• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1863-1872
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• 2006

In FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) and CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing), machine-tools have been the target of integration in the last three decades. The conventional concept of integration is being changed into the autonomous manufacturing device based on the knowledge evolution by applying advanced information technology in which an open architecture controller, high-speed network and internet technology are included. In the advanced environment, the machine-tools is not the target of integration anymore, but has been the key subject of cooperation. In the near future, machine-tools will be more improved in the form of a knowledge-evolutionary intelligent device. The final goal of this study is to develop an intelligent machine having knowledge-evolution capability and a management system based on internet operability. The knowledge-evolutionary intelligent machine-tools is expected to gather knowledge autonomically, by producing knowledge, understanding knowledge, reasoning knowledge, making a new decision, dialoguing with other machines, etc. The concept of the knowledge-evolutionary intelligent machine is originated from the machine control being operated by human experts' sense, dialogue and decision. The structure of knowledge evolution in M2M (Machine to Machine) and the scheme for a dialogue agent among agent-based modules such as a sensory agent, a dialogue agent and an expert system (decision support agent) are presented in this paper, with intent to develop the knowledge-evolutionary machine-tools. The dialogue agent functions as an interface for inter-machine cooperation. To design the dialogue agent module in an M2M environment, FIPA (Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agent) standard platform and the ping agent based on FIPA are analyzed in this study. In addition, the dialogue agent is designed and applied to recommend cutting conditions and thermal error compensation in a tapping machine. The knowledge-evolutionary machine-tools are expected easily implemented on the basis of this study and shows a good assistance to sensory and decision support agents.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.1397-1406
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose a discrete model of conveyor systems, which is frequently used in flexible manufacturing systems to transfer work-in-process( WIP) between manipulators. In the case where the time required for transferring WIP's between manipulators are greater than that of manufacturing itself, as in many flexible assembly lines, the quantitative model of the transfer systems is needed to analyze the behavior and productivity of the whole manufacturing system. The proposed model is based upon the assumptions that the length of any unit conveyor component is integer multiple of the length of a pallet and hat the transferring speed of the conveyor is constant. Under these assumptions, the observation moments and the length of the conveyor can be quantized. Hence, the state of a conveyor can be represented by two kinds of Boolean variables: one representing the presence of a pallet on each quantize conveyor length and the other representing the mobility of this pallet. The whole conveyor system can be modeling as a network composed of branches and knots based on these two Boolean variables. The proposed modelling method was tested with various conveyor system configurations and showed that the model can be adopted successfully for the simulation of transfer systems and of the piloting of manufacturing processes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.31-34
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• 2006

최근의 PLC는 Ethernet 통신, Field Bus등 새로운 통신규약에 호환성을 갖고 있으며 점점 빠른 연산 속도의 초소형 PLC로 발전해 나가고 있고 공장 자동화와 FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System)에 따른 PLC의 요구는 과거 중규모 이상의 릴레이 제어반 대체 효과에서 현재 고기능화, 고속화의 추세로 소규모 정작 기계에서 대규모 시스템 설비에 이르기까지 적용되고 있다. 그러나 현재 사용되고 있는 PLC는 각 제조사마다 하드웨어형식은 유사하지만 소프트웨어형식인 제어 명령어들이 다르기 때문에 각각의 PLC마다 호환이 되지 않는다는 문제점을 가지고 있어 이 제어 명령어들의 호환성을 위한 솔루션이 필요하다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문은 IEC1131-3의 표준 언어를 중심으로 제어할 수 있는 Mo-aPLC라는 모바일 에이전트 기반의 softPLC시스템을 제안하였다. 이 시스템은 모바일 에이전트들이 지적 대리인으로서 IEC1131-3의 표준 언어를 제어시스템 제작자에게 활용되어 질 수 있는 코드인 IL언어로 변환하고 이를 랭귀지 프로그래머가 활용할 수 있는 코드인 표준 C코드로 변환하는 것이다. 이 시스템으로 인해 제어시스템 제작자와 랭귀지 프로그래머들이 활용할 수 있는 코드들이 생성되는 것과 표준 C코드로 변환함으로서 논리적인 디버깅(dubugging)이 용이하다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.407-415
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• 2000

