• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.736-738
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• 2004

현재 수많은 OPC(OLE Process Control)관련 제품들이 나와 있다. 특히, 클라이언트 제품군 가운데 가장 많이 눈에 띄는 것은 OPC 서버와 통신하여 사용자에게 장비의 정보를 전달하거나 장비를 제어 할 수 있는 OLE(Object Linking and Embedding) 컨트롤(ActiveX 컨트롤)들이다. 하지만. 이러한 OLE 컨트롤을 시스템에 적용하기 위해서는 이를 지원하는 개발 언어와 컴파일러에 대한 프로그래밍적 지식이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 프로그래밍에 대한 전문적 지식이 없이도 HMI(Human Machine Interface) / SCADA(Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)와 같은 시스템을 구축할 수 있도록 OLE 컨트롤 컨테이너를 제공함으로써 사용자가 쉽게 디자인할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안하고자 하는 OLE 컨트롤 컨테이너는 OLE/COM 기술을 기반으로 하는 OLE 컨트롤을 지원하고 웹으로의 빠른 확장을 위해 설계되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.739-741
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• 2004

본 논문은 제어 구조의 표준으로 떠오르고 있는 OPC와 마이크로소프트사의 분산형 보안 서비스 개념(하부구조 서비스, 응용프로그램 지원 서비스)들을 사용하여 다양한 사용자에 대해서 차별화된 권한 구조를 제공할 수 있는 멀티 프로세스 컨트롤＆모니터링 모델을 제안한다. 멀티 프로세스 컨트롤＆모니터링 모델은 3-계층 구조(리소스, 로직, 그리고 프레젠테이션 계층)와 컴포넌트 개념을 기반으로 디자인하였기 때문에 엔터프라이즈 어플리케이션이 가지는 다양한 이점을 가질 수 있다. 리소스 계층은 다양한 OPC 기반 제어서버 시스템에서 제공하는 실시간 데이터(액세스 포인터 데이터) 및 저장 데이터들과 쉽고 유연하게 결합할 수 있으며, 로직 계층은 리소스 계층에서 제공하는 리소스들(실시간 및 저장 데이터)에 대한 보안 설정을 제공하고 실제, 가공, 가상 데이터 제공 및 생성하는 역할을 제공한다. 프레젠테이션 계층은 XML 기술을 사용하여 컨텐츠와 뷰를 분리하고 접속 기기들의 타입에 맞는 뷰를 동적으로 결합하여 제공함으로써 다양한 타입의 모니터링 기기들과 유연하게 결합하고 통합할 수 있는 이점을 갖는다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.931-932
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• 2008

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.394-411
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• 2008

The data in automation and control systems can be achieved not only from different field devices but also from different OPC (OLE for Process Control) servers. However, current OPC clients can only read and decode the simple data from OPC servers. They will have some problems to acquire structured data and exchange the structured data. In addition to the large network control systems, the OPC clients can read, write, and subscribe to thousands of data points from/to OPC servers. Due to that, the most important factor for building a high performance and scalable industrial control system is the ability to transfer the process data between server and client in the most efficient and fastest way. In order to solve these problems, we propose a means to implement the OPC DA (Data Access) server supporting the OPC complex data, so that the OPC DA clients are able to read and decode any type of data from OPC servers. We also propose a method for caching the process data in large industrial control systems to overcome the limitation of performance of the pure OPC DA system. The performance analysis and discussion indicate that the proposed system has an acceptable performance and is feasible in order for applying to real-time industrial systems today.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.321-340
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• 2011

In this article, the current technological state of OPC (Openness, Productivity, and Collaboration; formerly "OLE for Process Control") standards and the problem statement of these OPC standards are discussed. The development of an OPC clientserver framework for monitoring and control systems is introduced by using the new OPC Unified Architecture (UA) specifications, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), web services, XML, etc. The developed framework in turn minimizes the efforts of developers in learning new techniques and allows system architects and designers to perform dependency analysis on the development of monitoring and control applications. The potential areas of the proposed framework and the redundancy strategies to increase the efficiency and reliability of the system are also represented according to the initial results from the system that was developed by the Visual Studio 2008 and OPC UA SDK.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

