• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.704-710
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• 2017

본 연구팀은 프레스 공정의 협소공간에서 작업이 가능한 6자유도 로봇을 개발하고 있으며, 본 논문은 개발된 로봇의 작업 시간을 최소화하기 위한 작업 시퀀스 최적화 방법을 제안하였다. 우선 6 자유도 로봇의 기구학을 모델링하고 작업 시간 예측 방법을 기술하였다. 그리고 작업 시퀀스 최적화를 위하여 수학적 모델을 제시하고, 이를 바탕으로 개미 집단 시스템(ant colony system), 시뮬레이트 어니일링(simulated annealing), 유전자 알고리즘(genetic algorithm)의 세 가지 최적화 방법을 적용하고 결과를 비교 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 유전자 알고리즘이 가장 좋은 결과를 보임을 확인할 수 있었으며, 계산 속도 측면에서도 가장 빨리 최적값에 수렴하였다. 또한, 개미집단시스템과 시뮬레이티드 어니일링의 경우 여러 파라미터 값들의 설정에 따라 수렴된 최적값의 편차가 비교적 큰 것에 비하여, 유전자 알고리즘은 파라미터 값에 상관없이 안정적으로 근사 최적값을 찾을 수 있었다. 마지막으로, 로봇의 작업시퀀스 최적화 방법을 시각적으로 검증하기 위하여 Mathworks 사의 Matlab과 Coppelia Robotics 사의 V-REP (virtual robot experimentation platform)를 사용한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.392-395
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• 1995

This paper presents a time efficient method for determining a sequence of locations of a mobile manipulator that facilitates tracking of continuous path in cluttered environment. Given the task trajectory in the form of octree data structure, the algorithm performs characterization of task space and subsequent multistage optimization process to determine task feasible locations of the robot. Firstly, the collision free portion of the trajectory is determined and classified according to uniqueness domains of the inverse kinematics solutions. Then by implementing the extent of task feasible subspace into an optimization criteria, a multistage optimization problem is formulated to determines the task feasible locations of the mobile manipulator. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown through a simulation study performed for a 3-d.o.f. manipulator with generic kinematic structure.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.3046-3070
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• 2017

Nowadays, the utilization of multiprocessor environments has been increased due to the increase in time complexity of application programs and decrease in hardware costs. In such architectures during the compilation step, each program is decomposed into the smaller and maybe dependent segments so-called tasks. Precedence constraints, required execution times of the tasks, and communication costs among them are modeled using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) named task-graph. All the tasks in the task-graph must be assigned to a predefined number of processors in such a way that the precedence constraints are preserved, and the program's completion time is minimized, and this is an NP-hard problem from the time-complexity point of view. The results obtained by different approaches are dominated by two major factors; first, which order of tasks should be selected (sequence subproblem), and second, how the selected sequence should be assigned to the processors (assigning subproblem). In this paper, a hybrid proposed approach has been presented, in which two different artificial ant colonies cooperate to solve the multiprocessor task-scheduling problem; one colony to tackle the sequence subproblem, and another to cope with assigning subproblem. The utilization of background knowledge about the problem (different priority measurements of the tasks) has made the proposed approach very robust and efficient. 125 different task-graphs with various shape parameters such as size, communication-to-computation ratio and parallelism have been utilized for a comprehensive evaluation of the proposed approach, and the results show its superiority versus the other conventional methods from the performance point of view.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.111-117
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• 1998

In order to increase productivity of an assembly system composed of multiple robots along a conveyer line, an efficient sequence planning is necessary because the assembly time is dependent upon the assembly sequence. In this paper, a two-robot assembly system is considered in which two robots operate simultaneously and transfer parts from the part feeders to the workpiece on the conveyer one by one. In this case, the distance from the feeder to the workpiece varies with time because the workpiece moves at a constant speed on the conveyer. Hence, the sequence programming is not a trivial problem. Also, the two robots may interfere with each other kinematically and dynamically due to the simultaneous operation, so the sequence should be programmed to avoid the interferences. In this paper, the task sequence optimization problem is formulated and is solved by employing the simulated annealing which has been shown to be effective for solving large combinatorial optimizations.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.608-615
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• 2022

Construction projects are large-scale projects that require extensive construction costs and resources. Especially, scheduling is considered as one of the essential issues for project success. However, the schedule and resource management are challenging to conduct in high-tech construction projects including complex design of MEP and architectural finishing which has to be constructed within a limited workspace and duration. In order to deal with such a problem, this study suggests resource and sequence optimization using constraint programming in construction projects. The optimization model consists of two modules. The first module is the data structure of the schedule model, which consists of parameters for optimization such as labor, task, workspace, and the work interference rate. The second module is the optimization module, which is for optimizing resources and sequences based on Constraint Programming (CP) methodology. For model validation, actual data of plumbing works were collected from a construction project using a five-minute rate (FMR) method. By comparing actual data and optimized results, this study shows the possibility of reducing the duration of plumbing works in construction projects. This study shows decreased overall project duration by eliminating work interference by optimizing resources and sequences within limited workspaces.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.359-372
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• 1995

