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Inspection of Calandria Reactor Area of Wolsung NPP using Thermal Infrared and CCD Images (CCD와 적외선 열영상의 다중영상을 이용한 월성원자력발전소의 칼란드리아 전면부 점검)

  • Cho, Jai-Wan;Choi, Young-Soo;Kim, Chang-Hoi;Seo, Yong-Chil;Kim, Seung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.711-714
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    • 2002
  • Thermal infrared camera have poor image qualities compared to commercial CCD cameras, as in contrast, brightness, and. resolution. To compensate the poor Image quality problems associated with the thermal infrared camera, the technique of superimposing thermal infrared image into real ccd image is proposed. The mobile robot KAEROT/m2, loaded with sensor head system at the mast, is entered to monitor leakage of heavy water and thermal abnormality of the calandria reactor area in overhaul period. The sensor head system is composed of thermal infrared camera and cod camera In parallel. When thermal abnormality on observation points and areas of calandria reactor area is occurred, unusual hot image taken from thermal infrared camera is superimposed on real CCD image. In this inspection experiment, more accurate positions of thermal abnormalities on calandria reactor area can be estimated by using technique of mapping thermal infrared image into CCD image, which include characters arranged in MPOQ order.

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Evaluation of Defects in the Bonded Area of Shoes using an Infrared Thermal Vision Camera

  • Kim, Jae-Yeol;Yang, Dong-Jo;Kim, Chang-Hyun
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.511-514
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    • 2003
  • The Infrared Camera usually detects only Infrared waves emitted from the light in order to illustrate the temperature distribution. An Infrared diagnosis system can be applied to various fields. But the defect discrimination can be automatic or mechanized in the special shoes total inspection system. This study introduces a method for special shoes nondestructive total inspection. Performance of the proposed method is shown through thermo-Image.

Development of Fuzzy Inference-based Deterioration Diagnosis System Using Infrared Thermal Imaging Camera (적외선 열화상 카메라를 이용한 퍼지추론 기반 열화진단 시스템 개발)

  • Choi, Woo-Yong;Kim, Jong-Bum;Oh, Sung-Kwun;Kim, Young-Il
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.6
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    • pp.912-921
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we introduce fuzzy inference-based real-time deterioration diagnosis system with the aid of infrared thermal imaging camera. In the proposed system, the infrared thermal imaging camera monitors diagnostic field in real time and then checks state of deterioration at the same time. Temperature and variation of temperature obtained from the infrared thermal imaging camera variation are used as input variables. In addition to perform more efficient diagnosis, fuzzy inference algorithm is applied to the proposed system, and fuzzy rule is defined by If-then form and is expressed as lookup-table. While triangular membership function is used to estimate fuzzy set of input variables, that of output variable has singleton membership function. At last, state of deterioration in the present is determined based on output obtained through defuzzification. Experimental data acquired from deterioration generator and electric machinery are used in order to evaluate performance of the proposed system. And simulator is realized in order to confirm real-time state of diagnostic field

Image Processing using Thermal Infrared Image (열적외선 이미지를 이용한 영상 처리)

  • Jeong, Byoung-Jo;Jang, Sung-Whan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.1503-1508
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    • 2009
  • This study applied image processing techniques, constructed to real-time, to thermal infrared camera image. Thermal infrared image data was utilized for hot mapping, cool mapping, and rainbow mapping according to changing temperature. It was histogram image processing techniques so that detected shade contrast function of the thermal infrared image, and the thermal infrared image's edge was extracted to classification of object. Moreover, extraction of temperature from image was measured by using the image information program.

Heat Analysis of Welding-bead using Infrared Thermoimage Camera (적외선 열화상 카메라를 이용한 용접 비드의 열 해석)

  • Kim, Jae-Yeol;Shim, Jae-Gi;Yang, Dong-Jo;Yu, Sin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2000
  • Diagnosis or measurements using Infrared thermoimage hasn't been available. A quick diagnosis and thermal analysis can be possible when that kind of system is introduced to the investigation of each part. In this study, Infrared Camera, Thermovision 900 was used in order to investigate. Infrared Camera usually detects only Infrared wave from the light in order to illustrate the temperature distribution. Infrared diagnosis system can be applied to various field. Also, it is more effective to analyze temperature distribution on the welding parts during welding process. Especially, diagnosis using Infrared camera plays an important role on thermal analysis of Axle Casing Nut for Commercial Vehicles.

