• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.407-422
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• 2014

Objective: The purpose of the study is to develop quantitative usability evaluation criteria for senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot. Background: The Republic of Korea has become the most rapidly aging society, and is anticipated to enter the post-aged society in 2026. To raise the quality of life of a senior with limited mobility and to reduce the burden of caregivers, many high-tech assistive products with information technologies are developed nowadays. The senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot is one person robot vehicle to move a senior to the destination for hospitals, nursing homes or silver town complex. With built-in navigation system and environmental monitoring censors, it automatically seeks the path to the destination and avoids collision to obstacles and pedestrians on the way. Due to the early stage of the product, few usability studies in this field have been done, mostly on general service robots to assist seniors, power wheelchairs and delivery robots. ISO and KS standards for the service robots are focused on safety. Method: Based on the reference usability index, the early draft of the usability evaluation questionnaires was developed. After small group tests and interviews, the experts modified the initial draft to the Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot (UEC-SFATR). Result: UEC-SFATR consisted of 4 subscales - Safety, Controllability, Efficiency and Satisfaction. All of the 4 subscales of UEC-SFATR were passed the reliability criteria by 4 groups of seniors, divided by gender and familiarity of smart-devices. Conclusion: UEC-SFATR covers wider area of user experiences of the SFATR and is a good measurement tool to help both the users and developers of the robot. Application: This study provides guide to the future product development and product competitiveness evaluation by quantifying user experiences for the SFATR.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.1941-1946
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• 2009

무선 센서 네트워크는 사람을 대신해 다양한 환경에서 감시와 정보수집 역할을 수행한다. 센서네트워크는 제한된 하드웨어 자원과 낮은 무선 네트워크 대역폭을 사용한다. 이러한 특성은 통신 중 높은 에러율을 발생시키며 데이터 신뢰도 향상을 위한 오류정정 기법의 필요성이 높다. 센서노드의 환경에 따른 CRC 에러와 패턴에 대한 연구는 오류정정 기법의 적절한 기법 선택을 위한 자료가 된다. 본 논문에서는 실내환경에서 시스템 구성시 데이터 전송률에 영향을 미치는 전송주기와 센서 노드간의 거리, 전송 패킷의 크기, RF의 크기에 대한 실험을 실시한다. 실험한 결과를 바탕으로 시스템 구성에서 고려해야 하는 요소를 알아본다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.389-398
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• 2018

The seismic isolation system makes a structure isolated from ground motions to protect the structure from seismic events. Seismic isolation techniques have been implemented in full-scale buildings and bridges because of their simplicity, economic effectiveness, inherent stability and reliability. As for the responses of an isolated structure due to seismic events, it is well known that the most uncertain aspects are the seismic loading itself and structural properties. Due to the randomness of earthquakes and uncertainty of structures, seismic response distributions of an isolated structure are needed when evaluating the seismic fragility assessment (or probabilistic seismic safety assessment) of an isolated structure. Seismic response time histories are useful and often essential elements in its design or evaluation stage. Thus, a large number of non-linear dynamic analyses should be performed to evaluate the seismic performance of an isolated structure. However, it is a monumental task to gather the design or evaluation information of the isolated structure from too many seismic analyses, which is impractical. In this paper, a new methodology that can evaluate the seismic fragility assessment of an isolated structure is proposed by using stochastic response database, which is a device that can estimate the seismic response distributions of an isolated structure without any seismic response analyses. The seismic fragility assessment of the isolated nuclear power plant is performed using the proposed methodology. The proposed methodology is able to evaluate the seismic performance of isolated structures effectively and reduce the computational efforts tremendously.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제37회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.379-382
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• 2011

발전용 가스터빈 초기 구동용 시동시스템의 제동특성 평가를 위해 시동모터 단독 무부하 시험과 엔진 장착 부하시험을 수행하였다. 시동모터의 제동저항 용량 차이에 따른 제동 성능의 실험적 평가를 통해 가스터빈 시동과정 중 비상정지 상황에서 안정적인 제동특성을 확보하기 위한 정량적 데이터를 확보하였다. 본 연구를 통해 가스터빈의 시동 신뢰성과 안정성을 제고하기 위한 최적의 시동모터 제동저항 선정이 가능하게 되었다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.333-340
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• 2022

Recently, the use of large-capacity secondary batteries for electric vehicles is rapidly increasing, and accordingly, the demand for technologies and equipment for battery reliability evaluation is increasing significantly. The existing short circuit test equipment for evaluating the stability of the existing secondary battery consists of relays, MCs, and switches, so when a large current is energized during a short circuit, contact fusion failures occur frequently, resulting in high equipment maintenance and repair costs. There was a disadvantage that repeated testing was impossible. In this paper, we developed an electronic short circuit test device that realizes stable switching operation when a large-capacity power semiconductor switch is energized with a large current, and applied smart ICT technology to this electronic short circuit stability test system to achieve high speed and high precision through communication with the master. It is expected that the inspection history management system based on data measurement, database format and user interface will be utilized as essential inspection process equipment.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2010

