• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.108-118
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• 1997

The heterarchical structure provides a more attractive solution to the conventional hierarchical structure as the density and level of distrubution of computing resources in manufacturing system expands. Tracing the evolution of control structures for automated manufacturing systems, this paper discusses the design principles for heterarchical system to reduce complexity, increase extendability, flexible configurability and suggests a good example of real-time adaptation using the concept of intelligent agent of manufac- turing entities and fault diagmosis system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.4A
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• pp.351-357
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• 2007

Numerous papers that study ad hoc networks have used a hierarchical network structure to enhance scalability. The hierarchical structure typically consists of a number of clusters, each of which has its own clusterhead that maintains information. Clusterheads often need to exchange information among themselves in order to maintain information, and for such cases, a mechanism is needed to efficiently deliver information from one clusterhead to another. Here, we proposed a new distributed algorithm in which every node independently makes the decision about whether or not it forwards a received message. We used a simulation to demonstrate that the algorithm developed for this study is a considerable improvement over the control overhead algorithm.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.136-148
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• 2017

In recent years, voltage source multilevel converters are very popular in medium/high-voltage industrial applications, among which the NPC/H-Bridge converter is a popular solution to the medium/high-voltage drive systems. The conventional finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) strategy is not practical for multilevel converters due to their substantial calculation requirements, especially under high number of voltage levels. To solve this problem, a hierarchical model predictive voltage control (HMPVC) strategy with referring to the implementation of g-h coordinate space vector modulation (SVM) is proposed. By the hierarchical structure of different cost functions, load currents can be controlled well and common mode voltage can be maintained at low values. The proposed strategy could be easily expanded to the systems with high number of voltage levels while the amount of required calculation is significantly reduced and the advantages of the conventional FCS-MPC strategy are reserved. In addition, a HMPVC-based field oriented control scheme is applied to a drive system with the NPC/H-Bridge converter. Both steady-state and transient performances are evaluated by simulations and experiments with a down-scaled NPC/H-Bridge converter prototype under various conditions, which validate the proposed HMPVC strategy.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1791-1796
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• 2004

Recently, great improvements have been made in developing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) using stateof- the-art technologies for various kinds of sophisticated underwater missions. To meet increasing demands posed on AUVs, a powerful on-board computer system and an accurate sensor system with an well-organized control system architecture are needed. In this paper, a new control system architecture is proposed for AUV, ORCA (Oceanic Reinforced Cruising Agent) which is being currently developed by Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO). The proposed architecture uses a hybrid architecture that combines a hierarchical architecture and a behavior based control architecture with an evaluator for coordinating between the architectures. This paper also proposed a sensor fusion structure based on the definition of 4 categories of sensors called grouping and 5-step data processing procedure. The development of the AUV, ORCA involving the system architecture, vehicle layout, and hardware configuration of on-board system are described.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.598-603
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• 2007

To solve the rule explosion problem in multi-input fuzzy system, a method of converting a given fuzzy system to 2 layered hierarchical fuzzy system has been reported, where at the 1st layer, linearly independent fuzzy rule vectors generated from the given fuzzy system are used and, at the 2nd layer, linear combinations of these independent fuzzy rule vectors are used. In this paper, the steapest descent algorithm is presented to learn the fuzzy rule vectors and related coefficients for the equivalent 2 layered hierarchical structure. By simulation of learning of ball and beam control system, the feasibility of proposed learning scheme is shown.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.479-485
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• 2007

In this paper, a hierarchical simulation with an approximate implicit method is proposed in order to efficiently and plausibly animate mass-spring based cloth models. The proposed hierarchical simulation method can generate realistic motion of extremely fine mesh in interactive rate. The proposed technique employs a fast and stable simulation method which approximates the implicit integration. Although the approximate method is efficient, it is extremely inaccurate and shows excessively damped behavior. The hierarchical simulation technique proposed in this paper constructs multi-level mesh structure in order to represent the realistic appearance of cloth model and performs simulation on each level of the mesh with constraints that enforce some of the mass-points of current level to follow the movement of the previous level. This hierarchical method efficiently generates a plausible movement of a cloth model composed of large number of mass points. Moreover, this hierarchical method enables us to generate realistic wrinkles on the cloth, and the wrinkle pattern on the cloth model can be easily controlled because we can specify different contraction resistance force of springs according to their hierarchical level.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.370-375
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• 1992

This paper deals with the scheduling and simulation for FMC(Flexible Manufacturing Cells). In order to achieve CIM, there is a critical need to link factory level and machine level. The primary functions performed by this link for all jobs issued to the shop floor and cell include short-term scheduling and dynamic operational scheduling. Here, hierarchical control structure is introduced to define these functions. And Intelligent scheduling through expert module is adopted for efficiency of FMC operation. Computer simulation reveals that expert scheduling method is better than heuristics in various performance index.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.516-525
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• 1990

This paper proposes a hierarchical control algorithm for an efficient network management of a loosely-coupled system which consists of functional division and duplicating structure with a LAN to enhance reliability and availability. The algorithm is modeled using the Perti-net and verified with the reachability tree. Here, the proposed algorithm is compared with the purely centralized control algorithm and distributed control algorithm in terms of message traffic for the network management. The result shows that the message traffic related to system performance is as low as centralized control algorithm and the system availability is independent of a specific processor failure.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.169-180
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• 2009

IT governance implies a system in which all stakeholders with a given organization, including the board, internal customers, and related areas such as finance provide the necessary input into their decision-making process. However, the concepts of IT governance are broad and ambiguous, so IT governance is eventually needed multi-criteria decision making. This paper presents a hierarchical structure to better understand the relationship between control structure and the complexity of collective behavior with respect to IT governance and proposes a corresponding fuzzy model for analyzing IT governance complexity based on an extensive literature review. The results of this study are expected to provide a clearer understanding of how the concerns of IT governance behave and how they interact and form the collective behavior of the entire system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.403-410
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• 2008

This paper is cinderned with applying fussy measures and fuxxy integrals to analyze public attitude towards the use od manual control of traffic. To this end, a questionare on the use od manual control of traffic is set up and data are collected in expert, and layman. Factor analysis is performed to get the primary structure of public attitude. It is shown that the attitude of the responders to the questionare in each group is well explained with its hierarchical structure obtained by fuzzy measure analysis.