• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.429-447
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• 2020

The considered simulation tasks are based on an electrometallurgical process development strategy and associated telemanipulator simulation systems are proposed with various scales of experimental facilities. Fundamentally, target facilities are assumed to be operated only by remote handling systems because the considered process is operated in hazardous environments. Futhermore, the feasibility at various scales should be experimentally verified with gradual increase in throughput. In this regard, bench, engineering, and pilot-scale simulation systems are important early-stage tools for assessing the practical operability of the target process with the material handling systems. Such simulation systems are highly customized for applications and are a precursor to larger pilot and demonstration-scale plants. This paper introduced and classified the developed simulator systems for this approach at various scales using remote handling systems which were assembled inside a virtual target facility, and the manmachine interface was included for a more realistic operation of the simulator. The results obtained for each simulator show the feasibility and requirement for improvement of the systems for the considered test issues with respect to the operation and maintenance of the process.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.1717-1726
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• 2017

In the nuclear industry, mechanical engineers spend a significant portion of their time designing equipment such as manipulators, bogies, mechanical grippers, and so on. Some customized designs can be considered as standard mechanical equipment in this area, although it is not unusual to find that an existing design cannot simply be copied from one project to another. Varied performance requirements can dictate that redesign, often quite extensive redesign, is required. However, if something similar has been done before, engineers could use that as a starting point for the new project. In this regard, this study presents several guidelines inspired by previous design knowledge for similar development cases. Moreover, this study presents more detailed suggestions such as design guidelines for an argon-based hot cell atmosphere and design experience for a large-scale practical hot cell facility. Design considerations and case studies dealt with in this study are dedicated to teleoperation manipulators that are used at a large-scale argon cell facility for pyroprocess integrated inactive demonstration (PRIDE), at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. In particular, for case studies to support the suggested recommendations, a fabricated telemanipulator system for PRIDE is introduced, and several kinds of experimental results associated with it are presented.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.22-33
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• 2000

고감속비의 관절을 갖는 고하중 조작기를 원격조작 힘반영 제어시스템의 슬레이브 조작기로 사용할 경우에는 마스터 조작기에 비하여 느린 동특성으로 인해 슬레이브 조작기의 제어입력에 포화가 빈번히 발생한다. 슬레이브 조작기가 유연성을 갖도록 설계한 경우에도 제어입력이 포화되면 위치제어루프가 끊어지기 때문에 시스템이 불안정해지고 슬레이브 조작기가 물체에 강하게 접촉하는 경우가 발생하며, 유연한 힘제어 성능을 얻는데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 고하중 원격조작기에 대해 제어입력의 포화를 고려한 힘반영 유연성 제어기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 힘반영 유연성 제어기법은 제어입력의 포화를 가지는 원격조작기에 대하여 안정한 힘반영 성능과 함께 정밀한 위치제어와 유연성제어 성능을 얻을 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 제안한 제어기법의 안정도를 해석하였고 실험을 통하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.459-467
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• 2012

이 연구에서는 MR 브레이크를 이용하는 새로운 형태의 햅틱 그리퍼를 제안하였다. 이를 위하여, 다양한 형태의 MR 브레이크를 고려한 뒤, 각 MR 브레이크의 제동 토크와 점성 마찰토크를 빙햄 모델에 기반하여 분석하였다. MR 브레이크의 최적설계를 위해 유한요소법과 최적화 toolbox를 통합한 새로운 알고리즘이 고안되었으며, 점성 마찰토크는 필요 제동 토크보다 작도록 구속조건을 설정하였다. 이러한 최적 설계 알고리즘을 통하여 적절한 제동 토크를 시스템에 부하할 수 있으며 무게가 최소화된 MR 브레이크를 설계할 수 있었다. 그리고 최적 설계된 MR 브레이크의 성능 또한 고찰하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.2373-2380
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• 1993

This paper addresses the design procedure and testing result of a servo driven pan/tilt device which is capable of tracking arbitrary movement of a specified target object. In order to achieve real-time acquisition of feedback signal, a 2 degree-of freedom non-contact type displacement follower has been employed in stead of vision camera. The performance of the designed system is tested for different target velocities and control gains. The test result shows the satisfactory performance to be adopted as an effective tool for visual transfer in the context of teleoperation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.894-902
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• 2000

This paper proposes a force reflection control method with a speed saturation compensation scheme for the slave manipulators having a speed saturation due to the high reduction ratio joints. When speed saturation is generated, the proposed force reflection control method not only shows an anti-windup feature in controlling the slave manipulator but also makes the master manipulator move slowly using the force reflection caused by saturation. In this way, the position of the slave manipulator tracks the reference position regardless of speed saturation. The experimental results show that the proposed control method provides excellent performance.

• 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.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권12호
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• pp.48-58
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• 2010

In this study, position tracking and force reflection control of a master-slave manipulator which will be used for handling objects contaminated by radioactivity has been addressed. Since available measurements concerning on dynamic motion of the master-slave manipulator are restricted, a simple constrained control structure was suggested. In the consideration of the uncertain dynamic behaviors of the slave manipulator which is dependent upon mass and shape of work pieces grasped and dynamic properties of the environment contacted, a simple structured sliding mode control was suggested to guarantee robustness with respect to parameter uncertainties and external disturbances. The proposed control was applied to a 1-DOF master-slave link system. The control performances were verified along with some computer simulation results.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2910-2912
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• 2000

Since the heavy-duty power manipulator has high ratio gear reducers at its joints, its dynamic characteristics are much slower than that of the master manipulator and it is likely to encounter the saturation in the input magnitude when it is used as the slave manipulator in telemanipulator systems. This paper proposes a force reflecting position control scheme for 2 axes heavy-duty power manipulator which compensates control input saturation. A series of experiments is shown to give an excellent tracking performance regardless of saturation.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2414-2416
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• 2001

When a heavy-duty power manipulator with high reduction ratio joints is used as telemanipulator in teleoperated systems, its control inputs are frequently saturated resulting in deteriorated stability and poor position tracking performance. This paper proposes a bilateral control algorithm for 3-DOF heavy-duty power manipulators, which compensates for saturation. The proposed bilateral control algorithm provides precise position control performance regardless of saturation.