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Effect of Controlled Light Environment on the Growth and Ginsenoside Content of Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer (광환경 조절이 인삼의 생육과 진세노사이드 함량에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, In Bae;Yu, Jin;Kweon, Ki Bum;Suh, Su Jeoung
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.277-283
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    • 2016
  • Background: The photosynthetic efficiency cool-season, semi-shade ginseng is normal at low morning temperatures, but drops at high afternoon temperatures. Therefore, optimal plant performance would be ensured if it were possible to control daily light transmission rates (LTR). Methods and Results: Plants were grown in a controlled light environment that replicated 11 AM conditions and comparatively analyzed against plant grown under normal conditions. Growth in the controlled light environment resulted in a 2.81 fold increase in photosynthetic efficiency with no change in chlorophyll content, although LTR were high due to low morning temperatures. Increased aerial plant growth was observed in the ginseng plants adapted to the controlled light environment, which in turn influenced root weight. An 81% increase in fresh root weight (33.3 g per plant on average) was observed in 4-year-old ginseng plants grown in controlled light environment compared to the plants grown following conventional practices (18.4 g per plant on average). With regard to the inorganic composition of leaves of 4-year-old ginseng plants grown in controlled light environment, an increased in Fe content was observed, while Mn and Zn content decreased, and total ginsenoside content of roots increased 2.37 fold. Conclusions: Growth of ginseng under a favorable light environment, such as the condition which exist naturally at 11 AM and are suitable for the plant's photosynthetic activity creates the possibility of large scale production, excellent-quality ginseng.

Control of Automated Greenhouse Based on a PC (PC 기반 자동화 시설 하우스 제어)

  • 김기환
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.53 no.9
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    • pp.644-649
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    • 2004
  • To control a greenhouse is to control environmental parameters in greenhouse. Controlled environments may be as simple as saran-covered shade houses or as complex as growth chambers. Although greenhouses are probably the most common example of a controlled environment used in agricultural/horticultural production, the type of controlled environment or system that is needed depends upon the climate, time of year, crops being produced and the environmental parameters that must be controlled. In this contribution puts emphasis on construction of automatic-controlled greenhouse system by personal computer.

Subject Searching Using Controlled Vocabulary Versus Uncontrolled Vocaburary in Online Catalog System: Focusing on Multilingual Environment

  • Choi, Hee-Yoon
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.61-79
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate search efficiency of controlled vocabulary versus uncontrolled vocabulary subject access in online catalog systems. The question of the effectiveness of controlled versus uncontrolled vocabulary in information retrieval has been raised in many literatures. A debate continues in the Library and Information Science Professions over the relative merit, appropriateness, and efficiency of uncontrolled vocabulary subject access in online catalog systems. Actually users used to combine uncontrolled vocabulary subject searching with controlled vocabulary subject searching. But the success of user's subject search depends on his choice of search terms. Also the technical developments that facilitate cooperation among information services in general make it increasingly possible for such cooperation to take place on an international level. In this study, several common types of vocabularies on online catalog systems are described and compared, especially usages of vocabularies in multilingual environment are analyzed.

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Effect of pH on Phase Separated Anaerobic Digestion

  • Jung, Jin-Young;Lee, Sang-Min;Shin, Pyong-Kyun;Chung, Yun-Chul
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.456-459
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    • 2000
  • A pilot scale experiment was performed for a year to develop a two-phase anaerobic process for piggery wastewater treatment (COD: 6,000mg/L, BOD: 4,000mg/L, SS: 500mg/L, pH 8.4, alkalinity 6,000mg/L). The acidogenic reactor had a total volume of 3㎥, and the methanogenic reactor, an anaerobic up-flow sludge filter, combining a filter and a sludge bed, was also of total volume 3㎥(1.5㎥ of upper packing material). Temperatures of the acidogenic and methanogenic reactors kept at 20$^{\circ}C$ and 35$^{\circ}C$, respectively. When the pH of the acidogenic reactor was controlled at 6.0-7.0 with HCl, the COD removal efficiency increased from 50 to 80% over a period of six months, and as a result, the COD of the final effluent fell in the range of 1,000-1,500 mg/L. BOD removal efficiency over the same period was above 90%, and 300 to 400 mg/L was maintained in the final effluent. The average SS in the final effluent was 270 mg/L. The methane production was 0.32㎥ CH$_4$/kg COD(sub)removed and methane content of the methanogenic reactor was high value at 80-90%. When the pH of the acidogenic reactor was not controlled over the final two months, the pH reached 8.2 and acid conversion decreased compared with that of pH controlled, while COD removal was similar to the pH controlled operation. Without pH control, the methane content in the gas from methanogenic reactor improved to 90%, compared to 80% with pH control.

