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Intelligent Phase Plane Switching Control of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Manipulators with Magneto-Rheological Brake

  • Thanh, Tu Diep Cong;Ahn, Kyoung-Kwan
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1983-1989
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    • 2005
  • Industrial robots are powerful, extremely accurate multi-jointed systems, but they are heavy and highly rigid because of their mechanical structure and motorization. Therefore, sharing the robot working space with its environment is problematic. A novel pneumatic artificial muscle actuator (PAM actuator) has been regarded during the recent decades as an interesting alternative to hydraulic and electric actuators. Its main advantages are high strength and high power/weight ratio, low cost, compactness, ease of maintenance, cleanliness, readily available and cheap power source, inherent safety and mobility assistance to humans performing tasks. The PAM is undoubtedly the most promising artificial muscle for the actuation of new types of industrial robots such as Rubber Actuator and PAM manipulators. However, some limitations still exist, such as the air compressibility and the lack of damping ability of the actuator bring the dynamic delay of the pressure response and cause the oscillatory motion. In addition, the nonlinearities in the PAM manipulator still limit the controllability. Therefore, it is not easy to realize motion with high accuracy and high speed and with respect to various external inertia loads in order to realize a human-friendly therapy robot To overcome these problems a novel controller, which harmonizes a phase plane switching control method with conventional PID controller and the adaptabilities of neural network, is newly proposed. In order to realize satisfactory control performance a variable damper - Magneto-Rheological Brake (MRB) is equipped to the joint of the manipulator. Superb mixture of conventional PID controller and a phase plane switching control using neural network brings us a novel controller. This proposed controller is appropriate for a kind of plants with nonlinearity uncertainties and disturbances. The experiments were carried out in practical PAM manipulator and the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm was demonstrated through experiments, which had proved that the stability of the manipulator can be improved greatly in a high gain control by using MRB with phase plane switching control using neural network and without regard for the changes of external inertia loads.

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Effect of Combined Refining Plates with Different Bar Angles on Paper Properties during Mixed Pulp Refining

  • GUO, Xiya;DONG, Jixian;LIU, Huan;DUAN, Chuanwu;YANG, Ruifan;QI, Kai
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.581-590
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    • 2020
  • Pulp refining is the major way to alter the properties of fibers and formed paper. Different combinations of the bar profile of the rotor and stator during low consistency refining processes directly affect the properties of the paper. In this study, a mixture of softwood and hardwood pulp was refined by varying the bar angle of the stator while that of the rotor is fixed at 0º. The pulp samples were collected at different refining times. Then, the pulp and paper properties, such as beating degree, fiber external fibrillation, and tensile and tear indexes were measured to explore the effects of the combined refining plates at different bar angles on paper properties. The results of the experiment show that the combined refining plate of 0º and 5º recorded the most significant improvement in the pulp beating degree and fiber external fibrillation. This consequently increased the fiber bonding area, which in turn, improved both the tensile and the tear indexes of the paper. Also, the influence of the combined refining plates with a larger bar angle on the paper properties was weaker compared to that of smaller angles. This study not only provides ideas for the bar profile design but also improves the optimal selection of refining plates.

Laser absorption spectroscopy of ternary gas mixture of He-Ne-Xe in External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp (EEFL) (레이저 흡수 분광법을 이용한 He-Ne-Xe 상종가스의 외부전곡 램프의 $1s_4$ 공명준위와 $1s_5$ 준안정준위의 제논 원자 밀도에 대한 연구)

  • Jeong, S.H.;Oh, P.Y.;Lee, J.H.;Cho, G.S.;Choi, E.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.576-580
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    • 2006
  • Mercury-free lamp, external electrode fluorescent lamp (EEFL) which includes the xenon gas, is now going on the research for the replacement of mercury lamp. The densities of excited xenon atom in the $1s_4$ resonance state and the $1s_5$ metastable state are investigated in the EEFL by a laser absorption spectroscopy under various gas pressures. We have measured the absorption signals for both $1s_4$ resonance and the $1s_5$ metastable state in the EEFL by varying the discharge currents for a given pressure. This basic absorption characteristic is very important for improvement of the VUV luminous efficiency of the EEFL as well as plasma display panel.