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Method for Measuring Weld Temperature Using an Infrared Thermal Imaging Camera (적외선 열화상 카메라를 이용한 용접부의 온도 측정 방법)

  • Ro, Chan-Seung;Kim, Kyeong-Suk;Chang, Ho-Seob
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a method is tested to measure temperatures in high-temperature welds. Protective glass was installed between an infrared thermal imaging camera and a heat source, and temperature compensation was applied to the measuring instruments. When the temperature of halogen lamps was taken in real-time and measured by the thermal camera, the temperature was found to be almost invariant with the distance between the camera and heat source. The temperature range could be predicted, through correlations with the thickness of the protective glass and the measured distance. This study suggests that the temperature measurement of welds obtained by using an infrared thermal imaging camera is valid, through experimental testing of heat sources.

Responsivity and Noise Evaluation of Infrared Thermal Imaging Camera (적외선열화상카메라의 응답 및 노이즈 특성 평가)

  • Kim, Dong-Ik;Kim, Ghiseok;Kim, Geon-Hee;Chang, Ki Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.342-348
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, the evaluation method for the responsivity and noise characteristics of an infrared thermal imaging camera was presented. Signal transfer function and noise equivalent temperature difference of the infrared thermal imaging camera were obtained by using a differential mode blackbody that is able to control the temperature difference ${\Delta}$T between an infrared target and its background. And we verified the suitability of our evaluation method through comparison between the found noise equivalent temperature difference and the specification of the camera. In addition, the difference of 0.01 K of the two noise equivalent temperature differences calculated from with and without nonuniformity correction suggests that the nonuniformity correction is essential process for the evaluation of the infrared thermal imaging camera.

Small Camera Module for TEC-less Uncooled Thermal Image (TEC-less 비냉각 열영상 검출기용 소형카메라 모듈 개발)

  • Kim, Jong-Ho
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2017
  • Thermal imaging is mainly used in military equipment required for night observation. In particular, technologies of uncooled thermal imaging detectors are being developed as applied to low-cost night observation system. Many system integrators require different specifications of the uncooled thermal imaging camera but their development time is short. In this approach, EOSYSTEM has developed a small size, TEC-less uncooled thermal imaging camera module with $32{\times}32mm$ size and low power consumption. Both domestic detector and import detector are applied to the EOSYSTEM's thermal imaging camera module. The camera module contains efficient infrared image processing algorithms including : Temperature compensation non-uniformity correction, Bad/Dead pixel replacement, Column noise removal, Contrast/Edge enhancement algorithms providing stable and low residual non-uniformity infrared image.

Development of a Diagnostic Technique of the Historic Structures Using a Thermal Infrared Camera

  • Nakabeppu, Jiro;Maeda, Atsushi;Gotoh, Keinosuke
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.493-495
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    • 2003
  • The establishment of the investigation and the maintenance technique is required for preservation of old structures in Japan. This study attempts to diagnose the deterioration status of the historic structures using the thermal infrared camera. In some structures, the difference of the spatio-temporal change was observed in the surface temperature. For example, the cold joint of concrete was examined using this method effectively. As a result of this study, we have found useful guidelines in developing methodology to conduct diagnosis of historic buildings by using thermal infrared camera.

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Research for development of small format multi -spectral aerial photographing systems (PKNU 3) (소형 다중분광 항공촬영 시스템(PKNU 3호) 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 이은경;최철웅;서영찬;조남춘
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.143-152
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    • 2004
  • Researchers seeking geological and environmental information, depend on remote sensing and aerial photographic datum from various commercial satellites and aircraft. However, adverse weather conditions as well as equipment expense limit the ability to collect data anywhere and anytime. To allow for better flexibility in geological and environmental data collection, we have developed a compact, multi-spectral automatic Aerial Photographic system (PKNU2). This system's Multi-spectral camera can record visible (RGB) and infrared (NIR) band (3032*2008 Pixels) images Visible and infrared band images were obtained from each camera respectively and produced color-infrared composite images to be analyzed for the purpose of the environmental monitoring. However this did not provide quality data. Furthermore, it has the disadvantage of having the stereoscopic overlap area being 60% unsatisfied due to the 12 seconds of storage time of each data The PKNU2 system in contrast, photographed photos of great capacity Thus, with such results, we have been proceeding to develop the advanced PKNU2 (PKNU3) system that consists of a color-infrared spectral camera that can photograph in the visible and near-infrared bands simultaneously using a single sensor, a thermal infrared camera, two 40G computers to store images, and an MPEG board that can compress and transfer data to the computer in real time as well as be able to be mounted onto a helicopter platform.

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