• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.85-95
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigated the learners' interest of activity and learning contents in elementary school SW education using robot. In order to achieve the purpose of this paper, SW education using Entry and Hamster robot was conducted to 15 students who was participated in educational program in Youth training center. In addition, we examined mean difference using descriptive statistics. Our results show that students were generally interested in activities related to hamster robots. Further, interest was associated with gender. Specifically, boys were more interested in activities related to axis acceleration sensor and light sensor and girls were more interested in activities related to sound and movement. This paper was investigated students' interest and identify differences depending on gender, and supposed the concrete data that can be used in the school field.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.1337-1346
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• 2005

In this paper, we describe an algorithm which can automatically recognize human gesture for Human-Robot interaction. In early works, many systems for recognizing human gestures work under many restricted conditions. To eliminate these restrictions, we have proposed the method that can represent 3D and 2D gesture information simultaneously, APM. This method is less sensitive to noise or appearance characteristic. First, the feature vectors are extracted using APM. The next step is constructing a gesture space by analyzing the statistical information of training images with PCA. And then, input images are compared to the model and individually symbolized to one portion of the model space. In the last step, the symbolized images are recognized with HMM as one of model gestures. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm is efficient on gesture recognition, and it is very convenient to apply to humanoid robot or intelligent interface systems.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.681-687
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• 2007

첨단 기술의 발전과 함께 장애인 및 노약자의 삶의 질에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라 사용자가 각종 시스템들을 보다 쉽게 제어할 수 있는 방법들이 많이 연구되고 있다. 그 중 하나로 정의된 손 움직임 동작을 인식하여 가전기기 혹은 환경 제어 시스템, 홈 로봇 등에 명령을 내리는 기술을 예로 들 수 있다. 하지만, 정의된 손 움직임이 일상생활에서 발생하는 동작과 비슷한 경우 오작동을 일으킬 가능성이 있으며, 이를 차단하기 위해 복잡한 동작을 명령어로 사용할 경우 사용자의 편의성을 떨어뜨린다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 비슷한 동작 중에서 특정 동작을 검출할 수 있는 퍼지 가비지 모델을 제안한다. 퍼지 가비지 모델이란 인식하고자 하는 특정 동작을 제외한 다른 유사 동작의 특성을 반영하여 구현한 퍼지 모델을 말한다. 따라서 사용자의 동작으로부터 특징 값을 구한 후 이를 특정 동작에 대한 퍼지 모델과 퍼지 가비지 모델에 각각 대입하여 얻은 결과를 비교해서 어떤 동작이 발생하였는지 결정한다. 또한 사용자의 행동 특성은 개인마다 다르게 나타나고 동일 사용자라 하더라도 경우에 따라 동작에 편차가 나타날 수 있기 때문에 특정 사용자에 대한 시스템의 적응이 필요하다. 이를 위해 다양한 경우를 고려하여 최적화된 값을 찾을 수 있는 진화 알고리즘을 이용하여 퍼지 모델 파라미터를 갱신하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 5명의 사용자로부터 명령 동작과 의미 없는 유사 동작의 데이터를 획득하여 실험 결과를 보인다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.537-542
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• 2014

This paper proposes a control system to keep the balance of a unicycle robot. The robot consists of the disk and wheel, for balancing and driving respectively, and the tile angle is measured and used for balancing by the IMU sensor. A PID controller is designed based on a non-model based algorithm to prove that it is possible to control the unicycle robot without any approximated linear system model such as the sliding mode control algorithm. The PID controller has the advantage that it is simple to design the controller and it does not require an unnecessary complex formula. In this paper, assuming that the pitch and roll axis are dynamically decoupled, each of the two controllers are designed separately. A reaction wheel pendulum method is used for the control of the roll axis, that is, for balancing and an inverted pendulum concept is used for the control of the pitch axis. To confirm the performance of the proposed controllers using MATLAB Simulink, the dynamic equations of the robot are derived.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1074-1081
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• 2010