The stay cylinder weld at the steam generator of Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plants is safety class I component and is subjected to be inspected by the volumetric examination such as ultrasonic method. As accessibility of this area is limited due to the narrow space and high radiation, the existing manual inspection method involves various difficulties. Moreover operators may be exposed to internal contamination by contaminated dust during the surface buffing process to improve the inspection reliability of this area. Recently the new automatic inspection system for stay cylinder welds has been developed. The inspection system basically consists of a driving assembly, data acquisition device and signal processing units. The driving assembly is classified by 1) the scanner for inspecting and buffing the weld, 2) pillars for guiding the scanner and 3) the base frame for loading and supporting pillars. The scanner has 4 sensor modules to inspect in 4 refracted angles and 4 incident directions. These components can be inserted into the skirt of the stay cylinder through the manway hole and assembled easily by one-touch in the skirt. Data acquisition device and signal processing units developed in previous works are also newly upgraded for better processing of data analysis and evaluation. The system has been successfully demonstrated not only in the mock-up but also in the field. In this paper, newly developed inspection system for the stay cylinder weld of the steam generator is introduced and their field applications are discussed.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.558-564
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• 2021

최근 5G 도입에 따라 생활 전반으로 전자파 방사원이 확산됨에 따라 국민 중심 전자파 안전관리 체계 구축이 필요한 실정이다. 특히 5G 안테나의 빔포밍 방식은 무선기지국 설치시 전자파의 전력밀도 측정은 10배 이상으로 증가되어 물리적인 측정으로 안전성을 판단하는 것은 무리가 있다. 따라서 체계적인 모델 분석을 통하여 계산에 의한 예측기법으로 생활속에 전자파 안전 유무를 판별할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이같은 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 전자파 수치해석툴을 사용한 5G 무선기지국의 가능성을 확인하기 위해서 실제 기지국 측정값과 예측 모델을 통한 예측값을 상호 비교하는 신뢰도 평가를 통하여 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제2권10호
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• pp.413-420
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• 2013

정전 방지 장치가 없는 중소형 레이드 (RAID: redundant arrays of independent disks)는 갑작스런 정전 또는 오류로 인한 종료 이후에 수시간의 긴 재동기화 시간을 요구한다. 레이드에서는 데이터 블록과 패리티 블록이 일관성 있게 갱신되어야 하는데, 데이터를 기록하다가 정전이 되면 데이터 블록은 갱신되었는데 패리티 블록은 갱신되지 않거나 반대인 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 이렇게 부분적으로 갱신된 스트라이프를 반드시 올바른 패리티로 갱신해야 하나 어떤 스트라이프에 이런 문제가 발생하였는지 찾기가 매우 어려웠다. 기존에는 전 저장공간을 검색하고 오류 있는 스트라이프를 수정하는, 수 시간을 요구하는, 패리티 재동기화 방법이 사용되어 왔다. 본 논문은 중소형 레이드에서 낮은 오버헤드를 갖는 고속의 재동기화 기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 기술은 리눅스의 소프트웨어 레이드에서 구현되었다. 성능 실험 결과에 따르면, 제안하는 기법은 재동기화 과정을 200분에서 5초로 단축시키고, 일반 입출력에서 22%의 오버헤드를 2%로 낮추었다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2022

The Korean nuclear industry had developed the SPACE (Safety and Performance Analysis Code for nuclear power plants) code, which adopts a two-fluid, three-field model that is comprised of gas, continuous liquid and droplet fields and has the capability to simulate three-dimensional models. According to the revised law by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) in Korea, the multiple failure accidents that must be considered for the accident management plan of a nuclear power plant was determined based on the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident. Generally, to improve the reliability of the calculation results of a safety analysis code, verification is required for the separate and integral effect experiments. Therefore, the goal of this work is to verify the calculation capability of the SPACE code for multiple failure accidents. For this purpose, an experiment was conducted to simulate a Control Element Drive Mechanism (CEDM) break with a safety injection failure using the ATLAS test facility, which is operated by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). This experiment focused on the comparison between the experiment results and code calculation results to verify the performance of the SPACE code. The results of the overall system transient response using the SPACE code showed similar trends with the experimental results for parameters such as the system pressure, mass flow rate, and collapsed water level in component. In conclusion, it can be concluded that the SPACE code has sufficient capability to simulate a CEDM break with a safety injection failure accident.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.51-57
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• 1996

Although the system for establishing grinding operation standards mainly depends on the simulation method, it is desirable to obtain highly reliable grinding data and to develop experimental technology, And, it also needs to modify the simulation models if the simulation results do not coincide with special situation due to the difference of grinding machine, wheels and workpiece materials. If simple tests are carried out to evaluate these specificity, the reliability and utility of the system can be raised higher. Therefore, it is required for evaluating wheel ability and confirming the validity of the experimental methods as well as the possibility of exchanging the experimental data between Korea and Japan to preform several kinds of grinding experiments. In this paper, experiments of cylindrical plunge grinding were conducted using the wheels of the same specification made by three typical grinding wheel manufacturers both in Korea and Japan, respectively. The grinding power consumption grinding force, the ground surface roughness, and wheel wear were measured under the same dressing the grinding conditions. The average value and standard deviation of the experiment results were calculated to compared the grinding performance of the wheels made in both countries. The experiment results show that the grinding wheel performance of Korea's is nearly equal to that of Japan's for general purpose of grinding operation. In conclusion, it is possible to exchange the experimental data between Korea and japan.