• 에너지공학
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.41-51
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• 1997

단일 드럼형 보일러를 갖는 발전 플랜트의 동특성 해석을 위한 프로세스 모델이 모듈 개념을 기반으로 묘사된다. 현재의 프로세스 모델은 플랜트 전체 구성 요소 및 고부하에서의 부하 변동을 포함하며 lumped parameter에 의해 물리적으로 접근된다. 플랜트 성분을 의미하는 모듈은 필수적으로 성분 특성을 잘 묘사하며 사용자에 의해 결정된 배열에 대해 압력점 방식에 의해 상호 연결된다. 프로세스 모델의 발전 플랜트 시스템에 대한 적용성 여부를 조사하기 위해 100MW발전 플랜트의 실제 운전 LOG-IC을 갖는 제어 시스템에 연결하여 3MW/min 부하 변동율로 75MW에서 95MW, 95MW에서 75MW조건에 대해 조사된다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.II
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• pp.333-343
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• 2000

An automatic guidance system for combine was designed to harvest paddy rice by following a predetermined path. The automatic guidance system consisted of DGPS to locate position of combine, a gyro sensor system to measure heading angle, ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles, a hydraulic system, microcomputer as a controller, and I/O interface system. Hydraulic cylinders and valves were installed to control movement of the combine. The heading angle and the position of the combine, and ultrasonic measurements from edge were used as the inputs of the controller. The operating position of hydraulic cylinder was determined as output of the controller. The automatic guidance system was evaluated at the 45-m straight path by changing the posture of the combine. The average RMS errors were 14.0 cm without offset and 15.0 cm with 1-m offset. The DGPS provided accurate position information within the limited error to guide the combine in the field. The results showed that the automatic guidance system could guide the combine autonomously in the paddy field when the posture of the combine was changed.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement system of cutter conditions for combine header diagnosis during rice harvesting. A load cell was installed at the locker-arm to measure load fluctuation and an acceleration senor was used to monitor vibration signal of cutter bar. The data were collected from a paddy field during harvesting. The tests were conducted with a normal cutter, a loosened cutter, a broken cutter, and a worn-out connecter pin at the field. The vibration signals converted by FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation), filtered, and normalized. The load data and peak values of vibration signals in four different frequency ranges were used to determine the cutting operation and the cutter conditions of combine. The multiple comparison tests showed that the load data and peak values of vibration signals were important to monitor the cutting operation and cutter conditions of combine header.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.1872-1882
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• 2017

Medium voltage drive systems driven by high-power multi-level inverters operating at low switching frequency can reduce the switching losses of the power device and increase the output power. Employing subsection synchronous current harmonic minimum pulse width modulation (CHMPWM) technique can maintain the total harmonic distortion of current at a very low level. It can also reduce the losses of the system, improve the system control performance and increase the efficiency of DC-link voltage accordingly. This paper proposes a subsection synchronous CHMPWM approach of active neutral point clamped five-level (ANPC-5L) inverter under low switching frequency operation. The subsection synchronous scheme is obtained by theoretical calculation based on the allowed maximum switching frequency. The genetic algorithm (GA) is adopted to get the high-precision initial values. So the expected switching angles can be achieved with the help of sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm. The selection principle of multiple sets of the switching angles is also presented. Finally, the validity of the theoretical analysis and the superiority of the CHMPWM are verified through both the simulation results and experimental results.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to select standing posture parameters that have a significant difference according to the severity of spinal deformity, and to develop a novel Cobb angle prediction model for adolescent girls with idiopathic scoliosis. Methods: Five normal adolescents girls with no history of musculoskeletal disorders, 13 mild scoliosis patients (Cobb angle: $10^{\circ}-25^{\circ}$), and 14 severe scoliosis patients (Cobb angle: $25^{\circ}-50^{\circ}$) participated in this study. Six infrared cameras (VICON) were used to acquire data and 35 standing parameters of scoliosis patients were extracted from previous studies. Using the ANOVA and post-hoc test, parameters that had significant differences were extracted. In addition, these standing posture parameters were utilized to develop a Cobb-angle prediction model through multiple regression analysis. Results: Twenty two of the parameters showed differences between at least two of the three groups and these parameters were used to develop the multi-linear regression model. This model showed a good agreement ($R^2$ = 0.92) between the predicted and the measured Cobb angle. Also, a blind study was performed using 5 random datasets that had not been used in the model and the errors were approximately $3.2{\pm}1.8$. Conclusions: In this study, we demonstrated the possibility of clinically predicting the Cobb angle using a non-invasive technique. Also, monitoring changes in patients with a progressive disease, such as scoliosis, will make possible to have determine the appropriate treatment and rehabilitation strategies without the need for radiation exposure.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.272-283
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• 2017

