• Title/Summary/Keyword: Container Inspection System

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Development of the Container Damage Inspection System (컨테이너 파손 검사장치의 개발)

  • Oh Jae Ho;Hong Seong Woo;Choi Gyu Jong;Kim Myong Ho;Ahn Doo Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.82-88
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    • 2005
  • The damage inspection of container surface is performed by the expert inspectors at the container terminal gate of harbor. In this paper, we substitute the expert's capability with the damage inspection system using the artificial intelligent control algorithm and vision system, so we can improve the work environment and effectively decrease the inspection time and cost. Firstly, using six CCD cameras attached to the terminal gate, whole container is partially captured according to eleven sensors aligned with the entering direction of container. Captured partial images are inspected by the fuzzy system which the expert's technology is embedded. Next, we compose partial images to be a complete container image through the correlation coefficient method. Complete container image is saved to solve future troublesome problems. In this paper, the effectiveness of the proposed system was verified through the field test.

Development of Cell Guide Quality Management System for Container Ships (컨테이너 선박의 셀 가이드 정도 관리 시스템 개발)

  • Park, Bong-Rae;Kim, Hyun-Cheol
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.158-165
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    • 2018
  • Generally, container ships contain cargo holds with cell guides that serve to increase the container loading and unloading efficiency, minimize the space loss, and fix containers during the voyage. This paper describes a new quality management system for the cell guides of container ships (the so-called Trim Cell Guide system). The main functions of this system are the trimming of the point cloud obtained using a 3D scanner and an inspection simulation for cell guide quality. In other words, the raw point cloud of cell guides after construction is measured using a 3D scanner. Here, the raw point cloud contains a lot of noise and unnecessary information. Using the GUI interface supported by the system, the raw point cloud can be trimmed. The trimmed point cloud is used in a simulation for cell guide quality inspection. The RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) algorithm is used for the transverse section representation of a cell guide at a certain height and applied for the calculation of the intervals between the cell guides and container. When the container hits the cell guides during the inspection simulation, the container is rotated horizontally and checked again for a possible collision. It focuses on a system that can be simulated with the same inspection process as in a shipyard. For a practicality review, we compared the precision data gained from an inspection simulation with the measured data. As a result, it was confirmed that these values were within approximately ${\pm}2mm$.

Authentication Technologies of X-ray Inspection Image for Container Terminal Automation

  • Kim, Jong-Nam;Hwang, Jin-Ho;Ryu, Tae-Kyung;Moon, Kwang-Seok;Jung, Gwang-S.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1684-1688
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, authentication technologies for X-ray inspection images in container merchandises are introduced and a method of authentication for X-ray inspection images is proposed. Until now, X-ray images of container merchandises have been managed without any authentication of inspection results and environments, it means that there was no any action for protection of illegal copy and counterfeiting of X-ray images from inspection results. Here, authentication identifies that who did inspect container X-ray images and, whether the container X-ray images were counterfeited or not. Our proposed algorithm indicates to put important information about X-ray inspection results on an X-ray image without affecting quality of the original image. Therefore, this paper will be useful in determining an appropriate technology and system specification for authentication of X-ray inspection images. As a result of experiment, we find that the information can be embedded to X-ray image without large degradation of image quality. Our proposed algorithm has high detection ratio by Quality 20 of JPEG attack.

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Monte carlo estimation of activation products induced in concrete shielding around electron linac used in an X-ray container inspection system (X-ray 컨테이너 화물검색시스템의 전자선형가속기 주변 콘크리트 차폐벽 내 방사화생성물에 대한 몬테카를로법 평가)

  • Cho, Young-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1035-1039
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    • 2010
  • Activation products generated by photoneutrons in concrete shielding wall around electron linac were estimated for a high energy X-ray container cargo inspection system. Monte carlo code, MCNPX2.5.0 was used for reference system of 9MeV fixed type dual-direction container cargo inspection system installed at major harbors in Korea. Activation products inventory generated by photoneutron (n,$\gamma$) reaction are estimated, and then radiation dose rate is calculated from the results.

Development of X-Ray Array Detector Signal Processing System (X-Ray 어레이 검출 모듈 신호처리 시스템 개발)

  • Lim, Ik-Chan;Park, Jong-Won;Kim, Young-Kil;Sung, So-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.1298-1304
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    • 2019
  • Since the 9·11 terror attack in 2001, the Maritime Logistics Security System has been strengthened and required X-ray image for every imported cargos from manufacturing countries to United States. For scanning cargos, the container inspection systems use high energy X-rays for examination of contents of a container to check the nuclear, explosive, dangerous and illegal materials. Nowadays, the X-ray cargo scanners are established and used by global technologies for inspection of suspected cargos in the customs agency but these technologies have not been localized and developed sufficiently. In this paper, we propose the X-ray array detector system which is a core component of the container scanning system. For implementation of X-ray array detector, the analog and digital signal processing units are fabricated with integrated hardware, FPGA logics and GUI software for real-time X-ray images. The implemented system is superior in terms of resolution and power consumption compared to the existing products currently used in ports.

Development of High Energy X-ray Dose Measuring Device based Ion Chamber for Cargo Container Inspection System (이온전리함 기반의 컨테이너 검색용 고에너지 X-선 선량 측정장치 개발)

  • Lee, Junghee;Lim, Chang Hwy;Park, Jong-Won;Lee, Sang Heon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1711-1717
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    • 2020
  • X-ray of up to 9MeV are used for container inspection. X-ray intensity must be maintained stably regardless of changes in time. If dose is not constant, it may affect the image quality, and as a result, may affect the inspection of abnormal cargo. Therefore, to acquire high-quality images, continuous dose monitoring is required. In this study, the ion-chamber based device was developed for monitoring the dose change in high-energy x-ray. And to estimate the performance of signal-processing device change according to the environmental change, the output changing due to the change of temperature and humidity was observed. In addition, verification of the device was performed by measuring the output change. As a result of the measurement, there was no significant difference in performance due to changes in temperature and humidity, and the change in output according to the change in exposure was linear. Therefore, it was found that the developed device is suitable for the dose monitoring of high-energy x-ray.

Measurement of Sound Speed Following the Fluid Temperature Using Acoustic Inspection Device

  • Jeon, E.S.;Kim, W.T.;Kim, I.S.;Park, H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.207-211
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, the fluid AID(acoustic inspection device) was developed to measure SOS(speed of sound) since fluids used in most of industrial fields have different properties and its equipment is highly expensive. From AID developed, it is intended to get potentially the capability to distinguish the kind of fluid using the measurement by the SOS at various fields. In order to measure the sound speed of specific fluids, the measurement system and ultrasonic sensors are composed. The fluid used in the experimental work are soybean oil, glycerin, diesel oil and the error of time difference due to the container wall is extracted for preliminary experiment. As results, the variations of sound speed according to the temperature change of target fluid were analyzed and the polynomial equations were proposed.