• ICROS
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 간병인의 도움없이 자가 보행 재활에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있는 새로운 개념의 가슴 착용형 로봇을 개발하였다. 개발된 로봇의 특징은 크게 세 가지로 나뉜다. 첫째, 구조적 특징으로써, 하박에 착용하는 기존 지팡이 타입의 엘보 크러치와 달리 개발된 로봇은 가슴에 착용되어 착용자의 두 팔을 자유롭게 하는 동시에 팔의 부담을 제거하여 준다. 둘째는 구동 알고리즘의 특징으로써, 가슴부에 부착된 압력센서로부터 사용자의 보행의도를 자동적으로 인식하여 로봇의 다리를 이동시킨다. 또한 착용자의 안전을 위해 초음파 센서를 이용하여 착용자 전방에 장애물이 나타날 시 보행을 멈추고 경고음을 발생시킨다. 마지막으로, 스카치요크 메커니즘을 사용하여 지지다리의 상승과 하강 시 지면 반발력으로 인하여지지 발 상/하강 모터에 과도한 토크가 부과되지 않도록 하였다. 이러한 세 가지 특징으로부터 개발된 로봇이 자가 보행 재활에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있음을 실험적으로 보였으며, EMG (Electromyography) 센서를 이용하여 근력 보조 성능을 정량적으로 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1463-1466
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• 2006

이동형 로봇을 위한 아키텍처가 제안된다. 제안되는 로봇 아키텍처는 하이브리드 deliberative/reactive 타입이다. 아키텍처는 세 층으로 구성되는데 deliberation 층, 태스크 실행 층, reactive 층이다. 태스크 실행 층에 공용 메시지 박스를 두어서 세 층간의 메시지 교환 용도로 사용한다. 시스템의 구성 모듈은 서로 독립적으로 작동하고 다른 모듈과의 메시지 교환은 메시지 박스를 통해서 이루어지도록 하여 시스템의 확장성과 유연성이 확보된다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.3873-3879
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• 2010

Home service robot are not working in the fixed task such as industrial robot, because they are together with human in the same indoor space, but have to do in much more flexible and various environments. Most of them are developed on the base of the wheel-base mobile robot in the same method as a vehicle robot for factory automation. In these days, for holonomic system characteristics, omni-directional wheels are used in the mobile robot. A holonomicrobot, using omni-directional wheels, is capable of driving in any direction. But trajectory control for omni-directional mobile robot is not easy. Especially, azimuth control which sensor uncertainty problem is included is much more difficult. This paper develops trajectory controller of 3-wheels omni-directional mobile robot using fuzzy azimuth estimator. A trajectory controller for an omni-directional mobile robot, which each motor is controlled by an individual PID law to follow the speed command from inverse kinematics, needs a precise sensing data of its azimuth and exact estimation of reference azimuth value. It has imprecision and uncertainty inherent to perception sensors for azimuth. In this paper, they are solved by using fuzzy logic inference which can be used straightforward to perform the control of the mobile robot by means of the fuzzy behavior-based scheme already existent in literature. Finally, the good performance of the developed mobile robot is confirmed through live tests of path control task.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.669-674
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• 2012

This study presents the remote control of a mobile robot using iPhone based on Wi-Fi communication. The paper proposes the following set of user interfaces : acceleration mode, arrow touch mode, and jog-shuttle mode. To evaluate the proposed three interfaces, a virtual robot is controlled in a monitor to follow a referenced trajectory using iPhone. In simulation, the standard deviation and summed errors are analysed for showing good and weak points of the proposed three interfaces. The proposed interface replace an additional remote controller requiring cost with a cellular phone. Results of an experiment show that the proposed interfaces can be effectively used for remote robot control.

