• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.505-519
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• 2005

In this paper, we develop an anti-sway control in proposed techniques for an ATC system. The developed algorithm is to build the optimal path of container motion and to calculate an anti-collision path for collision avoidance in its movement to the finial coordinate. Moreover, in order to show the effectiveness in this research, we compared NNP PID controller to be tuning parameters of controller using NN with 2 DOF PID controller. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed control scheme guarantees performances, trolley position, sway angle and settling time in NNP PID controller than other controller. As the results in this paper, the application of NNP PID controller is analyzed to have robustness about disturbance which is wind of fixed pattern in the yard. Accordingly, the proposed algorithm in this study can be readily used for industrial applications.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-25
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• 1999

There is a worldwide trend to automate the handling operations in port container terminals in an effort to improve productivity and reduce labor cost. This study iscusses how to apply an AGV(automated guided vehicle) system to the handling of containers in the yard of a port container ter-minal. The main issue of this paper is how to assign tasks of container delivery to AGVs during ship operations in an automated port container terminal. A dual-cycle operation is assumed in which the loading and the discharging operation can be performed alternately. Mixed integer linear program-ming formulations are suggested for the dispatching problem. The completion time of all the dis-charging and loading operations by a quayside crane is minimized, and the minimization of the total travel time of AGVs is also considered as a secondary objective. A heuristic method using useful properties of the dispatching problem is suggested to reduce the computational time. The perfor-mance of the heuristic algorithm is evaluated in light of solution quality and computation time.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.71-80
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• 1996

Handling the manufacured goods is the most cost-consuming task in material handling system in wooden furniture industries. Fully automated warehouse for cartoned goods of a furniture manufacturing company was analized to provide plant engineers and managers with some important informations on the utility and profitability of the automated storage and retrieval system(AS/RS). Process-oriented simulation modeling tech-niques were used to describe the system and to propose some alternatives to promote the efficiency of AS/RS. Simulation report could be inter-preted as follows: 1. Warehouse for the furniture goods must be designed in accordance with reliable material handling program and constructed with suitable equipments depending on the specification of packed products. 2. An excess of palletized products induced the indigestion and the inefficiency of AS/RS of the furniture industry and put this high-costly system into the shade. 3. Overcrowded AS/RS of the furniture factories could regain its material handling function by cutting down the deposit of products into the automated warehouse. For this purpose, reducing the regular output and direct delivering the outside products to the destination should be considered as the definite counterplan. And additional operation of conventional handy warehouse was also expected to improve the efficiency of main AS/RS.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2006

In this paper, we develop anti-sway control in proposed techniques for an ATC system. The developed algorithm is to build the optimal path of container motion and to calculate an anti-collision path for collision avoidance in its movement to the finial coordinate. Moreover, in order to show the effectiveness in this research, we compared NNP PID controller to be tuning parameters of controller using NN with 2-DOF PID controller. The experimental results jar an ATC simulator show that the proposed control scheme guarantees performances, trolley position, sway angle, and settling time in NNP PID controller than other controller. As a result, the application of NNP PID controller is analyzed to have robustness about disturbance which is wind of fixed pattern in the yard.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.715-722
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• 2009

자동화 컨테이너 터미널의 장치장 재정돈이란 장치장의 컨테이너를 장치장 크레인의 유휴시간을 이용해 적하 작업 효율을 높일 수 있는 위치로 재배치하는 작업을 의미한다. 이때 재정돈에 사용할 수 있는 크레인의 유휴시간이 제한적이므로, 본 논문에서는 전체 컨테이너 중 일부를 재정돈 대상 컨테이너로 선택하여 재정돈 계획을 수립하는 방안을 제안한다. 재정돈 컨테이너 선택 시 사용된 선택 기준과 한 번에 선택하는 컨테이너의 범위에 따라 네 가지 재정돈 대상 컨테이너 선택 방안을 제시하였으며, 선택된 재정돈 컨테이너를 대상으로 휴리스틱 알고리즘을 이용해 크레인의 작업 계획을 수립하였다. 시뮬레이션 시스템을 이용한 실험 결과 유휴시간이 제한되어 있는 경우 재정돈 대상 컨테이너를 선택 후 재정돈 계획을 수립하는 방안이 전체 컨테이너를 대상으로 재정돈 계획을 수립 후 주어진 유휴시간 동안 해당 계획에 따라 재정 돈을 수행하는 방안보다 더 좋은 적하 작업 효율을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.119-130
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• 1989

