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Popularization of Autonomous Vehicles and Arbitrability of Defects in Manufacturing Products (자율주행차의 대중화와 제조물하자에 관한 중재가능성)

  • Kim, Eun-Bin;Ha, Choong-Lyong;Kim, Eung-Kyu
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.119-136
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    • 2021
  • Due to the restriction of movement caused by the Corona epidemic and the expansion of the "big face" through human distance, the "unmanned system" based on artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things has been widely used in modern life. "Self-driving," one of the transportation systems based on artificial technology, has taken the initiative in the transportation system as the spread of Corona has begun. Self-driving technology eliminates unnecessary contact and saves time and manpower, which can significantly impact current and future transportation. Accidents may occur, however, due to the performance of self-driving technology during transportation albeit the U.S. allows ordinary people to drive automatically through experimental operations, and the product liability law will resolve the dispute. Self-driving has become popular in the U.S. after the experimental stage, and in the event of a self-driving accident, product liability should be applied to protect drivers from complicated self-driving disputes. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether disputes caused by defects in ordinary cars can be resolved through arbitration through U.S. precedents and to investigate whether disputes caused by defects in autonomous cars can be arbitrated.

Agent Application for E-Beam Manufacturing System (전자빔 가공기에 대한 에이전트 응용)

  • Lim, Sun-Jong;Lee, Chan-Hong;Song, Jun-Yeob
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.44-49
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    • 2007
  • An agent is an abstract unit for problem solving in the field of distributed artificial intelligence, and an agent-based system is designed and implemented based on the definition of agent as its central concept. Agent modeling is advantageous to abstraction, disintegration and structuring for describing complex system, so its application is increased in various areas including air traffic control, power transmission, e-commerce and medicine. There is no agreed definition of agent but agents have common points as follows: autonomy, reactivity, pro-activeness and cooperation. An agent-oriented modeling is an approach of a concept different form existing object-oriented modeling. This study proposed the agent application for E-Beam manufacturing system. To evaluate the performance of the proposed process design, we used the JADE library. The JADE toolkit provides a FIPA-compliant agent platform and a package to develp Java agents. It provides a basic set of functionalities that are regarded as essential for an autonomous agent architecture.

Smart Warehouse Management System Utilizing IoT-based Autonomous Mobile Robot for SME Manufacturing Factory (중소제조기업을 위한 IoT기반의 자율이동모듈을 활용한 스마트 창고관리 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Jeong-A;Jeong, Jongpil
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 2018
  • The Smart Factory level of manufacturing factories of SMEs now lacks a system for grasping the accurate inventory amount associated with inventory movements in managing warehouses at the basic level. Also, it is difficult to manage accurate materials for loss of data due to worker manual work and production method due to experience. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, automatic acquisition of inventory to minimize manual work to grasp workers' Inventory and improve automation is done. In the smart warehouse management system using the IoT-based autonomous mobile module, the autonomous mobile module acquires the data of the inventory storage while moving through the line. In order to grasp the material of the Inventory storage, The Camera module recognizes the name of the inventory storage. And Then, If output matches, the data measured by the sensor is transferred to the server. This data can be processed, saved in a database, and real-time inventory quantity and location can be grasped in a web-based monitoring environment for administrators. The Real-time Automatic Inventory (RAIC) systems is reduce manual tasks and expect the effects of automated inventory management systems.

A Technology of Obstacle Avoidance of Mobile Robot (이동로봇의 장애물 회피기술)

  • Oh, Se-Bong;Han, Sung-Hyun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.132-145
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    • 2008
  • We propose a new technique for autonomous navigation and travelling of mobile robot based on ultrasonic sensors through the narrow labyrinth that leave only distance of a few centimeters on each side between the guides and the robot. In our current implementation the ultrasonic sensor system fires at a rate of 100 ms, that is, each of the 8 sensors fires once during each 100 ms interval. This is a very good firing rate, implemented here for optimal performance. This paper presents an extensively tested and verified solution to the problem of obstacle avoidance. Our solution is based on the optimal placement of ultrasonic sensors at strategic locations around the robot. Both the sensor location and the associated navigation algorithm are defined in such a way that only the accurate radial sonar data is used for accurate travelling.

Development of Stereo Vision Based Welding Quality Inspection System for RV Sinking Seat (스테레오 비전을 이용한 싱킹 시트의 용접 품질 검사 시스템 개발)

  • Yun, Sang-Hwan;Kim, Han-Jong;Kim, Sung-Gaun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.71-77
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a stereo vision based autonomous inspection system for welding quality control of a RV(Recreational Vehicle) sinking seat. The three dimensional geometry of the welding bead, which is the welding quality criteria, is measured by using the captured stereo images with a median filter applied on it. The image processing software for the system was developed using the NI LabVTEW software with NI vision system. In the manufacturing process of a RV sinking seat, the developed system can be used for overcoming the precision error that arises from a visible inspection by an operator. The welding quality inspection system for RV sinking seat was verified using experimentation.