A Study on the Characteristics of Material in the Foreign Up-cycling Fashion Brands (Part II) -Fashion Bag Making Using Up-cycling Fashion Brand Material- (업사이클링 패션브랜드에 나타난 소재특성 연구 (제2보) -업사이클링 소재를 이용한 패션가방 제작-)

  • Lee, Dahye;Jung, Kyunghee;Bae, Soojeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.95-111
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    • 2019
  • This study is the 2nd report following "A Study on the Characteristics of Material in the Korean Up-cycling Fashion Brands (Part I)" that handled the development of upcycling props using the characteristics of upcycling material. The 2nd report analyzed product types and materials focusing on 21 foreign upcycling fashion brands. It analyzed the characteristics of upcycling fashion materials using the case analysis of coffee bean bag and waste denim based on external characteristics and internal characteristics. We then classified the external characteristics into environment/economic feasibility and availability/mixture and the internal characteristics into historicality/story and originality/scarcity. Five bags were designed and produced for the actual commercialization of fashion products based on such characteristics of materials, with the use of coffee bean bags and waste denim as upcycling materials. This study is differentiated from existing research by its suggestions for the utilization of fashion product upcycling coffee bean bags and waste denim. Also, upcycling fashion products could be competitive products in eco-friendliness and originality that can be a driving force for the sustainable development of fashion industry through the differentiation of existing fashion products.

Effect of External Factors on Diastase Activity in Water (각종 요인이 물속의 Diastase 활성에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoon, Bock-Sang;Hyun, Ho-Sup;Paik, Nam-Won
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 1974
  • Many factors exert an influence on enzyme activity and thus on the rate of reactions that they catalyse. The most important of these factors are pH, temperature, substrate concentration, and the concentration of some inhibitors present. A solution of the enzyme diastase, which breaks down molecules of the polysaccharide starch to the disaccharide maltose by hydrolysis, was provided. Activity of this enzyme was measured by the rate at which starch was removed from the reaction mixture. These experiments were designed to study this reaction rate under varying conditions and the following results were obtained. 1. The range of optimum pH for this enzyme at room temperature was 4.0-7.0 and the optimum pH was 5.0. 2. The range of optimum temperatures for this enzyme at pH 7.0 was $30^{\circ}C-50^{\circ}C$ and the optimum temperature was $40^{\circ}C$. 3. The relationship between the enzyme activity and substrate concentration could be expressed by the Michaelis-Menten equation. The limiting velocity of this enzyme at room temperature and pH 7.0 was $415{\mu}g$ starch removed/ml of reaction mixture/min and $K_m$, Michaelis constant, was $343{\mu}g/ml$. 4. Inhibitors NaCl and $HgCl_2$ blocked this enzyme activity completely at 1% and 0.01% respectively.

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Selection of Appropriate Herbicides for Establishment of Weed Control System in Adzukibean and Mungbean (팥과 녹두 잡초방제체계(雜草防除體系) 수립(樹立)을 위한 제초제(除草劑) 병발(迸拔)에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, E.H.;Lee, Y.H.;Kim, S.D.;Hwang, Y.H.;Moon, Y.H.
    • Korean Journal of Weed Science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.199-207
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    • 1983
  • To select appropriate herbicides for adzukibean and mungbean, a series of experiments was carried out in both field and pot from 1980 to 1983. Tolerance to the herbicides tested was highest in soybeans and followed by mungbean and adzukibean in the order. Pre-emergence herbicides showed relatively low phytotoxicity were chlorambem, linuron, and metribuzin for adzukibean and alachlor and butachlor for mungbean. Post-emergence herbicides showed no external phytotoxicity for adzukibean and mungbean were alloxydim, Dowco 453, fluazifop, etc.. For mungbean, terbutryn (1.5 kg, a.i./ha) which is pre-emergence herbicide showed the best weeding control efficacy but some possible phytotoxicity. Among post-emergence herbicides, acifluorfen (300 g, a.i./ha) showed the best weeding efficacy with no yield reduction though some phytotoxicity which recovered within 20 days. Compared to single herbicide application, the mixture or systemic treatments of herbicides showed much higher weeding control efficacy and seed yields: the systemic treatments of linuron (500 g, a.i./ha) / Dowco 453 (180 g, a.i./ha) or linuron (500 g, a.i./ha) / fluazufop (260 g, a.i./ha) for adzukibean and the mixture treatment of alachlor (1.31 kg, a.i./ha) / acifluorfen (150 g, a.i./ha) for mungbean, respectively.

