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Problems and Ways of Improving on Personal Organization of Maritime Safety Tribunal (해양안전심판원의 인적구성의 문제점 및 개선방안)

  • Lee, Jong-Gun
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.564-579
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of Maritime Safety Tribunal is that experts about ship operation investigate and reveal causes of marine disasters and suggest plans to prevent recurrence in Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal which is a kind of administrative court. Despite the fact that 72% of marine disasters is fishing vessel accidents and 75% of collision accidents between vessels which most occur is related to fishing boats, it is the very serious problem that there is no any person with licenses of marine technicians for fishing vessels in judges and investigators of Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal. The operational characteristics of fishing vessels, their sizes, and shift patterns of duties in wheelhouses are completely and incommensurably different from those of merchant vessels. By the way, if the investigators and judges who just consist of merchant vessel experts investigate and judge marine accidents about fishing vessels, there could be errors in establishment of policies to investigate and reveal their causes and prevent recurrence of accidents. Especially, in case of collision accidents between fishing vessels and merchant vessels, it is thought that the marine accident interested provides causes which can be doubtful about fairness of judges. Therefore, it is thought that the ratio of judges and investigators is most desirable to compose it to be similar to the occurrence frequency of marine accidents. For this, the following solution plans are suggested. First, qualification for appointment requires first class marine technicians. But there is the only one vessel which needs the first class in fishing vessels. Therefore, it is thought that the provisory clause should be added so that the second class marine technicians can be used instead of the first class ones. Second, the marine accidents of fishing vessels reach 72% but the fact that there is no any judge and investigator with licenses of marine technicians for fishing vessels is thought to go against the purpose of establishment of Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal. Therefore, it is thought that there is, at least, one more judges and investigators in the central and local Korean Maritime Safety Tribunals. The same method should be applied to judge assistants and investigation assistants.

Research on Augmented Reality Services in Bridge for Navigational Safety (안전항해를 위한 선교용 증강현실 서비스에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Jaeyong;Park, Sekil;Kim, Sun-Young;Kwon, Ohseok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.245-250
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    • 2013
  • As maritime traffic increases and ships get bigger and faster, the risk of maritime accident increases. According to the recent reports on maritime accidents, more than 80% of the maritime accidents occur due to navigational mistakes and/or human errors. Even though many kinds of navigation systems based on new technology have been developed to reduce maritime accidents, we need to research the method for expressing and providing information. The efficient navigation system should be able to display information simply and intuitively to make decision quickly and accurately. In this paper, we proposed augmented reality based navigation system which can be utilized in bridge of the ships and described the services for navigational safety.

Review on Study Approaching Methods to Prevent Human Errors (인적오류 예방을 위한 연구접근방법 고찰)

  • Yim, Jeong-Bin;Yang, Hyeong-Sun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.191-193
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    • 2016
  • 인적오류 예방은 해양사고 예방에 가장 중요한 이슈로 현재 인식되고 있다. 현재 이러한 인적오류를 예방하기 위한 다양한 과학적인 기법들이 등장하고 있으나, 실제 인적오류를 예방할 수 있는 기법은 아직 개발되어 있지 못한 실정이다. 그 이유는 인적오류의 발생 원인과 특징이 사람을 대상으로 하기 때문에 실로 방대하고 원인식별이 어려우며, 원인과 결과 사이의 인과관계 구축에는 한계가 있기 때문이다. 기존 개발된 다양한 기법들은 이론적으로는 완벽할 수 있으나, 실제 방대한 원인과 결과 사이에 형성된 연계체인을 모두 흡수하기가 곤란하기 때문이다. 현재 IMO의 공식안전성평가(FSA) 기법이 해상분야에 널리 적용되고 있으나 구체적으로 어떠한 기법을 적용하여 인적오류를 적용할 수 있는지에 대해서는 아직도 애매모호한 실정이다. FTA, ETA, FEMA, SWIFT 등 다양한 분석기법의 등장과 AI, Fuzzy, MMC, Kalman 등 기초과학분야의 기본적인 이론과 기술을 적용할 수 있으나 인간의 인적오류 식별과 분석 및 평가와 예측에는 한계가 있는 것이 현재의 실정이다. 한편 최근에는 기존에 많은 문제점을 내포하고 있는 것으로 고려되었던 베이지안 네트워크(Bayesian Network, BN)가 다시 분석과 예측 분야에 등장하고 있는데, BN의 장점을 수용하고 단점을 해결할 수 있는 방법들이 연구되고 있기 때문이다. BN의 장점은 전방추론과 후방추론을 적용하여 사고의 원인과 결과를 분석한 후, 이에 대한 해결 방안을 식별할 수 있기 때문이다. BN의 단점은 이진(binary) 구조의 데이터만을 수용할 수 있기 때문에 상관 변수들이 방대한 경우 계산시간이 방대해지고 이를 모두 수용할 수 있는 방법이 없기 때문이다. 따라서 BN 구조를 어떻게 설계하는냐가 최근의 이수로 등장하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 제 문제점을 고찰하고 인적오류 모델 개발에 최적인 방법 또는 기술을 모색하는데 있다.

