• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.131-152
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• 2015

Easy detection and evaluation of defect in the tube structure is a continuous problem and remains a significant demand in tube inspection technologies. This study is aimed to automate defect detection using the pattern recognition approach based on the classification of high frequency stress wave signals. The stress wave signals from vibrational impact excitation on several tube conditions were captured to identify the defect in ASTM A179 seamless steel tubes. The variation in stress wave propagation was captured by a high frequency sensor. Stress wave signals from four tubes with artificial defects of different depths and one reference tube were classified using the autoregressive (AR) algorithm. The results were demonstrated using a dendrogram. The preliminary research revealed the natural arrangement of stress wave signals were grouped into two clusters. The stress wave signals from the healthy tube were grouped together in one cluster and the signals from the defective tubes were classified in another cluster. This approach was effective in separating different stress wave signals and allowed quicker and easier defect identification and interpretation in steel tubes.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.2145-2152
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• 2013

제지 제조 산업은 대규모 설비가 요구되는 장치산업으로서 생산 설비의 자동화가 꼭 요구된다. 특히 제조공정의 효율성을 얻기 위해서는 제지 제조 공정 중에서 발생하는 지절의 결함을 효과적으로 검출하고 이를 분류하는 효율적인 요소 기술을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 제지 제조 공정 방식의 문제점을 제시하고, 이를 효과적으로 개선하기 위하여 국부 이진 패턴 분석에 의한 지절 결함 검출 시스템을 제안하고 구현된 결과를 제시한다. 제안한 시스템은 제지 지절 결함에 대해 국부 이진 패턴 분석법을 이용하여 분류하고 이를 인식하는 방식으로 구성된다. 제안된 시스템은 에지형과 영역형 결함으로 지절 결함으로 분류하고, 현장 시스템에 설치되어 안정적인 결과를 보임이 검증되었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.312-322
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• 2015

In this paper a new defect detection method for flat panel display that does not require any separately prepared reference images and shows robustness against problems with regard to pixel tolerance and nonuniform illumination condition is proposed. In order to perform defect detection under any magnification value of camera, the proposed method automatically obtains the value of pattern interval through an image analysis. Using the information for pattern interval, an advanced PCSR-G method presented in this paper utilizes neighboring patterns as its reference images instead of utilizing any separately prepared reference images. Also this paper proposes a scheme to improve the performance of the conventional PCSR-G method by extracting and applying additional information for pixel tolerance and intensity distribution considering the value of pattern interval. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method utilizing pixel tolerance and intensity distribution is superior to that of the conventional method. Also, it is proved that the proposed method that is implemented using parallel technique based on GPGPU can be applied to real system.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2013

Optical-fiber electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is a non-contact, non-destructive examination technique with the advantages of rapid measurement, high accuracy, and full-field measurement. The optical-fiber ESPI system used in this study was compact and portable with the advantages of easy set-up and signal acquisition. By suitably configuring the optical-fiber ESPI system, producing an image signal in a charge-coupled device camera, and periodically modulating beam phases, we obtained phase information from the speckle pattern using a four-step phase shifting algorithm. Moreover, we compared the actual defect size with that of interference fringes which appeared on a screen after calculating the pixel value according to the distance between the object and the CCD camera. Conventional methods of measuring defects are time-consuming and resource-intensive because the estimated values are relative. However, our simple method could quantitatively estimate the defect length by carrying out numerical analysis for obtaining values on the X-axis in a line profile. The results showed reliable values for average error rates and a decrease in the error rate with increasing defect length or pressure.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.126-131
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• 2004

The popularity of flat-panel display(FPD), including plasma display panel(PDP) and liquid-crystal display(LCD), has given rise to the need to streamline their production. In these days, PDP is one of the most popular display devices because of its expansion of manufacturing process and simplicity. Bus electrodes, sustain electrodes, barrier ribs and RGB phosphors are patterned on PDP panel to display an image. Since a minute damage on the pattern can cause a serious defect to display, it is important to inspect the pattern precisely. In this paper, an automatic inspection system of repeated pattern in PDP panel has been introduced to find the defect, such as open, short, dirt, island, and so on. And the inspection system has been operated in the mass production line of PDP.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권10호
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• pp.2000-2004
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• 2009

