• 터널과지하공간
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2024

폐광산의 갱도 입구를 통해 고속 라이다(Light Detection And Ranging, LiDAR) 장비가 탑재된 무인이동체를 투입하여 폐광의 갱도를 형상화하기 위한 기술이 제안되었다. 직경이 1.5 m 이상인 좁은 갱도에 바닥이 슬러지 형태로 미끄럽고 장애물이 있는 환경에서 무인 이동체를 운영할 때 고려할 사항을 검토하였다. 육상환경 이동을 위해 4족 보행 로봇을 활용하였으며 항공 환경 이동을 위해 쿼드콥터 드론이 활용되었다. 수중환경의 갱도에 투입하기 위해서 수중 드론이 사용되었다. 무인 이동체를 실제 광산 현장에 투입하여 폐광 현장용 이동체가 고려해야 할 변수들을 도출하였다. 폐광산 갱도 형상화용 센서로서 2차원 영상 기반의 solid-state 라이다가 사용되었다. 방사형으로 측정되는 라이다의 특성을 고려하여 고정 경사각을 두어 회전시켜 운영하여 갱도 형상화를 위한 효율성을 높이고 동시에 장애물 감지도 같이 수행할 수 있도록 제안하였다. Solid-state 라이다를 이용하여 측정데이터로부터 센서의 자세와 로봇의 자세를 반영하여 현실 좌표계 데이터로 변환하기 위한 계산기법이 도출되었다. 라이다 센서와 무인 비행체가 결합하여 실제 현장에 투입하여 갱도 형상을 추출하였다. 마지막으로 실제 현장에서 효용성을 높이기 위한 요소를 도출하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.194-201
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• 2004

Optical fibers are indispensable fer optical communication systems that transmit large volumes of data at high speed. But the aligning technology under the sub-micron accuracy is required for the precise axis adjustment and connection. For the purpose of precise alignment of the optical arrays, in this research, we have developed the 12-axis(with 8 automated axis and 4 manual axis) automatic optical fiber alignment system including the image processing-based searching system, the automatic loading system using the robot and the suction toot and the automatic UV bonding system. In order to obtain the sub-micron alignment accuracy, two 4-axis PC-based motion controllers and the two 50nm resolution 6-aixs micro-stage actuated by micro stepping motors are adopted. The fiber aligning procedure consists of two steps. Firstly, the optical wave guide and an input optical array are aligned by the 6-axis input micro-stage with the IR camera. The image processing technique is introduced to reduce primary manual aligning time and result in achieving the 50% decrease of aligning time. Secondly, the IR camera is replaced by the output micro-stage and a wave guide and two optical arrays are aligned simultaneously before the laser power intensity delivered to the optical powermeter reached the threshold value. When the aligning procedure is finished, the wave guide and arrays are W bonded. The automatic loading/unloading system is also introduced and the entire wave guide handing time is reduced significantly compared to the former commercial aligning system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.182-184
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• 2009

FlexRay는 차세대 차량 및 선박 내 전자 장치간의 통신을 위해 고속의 시리얼 통신, time triggered bus, fault tolerant 통신을 제공하는 새로운 네트워크 통신 시스템의 표준이다. FlexRay Communication Controller(CC)는 FlexRay 프로토콜 규격의 핵심 부분이다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 SDL(Specification and Description Language)를 이용하여 FlexRay CC 프로토콜 규격과 기능 부분을 설계한다. 다음 설계한 SDL 소스를 기반으로 Verilog HDL을 이용하여 하드웨어로 설계한다. 설계한 FlexRay CC는 Samsung $0.35{\mu}m$ 공정을 이용하여 합성하였으며, 그 결과 80 MHz의 속도로 동작하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 FlexRay 시스템의 동작을 확인하기 위해 로봇에 적용되는 음원위치 추정 시스템에 응용하였다. 응용 시스템은 ALTERA Excalibur ARM EPAX4F672C3을 이용하여 검증하였으며 성공적으로 동작함을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.44-48
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• 2007

