• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.515-520
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• 2002

Automatic Transfer Crane is needed for automation of container terminal. It requires the control capability of exact position for loading/unloading job in yard. But it has the limitation of improvement because it has the operational environmental and its structural problems. It has the positioning errors caused by the deformation of rail, yawing motion of crane, wear of wheel, sliding motion between wheel and rail and so on. This study shows the calibration method of crane position by using the primitivity sensor and calibrating plate fixed on the ground.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2761-2762
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• 2003

This paper is aimed to handle quick work for all the workers and to improve the productivity by adding more effective content in Crane Monitoring System. The contributing proportion of the increase of port productivity is more increasing concerning not only the port industry, but also all the informations of container crane which is the representative equipment by the rapid increase of the volume of freight of port. The basic of rapid service is the improvement of the productivity, the information of operation as to the productivity of crane for the quick handling within yard and especially the informations of breakdown and to handle breakdown as soon as possible has a great effect on the increase of productivity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.1183-1185
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• 2012

본 논문은 최근 항만 터미널 장치장 내 무인 자동화가 빠르게 연구 진행되고 있는 가운데 다양한 자동화 기술들이 제공되고 있다. 우리는 장치장 내 효과적인 작업 효율을 위하여 RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)를 이용한 무인이송장비(YT:Yard Tractor)의 정지위치 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 장치장내에서 YT의 정지하고자 하는 장소에서 RFID의 신호와 LANDMARK를 이용하여 정지한다. 정지 위치 장소에 두 개의 RFID태그를 설치하여 작업영역 및 정지위치를 각각의 태그 정보에 포함시킨다. YT는 정지장소에 도달하면 지정된 작업 영역인지 태그 정보를 통해 확인하고, 확인 후 정지위치정보를 포함하는 태그와 LANDMARK를 통해 정확한 위치에 정지한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.1079-1081
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• 2011

컨테이너터미널 장치장 내 교차로에서 무인 YT(Yard Tractor)간 충돌방지를 위하여 RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) 태그와 ad-hoc 네트워크를 이용한 교차로 충돌방지 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 ad-hoc 네트워크 라우팅 프로토콜은 장치장 교차로에서 충돌방지를 위한 YT 간 통신성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소로써, 장치장 교차로 환경과 YT의 이동성을 고려하여 프로토콜을 결정해야 한다. 따라서 RFID 태그를 이용한 YT 위치정보와 AODV(Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector) 방식의 Hello 메시지를 이용해서 충돌방지를 위한 ad-hoc 네트워크 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.25-43
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• 2005

In modern automated container terminals, automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems are considered a viable option for the horizontal tansportation of containers between the stacking yard and the quayside cranes. AGVs in a container terminal move rather freely and do not follow fixed guide paths. For an efficient operation of such AGVs, however, a sophisticated traffic management system is required. Although the flexible routing scheme allows us to find the shortest possible routes for each of the AGVs, it may incur many coincidental encounters and path intersections of the AGVs, leading to collisions or deadlocks. However, the computational cost of perfect prediction and avoidance of deadlocks is prohibitively expensive for a real time application. In this paper, we propose a traffic control method that predicts and avoids some simple, but at the same time the most frequently occurring, cases of deadlocks between two AGVs. More complicated deadlock situations are not predicted ahead of time but detected and resolved after they occur. Our method is computationally cheap and readily applicable to real time applications. The efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed methods have been validated by simulation.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.403-407
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• 2003

A basic concept of TAS(Tractor Appointment System), which not only enhances the terminal productivity, but also yields higher efficiency of domestic CT(Container Terminal), is developed in this paper for CT to more competitive and serviceable. To analyze the effects of TAS when applied to the existing four-tier CT, a quantitative analysis is performed. The results showed that the number of rehandling time of CT has been significantly decreased, the efficiency of CT increased, and the flow time of trucks in CT reduced in a great deal

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.2056-2063
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• 2012

In a port terminal, containers are stored and transshipped by yard tractors and crane vehicles. For operation efficiency of the terminal, location information of these vehicles is an essential factor. However, most of port terminals try to estimate location of these assets using indirect methods such as event tracking of shipping or unshipping containers. Because these kinds of events are rarely occurred, location of the event includes seriously locating error compared to a real location of vehicle. In this paper, we propose a real-time asset tracking system to obtain accurate and reliable location of terminal assets. The proposed system overcomes a location estimation error caused by container stacks which interrupt wireless communication. In order to mitigate uncertainty and increase accuracy of location estimation, we designed hardwares and multi-step locating system to resolve additional preblems. We implemented system components, and installed these at a port environment for evaluation. The result shows superiority of the system that the accuracy is approximately 5.87 meters (CEP).

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.105-130
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• 2010

Container terminals in Gwangyang Port are facing in domestically and internationally a lot of changes including opening of Busan New Port and China ports. Compared to new ports, container terminals in Gwangyang Port possess old equipment and facilities. Therefore, in order for Gwangyang Port to maintain its service level and remain competitive, it needs to undergo remodeling to enhance productivity economically. Remodeling activities should be implemented on a continual basis by developing and applying new technologies such as those for gate system, yard system, berth system. In order to review the alternative, we performed questionnaire survey and expert interview. From the results of analysis, we suggested remodeling technology alternatives, priority of remodeling and improvement effect by remodeling introduction stage.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.113-120
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• 2016

If there are containers stacked upon the container to be fetched out of a container yard to vessel, rehandling which moves those containers to other places temporarily is needed. In order to avoid such rehandling, remarshalling which rearranges containers should be done before the vessel arrives. The remarshalling plan is commonly generated within a bay. It happens, however, that the generation of the intra-bay remarshalling plan within the permitted time is not possible because of bad stacking conditions. This paper presents the remarshalling algorithm which uses the empty slots of the neighboring bay as a temporary storage space. Simulation experiments have shown that the presented algorithm can generate the remarshalling plan within the permitted time under any staking conditions.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.3 s.119
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• pp.253-261
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• 2007

This study aims at newly constructing and evaluating performance of the stevedoring equipment systems in terminals. The stevedoring equipments used in conventional terminals are insufficient in flexibility in their functions or design structure, and most of the stevedoring systems based on such equipments have conventional design, therefore, limited in improving the productivity of terminals both in performance and functionality. The stevedoring equipment systems in terminals, in general, can be subdivided into 4 subsystems of quay, transportation, yard, and gate system, which carry out loading and unloading works with proper facilities and equipments. In this study, a design of next generation stevedoring equipment system comprised of various stevedoring equipments which have superior performance and functionalities to the conventional equipments was proposed, and its performance was evaluated.