• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.181-198
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• 2015

An OSV (Offshore Support Vessel) is being used to install a structure which is laid on its deck or an adjacent transport barge by lifting off the structure with its own crane, lifting in the air, crossing splash zone, deeply submerging, and lastly landing it. There are some major considerations during these operations. Especially, when lifting off the structure, if operating conditions such as ocean environmental loads and lifting off velocity are not suitable, the collision can be occurred due to the relative motion between the structure and the OSV or the transport barge. To solve this problem, this study performs the physics-based simulation of the lifting off step while the OSV installs the structure. The simulation includes the calculation of dynamic responses of the OSV and the structure, including the collision detection between the transport barge and the structure. To check the applicability of the physics-based simulation, it is applied to a problem of the lifting off step by varying the ocean environmental loads and the lifting off velocity. As a result, it is confirmed that the operability of the lifting off step are affected by the conditions.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.1378-1389
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• 2021

TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, is constructing a new high-power ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) facility called ARIEL (Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory). Thick porous targets will be bombarded with up to 48 kW of 480 MeV protons from TRIUMF's cyclotron, or up to 100 kW of 30 MeV electrons from a new e-linac, to produce short-lived radioisotopes for a variety of applications, including nuclear astrophysics, fundamental nuclear structure and nuclear medicine. For efficient release of radioisotopes, the targets are heated to temperatures approaching 2000 ℃, and are exposed to GSv/h level radiation fields resulting from intended fissions and spallations. Due to these conditions, the operational life for each target is only about five weeks, calling for frequent remote target exchanges to limit downtime. A few days after irradiation, the targets have a residual radiation field producing a dose rate on the order of 10 Sv/h at 1 m, requiring several years of decay prior to shipment to a national disposal facility. TRIUMF is installing new remote handling infrastructure dedicated to ARIEL, including hot cells and a remote handling crane. The system design applies learnings from multiple existing facilities, including CERN-ISOLDE, GANIL-SPIRAL II as well as TRIUMF's ISAC (Isotope Separator and ACcelerator).

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.155-170
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• 2010

Availability of economic and efficient energy resources is crucial to a nation's development. Because of their low cost and advancement in drilling and exploration technologies, oil and gas based energy systems are the most widely used energy source throughout the world. The inexpensive oil and gas based energy systems are used for everything, i.e., from transportation of goods and people to the harvesting of crops for food. As the energy demand continues to rise, there is strong need for inexpensive energy solutions. An offshore platform is a large structure that is used to house workers and machinery needed to drill wells in the ocean bed, extract oil and/or natural gas, process the produced fluids, and ship or pipe them to shore. Depending on the circumstances, the offshore platform can be fixed (to the ocean floor) or can consist of an artificial island or can float. Semi-submersibles are used for various purposes in offshore and marine engineering, e.g. crane vessels, drilling vessels, tourist vessels, production platforms and accommodation facilities, etc. The challenges of deepwater drilling have further motivated the researchers to design optimum choices for semi-submersibles for a chosen operating depth. In our series of eight papers, we discuss the design and production aspects of all the types of offshore platforms. In the present part I, we present an introduction and critical analysis of semi-submersibles.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제10A권5호
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• pp.519-528
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• 2003

컨테이너 터미널에서느 매일 24시간, 365일 운영하는 데에 있어서 다양한 의사결정을 필요로 하며, 이 모든 의사결정들은 상호 관계를 가지게 된다. 이러한 의사결정의 궁극적인 목표는 선박 작업시간, 작업 처리를 위해 사용되는 자원들, 터미널 내부 도로의 혼잡도 등을 최소화하는 것이다. 또한 필요한 저장 공간을 효율적으로 이용하는 것이다. 따라서 컨테이너 터미널의 운용 효율을 더 한층 강화하기 위해서는 이러한 의사결정의 범위와 복잡성이 더해지게 되어 의사결정 도구의 필요성이 강조될 수 밖에 없다. 이 논문은 이러한 목적을 위해 의사결정시스템을 위한 평가요소들을 도출하고, 의사결정시스템 설계에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 평가요소, 즉 야드장치장 배경, RTGC 배정, QC당 YT 배정의 최적화 전략을 제안한다. 그리고 G2 언어를 상요한 시뮬레이션에 의해 의사결정시스템 설계의 효율성을 선박작업시간 비교를 통하여 평가한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1116-1120
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• 2004

