• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.6 no.11
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• pp.943-954
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• 2000

Fieldbus is the lowest level industrial network in the communication hierarchy of factory automation and distributed process control systems. Data generated from field devices are largely divided into three categories : time-critical, periodic and time-available data. Because these data share one fieldbus medium, it needs a method that allocates these data to the bandwidth-limited fieldbus medium. This paper introduces an implementation method of bandwidth allocation scheme on PROFIBUS. In order to implement bandwidth allocation scheme on PROFIBUS, the following functions need to be supplemented on the FDL(Fieldbus Datalink Layer) protocol: (i) separation of medium bandwidth into periodic and non-periodic intervals, (ii) synchronization of node timers over a local link. In order to examine the validity of bandwidth allocation scheme on PROFIBUS, this paper develops an experimental model of a network system. The results obtained from the experimental model show that the bandwidth allocation scheme satisfies the performance requirement of time-critical, periodic and time-available data.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1293-1298
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• 2005

In the environment where human coexists with robot, the problem of safety is very important. But it is difficult to separate the robot from the human in time-domain or space-domain unlike the case of factory automation, so a new concept is needed. One approach is to notice sensory and emotional feeling of human, and in this study "pain" is focused, which is a typical unpleasant feeling when the robot contacts us. In this paper, to design the controller based on the pain, an artificial superficial pain model caused by impact is proposed. This ASPM model consists of mechanical pain model, skin model and gate control by artificial neural networks (ANNs). The proposed ASPM is evaluated by experiments.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.59-64
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• 1991

오늘날 기업들은 국제 시장에서 보다 효과적으로 경쟁하기 위해서 도전하고 있다. 품질 향상, 제조 원가 절감, lead time 단축, 급속히 변하는 시장 요구에 대응하기 위해 다각도로 경주를 하고 있다고 할 수 있다. 상품과 services에 있어서는 국제 규격에 달해야 하고 영업에 있어서도 세계시장으로 뛰어 들어야 하기 때문에 국내나 경제 block 내에서의 경쟁은 그 의미가 훨씬 줄어 들고 있다. 상품과 services를 통한 시장확보를 위한 경쟁은 선진기업은 물론 새로이 급속하게 부상하는 기업들과 더불어 날로 심해가고 있다. 이에 도전하기 위한 수단으로써 공장 자동화를 제조업에 있어서 사활을 건 기업전략으로 추진하고 있는 기업들이 늘고 있고, 선진 제조업체에서는 무인 자동화까지 이룩한 회사들도 점점 그 수를 더해가고 있다. 공장자동화(factory automation)란 무엇이고 어떻게 실현해야 하는가에 대해서 간단히 기술하고자 하니 참고될 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.126-136
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• 1997

This paper describes a task level cell programming environment that deals with difficulties in programming Flexible Manufacturing Cells (FMCs), and consists of the cell programming editor and the automatic generation module. In the cell programming editor, cell programs can be developed with task- oriented cell specifications that reduces the amount of details to be considered by cell programmers. The automatic generation module transforms task specifications into executable programs used by cell constituents. The development tool in designing the environment is an object-oriented approach which provides a simple to use and intuitive user interface, and allows for an easy development of object models associated with the environment. Test results are illustrated in order to demonstrate the applicability of the developed envifonment.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.68-77
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• 2004

This paper considers the workforce assignment problem to minimize both the deviations of workloads assigned to workers and to maximize the total preference between each worker and each machine. Because of the high expense of technology education and the difficulties of firing employees, there is no part time workers in semiconductor industry. Therefore, multi-skilled workers are trained for performing various operations in several machines. The bicriteria workforce assignment problem in this paper is not easy to obtain the optimal solution considering the aisle structure and it is belong to NP-class. The proposed heuristic algorithms are developed based on the combination of spacefilling curve technique, simulated annealing technique and graph theory focusing on the multiple-row machine layout. Examples are presented for the proposed algorithms how to find a good solution.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.167-172
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a new approach to design and control a smart gripper of robot system. A control method for flexible grasping a object in partially unknown environment was proposed, where a proximate sensor detecting the distance between the fingertip and object was used. Based on the proximate sensor signal the finger motion controller could plan the grasping process divided in three phases. The first step is scanning process which two first joints were moved to mid-position of the detected range by a state-variable feedback position controller, after the scanning was finished. The contact force of fingertip was then controlled using the detection sensor of the servo controller for finger joint control. The proposed grasping planning was tested on rectangular bar.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.63-69
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• 1997

This paper presents a design method for a filter application in a parts-of FA(Factory Automation). Normal equations for ripple voltage and current are derived in terms of dimensionless quantities, and these equations can be used directly to evaluate the values of LC-filter components, taking into consideration the effect of the ripple components on the rms value of the PWM-generated ripple components. Using describing function technique, design equations of the filter are derived. The data needed for the filter evaluation are the amplitude of current ripple and the frequency of square pulses delivered by the HE(Harmonic Elimination) inverter algorithm. Experimental results show that the design of the filter can be based on the method proposed and that the filter can provide a significant reduction of ripple components.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.1160-1168
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• 2000

Due to the increase in importance of factory-automation (FA) in the field of production, the importance of he autonomous guided vehicle's (AGV) role has also increased. This paper is about an active and effective controller which can flexibly prepare for changeable circumstances. For this study, research about an behavior-based system evolving by itself is also being considered. In this paper, constructed an active and effective AGV fuzzy controller to be able to carry out self-organization. To construct it, we tuned suboptimally membership function using a genetic algorithm (GA) and improved the control efficiency by self-correction and the generation of control rules.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.587-589
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• 1999

일반적으로 산업자동화 시스템은 생산 및 운용 데이터에 매우 민감하다. 따라서, 이들 데이터에 관한 신뢰성, 안정성 및 최적화에 중점을 두어 시스템이 개발되어야 하며, 이는 크게 제어부와 GUI 부분으로 나뉜다. 제어부는 각각의 동작 기기를 담당하고, GUI는 사용자와 자동화 시스템 사이의 제어 및 데이터 통신을 담당한다. 따라서 제어부와 GUI부분 사이의 통신정보는 생산, 제어 및 운용 정보를 포함한다. 이는 GUI 부분이 사용자와 운용부분사이의 정보를 전달함으로 정확한 통신정보분석 및 처리는 매우 중요한 요인이 된다. 그러나 GUI 통신부분에서 운용데이터의 손실 없이 안전한 시스템을 구현하는 것은 매우 어렵다. 따라서, 본 논문은 메시지 인터럽트 방식과 타이머를 조합하는 방법을 이용하여 GUI 통신부분의 안전한 처리방법에 대하여 구현 및 개발하였다. 또한, 본 방법은 많은 조건에서 운용데이터의 손실을 줄임으로써 시스템의 안정성 및 신뢰성을 높일 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.242-247
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• 2002

According to increase of the factory-automation(FA) in the field of production, the importance of the autonomous guided vehicle's(AGV) role has also increased. This paper is about an active and effective controller which can flexibly prepare for changeable circumstances. For this study, research about an behavior-based system evolving by itself is also being considered. In this Paper, we constructed an active and effective AGV fuzzy controller to be able to carry out self-organization. To construct it, we tuned suboptimally membership function using a genetic algorithm(GA) and improved the control efficiency by self-correction and the generation of control rules.