• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.101-108
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• 1999

A reliable and practical monitoring of drill breakage is a crucial technique in automatic machining system. In this study, a real-time monitoring system was developed to predict drill breakage using both spindle and z-axis motor current. Drill breakage is monitored by detecting the level of residual motor current which is obtained through the moving average filter algorithm. The residual exhibits a feature of sharp decrease just before drill breakage. Therefore, drill breakage can be predicted by detecting this characteristic of residual component. Z-axis motor current is better to predict the drill breakage than spindle motor current, because the former is faster in response than the latter when drill breakage is occurred. The evaluation experiments have shown that the developed monitoring system works very well.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.77-87
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• 1995

In-process detection of drill wear is one of the most important technoligies for automatic, unmaned machining systems. In this study, an on-line drill wear estimation model based on spindle/Z-axis motor currents generated during the drilling process is proposed. The theoretical model is obtained by integrating the drilling process model and the servomechanism model. The drilling process model describes the relationship of drill wear and drilling torque/ thrust force, whereas the servomechanism model describes the relationship of drilling torque/ thrust force applied to motor and spindle/Z-axis motor current. Evaluation tests have shown that the proposed model is a good real-time estimator for drill wear.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.41-45
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• 2008

This paper deals with the estimation method on the initial pole position of a z-axis permanent magnet linear synchronous motor(PMLSM) without magnetic pole sensors such as Hall sensors. The proposed method takes account of the gravitational force at z-axis and also the load conditions. The algorithm consists of two steps. The first step is to approximately estimate the initial q-axis by monitoring the movements due to the test current at predefined different test q-axes. The second step is to estimate the real q-axis as accurately as possible by using the outputs corresponding to torques due to the test current at three different test q-axes in order to avoid the effect of load mass variations. Experimental results on the z-axis PMLSM show good estimation characteristics of the proposed method irrespective of load mass conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.142-151
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• 1993

An intelligent mulitiple monitoring system to monitor tool/machining states synthetically was proposed and developed. It consists of 2 fundamental subsystems : the multiple sensor detection unit and the intellignet integrated diagnosis unit. Three signals, that is, spindle motor current, Z-axis motor current, and machining sound were adopted to detect tool/machining states more reliably. Based on the multiple sensor information, the diagnosis unit judges either tool breakage or degree of tool wear state using fuzzy reasoning. Tool breakage is diagnosed by the level of spindle/z-axis motor current. Tool wear is diagnosed by both the result of fuzzy pattern recognition for motor currents and the result of pattern matching for machining sound. Fuzzy c-means algorithm was used for fuzzy pattern recognition. Experiments carried out for drill operation in the machining center have shown that the developed system monitors abnormal drill/states drilling very reliably.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07f
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• pp.2166-2168
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• 1998

A PWM inverter using power FET is developed to switch the excitation current of 5 phase hybrid stepping motor for the use of driving X, Y table. A micro processor based controller is also developed to control the excitation current switching of X, Y axis stepping motor as well as synchronizing operation of Z-axis servo motor. The developed driving control system is applied to the industrial embroidery sewing machine.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.117-119
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• 1994

While the projectile in the induction type coil guns is in motion, there exists an induced current in the sleeve coils of the projectile. The motion includes not only the z-axial movement but transversal movement. The projectile in coil guns, which is not supported physically, gets a force in the transversal axis to have a motion in this axis. As a result of this motion, sleeve effects are exhibited to the projectile. This paper presents the analysis of the secondary effect especially due to the propelling velocity of the projectile.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1341-1349
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• 2001

In this paper, 3 D.O.F. actuator, which has three degrees of freedom in one joint, is proposed. The proposed 3 D.O.F. spherical actuator is composed of the rotor and atator. The upper plate of the stator supports the rotor and five electromagnets are located at the base of the stator. The rotor has two permanent magnets, and each rotational axis of the rotor gimbal system is supported by the bearing. To find out the governing equations for the torque generation, Coulombs law and Lorentz force with respect to magnetism is applied. As the experimental results, if the distance between electromagnet and permanent maget is far enough, the force between these magnets can be expressed from current of coils and z-axial distance. For the purpose of control 3 D.O.F. actuator, PID control law is applied. The experimental results are presented to show the validity of the proposed 3 D.O.F. actuator.