• 한국안전학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

Piping systems comprising pumps and valves are essential in the power plant, oil, and defense industry. Their purpose includes a stable supply of the working fluid or ensuring the target system's safe operation. However, piping system accidents due to leakage of toxic substances, explosions, and natural disasters are prevalent In addition, with the limited maintenance personnel, it becomes difficult to detect, isolate, and reconfigure the damage of the piping system and recover the unaffected area. An autonomous recovery piping system can play a vital role under such circumstances. The autonomous recovery algorithms for the piping system can be divided into low-pressure control algorithms, hydraulic resistance control algorithms, and flow inventory control algorithms. All three methods include autonomous opening/closing logic to isolate damaged areas and recovery the unaffected area of piping systems. However, because each algorithm has its strength and weakness, appropriate application considering the overall design, vital components, and operating conditions is crucial. In this regard, preliminary research on algorithm's working principle, its design procedures, and expected damage scenarios should be accomplished. This study examines the characteristics of algorithms, the design procedure, and working logic. Advantages and disadvantages are also analyzed through simulation results for a simplified piping system.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2023

In various industrial sites, piping systems play an essential role in stable fluid supply and pressure maintenance. However, these systems are constantly exposed to risks of earthquakes, explosions, fires, and leaks, which can result in casualties or serious economic losses. With rapid advancements in the industry, different-sized piping systems have been launched; however, there are not enough maintenance personnel for troubleshooting and responding to situations where damages occur to piping systems. This increases the need for introducing autonomous damage management systems. In this study, a lab-based piping system was designed and manufactured by referring to the piping system of a naval ship to analyze the effectiveness of autonomous damage management systems. By using this testbed, a representative algorithm, the hydraulic resistance control algorithm, was realized and examinedIn addition, the difference between the averaged pressure and normalized pressure was introduced to improve the performance of the existing algorithm, which faces some limitations with regard to sensor noise and back pressure from the rupture-simulated pipeline part.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.902-907
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• 2011

In this paper, we deal with performance evaluation of visual path following using 2D and 3D information. Visual path follow first teaches driving path by selecting milestone images then follows the same route by comparing the milestone image and current image. We follow the visual path following algorithm of [8] and [10]. In [8], a robot navigated with 2D image information only. But in [10], local 3D geometries are reconstructed between the milestone images in order to achieve fast feature prediction which allows the recovery from tracking failures. Experimental results including diverse indoor cases show performance of each algorithm.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.3086-3088
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• 1999

An ultrasonic sensor is one of most popular sensor used to navigate mobile robots within environments containing obstacles. But many navigation algorithm have studied because of the drawback of ultrasonic sensor such that poor directionality, frequent misreadings, specular reflections. Also, the most crucial drawback of this algorithm, that is VFF, VFM, EDM, PFM, WFM, GFM etc. has been that the mobile robot may become trapped in a local minimum. In this paper, we present a theoretical study of a navigation algorithm which integrals a heuristic-search local minimum (or trap) recovery method with a vector-field based method to maneuver cylindric mobile robots in unknown of unstructured environments. Also, an autonomous mobile robot uses dead-reckoning to estimate the current position and orientation of a mobile robot.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.197-203
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 자율형 운항 알고리즘을 활용하여 분리보증 해결과 충돌탐지거리와의 상관관계, 충돌회피 후 경로점 복귀와 시간제약 조건에 따른 항로 복귀, 3대 이상의 다중 충돌회피 상황의 분리보증 실험을 수행하여 운항환경에서 발생하는 실증적인 문제를 규명하였다. 실험결과 자유비행 충돌회피를 위하여 탐지거리 확대가 분리보증 해결과 운항 효율성 향상에 유리하며, 충돌회피 후 복귀기동 시 충돌예측상황에 따라 고정 경로점 복귀 또는 시간제약 조건을 적용한 항로 복귀기동을 선택할 수 있었다. 그리고 다중 충돌 상황에서 2도 이상의 선회각을 적용하면 분리보증 해결되었고, 최적의 선회각 선택 시에는 운항 효율성을 대폭 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.145-150
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• 2021

공공장소에서 지속적으로 방역을 수행하기 위해서는 인력확보가 쉽지 않은데 자율주행 기반 로봇을 활용하면 인력으로 인한 문제를 해결할 수 있다. 자율주행 기반 방역로봇은 별도의 인력 투입 없이 공공기관과 병원 등의 유해 바이러스 확산 및 질병을 지속적으로 예방 가능하다. 자율주행 기능은 피나클 필터 알고리즘을 적용하여 위치를 추정하고, 방역은 UV살균시스템 및 이산화염소 분사시스템을 적용하였다. 주행시간은 3시간 이상, 위치 오차는 0.5m.이내, 정지 회피하는 기능은 95%, 장애물 감지 거리는 1.5m에서 동작하였다, 자동충전 복구는 배터리 잔량 10%에서 충전거치대로 이동하여 충전이 되었다. 무인방역시스템으로 방역한 결과 인력배치 없이 UV살균은 99%, 이산화염소는 95% 이상 살균되어 막대한 사회적 비용을 절감하는데 자율주행 방역로봇이 기여할 수 있다.