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Automation of Dobson Spectrophotometer(No.124) for Ozone Measurements (돕슨 분광광도계(No.124)의 오존 자동관측시스템화)

  • Kim, Jhoon;Park, Sang-Seo;Moon, Kyung-Jung;Koo, Ja-Ho;Lee, Yun-Gon;Miyagawa, Koji;Cho, Hi-Ku
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.339-348
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    • 2007
  • Global Environment Laboratory at Yonsei University in Seoul ($37.57^{\circ}N$, $126.95^{\circ}E$) has carried out the ozone layer monitoring program in the framework of the Global Ozone Observing System of the World Meteorlogical Organization (WMO/GAW/GO3OS Station No. 252) since May of 1984. The daily measurements of total ozone and the vertical distribution of ozone amount have been made with the Dobson Spectrophotometer (No.124) on the roof of the Science Building on Yonsei campus. From 2004 through 2006, major parts of the manual operations are automated in measuring total ozone amount and vertical ozone profile through Umkehr method, and calibrating instrument by standard lamp tests with new hardware and software including step motor, rotary encoder, controller, and visual display. This system takes full advantage of Windows interface and information technology to realize adaptability to the latest Windows PC and flexible data processing system. This automatic system also utilizes card slot of desktop personal computer to control various types of boards in the driving unit for operating Dobson spectrophotometer and testing devices. Thus, by automating most of the manual work both in instrument operation and in data processing, subjective human errors and individual differences are eliminated. It is therefore found that the ozone data quality has been distinctly upgraded after automation of the Dobson instrument.

Informal Quality Data Analysis via Sentimental analysis and Word2vec method (감성분석과 Word2vec을 이용한 비정형 품질 데이터 분석)

  • Lee, Chinuk;Yoo, Kook Hyun;Mun, Byeong Min;Bae, Suk Joo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.117-128
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: This study analyzes automobile quality review data to develop alternative analytical method of informal data. Existing methods to analyze informal data are based mainly on the frequency of informal data, however, this research tries to use correlation information of each informal data. Method: After sentimental analysis to acquire the user information for automobile products, three classification methods, that is, $na{\ddot{i}}ve$ Bayes, random forest, and support vector machine, were employed to accurately classify the informal user opinions with respect to automobile qualities. Additionally, Word2vec was applied to discover correlated information about informal data. Result: As applicative results of three classification methods, random forest method shows most effective results compared to the other classification methods. Word2vec method manages to discover closest relevant data with automobile components. Conclusion: The proposed method shows its effectiveness in terms of accuracy and sensitivity on the analysis of informal quality data, however, only two sentiments (positive or negative) can be categorized due to human errors. Further studies are required to derive more sentiments to accurately classify informal quality data. Word2vec method also shows comparative results to discover the relevance of components precisely.

Establishment of Korean Environmental Sensitivity Index Map (ESI Map 구축 연구)

  • Sung H. G.;Lee H. J.;Lee M. J.;Kang C. G.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2003
  • Due to the high demand on energy resources accompanied by continuing industrialization and urbanization, the world marine transportation of crude and product oils is being gradually increased. In Korea, we are exposed to the large-scale marine oil spill accidents because a very large oil tanker of 300,000 tonnage must enter Korean Ports every day to meet the domestic demand on oils. Although we are exerting our strength to reduce the probability of marine oil pollution accidents, a unrestorable oil spill is to occur owing to human errors, severe weather conditions, or combined causes. Thus, area contingency plan equipped with appropriate management system for response and restoration for the worst case discharge scenario must be entirely prepared to protect mine environments and coastal resources. In particular, we are focusing on the Environmental Sensitivity Index Map(ESI Map) to reduce the environmental consequences of both spills and clean-up efforts by specifying protection Priorities in advance and identifying in-situ response strategies. In this paper, Korean ESI Map is introduced with brief definition of sensitivity to oiling and main features of the software developed hitherto.

