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Coupling Model of the Maglev Vehicle/Guideway (자기부상열차/가이드웨이 연성 모델링 연구)

  • Han, Hyung-Suk;Sung, Ho-Kyung;Kim, Young-Joong;Kim, Byung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.10 no.2 s.39
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    • pp.243-250
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    • 2007
  • In general the Maglev vehicle is run over the elevated track called guideway. Since the guideway is elevated, the flexibility of the guideway has an effect on the dynamic responses of a vehicle such as its stability and ride quality. To improve the running performance of the Maglev vehicle and design a cost effective guideway using the dynamic analysis, the dynamic analysis of the system requires the coupling model of the Maglev vehicle and guideway. A coupling model based on multibody dynamics is proposed and programmed. With the program, the UTM01, a low speed Maglev vehicle, is analyzed and discussed.

Cost-effective Sensor-based Scalable Automated Conveyance System (저비용 센서 기반의 확장 가능한 자동 운반 시스템)

  • Kim, Junsik;Jung, Woosoon;Lee, Hyung Gyu
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2021
  • The important goal of the unmanned vehicle technology is on controlling the direction and speed of the vehicle with information acquired from various sensors, without the intervention of the driver, until the vehicle reaches to its destination. In this paper, our focus is on developing an unmanned conveyance system by exploiting low-cost sensing technology for indoor factories or warehouses, where the moving range of the vehicle is limited. To this end, we propose an architecture of a scalable automated conveyance system. Our proposed system includes a number of unmanned conveyance vehicles, and the efficient control mechanism of the vehicles without neither conflicts nor deadlock between the vehicles being simultaneously moved. By implementing the real prototype of the system, we successfully verify the efficiency and functionality of the proposed system.

The Effect of Bumper Mismatch on Vehicle Repair Cost (차량 간 범퍼높이 차이가 수리비에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Dong-Won;Park, In-Song;Hong, Seung-Jun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2010
  • It is a frequent occurrence in urban traffic - a low-speed collision in which one vehicle hits the back of another. The vehicles often sustain expensive damage. Bumpers can reduce this damage, but only line up so the initial contact in an impact is bumper to bumper. Then the bumpers on the colliding vehicles have to absorb the crash energy, keeping damage away from expensive sheet metal, lights, and other components. In real world accidents, Bumper mismatches in crashes are increasing, and the resulting repair costs from low-speed collisions are escalating. In this study, we investigated the bumper rail height and analyzed their effects on repair cost. Futhermore, Our 16kph front-into-rear crash tests demonstrates bumper mismatch problem.

Development of Low-Cost Automatic Flight Control System for Unmanned Target Drone

  • Lee, Jang-Ho;Ryu, Hyeok;Kim, Jae-Eun;Ahn, Iee-Ki
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.367-371
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes development of automatic flight control system for an unmanned target drone which is operated by Korean army as for anti-air gun shooting training. Current target drone is operated by pilot control of on-board servo motor via remote control system. Automatic flight control system for the target drone greatly reduces work load of ground pilot and can increase application area of the drone. Most UAVs being operated now days use high-priced sensors as AHRS and IMU to measure the attitude, but those are costly. This paper introduces the development of low-cost automatic flight control system with low-cost sensors. The integrated automatic flight control system has been developed by integrating combining power module, switching module, monitoring module and RC receiver as an one module. The performance of automatic flight control system is verified by flight test.

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A Study on Vehicle Crash Characteristics with RCAR Crash Test in Compliance with the New Test Condition (동일 승용차량에 대한 RCAR 신.구 충돌시험을 통한 차체 충돌특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Jong-Hun;Park, In-Song;Heo, Seung-Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.190-194
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    • 2006
  • This research investigates vehicle structure acceleration and vehicle deformation with RCAR crash test. To investigate vehicle damage characteristics in an individual case, it is possible to RCAR low speed crash test. In this study, two tests were conducted to evaluate difference between RCAR new condition and RCAR old condition. A two large vehicles were subjected to a frontal crash test at a speed of 15km/h with an offset of 40% $10^{\circ}$ angle barrier and flat barrier. The results of the 15km/h with an offset of 40% $10^{\circ}$ angle barrier revealed high acceleration value on the vehicle structure and high repair cost compared to the RCAR 15km/h with an offset of 40% flat barrier. So in order to improve damage characteristics in low speed crash of vehicle structure and body component of the monocoque type passenger vehicles, the end of front side member and front back beam should be designed with optimum level and to supply the end of front side member as a partial condition approx 300mm.

