• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.1805-1811
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• 2017

Recently, DC systems are considered as efficient electric power systems for renewable energy based clean power generators. This discloses several critical issues that are required to be considered before the installation of the DC systems. First of all, voltage/current switching stress, which is aggravated by large fault current, might damage DC circuit breakers. This problem can be simply solved by applying a superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) as proposed in this study. It allows a simple use of insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) as a DC circuit breaker. To evaluate the proposed resistive type SFCL application to the DC circuit breaker, a DC distribution system is composed of the practical line impedances from the real distribution system in Do-gok area, Korea. Also, to reflect the distributed generation (DG) effects, several DC-to-DC converters are applied. The locations and sizes of the DGs are optimally selected according to the results of previous studies on DG optimization. The performance of the resistive type SFCL applied DC circuit breaker is verified by a time-domain simulation based case study using the power systems computer aided design/electromagnetic transients including DC (PSCAD/ EMTDC(R)).

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.261-281
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• 2020

Civil structures may experience progressive deterioration and damage under environmental and operational conditions over their service life. Finite element (FE) model updating method is one of the most important approaches for damage identification in structures due to its capabilities in structural health monitoring. Although various damage detection approaches have been investigated on structures, there are limited studies on large-sized space structures. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the applicability and efficiency of sensitivity-based FE model updating framework for damage identification in large space structures from a distinct point of view. This framework facilitates modeling and model updating in large and geometric complicated space structures. Considering sensitivity-based FE model updating and vibration measurements, the discrepancy between acceleration response data in real damaged structure and hypothetical damaged structure have been minimized through adjusting the updating parameters. The feasibility and efficiency of the above-mentioned approach for damage identification has finally been demonstrated with two numerical examples: a flat double layer grid and a double layer diamatic dome. According to the results, this method can detect, localize, and quantify damages in large-scaled space structures very accurately which is robust to noisy data. Also, requiring a remarkably small number of iterations to converge, typically less than four, demonstrates the computational efficiency of this method.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.35-49
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 레이저스캐너만으로 이루어진 감지 시스템을 이용하여 도로 위에 있는 객체의 위치를 추정하고 분류하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 각각의 레이저 스캐너에서 획득한 데이터는 그리드 맵을 사용하여 데이터를 융합하였으며, 팽창 연산과 레이블링 방법을 사용하여 측정 오차를 보정하였다. 추출한 객체의 정보(길이, 폭)를 입력으로 사용한 퍼지방법을 통해 객체를 보행자, 자전거, 차량으로 분류하였으며, 이러한 방법은 레이저스캐너로만 이루어진 감지 시스템의 정확도를 증가시켰다. 또한 본 논문에서는 실제 도로 환경에서 몇 가지 시나리오를 설정하여 실험을 하였다. 실험을 통해 감지 시스템이 객체를 정확히 분류하는지, GPS-RTK 장비를 사용하여 획득한 위치 정보와 비교하여 객체의 위치 정보를 정확히 추정하는지 검증하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.206-213
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 고성능의 하드웨어 장비가 아닌 일반적으로 사용되는 개인용 컴퓨터와 CCD 카메라를 이용하여 자동으로 경량기포 콘크리트(autoclaved lightweight concrete) 블록간의 상하 경사도, 두께의 불균일성, 그리고 불량 여부를 판별할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 치수측정 및 불량검사 자동화 알고리즘은 실제 작업환경을 고려하여 일반적인 조명조건에서의 전처리과정과 작업공정내의 피사체의 진동을 고려한 단위길이 결정방법, 카메라의 곡률보정에 의한 치수오차 보정 방법 등을 적용하였으며, 실제공정에서의 실험 결과를 통해 블록군의 계측에 있어서 0.8초 이내에 측정오차 1%이내의 데이터를 산출해 냄으로서 제안한 불량검사 자동화시스템의 신뢰성을 검증할 수 있었다.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제65권2호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2016