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New methods for optical distance indicator and gantry angle quality control tests in medical linear accelerators: image processing by using a 3D phantom

  • Shandiz, Mahdi Heravian;Layen, Ghorban Safaeian;Anvari, Kazem;Khalilzadeh, Mohammadmahdi
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.42-49
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: In order to keep the acceptable level of the radiation oncology linear accelerators, it is necessary to apply a reliable quality assurance (QA) program. Materials and Methods: The QA protocols, published by authoritative organizations, such as the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), determine the quality control (QC) tests which should be performed on the medical linear accelerators and the threshold levels for each test. The purpose of this study is to increase the accuracy and precision of the selected QC tests in order to increase the quality of treatment and also increase the speed of the tests to convince the crowded centers to start a reliable QA program. A new method has been developed for two of the QC tests; optical distance indicator (ODI) QC test as a daily test and gantry angle QC test as a monthly test. This method uses an image processing approach utilizing the snapshots taken by the CCD camera to measure the source to surface distance (SSD) and gantry angle. Results: The new method of ODI QC test has an accuracy of 99.95% with a standard deviation of 0.061 cm and the new method for gantry angle QC has a precision of $0.43^{\circ}$. The automated proposed method which is used for both ODI and gantry angle QC tests, contains highly accurate and precise results which are objective and the human-caused errors have no effect on the results. Conclusion: The results show that they are in the acceptable range for both of the QC tests, according to AAPM task group 142.

Development of Linear Static Alternate Path Progressive Collapse Analysis Procedure Using a Nonlinear Static Analysis Procedure (비선형정적해석 절차를 이용한 선형정적 연쇄붕괴 대체경로 해석방법 개발)

  • Kim, Jin-Koo;Park, Sae-Ro-Mi;Seo, Young-Il
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.569-576
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    • 2011
  • In this paper a new analysis procedure for evaluation of progressive collapse resisting capacity of a structure was proposed based on the nonlinear static analysis procedure. The proposed procedure produces analysis results identical to those obtained by the linear static analysis procedure specified in the GSA guidelines without iteration, therefore saving a lot of computation time and excluding the possibility of human errors during the procedure. To verify the validity of the proposed procedure, the two methods were applied to the analysis of a reinforced concrete moment frame and a steel braced frame subjected to loss of a first story column and the results were compared. According to the analysis results, the two methods produce identical results in the prediction of progressive collapse and the hinge formation. As iterative analysis is not required in the proposed method, significant amount of analysis time is saved in the proposed analysis procedure.

Analysis of Cross Sectional Ease Values for Fit Analysis from 3D Body Scan Data Taken in Working Positions

  • Nam, Jin-Hee;Branson, Donna H.;Ashdown, Susan P.;Cao, Huantian;Carnrite, Erica
    • International Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.87-99
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    • 2011
  • Purpose- The purpose of this study was to compare the fit of two prototype liquid cooled vests using a 3D body scanner and accompanying software. The objectives of this study were to obtain quantitative measurements of ease values, and to use these data to evaluate the fit of two cooling vests in active positions and to develop methodological protocol to resolve alignment issues between the scans using software designed for the alignment of 3D objects. Design/methodology/approach- Garment treatments and body positions were two independent variables with three levels each. Quantitative dataset were dependent variables, and were manipulated in 3x3 factorial designs with repeated measures. Scan images from eight subjects were used and ease values were obtained to compare the fit. Two different types of analyses were conducted in order to compare the fit using t-test; those were radial mean distance value analysis and radial distance distribution rate analysis. Findings- Overall prototype II achieved a closer fit than prototype I with both analyses. These were consistent results with findings from a previous study that used a different approach for evaluation. Research limitations/implications- The main findings can be used as practical feedback for prototype modification/selection in the design process, making use of 3D body scanner as an evaluation tool. Originality/value- Methodological protocols that were devised to eliminate potential sources of errors can contribute to application of data from 3D body scanners.

Mobile robot control by MNN using optimal EN (최적 EN를 사용한 MNN에 의한 Mobile Robot제어)

  • Choi, Woo-Kyung;Kim, Seong-Joo;Seo, Jae-Yong;Jeon, Hong-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.186-191
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    • 2003
  • Skills in tracing of the MR divide into following, approaching, avoiding and warning and so on. It is difficult to have all these skills learned as neural network. To make this up for, skills consisted of each module, and Mobile Robot was controlled by the output of module adequate for the situation. A mobile Robot was equipped multi-ultrasonic sensor and a USB Camera, which can be in place of human sense, and the measured environment information data is learned through Modular Neural Network. MNN consisted of optimal combination of activation function in the Expert Network and its structure seemed to improve learning time and errors. The Gating Network(GN) used to control output values of the MNN by switching for angle and speed of the robot. In the paper, EN of Modular Neural network was designed optimal combination. Traveling with a real MR was performed repeatedly to verity the usefulness of the MNN which was proposed in this paper. The robot was properly controlled and driven by the result value and the experimental is rewarded with good fruits.