In general, for the condition monitoring of a power transformer using the UHF PD measuring technique, detection of any partial discharge, identifying the defect in the transformer and locating the insulation defect are necessary. In this paper one of the most frequent detects which can result in turn to turn fault in power transformer was examined for identifying the defect. In order to model the defect, as a discharge source, a partial discharge cell was used for experimental activity. Magnitude of electromagnetic wave signals and corresponding amount of apparent discharge were measured simultaneously against phase of applied voltage to the discharge cell. Frequency range and phase resolved partial discharge signals were measured and analyzed. The results will be contributed to build the defect database of power transformer and to decrease the occurrence of transformer faults.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel pattern recognition approach based on the radial basis function (RBF) neural network for identifying insulation defects of high-voltage electrical apparatus arising from partial discharge (PD). Pattern recognition of PD is used for identifying defects causing the PD, such as internal discharge, external discharge, corona, etc. This information is vital for estimating the harmfulness of the discharge in the insulation. Since an insulation defect, such as one resulting from PD, would have a corresponding particular pattern, pattern recognition of PD is significant means to discriminate insulation conditions of high-voltage electrical apparatus. To verify the proposed approach, experiments were conducted to demonstrate the field-test PD pattern recognition of cast resin current transformer (CRCT) models. These tests used artificial defects created in order to produce the common PD activities of CRCTs by using feature vectors of field-test PD patterns. The significant features are extracted by using nonlinear principal component analysis (NLPCA) method. The experimental data are found to be in close agreement with the recognized data. The test results show that the proposed approach is efficient and reliable.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.689-699
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• 2016

LCD 수요 증가에 따라 LCD 생산 효율성 개선을 위한 검사장비의 중요성이 지속적으로 부각되고 있다. 패턴 검사기는 라인 스캔 카메라와 같은 광학 장비를 통해 미세한 패턴 결함을 빠른 속도로 검출하는 장비이다. 이러한 패턴 검사기는 실시간 검사를 위해 패턴 내에서 단일 기준값을 사용하여 픽셀 단위의 결함 여부를 판단하고 있다. 하지만 패턴 내 각 영역별 특징을 반영하여 서로 다른 기준값을 적용하는 적응적 이진화를 이용하는 경우 결함 검출 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 이러한 적응적 이진화를 적용하기 위해서는 특정 검사 대상 픽셀이 어떠한 영역에 속하는지에 대한 정보를 필요로 한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 각각의 검사 대상 픽셀이 어떠한 영역에 속하는지를 판단하는 영역 매칭 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 머신 비전의 실시간성을 고려한 패턴 정합에 기반을 둔 알고리즘으로 실제 시스템에 적용될 수 있도록 GPGPU를 이용하여 구현된다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 실제 시스템이 요구하는 처리 속도를 만족시킬 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 결함 검출의 성능을 개선할 수 있음을 보인다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1673-1675
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• 2001

In this paper, Partial Discharge(PD) patterns are compared by means of Low Frequency PD(LFPD, based on the IEC 270) and recently proposed High Frequency PD(HFPD). For this purpose, three different types of artificial defects are provided such as corona in air, void in epoxy insulator and needle defect in XLPE cable insulation. PD were generated from each defect and then detected respectively by two different methods such as LFPD and HFPD. As a result, remarkable resemblance in PD pattern for differ detecting method have been observed from each defect. Accordingly, it could be deduced that the pattern recognition by LFPD could be regarded as the reference for the investigations by HFPD.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.140-143
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• 2001

Digital shearography, a speckle pattern method is based on the superposition of two laterally sheared images. Therefore, object points which are positioned in some distance from each other are superposed in the image plane. This shearography, one of NDT methods without contact, is able to inspect defects in pipelines and pressure vessels that are used in nuclear power plants. This is can inspect whole fields and has a low sensitivity to environmental noise. Because optical setting is very simple, it has a little exhaustion of time, cost and man power. And also it can find a defect position through real time monitoring of a part. This paper, finds out the relationship among shearing quantity image quality and defect size with this method.