• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.184-191
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• 2008

In order for a mobile robot to move under unknown or uncertain environment, it must have an environmental information. In collecting environmental information, the mobile robot can use various sensors. In case of using ultrasonic sensors to collect an environmental information, it is able to comprise a low-cost environmental recognition system compared with using other sensors such as vision and laser range-finder. This paper proposes a map building algorithm which can collect environmental information using ultrasonic sensors. And also this paper suggests a traveling algorithm using environmental information which leads to the map building algorithm. In order to accomplish the proposed traveling algorithm, this paper additionally discusses a position revision algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.36-48
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• 2010

This paper is concerned with stereo vision-based approach to detect obstacles and to generate the path of destination from the start. The hexapod robot in the experiment is cable of walking by legs and driving by wheels simultaneously. The hexapod robot operates under the driving mode normally, and it changes driving mode to walking mode to overcome obstacles using its legs. Disparity map, which is the correlation between two images taken by stereo camera, is employed for calculation of the distance between the robot and obstacles. When the obstacles information is extracted from the disparity map, the potential field algorithm is applied to create the obstacle-avoidance path. Simulator, based on OpenGL, is developed to generate the graphical path, and the experimental results are shown for the verification of the proposed algorithm.

• Digital Contents
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• no.10 s.125
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• pp.27-27
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• 2003

빌딩이 빽빽한 도시 한가운데이자 IT밸리 중심에 자리잡은 서울정보통신대학원대학교에서 만난 문남미 교수, 그녀가 최근 e-러닝 콘텐츠 표준화 작업을 위해 정보통신부와 문화관광부를 수십번씩 드나들며 활발한 활동을 펼치고 있다. 그녀는 e-러닝(e-learning) 표준화를 위한 기술 로드맵을 집필한 바로 그 주인공이다. 선정릉을 끼고 위치한 빌딩 3층에 있는 문 교수는 연구실에서 연구원과 연구 발표를 위해 열띤 논쟁을 하고 있었다. 세련되고 깔금한 회색 정장에 짧은 단발머리의 문 교수는 "임시 건물의 연구실이 너무 좁죠" 라며 씩씩한 목소리로 반겼다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.62-71
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• 2009

In mobile robotics, ultrasonic sensors became one of the most popular devices for collision avoidance and navigation primarily due to data robustness, the easy availability of low-cost systems, their compact size, simple circuits, and their ease in interfacing with computers. However, ultrasonic sonic sensors are subject to noise which results in inaccuracy of mapping and localization of the robot. This paper introduces a new approach to enhance environmental maps based on ultrasonic range data using linear interpolation and Newton interpolation. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method improves of the accuracy of the map through better distance estimation between the mobile robot and obstacles.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.324-325
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.277-277
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• 2004

로봇의 실시간 장애물 회피 방법은 연구되어 왔고 실행되어 왔다. 이러한 방법을 vector field histogram(VFH)라 하며 이러한 방법은 알려져 있지 않는 장애물의 발견과 장애물과의 충돌을 피하는 동시에 목표점으로의 로봇의 이동을 위한 알고리즘이다. The vector field histogram(VFH)방법은 world model로 이차원 Cartesian histogram grid를 이용하였다. VFH 방법은 Vehicle을 원하는 데로 컨트롤하기 위한 과정으로 두 단계 데이터 줄이는 과정이다. Histogram grid 의 첫 번째 단계는 로봇의 순간위치를 구성하기 위한 일 차원 polar histogram에 포함된 각 섹터의 값은 polar obstacle density(POD)로 방향을 표시한다.(중략)

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.21-27
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• 2018

In accordance with the implementation of the Zero Energy Building Certification System, it for the activation and expansion of the private sector is being steadily upgraded. Also The government has set up a step-by-step mandatory roadmap until it is expanded to the private sector, starting with the public sector. We analyzed the energy requirements of existing buildings from 2016 to 2017 and the by load relationships of major factor. Of the existing buildings, 714 buildings in central and southern areas excluding residential buildings such as apartments and officetels were classified and their primary energy requirements were analyzed. As new design technologies are applied, the demand for energy from the passive side is steadily declining. In addition, there is a need to interpret various methods to improve the zero energy building certification standard in the point that the zero energy building pilot project is continuously carried out in relation to the activation of renewable energy supply.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.47-56
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• 2015

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of people who use the smart-phone navigation for using various latest functions such as group driving and location sharing. But smart-phone has a limited storage space for one application, since a lot of applications with different purposes are installed in the smart-phone. For this reason, road network data with a large space of memory used for map matching in the device for navigation cannot be stored in the smart-phone for this reason map matching is impossible. Besides, smart-phone which doesn't use the external GPS device, provides inaccurate GPS information, compared to the device for navigation. This is why the smart-phone navigation is hard to provide accurate location determination. Therefore, this study aims to help map matching that is more accurate than the existing device for navigation, by reducing the capacity of road network data used in the device for navigation through format design of a new road network and conversion and using a database of driver's driving patterns. In conclusion, more accurate map matching was possible in the smart-phone by using a storage space more than 80% less than existing device at the intersection where many roads cross, the building forest that a lot of GPS errors occur, the narrow roads close to the highway. It is considered that more accurate location-based service would be available not only in the navigation but also in various applications using GPS information and map in the future Navigation.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.102-107
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• 2011

In this paper we present cooperation of heterogeneous robot team, composed of a wheeled robot and a helicopter for localization and map building. This heterogeneous robot team can successfully fulfill task by combining the abilities of both robots than single robot because wheeled robot and helicopter have complementing ability. The scenario describes a tightly cooperative task, where the wheeled robot move carrying the helicopter and detect obstacles, if there are obstacles, helicopter take off for map building and land, then robot team move destination avoiding obstacles. We present PID controller for position control of helicopter and transformation algorithm to global coordinate from image pixel coordinate. Experimental result show that the proposed method is valid.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.239-244
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• 2010

This paper is to present map building of mobile robot using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and ultrasonic sensor. For mobile robot to perform map building, the mobile robot needs its localization and accurate driving in space. In this reason, firstly, kinematic modeling of mobile robot under non-holonomic constrains is introduced. Secondly, based on this modeling, a tracking controller is designed for tracking a given path based on backstepping method using Lyapunov function. The Lyapunov function is also introduced for proving the stability of the designed tracking controller. Thirdly, 2D map building is performed by RFID system, mobile robot system and ultrasonic sensors. The RFID mobile robot system is composed of DC motor, encoder, ultra sonic sensor, digital compass, RFID receiver and RFID antenna. Finally, the path tracking simulation results and map building experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the designed controller.