• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.158-162
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• 2004

The magnetic levitator is the device which can float a magnetic material at the midair by electromagnetic force and it's principle can be applied to the high speed magnetic bearing or magnetic levitation train. There are many difficulties to control, because the magnetic levitator is basically a nonlinear and unstable system. In this paper, this system is modeled assuming that it is a linear system nearby an operating point, and a proportional and derivative(PD) position controller is designed to carry out the variable position control. The performance of position control response is shown through simulation and experiment. A prototype magnetic levitator is constructed using PWM converter and DSP(Digital Signal Processor) based control board.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2017

Magnetically levitated (Maglev) vehicles maintain a constant air gap between guideway and car bogie, and thereby achieves non-contact riding. Since the straightness and the flatness of the guideway directly affect the stability of levitation as well as the ride comfort, it is necessary to monitor the status of the guideway and to alert the train operators to any abnormal conditions. In order to develop a signal processing algorithm that extracts guideway irregularities from sensor data, virtual testing using a simulation model would be convenient for analyzing the exact effects of any input as long as the model describes the actual system accurately. Simulation model can also be used as an estimation model. In this paper, we develop a state-space dynamic model of a maglev vehicle system, running on the guideway that contains jumps. This model contains not only the dynamics of the vehicle, but also the descriptions of the power amplifier, the anti-aliasing filter and the sampling delay. A test rig is built for the validation of the model. The test rig consists of a small-scale maglev vehicle, tracks with artificial jumps, and various sensors measuring displacements, accelerations, and coil currents. The experimental data matches well with those from the simulation model, indicating the validity of the model.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.2585-2593
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• 2011

Maglev train system has been continuously received attention as it provides good ride quality and low noise and vibration level. Furthermore it is an eco-friendly transport system with little dust pollutant. However the dynamic performance of the vehicle has been influenced by the track layout and the structural stability of guideways and girders, etc. Especially the levitation control of magnetic module is the most important performance of the Maglev system and is very sensitive about the control algorithm and the parameters of the controller. In this paper, the co-simulation of the control and dynamic model has been proposed and the simulation results for the running simulation on the curve track has been shown.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.23-27
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• 2018

As the wireless power transfer (WPT) technology based on strongly resonance coupled method realizes large power charging without any wires through the air, there are advantages compared with the wired counterparts, such as convenient, safety and fearless transmission of power. From this reason, the WPT systems have started to be applied to the wireless charging for various power applications such as train, underwater ship, electric vehicle. This study aims for the effect and characteristics of different inserted resonance coil between Tx and Rx coils for charging system of superconducting magnetic levitation (MAGLEV) train. The transfer efficiency and effect are evaluated with helix type, rectangular type copper resonance coil, and HTS resonance coil under bulb and HTS magnet load, respectively. The input power is adapted with radio frequency (RF) power of 370 kHz below 500 W.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.563-572
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• 2004

Maglev is the vehicle which can run in levitated condition by the electro-magnets, and propelled by linear induction motors. Maglev system represents a typical example of large-scale multi-disciplinary system, consisting of subsystems such as train, electrical, hardware, electronics, control, information, communication, civil technology etc., that must be the subject under configuration, control and requirement management. Not only the requirements dictate the contracts with the suppliers but also become the basis of the development process, project execution, system integration, and testing. These requirements provide the basis specification of all development activities.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.175-185
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• 2015

Generally, in the train area, switch tracks have required high reliability because this system is directly associated with derailment. Especially, switch tracks of Maglev vehicles must be moved in terms of the whole geometric characteristics, in which the bogies are encased in the switch track. For this reason, switch track was constructed with steel lighter than concrete girders. But, the steel switch track was weak because of structural vibration as well as structural deformation. Therefore, it is important to predict the levitation stability when a vehicle passes over flexible switch track. The aims of this paper are to develop a coupled dynamic model to describe the relationship between a Maglev vehicle and switch track and to predict the levitation stability. In order to develop the coupled dynamic model, a three dimensional vehicle model was developed based on multibody dynamics; a switch model was made using the modal superposition method. And, the developed model was verified using comparison measured data.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.38-42
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• 2017

The wear of the third track power collector is one of the essential check factors for safe train operation. Rapid wear of the current collector accelerates the line of the catenary. In addition, the arc generated when the catenary line is turned off causes a malfunction in the minute portion of the catenary line, thereby shortening the life of the catenary line. In this paper, to analyze the mechanical wear of the current collector during driving according to the environmental factor of the Maglev(magnetic levitation train), it was divided into dry season and wet season. the wear of metallized collector, copper alloy collector and carbon collector were measured and compared with each other. The wear rate was measured according to the position of the wire, the position of the power collector and the position per hour. Microscopic photographs of the cross section and surface of the power collector were measured. The electrical currents of the metallized collector, copper alloy collector and carbon collector were measured.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.430_431
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• 2009

철도시스템은 급전, 기계, 전기신호 등의 분야가 결합된 시스템으로 대규모자본을 효율적으로 이용해야만 하는 문제를 안고 있다. 특히, 자기부상열차 시스템은 고도의 기술력이 필요로 하고, 현재 국내에서 개발 단계에 있는 시스템으로 비용 관련 연구가 더욱 필요한 실정이다. 따라서 국외의 철도시스템 및 자기부상열차 시스템에 대한 수명주기비용(Life Cycle Cost, LCC) 연구 동향을 바탕으로 하여 국내의 자기 부상열차 시스템에 적용할 수 있는 수명주기비용에 관한 모델을 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.611-613
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• 2001

In this paper, the force test of arch-type LIM is treated. The method of direct measurement is used load-cell on 3-component force guage. Indirect method is used search coil on LIM. PC-based data aquistion system include two method and measure the force in driving state. Measured data of direct and indirect method are analyzed and compared.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.23-30
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• 1998

The construction of the transportation history database system is to serve the scheduling and seat inventory controling. Recently, lots of countries have been faced with the advance era because of the new railway transportation system, like the high speed railway and/or magnetic levitation vehicle system. This can be reasonably translated as those of operators are willing to provide the more various and high quality schedule to the customer. Those operators' these ideas make possible to forecast that scheduling process is going to be complicated more and more The seat inventory control, so to speak Yield Management System(YMS), goes a long way to improve the total passenger revenue at the railway business. The YMS forecasts the number of the last reservation value(DCP# END) and recommends the optimal values on the seat sales. The history database system contains infra-data(ie, train, seat, sales) that will be the foundation of scheduling and seat inventory control application programs. The development of the application programs are reserved to the next step. The database system is installed on the pc platform(IBM compatible), using the DB2(RDBMS). And at next step, the platform and DBMS will be considered whether they can meet the users' requirement or not.