• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.919-926
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• 2010

This paper proposes a wearable hand rehabilitation device, DULEX, for persons with functional paralysis of upper-limbs after stoke. DULEX has three degrees of freedom for rehabilitation exercises for wrist and fingers except the thumb. The main function of DULEX is to extend the range of motions of finger and wrist being contracture. DULEX is designed by using a parallel mechanism, and its parameters such as length and location of links are determined by kinematic analysis. The motion trajectory of the designed DULEX is aligned to human hand to prevent a slip. To reduce total weight of DULEX, artificial air muscles are used for actuating each joint motion. In feedback control, each joint angle is indirectly estimated from the relations of the input air pressure and the output muscle length. Experimental results show that DULEX is feasible in hand rehabilitation for stroke survivals.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2014

This paper describes a design and manufacture of a two-axis force sensor and a single-axis force sensor for the fingers of an intelligent robot's hand. The robot's finger is composed of a two-axis force sensor, a first knuckle, a single-axis force sensor, a second knuckle, a spring, a motor of first knuckle, a motor of second knuckle, and so on. The two-axis force sensor attached to the first knuckle and the single-axis force sensor attached to the second knuckle were designed and manufactured, and the characteristics test of two sensors was carried out. As a test results, the interference error of the two-axis force sensor was less than 0.68%, the repeatability error of each sensor was less than 0.02%, and then the non-linearity was less than 0.03%. It is thought that the sensors can be used for the fingers of the intelligent robot's hand for rehabilitation exercise of finger patients.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.593-598
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• 2014

Hand gesture recognition based on vision is a challenging task in human-robot interaction. The sign language of finger spelling alphabets has been tested as a kind of hand gesture. In this paper, we test hand gesture recognition by detecting the contour shape and orientation of hand with visual image. The method has three stages, the first stage of finding hand component separated from the background image, the second stage of extracting the contour feature over the hand component and the last stage of comparing the feature with the reference features in the database. Here, finger spelling alphabets are used to verify the performance of our system and our method shows good performance to discriminate finger alphabets.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.582-587
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• 1997

This paper deals with the control problem under nonlinear boiler systems with noise, and input constraints. MCMBPC(Multivariable Constrained Model-Based Predictive Controller) proposed by Wilkinson et al.[10,11] is used and nominal model is modified in this paper in order to applied to nonlinear boiler systems with feed-forward terms. The solution of the cost function optimization constrained on input and/or output variables is achieved using quadratic programming, via singular value decomposition(SVD). The controller designed is shown to satisfy the constraints and to have excellent tracking performance via simulation applied to nonlinear dynamic drum boiler turbine model for 16OMW unit.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.1160-1166
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• 2007

This paper presents the design and implementation of an embedded image stabilization control system for a mobile phone with a built-in camera. Image stabilization is a family of techniques for reducing image blur resulting from minute camera shake due to hand-held shooting, thereby allowing the use of shutter speeds slower than values normally required to obtain sharp images. A mechanical image stabilizer mechanism developed for a camera mobile phone is introduced and a digital control system as a part of the image stabilization system is designed and implemented on an 8-bit microcontroller with integer arithmetic in C. This paper focuses primarily on issues that need to be taken into consideration for fixed-point implementation of the digital controller. Several experimental results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the implemented image stabilization control system.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.203-210
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• 2019

This paper proposes a hand-controller mechanism for manually controlled endoscopic surgical instruments. A wire-driven mechanism is typically adapted for endoscopic surgical tools because motors cannot be embedded to the joints due to the size limitation. The wire-driven mechanism requires length control of wires that are pulled and released according to the desired joint angle. It is difficult for the operator to control individual wire lengths intuitively. The hand-controller mechanism should be able to control the wires easily without complex processes. For this purpose, we propose a mechanism that can control the wire lengths with a simple mechanical structure and its optimal design method using genetic algorithm. We show the simulation and experimental results to confirm the proposed mechanism and design methods are useful for the manually controlled endoscopic surgical instrument.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.164-171
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• 2021

