• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1272-1280
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• 2014

This paper presents solutions for fault detection and diagnosis of two-level, three phase voltage-source inverter (VSI) topologies with IGBT devices. The proposed solutions combine redundant standby VSI structures and contactors (or relays) to improve the fault-tolerant capabilities of power electronics in applications with safety requirements. The suitable combination of these elements gives the inverter the ability to maintain energy processing in the occurrence of several failure modes, including short-circuit in IGBT devices, thus extending its reliability and availability. A survey of previously developed fault-tolerant VSI structures and several aspects of failure modes, detection and isolation mechanisms within VSI is first discussed. Hardware solutions for the protection of power semiconductors with fault detection and diagnosis mechanisms are then proposed to provide conditions to isolate and replace damaged power devices (or branches) in real time. Experimental results from a prototype are included to validate the proposed solutions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.9 no.4 s.35
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• pp.419-424
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• 2006

In this paper we study on a method to predict and to demonstrate the reliability of the Korea high speed train control system in quantitative point of view. For the prediction of the reliability in train control system which is composed of electronic parts, Relax Software 7.7 automation tool is employed and MIL-HDBK-217 Handbook that is a standard for the prediction of the failure rate in electronic components is used. Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is predicted based on the failure rate of the subsystems, State Modeling and Markov Modeling method is used to express a reliability function of the train control system composed by hardware redundancy as a function of time. We propose a Reliability Test which is performed on the level of the subsystems and Failure Report, Analysing, Correction action system which use the test operation data to prove the predicted reliability.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.88-88
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• 2000

As more and more critical commercial applications move on the Internet, providing highly available servers becomes increasingly important. One of the advantages of a clustered system is that it has hardware and software redundancy. High availability can be provided by detecting node or daemon failure and reconfiguring the system appropriately so that the workload can be taken over bi the remaining nodes in the cluster. This paper presents how to provide the guaranteeing high availability of clustering web server. The load balancer becomes a single failure point of the whole system. In order to prevent the failure of the load balancer, we setup a backup server using heartbeat, fake, mon, and checkpointing fault-tolerance method. For high availability of file servers in the cluster, we setup coda file system. Coda is a advanced network fault-tolerance distributed file system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

To have the competitiveness in the future worldwide small aircraft market, we should be able to develop the aircraft which is highly safe, easy to fly, and having excellent flight characteristics. FBW(Fly-By Wire) system is essential for the enhancement of flight safety and control easiness. FBW system that has been applied only to the modern fighter and transport aircraft is recently applied to smaller aircraft such as regional aircraft, business aircraft and even small aircraft. The purpose of this research includes the development of flight control computer, the definition of FBW system component, the design concept of each component for redundant management, OFP(Operational Flight Program) development, FBW system integration and HILS(Hardware In-the Loop Simulation) verification environment to test this FBW system.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.324-329
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• 2000

Object of a real-time system, that performs exact information based on the real-time constraint. is required for an improvement of high reliability. The fault-tolerant task scheduling strategy of multiprocessor as using a distributed memory based on a hardware redundancy can be improved into a high reliability of the real-time system. Therefore, this paper is shown to analyze the reliability of the system by using the transfer parameter and make the modeling in reference to a minimization of the fault-tolerant task scheduling strategy which uses a percentage of task missing and deadline parameter based on optimization task size.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.1
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• pp.120-126
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• 2013

This paper proposes a novel scheme of fault detection and self-recovery for space-borne dual ring counters subject to transient faults. The considered ring counter is equipped with hardware redundancy, but it has a limited output domain where direct access to the current state is unavailable. We employ the theory of corrective control to detect any transient fault occurring to the counter bits and to realize immediate self-recovery of the ring counter back to the normal state. The structure of the fault-tolerant controller is designed to be minimal regardless of the counter size. To validate the applicability, we implement the proposed system on a commercial FGPA board.

• 전기의세계
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.60-66
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• 1979

In this paper we deal with a hardware redundency, using the replications of an original module to enhance the reliability of the system in view of static and dynamic redundancy. As results of the study the following facts have been proved that (1) if the mission time is small (T .neq. 0.5), the effect of spare modules cannot be expected significantly, (2) for the small mission time (0.1 .neq. T .neq. 0.3) the SPR system is more reliable than the other redundant systems. In addition to above facts, it is also proved that for the large mission time (T=1), the dynamic redundant system is more reliable than the static redundant system, and that the SR system is more reliable than the HR system in the dynamic redundant system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.200-205
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• 1993

In many applications, the typical parallel-jaw end-effector of a robot arm has been remarkably satisfactory. But, it is not adequate for the applications such as complicated manipulation. In the study, a finger with 4 joints (so, having redundancy) was consturcted to investigate the characteristics of an articulated hand. Each joint was driven by one actuator, and the motor torque was transmited to each joint through a tendon-pulley system. In the context, major considerations for hardware design and the method to solve the inverse kinematics of a redundant manipulator were presented. Finally, the basic capabilities of an articulated hand were presented through experiments.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.305-315
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• 2007

Broadband Convergence Network (BcN) is the network which unifies telephone network, the Internet and broadcasting networks. Threats to each network can bring serious problems in BcN environment since the whole network can be damaged by various types of attack. The purpose of this study is to suggest the prototype of intrusion-tolerant network design of BcN to guarantee the continuous operation of BcN services against malicious attacks. First, BcN service components, selected by analysis of service time and coverage importance, are classified into three groups by their type: server type, gateway type and hybrid type. Second, the necessity of applying intrusion tolerance on BcN services is deduced by possible attack scenarios on BcN. Finally, we suggest the intrusion-tolerant network design suitable to BcN, using hardware redundancy and secure policies. Also, we present that the suggested network design can increase the intrusion tolerance of BcN.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.693-700
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• 2018

Virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) was designed as a solution to support fast fail-over in case of network failure. There exists virtual router which acts as default gateway in LAN, and the virtual router is dynamically elected between master and backup router. Through this protocol, end-hosts can be provided seamless network service. However, it needs expensive license fees and maintenance costs to adopt current commercial network operating systems. Furthermore, they are commonly enterprise proprietary software and inherently closed source. In order to tackle these problem, Open N2OS which is open source based open network software platform was developed. It has no dependency on hardware equipment, and provides high availability, scalability, various networking functions. In this paper, we handle VRRP operation and mechanism with related command line interface (CLI).