• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.39-65
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• 1987

Since the middle of 1950's, containerization has been rapidly spread over the world in virtue of great merits providing to interensts, and the fundamental changes in port management and prot operations are resulted. As the container terminal is a complex system which is consisted of various subsystems, the treatment for improving the productivity is required in a comprehensive fashion, both in each of its parts and as an integrated system. This paper aims to make an intensive analysis of the Busan Container Terminal system, especially focusing on its subsystems such as ship operation system, storage system and transfer system. First of all, the intrinsic capacity of various subsystems is calculated and it is checked whether the current operation is being performed effectively through the formal analysis. Secondly, the suggestion is presented to improve the operation by considering the throughput that the port of Busan will have to accept in the near future. The results are as follows; 1) As the inefficiency is due to the imbalance between various subsystems at Busan terminal, transfer equipment level must be up to 31% for straddle carrier and 67% transfer crane above all. 2) The yard capacity must be increased by reducing the free dwell time of containers in order to accept the traffic volume smoothly in the near future. 3) The better way to reduce the port congestion is to change berthing rule from the FIFP to the Pre-allocated system by considering the ship arrival pattern.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.403-408
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• 2014

Lots of electric power has been wasted through the load bank usually in the container boxes during the generator load test of the ship and offshore plant in the new ship building. Therefore in this research, the quantity of wasted electric power through generator load test under construction was investigated on big shipbuilding yard and quantity of electric power that can be recovered is analyzed when produced electric power during the generator load test is connected to KEPCO Grid, according to laboratory's experiment result where recovers electric power produced from small generator connected to KEPCO Grid.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.22-28
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• 1994

A data acquisition and processing system. using an IBM PC, an AD converter, and a printer, has been developed to monitor rapidly and significantly varying signals. The sister takes live signals and computes and displays the trend of the moving averages of the signals in real time. The system has been applied to monitor the shaft horsepower and revolution and the speed of ships for their speed trial. The reliable interpretation of the measured data using moving average can eliminate unnecessary arguments between the owner and yard on the performance of the newly built ships. Other applications of the system-inspection of engine hunting, providing data for ship maneuvering analysis, vibration data analysis, extending to the ship performance monitoring system-are also demonstrated and discussed.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 1996

조선에서 추진되어온 용접로봇의 적용은 주로 대조립 용접공정의 자동화로서, 갠트리(Gantry)에 용접토치를 장착한 로봇을 설치하여 구성하였다. 이러한 시스템에 서의 용접은 로봇을 용접부위까지 이송시킨 후 로봇의 구동으로 용접을 수행하거나, 또는 로봇과 캔트리의 동시 구동으로 용접을 수행하기도 한다. 또한 이 공정은 복잡 한 용접구조물을 OLP(Off-Line Programming)를 이용하여 교시하므로서 효과적인 자동 화 시스템의 구성이 가능할 수 있었다. 소조립 공정은 대조립공정과 비교하면 더 간단 한 부재의 용접이라 할 수 있으나 공정과 공장의 생산방법에 따라 자동화의 어려움은 따른다. 적용되는 매니프레이타는 소조립 공정의 특성에 맞게 그 형태가 설계되어야 하고 이를 운용하는 시스템은 소조립 생산방법에 맞게 통합, 개발되는 Task-Based System"이 되어야 한다. 특히 소조립 공정은 대조립 공정과 달리 여러가지 용접 판넬 을 동시에 이송시킨 후 용접함으로서 OLP의 직접 적용을 어렵게 하는 요인이 있어 이것을 해결하는 것이 생산성을 증가시키는데 적지 않은 영향을 미친다 하겠다. 이 글에서는 소조립 용접 자동화를 구성하기 위해 필요한 젓으로서 소조립 용접 공정을 소개하고, 공정의 특성에 맞도록 설계된 매니퓰레이타 시스템과, OLP, 판넬인식, 자동 교시 모들로 이루어지는 작업인식 시스템에 관해 기술한다.기술한다.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.207-215
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• 2011

