• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.109-118
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• 1999

A graphic software is one of the most important components of the vehicle simulator. To increase a visual reality of the simulator, the graphic software should require several technologies such as three-dimensional graphics, graphic modeling of the vehicle and the environment, drivers biomechanical models, and real-time data processing. This study presents a real time graphic driving simulator of a construction vehicle. The graphic simulator contains the three models of the construction vehicle, the human, and the environment, and employes a neural network approach to decrease an on-line dynamic computation. An excavator model is represented using an object-oriented paradigm and contains the detailed information about a real-size vehicle. The human model is introduced for objective visual evaluations of the developed excavator model. Since the environment model plays an important role in a real-time simulator, a block-based approach is implemented and a text format is utilized for easier construction of environment. The simulation results are illustrated in order to demonstrate the applicability of developed models and the neural network approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.227-232
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• 1998

We developed a Off-Line Graphic Simulator which can simulate a robot model in 3D graphics space in Windows 95 version. 4 axes SCARA robot was adopted as an objective model. Forward kinematics, inverse kinematics and robot dynamics modeling were included in the developed program. The interface between users and the off-line program system in the Windows 95's graphic user interface environment was also studied. The developing language is Microsoft Visual C++. Graphic libraries, OpenGL, by Silicon Graphics, Inc. were utilized for 3D graphics.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.1319-1322
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• 2003

KAERI is developing the Advanced Spent Fuel Conditioning Process (ACP) as a pre-disposal treatment process for spent fuel. Equipment used for such a spent fuel recycling and management process must operate in intense radiation fields as well as in a high temperature. Therefore, remote maintenance has a played a significant role in this process because of combined chemical and radiological contamination. Hence suitable remote handling and maintenance technology needs to be developed along with the design of the process concepts. To do this, we developed the graphic simulator for the ACP. The graphic simulator provides the capability of verifying the remote operability of the process without fabrication of the process equipment. In other words, by applying virtual reality to the remote maintenance operation, a remote operation task can be simulated in the graphic simulator, not in a real environment. The graphic simulator will substantially reduce the cost of the development of the remote handling and maintenance procedure as well as the process equipment, while at the same time producing a process and a remote maintenance concept that is more reliable, easier to implement, and easier to understand.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.224-229
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• 2000

본 연구의 목적은 Graphic Simulator를 이용한 감성자극제시 및 측정연구에서 큰 변수로 작용하는 Simulator Sickness(SS)가 시간, 성별 그리고 Sick와 Non-sick 그룹에 따라 어떻게 변화하는지를 알아보고자 한다. 피험자는 신체 건강한 남녀 10명(남자 5명, 여자 5명)을 대상으로 하였다. Simulator Sickness Questionnaire(SSQ)를 이용하여 16가지 SS증상을 측정하고, 메스꺼움, 안구운동불편, 방향감각사실, Total Simulator Sickness 점수를 계산하였다. 실험 결과, Simulator Sickness는 남녀 모두 시간에 따라 계속 증가하는 경향을 나타내었고, 성별에 따른 차이는 나타나지 않았다. 또한 Sick와 Non-sick 그룹사이에 통계적 유의차(p<0.05)를 발견할 수 있었으며, Sick 그룹의 평균 점수가 더 높게 나타났다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.103-112
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• 2000

본 연구는 Graphic simulator에서 자동차 속도 변화에 따른 운전자의 감성변화를 주관적 평가와 자율신경계의 반응을 통해 알아보고자 한다. 속도 변화는 정차(0km/h), 40km/h, 100km/h, 160km/h로 제시하였고, 건강한 10명의 피험자를 대상으로 심박변화율, 피부저항, 피부온도, 맥파 등의 생리신호를 측정하였다. 본 연구 목적에 적절한 속도 관련 어휘를 추출하여 각 속도에서의 주관적 감성 변화를 평가하였다. 또한, 각 속도 실험 전 후에 Simulator Sickness를 측정하여 Simulator Sickness가 실험 결과에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 속도가 증가함에 따라 긴장도와 쾌도가 증가한다는 주관적 평가 결과를 얻었다. 실험 전에 비해 실험 후의 Simulator Sickness 값은 증가하였지만 실험 전, 후의 통계적 차이는 관찰할 수 없었다. 속도 증가에 따라, 평균 R-R간격, 피부온도의 진폭은 감소하였고, 피부저항은 증가하였고, 맥파의 평균 진폭은 감소하였다. 그러므로 본 연구를 통해 Simulator Sickness의 큰 영향 없이 Graphic Simulator에서 속도의 증가에 따라 교감신경계가 활성화됨을 관찰할 수 있었고, 이는 실제 동적 환경에서 속도 변화에 따른 자율신경계의 반응 및 주관적 평가 결과와 일치하는 것이다. 향후 복합 감각 자극이 가능한 시뮬레이터가 구축이 될 것이고, 이를 통해 보다 현실감 있는 동적 환경 제시와 감성 측정이 가능할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.88-94
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• 2004