• ICROS
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.20-25
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• 2012

자연계에 존재하는 생물체는 오랜 시간에 걸쳐 지구의 가혹한 환경에 적응하면서 다듬어져온 최적화된 작품이다. 이러한 동 식물의 생체 특징 모방은 기존 기술의 한계를 돌파하면서 가장 활발한 연구 분야로 자리 잡고 있다. 생체모방 로봇은 생체모방 기술의 한 분야로써 곤충, 새, 물고기, 그리고 여타 동물들을 연구해 생명체의 우수한 특성을 로봇기술에 접목함으로써 기존의 로봇 시스템이 극복하지 못했던 수많은 난제 해결에 도전중이다. 생체모방 로봇 기술의 최신 동향을 크게 세 줄기로 나누면 실용화, 생체분석법의 다양화, 모방대상의 다양화로 분류될 수 있다. 이 글에서는 이상에서 언급한 생체모방 로봇의 최신 동향에 대해서 소개한다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.41-48
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to compare the meaning of the experience of robot play in the free play time of 5-year-old children in daycare centers with the experience of 5-year-old children in the structural group activities of teachers. To this end, a total of 32 children (15 in the experimental group and 17 in the comparative group) aged 5 were conducted for 1 hour three times a week for 10 weeks. Robots were supported as toys in the classroom of the experimental group, and children in the comparative group freely experienced robot exploration and play during free play time, and children in the comparative group learned the robot's functions and performed structural group activities based on the 2019 Revised Nuri Curriculum national-level curriculum. As a result of analyzing the difference between pre-test and post-test, the use of robots in free play showed a significant effect in creativity and fluency of children, and a significant effect in expression of pleasure in playability. These results suggest that robots are meaningful as play materials in early childhood education, which aims for infant-led free play, and that it is worth studying the robot experiences of children in these free situations in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.85-87
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• 2003

보행 로봇은 두발로 걷는 인간형 로봇으로 인간과 유사한 운동성을 가지는 로봇을 일컫는다. 그러나 다리로 걷는 기능을 구현하기에는 기술적으로 경제적으로 많은 시간이 걸리고, 수학적 모델로 풀 수 있는 문제가 아니기 때문에 보행 로봇의 보행 패턴을 구하는 것은 쉽지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 2관절 보행 로봇의 최적의 보행 패턴을 찾기 위하여 진화 알고리즘을 연구하였다. 또한, 기존의 언덕 오르기법과 진화기법인 누적적 선택 및 유전자 알고리즘에 의해 보행 패턴 학습을 하는 시뮬레이터를 각각 구현하였으며, 세 가지 실험에 대한 결과를 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.109-118
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• 2020

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of interaction, gender, and age on preschool children's intimate relationship with entertainment robot dog. For this purpose, two kinds of experiments were conducted for 70 preschool children in day care centers in Seoul. Experiment 1 relates to the interaction with entertainment robot dog, 34 children aged 5 years (17 experimental groups, 17 comparative groups). Experiment 2 was a study on the effects of gender and age. A total of 36 children (pre- and post-group) of 12 children aged 3, 4, and 5 years old were included. This study interviewed the number of distributions and the motivations for distribution by using the "Dividing Game(Distribution Principle)" interview. As a result, firstly the group experiencing the interaction felt more intimate with the entertainment robot dog, and the reason was emotional factor the most(Experiment 1). Second, gender had no significant effect on entertainment robot dog intimacy and age showed a reverted U-shape. The above results are meaningful in that it reveals what kind of factors affecting the intimacy between the preschooler and entertainment robot dog.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.911-919
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• 2022

In this paper, we analyzed to find out the effects of phonological awareness game using teacher assisted robot on 5-year-old children's reading ability and reading interest. A total of 30 5-year-old children were equally divided into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group conducted a total of 16 game activities using an educational robot twice a week for three weeks, the control group conducted the same 16 game activities without the robot during the same period. The results are as follows. Firstly, the experimental group was better in reading ability than that of the control group, especially total scores, word meaning, omission, and replacement. Secondly, the experimental group showed more interest in reading than the control group. From these findings, it can be suggested that phonological awareness games using the educational robot lay foundation to developing and enhancing on 5-year-old children's reading abilities and interest in reading.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.295-300
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• 2017

The study evaluates exploration of social robot's role which can emotionally communicate with human as an alternative to heal psychological isolation for single-person households. At first, I conduct a study on literatured to understand the definition and characteristics of social robot then analyze the current situation and future prospects. Based on this, I organized the requirements of social robot in aspect of user experience through in-depth interview of twenties single-person households living in the metropolitan area who could be potential customers. As a result every subject require social robot specialized to them through accumulated interaction. On the other hand, degree of attachment with social robot is different from subjects. Hear by I realize every subject require social robot to different and various functions according to their lifestyle and personality. Therefore I could draw conclusions and implications from this study that technical development in aspect of personalized user experience is necessary for social robot to settle in to human's life in the future.