In this paper, we discuss the development of an integrated HMI system based on OPC(OLE for Process Control) to control and monitor an automation equipment in the diverse environment. We implement an embedded OPC server according to the OPC standard which is proposed as the communication standard mechanism in the process control field, and design the interface module in which the output data of the OPC server can be connected to various HMI environment such as the local application, intranet client and Web page. This paper will be contributed in the HMI system implementation for the ubiquitous environment because it is possible to make remote control on the network and Web monitoring as well as the connection and data exchange of heterogeneous equipments by applying to various control systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.250-252
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• 2006

Web technologies are gaining increased importance in automation and control systems. However, the choice of Web technologies depends on the use cases in the application environment. In industrial systems, the data can be got not only from many different field systems and devices but also from different OPC (OLE for Process Control) Servers. Current OPC Client might be able to read simple data from OPC Server, but there are some problems to get structured data and to exchange structured information between collaborating applications. Therefore, OPC Foundation has defined interfaces to OPC XML-DA (OPC XML Data Access) and OPC Complex Data that aim to solve those problems. The OPC XML-DA can facilitate the exchange of plant data across the internet, and upwards into the enterprise domain. In addition, the OPC Complex Data will extend the OPC DA specification to allow the OPC Client to read and decode any type of data from measurement and control systems on the plant floor. This paper will describe the concept of OPC XML-DA and OPC Complex Data. And then it proposes a mechanism to implement the OPC Complex Data into OPC XML-DA Server. Additionally, the paper also discusses the security aspects.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.136-143
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• 2005

Open architecture controller (OAC) is well known technology in factory automation. To better understand the requirements of OAC, authors have discussed the OAC related topics with a number of control experts who represents different segments of the machining industry. There is no common concept that is accepted or used, however, the common ideas for OAC is the control system that is hardware independent, interchangeable, and easily scalable. This paper presents summary of the understaning and requirements of OAC. Based on the requirements of OAC, authors developed the software based PC-CNC. The main focus of the PC-CNC was on the user customization capability and open interface between control networks in manufacturing system. This paper introduces the developed PC-CNC briefly. In addition to introduction of the PC-CNC, to fill the gap between end users and vendors of OAC, this paper presents two applications using OAC. One is a remote monitoring system. The OPC (Ole for Process Control) standard interface was used to monitor the status of open architecture CNC across network. The other is the remote production management module for machine tools using standard database interface.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.1240-1243
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• 2004

For agile production methods, manufacturing system requires development of a motion controller which has flexibility of general-purpose motion controller and productivity of specialized-purpose one. In this study we developed the Flowchart Programming development environment for Motion language and Process Control. The controller designed on this environment can be used as a general purpose motion controller of a machining tool. Design of control programming based on a flowchart has the advantage of reducing the time consumed and intuitive interface for users. We create the solution with the Microsoft Visio for the flowchart-based platform and OPC for the process communication..

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.153-157
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• 2003

전력연구원에서는 울진 표준형원전의 시뮬레이터를 개발하였으며, 여기에는 가상 주제어실, 발전소 현상 감시, 중대사고 등 많은 클라이언트 프로그램들이 있다. 이러한 프로그램들은 시뮬레이터와 연동되어 필요한 값을 읽고 쓰는 과정이 필요하다. 그러나 현재는 해당 시뮬레이터 환경에서 개발되지 않는 외부의 응용프로그램이 이들 시뮬레이터의 값들을 엑세스하는 방법은 제공하지 않고 있다. 본 보고서에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 외부 프로그램들이 시뮬레이션모델의 각종 변수들을 효과적으로 엑세스하여 값을 Read/write 할 수 있는 OPC (OLE for Process Control) Server를 개발하였다. 본 프로그램은 Rockwell의 OPC Server Toolkit인 RSI OPC/DDE Server Toolkit Library를 이용하여 개발하였으며 시뮬레이터가 실행되고 있는 컴퓨터에서 실행된다. 본 보고서에서는 OPC 일반개념, 개발한 OPC Server의 소개, OPC Server의 적용결과 등을 기술하고자 한다.