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A development of remote controlled mobile robot working in a hazard environment (위해환경에서 구동가능한 원격제어 이동 로봇 개발)

  • 박제용;최현석;현웅근
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.457-461
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    • 2002
  • This paper describes a development of a robot working in hazard environment. The developed robot consists of robot controller with vision system and host PC program. The robot and camera can move with 2 degree of freedom by independent remote controlling a user friendly designed joystick. An environment is recognized by the vision system and ultra sonic sensors. The visual image and command data translated through 900MHz and 447MHz RF controller, respectively. To show the validity of the developed system, operations of the robot in the field area were illustrated.

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Modeling Method of $3{\Phi}$ Phase-Controlled Rectifier in consideration of the overlap interval for DC Motor Drive (중첩구간을 고려한 DC 전동기 구동용 3상 위상제어 정류기의 모델링 기법)

  • Kim, Sang-Min;Han, Woo-Yong;Lee, Chang-Goo;Kim, Sung-Joong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07f
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    • pp.2688-2690
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    • 1999
  • This paper presents the modeling method of $3{\Phi}$ phase-controlled rectifier considering the overlap interval for the drive of DC motor in the Matlab environment. The model is constructed by the module-based method and therefore it is appropriate in the research of the closed-loop controlled power electronic system in the Matlab/Simulink environment. The model of SCR is used as the element for the power transformation. The simulation results show that the overlap interval from the effect of the input inductance is accurate.

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Module-based Modeling Method of $3\Phi$ Phase-Controlled Rectifier System for DC Motor Drive under Matlab/Simulink environment (Matlab/Simulink 환경하에서 3상 위상제어 정류기-DC 전동기 구동시스템의 모듈별 모델링 기법)

  • 김상민;한우용;이창구;김성중
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents the modeling method of $3\Phi$ phase-controlled rectifier for the DC motor drive in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. This method has no need to extend the system mathematically and thus it's easy to integrate the various systems. The whole model consists of $3\Phi$ phase-controlled rectifier block, DC motor block and speed/current controller block. The simulation results show that the model outputs are almost similar to those of the real system and therefore that the presented method is suitable for the research of the closed-loop controlled power electronic systems.

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Fast and Safe Contact Establishment Strategy for Biped Walking Robot (이족 보행 로봇을 위한 빠르고 안전한 접촉 생성 전략)

  • Lee, Hosang;Jung, Jaesug;Ahn, Junewhee;Park, Jaeheung
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 2021
  • One of the most challenging issues when robots interact with the environment is to establish contact quickly and avoid high impact force at the same time. The proposed method implements the passive suspension system using the redundancy of the torque-controlled robot. Instead of utilizing the actual mechanical compliance, the distal joints near the end-effector are controlled to act as a virtual spring-damper system with low feedback gains. The proximal joints are precisely controlled to push the mid-link, which is defined as the boundary link between the proximal and distal joints, towards the environment with high feedback gains. Compared to the active compliance methods, the contact force measurements or estimates are not required for contact establishment and the control time delay problems do not occur correspondingly. The proposed method was applied to the landing foot control of the 12-DoF biped robot DYROS-RED in the simulations. In the results, the impact force during landing was significantly reduced at the same collision speed.

Sensing performance evaluation under various environment condition of stroke sensing cylinder using magnetic sensor (자기센서를 이용한 위치검출 실린더의 환경변화에 따른 성능평가)

  • 김성현;이민철;양순용
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.636-639
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    • 1996
  • We have developed a part of hydraulic stroke sensing cylinder using magnetic sensor that can detect each position under severe construction fields. In this paper, for evaluating the developed cylinder under various environment condition, thermal control systems and two hydraulic systems to be coupled consist of. The former is composed of an heater case, temperature sensor, and interface circuits which include SCR(silicon controlled rectifier) for the control of the voltage's phase. The latter is composed of an hydraulic cylinder for position control with solenoid valve (ON/OFF motion) and a load cylinder with proportional reducing valve. To obtain the various performance evaluation, it is carried out under high temperature condition in thermal system controlled by using Ziegler-Nichols PID tuning method and artificial disturbances such as impulse or constant force. The results show that the developed cylinder has good performance under the various environment condition.

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Friction Studies of Coated and Uncoated Cemented Carbide in Controlled Environment

  • Ovaert, T.C.;Ramachandra, S.;McQuay, G.N.
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.66-70
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    • 1995
  • In this investigation, a controlled-environment tribological test device has been used to study the friction coefficients of several grades of commercially-available coated and uncoated cemented carbide cutting tools in a dry air environment at different environmental chamber pressures. Tests were run in the block-on-ring configuration. The results suggest that the friction coefficient is sensitive to the level of air present, with a noticeable rise in friction coefficient with decreasing pressure or increasing vacuum level. The uncoated cemented carbide sufaces resulted in the highest friction values, whereas the coated grades yielded somewhat lower values even after the coating was removed. The results suggest the importance of friction control in the design of coatings for metal removal processes.