• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.1153-1164
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• 2024

In recent years, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have been used to search for lost or stolen radioactive sources to avoid radiation exposure for operators. To achieve autonomous localization of radioactive sources, the UGVs must have the ability to automatically determine the next radiation measurement location instead of following a predefined path. Also, the radiation field of radioactive sources has to be reconstructed or inverted utilizing discrete measurements to obtain the radiation intensity distribution in the area of interest. In this study, we propose an effective source localization framework and method, in which UGVs are able to autonomously explore in the radiation area to determine the location of radioactive sources through an iterative process: path planning, radiation field reconstruction and estimation of source location. In the search process, the next radiation measurement point of the UGVs is fully predicted by the design path planning algorithm. After obtaining the measurement points and their radiation measurements, the radiation field of radioactive sources is reconstructed by the Gaussian process regression (GPR) model based on machine learning method. Based on the reconstructed radiation field, the locations of radioactive sources can be determined by the peak analysis method. The proposed method is verified through extensive simulation experiments, and the real source localization experiment on a Cs-137 point source shows that the proposed method can accurately locate the radioactive source with an error of approximately 0.30 m. The experimental results reveal the important practicality of our proposed method for source autonomous localization tasks.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1031-1033
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• 2013

후쿠시마와 같은 방사선 누출 사고 시 방사선원의 위치를 찾는 일은 방사선 방호 뿐만 아니라 원전 사고의 조속하고 안전한 처리를 위해서도 중요하다. 방사선원의 3차원 위치 탐지는 기존에 방사선 탐지기의 2차원적 방사선 위치 탐지기능에 방사선원의 거리정보까지 추가 제공할 수 있어 방사선 오염원의 제거 및 제염작업에 결정적 역할을 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 반도체 센서에 기반한 듀얼(Dual) 방사선 탐지기를 이용한 방사선원 3차원 가시장치 개발 연구의 일환으로 방사선 센서부의 효율적 차폐체 구조설계에 관한 결과를 논하였다. 고하중의 텅스텐 또는 납 차폐체를 MCNP기반으로 최적구조로 설계함으로써 경량의 고효율 방사선원 위치탐지기 구현을 시도하였고, 이를 위해 차폐체의 구조와 두께, 그리고 콜리메이터에 형상의 다양한 변수모델에 대한 방사선 차폐시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 실리콘 센서기반의 소형 경량의 3차원 방사선원 탐지 및 가시화 연구에 활용될 예정이다.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.55-57
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• 2002

Metal-vapor-vacuum-arc ion source is an ideal source for both high current metal ion implanter and high current plasma thin-film deposition systems. It uses the direct evaporation of metal from surface of cathode by vacuum arc to produce a very high flux of ion plasmas. The MEVVA ion source, the high-current metal-ion implanter and high-current magnetic-field-filtered plasma thin-film deposition systems developed in Beijing Normal University are introduced in this paper.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.725-731
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• 2020

구(sphere)형의 섬광체를 사용한 방사선 스펙트로스코피 검출기를 설계하였고, 여러 대의 검출기를 사용하여 방사선원의 위치를 추적하는 시스템을 개발하였다. 방사선원의 위치 추적은 방사선의 수는 거리의 역자승 법칙에 따라 감소하는 이론을 바탕으로 위치 추적 알고리듬을 설계하였으며, 여러 위치의 방사선원에서 발생된 방사선의 수를 측정하여 알고리듬을 통해 위치를 계산하였다. 방사선원에서 발생되는 방사선은 각 검출기에서 서로 다른 계수로 검출되며, 이러한 검출되는 계수의 차이는 거리의 역자승에 비례하여 달라진다. 설계한 방사선원 위치 추적 시스템의 성능을 검증 및 평가하기 위해 Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) 시뮬레이션을 실시하였으며, 서로 다른 위치에 놓이 방사선원에서 발생된 방사선을 각 검출기로 계수하였다. 측정된 방사선의 수는 방사선원 위치 추적 알고리듬을 통해 위치가 추적되었으며, 실제 방사선원의 위치와 알고리듬으로 계산된 위치와의 오차를 평가하였다. 실제 방사선원의 위치와 계산된 위치와의 오차는 평균 X축 0.11%, Y축 0.37%로 측정되었으며, 매우 정확하게 위치를 측정할 수 있음이 검증되었다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2011

