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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2003.9.1.073

Design of Autonomous Stair Robot System  

홍영호 (서울산업대학교 산업대학원 기계설계학과)
김동환 (서울산업대학교 기계설계자동화공학부)
임충혁 (서울산업대학교 기계설계자동화공학부)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.9, no.1, 2003 , pp. 73-81 More about this Journal
Abstract
An autonomous stair robot recognizing the stair, and climbing up and down the stair by utilizing a robot vision, photo sensors, and appropriate climbing algorithm is introduced. Four arms associated with four wheels make the robot climb up and down more safely and faster than a simple track typed robot. The robot can adjust wheel base according to the stair width, hence it can adopt to a variable width stair with different algorithms in climbing up and down. The command and image data acquired from the robot are transferred to the main computer through RF wireless modules, and the data are delivered to a remote computer via a network communication through a proper data compression, thus, the real time image monitoring is implemented effectively.
Keywords
stair robot; stair climbing algorithm; sensor fusion; RF communication; network; robot vision;
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