Due to its large size, a ship is first divided into scores of blocks and then each block is constructed through various shops, such as the assembly shop, the painting shop, and the outfitting shop. However, each block may not be directly moved to the next shop and may be temporarily laid on a block stockyard because the working time in each shop is different. If blocks are laid on the block stockyard without any planning, the rearrangement of the blocks by a transporter are required because the blocks have the different in and out time. In this study, an optimal layout method based on the genetic algorithm was proposed in order to minimize the rearrangement of the blocks in the block stockyard. To evaluate the applicability of the proposed method, it was applied to a simple layout problem of the block stockyard.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.174.6-174
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• 2001

Various raw materials from which iron and steel are made are unloaded from ship and then piled up at the designated yard. The equipment that piles up the raw materials is called Stacker and these materials are then dipped out and sent to unit factories such as blast furnace and cokes using the equipment called Reclaimer. The Reclaimer has an actual size of 16 meter high and 50 meter long and runs back and forth over the rail of about 1.2 km, carrying the materials to each unit factory. Until now, in most cases, Stacker and Reclaimer are manually operated. At POSCO, four workers on a shift basis sit in the operation room as shown in the picture, pile up and dip out the materials, checking them out with their own eyes ...

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.469-475
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• 1997

A method for solving the inverse kinematic problem of reclaimer is presented in this paper. The reclaimers in the raw yard are being used to dig raws and transfer them to the blast furnaces. The kinematic configuration of the reclaimer is different from that of commercially available robots, because it has a rotating disk with several buckets at the end of the boom to dig raws. The reclaimer has a redundancy due to the rotating disk : the degrees of freedom are greater than the number of forward kinematic equations. A plane equation in the 3-dimensional space is determined by using several points adjacent to the reclaiming point of the raw ores pile. A constraint is obtained from the relation ship of the plane equation and trajectories of the bucket of the reclaimer. Finally, a solution of the inverse kinematics of the reclaimer is determined by a numerical method.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-25
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• 1999

There is a worldwide trend to automate the handling operations in port container terminals in an effort to improve productivity and reduce labor cost. This study iscusses how to apply an AGV(automated guided vehicle) system to the handling of containers in the yard of a port container ter-minal. The main issue of this paper is how to assign tasks of container delivery to AGVs during ship operations in an automated port container terminal. A dual-cycle operation is assumed in which the loading and the discharging operation can be performed alternately. Mixed integer linear program-ming formulations are suggested for the dispatching problem. The completion time of all the dis-charging and loading operations by a quayside crane is minimized, and the minimization of the total travel time of AGVs is also considered as a secondary objective. A heuristic method using useful properties of the dispatching problem is suggested to reduce the computational time. The perfor-mance of the heuristic algorithm is evaluated in light of solution quality and computation time.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.178-194
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• 2010

To improve the ship operation in automated container terminals, it is important to schedule different types of handling equipment to operate synchronously. For example, a vehicle with container receiving and lifting capabilities is used to transport containers from a storage yard to a vessel and vice versa, while a triple quay crane (QC) can handle up to three 40-ft containers simultaneously. This paper discusses the manner in which vehicles should be assigned to containers to support such multi-lifts of QCs by using information about the locations and times of deliveries. A mixed-integer programming model is introduced to optimally assign delivery tasks to vehicles. This model considers the constraint imposed by the limited buffer space under each QC. A procedure for converting buffer-space constraints into time window constraints and a heuristic algorithmfor overcoming the excessive computational time required for solving the mathematical model are suggested. A numerical experiment is conducted to compare the objective values and computational times of the heuristic algorithm with those of the optimizing method to evaluate the performance of the heuristic algorithm.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.271-287
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• 2012

Due to its large size, a ship is first divided into scores of blocks and then each block is constructed through various shops, such as the assembly shop, the painting shop, and the outfitting shop. However, each block may not be directly moved to the next shop and may be temporarily laid at a block stockyard because the working time in each shop is different from each other. If blocks are laid at the block stockyard without any planning, the rearrangement of the blocks by a transporter is required because the blocks have the different in and out time. In this study, a block layout method based on the genetic algorithm was proposed in order to minimize the rearrangement of the blocks in the block stockyard. To evaluate the applicability of the proposed method, it was applied to simple layout problems of the block stockyard. The result shows that the proposed method can yield a block layout that minimizes the total relocation cost of moving obstacle blocks in the block stockyard.