• ICROS
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.42-49
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• 1999

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.569-578
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• 2016

The PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) has been widely used for the development of digital control system of nuclear power plant. The PLC has high maintenance costs and increasing complexity, hence, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based digital control system has been considered as an alternative. However, the development of FPGA based digital control system is a challenge for PLC engineers because they are required to learn about new language to develop FPGA and knowledge and know-how acquired in the development of PLC is not transferable. In this study, we proposed and implemented an automatic translation tool for translation of FBD (Function Block Diagram), a programming language of PLC software, into VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language). Automatically translating the FBD to VHDL using this tool allows PLC engineers to develop FPGA without any knowledge of the hardware description language.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.9-15
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• 2016

In this paper, DC-PLC typed one-wire controller was designed and manufactured especially for In-vehicle safe devices. One-wire by DC-PLC scheme is to be used as a power supply and ground to process the sensor data and to operate the vehicle actuators. To avoid complicate wires, we use the conventional wires without installing extra communication lines. The data collected from the sensors are transmitted to the main controller, processed by programming, and run the actuators corresponding to the commands sending to vehicle control board. The proposed method shows that only One-wire without requiring several wires make In-vehicle control devices simple and reduce the damage due to the loss of the wiring.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.265-269
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• 2009

Formal specification plays important roles in guaranteeing software safety of safety-critical systems such as nuclear power plant's digital control systems. We had developed a technique [1] which synthesizes Function Block Diagram(FBD) programs from NuSCR formal requirements specifications, but it did not be used widely as it had no automatic tool support. FBD is one of the programming languages for Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC) based system. This paper introduces a CASE tool, NuSCRtoFBD, developed to automate the synthesis procedure. The CASE tool NuSCRtoFBD can reduce a number of errors occurred in the process of manual FBD programming.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.438-451
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• 1994

A low complexity, fault detecting computer architecture for utilisation in programmable logic controllers is designed. The cyclic operating mode of PLCs and a specification level, graphical programming paradigm based on the interconnection of application oriented standard software function modules are architecturally supported. Thus, by design, there is no semantic gap between the programming and machine execution levels enabling the safety licensing of application software by an extremely simple, but rigorous method, viz, diverse back translation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.523-528
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• 2001

In this paper, we describe the internet-based remote home automation system that con control and manage home appliances or digital devices bi-directionally through Internet. The platform-independency of VRML and Java applet enables users to access their home appliances and to check current state of them in t he virtual reality environment. The main focus is on three aspects. One is on the virtual reality technology to support the user interface efficiently by using 3D GUI in web-browser. Another is on the system architecture that consists of Home server and its manager server called Gate server in this paper. These servers have been implemented by Java RMI which is the basic single programming interface for distribution of objects and services using Java technology. The third, remote PLC controller and each digital devices are composed of home networking by PLC using CEBus protocol.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.2 s.19
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• pp.1-4
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• 2007

Programmable Logic Controller(PLC) is the most widely utilized and plays an important role in industrial control system. Among PLC languages, Sequential Function Chart(SFC) is performed in small scale industrial process. On programming by SFC, a single sequence is utilized to control the simple process. In this paper, we propose the method that describe the improved single sequence and confirm its feasibility through an actual example.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is to build a system applicable to floriculture, hydroponics and vinyl house agriculture by a development of remote control equipments using programmable logic controllers (PLC). Remote factory automation and home automation systems have been developed and used due to the rapid progress in the fields of information and automation; however, the systems are so expensive that their applications have not been feasible in agriculture. So we have developed simple modules for PLC to replace the expensive conventional systems. The developed systems have potentials to be applied to automation systems in agricultural industry. Technologies for motor control, microprocessor, PLC programming and wireless interface are developed and implemented in the form of application modules of our systems, and our system is applicable to the remote form automation of floriculture and hydroponics.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.3574-3580
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• 2009

An embedded motion controller supporting the PLC programming environment based on the IEC 61131-3 International Standard Language was developed in this paper. In this developed motion controller, the CoDeSys, one of the IEC61131-3 development tools, was embedded in order to support that of PLC as well as the development environment of the PC, and the various function blocks based on PLCopen standard for motion control such as the linear and circular interpolation control were implemented. Moreover, the ethernet based remote control on real-time operating system and the motion simulator for a motion programmer were implemented.

• IE interfaces
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.294-301
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• 2008

Agile and flexible manufacturing systems make it mandatory that a control program should have features such as agility, flexibility, and reusability in order to run manufacturing unit smoothly. PLCs are the most frequently used control program in manufacturing systems. PLC programs are mostly programmed by subcontraction, which makes correction of code very difficult. As a result, it may cause delay during down time and ramp up time which leads to big loss of revenue and goodwill. To prevent delay during the times, this paper proposes systematic process analysis and application method for programmable logic controller like LLD (Ladder Logic Diagram). The proposed method uses modified human-error investing techniques for documentation and transforming technique to program LLD from the documentation. Furthermore, this paper demonstrates an example of piston mechanism to explain the proposed method.