• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.491-499
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• 2017

The Information & Communication Technology (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have become the major issues in Republic of Korea recently. While RS-232, Zigbee, and WiFi-related technologies are used in the ICT-based systems, we focus on the Power Line Communication (PLC) in this paper. By carrying out OPNET simulations, we've implemented the PLC Router Node Model, PLC Terminal Node Model, PLC Link Model, and PLC Palette Model and executed the simulations arranging 20 holds within the range of 400m (20m apart). As a result, we confirmed that the slient node problem had occurred at the point of 200m-2000m (as of 2016) distance preventing further communications. However, the control group, by contrast, was able to carry out the communications by installing a router. We expect that this paper will contribute to the development of a foundation technology which will saves costs by performing the simulation prior to building actual large-scale ICT Complex in the future work.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.39-49
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• 2000

In this paper, we added that developed communication control system between the PLC of pressure machine and the control computer, and developed a new protocol in order to communicate between the PLC signal of pressure machine and the control computer. This communication control systems play an important role in transforming the PLC vendor self-interface type and between computer and PLC. This system has PLC access function to control computer on the backbone network, and then could be operated by PLC through this system. The benefits we can obtain by developing this communication control systems are as follows; First, we can improve the quality of goods and the management of materials using the communication network and then implement the centralization management. Second, we can decrease manpower for production. Finally, we can maximize the company's profit with the increasing productivity by supervising the equipment wrong workings in the central.

• Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.25-37
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• 2019

Power-line communication (PLC) has influenced smart grid development. In addition, PLC has also been instrumental in current research on internet-of-things (IoT). Due to the implementation of PLC in smart grid and IoT environments, strides have been made in PLC and its combination with the wireless system to form a hybrid communication system. Also, PLC has evolved from a single-input-single-output (SISO) configuration to multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) configuration system, and from a point-to-point communication system to cooperative communication systems. In this work, we extend a MIMO wireless two-way amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication system to a hybrid PLC and wireless (PLC/W) system configuration. We then maximize the weighted sum-rate for the hybrid PLC/W by optimizing the precoders at each node within the hybrid PLC/W system. The sum-rate problem was found to be non-convex, therefore, an iterative algorithm is used to find the optimal precoders that locally maximize the system sum-rate. For our simulation results, we compare our proposed hybrid PLC/W configuration to a PLC only and wireless only configuration at each node. Due to an improvement in system diversity, the hybrid PLC/W configuration outperformed the PLC only and wireless only system configurations in all simulation results presented in this paper.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.176-185
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• 2009

Modern manufacturing systems consist of highly automated manufacturing devices, and they are controlled by complicated PLC programs. To make sure the achievement of the control objectives of a manufacturing system, it is very important to monitor the dynamic system behaviors of the manufacturing system. In this paper, we propose a monitoring methodology of a PLC program based on the Software In the Loop Simulation(SILS), which makes use of the time gap information between PLC signals. The errors relevant with PLC signals can be found using the proposed methodology, comparing a normal PLC signal trajectory with a target PLC signal trajectory. The proposed methodology has been implemented and tested with simple examples.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.139-140
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• 2021

IT 기술의 발전은 다양한 산업에서 PLC를 기반으로 하는 스마트 팩토리의 도입이 확산되고 있는 실정이나 이를 운영하는 운영 인력의 부족으로 많은 어려움을 겪고 있기에, PLC를 사용할 수 있는 인력 양성 교육 플랫폼이 필요한 실정이다. 최근 PLC와 같은 실습 기자재를 대체할 시뮬레이션 기법의 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있으나, 기존 PC 환경에서의 시뮬레이션 프로그램들을 원격 수업에 적용할 경우 모니터 상에 많은 요소가 디스플레이 되어 화면 전환이 불편한 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션 프로그램을 모바일 환경에서 실행하여 PC 화면에 모니터링할 프로그램의 수를 감소시킬 수 있는 모델을 제안한다. 제안 모델을 원격 교육에 적용할 경우 화면 전환의 수를 감소시켜 더욱 정확한 이해를 통하여 학습의 효과를 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07b
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• pp.699-702
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• 1999

This paper represents the application of a virtual plant simulator and a Ladder Diagram of PLC. A target plant is a material transport car that repeatedly conveys along the rails. The whole process is automatically operated by PLC. The simulation system consists of the POSFA PLC and the virtual plant simulator. We demonstrate that operation of a LD program corresponds to operation of the virtual plant simulator.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2014

The Smart grid refers to the technology that enables efficient usage of electric power by collecting information concerning the power usage and power lines grafting information and communications technology to onto power grids. There are Zigbee, PLC or IEEE 802.11 WLAN MAC as a core technology of the Smart grid, but in this paper, the discussion is focused on the PLC. The PLC is the technology that carries out data communications using power lines and put into practical use in the field of lights or home appliances control recently but PLC-applied communications between electronic devices are rarely seen. For the reason that the PLC uses high-voltage power lines and has a disadvantage of experiencing higher data loss rate caused by the noises produced by going through transformers, the technology is yet to be used in many areas. Nevertheless, the PLC has been studied widely recently in respect that it's the low-cost communication solution for the Smart Metering [1]. Moreover, this technology is emerging as a novel data communication method and discussed as an important technology lately due to the developments of the Smart grid systems and Internet of things (IoT). Thus, in this paper, the results obtained from designing and performing implementation scenario for the PLC-based Smart grid home network system were compared and analyzed with that of IEEE 802.11 WLAN MAC (the foundation technology at Jeju Smart grid Test bed)-based Smart grid home network. Thus, in this paper, OPNET 14.5 PL8, OSI 7 layer, PLC router nodes and PLC nodes had been used for the designing and implementation simulations of both systems. Additionally, QoS was not considered in order to guarantee that all the traffics would not have the same processing priority.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.21-27
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• 2013

Presented in the paper is a log data based modeling method for effective construction of a virtual plant model which can be used for the virtual PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) simulation. For the PLC simulation, the corresponding virtual plant, consisting of virtual devices, is required to interact with the input and output symbols of a PLC. In other words, the behavior of a virtual device should be the same as that of the real device. Conventionally, the DEVS (Discrete Event Systems Specifications) formalism has been used to represent the behavior a virtual device. The modeling using DEVS formalism, however, requires in-depth knowledge in the simulation area, as well as the significant amount of time and efforts. One of the key ideas of the proposed method is to generate a plant model based on the log data obtained from the production system. The proposed method is very intuitive, and it can be used to generate the full behavior model of a virtual device. The proposed approach was applied to an AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle).

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2006

This paper shows a case study of designing a PLC logic simulator that was developed to simulate and verify PLC control programs for nuclear plant systems. The nuclear control system requires strict restrictions rather than normal process control system does, as it works with a high-risky and dangerous nuclear plant. One is that it should assure the safeness of the control programs by exploiting severe testing. The other restriction is that the control programs should be executed fast enough such that they could control multi devices concurrently in real-time. To cope with these restrictions, we devised a logic compiler which generates C-code programs from given PLC logic programs. Once the logic program was translated into C-code, the program could be analyzed by conventional software analysis tools and could be used to construct a fast logic simulator after cross-compiling, in fact, that is a kind of compiled-code simulator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.131-133
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed the program module that expand output points when increased of the output machine for the design of process control system with PLC. In order to incense output points we need the decoding. There is a hardware decoding and a software decoding. In this paper, we proposed the decoding program module which is a software decoding and confirmed feasibility through a simulation.