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A study on visual tracking of the underwater mobile robot for nuclear reactor vessel inspection

  • Cho, Jai-Wan;Kim, Chang-Hoi;Choi, Young-Soo;Seo, Yong-Chil;Kim, Seung-Ho
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1244-1248
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes visual tracking procedure of the underwater mobile robot for nuclear reactor vessel inspection, which is required to find the foreign objects such as loose parts. The yellowish underwater robot body tends to present a big contrast to boron solute cold water of nuclear reactor vessel, tinged with indigo by Cerenkov effect. In this paper, we have found and tracked the positions of underwater mobile robot using the two color information, yellow and indigo. The center coordinates extraction procedures are as follows. The first step is to segment the underwater robot body to cold water with indigo background. From the RGB color components of the entire monitoring image taken with the color CCD camera, we have selected the red color component. In the selected red image, we extracted the positions of the underwater mobile robot using the following process sequences; binarization, labelling, and centroid extraction techniques. In the experiment carried out at the Youngkwang unit 5 nuclear reactor vessel, we have tracked the center positions of the underwater robot submerged near the cold leg and the hot leg way, which is fathomed to 10m deep in depth.

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Experience in Visual Testing of the Main Feed Water Piping Weld for Hanul Unit 3 (한울 3호기 주급수 배관 용접부 육안검사 경험)

  • Yoon, Byung Sik;Moon, Gyoon Young;Kim, Yong Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.74-78
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    • 2015
  • Nuclear power plant steam generator that is one of the main component has several thousands of thin tubes. And the steam generator tube is subject to damage because of the severe operation conditions such as the high temperature and pressure. Therefore periodic inspections are conducted to ensure the integrity of steam generator component. Hanul unit 3 also has been inspected in accordance with in-service inspection program and is scheduled to be replaced for exceeding the plugging rate which was recommended by manufacturer. During the steam generator replacement activity, we found several clustered porosity on inner surface of main feed water pipe. Additionally crack-like indications were found at weld interface between base material and weld of main feed water pipe. This paper describes the field experience and visual testing results for inner surface of main feed water pipes. The destructive test result had shown that these indications were porosities which were caused by manufacturing process not by operation service.

Structural Behavior and Distress of Asphalt Pavement on Concrete Bridge Decks (콘크리트 교면 아스팔트포장의 구조적 거동 및 파손)

  • Park, Seong-Wan;Lee, Hyun-Jong;Lee, Wan-Hoon
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.6 no.1 s.19
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the results of a study that was performed to evaluate structural behaviors and related distress of asphalt pavements on concrete bridge deck based on the visual inspection and 3-dimensional finite element analysis. As a result, three most failure types were found such as permanent deformation, potholes, and fatigue crackings. In addition, the failure mechanisms of different types of concrete bridge deck were investigated. An increase in fatigue of asphalt pavements on concrete bridge deck was observed and confirmed by the results from the visual inspections. In consequence, the aging and stripping of asphalt surfacing materials are relatively dominant factors on fatigue rather than traffic loadings.

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The analysis and design of X-ray cross sectional imaging system for PCB solder joint inspection (PCB 납땜 검사를 위한 X선 단층 영상 시스템의 해석 및 설계)

  • 노영준;강성택;김형철;김성권
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.109-112
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    • 1996
  • The more integrated and smaller SMD are needed, new solder joints packaging technologies are developed in these days such as BGA(Ball Grid Array), Flip Chip, J-lead etc. But, it's unable to inspect solder joints in those devices by visual inspection methods, because they are hided by it's packages. To inspect those new SMD packages, an X-ray system for acquiring a cross-sectional image of a arbitrary plane is necessary. In this paper, an analysis for designing X-ray cross sectional imaging system is presented including the way for correcting the distortion of image intensifier. And we show computer simulation of that system with a simple PCB model to show it's usefulness in applying PCB solder joint inspection.

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Development of a VTR head inspection system (비데오 헤드 형상 검사 장치 개발)

  • 유영기;노병옥;오춘석
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.8-11
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    • 1996
  • In one VTR(Video Tape Recorder), two or more heads are used to record or reproduce video signals. To obtain a uniform quality of a VTR, video heads should have similar charcteristics such as geometrical shapes and electro-magnetic performances. This research is aimed to develop a visual inspection system that can measure four geoemtrical parameters;HO, HI, Tw and Cw. To obtain a high realable results, DSP based image board and target based image processing algorithms were used. A series of experiments was performed for one thousands of video heads. From observation of the experimental results, the system is found to show good performance for inspection of video heads.

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Smart Card Reader기 Connector 조립 및 Vision 검사용 자동화기기 개발에 관한 연구

  • 노병옥;성하경
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1994.10a
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    • pp.543-548
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    • 1994
  • This is the paper on the development of assemnly automation and visual inspection system for smart card reader connector. The automation consists of 3 main process injection, assembly and inspection. During the injection, the main pin of a reel. transferred under uniform tension, is cut with an injection interval and positioned precisely to an injection mold by roll feeder after injection. The main base is stacked to a magazine for main pin's exact positionning to a mold . For last effective production, The turn table and pick & place are driver with gears and came by a single monter. We developed the small parts handling technigue for stable supply of micro ist pin and 2nd pin and could determine the orientation and position of those pins. For reliable inspection, We used the vision system which examins the guality of arranged pins with a CCD camera. The connector models which can be manufactured with this system are 8 pin and 10 pin type. The user can select the connector model for production and adjust the torerable error range during the inspection of arranged pins.

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Development of Automatic Program for Noise Inspection of Auto-transmission (자동변속기(Auto-Transmission)의 이상음 검사자동화 시스템개발)

  • 김재열
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2000
  • This study includes noise automatic inspection system for washing machine auto-transmission one of modern home necessary. We effort to find and certificate sound noise source by sound power and sound intensity, and apply to frequency analysis in vibration related sound noise. still more we have been studying to data acquisition and programming for MS VisualBasic version 5.0. System component is below. 1) Pentium PC or data acquisition. 2) DSO for noise acquisition. 3)S/W for comparison and decision. 4) I/F Board for data communication. Wave form data through the DSO are converting to ASCII code data. The ASCII code through binary converting S/W. Finally we will making noise monitoring system and automatic inspection system.

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