Object-Oriented Database for Integrated Control of Distributed FMS (분산 FMS의 통합제어를 위한 객체지향 데이타베이스)

  • 박장호;차상균
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.1935-1944
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    • 1994
  • FMS is a distributed system composed of various programmable manufacturing hardware such as robots and NC machines. For the autonomous operation of such a system, an integrated software layer for the control and monitoring in needed on top of the manufacturing hardware. However, constructing and maintaining such a software layer is difficult due to the complexity of a underlying FMS and its frequently changing nature. To cope with this problem, this paper proposes an object-oriented FMS integration model, in which objects acting as virtual manufacturing cells are instantiated for each physical cell in the underlying object-oriented database. Various other entities involved in manufacturing processes and their relationship to the cell objects are also captured in the database. This paper describes the structure of this object-oriented FMS database on our prototype implementation called FREE.

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Goal Regulation Mechanism through Reinforcement Learning in a Fractal Manufacturing System (FrMS) (프랙탈 생산시스템에서의 강화학습을 통한 골 보정 방법)

  • Sin Mun-Su;Jeong Mu-Yeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.1235-1239
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    • 2006
  • Fractal manufacturing system (FrMS) distinguishes itself from other manufacturing systems by the fact that there is a fractal repeated at every scale. A fractal is a volatile organization which consists of goal-oriented agents referred to as AIR-units (autonomous and intelligent resource units). AIR-units unrestrictedly reconfigure fractals in accordance with their own goals. Their goals can be dynamically changed along with the environmental status. Since goals of AIR-units are represented as fuzzy models, an AIR-unit itself is a fuzzy logic controller. This paper presents a goal regulation mechanism in the FrMS. In particular, a reinforcement learning method is adopted as a regulating mechanism of the fuzzy goal model, which uses only weak reinforcement signal. Goal regulation is achieved by building a feedforward neural network to estimate compatibility level of current goals, which can then adaptively improve compatibility by using the gradient descent method. Goal-oriented features of AIR-units are also presented.

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Integrative research on industrial policy and corporate strategy of autonomous car (세계 주요국의 자율주행차 정책 및 기업전략에 관한 통합적 연구)

  • Baek, Seoin
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.1-35
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    • 2017
  • This study conducted comparative study on autonomous car's industry policy and corporate strategy of US, China, Germany, Japan and Korea. By analyzing core technologies and industry paradigm shifts of autonomous car industry, I was able to figure out autonomous car has high potential to be dominant transportation in the future and it is important to construct core competency in technology area. The meaningful findings by analyzing various primary and secondary data are as followings: First, in case of US, Google was leading autonomous car industry by developing its own OS and Platform. US government has been actively supporting and interacting with private firms and Universities for stimulating industry/technology convergence and establishing standard. Second, in case of Germany, autonomous car development was leading by several auto makers such as Mercedes, BMW in Hardware and manufacturing area, and German government was focusing on deregulations for private company. Third, in case of Japan which quite similar with German situation, they were both independently developing technology and expanding alliances with MNCs. And Japanese government was supporting triple helix system construction between local companies and universities. Fourth, in case of China, autonomous car industry was leading by IT companies, and various cooperations between IT companies and automakers were established. Chinese government was regulating foreign companies and supporting domestic companies both in market and technologies Last, in Korean case, the active and extensive alliances were lacking in Korean companies while strategic and strong government supports were missing in public sector. For competing with other countries and players, more active collaboration between different countries and strong policy supports are needed in Korean auto industry.

Knowledge-Evolutionary Intelligent Machine Tools - Part 1: Design of Dialogue Module based on Agent Standard Platform in M2M Environment (지식진화형 지능공작기계-Part 1: M2M 환경에서의 Agent 표준 플랫폼 기반 Dialogue Module 설계)

  • Kim Dong-Hoon;Song Jun-Yeob
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.600-607
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    • 2006
  • For the effective operation of manufacturing system, FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System) and CIM(Computer Integrated Manufacturing) system are developed. In these systems, a machine tool is the target of integration in last 3 decades. In nowadays, the conventional concept of machine tools is changing to the autonomous manufacturing device based on knowledge-evolution through applying advanced information technology in which open architecture controller, high speed network and internet technology are contained. In this environment, a machine tool is not the target of integration but the subject of cooperation. In the future, a machine tool will be more improved in the form of a knowledge-evolution based device. In order to develop the knowledge-evolution based machine tools, this paper proposes the structure of knowledge evolution in M2M(Machine To Machine) and the scheme of a dialogue agent among agent-based modules such as a sensory module, a dialogue module, and an expert system. The dialogue agent has a role of interfacing with another machine for cooperation. To design the dialogue agent module in M2M environment, FIPA-OS and ping agent based on FIPA-OS are analyzed in this study. Through this, it is expected that the dialogue agent module can be more efficiently designed and the knowledge-evolution based machine tools can be hereafter more easily implemented.

Study of Machined Surface Error Compensation for Autonomous Manufacturing System (자율가공 시스템을 위한 가공면 오차보상에 관한 연구)

  • 서태일
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2000
  • The main goal of our research is to compensate the milled surface errors induced by the tool deflection effects, which occur during the milling process. First, we predict cutting forces and tool deflection amount. Based on predicted deflection effects, we model milled surface shapes. We present a compensation methodology , which can generate a new tool trajectory, which is determined so as to compensate the milled surface errors. By considering manufacturing tolerance, tool path compensation is generalized. To validate the approaches proposed in this paper, we treat an illustrative example of profile milling process by using flat end mill. Simulation and experimental results are shown.

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