SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PROCEDURE COMPLIANCE LEVEL OF HUMAN OPERATORS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140019215A1
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company Limited (Government of South Korea), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Government of The Republic of Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company Limited (Government of South Korea), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Government of The Republic of Korea)
• Inventors: JUNG, Won Dea, KIM, Yo Chan, PARK, Jin Kyun
• Application Number:
  US13/790,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019215A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.42
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

Disclosed are a system for assessing the procedure compliance level of a human operator in a nuclear power plant, which quantitatively detects if the human operator complies with a standard procedure written in an emergency procedure guideline for the nuclear power plant, and a method thereof. The system includes a first recognizing unit attached to each of human operators, a second recognizing unit that is mounted on each of nuclear power equipments and able to make communication with the first recognizing unit, a database storing information of a standard procedure to be performed by the human operator with respect to the nuclear power equipment, and a server that is able to make communication with the second recognizing unit, and assesses the standard procedure stored in the database and an actual procedure performed by the human operator, which is received from the second recognizing unit.

Claims

1. A system for assessing a procedure compliance level of a human operator in a nuclear power plant, the system comprising:

a first recognizing unit attached to each of human operators;

a second recognizing unit that is mounted on each of nuclear power equipments and able to make communication with the first recognizing unit;

a database storing information of a standard procedure to be performed by the human operator with respect to the nuclear power equipment; and

a server that is able to make communication with the second recognizing unit, and assesses the standard procedure stored in the database and an actual procedure performed by the human operator, which is received from the second recognizing unit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server includes:

a progressing process determining unit determining a progressing process of the actual procedure which is performed by the human operator with respect to each nuclear power equipment;

a similarity calculating unit calculating a similarity between the actual procedure and the standard procedure, which is determined in the progressing process determining unit; and

a procedure compliance level determining unit determining the procedure compliance level with the standard procedure by the human operator based on the similarity calculated in the similarity calculating unit.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the first recognizing unit includes a tag attached to the human operator, and the second recognizing unit includes a reader to recognize the tag.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the server further includes:

a transceiver making communication with the second recognizing unit through a wired/wireless scheme; and

an operator/equipment recognizing unit recognizing the human operator and the nuclear power equipment via the transceiver.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the server further includes an analyzing unit analyzing the actual procedure determined in the progressing process determining unit.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the database includes:

an equipment database storing information of each nuclear power equipment;

an operator database storing information of each human operator; and

a standard procedure database storing information of the standard procedure.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the procedure compliance level with the standard procedure is determined by determining a compliance level with an emergency procedure guideline in relation to the actual procedure which is performed by the human operator with respect to each nuclear power equipment when an emergency situation occurs in the nuclear power plant.

8. A method of assessing a procedure compliance level of a human operator in a nuclear power plant, the method comprising:

(a) recording information of an actual procedure performed by each of human operators and information of each of nuclear power equipments;

(b) determining a progressing process of the actual procedure, which is performed with respect to each nuclear power equipment by the human operator in step (a), in a progressing process determining unit;

(c) deducing a similarity between a standard procedure stored in a database and the actual procedure, which is determined in step (b), in a similarity calculating unit; and

(d) deducing a procedure compliance level of the human operator in a procedure compliance level determining unit based on the similarity of step (c).

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the actual procedure is individually performed by the human operator with respect to the individual nuclear power equipment when an emergency situation occurs in the nuclear power plant, and the standard procedure is provided in an emergency procedure guideline stored in the database.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step (b) includes sequentially-arranging a progressing process of the actual procedure and a progressing process of the standard procedure in an analyzing unit.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step (a) includes:

detecting the progressing process of the actual procedure performed by each human operator by reading a tag attached to the human operator in a reader mounted on each nuclear power equipment; and

recording the progressing process of the actual procedure performed by the human operator in the server through wireless communication with the reader mounted on the nuclear power equipment.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the step (b) further includes:

arranging mutually-matching steps, which are selected among steps of the progressing process of the actual procedure and steps of the progressing process of the standard procedure, in a same column; and

processing mismatching steps, which are selected among steps of the progressing process of the actual procedure and steps of the progressing process of the standard procedure, as blanks.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein, in the step (c), the similarity is calculated as a sum of data values, which are differentially assigned depending on when steps of the progressing process of the actual procedure match with steps of the progressing process of the standard procedure and when the steps of the progressing process of the actual procedure mismatch with the steps of the progressing process of the standard procedure, by applying a Smith-Waterman algorithm to the steps of the progressing process of the actual procedure and the steps of the progressing process of the standard procedure.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein step (d) includes:

calculating a standard similarity by applying a Smith-Waterman algorithm to steps of the progressing process of the actual procedure when the progressing process of the actual procedure is performed identically to the progressing process of the standard procedure; and

deducing data of the procedure compliance level by dividing the similarity measured in the step (c) by the standard similarity.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the step (a) is performed according to the information of each nuclear power equipment stored in an equipment database and information of each human operator stored in an operator database.

16. A computer-readable recoding medium recording a program to execute the method of assessing the procedure compliance level of the human operator in the nuclear power plant, which is claimed according to claim 8.