In recent years, the size of plane substrates and semiconductor wafers has increased. As conventional contact transportation systems composed of, for example, carrier rollers, belt conveyers, and robot hands carry these longer and wider substrates, the increased weight results in increased potential for fracture. A noncontact transportation system is required to solve this problem. We propose a new noncontact transportation system combining acoustic viscous and aerostatic forces to provide damage-free transport. In this system, substrates are supported by aerostatic force and transported by acoustic viscous streaming induced by traveling wave deformation of a disk-type stator. A ring-type piezoelectric transducer bonded on the stator excites vibration. A stator with a high Q piezoelectric transducer can generate traveling vibrations with amplitude of $3.2{\mu}m$. Prior to constructing a carrying road for substrates, we clarified the basic properties of this technique and stator vibration characteristics experimentally. We constructed the experimental equipment using a rotational disk with a 95-mm diameter. Electric power was 70 W at an input voltage of 200 Vpp. A rotational torque of $8.5\times10^{-5}Nm$ was obtained when clearance between the stator and disk was $120{\mu}m$. Finally, we constructed a noncontact transport apparatus for polycrystalline silicon wafers $(150(W)\times150(L)\times0.3(t))$, producing a carrying speed of 59.2 mm/s at a clearance of 0.3 mm between the stator and wafer. The carrying force when four stators acted on the wafer was $2\times10^{-3}N$. Thus, the new noncontact transportation system was demonstrated to be effective.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2012

Welding is an essential process in the automotive industry. Most welding processes that are used for auto body is spot welding. And $CO_2$ arc welding is used in a small part. In production field, $CO_2$ arc welding process is decreased and spot welding process is increased due to welding quality is poor and defects are occurred in $CO_2$ arc welding process frequently. But $CO_2$ arc welding process should be used at robot interference parts and closed parts where spot welding couldn't. $CO_2$ welding is divided into lap welding and plug arc spot welding. In case of plug arc spot welding, burn through and under fill were caused in various welding environment such as different thickness combinations of base metal, teaching point, over the two steps welding and inconsistent voltage/current. It makes some problem like poor quality of welding area and decrease the productivity. In this study, we will evaluate the effect of teaching point through the weld pool behavior and bead geometry in the arc spot welding at the plut hole. Welding position is horizontal position. And galvanized steel sheet of 2.0mm thickness that has plug hole of 6mm diameter was used. Teaching point was changed by center, top, bottom, left and right of the plug hole. At each condition, the phenomenon of weld pool behavior was confirmed using a high-speed camera. As the result, we find the center of plug hole is the most optimal teaching point. In the other teaching point, under fill was occurred at the plug hole. This phenomenon is caused by gravity and surface tension. For performance of arc spot welding at the plug hole, the teaching condition should be controlled at a center of plug hole.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.128-134
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• 2019

In shipbuilding, accurate fabrication of curved hull plates is one of the most important steps, since the shape of ship hull, which is very critical in the overall performance of a ship, is a collection of such plates. The curved hull plates forming process requires a significant amount of time by skilled workers in shipbuilding. In general, the workers cause thermal distortion in the plate and forming initial shape using gas heat source. So shipbuilding companies need skilled workers who have long experience. To solve the problem, a lot of researchers tried to develop automation system for curved hull plates. In this paper, we propose automatic heating system with gantry robot, high frequency induction heater to replace the gas heat source and automatic measurement system. We apply the system to forming concave type plate that is actually used in ship manufacturing. In addition, a system was developed to automatically generate heating information, such as the heating location and the heating speed, for actual heating process. Then the system was applied to the actual heating material. It is shown that the proposed triangle heating pattern makes desired concave shape successfully. The induction heating system showed that it can be used for automation system of curved hull plates forming process replacing gas heat source.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.22-35
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• 2023

As information and communication technology has developed remarkably, it has become possible to analyze various types of large-volume data generated at a speed close to real time, and based on this, reliable value creation has become possible. Such big data analysis is becoming an important means of supporting decision-making based on scientific figures. The purpose of this study is to develop a big data analysis tool that can analyze large amounts of data generated through engineering education. The tasks of this study are as follows. First, a database is designed to store the information of entries in the National Creative Capstone Design Contest. Second, the pre-processing process is checked for analysis with big data analysis tools. Finally, analyze the data using the developed big data analysis tool. In this study, 1,784 works submitted to the National Creative Comprehensive Design Contest from 2014 to 2019 were analyzed. As a result of selecting the top 10 words through topic analysis, 'robot' ranked first from 2014 to 2019, and energy, drones, ultrasound, solar energy, and IoT appeared with high frequency. This result seems to reflect the current core topics and technology trends of the 4th Industrial Revolution. In addition, it seems that due to the nature of the Capstone Design Contest, students majoring in electrical/electronic, computer/information and communication engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical/new materials engineering who can submit complete products for problem solving were selected. The significance of this study is that the results of this study can be used in the field of engineering education as basic data for the development of educational contents and teaching methods that reflect industry and technology trends. Furthermore, it is expected that the results of big data analysis related to engineering education can be used as a means of preparing preemptive countermeasures in establishing education policies that reflect social changes.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1022-1027
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• 2003

