• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.123-133
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• 1996

An automatic drum seeder was developed to improve the seeding operation. It consisted of a conveyor to transfer seedling trays, a seed-hopper to supply seeds, a drum to drop seeds on the tray, and an air blower to remove extra seeds. A photo sensor was used to detect the transfer of seedling trays, and its signal was fed into microcomputer which operated a stepping motor driving the drum. The seeds were adhered to the surface of drum by vacuum pressure, and were dropped into tray cells by compressed air. An air connection unit was devised to alternate between vacuum pressure and compressed air. A control program for the system, written in C language, could operate the drum at the given number of revolutions and revolutions per minute. The results showed that the air connection unit could operate well and the seeds were dropped satisfactorily into tray cells. In case of cabbage and perilla seeds, which are regular and spherical shape, the missing rate was low and the single seeding rate was more than 97%. Low missing rate and high multiple seeding rate were observed in lettuce seeds which have narrow ends with tight weight. The missing rate of pepper seed was very high because of heavy weight and irregular shape. To improve the performance of the seeder, adjustment of vacuum pressure based upon shape and weight of the seeds, careful selection of the material of drum, maintenance of consistent air blower pressure, and replacement of stepping motor to DC motor are recommended.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.220-227
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• 2009

In the process of oyster mushroom production, loading work of culture medium needs the most intensive labor power. Therefore, development of culture medium machine causes to reduce the manpower and cost. The main objective of this study is to develop the culture medium loading machine and investigate the optimal operation conditions and to evaluate the economic value of the machine. The results are summarized as follows: 1. Optimum transporting velocity of the conveyor was 0.61 m/s 2. Optimum speed of blower was 3183 rpm at the transporting velocity of 0.61 m/s with the loading quantity of 3.41 t/hr 3. Recommendable opening area ratio of pressure controller was 1/2 at the blower speed of 3183 rpm and the transporting velocity of 0.61 m/s 4. The break even point resulted in $240\;m^2$ of cultivating area compared to the method of with portable workbench, and $350\;m^2$ of cultivating area compared to the method of with a tractor and a truck.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.331-332
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• 2006

Transport systems which are the important part of the factory automation have much influence on improving productivity. Object transport systems are driven typically by the magnetic field and conveyer belt. In recent years, as the transmission and processing of information is required more quickly, demands of optical elements and semiconductors increase. However, conventional transport systems are not adequate for transportation of those. The reason is that conveyor belts can damage precision optical elements by the contact force and magnetic systems can destroy the inner structure of semiconductor by the magnetic field. In this paper, the levitation transport system using ultrasonic wave is developed for transporting precision elements without damages. Vibration modes of each flexural beam are verified by using Laser Scanning Vibrometer.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제30권A호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2010

Recently, a large number of open-pit mines are planning to change their mining method to underground types because the environmental concerns and legal regulations are increased with a rise in the standard of living. The K silica mine, which is one of them and located in Kyunggi province, is planning the establishment of a vertical shaft which will be used for ore-pass channel in their new glory hole mining method. This vertical shaft will be designed to join with a horizontal gangway excavated from the ground level. In this new mining system, the excavated ore particles will be stored inside a shaft and transported out with a help of a conveyor belt. Therefore the hang-up of ore particles in a shaft, the control of gate at the bottom of a shaft, the installation of dog-leg at the gate should be investigated identically. In this study, the PFC-2D code which is one of the discrete element numerical methods has been applied to simulate the particle flow mechanism in a shaft, and the optimum mine design has been proposed to maximize the productivity and to minimize the system damage.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.885-890
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• 2020

거리측정 시스템에서 사용되는 시간-디지털 변환회로는 시작신호와 멈춤신호 사이의 시간 간격을 이용하여 거리를 측정한다. 응답속도를 고려한 시간 간격은 일반적으로 카운터 회로를 이용하여 디지털 정보로 변환한다. 그러므로 정밀도 향상을 위해서는 높은 주파수의 클록 신호가 요구되며, 미세 거리의 측정을 위해서도 높은 주파수의 클록 신호가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 동일한 주파수를 사용하면서도 거리 측정의 정밀도를 높이기 위한 카운터 회로를 설계하였다. 회로의 설계는 0.18㎛ CMOS 공정을 이용하였으며, 설계된 회로의 동작은 HSPICE 시뮬레이션을 통하여 확인하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 일반적인 카운터 회로를 사용한 경우에 비해 4배의 향상된 정밀도를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.865-870
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• 2003