Many countries and researchers in the lighting field have focused on the LED light source as a solution to energy savings and environmental pollution. The LED light source consumes less power, has a long life and is highly economical. It is vibration and shock-resistant, and environment friendly as well. But LED lighting has some problems. In particular, the photobiological safety of LED light sources is emerging as an issue. Ultraviolet radiation from the LED light source emitted directly to the human body over a long period of time is harmful. In this paper, UV radiation from white LED was measured. Finally, the LED light source emits UV radiation, but it is relatively small when compared to others.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2006년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.194-198
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• 2006

In this study, numerical modeling was performed to analyze air flow including radiation heat transfer inside a small chamber. Characteristics of heat transfer between source plate and target through glass are investigated for various surface temperature of heat source plate with buoyancy effect due to gravity force. Conduction heat transfer through the glass is considered and heat source plate is assumed to be a black body. Target surface temperature is largely affected by the radiation heat transfer. It can also be seen that as the source temperature increases target surface is dominated by radiation rather than convective heat transfer by air.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.1524-1531
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• 2020

The aim of this work is to develop a Geiger-Muller (GM) detector system for robot to look for a radioactive source in case of a nuclear emergency or in a high radiation environment. In order to find a radiation source easily, a detector system, including 3 detectors, was designed to search γ-ray radiation sources autonomously. First, based on GEANT4 simulation, radiation dose rates in 3 Geiger-Muller (GM) counters were simulated at different source-detector distances, distances between detectors and angles. Various sensitivity analyses were performed experimentally to verify the simulated designed detector system. A mono-energetic ¹³⁷Cs γ-ray source with energy 662 keV and activity of 1.11 GBq was used for the observation. The simulated results were compared with the experimental dose rate values and good agreements were obtained for various cases. Only based on the dose rates in three detectors, the radiation source with a specific source activity and angle was localized in the different location. A method was adopted with the measured dose rates and differences of distances to find the actual location of the lost γ-ray source. The corresponding angles of deviation and detection limits were calculated to determine the sensitivity and abilities of our designed detector system. The proposed system can be used to locate radiation sources in low and high radiation environments.

• 전기의세계
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.28-33
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• 1965

This experiment is based on "the feasible improvement studies for an eliminating device of the static electricity which applies the ionizing effect of beta radiation." In order to accomplish this object, the following problems were necessarily considered to investigate and to determine. The efficiency of the elimination of static electricity was determined by means of measuring the ion current between electrically charged plates with micro-ammeter. The effects of various factors, i.e., the distance between charged plate and radiation source, the activity of radiation source, the electric otential and the area of the charged plate, the shape of the source housing, the lining of backscattering material (Pb) on the source housing surface and blowing of ionized air, on the static electricity eliminating efficiency were studied. The beta radiation sources used in this experiment were S$^{35}$ and Sr$^{90}$ -Y$^{90}$ . It was revealed that ion current increased with source activity, the electric potential and area of the plates, the lead (Pb) lining on the surface of the source housing and the velocity of the ionized air blowing. As one could expect the S$^{35}$ was more effective to increase the ion current since it is known to be a higher specific ionization source than Sr$^{90}$ -Y$^{90}$ . The detailed result and performance of the eliminating device of the static electricity are described here.ibed here.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1130-1132
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• 2007

In this research, 3D position exploring system was developed to detect direction and position of radiation source by using two general CCD camera. This system consists of a radiation detection device, a controlling device, and a monitoring device. A radiation detection device is composed of a collimator, a scintillator, CCD sensor, and radiation shielding part. Incident radiation is firstly collimated with direction and converted into visual lights in a scintillator. The CCD sensor detect the converted visual light and send a signal as an image. This can explore a radiation source with direction and distance from geometrical structure of two sensors. From these information, the developed 3D position exploring system can provide 3D radiation source information. This research will be useful for managing and processing radioactive materials in remote.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.285-294
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• 2023

Autonomous radiation source detection has long been studied for radiation emergencies. Compared to conventional data-driven or path planning methods, deep reinforcement learning shows a strong capacity in source detection while still lacking the generalized ability to the geometry in unknown environments. In this work, the detection task is decomposed into two subtasks: exploration and localization. A hierarchical control policy (HC) is proposed to perform the subtasks at different stages. The low-level controller learns how to execute the individual subtasks by deep reinforcement learning, and the high-level controller determines which subtasks should be executed at the current stage. In experimental tests under different geometrical conditions, HC achieves the best performance among the autonomous decision policies. The robustness and generalized ability of the hierarchy have been demonstrated.