• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.652-658
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• 2010

This paper presents the implementation and control of a two wheeled mobile robot(TWMR) based on a balancing mechanism. The TWMR is a mobile inverted pendulum structure that combines an inverted pendulum system and a mobile robot system with two arms instead of a rod. To improve robustness due to disturbances, the radial basis function (RBF) network is used to control an angle and a position at the same time. The reference compensation technique(RCT) is used as a neural control method. Experimental studies are conducted to demonstrate performance of neural network controllers. The robot are implemented with the remote control capability.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.331-339
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• 2016

This paper developed a home wellness robot platform to perform the roles in basic health care and life care in an aging society. A robotic platform and a sensory platform were implemented for an indoor wellness service. In the robotic platform, the precise mobility and the dexterous manipulation are not only developed in a symbiotic service-robot, but they also ensure the robot architecture of human friendliness. The mobile robot was made in the agile system, which consists of Omni-wheels. The manipulator was made in the anthropomorphic system to carry out dexterous handwork. In the sensing platform, RF tags and stereo camera were used for self and target localization. They were processed independently and cooperatively for accurate position and posture. The wellness robot platform was integrated in a real-time system. Finally, its good performance was confirmed through live indoor tests for health and life care.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.1741-1747
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• 2010

This work presents a study on the design of an economic service robot hand for tele-presence manipulators. The conceptual design of new robot hand is derived from biomimetics approach. Guided by the analysis of human arm' musculoskeletal structure, the fingers are actuated by cables and actuators in the forearm. High tension in the cables is achieved by screw-nut mechanism driven by DC motors. A set of combination springs is incorporated in each of the screw-nut mechanism for easy control of gripping force. The first prototype revealed difficulties with finger control and coupling problem between gripping force and wrist movement. The solutions to these problems have been derived from the contradiction analysis of TRIZ. The second design has been verified by tests on various objects with different weight and shape for full range of wrist motion.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.226-232
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• 2009

In this paper, a design and analysis of a gravity compensator which is a new device to reduce the joint torque of robots caused due to gravity is presented. Joints of all robots are loaded by large torques due to gravity. By applying the gravity compensator to the robot joints, the load torques applied to the robot joints are reduced by the repulsive force of the gravity compensator such that the size of the joint actuation motor can be reduced. In this paper, the structure and force relation of the gravity compensator are analyzed. The superior performance of the proposed gravity compensator is verified through experiments which measure the joint motor current caused by the load applied to the robot link.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.1052-1057
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• 1993

A scara type Direct Drive Arm(DDA) with two degrees-of-freedom is designed and implemented. The direct drive motor is used to furnish large torque to reduce the modeling error by the gear and chains. To control the DDA, a multiprocessor control structure with multirate dynamic control algorithm is designed. In the control algorithm, the dynamics of system is used to calculate the nominal control torque and the feedback controls are calculated with a parallel processing algorithm for each joint. The laboratory experiments on Hong-Ik DDA by dynamic control algorithm are presented and compared to that of PID control algorithm. This result shows that the proposed controller guarantees small trajectory error and stability. With this research, Hong-Ik DDA is expected to be utilized as A basic tool for robotics and control engineering.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.155-160
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• 2003

It is very important to make an intensive control of burr and surface roughness in the actuator arm of HDD for personal computer. There are two finishing techniques for actuator arm mechanical and chemical method. Centrifugal barrelling and magnetic deburring are mechanical methods, and electrolysis finish is a chemical method. Centrifugal barrelling and magnetic deburring are widely used due to the excellence in convenience and mass production. In this study, characteristics of surface roughness and deburring effect in magnetic deburring and centrifugal barrelling are investigated, and their performance of finishing is compared.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.165-172
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• 1995

Many algorithms to enhance a speed performance of a robot have been studied, but it's rare to consider disign aspect of a robot arm for time optimal problem. In this paper, section demensions of a robot arm and a velocity profile of an end-effector were optimally designed to minimize the cycle time. Capacity of actuators, deflections of end-effector, and a fundamental natural frequency of the robot arm were constrained in optimal design. For a given path with a trapezoidal velocity profile, torques of each joint were calculated using the inverse kinematics and dynamics. For the SCARA type robot which is mainly used for assembly tasks, the time optimal design of each robot arm id presented with the above constraints.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.183-193
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• 1994

The dynamic equation of a flexible robot manipulator is formulated by the assumed-mode method and the Lagrange equation. The controller is designed for a flexible robot manipulator including a joint actuator. The controller consists of a parmaeter estimator and the adaptive controller. A parameter estimator evaluates ARMA model`s parameter using RLS algorithm. An adaptive controller is designed based on a reference model and a minimum prediction error controller.

• 전기의세계
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.26-31
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• 2002

최근 일본에서 발표된 혼다의 ASIMO, 소니의 AIBO, SDR-3X, SDR-4X 등의 로봇에 힘입어 전 세계적으로 퍼스널 로봇의 연구개발이 활성화되고 있으며, 국내에서도 소규모 벤처 로봇 업체를 중심으로 이전의 산업용 로봇으로부터 퍼스널 로봇으로 개발방향을 선회하고 있는 실정이다. 이미 인터넷이나 신문매체를 통하여 접할 수 있는 구미의 실용적인 서비스 로봇기술과 함께, 마치 정말로 살아서 움직이는 듯한 동작을 표현하는 일본의 로봇기술은 개발하는 사람으로서도 절로 감탄을 자아내게 만든다. 이러한 로봇 및 제어기술에 대한 국내의 로봇 벤처기업의 반응은 이를 구현할 수 있는 일본의 산업인프라가 부럽다는 것이다. 즉 모터, 센서, 전지 등의 핵심부품만 받쳐준다면 해볼 만 하다는 것이다. 여기에는 여러 가지 메커니즘 및 핵심부품이 있으나 이 글에서는 산업자원부의 자금으로 수행하고 있는 퍼스널 로봇용 기반기술 과제를 중심으로 메커니즘 부분에는 모듈형 로봇 팔과 이동 메커니즘, 그리고 핵심부품부분에는 구동부품과 스테레오 시각센서에 관하여 소개하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07b
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• pp.1222-1224
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• 1996

The Hong Ik Direct Drive Arm(HIDDA) is a SCARA typed direct drive manipulator with two degrees-of-freedom(DOF) using the direct drive motor of the NSK company. The direct NSK motors are used to give a large torque directly to the link, to reduce the modeling errors from the gears and chains. But, since the nonlinear coupling torques are transferred to the motor shaft without any reduction, we must consider a dynamic control algorithm. In this paper, we designed a robot controller for the HIDDA using a TMS320C31, which has the highest performance among the third DSP chips in the TI company. And we developed the integrated environment software of the robot management system to give the users an easy way of programming, running and simulation of the robot on the PC.