• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 1998

There are various notions of partial ordering between life-times of systems; stochastic ordering failure rate ordering and likeli-hood ration ordering. In this paper we show that for series systems with non i.i.d. exponential lifetimes of components standby redundancy at component level is better than that at system level in failure rate or-dering and likelihood ratio ordering. We also demonstrate that for 2-component parallel systems with i.i.d. exponential lifetimes of com-ponents standby system redundancy is better than standby component redundancy in failure rate ordering and likelihood ratio ordering.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.277-284
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• 1998

The reliability and an estimate for it are derived for series-parallel and parallel-deries stress-strength model under assumption that all components are subjected to a common stress. We also obtain the asymptotic normal distribution of the estimate.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 D
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• pp.663-665
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• 2000

For the control system of thermal turbine in fuel and nuclear power plant, as high reliability and availability are required, redundant control system is generally applied. This paper presents the configuration and design of such a redundant control system that can be suitable for control and monitoring of the turbine. System components such as I/O system, communication networks, voting system are designed, and especially the new intelligent voter using serial communication are proposed. The characteristics of the implemented control system is independence of the control, protection and monitoring functions, and discrimination of the redundancies, and high availability. The control functions such as speed control, load control, valve control and protective functions such as overspeed and PLU are designed in detail.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권4B호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2004

일반적으로 교환 시스템은 프로세서 보드, 입출력처리 보드 및 데이터 저장 장치등 그 기능별로 다수의 서브시스템들로 구성되어 있다. 또한 신뢰성을 확보하기 위하여 모든 서브 보드들은 이중화로 되어 있다. 교환시스템에서 저장 장치에는 시스템에 관련된 정보나 과금 정보등과 같은 작업 관련 데이터를 저장하며 비 휘발성 메모리에 저장해야 한다. 일반적으로 비 휘발성 저장장치를 구현할 때는 플래시메모리(flash memory) 또는 배터리 백업 메모리(battery backup memory)를 사용한다. 그러나 메모리는 단위 용량당 가격이 높고 백업(backup) 하지 않은 데이터를 손실했을 때 복구할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 마이크로 컨트롤러를 이용하여 단위 용량당 가격이 저렴하고, 대용량의 데이터를 저장함과 동시에 이중화를 만족시키는 on-board 형태의 소형 디스크 모듈을 설계 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 구현된 이중화 저장장치는 사용 중인 엑티브(active) 디스크에 결함이 생겨 사용할 수 없을 경우에 리빌딩(rebuilding)과정을 동해 스탠바이 모듈로부터 데이터를 복구하며, 리빌딩 중에도 호스트 시스템은 스탠바이 디스크모듈을 이용하여 지속적으로 서비스를 제공할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 저장장치는 교환시스템에서 플래시 메모리와 같은 값비싼 저장 장치를 대체 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.689-694
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• 2014

An SPLC (Safety Programmable Logic Controller) must be designed to meet the highest safety standards, IEEE 1E, and should guarantee a level of fault-tolerance and high-reliability that ensures complete error-free operation. In order to satisfy these criteria, I/O modules, communication modules, processor modules and bus modules of the SPLC have been configured in triple or dual modular redundancy. The redundant modules receive the same data to determine the final data by the voting logic. Currently, the processor of each rx module performs the voting by deciding on the final data. It is the intent of this paper to prove the improvement on the current system, and develop a voting system for multiple data on a system bus level. The new system bus protocol is implemented based on a TCN-MVB that is a deterministic network consisting of a master-slave structure. The test result shows that the suggested system is better than the present system in view of its high utilization and improved performance of data exchange and voting.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.426-432
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• 2009

In this paper, redundancy resolution of UVMS (underwater vehicle-manipulate. system) is addressed. In general, UVMS has redundant DOFs (degrees of freedom) as many as DOFs of manipulator and these redundant DOFs can be used to optimize the configuration of UVMS while satisfying given tasks. We propose a performance index for redundancy resolution which minimizes the restoring moments of UVMS. The restoring moment can cause unintentional change of poses of UVMS. If the restoring moments remain small, control effort for keeping the poses of UVMS decreases. This means that energy consumption can be reduced by minimizing the restoring moments during conducting tasks. Proposed performance measure is optimized by gradient projection method. Generated trajectories by this redundancy resolution are tracked by robust PID controller. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate performance of the proposed algorithm.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.103-106
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• 2001

A new control method for a redundant manipulator is developed using a local optimal torque and null space joint velocity. By solving the dynamic control equations of the system, the local optimal torque is obtained. If only the local optimal torque is used for controlling the robot there is a possibility that the system is unstable. To eliminate the characteristics of instability during the movements, the control law with a null space concept is used. The new method is applied to the 3-DOF planar manipulator. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.2284-2296
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• 1994

Force control of robotic mechanisms continues to be a challenging area. Previous implementation have seldom produced satisfactory results, and researchers in the past have experienced significant instability problems associated with their force controllers. In this study, a new stability factor in force control will be pointed out. When a manipulator is constrained to an environment(force-controlled), geometric instability due to the relationship between the manipulator configuration and the force-controlled direction is shown to be a significant factor in overall system stability. This exploratory study points out a rather intuitive, geometrically based stability factor in terms of an effective system stiffness and analyzes the phenomenon both analytically and graphically. Also, a stiffness control algorithm using the kinematic redundancy of a kinematically redundant manipulator is proposed to improve the overall stability in force control.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.452-455
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• 1995

Various physical limitations which intrinsically exist in the manipulator control system, for example kinematic limits and torque limit, cause some undesirable effects. Specifically, when one or more actuators are saturated the expected control performance can not be anticipated and in some cases it induces instability of the system. The effect of torque limit, especially for redundant manipulators, is studied in this article, and an analytic method to reconstruct the control input using the redundancy is proposed based on the kinematically decomposed modeling of redundant manipulators. It results to no degradation of the output motion closed-loop dynamics at the cost of the least degradation of the null motion closed-loop dynamics. Numerical simulations help to verify the advantages of the proposed scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.765-771
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• 1998

An artificial neural network(NN) technique is developed for hardware redundant sensor validation. Since the measurement space is a continuous space with many operating regions, it is difficult to train a NN to correctly detect failure in an accurate measurement system. A conventional backpropagation NN is modified to include an additional preprocessing layer that extracts classification features from scalar measurements. This feature extraction means transform the measurement space to parity space. The NN is independent of the state variable being measured, the instrument range, and the signal tolerance. This NN resembles the parity space approach to signal validation, except that analytical parity equations are unneeded and the NN pattern recognition capability is utilized for decision making.