• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.319-323
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 동작 모델과 작업 목표에 따라 지능 로봇 시스템의 작업 순서를 결정하는 작업 계획기의 설계와 데모시스템에 대해 설명한다. 블랙보드 중심의 분산 제어 구조에서 하나의 독립적인 지식원으로 동작하는 작업 계획기는 작업 관리기의 요청이 있을 때마다 지식베이스로부터 동작 모델과 월드 상태 정보를 제공받아 작업 목표 달성을 위한 작업 계획을 생성한다. 그리고 이렇게 생성된 작업 계획은 오류로 인해 재 계획이 필요할 때까지 작업 관리기를 통해 실행된다. 본 연구의 작업 계획기는 효율적인 작업 계획 생성을 위해 지역 상태공간 탐색법의 하나인 EHC+ 탐색법과 계획그래프-기반의 휴우리스틱 계산법을 적용한다. 본 논문에서는 작업 계획기의 효율성과 블랙보드와의 연계성을 시험하기 위한 데모 시스템에 대해 자세히 설명한다. 이를 통해 지식베이스, 작업 관리기, 컴포넌트 서비스기 등 로봇 제어 구조내의 다른 지식원들과의 인터페이스를 위한 메시지 설계도 소개한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.141-150
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• 2001

Manufacturing conb'ol applications consist of concurrent active components such as robots, AGV's (Automatic Guided Vehicles), and conveyors. Running of manufacturing control programs is interactions among those components. We can enhance the productivity and extendability of manufacturing control applications by using the object-oriented teclmology that models those components as reusable objects. But the objects in current object-oriented technology that encapsulate state and behavior infonnation are passive in a sense that those respond only when messages are sent to them. In this paper, we introduce the Distributed Active Object Systems (DAGS) approach that SUPPOltS active objects. Since active objects encapsulate control infonnation in addition to state and behavior information under COREA/Java-based distributed environment, they can represent manufacturing control components better than the objects in ordimuy object-oriented technology. TIus control infonnation provides an object with a featme that can monitor its own status as well as other object's status connected by intelface valiables. Active objects can initiate a behavior according to the change of those status. Therefore, we can sb-uctmally assemble self-initiating active objects by using intelface variables to construct a system without describing bow to control distributed objects by using message passing. As the DAOS approach supports object composability, we can enhal1ce the productivity and extendability of disbibuted manufactming control applications even better than the ordil1alY object-oriented approach. Also, the DAOS approach supports better component reusability with active objects that encapsulate control information .

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.38-46
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• 2011

The OPRoS (Open Platform for Robotic Service) framework provides uniform operating environment for service robots. As an OPRoS-based service robot has to support real-time as well as non-real-time applications, application of Windows NT kernel based operating system can be restrictive. On the other hand, various benefits such as rich library and device support and abundant developer pool can be enjoyed when service robots are built on Windows NT. The paper presents a user-mode component scheduler of OPRoS, which can provide near real-time scheduling service on Windows NT based on the restricted real-time features of Windows NT kernel. The component scheduler thread with the highest real-time priority in Windows NT system acquires CPU control. And then the component scheduler suspends and resumes each periodic component executors based on its priority and precedence dependency so that the component executors are scheduled in the preemptive manner. We show experiment analysis on the performance limitations of the proposed scheduling technique. The analysis and experimental results show that the proposed scheduler guarantees highly reliable timing down to the resolution of 10ms.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.780-785
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• 2010

The OPRoS (Open Platform for Robotic Services) framework is proposed as an application runtime environment for service robot systems. For the successful deployment of the OPRoS framework, fault tolerance support is crucial on top of its basic functionalities of lifecycle, thread and connection management. In the previous work [1] on OPRoS fault tolerance supports, we presented a framework-based fault tolerance architecture. In this paper, we extend the architecture with component-based fault tolerance techniques, which can provide more simplicity and efficiency than the pure framework-based approach. This argument is especially true for fault detection, since most faults and failure can be defined when the system cannot meet the requirement of the application functions. Specifically, the paper applies two widely-used fault detection techniques to the OPRoS framework: 'bridge component' and 'process model' component techniques for fault detection. The application details and performance of the proposed techniques are demonstrated by the same application scenario in [1]. The combination of component-based techniques with the framework-based architecture would improve the reliability of robot systems using the OPRoS framework.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.8-8
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• 2000