Today, the research related to the robot is achieved in various part. With the high interest in means of transport, various researches about autonomous mobile robot and next generation transport is continuing. The unicycle robot among these needs much control technique like balance control model and driving model. For autonomous driving of this unicycle robot, from the basic balance control to direction switching control and velocity control are needed. But the environment elements like a gradient and frictional force or unbalanced elements from the structural feature. The unicycle needs the real time balance control so more complex, harder to control. And when functional addition is made, the problem that fall entire reaction velocity or accuracy would be happen. This paper introduces entire dynamics modeling of the unicycle robot and reduced model. And propose the new balance control algorithm using fuzzy controller. Also the evaluation about performance would be made through the test.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.215-229
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the structural relationships among factors affecting teachers' robot-based SW education acceptance in primary school. In addition, this study investigated moderating effects of gender, age, and experience. For this purpose, 171 elementary school teachers participated in this study and structural equation modeling analyses were employed to examine the causal relationships among variables. The result of this study showed that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, personal innovativeness had direct effects on attitude. Furthermore, attitude mediated relationships between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, personal innovativeness and intention to use. Third, the moderating effects of experience between perceived usefulness, personal innovativeness and attitude were significant, but gender and age were not significant on all paths. Based on the results of this study, successful teaching practices, cases, and contents should be shared with teachers. Also, continuous supports and differentiated strategies based on experience are needed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

This paper presents a technique for localization of a mobile robot using a single ultrasonic sensor. The mobile robot is designed for operating in a well-structured environment that can be represented by planes, edges, corners and cylinders in the view of structural features. In the case of ultrasonic sensors, these features have the range information in the form of the arc of a circle that is generally named as RCD (Region of Constant Depth). Localization is the continual provision of a knowledge of position which is deduced from it's a priori position estimation. The environment of a robot is modeled into a two dimensional grid map. we defines a physically-based sonar sensor model and employs an extended Kalman filter to estimate position of the robot. The performance and simplicity of the approach is demonstrated with the results produced by sets of experiments using a mobile robot.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.438-444
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• 2004

The intelligent robots that will be needed in the near future are human-friendly robots that are able to coexist with humans and support humans effectively. To realize this, robots need to recognize their position and posture in known environment as well as unknown environment. Moreover, it is necessary for their localization to occur naturally. It is desirable for a robot to estimate of his position by solving uncertainty for mobile robot navigation, as one of the best important problems. In this paper, we describe a method for the localization of a mobile robot using image information of a moving object. This method combines the observed position from dead-reckoning sensors and the estimated position from the images captured by a fixed camera to localize a mobile robot. Using the a priori known path of a moving object in the world coordinates and a perspective camera model, we derive the geometric constraint equations which represent the relation between image frame coordinates for a moving object and the estimated robot's position. Since the equations are based or the estimated position, the measurement error may exist all the time. The proposed method utilizes the error between the observed and estimated image coordinates to localize the mobile robot. The Kalman filter scheme is applied for this method. its performance is verified by the computer simulation and the experiment.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.910-917
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• 2007

Of the possible interactions between human and robot, touch is an important means of providing human beings with emotional relief. However, most previous studies have focused on interactions based on voice and images. In this paper. a method of recognizing human touching behaviors is proposed for developing a robot that can naturally interact with humans through touch. In this method, the recognition process is divided into pre-process and recognition Phases. In the Pre-Process Phase, recognizable characteristics are calculated from the data generated by the touch detector which was fabricated using force sensors. The force sensor used an FSR (force sensing register). The recognition phase classifies human touching behaviors using a multi-layer perceptron which is a neural network model. Experimental data was generated by six men employing three types of human touching behaviors including 'hitting', 'stroking' and 'tickling'. As the experimental result of a recognizer being generated for each user and being evaluated as cross-validation, the average recognition rate was 82.9% while the result of a single recognizer for all users showed a 74.5% average recognition rate.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.165-173
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of customer's innovation and usefulness on the use intention of Service Robots by potential customers. Based on Davis(1989)'s Technology Acceptance Model, this study formulated three hypotheses, which were about relationships between customer's innovation, usefulness, and use intention of Service Robots. For this study, structured questionnaires were used and data were collected from the 171 people in Seoul and Cheonan. To test three hypotheses, collected data were analyzed using hierarchical regression technique. The results showed that customer's innovation has no influence on usefulness, whereas customer's innovation and usefulness have effects on use intention.