• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.195-201
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• 2015

전기굴삭기는 배터리에 저장된 에너지로 전동기-유압펌프를 구동해서 유압 에너지를 생성하고 이를 작업에 활용한다. 기존 유압굴삭기의 유압펌프는 디젤 엔진의 운전 효율에 최적화된 레귤레이터에 의해 제어되고, 유압펌프 자체의 효율은 고려되지 않았다. 전기굴삭기는 배터리를 에너지원으로 사용하기 때문에 전동기의 효율뿐 아니라 유압펌프의 효율을 함께 고려한 제어가 요구된다. 통합 제어를 위해서 유압펌프와 전동기의 출력과 효율 특성을 분석하여 효율맵을 작성하였고, 이를 바탕으로 최적동작맵을 구성하고 통합 제어 알고리즘을 개발했다. 알고리즘의 효과를 확인하기 위해 전기굴삭기 MILS 를 구성해서 통합 제어 알고리즘을 적용했다. 굴삭기 작업 시뮬레이션 결과는 통합 제어 알고리즘이 시스템 효율을 향상 시켰음을 보여준다.

• 유공압시스템학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

Nowadays with the high fuel prices, the demands for energy saving and green emission of construction machinery have highly been increased without sacrifice of working performance, safety and reliability. The aim of this paper is to propose a new energy saving hybrid excavator system using an electro-hydraulic actuator driven by an electric motor/generator for the regeneration of potential energy. A 5 ton class excavator is analyzed, developed with the boom for the evaluation of the designed system. The hardware implementation is also presented in this paper. A control strategy for the hybrid excavator is proposed to operate the machine with a highest efficiency. The energy saving ability of the proposed excavator is clearly verified through simulation and experimental results in comparison with a conventional hydraulic excavator.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2013

Excavation is an important work in mining, earth removal and general earthworks. Nowadays, automation in excavator has been studied by several researchers. In the excavator research methods, simulation is one of the low cost methods for applied to test safely. In this paper, designed a virtual hydraulic excavator that with the control and the dynamic. At first, the simulation of hydraulic system for excavator's attachment such as boom, arm and bucket using Matlab/Simhydraulic is presented. Second, the dynamic model of excavator is distributed to combine with the hydraulic system. For controlling this system, electric joysticks are used to operate the orifice open areas in Main Control Valve. The simulation result is described to analysis the performance of this virtual excavator.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.1304-1312
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• 2012

According to the successful development of hybrid vehicle, hybridization of construction equipments like excavator, wheel loader, and backhoe etc., is gaining increasing attention. However, hybridization of excavator and commercial vehicle is very different. Therefore a specialized energy management control algorithm for excavator should be developed. In this paper, hybridization of excavators is investigated and a new energy management control algorithm is proposed. Four control parameters, i.e., lower baseline, upper baseline, idling generation speed, and idling generation torque, are newly introduced and a new operating principle using those four control parameters is proposed. The use of Genetic Algorithm for the optimization of the four control parameters from the view point of minimization of fuel consumption for standard excavating operation is suggested. In order to verify the proposed algorithm, dedicated simulation program of hybrid excavator was developed. The proposed algorithm is applied to a specific hydraulic excavator and 20.7% improvement of fuel consumption is achieved.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.392-400
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• 2016

In this paper, a study based on engine operating conditions versus hybrid excavator engines was conducted about the engine performance and fuel consumption via the 1-D engine simulation model. First of all, engine operating points with performance and emission were determined by driving patterns. The 1-D HFEM(High Frequency Engine Model) was developed for deep insight into engine combustion and the energy conversion phenomena. In accordance with changing operating points, especially High Idle and Rated output conditions, engine parameters and systems such as turbocharger(Waste Gate Turbocharger and Variable Geometry Turbocharger) injection strategies and EGR(Exhaust Gas Recirculation) should be considered. Therefore, various configurations and parametric analysis with optimization methods in hybrid excavator were simulated and optimized by NLPQL(Non-linear Programming by Quadratic Lagrangian algorithm) in 1-D HFEM. As a result, the fuel consumption with the developed hybrid electric excavator engine could be significantly decreased and bsfc(Brake Specific Fuel Consumption) was also reduced about 5 % to 7 % without any performance degradation.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.1537-1542
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• 2011