This paper presents average travel time models automated warehousing system where the stacker crane transports only one pallet at a time with the tchebychev travel, I/O point is located at the cornor of the rack, and items are stored by the class-based storage assignment rule. In this study, the racks are treated as the continuous rectangle in time and a statistical approach was used to develop the models. In order to test the proposed models, average travel times determined by the models are compared with the true values for various rack shapes.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.19-31
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• 2016

A design method of the network for automated transporters mounted on rails is addressed for automated container terminals. In the network design, the flow directions of some path segments as well as routes of transporters for each flow requirement must be determined, while the total transportation and waiting times are minimized. This study considers, for the design of the network, the waiting times of the transporters during the travel on path segments, intersections, transfer points below the quay crane (QC), and transfer points at the storage yard. An algorithm, which is the combination of a modified Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the shortest time path and a queuing theory for calculating the waiting times during the travel, is proposed. The proposed algorithm can solve the problem in a short time, which can be used in practice. Numerical experiments showed that the proposed algorithm gives solutions better than several simple rules. It was also shown that the proposed algorithm provides satisfactory solutions in a reasonable time with only average 7.22% gap in its travel time from those by a genetic algorithm which needs too long computational time. The performance of the algorithm is tested and analyzed for various parameters.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.377-382
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 이송장비의 조별운행방식과 Pooling 운행방식에 따른 컨테이너 터미널의 하역시스템 생산성을 비교분석하였다. 기존 컨테이너 터미널에서는 다수의 이송장비가 1개조로 구성되어 하나의 컨테이너 크레인(C/C)에 대해서만 양 ${\cdot}$ 적하작업을 지원하는 고정할당방식을 채택하고 있다. 이러한 할당방식은 하역작업시 혼선이 적고 차량이 일괄적 운행경로를 가지므로 지금까지 매우 광범위하게 적용되어 왔다. 그러나, 각기 다른 조에 편성된 이송장비간에는 상호지원을 하지 않기 때문에 이송장비의 작업융통성이 떨어진다고 볼 수 있다. 이에 비해 본 연구에서는 이송장비의 작업조를 편성하지 않고 투입된 모든 이송장비가 자유롭게 다수의 C/C에 대한 이송작업을 지원할 수 있는 4가지의 동적할당기법을 제시한다. 제시된 4가지의 동적할당은 차량할당시에 C/C의 순번(Se), 대기시간(Qt), 생산성(Pr), 차량할당수(Nv), 버퍼수(Nb)를 고려하는 것으로 연구결과에서 C/C의 현재대기시간, 할당수, 버퍼수를 동시에 고려한 동적할당방식이 가장 효율적이였고, 그 다음으로 할당순서에 기준한 방식이 우수한 결과를 보였다. 그러나, C/C의 현재생산성이나 대기시간만을 고려한 할당방식은 상대적으로 고정할당방식보다 낮은 효율성을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2003년도 춘계학술발표논문집 (중)
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• pp.791-794
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• 2003

자동화 컨테이너터미널은 ATC(Automated Transfer Crane)와 AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle)와 같은 자동화 운송 장비를 사용하는 컨테이너터미널이다. 이러한 자동화 컨테이너터미널의 핵심은 생산성을 향상시키기 위한 효율적인 장비 운영이 결정적인 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 AGV의 이동 위치 결정을 위한 RTK-GPS(Real Time Kinematic-Global Positioning System) 위치 정보 전송 및 운용 방법에 대해서 연구하였다. 이를 위해서 기존의 무선모뎀을 이용한 RTK-GPS 전송 방법을 무선 LAN(Local Area Network) 환경에서 RTK-GPS 위치 정보 전송 방법에 대해서 제안하고, AGV 이동 위치 결정 및 계산을 실험하였다.

• 산업공학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.171-183
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• 1995

A special purpose automated storage and retrieval system is developed in which information media such as compact disc or video tapes can be stored. Hardware system includes rack, stacker crane with robot arm, conveyor, and bar code reader. Software system includes database for address management, user interface for quick scanning of information media by displaying moving image, and algorithms for selecting the closest open location. Such system is widely applicable to CD library or broadcasting station in the forthcoming information age. In this paper we present detailed procedure and tools that are used in designing and implementing such a special AS/R system.