• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.125-134
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• 2009

This paper presents details on a tube inspection robotic system and a positioning method of the robot for a steam generator (SG) in nuclear power plants (NPPs). The robotic system is separated into three parts for easy handling, which reduces the radiation exposure during installation. The system has a supporting leg to increase the rigidity of the robot base. Since there are several thousands of tubes to be inspected inside a SG, it is very important to position the tool of the robot at the right tubes even if the robot base is positioned inaccurately during the installation. In order to obtain absolute accuracy of a position, the robot kinematics was mathematically modeled with the modified DH(Denavit-Hartenberg) model and calibrated on site using tube holes as calibration points. To tune the PID gains of a commercial motor driver systematically, the time delay control (TDC) based gain tuning method was adopted. To verify the performance of the robotic system, experiments on a Framatomes 51B Model type SG mockup were undertaken.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.5 no.4 s.17
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• pp.1-4
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• 2006

Recently, with rapid development of digital media like semiconductor and large flat panel display, the manufacturing equipment is required to have high precision over large travel range. Moreover it should have high product throughput. To achieve high product throughput, a controller should perform fast point-to-point motion and high precision positioning after settling in spite of external disturbances or residual vibrations. We proposed a new mode switching control algorithm with an application to dual stage for long range and high precision positioning. The proposed algorithm uses a proximate time-optimal servomechanism for the fast settling and a time-delay controller for the high precision positioning. Experimental results show that the proposed method enables smooth mode switching and improves the settling time and the precision accuracy after settling by over than 33% and 45%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2055-2057
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 외란 및 파라미터 변동에 강건한 시간지연 제어 알고리즘을 전기식 구동장치의 위치 제어기에 적용하여 설계한 내용을 기술하였다. 시간지연 제어기는 일정하게 경과된 시간에서의 외란 및 동특성 변동의 양을 현재의 것으로 가정하여 전체 제어 시스템의 특성이 기준모델의 특성을 따르게 하는 제어기이다. 파라미터 변동 및 외란에 대해 시간지연 제어기의 강건성을 시뮬레이션을 통해 입증하였으며 PID 제어기와도 비교하였다. 또한 포화요소에 대한 와인드업 방지보상기와 모델링되지 않는 동특성에 대한 대향필터링 보상기를 설계하여 시스템의 안정성을 향상시켰다.