• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.13-24
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• 2004

Human error has brought about accidents more than 50% in system of a large size and complicated expecially in nuclear power plants(NPPs). The technology of Man Machine Interface(MMI) has been changed to the digitalized controls employing computer-based technology. According to this trend. the human factors guidelines are becoming main issue for reliable supports to digitalized information displays. However. the existing human factors guidelines is not enough for advanced information display on NPPs. The purpose of this research is to develop the reliable design and evaluation guidelines for advanced information display in main control room (MCR) of NPPs. In this study. the various general human factors guidelines concerning information display on CRT are integrated on data base management system. unified based on the integration rules. and applied in computer based procedures. The use of the integrated guidelines are expected to evaluate the existing information display on MCR in NPPs from the human factors point of view.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.85-96
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• 2006

Main control room(MCR) man-machine interface(MMI) design of advanced nuclear power plants(NPPs) such as APR(advanced power reactor)-1400 can be validated through performance-based tests to determine whether it acceptably supports safe operation of the plant. In this work, plant performance, personnel task, situation awareness, workload, teamwork, and anthropometric/physiological factor are considered as factors for the human performance evaluation. For development of measures in each of the factors, techniques generally used in various industries and empirically proven to be useful are adopted as main measures and some helpful techniques are developed in order to complement the main measures. Also the development of the measures is addressed based on the theoretical background. Finally we discuss the way in which the measures can be effectively integrated and then HUPESS(HUman Performance Evaluation Support System) which is in development based on the integrated way is briefly introduced.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.795-802
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• 2013

For the improvement of APR1400 Diverse Protection System (DPS) design, the Advanced DPS (ADPS) has recently been developed to enhance the fault tolerance capability of the system. Major fault masking features of the ADPS compared with the APR1400 DPS are the changes to the channel configuration and reactor trip actuation equipment. To minimize the fault occurrences within the ADPS, and to mitigate the consequences of common-cause failures (CCF) within the safety I&C systems, several fault avoidance design features have been applied in the ADPS. The fault avoidance design features include the changes to the system software classification, communication methods, equipment platform, MMI equipment, etc. In addition, the fault detection, location, containment, and recovery processes have been incorporated in the ADPS design. Therefore, it is expected that the ADPS can provide an enhanced fault tolerance capability against the possible faults within the system and its input/output equipment, and the CCF of safety systems.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.46-52
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• 2016

When a fault occurs on a transmission line, it is important to identify the fault location as speedily as possible for improvement of the power supply reliability. Generally, distance to fault location is estimated by off line from the recorded data. Conventional fault recorder uses the fault data at one end. This paper deals with the design of an advanced fault recorder for enhancement accuracy of the fault distance estimation and fast detection a fault occurrence position. The major emphasis of the paper will be on the description of the hardware and software of the fault recorder. The fault locator algorithm utilizes a GPS time-synchronized the fault data at both ends. The fault data is transmitted to the other side substation through communication. The advanced fault locator includes a Power module, MPU(Main Processing Unit) module, ADPU(Analog Digital Processing Unit) module, and SIU(Signal Interface Unit) modules. The MMI firmware and software of an advanced fault recording device was implemented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.511-512
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• 2007

