• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.108-114
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• 2001

Petri nets have been introduced as a powerful analyzing and design tool for the discrete systems such as sequential control systems. However, one of the important problems in its applications is that the model can be analyzed hardly when we deal with large scale systems because of increase of the number of Petri net components. To overcome this problem, some methods for dividing or reducing of Petri net have been suggested. In this paper, an approach for hierarchical expression of Petri net based on Sequential function Chart(SFC) and Bottom Up oriented Mehodology(BUM) is proposed. Especially, some definitions and rules are defined in order to divide and compose sub Petri nets. A measuring tank system will be described as a typical kind of discrete systems and modeled by some sub Petri nets based on the SFC and BUM by the proposed method in this paper.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.101-107
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• 2001

This paper describes a fault diagnosis method by a T-invariance of Petri Net (PN). First, a complicated fault system with some failure is modeled into a PN graphic expressions. Next, the PN model is analyzed by using the backward chaining of T-invariance to find out causes of the faults. In this step, an inter-node search technique which is suggested in this paper is applied for reducing searching area in the fault system. Also, a novel idea to compose incidence matrices which have different dimension each other in PN model is proposed. As the new knowledges which is discovered newly about faults can be added easily to conventional systems, the diagnosis system will be very flexible. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the automobile fault diagnosis system to confirm the validity of the method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.26-31
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• 2001

Petri nets(PN) have been introduced as a poweful analyzing and design tool for the discrete systems such as sequential control systems. However, one of the important problems in its applications is that the model can not be analyzed easily when we deal with large scale systems because of increase of the number of components of the systems. To overcome this problem, some methods for dividing or reducing of PN have been suggested. In this paper, an approach for hierarchical expression of PN based on Sequential Function Chart(SFC) and Bottom Up oriented Mehodology(BUM) is proposed. Especially, some definition and rules are defined in order to divide and compose sub PN. A measuring tank system will be described as a typical kind of discrete systems and modeled by some sub PN based on the SFC and BUM by the proposed method in this paper.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.861-869
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• 2023

This article proposes a novel approach to measure the performance of Safety-Critical Systems (SCS). Such systems contain multiple processing nodes that communicate with each other is modeled by a Petri nets (PN). The paper uses the PN for the performance evaluation of SCS. A set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is derived from the Petri net model that represent the state of the system, and the solutions can be used to measure the system's performance. The proposed method can avoid the state space explosion problem and also introduces new metrics of performance, along with their measurement: deadlock, liveness, stability, boundedness, and steady state. The proposed technique is applied to Shutdown System (SDS) of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). We obtained 99.887% accuracy of performance measurement, which proves the effectiveness of our approach.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.194-202
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• 1998

This paper describes a hardware implementation method of a Petri Net-based controller. A flexible and systematic implementation method, based on look-up tables, is suggested, which enables to build high speed Petri net-based controllers. The suggested method overcomes the inherent speed limit that arises from the microprocessors by using of matrix-based look-up tables. Based on the matrix framework, this paper suggests various specific data path structures as well as a basic data path structure, accompanied by evolution algorithms, for sub-class Petri nets. A new sub-class Petri net, named Biarced Petri Net, resolves memory explosion problem that usually comes with matrix-based look-up tables. The suggested matrix-based method based on the Biarced Petri net has as good efficiency and expendability as the list-based methods. This paper shows the usefulness of the suggested method, evaluating the size of the look-up tables and introducing an architecture of the signal processing unit of a programmable controller. The suggested implementation method is supported by an automatic design support program.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.13-19
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• 1999

In this paper, we suggests a WIP (Work In Process) of FMC (Flexible Manufacturing Cell) analysis methods based on the TPN (Time Petri Nets) unfolding. Unfolding of PN is a partial order-based method for the verification of concurrent system without the state space explosion. The aim of this work is to formulate the general cyclic state scheduling problem to minimize the WIP to satisfy economical constraints. The method is based on unfolding of the original net into the equivalent acyclic description.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1392-1398
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• 2008

This paper presents a Petri Net (PN) based disassembly sequence planning model with precedence operations. All feasible disassembly sequences are generated by a disassembly tree and a disassembly sequence is determined using the disassembly precedence and disassembly value matrix, The precedence of disassembly operations is determined through a disassembly tree and the value of disassembly is induced by economic analysis in the end-of-life phase. To solve the disassembly sequence planning model with precedence operations, a heuristic algorithm based on PNs is developed. The developed algorithm generates and searches a partial reachability graph to arrive at an optimal or near-optimal disassembly sequence based on the firing sequence of transitions of the PN model. A refrigerator is shown as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed model.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.107-114
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• 2007

This paper describes the Petri Net(PN) model for reliability analysis of fault-tolerant dual Ethernet which Is applied in Naval Combat System. The network for Naval Combat System performs failure detection and auto path recovery by handling redundant path in case of temporary link failure. After studying the behavior of this kind of network, the reliability analysis model is proposed using stochastic Petri Net and continuous-time Markov chains. Finally, the numerical result is analyzed according to changing the failure rate and the recover rate of link.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.677-687
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• 1992

This paper presents a Fuzzy Pertri Net(FPN)model, which can be used to verify the validity and effectiveness of nervous system bebaviors. The similarities and differences between communication network and neural network are analyzed with respect to the representation and verification of the system behaviors. For the effective representation for the ambiguities of nervous system we combein fuzzy set theory to the PetriNet, and then design a new model, FPN, Also show that FPN is superior to the multiplayer perceptron model using computer simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.32-37
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• 2001

This paper describes a noble fault diagnosis method using inter node search technique in PN model. First, a complicated fault system is modeled as PN graphic expressions. Next, to find out sources for faults on which we focus, the PN model is analyzed using the backward chaining of T-invariance. In this step, the technique of inter node search is applied for reducing some range of sources in a fault. Also, colnposing method of incidence matrix in PN is proposed. Then, it makes the diagnosis system to very flelible system because new knowledges about the sources in a fault can be added easily to conventional systems. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the automobile trouble diagnosis system to confirm the validity of the method.