• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.251-258
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• 2012

Many aquatic ecosystems suffer from anthropogenic disturbances, including the introduction of damaging levels of toxic substances. The effects of disturbances include complex relations with various components involved in the systems, and can include physical, chemical, and hydrological disruption depending of the contaminant. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) are developed to help decision makers to deal with complex management crises, through the systematic structuring and evaluation of decisions, and through providing easy-to-use and integrated tools for information elaboration and display. We reviewed various DSSs developed for toxic substances in aquatic ecosystems, and suggested a conceptual framework which is best suited to the management of such issues within Korea. It may assist stakeholders with their decision making process, and in the achievement of a consensus on water management solutions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.465-467
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• 1994

A VSC with Inertial COFB(Coordinate-Operator Feedback) is presented for chattering alleviation. Athought the conventional sliding mode controller has good properties of robustness for disturbances or parameter variations, fast response, and easy implementation, there exists an inevitable chattering problem which deteriorates the control performance of system. VSC using Inertial COFB has properties of bounded feedback gain, reduced chattering, and robustness for disturbances or parameter variations. The validity of the proposed method is demonstrated through computer simulation for a position control of BLDCM.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.101-107
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• 2009

This paper deal with development of on-line type voltage sag compensation system using supercapacitor EDLC to solve the voltage sag problems which are considered to be dominant disturbances affecting the power quality. With the wide use of semiconductor devices in electrical equipment, modem-type loads are becoming increasingly sensitive to the voltage sags and the disturbances prove to be costly to industries. Supercapacitor EDLC is employed to compensate dynamically for the voltage sag of system with sensitive loads. This capacitor has higher energy density than the electrolytic capacitor. Also, this capacitor has a lot of advantage such as no maintenance, longer life cycle and faster charge-discharge time than the battery system. Therefore, in this paper, the energy design scheme of supercapacitor and the configuration technique of on-line type voltage sag compensation systems are newly introduced. According to the results of experimental of prototype 5[kVA] system, it is verified that the developed system has effectiveness of voltage sag compensation by using a supercapacitor EDLC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.159-167
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• 2000

During the operation of crane system in the container yard, it is necessary to control the crane trolley position so that the swing of the hanging container is minimized. Recently an automatic control system with high speed and rapid transportation is required. Therefore, we designed a controller to control the crane system with disturbances and weight change. In this paper, we present the neural network two degree of freedom PID controller to control the swing motion and trolley position. Then we executed the computer simulation to verify the performance of the proposed controller and compared the performance of the neural network PID controller with our proposed controller in terms of the rope swing and the precision of position control. Computer simulation results show that the proposed controller has better performances than neural network PID with disturbances.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.23-31
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to design a disturbance observer for a micro-stepping stage to eliminate the disturbances from cables, friction, mass unbalance of the moving part, etc. The disturbance observer is designed for air-floating X-Y precision micro-stepping X-Y stage which widely used in stepper machine or semiconductor manufacturing systems. The micro-stepping X-Y stage has a weak point of the variation of characteristics with position locations, which caused by various disturbances. In this study, it will be described that a simple and high throughput disturbance observer algorithm improves the dynamic error and settling time of the micro-stepping stage.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.53-65
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• 1992

For improving the performance of maglev systems with a combined lift and guidance, it is suggested that the multivariable control systems and a secondary suspension should be added. The former is required to reject both track irregularities in vertical disturbances and wind gusts in lateral disturbances, and the latter to guarantee passengers against an unsatisfied criteria in ride quality. In this paper, bond graph model for the study of nonlinear dynamics of maglev systems with a combined lift and guidance is presented briefly. And, the secondary suspension is analyzed to understand the role of stiffness and damping factors in passive devices. Finally, LQG/LTR mulitivariable control systems are designed for the overall maglev systems with and without secondary suspension, and then the system performances in these two cases are evaluated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.540-552
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• 1996

In this paper, a compensation method of disturbance using a disturbance observer is proposed for a force control of a pneumatic robot manipulator. The generated torque by a pneumatic actuator can be estimated based on the pressure signals. The inner torque control system is constructed by feeding back the generated torque to improve the dynamic characteristics of the actuator. In order to reduce the influence of disturbances comprising friction torque, parameter variations of plant and environment and so on, the reaction torque control system is constructed with a disturbance observer which estimates the disturbances based on the reference input to the inner torque control system and the reaction torque sensed with a forced sensor. From some simulations and experiments, it is confirmed that the proposed control system is effective to improve the robustness for the friction torque and the parameter change of object in the force control of a pneumatic robot manupulator.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.288-295
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• 1993

Three dimensional linear transient wave propagation over a constant depth due to bottom disturbances is presented. Present solution based on Seo(1993) is expressed in terms of a convolution integral of source function. For three cases of different source functions, each solution is proved to satisfy the corresponding initial condition. The general feature of wave height attenuation resulted from the dispersion effect is shown and discussed by numerical results of the solutions.

• Journal of Embryo Transfer
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 1990

The individual difference of superovulatory responses and inferior embryo quality in superovulated cattle may cause disturbances in the endocrine profile, follicular steroidogenesis, nuclear maturation of nocyte, fertilization and cleavage of embryos. However, the reasons why those disturbances are occurred were not understood. The methods of the improvement of superovulatory response and embryo production were the use of anti-PMSG if PMSG used, pure FSH or controlled FSH-LH inducer, priming dose of gonadotropin in the first few day of the estrous cycle and GnRH or analogue. However, all of the above methods were not reduced the individual differences but improved embryo production We must continue the fundamental studies to understand the mechanism.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.10
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• pp.1844-1851
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• 2007

This paper presents methods for the compensation of sinusoidal disturbances with unknown amplitude, phase, and time-varying frequency in nonlinear systems. In the previous disturbance accommodation methods, the sinusoidal disturbance with unknown time-invariant frequency was considered. In the proposed method, the disturbance with unknown time-varying frequency is compensated. As for the control structure, two control inputs are designed separately in such a way that one of them is designed for the nonlinear system control without considering the disturbance, and the other one uses the disturbance estimate obtained from the disturbance accommodating observer. The stability analysis is done considering the disturbance estimation error and the numerical simulation demonstrates the proposed approach.