed the simulator for automatic interlocking inspection in this research. This simulator is able to operate on general personal computer and has following beneficial functions : automatic test sheet generation for inspection, automatic inspection execution and et al. The experiments are executed to test the feasibility of the developed simulator the experimental results have good agreements with the anticipated ones.

Development of Static Testing Tool Related Int'l Standard for Railway Signaling Software (국제표준 기반 열차제어시스템 소프트웨어의 정적 테스팅 지원도구의 개발)

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Jo, Hyun-Jeong
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.58 no.2
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    • pp.108-115
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    • 2009
  • Recent advances in computer technology have brought more dependence on software to train control systems. Hence, the safety assurance of the vital software running on the railway system is very critical task and yet, not many works have been done. While much efforts have been reported to improve electronic hardware's safety, not so much systematic approaches to evaluate software's safety, especially for the vital software running on board train controllers. In this paper, we have developed the static software testing tool for railway signaling, especially Fagan Inspection module and checklists supporting module. This static testing tool for railway signaling can be utilized at the assessment phase, and also usefully at the software development stage also. It is anticipated that it will be greatly helpful for the evaluation on the software for railway signalling system.

Performance improvement of serial communication converter of train control computer (열차제어컴퓨터 시리얼통신변환장치(HADAX)의 성능개선에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Bong-Kwan
    • Journal of The Korean Society For Urban Railway
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.427-436
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    • 2018
  • HADAX is a serial communication converter of train control computer. It is connected with various signal equipments such as wayside signal equipments, station signal equipments, train control computers, and transmits control information and signal condition information for train control. And transmits information to several electronic interlocking devices through a splitter interface. Since HADAX interfaces with many signaling devices through serial communication, frequent communication connection faults necessitate improvement of performance such as dual system configuration, integration of external splitter, and multi-channelization of communication card. The improved HADAX device should have compatibility with the dimensions of existing enclosure and enclosure, and verify the performance of dual system and splitter integration. Therefore, we verified the performance of HADAX through the route control test, dual system test, and multi-channel communication test with splitter integrated connection by connecting with the existing signal equipment.

Detection of similar GPCRs by using protein secondary structures

  • Ku, Ja-Hyo;Yoon, Young-Woo
    • 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.39-42
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    • 2008
  • G protein-coupled receptor(GPCR) family is a cell membrane protein, and plays an important role in a signaling mechanism which transmits external signals through cell membranes into cells. Now, it is estimated that there may be about 800-1000 GPCRs in a human genome. But, GPCRs each are known to have various complex control mechanisms and very unique signaling mechanisms. GPCRs are involved in maintaining homeostasis of various human systems including an endocrine system or a neural system and thus, disorders in activity control of GPCRs are thought to be the major source of cardiovascular disorders, metabolic disorders, degenerative disorders, carcinogenesis and the like. As more than 60% of currently marketed therapeutic agents target GPCRs, the GPCR field has been actively explored in the pharmaceutical industry. Structural features, and class and subfamily of GPCRs are well known by function, and accordingly, the most fundamental work in studies identifying the previous GPCRs is to classify the GPCRs with given protein sequences. Studies for classifying previously identified GPCRs more easily with mathematical models have been mainly going on. Considering that secondary sequences of proteins, namely, secondary binding structures of amino acids constituting proteins are closely related to functions, the present paper does not place the focus on primary sequences of proteins as previously practiced, but instead, proposes a method to transform primary sequences into secondary structures and compare the secondary structures, and then detect an unknown GPCR assumed to have a same function in databases of previously identified GPCRs.

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Development of Fagan Inspection Tool for Railway System Vital Software (철도시스템 바이탈 소프트웨어 테스팅을 위한 Fagan Inspection 지원도구의 개발)

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Jeong, Ui-Jing;Shin, Kyeung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.2056-2062
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    • 2009
  • Recent advances in computer technology have brought more dependence on software to train control systems. Hence, the safety assurance of the vital software running on the railway system is very critical task and yet, not many works have been done. While much efforts have been reported to improve electronic hardware's safety, not so much systematic approaches to evaluate software's safety, especially for the vital software running on board train controllers. In this paper, we have developed the static software testing tool for railway signaling, especially Fagan Inspection supporting tool. This static testing tool for railway signaling can be utilized at the assessment phase, and also usefully at the software development stage also. It is anticipated that it will be greatly helpful for the evaluation on the software for railway signalling system.