A Hardware/Software Codesign for Image Processing in a Processor Based Embedded System for Vehicle Detection

  • Moon, Ho-Sun;Moon, Sung-Hwan;Seo, Young-Bin;Kim, Yong-Deak
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.1 no.1 s.1
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2005
  • Vehicle detector system based on image processing technology is a significant domain of ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) applications due to its advantages such as low installation cost and it does not obstruct traffic during the installation of vehicle detection systems on the road[1]. In this paper, we propose architecture for vehicle detection by using image processing. The architecture consists of two main parts such as an image processing part, using high speed FPGA, decision and calculation part using CPU. The CPU part takes care of total system control and synthetic decision of vehicle detection. The FPGA part assumes charge of input and output image using video encoder and decoder, image classification and image memory control.

Night Time Leading Vehicle Detection Using Statistical Feature Based SVM (통계적 특징 기반 SVM을 이용한 야간 전방 차량 검출 기법)

  • Joung, Jung-Eun;Kim, Hyun-Koo;Park, Ju-Hyun;Jung, Ho-Youl
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 2012
  • A driver assistance system is critical to improve a convenience and stability of vehicle driving. Several systems have been already commercialized such as adaptive cruise control system and forward collision warning system. Efficient vehicle detection is very important to improve such driver assistance systems. Most existing vehicle detection systems are based on a radar system, which measures distance between a host and leading (or oncoming) vehicles under various weather conditions. However, it requires high deployment cost and complexity overload when there are many vehicles. A camera based vehicle detection technique is also good alternative method because of low cost and simple implementation. In general, night time vehicle detection is more complicated than day time vehicle detection, because it is much more difficult to distinguish the vehicle's features such as outline and color under the dim environment. This paper proposes a method to detect vehicles at night time using analysis of a captured color space with reduction of reflection and other light sources in images. Four colors spaces, namely RGB, YCbCr, normalized RGB and Ruta-RGB, are compared each other and evaluated. A suboptimal threshold value is determined by Otsu algorithm and applied to extract candidates of taillights of leading vehicles. Statistical features such as mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, and entropy are extracted from the candidate regions and used as feature vector for SVM(Support Vector Machine) classifier. According to our simulation results, the proposed statistical feature based SVM provides relatively high performances of leading vehicle detection with various distances in variable nighttime environments.

Analysis to be used for the Life Cycle Costs calculation of rolling stocks for EMU (EMU 철도차량의 LCC(Life Cycle Cost)분석)

  • Park, Su-Myung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.177-183
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    • 2009
  • This paper deals with the topical problems of the Life Cycle Costs in connection with the rolling stocks. the LCC philosophy has already entered the third decade. this philosophy contributed towards the new relationship's comprehension between railway vehicle producers' and railway vehicle users' sphere. this leads together to the technical-economical solution convenient for the both sides. In the point of manufacturer, It is said that low operational costs could be reached using a well-designed and structured maintenance program. this is due to the proper technical analysis of critical components that leads to low costs of maintenance and a superior reliability without increasing the capital investment. but, This paper presents both topical experiences with the LCC models for the railways vehicles and also procedures during Life Cycle Costs calculations. In conclusion I want to introduce how to calculate LCC & what kinds of softwares are used based on VVVF EMU vehicle

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EV Spreads and Semiconductor Convergence Study according to Price Inflection Points

  • Dae Sung Seo
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.202-209
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    • 2023
  • This study aims to analyze the correlation between semiconductor innovation and market dominance in the mobility electric vehicle industry. To this end, the study presentsstrategiesthat provide low-price competitiveness along with high-value creation in the electric vehicle and semiconductor markets. The first change in the era of high interest rates is to overcome the crisis of survival for value. Furthermore, the study acknowledges the ongoing second wave of change as the digital technology's value continues to rise, and companies experience decreased productivity due to rising ESG labor costs. The study analyzed price competitiveness in the context of the increased adoption of electric vehicles and the integration of semiconductor prices, proving that Tesla and Samsung Semiconductor have developed technology to dominate the market, with appropriate low-cost strategies applied as the value of innovation declines.

Multi-directional DRSS Technique for Indoor Vehicle Navigation (실내 차량 내비게이션을 위한 다방향 DRSS 기술)

  • Kim, Seon;Park, Pangun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.936-942
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    • 2022
  • While indoor vehicle navigation is an essential component in large-scale parking garages of major cities, technical limitations and challenging propagation environments considerably degrade the accuracy of existing localization techniques. This paper proposes a proximity detection scheme using low-cost beacons where a handheld mobile device within a moving vehicle autonomously detects its approximate position and moving direction by only observing Received Signal Strength (RSS) values of beacon signals. The proposed approach essentially exploits the differential RSS technique of multi-directional beams to reduce the impact of the environment, vehicle, and mobile device. A low-cost multi-directional beacon prototype is developed using Bluetooth technology. The localization performance is evaluated using 96 beacons in an underground parking garage within an area of 394.8m×304.3m. Experimental results show that the 90th percentile of the average proximity detection error is 0.8m. Furthermore, our proposed scheme provides robust proximity detection performance with various vehicles and mobile devices.