Recently, vehicle simulators are widely used to evaluate driver's responses and driver assistance systems. It needs much effort to construct the virtual driving environment for a vehicle simulator. In this study, it is described how to make effectively the roads and the driving environment for a vehicle simulator. The GIS (Geographic Information System) is used to construct the roads and the environment effectively. Because the GIS is the integrated system of geographical data, it contains useful data to make virtual driving environment. First, the outline and centerline of roads is abstracted from the GIS. From the road outline, the road width is calculated. Using the centerline, the grid model of roads is constructed. The final graphic model of roads is constructed by mapping road image to the grid model according to the number of lanes and the kind of surface. Data of buildings from the GIS are abstracted. Each shape and height of buildings is determined according to kind of buildings, the final graphic model of buildings is constructed. Then, the graphic model of roadside tree is also constructed. Finally, the driving environment for driving simulator is constructed by converting the three graphic models with the graphic format of Direct-X and by joining the three graphic models.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.3-7
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• 2005

Recently, vehicle simulators are widely used to evaluate driver s responses and driver assistance systems. It needs much effort to construct the virtual driving environment for a vehicle simulator. In this study, it is described how to make effectively the roads and the driving environment for a vehicle simulator. GIS (Geographic Information System) is used to construct the roads and the environment effectively. Because the GIS is the integrated system of geographical data, it contains useful data to make virtual driving environment. First, boundaries and centerlines of roads are extracted from the GIS. From boundaries, the road width is calculated. Using centerlines, mesh models of roads are constructed. The final graphic model of roads is constructed by mapping road images to those mesh models considering the number of lanes and the kind of surface. Data of buildings from the GIS are extracted. Each shape and height of building is determined considering the kind of building to construct the final graphic model of buildings. Then, the graphic model of roadside trees is constructed to decide their locations. Finally, the driving environment for driving simulator is constructed by converting the three graphic models with the graphic format of Direct-X and by joining the three graphic models.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.133-136
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• 2001

In this paper the Graphic-based Power System Simulator(GPSS) program is introduced. GPSS is a Power System Simulator that is designed to provide friendly and highly interactive Graphic User Interface(GUI). The main features of GPSS are graphical free editing, quick and fine System-Drawing and Load-Flow analysis. Most of all, mapping power system data(only pure text information) into Graphic Data is of very practical use to power system designer and analyst.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.50-52
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• 2002

GPSS(Graphic-based Power System Simulator) had been introduced before in an ex-thesis. GPSS is a Power System Simulator that is designed to provide friendly and highly interactive Graphic User Interface (GUI). In this Paper, GPSS was improved not for the education or the test, but as the instrument for a large-scale systematic analysis. To limit the difference between a theory and practical affairs, we reformed and added a lot of functions to the GPSS. And we have verified the real-systematic data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.772-775
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• 2002

The remote handling and maintenance devices in the nuclear hot ceil should be checked prior to the hot operation in view of reliability and operability. In this study, the digital mock-up is implemented to analyze and define the process equipment maintenance processes instead of real mock-up, which is very expensive and time consuming. To do this, the parts of equipment and maintenance devices are modeled in 3-D graphics, assembled, and kinematics is assigned. Also, the virtual workcell of the spent fuel management process is implemented in the graphical environment which is the same as the real environment. This simulator has the several functions for verification such as analyses for the manipulator's working area, the collision detection, the path planning and graphic simulation of the processes etc. This graphic simulator of the maintenance devices can be effectively used in designing of the maintenance processes for the hot cell equipment and enhance the reliability of the spent fuel management.