• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.473-500
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• 2014

Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) have been installed in many high-rise buildings, to improve their resiliency under dynamic loads. However, high-rise buildings may experience natural frequency changes under ambient temperature fluctuations, extreme wind loads and relative humidity variations. This makes the design of a TMD challenging and may lead to a detuned scenario, which can reduce significantly the performance. To alleviate this problem, the current paper presents a proposed approach for the design of a robust and efficient TMD. The approach accounts for the uncertain natural frequency, the optimization objective and the input excitation. The study shows that robust design parameters can be different from the optimal parameters. Nevertheless, predetermined optimal parameters are useful to attain design robustness. A case study of a high-rise building is executed. The TMD designed with the proposed approach showed its robustness and effectiveness in reducing the responses of high-rise buildings under multidirectional wind. The case study represents an engineered design that is instructive. The results show that shear buildings may be controlled with less effort than cantilever buildings. Structural control performance in high-rise buildings may depend on the shape of the building, hence the flow patterns, as well as the wind direction angle. To further increase the performance of the robust TMD in one lateral direction, active control using LQG and fuzzy logic controllers was carried out. The performance of the controllers is remarkable in enhancing the response reduction. In addition, the fuzzy logic controller may be more robust than the LQG controller.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.7-17
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• 2003

Highly accurate control of an air-fuel ratio is very important to reduce exhaust gas emissions of gaseous-fuel engines. In order to achieve this purpose, a precise engine model is required to estimate engine performance from the engine design process which is applied to the design of an engine controller. Engine dynamics are considered to develop a dynamic engine model of a gaseous-fuel engine. An effective air mass ratio is proposed to study variations of the engine dynamics according to the water vapor and the gaseous-fuel in the mixture. The dynamic engine model is validated with the LPG engine under steady and transient operating conditions. The experimental results in the LPG gaseous-fuel engine show that the estimation of the air flow and the air-fuel ratio based upon the effective air mass ratio is more accurate than that of a normal engine model.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.648-654
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• 2004

반도체 제조 장비에서 가스의 질량 흐름 제어기(Mass Flow Controller: MFC)가 차지하는 비중은 매우 크다. 가스의 흐름 제어가 곧 반도체 소자의 품질 및 수율을 결정하는 중요한 요소이기 때문이다. 따라서 MFC의 고속, 고정밀 제어를 구현하기 위한 요구가 높아지고 있다. MFC의 제어 알고리즘에 관한 연구 선례는 찾아보기가 매우 힘들다. 그러나 일반적으로 PID 제어 알고리즘을 사용되는 것으로 알려지고 있다. MFC 제어의 어려움은 열에 의해 흐름을 감지하는 시스템일 경우 느린 응답 특성과 비선형성을 포함한다는 데 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 PID 알고리즘 보다 더 우수한 성능을 보이는 MFC 제어 알고리즘을 제시하고 실험을 통해 그 우수성을 보인다. 비선형성과 느린 응답 특성을 보상하기 위하여 퍼지제어 알고리즘을 적용하였으며 그 성능을 현재 상용화된 제품과 비교하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘은 PC와 PC에 장착된 데이터 획득 보드를 통하여 제어루프를 형성하였고, PC상에서 LabWindows/CVI 프로그램으로 제어알고리즘을 구현하였다. 또한, 느린 응답 특성이 존재하는 센서출력으로부터 실제의 흐름을 추정하는 하나의 방법도 제시하였다. 실험결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존의 제품보다 더 빠르고, 더 정확한 제어성능을 보였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2021

Plug flow reactor (PFR) 내의 과열점(hot spot) 온도를 조절하는 것은 생성물의 수득률 및 순도, 안전성 측면에서 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 더 현실에 가깝게 모델링 하기 위하여 PFR 내부의 냉각액 온도를 상태변수로 설정하고 방사 방향의 열 및 물질전달을 고려하였다. 모델은 반응물의 농도 및 온도와 냉각액의 온도 총 3개의 상태변수로 이루어져 있으며, 등온 냉각액의 유량을 조작변수로 가진다. 본 연구에서는 방사 방향의 열 및 물질전달을 고려한 제어식이 그렇지 않은 제어식보다 과열점의 온도를 set point 부근으로 더 효과적으로 유지한다는 것을 보였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 제어식은 냉각액의 온도가 반응물 온도의 약 0.7배 부근일 때 St가 1.3 이상이고 Ac/A가 2.0 이하인 조건에서 강건성을 유지하였다. 이 조건에서 반응기로 유입되는 반응물의 온도가 5% 범위에서 바뀔 때 본 연구에서 제안된 제안식을 이용하면 과열점의 온도를 set point의 1% 이내로 유지할 수 있다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2008년 영문 학술대회
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• pp.419-426
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• 2008