In this paper, an improved predictive functional control (PFC) scheme for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) control system is proposed, on account of the standard PFC method cannot provides a satisfying disturbance rejection performance in the case of strong disturbances. The PFC-based method is first introduced in the control design of speed loop, since the good tracking and robustness properties of the PFC heavily depend on the accuracy of the internal model of the plant. However, in orthodox design of prediction model based control method, disturbances are not considered in the prediction model as well as the control design. A minimum-order observer (MOO) is introduced to estimate the disturbances, which structure is simple and can be realized at a low computational load. This paper adopted the MOO to observe the load torque, and the observations are then fed back into PFC model to rebuild it when considering the influence of perturbation. Therefore, an improved PFC strategy with torque compensation, called the PFC+MOO method, is presented. The validity of the proposed method was tested via simulation and experiments. Excellent results were obtained with respect to the speed trajectory tracking, stability, and disturbance rejection.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.535-544
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• 2001

This study developed a manipulator for robotic harvester to harvest cucumber. The manipulator was designed and built fur transferring an end-effecter from a fixed point to a specified cucumber. Its development involved the integration of a manipulating system with a PC compatible, DC motors, geared boxes, timing belts, and a motor controller board. Software, written in Quick basic. combined the functions of motor control with various circumstances. In order to move smoothly and rapidly the manipulator, it's shoulder link and elbow link were minimized by using rotational inertial moment without a motor and a geared box. After 30 replications of exercising the manipulator, it was concluded that the precision values of the X, Y and Z axes were less than 0.5mm, 7.25mm and 0.35mm, respectively. The precision data indicated the manipulator was not missing any steps fur the harvester to reach a target cucumber.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.26-30
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 과수의 형태, 거리에 따라 약대가 항상 적정 살포 거리를 유지하며 작업을 진행할 수 있도록 초음파 센서의 신호를 실시간으로 받아 약대를 제어하였고, 또한 약대의 보호를 위하여 진행 방향에 장애물이 존재할 경우 회피할 수 있도록 프로그래밍 하였다. 제작된 시스템으로 현장에서 비 자동제어 상태와 자동제어 상태로 실험을 수행하였다. 실험은 과수의 기둥과 잎 부위에 감수지를 일정간격으로 설치하고 시스템을 이용하여 분사한 후 감수지의 영상을 스캔하여 영상처리를 통해 분석하는 방법으로 이루어졌다. 상 방향 분사 실험에서는 시스템과 대상의 거리가 0.9m~1.1m로 설정해둔 적정거리를 벗어나지 않았기 때문에 비 자동제어와 자동제어 상태 모두 양호한 결과를 보였다. 하지만 측 방향 분사 실험에서는 비 자동제어 시 우측 열은 98.09%의 분사율을 보였으나 좌측 열은 69.25%로 낮게 나타났다. 이는 실험이 수행된 배 과원의 경우 과수의 좌측 열이 수평하게 식재되어 있지 않았기 때문으로 비자동제어 상태에서는 좌측열의 과수에 분사되는 양이 줄어들었으나 자동제어 상태에서는 좌, 우측열의 과수에 분사되는 양이 각각 92.66%, 94.64%로 균일하게 나타났다. 시스템의 제어 속도를 측정하기 위하여 방향 별 약대의 속도를 측정하였고 각각의 속도는 수직방향 100mm/s, 수평 방향 100mm/s, 각 변화 3o/s로 측정되었다. 초기 목적했던 바와 같이 과수의 형태, 거리에 따라 약대가 적정 거리를 유지하며 작업을 진행함으로 인해서 균일한 살포량을 유지 할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1729-1734
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• 2005

The use of gantry crane systems for transporting payload is very common in industrial application. However, moving the payload using the crane is not an easy task especially when strict specifications on the swing angle and on the transfer time need to be satisfied. To overcome this problem, this paper describes development of an intelligent gantry crane system based on the mechatronic design. A lab-scale gantry crane is designed and then its intelligent controllers are developed. Fuzzy logic controllers are adopted, designed and implemented for controlling payload position as well as the swing angle of the gantry crane. The performance of the intelligent gantry crane system is evaluated on a hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) environment. Moreover robustness of the proposed system is also evaluated. The result shows that the intelligent gantry crane system designed based on the mechatronic design approach has better performance compared with the automatic gantry crane system controlled by classical PID controllers. Moreover simulation result shows that the intelligent gantry crane system is more robust to parameter variation than the automatic gantry crane system.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.II
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• pp.344-353
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• 2000

Recent mechatronics technology is the most appropriate high technology in the agricultural application to save repetitious labor. Cow's body parameters were measured by traditional several measurer. Image processing technology was used to measure automatically their parameters to reduce lots of labor and time. The parameters were measured form a small model cow, which is easily measured, instead to a real cow. The image processing system designed and built for this project was composed of a Pentium PC, and TV frame card two cameras which were located on side and top of model cow. 11 parameters of cow's body were measured and the error between real data and the data by image processing was less than 10%. Based on the results of this research the parameters of a real cow could be measured in the future.