Jo Feb 3, 2022
The contest was held in January 2022.
Until last year it started on the first Friday every month and lasted for 10 days, but from this year it is supposed to take place twice a month. In other words, the first one goes on for 3 days from the first Friday and the second one lasts for another 3 days from the second Friday.
The first one was held from 7 to 10, January. About 20 000 contestants from tens of countries and regions including our country, China and India took part in it. 180-odd belonged to category 1, over 2 900 to category 2 and more than 16 300 to category 3. 4 problems were set forth in category 1, none of which were challenge problems.
A total of 27 contestants in category 1 won the first place, 7 out of whom are from Kim Chaek University of Technology. 18 contestants from our country including KUT students were the winners.
Other winners include 3 from China, 2 from India, one from Peru and 3 from Japan.
Our country accounts for 66.67% of the world winners, and our university 25.93%, which rises to 38.89% in our country.
The second one went on from 14 to 17.
About 15 700 contestants from tens of countries and regions including our country, China, Russia and India took part. 120-odd belonged to category 1, over 1 500 to category 2 and more than 14 100 to category 3. 5 problems were set forth in category 1, none of which were challenge problems.
A total of 29 contestants in category 1 won the first place – 17 from our country, 2 from China, 1 from Russia, 3 from India, 2 from Vietnam, 1 from Singapore, 1 from the UK and 2 from Japan.
All of the 7 students from Kim Chaek University of Technology took the first place in category 1.
17 winners from our country constitute over half of the world winners, that’s 58.62%. In the meantime, our university amounts to 24.14% in the world and 41.17% in our country.
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Jo Jan 29, 2022
These days study on a learning method for getting a dynamic characteristic model without the knowledge of an object in the field of a hierarchical supervisory control system has been actively being conducted. However, no method of applying it to existing production processes by speeding up Q-learning convergence has been proposed yet.
Kim Song Ho, a section head at Faculty of Automation Engineering, proposed a two-layer intelligent supervisory control system to adjust the online optimum setting point of the control system and set forth a new method to improve Q-learning convergence.
Unlike previous methods, the core of his suggestion is that it helps overcome trial and error Q-learning process, the weakest point of this learning, and achieve the fastest Q-learning convergence by setting optimally the way of automatically extracting experience rules of process operation from historical operation data and the initial phase of Q-learning.
His suggestion is estimated to have great practical significance in making large-scale continuous industrial processes unmanned and intelligent as it is supposed to minimize the effect of environmental changes and to guarantee product quality and stability of process operation.
He presented his essay titled “On-line set-point optimization for Intelligent Supervisory Control and Improvement of Q-learning Convergence” to SCI journals “Control Engineering Practice”.
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Jo Jan 26, 2022
PCPs have been widely used to lift heavy oil and multiphase material in oil fields.
Previous approaches for slippage calculation takes too much time and they cannot be used for real-time control of PCPs. Furthermore, they cannot be adopted to liquid with low viscosity like water.
Om Il Ryong, an institute head at Faculty of Mining Engineering, and his research group have found a way to analytically calculate the hydrodynamic characters of one-lobe PCPs without using Navier Stokes equations and CFD.
First they determined the length of gaps analytically to convert axial and transversal gaps into space between parallel plates, hydrodynamic equivalence.
Then after they made some assumptions considering the structural periodicity of a PCP, they made an analytical determination of the overall hydrodynamic resistance and obtained flow rate change according to pressure differences.
Thus, they laid the foundation to rapidly calculate the slippage inside a PCP and realize the automatic control of PCP systems. Therefore, they could reduce the calculation time of 8 days in the past to less than 1 second.
He presented his essay titled “A New Analytical Approach to Calculate a Slippage inside a Progressing Cavity Pump with a Metallic Stator by Using a Middle Streamline and a Structural Periodicity” to SCI journals “SPE JOURNAL” .
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Jo Jan 24, 2022
Kong Myong Il, a researcher at Semi-conductor Institute, and his research group have developed PTC (positive temperature coefficient) resistance material necessary for constant operation of facilities under the condition of room temperature even in low-temperature zones, and they have been expanding their achievements.
This material provides room temperature resistance of 20Ω, Curie temperature of 30℃ and temperature coefficient of resistance of over 18%/℃.
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Jo Jan 21, 2022
Finding optimal routes for main haul roads development not only enables us to reduce construction work load so as to shorten the period of opening up surface mines and start excavation as early as possible but also provides good conditions for optimal transport.
So far researchers have used genetic and DIJKSTRA algorithms, A* algorithms and ant colony algorithms, all of which are suitable only for plain surface mines.
Hong Kun Ui, dean of Faculty of Mining Engineering, grasped the shortcomings of previous research while working to find routes for main haul roads in the mountainous areas with complex relief and gave a scientific proof to its limitation.
First, a 3D model terrain was made by using Surpac software and input data for finding optimal routes were prepared by processing string file of Surpac software and extracting the 3D coordinate values in the mine area.
Then he developed a new search algorithm with principles arising in the haul road layout as constraints.
This proposal, which ensures broad-range search with continuous addition of search points regardless of topographic conditions, was adopted in a surface mine. It helped reduce enormous work load of 138 000m3.
You can find more information about this in his paper titled “Mountainous Surface Mines using A* algorithm” presented to SCI journal “Archives of Mining Science”.
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