A virtual power plant (VPP) technology is a cluster of distributed generation installations. VPP system is that integrates several types of distributed generation sources, so as to give a reliable overall power supply. Virtual power plant systems play a key role in the smart grids concept and the move towards alternative sources of energy. They ensure improved integration of the renewable energy generation into the grids and the electricity market. VPPs not only deal with the supply side, but also help manage demand and ensure reliability of grid functions through demand response (DR) and other load shifting approaches in real time. In this paper, utilizing a variety of distributed generation resources(such as emergency generator, commercial generator, energy storage device), activation scheme of the virtual power plant technology. In addition, through the analysis of the domestic electricity market, it describes a scheme that can be a virtual power plant to participate in electricity market. It attempts to derive the policy support recommendation in order to obtain the basics to the prepared in position of power generation companies for the commercialization of virtual power plant.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권12호
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• pp.2303-2310
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• 2009

Defense systems are needed to prevent catastrophic failures of a power grid due to cascaded events. Cascaded events can be attributed to improper operations of protective relays. Especially, it is the most dangerous problem that trips of backup relays by overload. In this paper, a new algorithm of predicting Zone 3 acting time of distance relay is proposed using the real time synchronized data from PMUs on the transmission system when the power system is danger. In the proposed, some part of the power system are outage when some unexpected fault in the power system, the algorithm will monitor the impedance locus of distance relay. At this time, if there is a big change of Impedance locus, the algorithm will calculate the Zone 3 acting time of the distance relay by the over load. In the case studies, the estimation and simulation network have been testified and analysed in Matlab Simulink.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.755-765
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• 2015

A thermostatically controlled load (TCL) can be one of the most appropriate resources for demand response (DR) in a smart grid environment. DR capability can be effectively implemented in a TCL with various intelligent control methods. However, because traditional on-off control is still a commonly used method in a TCL, it is useful to develop a method for adding DR capability to the TCL with an existing on-off controller. As a specific realization of supervisory control for implementing DR capability in the TCL, two methods are proposed - a method involving the changing of a set point and a method involving the paralleling of an identified system without delay. The proposed methods are analyzed through the simulations with an electric heater for different power consumption levels in the on-state. Considerable cost benefit can be achieved with the proposed methods when compared with the case without DR. In addition, the observations suggest that a medium power consumption level, instead of the maximum power, in the on-state should be used for consistently obtaining the cost benefit without severe temperature deviation from the specified temperature range for DR.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.446-452
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• 2013

Under frequency load shedding (UFLS) is an effective way to prevent system blackout after a serious disturbance occurs in a power system. A novel centralized adaptive under frequency load shedding (AUFLS) scheme using the synchronous phase measurement unit (PMU) is proposed in this paper. Two main stages are consisted of in the developed technique. In the first stage, the active power deficit is estimated by using the simplest expression of the generator swing equation and static load model since the frequency, voltages and their rate of change can be obtained by means of measurements in real-time from various devices such as phase measurement units. In the second stage, the UFLS schemes are adapted to the estimated magnitude based on the presented model. The effectiveness of the proposed AUFLS scheme is investigated simulating different disturbance in IEEE 10-generator 39-bus New England test system.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2015

BARAM system that means 'wind' in Korean has been established as a virtual wind tunnel system for aircraft design. Its aim is to provide researchers with easy-to-use, production-level environment for all stages of CFD simulation. To cope with this goal an integrated environment with a set of CFD solvers is developed and coupled with an highly-efficient visualization software. BARAM has three improvements comparing with previous CFD simulation environments. First, it provides a new automatic mesh generation method for structured and unstructured grid. Second, it also provides real-time visualization for massive CFD data set. Third, it includes more high-fidelity CFD solvers than commercial solvers.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.381-388
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• 2009

In some portions of nuclear piping systems, stratification phenomena may occur due to the density difference between hot and cold stream. When the temperature difference is large, the stratified flow under diverse operating conditions can produce high thermal stress, which leads to unanticipated piping integrity issues. The objectives of this research are to examine controvertible numerical factors such as model size, grid resolution, turbulent parameters, governing equation, inflow direction and pipe wall. Parametric three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics analyses were carried out to quantify effects of these parameters on the accuracy of temperature profiles in a typical nuclear piping with complex geometries. Then, as a key finding, it was recommended to use optimized mesh of real piping with the conjugated heat transfer condition for accurate thermal stratification analyses.