This study presents an efficient method for optimum design of plate and shell structures, when the design variables are continuous or discrete. Both sizing and shape design variables are considered. First the structural responses such as element forces are approximated in terms of some intermediate variables. By substituting these approximate relations into the original design problem, an explicit nonlinear approximate design task with high quality approximation is achieved. This problem with continuous variables, can be solved by means of numerical optimization techniques very efficiently, the results of which are then used for discrete variable optimization. Now, the approximate problem is converted into a sequence of second level approximation problems of separable form and each of which is solved by a dual strategy with discrete design variables. The approach is efficient in terms of the number of required structural analyses, as well as the overall computational cost of optimization. Examples are offered and compared with other methods to demonstrate the features of the proposed method.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2019

부분역최적화는 역최적화의 흥미로운 변형으로, 주어진 최적화문제와 그 문제의 부분해가 주어지면 이 부분해가 최적해에 포함되도록 문제를 최소한으로 수정하는 문제이다. 이 논문은 라인위에서 정의되는 순환외판원문제(TSP)를 다루는데, 이는 배달시스템, 창고 선반에서 물건을 수집하는 것, 등의 많은 응용을 가진다. 라인 위에서 위치하는 n개의 일이 주어지고 이 중 연속적으로 처리해야하는 일 k개가 부분적으로 주어진다. 각각의 일은 라인 위의 특정 장소에 위치하고 라인을 움직이는 서버에 의해 처리되어야 한다. 우리의 임무는 k개의 일이 최적해에서 연속적으로 처리되도록 n개의 일의 위치를 라인 위에서 최소한으로 조정하는 것이다. 이 논문에서 이 문제와 이 문제의 다양한 변종을 다항시간 내에 푸는 알고리즘을 개발한다. 구체적으로, 서버가 특정한 Forward Trip이라는 특정한 내부 알고리즘을 사용하는 경우와 일반적인 최적 알고리즘을 사용하는 경우에 대한 부분역최적화를 다룬다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2009

In this article, scheduling of a casting sequence is studied in a casting foundry which must deliver products according to the Just-in-time(JIT) production policy of a customer. When a foundry manufactures a variety of casts with an identical alloy simultaneously, it frequently faces the task of production scheduling. An optimal casting schedule should be emphasized in order to maximize the production rate and raw material efficiency under the constraints of limited resources; melting furnaces and operation time for a casting machine. To solve this practical problem-fulfilling the objectives of casting the assigned mixed orders for the highest raw material efficiency in a way specified by the customer's JIT schedule, we implement simple integer programming. A simulation to solve a real production problem in a typical casting plant proves that the proposed method provides a feasible solution with a high accuracy for a complex, multi-variable and multi-constraint optimization problem. Employing this simple methodology, a casting foundry having an automated casting machine can produce a mixed order of casts with a maximum furnace utilization within the due date, and provide them according to their customer's JIT inventory policy.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.600-602
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• 1997

In this study, a hybrid neural net consisting of an Adaptive LVQ(ALVQ) algorithm and MLP is proposed to perform speaker identification task. ALVQ is a new learning procedure using adaptively feature vector sequence instead of only one feature vector in training codebooks initialized by LBG algorithm and the optimization criterion of this method is consistent with the speaker classification decision rule. ALVQ aims at providing a compressed, geometrically consistent data representation. It is fit to cover irregular data distributions and computes the distance of the input vector sequence from its nodes. On the other hand, MLP aim at a data representation to fit to discriminate patterns belonging to different classes. It has been shown that MLP nets can approximate Bayesian "optimal" classifiers with high precision, and their output values can be related a-posteriori class probabilities. The different characteristics of these neural models make it possible to devise hybrid neural net systems, consisting of classification modules based on these two different philosophies. The proposed method is compared with LBG algorithm, LVQ algorithm and MLP for performance.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2010

전 세계 조선 산업에서 생산성의 향상이 크게 이슈화되면서, 생산 라인의 생산성 향상을 위해 새로운 방법론, 생산 자동화, 향상된 생산계획 및 일정계획 등의 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구는 조선 생산의 일정계획과 관련하여 소조립 라인의 소일정계획의 최적화를 통한 생산성 향상에 관한 것이다. 소조립 라인의 소일정계획 최적화를 위하여 공정 별 작업자 배치와 운용에 관한 시나리오와 스키드 패턴의 투입 순서를 미정 다항식 문제로 정식화하고 문제 해결하기 위해 메타휴리스틱 방법 중 하나이며 확률변수를 사용하는 시뮬레이티드 어닐링을 적용하여 지역 최소값에 빠지는 것을 막고 전역 최소값을 찾도록 하였다. 실제 조선소의 소조립 라인의 작업 시간 데이터와 스키드 투입 순서 데이터를 사용하여 최적화를 수행하고 최적화 결과의 효과를 검증하였다.