The ultimate goal of flow control in the semiconductor fabrication process, one of the most equipment-intensive and complex manufacturing process, is to reduce lead time and work in process. In this paper, we propose stand alone layout in the form of job shop using group technology to improve the Productivity and eliminate the inefficiency in FMS (flexible manufacture system). The performance of stand alone layout and in-line layout are analyzed and compared while varying number of device variable chanties. The analysis of in-line layout is obtained by examining its adoption in the memory products of semiconductor factory. The comparison is performed through simulation using ProSys; a window 95 based discrete system simulation software, as a tool for comparing performance of two proposed layouts. The comparison demonstrates that when the number of device variable change is small, in-line layout is more efficient in terms of production Quantity. However, as the number of device variable change is more than 14 times, stand alone layout prevails over in-line layout.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.75-83
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• 2008

A deadlock is a condition in which the excessive demand for the resources being used by others causes activities to stop and it is one of the important problems in process control system to detect and prevent deadlocks. While the reachability analyze methods or divide subnets for analyzing methods are well used, it requires a lot of times and effects to analyze the detection of the deadlock status. Furthermore, it could not be effective if the model is complex or huge. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new and more efficient deadlock detection algorithm. In this paper, a deadlock detection conditions after analyzed the Petri Net using the transitive matrix has been proposed to solve these problems. For presenting the results, the suggested deadlock detection algorithm was also adapted to an illustrated FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) model.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1469-1473
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• 2004

We suggest how to program off-line robot path along shoes' outsole shape in the footwear buffing process by a 5-axis microscribe system like robot arms. This microscribe system developed consists a 5-axis robot link with a turn table, signal processing circuit, PC and an application software program. It makes a robot path on the shoe's upper through the movement of a microscribe with many joints. To do this, first it reads 5-encoder's pulse values while a robot arm points a shoes' outsole shape from the initial status. This system developed calculates the encoder pulse values for the robot arm's rotation and transmits the angle pulse values to the PC through a circuit. Then, Denavit-Hartenberg's(D-H) direct kinematics is used to make the global coordinate from robot joint one. The determinant is obtained with kinematics equation and D-H variable representation. To drive the kinematics equation, we have to set up the standard coordinates first. The many links and the more complicated structure cause the difficult kinematics problem to solve in the geometrical way. Thus, we can solve the robot's kinematics problems efficiently and systematically by Denavit-Hartenberg's representation. Finally, with the coordinate values calculated above, it can draw a buffing gauge-line on the upper. Also, it can program off-line robot path on the shoes' upper. We are subjected to obtaining shoes' outline points, which are 2 outlines coupled with the points and the normal vector based on the points. These data is supposed to be transformed into .dxf file to be used for data of automatic buffing robot. This system developed is simulated by using spline curves coupled with each point from dxf file in Autocad. As a result of applying this system to the buffing robot in the flexible footwear manufacturing system, it can be used effectively to program the path of a real buffing robot.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.667-672
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• 2011

This paper presents to study the sensor fusion of positioning sensors using UKF(unscented Kalman filter) for positioning accuracy improvement of AGV(automatic guided vehicle). The major guidance systems for AGV are wired guidance and magnetic guidance system. Because they have high accuracy and fast response time, they are used in most of the FMS(flexible manufacturing system). However, they had weaknesses that are high maintenance cost and difficult of existing path modification. they are being changed to the laser navigation in recent years because of those problems. The laser navigation is global positioning sensor using reflecters on the wall, and it have high accuracy and easy to modify the path. However, its response time is slow and it is influenced easily by disturbance. In this paper, we propose the sensor fusion method of the laser navigation and local sensors using UKF. The proposed method is improvement method of accuracy through error analysis of sensors. For experiments, we used the axle-driven forklift AGV and compared the positioning results of the proposed method with positioning results of the laser navigation. In experimental result, we verified that the proposed method can improve positioning accuracy about 16%.