• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2008

심해저 망간단괴를 채집하기 위한 집광기는 궤도차량 형태로 해저면을 주행하면서 망간단괴를 채집한다. 집광기의 운영은 수상선에서 실시간 원격으로 제어되며, 이를 위해서는 운영 소프트웨어가 중요한 역할을 차지하게 된다. 현재는 실제 심해저 망간단괴 집광기의 개발에 앞서 시험집광기를 개발하여 근해역 성능 실증시험을 준비중에 있다. 이러한 시험집광기는 기계부와 전기 전자부로 구성되는데, 이를 원격으로 제어, 계측하기 위해서 운영 소프트웨어가 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 시험집광기의 제어와 계측을 위한 실시간 운영 소프트웨어의 설계와 개발에 대하여 소개하였다. 임베디드시스템으로 PXI 컨트롤러가 사용되고, 소프트웨어 개발툴로는 LabVIEW를 사용하였다. 시험집광기의 효과적인 성능 실증시험을 위하여 본 실시간 운영 소프트웨어가 개발되었다. 아울러 시험집광기의 모니터링 데이터를 관리하기 위한 데이터베이스 관리시스템(DBMS)이 MS SQL과 LabVIEW를 사용하여 개발되었다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.487-494
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• 2014

Deep-seabed test miner operated by a self-propelled mining system moving on soft soil is an essential device to secure floating and towing performances. The performances of the tracked vehicle are seriously influenced by noise factors such as the shear strength of the seafloor, bottom current, seafloor slope, speed of tracked vehicle, reaction forces of flexible hose, steering ratio, etc. Due to uncertainties related to noise factors, the design of a deep-sea manganese nodules test miner that satisfies target reliabilities is difficult. Therefore, reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is required to guarantee system reliability under circumstances where uncertainties related to noise factors prevail. Among noise factors, the bottom current, a bimodal distribution, is censored due to the observation limit of measurement devices. Therefore, estimated distribution of the bottom current is inaccurate without considering these characteristics and the result of RBDO cannot be guaranteed. In this paper, we define censored data as unknown values over the limit of observation. If this data is estimated by using Akaike information criterion (AIC) that cannot consider the characteristics of censored data, the distribution of estimated data cannot guarantee accurate reliability. Therefore, censored AIC that can consider the characteristics of data is used to estimate accurate distribution of the bottom current. Finally, RBDO, under circumstances where uncertainties related to noise factors combined censored data are present, is performed on the mobility of a deep-sea manganese nodules test miner.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.367-371
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• 2014

In early 1990s, the Korean government has launched a deep-sea research program to secure the stable long-term supply of strategic metallic minerals including Cr, Cu and Ni. Through the pioneering surveys, Korea registered $150,000km^2$ of Mn-nodule field in the Clarion-Clipperton area, the NE equatorial Pacific to the international sea-bed authority (ISA) in 1994. Following the ISA exploration code, the final exclusive exploration area of $75,000km^2$ was assigned in 2002, based on results of eight-year researches of chemico-physical properties of nodules, bottom profiles and sediment properties. Since that time, environmental studies, mining technical developments including robot miner and lifting system and establishment of smelting systems were accompanied with the detailed geophysical studies to decipher the priori mining area until 2009. Major points of the recent Korea Mn-nodule program are deployed on a commercial scale until 2015. In order to meet the goals, we developed a 1/5 scaled robot miner compared to commercial one in 2012 and performed a mining test at the water depth of 1,370 m in 2013. In addition, detailed 25,000 scaled mining maps in the priori area, which can provide operation roots of the miner, will be prepared and an environmental-friendly mining strategy will be pursued based on the environmental impact test and environmental monitoring.