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Effectiveness of the neutron-shield nanocomposites for a dual-purpose cask of Bushehr's Water-Water Energetic Reactor (VVER) 1000 nuclear-power-plant spent fuels

  • Rezaeian, Mahdi;Kamali, Jamshid;Ahmadi, Seyed Javad;Kiani, Mohammad Amin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.7
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    • pp.1563-1570
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    • 2017
  • In order to perform dry interim storage and transportation of the spent-fuel assemblies of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, dual-purpose casks can be utilized. The effectiveness of different neutron-shield materials for the dual-purpose cask was analyzed through a set of calculations carried out using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) code. The dose rate for the dual-purpose cask utilizing the recently developed materials of $epoxy/clay/B_4C$ and $epoxy/clay/B_4C/carbon$ fiber was less than the allowable radiation level of 2 mSv/h at any point and 0.1 mSv/h at 2 m from the external surface of the cask. By utilization of $epoxy/clay/B_4C$ instead of an ethylene glycol/water mixture, the dose rates on the side surface of the cask due to neutron sources and consequent secondary gamma rays will be reduced by 17.5% and 10%, respectively. The overall dose rate in this case will be reduced by 11%.

Recovery of Copper Powder from MoO3 Leaching Solution (MoO3 침출공정 폐액으로부터 동분말의 회수기술)

  • Hong, Hyun-Seon;Jung, Hang-Chul;Kim, Geun-Hong;Kong, Man-Sik
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.351-357
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    • 2009
  • A two-step recovery method was developed to produce copper powders from copper chloride waste solution as byproducts of MoO$_3$ leaching process. The first step consisted of replacing noble copper ions with external Fe$^{3+}$ ions which were formed by dissolving iron scraps in the copper chloride waste solution. The replaced copper ions were subsequently precipitated as copper powders. The second step was cementation of entire solution mixture to separate (pure) copper powders from aqueous solution of iron chloride. Cementation process variables of temperature, time, and added amount of iron scraps were optimized by using design of experiment method and individual effects on yield and efficiency of copper powder recovery were investigated. Copper powders thus obtained from cementation process were further characterized using various analytical tools such as XRD, SEM-EDS and laser diffraction and scattering methods.Cementation process necessitated further purification of recovered copper powders and centrifugal separation method was employed, which successfully yielded copper powders of more than 99% purity and average 1$\sim$2$\mu$m in size.

Design of Integrated Control System for Combustion Type CO2 Generator with Solar Radiation Sensitiveness and Irrigation Supply (일사량 감응 및 관수공급이 가능한 연소형 CO2 발생기 통합 제어시스템의 설계)

  • Kim, Eung-Kon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.617-622
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    • 2018
  • Simultaneous control of blowers and heat exchangers affecting the air sealing and flow conditions inside the green house is essential to the management of $CO_2$ concentration. Currently, the demand for automation systems and integrated control is steadily increasing according to increasing of farm areas per person due to the reduction of agricultural population. This paper proposes the integrated control system that can control simultaneously the existing devices such as measurement switching devices which are important variables in the supply of $CO_2$, $CO_2$ generator fuel and combustion air mixture ratio(air-to-fuel ratio), and $CO_2$ supply control under internal and external conditions.

An Analysis of Pastiche in Body Ornamentation of Modern Fashion (현대 패션에 표현된 신체장식의 혼성모방 분석)

  • 손향미;박길순
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.27 no.8
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    • pp.981-991
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to observe the cultural phenomenon in modern society from the point of view of pastiche, analyze the characteristics of pastiche, create a framework for studying modem fashion and body ornamentation, one of the facts of cultural phenomenon and, based on these aspects, will observe the pastiche phase, which occurred in body ornamentation of modem fashion in the late 1990's Collections. The characteristics of pastiche is that it transcends meaning, alters the usage of objects, raises the beauty of alienation and pursues temporariness. Observing pastiche, according to its definition and characteristics, as it appears in body ornamentation of modem fashion, the results were as follows: First of all, in terms of transcending meaning, body ornamentation of modern fashion is a mixture of all past styles. Secondly, use of objects in body ornamentation of fashion has shown the use of things which have never been used in accessorizing before, such as birdcages, bones of body, castle. Third, in terms of the raising of the beauty of alienation, accessories from countries, which were not high interest groups in the past, such as piercing, scar, corpulent, are being used as high-fashion accessories in body ornamentation of modern fashion. Fourth, in terms of the pursuit of temporariness, external ornamentation in body ornamentation of modern fashion is seen as permanent changes to the outer body, such as tattoos, piercings, hair color and the more temporary changes, such as coloring.