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Analysis of Interlocking Functions using Gragcet Language (Grafcet을 이용한 연동로직 분석)

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Lee, Jong-Woo;Lee, Jae-Ho;Choi, Gyu-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.471-473
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    • 1999
  • Recently, the computer based control systems instead of conventional relays circuitry are widely used to industrial applications, and also those technology is available to railway signaling which are safety-critical systems. However, the safety and reliability of software for those systems are harder to demonstrate than in traditional relays circuitry because the faults or errors can not be analyzed and predicted to those systems. So, the safety problems are crucial more and more in computer based control system. In this paper, the GRAFCET(GRAphe Fonctionnel do Commande Etape/Transition) language is used as a analysis and verification tool for safety-critical interlocking logic. The general description for Grafcet notation are provided and the general modeling for interlocking logic is presented.

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Study on Procedure & Management for Railway Signaling S/W Safety Assessment (열차제어 S/W 안전성 평가를 위한 절차 및 관리 방안 연구)

  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Kim, Yong-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.1237-1242
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    • 2008
  • Recent advances in computer technology have brought more dependence on software to train control systems. Hence, the safety assurance of the vital software running on the railway system is very critical task and yet, not many works have been done. While much efforts have been reported to improve the safety of electronic hardware, not so much systematic approaches to evaluate the safety of software, especially for the vital software running on board train controllers. In this paper, we propose the guide line of actually applicable software safety assessment in train control systems. And we demonstrate the results of developing a new tool based on web system version for software assessment management.

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Analysis of EMU Installation and Yard Test for Communication Based Train Control On-board Equipment (무선통신기반 차상제어장치의 전동차 시험 분석)

  • Baek, Jong-Hyen;Kim, Yong-Kyu;Lee, Chang-Goo;Park, Jae-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.935-941
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we study the communication based train control technology which has been improved for the railroad operation efficiency. All the signalling systems currently used in Korea are track circuit based train control systems, which train mobility and safety are considered on. When it comes to the recent abroad trend, development for communication based train control system, which arises new paradigm in the field of high density train separation, have been promoted. Considering the urgent necessity to develop the above mentioned technology, we would like to propose the research and development of communication based train control system and the present domestic and foreign statuses of on-board equipment development. In this paper, therefore, we had been developed localization on-board equipment of communication based train control system, which is the key construction of train control systems. For its verification, we accomplished installation and yard test on-board equipment of communication based train control system on Bundang-line's EMU(Electrical Multiple Unit).

Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11p Based WAVE Communication Systems at MAC Layer (MAC 계층에서의 IEEE 802.11p 기반 WAVE 통신 시스템의 성능 평가)

  • Choi, Kwang Joo;Kim, Jin Kwan;Park, Sang Kyu
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.526-531
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    • 2014
  • Vehicular communications have been receiving much attention in intelligent transport systems(ITS) by combining communication technology with automobile industries. In general, vehicular communication can be used for vehicle-to-vehicle(V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure( V2I) communication by adopting IEEE802.11p/1609 standard which is commonly known as wireless access in vehicular environment(WAVE). WAVE system transmits signal in 5.835~5.925 GHz frequency band with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) signaling. In this paper, after 32 bit processed the channel monitoring in MAC(Media Access Control) layer of WAVE system implemented according to IEEE 802.11p standard, data were received and we evaluated the performance, we built the test bed consisting of OBU(On Board Unit) in the real expressway. We transmitted WSM(WAVE Short Message) and received WSM between OBU wirelessly. And then, we calculated channel occupancy time per one frame and throughput, and evaluated the performance.

The Implementation of a Lift Emergency Video Call System based on WebRTC using OpenAPI

  • Woon-Yong Kim
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.10
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we present a WebRTC-based emergency video call system structure that builds a service system in a constant monitoring environment to increase the usability and stability of elevator emergency call devices. The proposed system provides a smooth call environment between the emergency call system in the elevator and maintenance managers in case of an emergency, performs rapid response processing to elevator emergency calls through monitoring of the target elevator, and handles any emergency calls that may occur in the physical space of the elevator. The purpose is to build an environment that can implement low-latency, real-time video call services of voice and video by overcoming the physical constraints required for video calls. To this end, we have established a service environment based on OpenAPI, which is currently used in various fields and its performance has been proven, and provides video calls and emergency situation dissemination through rapid messaging by providing low-latency call quality. The presented system structure will be able to provide a basis for expanding various functions and constructing a reliable service environment and intelligent model for the elevator system through combination with the elevator control panel and various devices.