PICARD (Port-Interface Component Architecture for Real-time system Design) is a software architecture and environment, which is aimed to reduce development time and cost of real-time, control system. With PICARD, a control engineer can construct a control system software by assembling pre-built software components us ing interact ive graphical development environment. PICARD consists of PVM(Picard Virtual Machine) , a component library, and PICE(PIcard Configuration Editor). PVM is a real-time engine of the PICARD system which runs control tasks on a real-time operating system. The component library is composed of components which are called task blocks. PICE is a visual editor which can configure control tasks by creating data-flow diagrams of task blocks or Ladder diagrams for sequential logics. For the communication between PVM on a target system and PICE on a host computer, a simple protocol and tools for stub generation was dove]oped because RPC or CORBA is difficult to be applied for the embedded system. New features such as a byte-code based run time system and a simple and easy MMI builder are also introduced.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.8-11
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• 2000

XLL은 웹 상에서 문서의 표준화와 데이터베이스로서의 역할을 잘 감당한다. 이러한 이점 때문에 XML 관련 표준안들이 늘어나고 개발되고 있는 추세이다. XML 관련 표준안으로는 XSL, 스키마, 네임스페이스, XLL 등이 있다. 이 중 XLL은 현재 IE(Internet Explorer) 5.5에서도 제대로 지원되지 않아 XLL을 구현하기 위한 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. XLL을 지원하는 브라우저, 프로그램, 컴포넌트들이 개발되었는데 이것들은 모두 해당 프로그램을 다운받거나 설치해야한다는 단점이 있고 특정 프로그램을 사용해야 하는 부담이 따른다. 본 논문은 웹 상에서 아무런 프로그램이 없이 XML 문서의 URL을 등록하면 그 문서에 있는 XLL을 DB를 이용하여 저장하고, ASP 및 DOM을 이용하여 DB에 저장된 XLL과 원래 문서에 포함된 XLL을 웹 상에서 바로 보여질 수 있도록 구현한다. XML 문서가 HTML을 넘어서 대중화가 되었을 때 웹 로봇이 XLL 등록하는 역할을 하도록 한다면 XML을 기반으로 하는 검색사이트로서의 역할을 감당할 수 있다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1074-1081
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• 2011

As robotics systems are becoming more complex there is the need to promote component based robot development, where systems can be constructed as the composition and integration of reusable building block. One of the most important challenges facing component based robot development is safeguarding against software component failures and malfunctions. The health monitoring of the robot software is most fundamental factors not only to manage system at runtime but also to analysis information of software component in design phase of the robot application. And also as a lot of monitoring events are occurred during the execution of the robot software components, a simple data treatment and efficient memory management method is required. In this paper, we propose an efficient events monitoring and data management method by modeling robot software component and monitoring factors based on robot software framework. The monitoring factors, such as component execution runtime exception, Input/Output data, execution time, checkpoint-rollback are deduced and the detail monitoring events are defined. Furthermore, we define event record and monitor record pool suitable for robot software components and propose a efficient data management method. To verify the effectiveness and usefulness of the proposed approach, a monitoring module and user interface has been implemented using OPRoS robot software framework. The proposed monitoring module can be used as monitoring tool to analysis the software components in robot design phase and plugged into self-healing system to monitor the system health status at runtime in robot systems.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.6
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• pp.785-792
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• 2008

In spite of the various techniques on the testing of embedded software, operation failures of embedded systems such as robot or satellite applications, are occurred frequently. The critical reason of these failures is due to the fact that software is embedded into a target system with inherent faults. Therefore, in order to prevent the failure owing to such faults, it needs a technique to test the embedded software which operates in real environment. In this paper, we propose a testing technique, aspect-based On-the-Fly testing that is to test the functionality and performance at real operation time. Our proposed technique gives some benefits of real test of unexpected input conditions, prevention of software malfunction, and reusability of aspect components for the testing.