As pulse detonation engine(PDE) does not need compression mechanisms such as compressors because self-sustained detonation waves are able to compress propellant gases by their incident shock waves, the PDE can have a simple straight-tube structure. In this study, we propose an autonomous driving valve system of the PDE, which fill premixed gases into the PDE tubes at high frequency with high mass flow rate. The proposed valve is composed of only three parts: a piston, a cylinder, and a spring. This valve system can produce intermittent flow at high mass flow rate, and also can keep stable reciprocal motion by using the propellant-gas enthalpy. When the cylinder content product is assumed to be constant, experimental results of the mass flow rate were approximately equal to the calculation model. We confirmed the autonomous driving valve performance by experiments, and concluded that this extremely simple valve with no electrical power and controller can be used as the PDE propellant supply system.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.700-707
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• 2009

The coal mill used in the coal-fired power plants is modeled in view of the controller design rather than the educational simulator. The coal mass flow and the outlet temperature are modeled by reinvestigating the mass balance and heat balance models physically. The archived data from a plant database are utilized to identify the model parameters. It can be seen that the simulated model outputs are well matched with the measured ones. It is also expected that the proposed model is useful for the controller design.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.371-380
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• 1993

운전원의 언어적인 제어 논리를 이용한 모델과 무관한 제어기가 증기 발생기의 수위 제어를 위해 개발되었다. 오직 9개의 룰을 수위 오차와, 응축 수위 변화를 표현하는 유량 오차로부터 얻어졌다. 벨형의 소속함수는 민감도 분석을 통하여 조절되었고, 결과 과도 상태와 정상상태 공히 양호한 제어성능을 보였다. 저출력에서 전 출력까지의 다단계 출력 증가에 대하여, 전 운전 영역에서 좋은 제어를 보였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1002-1009
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• 2004

Direct contact air conditioning systems, in which heat and mass are transferred directly between air and water droplets, have many advantages over conventional indirect contact systems. The purpose of this research is to investigate the cooling and heating performances of direct contact air conditioning system for various inlet parameters such as air velocity, air temperature, water flow rate and water temperature. The experimental apparatus comprises a wind tunnel, water spray system, scrubber, demister, heater, refrigerator, flow and temperature controller, and data acquisition system. The inlet and outlet conditions of air and water are measured when the air contacts directly with water droplets as a counter flow in the spray section of the wind tunnel, and the heat and mass transfer rates between air and water are calculated. The droplet size of the water sprays is also measured using a Malvern Particle Analyzer. In the cooling conditions, the outlet air temperature and humidity ratio decrease as the water flow rate increases and as the water temperature, air velocity and temperature decrease. On the contrary, the outlet air temperature and humidity ratio increase in the heating conditions as the water flow rate and temperature increase and as the air velocity decreases.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.120-125
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• 2004

In the rolling of steel or non-steel metal the most important quality aspect are thickness and flatness. In thickness, there are two important factors. One of them is getting close with accurate goal, nominal gauge, the other is minimize gauge bandwidth, the variation in gauge. In this thesis, we proposed the fuzzy model AGC to minimize gauge variation along the length, developed the rolling mill dynamic model using the math mode of the rolling mill process and the rolling model related with the variety character of the rolling material. We compared the gauge control efficiency of fuzzy model AGC and PI mass flow AGC. We have got a simulation result, that the exit gauge variation of PI mass flow AGC was 2 micron and fuzzy model AGC was 1.2 micron at 1200mpm of rolling speed when each controller was rolling 5 micron of material that is the entry gauge variation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.151-157
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• 1999

In this paper, an integrated nonlinear sliding mode observer and controller has been designed in order to control of an automotive engine idle speed. The primary objective of the engine idle speed control is to maintain the desired engine idle speed despite of various torque disturbances via estimating air mass flow at the location of the injector in intake manifold by using a sliding mode observer. Simulation results show that the case where both throttle angle and ignition time are used as control inputs outperforms the case where just only throttle angle is used as a control input.