The Motion controllers provide the sophisticated performance and enhanced capabilities we can see in the movements of robotic systems. Several types of motion controllers are available, some based on the kind of overall control system in use. PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)-based motion controllers still predominate. The many peoples use MCU (Micro Controller Unit)-based board level motion controllers and will continue to in the near-term future. These motion controllers control a variety motor system like robotic systems. Generally, They consist of large and complex circuits. PLC-based motion controller consists of high performance PLC, development tool, and application specific software. It can be cause to generate several problems that are large size and space, much cabling, and additional high coasts. MCU-based motion controller consists of memories like ROM and RAM, I/O interface ports, and decoder in order to operate MCU. Additionally, it needs DPRAM to communicate with host PC, counter to get position information of motor by using encoder signal, additional circuits to control servo, and application specific software to generate a various velocity profiles. It can be causes to generate several problems that are overall system complexity, large size and space, much cabling, large power consumption and additional high costs. Also, it needs much times to calculate velocity profile because of generating by software method and don't generate various velocity profiles like arbitrary velocity profile. Therefore, It is hard to generate expected various velocity profiles. And further, to embed real-time OS (Operating System) is considered for more reliable motion control. In this paper, the structure of chip-based precision motion controller is proposed to solve above-mentioned problems of control systems. This proposed motion controller is designed with a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) by using the VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language) and Handel-C that is program language for deign hardware. This motion controller consists of Velocity Profile Generator (VPG) part to generate expected various velocity profiles, PCI Interface part to communicate with host PC, Feedback Counter part to get position information by using encoder signal, Clock Generator to generate expected various clock signal, Controller part to control position of motor with generated velocity profile and position information, and Data Converter part to convert and transmit compatible data to D/A converter.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2009

최근 항공기에 탑재되는 디지털 제어장치들의 수와 트래픽양이 증가함에 따라 이들을 신뢰성 있게 고속으로 연결하는 다양한 디지털 데이터버스가 도입되고 있다. 이러한 항공용 데이터버스의 성능은 항공기의 안전과 직결되는 민감한 사항이기 때문에 데이터의 손실을 최소화하거나 없애기 위한 다양한 고장 감내 기술이 적용되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 데이터의 손실과 지연시간을 최소화하기 위해 채널별로 대역을 보장하는 ARINC 664표준의 Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet(AFD핀) 시스템에서 채널별 대역제어용으로 사용되는 트래픽조절기의 성능을 분석한 후, 데이터 손실률을 보다 감소시키기 위하여 2중의 트래픽조절기를 사용하는 방법을 제시하였다. NS-2시뮬레이션에 의해 기존 방법에 비하여 제안된 방법의 성능이 우수함을 보였다. 제안된 방법은 항공기 뿐 아니라 데이터의 손실에 민감한 로봇제어 및 산업용 통신망에도 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.124-130
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• 1998

독립적인 로보트나 자동차 제어 응용을 위하여 고속 3-D 비젼시스템들은 매우 중요하다. 이 논문은 다음과 같은 세가지 과정으로 구성되는 stereo vision process 개발에 대하여 논술한다 : 왼쪽과 오른쪽 이미지의 edges 추출, matching coresponding edges와 3-D map의 계산. 이 process는 VME 150/40 Imaging Technology vision system에서 이루어졌다. 이것은 display, acqusition, 4Mbytes image frame memory와 세 개의 연산 카드로 구성되는 modular system이다. 40 MHz로 작동하는 프로그래머불 연산 모듈은 $64{\times}32$ bit instruction cache와 두개의 $1024{\times}32$ bit RAM을 가진 TMS320C31 DSP에 기초를 두고 있다. 그것들은 각각 512 Kbyte static RAM, 4 Mbyte image memory, 1 Mbyte flash EEPROM과 하나의 직렬 포트로 구성되어있다. 모듈간의 데이터 전송과 교환은 8 bit globalvideo bus와 세 개의 local configurable pipeline 8 bit video bus에 의하여 이루어졌고, system management를 위하여 VME bus가 쓰였다. 두 개의 DSP는 왼쪽 및 오른쪽 이미지 edges 검출을 위하여 쓰였고 마지막 processor는 matching process와 3-D 연산에 사용되었다. $512{\times}512$픽셀 이미지에서 이 센서는 scene complexity에 따라 1Hz정도의 조밀한 3-D map을 생성했다. 특수목적의 multiprocessor card들을 사용하면 결과를 향상시킬 수 있을 것이다.