In the nuclear power plant, there are several cylindrical vessels such as reactor vessel, pressuriser and so on. The vessels are usually constructed by welding large rolled plates, forged sections or nozzle pipes together. In order to assure the integrity of the vessel, these welds should be periodically inspected using sensors such as ultrasonic transducer or visual cameras. This inspection is usually conducted under water to minimize exposure to the radioactively contaminated vessel walls. The inspections have been performed by using a conventional inspection machine with a big structural sturdy column, however, it is so huge and heavy that maintenance and handling of the machine are extremely difficult. It requires much effort to transport the system to the site and also requires continuous use of the utility's polar crane to move the manipulator into the building and then onto the vessel. Setup beside the vessel requires a large volume of work preparation area and several shifts to complete. In order to resolve these problems, we have developed an underwater mobile robot guided by the laser pointer, and performed a series of experiments both in the mockup and in the real reactor vessel. This paper introduces our robotic inspection system and the laser guidance of the mobile robot as well as the results of the functional test.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1679-1684
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• 2004

This paper introduces a novel approach that can provide the three dimensional information on the movement of a spreader by using two CCD cameras and a laser distance sensor, which enables an ALS (Automatic Landing System) to be used for yard cranes at a harbor. So far a kind of 2D Laser scanner sensor or laser distance measuring units are used as corner detectors for the geometrical matching between the spreader and a container, which provides only 2D information which is not enough for an accurate and fast ALS system required presently. In addition to this deficiency in performance, the price for the system is too high to be adopted widely for the ALS. Therefore, to overcome these defects, a novel method to acquire the three dimensional information for the movement of a spreader including skew and sway angles is proposed using two CCD cameras and a laser distance sensor. To show the efficiency of proposed algorithm, real experiments are performed to show the accuracy improvement in distance measurement by fusing the sensory information of CCD camera and laser distance sensor.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.276-277
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• 2010

본 논문은 RTGC 시스템의 에너지 절감을 위한 에너지 저장 시스템에 대해 다룬다. 에너지 저장 시스템으로는 배터리, 슈퍼캐패시터 그리고 플라이휠의 장정과 단점이 조사되었다. 이들 에너지 저장 시스템들 중 플라이휠 에너지 저장시스템은 현재 해결되어야 할 기술 및 가격적인 측면에도 불구하고 향후 기술의 발전을 전제를 뒀을 때 매우 촉망받는 에너지 저장시스템임이 조사되었다. 또한, 컨테이너 이송에 사용되는 RTGC에서 베터리와 플라이휠 에너지 저장 시스템이 각각 사용된 경우에 대해 에너지 절감에 대한 결과가 정량적으로 조사되었다.

• 산업공학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.230-240
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• 2002

Information technologies centered on the internet in the area of shipbuilding and marine engineering further incur the needs to increase the flexibility of the organization, the dispersion of work process, and the use of out sourcing, as well as the globalization of related market. In near future, electronic commerce and concurrent engineering based on CALS/EC and the Internet will be an integral part of the environment and upon these changes, ship design and construction will become a computer supported cooperative work of many dispersed and specialized groups. As the means of active response to these environmental changes, many new concepts such as digital shipbuilding, virtual shipyard, and simulation based design are appearing. In this paper, the concept and current status of digital manufacturing in general manufacturing industry will be reviewed. Then, related technologies, area of application and methods of digital manufacturing in shipbuilding and marine industries are presented. In addition, virtual assembly simulation system for shipbuilding(VASSS), a tool for crane operability and block erection simulation in virtual dock based on 3D product model, will be introduced.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.55-60
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• 2007

In contrast to the method in Part I, which is considered to be the general approach, Part II pursues a closed-form solution. However, this closed-form solution is available only in the 2D situation under the assumption that the moving object is restricted to a 2D space, and also requires the use of only two laser-slit sensors. Since the motion of the container loaded on top of an AGV is restricted to a plane parallel to the ground, it can be considered a 2D motion. As a simple method, but with a high cost, the use of a laser scanner is also discussed. Since the approach in Part I already uses three laser-slit sensors, it is desirable to use the schemes presented in Part II for supplementary purposes.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.123-126
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• 1995

Characteristics of control system design using Universal Learning Network (U.L.N.) are that a system to be controlled and a controller are both constructed by U.L.N. and that the controller is best tuned through learning. U.L.N has the same generalization ability as N.N.. So the controller constructed by U.L.N. is able to control the system in a favorable way under the condition different from the condition of the control system in learning stage. But stability can not be realized sufficiently. In this paper, we propose a robust control method using U.L.N. and second order derivatives of U.L.N.. The proposed method can realize better performance and robustness than the commonly used Neural Network. Robust control considered here is defined as follows. Even though initial values of node outputs change from those in learning, the control system is able to reduce its influence to other node outputs and can control the system in a preferable way as in the case of no variation. In order to realize such robust control, a new term concerning the variation is added to a usual criterion function. And parameter variables are adjusted so as to minimize the above mentioned criterion function using the second order derivatives of criterion function with respect to the parameters. Finally it is shown that the controller constricted by the proposed method works in an effective way through a simulation study of a nonlinear crane system.