A motion controller has been used variously in industry such as semiconductor manufacture equipment, industrial robot, assembly/conveyor line applications and CNC equipment. There are several types of controller in motion control. One of these is a PC-based motion controller such as PCI or ISA, and another is stand-alone motion controller. The PC bus-based motion controller is popular because of improving bus architectures and GUI (Graphic User Interface) that offer convenience of use to user. There are some problems in this. The PC bus-based solution allows for only one of the form factors, so it has a poor flexibility. The overall system package size is bigger than other motion control system. And also, additional axes of control require additional slot, however the number of slots is limited. Furthermore, unwieldy and many wirings come to connect plants or I/O. The stand-alone motion controller has also this limit of axes of control and wiring problems. To resolve these problems, controller must have capability of operating as stand-alone devices that resides outside the computer and it needs network capability to communicate to each motion device. In this paper, a network-based stand-alone motion system is proposed. This system integrates PC and motion controller into one stand-alone motion system, and uses CAN (Controller Area Network) as network protocol. Single board computer that is type of 3.5" FDD form factor is used to reduce the system size and cost. It works with Windows XP Embedded as operating system. This motion system operates by itself or serves as master motion controller that communicates to slave motion controller. The Slave motion controllers can easily connect to master motion system through CAN-network.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.342-350
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• 2009

Currently TMR feed produced in commercial plant is one of the major source to feed cattle for both beef and dairy farm. However, because of lack of cutting and mixing system for utilizing domestic produced firmly baled round roughage in commercial TMR plant, these commercial TMR feed can not satisfy to farmers both in quality and price points of view. In order to solve these problems, a farm group size TMR plant model was developed in this study. The model plant was consist of round bale receiving and cutting system, pneumatic conveying system for transfer the roughage which was cut at the cutter to TMR mixer through pneumatic conveyor, TMR mixer enable to soften the stiff rice strew and to mix with other ingredients, finished feed bin which can be transfer to either packing system or individual farm, packing system by tycon bag which contains 400 kg unit and bulk unloading system to individual farmer. Also, a simulation model ARENA was applied to the model system in order to evaluate and check the production rate in each unit process and operation rate of total system and to find out if there are any clogged unit system obstructing the smooth flow of the total process flow. Processing cycle for produce one batch of the model plant was less than 30 minutes. Thus, it will take less than four hours for producing 16 tons per day equivalent to 1,000 beef cattle's daily feed.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권10호
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• pp.1317-1327
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• 2016

BHS는 공항 내 가장 복잡한 시스템중 하나이며, 높은 시스템 확장비용을 고려했을 때 효율적인 운영 시스템이 요구된다. 비효율적인 BHS 운영 시스템은 병목현상을 발생시켜 시스템 능력을 하락시키는 동시에 체크인시설의 뷸균형을 야기한다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 BHS 합류부의 병목현상을 제어함으로써 BHS와 체크인 구역의 효율성을 향상시키는 것에 있다. 데이터 네트워크에 사용하는 흐름제어 개념을 차용하여 새로운 로직을 제안하였으며, 시뮬레이션을 기반으로 컨베이어의 병목현상이 고객 대기열에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.514-523
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• 2006

Production of green pepper has been increased due to customer's preference and a projected ten-year boom in the industry in Korea. This study was carried out to develop an automatic grading and sorting system for green pepper using machine vision. The system consisted of a feeding mechanism, segregation section, an image inspection chamber, image processing section, system control section, grading section, and discharging section. Green peppers were separated and transported using a bowl feeder with a vibrator and a belt conveyor, respectively. Images were taken using color CCD cameras and a color frame grabber. An on-line grading algorithm was developed using Visual C/C++. The green peppers could be graded into four classes by activating air nozzles located at the discharging section. Length and curvature of each green pepper were measured while removing a stem of it. The first derivative of thickness profile was used to remove a stem area of segmented image of the pepper. While pepper is moving at 0.45 m/s, the accuracy of grading sorting for large, medium and small pepper are 86.0%, 81.3% and 90.6% respectively. Sorting performance was 121 kg/hour, and about five times better than manual sorting. The developed system was also economically feasible to grade and sort green peppers showing the cost about 40% lower than that of manual operations.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 공장 자동화 시스템의 한 예로, 컨베이어 벨트로 흘러 들어오는 생산품을 모델별로 자동 인식하기 위한 방법을 제안하고 있다. 일반적으로 NTSC 방식의 카메라를 사용할 경우 움직이는 물체는 카메라 고유의 잔상이 발생하게 된다. 잔상이 존재하는 영상을 이용하여 효율적인 처리가 불가능하므로 적당한 후처리 방법이 요구된다. 이를 위하여 제안하는 인터레이스 제거 기법을 통하여 잔상을 제거하고, 이진화를 통하여 대략적 물체 영역을 판별한 후 물체를 에워싸는 직사각형 영역을 구한다. 그 후 윤곽선 검출을 거쳐 직사각형 영역을 블록별로 세분화한 후 각 블록별 화소수를 계산하여 평균을 중심으로 재분류한 후 모델 코드를 생성하여 모델 분류를 하였다. 실험결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법의 경우 기존의 방법보다 높은 분류 성공률을 나타내었다.