본 논문은 복합형 하이브리드 굴삭기를 위한 동력전달계 제어기법에 대하여 기술하였다. 하이브리드 굴삭기는 기존 굴삭기의 동력전달계를 하이브리드화 하여 연비향상 및 배출가스 저감을 목표로 개발되고 있다. 특히 복합형 하이브리드 굴삭기는 유압시스템의 일부를 전기시스템으로 대체하여 낮은 유압효율로 인한 에너지 손실을 줄일 수 있도록 구성되어 있다. 해당 굴삭기의 하이브리드 동력 제어기는 동력전달계의 동력 흐름을 관리하여 굴삭기의 연비를 향상 시키고, 슈퍼 커패시터의 충전량을 적절한 범위에서 유지하며, 기존 굴삭기에 준하는 성능을 유지하여야 한다. 이를 위하여 본 논문에서는 슈퍼 캐패시터의 충전량 기반의 서모스탯(Thermostat)형 제어기와 실시간 최적해를 이용한 ECMS 제어기를 설계하였으며 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 성능을 검증하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 하이브리드 굴삭기의 연비가 대략 20% 이상 향상될 것으로 기대되며, 특히 등가 연료 개념을 이용한ECMS 제어기의 성능이 서모스탯(Thermostat)형 제어기에 비해 연비 및 슈퍼 커패시터 충전량 관리 측면에서 보다 향상된 것을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.441-447
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• 1998

Motivated by a recent work, a fuzzy-power-controller(FPC) is designed for the relieving-horsepower control of output variable pump with electrical proportional valve and actually implemented on the industrial excavator. In order to calculate the output power of pump with input of FPC, a linear discrete time model of load system to pump is obtained and the result is applied to control the engine-pump coupled system by software without pressure and flow sensor. The FPC controls the engine and pump coupled system by relieving horsepower control according to the change of load and the running conditions in relieving horsepower control are selected by fuzzy inference engine. A case study is peformed through the construction of the control device and installation on the excavator. It shows that the relieving-horsepower control system with the FPC, as suggested in this paper, is superior to the conventional PID controllers. And also, the excavator, with the FPC, shows that the power-loss of the coupled system is reduced and the running speed of the hydraulic actuator is enhanced.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2015

환경 문제 및 화석연료 고갈에 대한 관심으로 인하여 배기가스에 대한 규제는 나날이 엄격해지고 있으며 높은 연비에 대한 수요는 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 이러한 시대적 요구를 뒷받침하기 위하여 저배기-고연비가 특징인 하이브리드 굴삭기가 현실적인 대안으로서 각광받고 있으며 지속적으로 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 선회 구동 전동기, 엔진보조 전동기, 울트라 캐패시터, 전력변환장치를 중형 굴삭기에 탑재한 복합형 하이브리드 굴삭기를 개발하였으며, 일반적인 복합형 하이브리드 굴삭기의 연비개선요소(선회 구동 에너지 회생, 엔진 작동 속도 변경)외에 추가적으로 적용된 연비개선 방법론들에 대하여 다루고 있다. 본 방법론들을 적용함으로써 연비와 운전 조작성을 동시에 개선할 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.801-805
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• 2008

Today, hydraulic systems play an important role in modern industry for the reasons that hydraulic actuator systems take many advantages over other technologies with high durability and the ability to produce large forces at high speeds. In recent years, electro-hydraulic actuator systems, which combine electric and hydraulic technology into a compact unit, have been adapted to a wide variety of force, speed and torque requirements. Moreover these systems resolve energy consumption and noise problems characteristic existed in the conventional hydraulic systems. Therefore, these systems have a wide range application fields especially in an excavator. So the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate efficiency of the energy saving and present some control algorithms which apply to electro-hydraulic actuator system in the bucket of the excavator. Experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system with various external loads as in real working conditions.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.52-59
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• 2015

An electro hydraulic poppet valve (EHPV) and a variable orifice poppet are assembled in a single block, which is referred to as a RHINO but is also generally called a pilot-operated flow control valve. In this study, we analyzed the structure and the operating principle for a RHINO applied in a 21-ton electric excavator system. The RHINO was experimentally tested to measure the dynamic responses and the pressure energy loss. In this test, we investigated the variation in the conductance coefficient according to the increase in the supply pressure under a constant current and a variation in the flow rate according to the increase in the current. Then, the geometrical shapes and the spring stiffness of the RHINO were considered to develop an analysis model. The characteristics (current-force and hysteresis) for the solenoid based on the experimental data were reflected in the analysis model that was developed, and the reliability of the analysis model was also verified by comparing the experimental and analytical results. The developed model is thus considered to be reliable for use in a wide range of applications, including optimum design, sensitivity analysis, parameter tuning, etc.