This paper proposes a continuum mechanism for manually controlled endoscopic surgical instruments. The wire-driven mechanism is typically adapted for endoscopic surgical tools because motors cannot be embedded to the joints due to the size limitation. However, the conventional wire-driven mechanism has inherent problems caused by redundancy, such as deflection and low precision. It does not have operating force and manipulability for surgery. Therefore, a method to increase the force of the continuum mechanism using a multi-wire with simple mechanical structure is proposed. Moreover, for intuitive operation, a hand-controller mechanism that can manipulate the length of the wire without complex process is proposed. Finally, we show that the proposed mechanism and methods are applicable to endoscopic surgical tools through simple experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.19-21
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• 2020

해가 갈수록 여러 요인들로 인하여 장애인 인구는 증가하고 있다. 하지만 이러한 장애인들을 위한 주변기기의 발전은 미흡한 상황이며 더욱이 장애인들의 여가를 위한 놀이문화, 기술들은 더욱 발전이 더딘 상태이다. 여가 활동은 장애인의 행복에도 직관적인 영향을 끼치는 중요한 부분이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 장애인들 중 손과 같은 신체를 움직이기 어려운 중증 지체장애인을 위한 오목 플랫폼을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 오목 플랫폼은 음성인식을 기반으로 사용자가 오목알을 착수하고 싶은 좌표를 음성으로 입력시키면 Dobot 즉 로봇암을 통하여 착수점에 오목알을 착수한다. 실험에선 Google Vocie To Text API를 Python 환경에서 사용하여 사용자의 음성입력을 받았으며 Dobot Studio의 Script에서 입력된 음성 값을 오목판에 1대1로 맵핑시켜 정확한 위치에 착수할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 본 논문의 연구 결과를 응용하면 오목에만 국한되는게 아닌 다양한 보드게임을 구현할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2024.05a
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• pp.482-483
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• 2024

Real-time Point Cloud Ground Segmentation은 자율주행에서 판단 및 객체 탐지/추적 등 다양한 분야에 도움을 준다. 이에 따라, Real-time Point Cloud Ground Segmentation을 했으며, 센서로는 라이다, 알고리즘으로는 TRAVEL논문을 인용했다. 또한 Real-time Point Cloud Ground Segmentation뿐 만 아니라 이동가능지형 판단(Traversability)을 하였다. 그리고 최종적으로, 위와 같은 알고리즘들을 회사 로봇(Scout Mini Robot)에 접목시켰으며 그 과정에서 TRAVEL 알고리즘내에 내제된 파라미터 값들을 최적화시키는 과정이 필요하였다. 그래서 3가지의 방법을 통해 파라미터 값을 선정한 후, 결과값을 비교 분석하였다. 연구 결과, Rellis-3D와 베이지안 최적화를 사용한 베이지안 파라미터가 최적의 파라미터임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.259-260
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• 2008

이 논문은 노인 및 장애인의 활동을 보조하기 위한 보행보조 로봇의 기술인 사용자의 진행하고자 하는 방향과 속도를 검출하는 보행 보조 로봇의 조향 장치를 구현 하고자 한다. 최근에 노인인구의 증가로 인해 노인 및 장애인을 위한 보행 보조기에 대한 관심이 증가되고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 경우 동력이 없는 시스템으로 경사 등의 공간에서 취약성을 가지 고 있다. 이에 동력형 보행보조기에 대한 관심이 증가되고 있다. 대부분의 경우 보행보조기의 제어가 조정한다는 의미가 적합하였다. 그러나 이 논문에서는 사용자의 움직임이 손에 전달되는 힘에 의해 사용자의 의지력을 파악 하는 두가지형태의 조향장치를 구현하였다. 첫째로 가변저항을 이용하여 보행의지를 파악하고, 두 번째로 힘센서를 이용하여 보행의지를 파악하였다. 위 두가지 센서를 기초로 사용자가 이동하고자 하는 이동 방향과 이동 속도 데이터를 기초로 보행보조기의 차량 속도와 방향에 대해 구동 바퀴의 차동 구동을 통해 사용자의 의지에 맞춰 구동할 수 있도록 하였다.