• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
• /
• v.16 no.7
• /
• pp.157-163
• /
• 2011

In this paper, configuration control for the Horizontal Maintenance and driving of the mobile inverted pendulum robot has been studied using ARS(Attitude Refrence System). The inverted pendulum technique is getting attention and there have been many researches on the seg-way since the US. Using its 2 freedom, a mobile inverted pendulum robot can move in various modes and Our robot performs goal reaching ARS. Mobile inverted pendulum robot fall down to the forward or reverse direction to converge to the stable point. Kalman Filter is normally used for the algorithm and numerous research is progressing at the moment. To calculate the attitude in ARS using 2 axis gyro(roll, pitch) and 3 axis accelerometers (x, y, z). In this paper we present a two wheel robot system for an autonomous mobile robot. This paper realized the robot control method which is much simpler but able to get desired performance by using the IMU and PID control.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
• /
• v.26 no.6
• /
• pp.505-510
• /
• 2016

This paper presents a searching method of corresponding points robust to rotational error for scan-matching used for SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) in mobile robot. A differential driving mechanism is one of the most popular type for mobile robot. For driving curved path, this type controls the velocities of each two wheels independently. This case increases a wheel slip of the mobile robot more than the case of straight path driving. And this is the reason of a drifting problem. To handle this problem and improves the performance of scan-matching, this paper proposes a searching method of corresponding points using extraction of a closest point based on rotational radius of the mobile robot. To verify the proposed method, the experiment was conducted using LRF(Laser Range Finder). Then the proposed method is compared with an existing method, which is an existing method based on euclidian closest point. The result of our study reflects that the proposed method can improve the performance of searching corresponding points.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
• /
• v.11 no.6
• /
• pp.502-509
• /
• 2005

In this paper, a 4-wheel vehicle model including the effects of tire slip was considered, along with variable parameter sliding control, in order to improve the performance of the vehicle longitudinal response. The variable sliding parameter is made to be proportional to the square root of the pressure derivative at the wheel, in order to compensate for large pressure changes in the brake cylinder. A typical tire force-relative slip curve for dry road conditions was used to generate an analytical tire force-relative slip function, and an antilock sliding control process based on the analytical tire force-relative slip function was used. A retrofitted brake system, with the pushrod force as the end control parameter, was employed, and an average decay function was used to suppress the simulation oscillations. The simulation results indicate that the velocity and spacing errors were slightly larger than those obtained when the wheel slip effect was not considered, that the spacing errors of the lead and follower were insensitive to the adhesion coefficient up to the critical wheel slip value, and that the limit for the antilock control under non-constant adhesion road conditions was determined by the minimum value of the equivalent adhesion coefficient.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
• /
• v.30 no.1
• /
• pp.18-23
• /
• 2013

Omni-directional robot is a typical holonomic constraint robot that has three degrees of freedom movement in 2D plane. In this study, a new omni-directional robot whose wheels are arranged in radial directions was proposed to improve driving performance of the robot. Unlike a general omni-directional robot whose wheels were arranged in a circumferential direction, moments do not arises in the proposed robot when the robot travels in a straight line. To analyze driving performance, dynamic modeling of the omni-directional robot, which considers friction and slip, was carried out. By friction measurement experiments, the relationship between dynamic friction coefficient and relative velocity was derived. Dynamic friction coefficient according to the angle difference between robot travel direction and wheel rotation direction was also obtained. By applying these results to the dynamic model, driving performance of the robot was calculated. As a result, the proposed robot was 1.5 times faster than the general robot.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
• /
• v.21 no.9
• /
• pp.69-76
• /
• 2004

Most tasks of the large vertical or ceiling structures have been carried out by human power. Those tasks require us much operation costs and times, safety devices, etc. So the need of automation for those tasks have been rising. That automation needs a wall-climbing mobile vehicle. Most former researches are things about attachment devices and moving mechanisms. A wall-climbing mobile vehicle must be designed by a method different from the case of the vehicle of the horizontal environment. That is because gravity acts as a negative role on the stability of a wall-climbing vehicle. In this thesis, the particular shape characteristics of a wall-climbing mobile vehicle are derived by the wall-environment modeling. In addition, some design constraints of the permanent magnetic wheel as an attachment device was studied. According to those requirements and constraints, one specific wall-climbing mobile vehicle was designed and some experiments were made on the attachment ability of that vehicle.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
• /
• v.20 no.4
• /
• pp.469-475
• /
• 2010

This paper presents controller design of a two wheeled mobile inverted pendulum robot for one man transportation vehicle. Since the overall mass is varying with different drivers, suitable controller gains are obtained through experimental studies. Variation of the center of gravity due to different masses also affects stable balancing control. Thus, the desired balancing angle si required to be modified with respect to different masses. To measure masses for different drivers, a weight scale is used and those data are used for balancing control through communication. The gain scheduling method of using data obtained from experimental studies allows the robot to have stable balancing performances.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
• /
• v.40 no.8
• /
• pp.703-710
• /
• 2016

In robotics research, accurate estimation of current robot position is important to achieve motion control of a robot. In this research, we focus on a sensor fusion method to provide improved position estimation for a wheeled mobile robot, considering two different sensor measurements. In this case, we fuse camera-based vision and encode-based odometry data using Kalman filter techniques to improve the position estimation of the robot. An external camera-based vision system provides global position coordinates (x, y) for the mobile robot in an indoor environment. An internal encoder-based odometry provides linear and angular velocities of the robot. We then use the position data estimated by the Kalman filter as inputs to the motion controller, which significantly improves performance of the motion controller. Finally, we experimentally verify the performance of the proposed sensor fused position estimation and motion controller using an actual mobile robot system. In our experiments, we also compare the Kalman filter-based sensor fused estimation with two different single sensor-based estimations (vision-based and odometry-based).

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
• /
• v.12 no.12
• /
• pp.5450-5456
• /
• 2011

In order to build a ship, painting on ship cargo tank is one of the most dangerous parts as it involves working in high altitudes and a closed ship cargo tank. Therefore, researchers have been developing devices that will enable mobile robots to operate on vertical walls. The wall-climbing robots have been widely used to attach on the wall such as suction types. These types can be utilized regardless of the wall material. However, it is required to adhere and control the suction cups. To moderate this drawbacks, this paper proposes an automatic painting robot that uses a permanent magnet mobile robot. Using the magnetic characteristics, this robot can move on the boat vertically and horizontally even while hanging on the ceiling of the ship cargo tank. Also, we made a prototype to test adhesive force of the permanent magnet wheel and mobile robot as well as the towing capacity and auto-piloting ability.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
• /
• v.35 no.1
• /
• pp.67-76
• /
• 2011

An exact curved path has to be fixed and velocity profile for travelling on the curved path is required by a moving stage. In this study, we decide the curved path on the basis of the information on three point locations. The path of the moving stage is traced by simulating the designed curve path and the velocity profile, and the results are compared with the given three points to determine how closely the moving stage follows the given path. Further, we propose a method to calibrate a curved path and velocity profile. The proposed moving paths were evaluated by performing experiments. Finally, the designed curved path and the actual path were compared.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
• /
• 2009.07a
• /
• pp.1719_1720
• /
• 2009

Wheeled mobile robot has different mobility and steerability which determined by type of wheel and it's arrangement. Generally wheeled mobile robot's dynamics are nonlinear and various control methods have studied to control the mobile robot efficiently. In this paper, a T-S fuzzy modeling of a 2-wheeled mobile robot is mand a stable LMI-based state feedback fuzzy controller is designed and applied to the position control of the mobile robot for the reference trajectory following. Also, the verification of the designed controller is done by computer simulation.