The monitoring system has won acceptance as a premium mark that identifies the highest standard of product quality in advanced industry. The TOP features with multi-I/O ports and VGA & RCA TV-out ports supporting mirroring & multiple dual-display modes by windows 0/5. With the choice of versatile stands, panel mount, or VESA wall-mount swing arm and connecting to modem. Wireless keyboard, Customer Display and Card Reader, is your idea Panel system for the application of TOP(Touch Operation Pannel), KIOSK, or Office / Factory Automation. TOP is the hardware and software product that transacts all kind of functions for advanced technology equipment to button, switch, voice and graph etc so that let consumer use easily Industrial HMI System Touch Panel. System characteristics: Easy of use and flexibility to the user, Present a high value solution and advanced function for many Application, Factory Automation, Office Automation, Building Automation System, Information Service System, etc. Analog Touch - 2MB Flash Memory for Saving Screen Data - RS-232C/422 Serial Port - Multi Language Support.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.60-68
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an automatic facial expressions recognition system to analyze facial expressions (happiness, disgust, surprise and neutral) using tree structures based on heuristic rules. The facial region is first obtained using skin-color model and connected-component analysis (CCs). Thereafter the origins of user's eyes are localized using neural network (NN)-based texture classifier, then the facial features using some heuristics are localized. After detection of facial features, the facial expression recognition are performed using decision tree. To assess the validity of the proposed system, we tested the proposed system using 180 facial image in the MMI, JAFFE, VAK DB. The results show that our system have the accuracy of 93%.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2677-2679
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• 2004

The core control equipment is made by multi redundancy at present, as advanced digital techniques appear. Especially MMI(man to machine interface) is developing the availability and diagnostics of the control system. This project is aim to retrofit nuclear power plants operated more than 15 years or to apply newly built nuclear power plants.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.869-879
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• 2001

Serial communications such as RS-232C or RS-485 have been used to control and monitor the industrial plants for a long in cooperating with a computer or microprocessor. In recent years a great deal of effort has been made to achieve these control and monitoring through Internet network. This paper proposes a microprocessor system to implement remote control and monitoring system through Internet network. The proposed system uses NE2000 compatible NIC for data link and physical layer to access Internet network The microprocessor employed in the system plays a role of interfacing NE2000 compatible NIC interpreting protocols above link layer, controlling and monitoring industrial plants simultaneously. This paper also shows MMI and experimental results which control and monitor two power plants on the computer monitor with a mouse remotely to verify the proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.289-292
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• 2004

원자력발전소 MMIS(Man-Machine Interface System)는 발전소 공정과 관련 장비들을 감시 및 제어하고, 필요시에 보호기능을 수행함으로써 발전소를 안전하고 신뢰성 있게 운전할 수 있도록 지원하고 있다. 그러한 MMIS의 설계에 소프트웨어기반의 컴퓨터 기술이 사용된 경우, 그 설계를 구현하기 위해 사용된 소프트웨어가 설계 및 프로그래밍 오류에 취약하여, 공통유형의 소프트웨어 오류로 인해 하드웨어로써 구축된 다중성 설계를 파기시킬 수 있기 때문에 원자력 발전소의 안전 및 안정 운전과 직결되게 된다. 또한 소프트웨어는 설계공정 결함이 일반적으로 최종 결과물에서 확인될 수 있다는 점 때문에 확인 및 검증기술을 정립하고 체계적인 적용이 필수적이다. 이에 따라 본 논문에서는 현재 설계를 진행중인 SMART(System-integrated Modular Advanced ReacTor) MMIS 소프트웨어를 개발하기 위해 적용되는 확인 및 검증 규제요건을 분석하고, 소프트웨어 개발생명주기에 따른 확인 및 검증을 체계적으로 수행하기 위한 프레임웍을 제시한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.927-932
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• 2010

Estimation methods of motion intention from bio-signal present challenges in man machine interaction(MMI) to offer user's command to machine without control of any devices. Measurements of meaningful bio-signals that contain the motion intention and motion estimation methods from bio-signal are important issues for accurate and safe interaction. This paper proposes a novel motion estimation sensor based on a geometrical muscle changes, and a motion estimation method using the sensor. For estimation of the motion, we measure the circumference change of the muscle which is proportional to muscle activation level using a flexible piezoelectric cable (pMAS, piezo muscle activation sensor), designed in band type. The pMAS measures variations of the cable band that originate from circumference changes of muscle bundles. Moreover, we estimate the elbow motion by applying the sensor to upper limb with least square method. The proposed sensor and prediction method are simple to use so that they can be used to motion prediction device and methods in rehabilitation and sports fields.