• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.297-300
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• 2006

카오스 로봇의 하드웨어 구현에서 로봇의 차제 또는 바퀴가 정확하기 자기 위치를 인식하고 지시한 방향과 거리만큼 이동하는 것이 가장 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 방위 측정용으로 사용한 마그네틱 자이로센서를 대체한 새로운 각속도 센서를 사용하여 자기 위치 보정 능력 을 향상시키고 정확한 방향을 움직일 수 있는 카오스 로봇을 설계하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.289-295
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• 2012

In recent years, an increased amount of research has been carried out on mobile robots to improve the performance of service robots. Mobile robots maximize the mobility of service robots, thus allowing them to work in different areas. However, conventional service robots have their center of mass placed high above the ground, which may cause them to fall when moving at high speed. Furthermore, hub-type actuators, which are often used for mobile robots, are large and expensive. In this study, we propose a mobile robot with a hub-type actuator unit and a variable footprint mechanism. The proposed variable footprint mechanism greatly improves the stability and mobility of the robot, allowing it to move freely in a narrow space and carry out various tasks. The performance of the proposed robot is verified experimentally.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.89-110
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is analyzing the preference of young children for the outward appearance of a teacher-aided humanoid robot. The subjects of this study were 180 kindergarten children who were 4 years old. Ninety five children among the subjects were male, and 85 children were female. The instrument used for this study consisted of 15 questions that involved 3 domains; figure, face, and practical use of robot. The major findings of the study were as follows: First, young children preferred a smooth and intimate robot, and one that had a similar size to them. Second, young children preferred a more characteristic face with big eyes. Third, young children preferred a robot which had a contoured body Fourth, young children preferred a robot which had two legs or tank wheels. Fifth, young children preferred a robot that could play with them and be manipulated by them.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.118-125
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• 2002

The previous kinematic analysis of wheeled mobile robots(WMRs) is performed in an ad-hoc manner, while those of the robot manipulators are done in a consistent way using the coordinate system assignment and the homogeneous transformation matrix. This paper shows why the method for the robot manipulators cannot be used directly to the WMRs and proposes the method for the WMRs, which contains modeling the wheel with the Sheth-Uicker notation and the homogeneous transformation. The proposed method enable us to model the velocity kinematics of the WMRs in a consistent way. As an implementation of the proposed method, the Jacobian matrices were obtained for conventional steered wheel and non-steered wheel respectively and the forward and inverse velocity kinematic solutions were calculated fur a tricycle typed WMR. We hope that our proposed method comes to hold an equivalent roles for WMRs, as that of the manipulators does for the robot manipulators.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.88-92
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• 2010

We propose a new design of the hybrid-magnet wheel to make it possible for a mobile robot to be attached to the vertical plane and be in motion. In the new suggested design, a permanent magnet is utilized to enhance the adhesive force, while an electromagnet is adopted to reduce the magnetic field and the adhesive force for detaching easily. To analysis the performance of the robot, 3 dimensional finite element analysis is executed using commercial electromagnetic analysis program, Maxwell. The results show that the adhesive force is reduced effectively by the electromagnet in the new designed robot system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.127-132
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• 1998

Mobile wheeled robots are nonholonomically constrained systems. Generally, it is very difficult to describe the motion of mechanical systems with nonintegrable nonholonomic constraints. An objective of this study is to describe the motion of a robot with a free wheel. The motion of holonomically and/or nonholonomically constrained system can be simply determined by Generalized Inverse Method presented by Udwadia and Kalaba in 1992. Using the method, we describe the exact motion of the robot and determine the constraint force exerted on the robot for satisfying constraints imposed on it. The application illustrates the ease with which the Generalized Inverse Method can be utilized for the purpose of control of nonlinear system without depending on any linearization, maintaining precision tracking motion and explicit determination of control forces of nonholonomically constrained system.

• ICROS
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.26-30
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• 2012

생체 모방 로봇은 생명체에서 영감을 얻어 새로운 로봇분야를 개척하고 기존의 로봇으로는 하기 힘들었던 한계점들을 극복하는데 목적이 있다. 이러한 생체 모방 로봇은 간단한 생물체의 형태 혹은 메커니즘의 모방으로부터 시작되어 바퀴가 갈 수 없었던 험지, 혹은 하수구, 좁은 통로에서 사용될 수 있는 로봇들을 개발하는 데 초점이 맞추어져 있었다. 이러한 로봇들의 예로써는 크게 이족 보행, 4족 보행, 다족 보행 로봇 등 생물체의 이동 메커니즘을 모방한 로봇들이 있다. 이러한 연구들은 기존 로봇에 사용되었던 재료, 제작 방법을 이용한 것이었다. 하지만 최근 생체 모방 로봇 기술은 새로운 접근 방법, 새로운 재료를 이용한 제작방법으로 기존의 로봇과는 다른 형태로 진화하고 있다. 이러한 기술은 경량화 기술, 초 소형화 기술, 3차원 프린팅 기술 그리고 소프트 물질을 이용한 제작 방법 등이 있다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.802-805
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• 2019

본 논문은 이동로봇의 H/W에 관한 연구로서, 기존의 비평탄 지형의 자율주행 로봇이 수행하기 힘든 영역을 보완하기 위해 캐터필러 바퀴 기반의 플리퍼를 장착해 사물의 습득과 운반 기능을 적용함으로써 보다 정확한 주행 능력을 향상하는 방법을 제시한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.569-579
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• 2013

Robot control and image processing using a smartphone and Wi-Fi communication is introduced. The robot has a wheel and quadruped mechanism that is transformed according to the environment and is mainly used for drug bottle delivery. The captured image on the camera is transmitted to the smartphone in the form of stream data, and the image data is processed in the smartphone to enable the robot to identify an object and to control the robot itself. A network was constructed so that only image data from the stream data was used, and an image processing scheme to identify the drug bottle and deliver it to a person using a robot arm is also presented. In this study, image processing techniques and algorithms were purely implemented on a smartphone with considerable computational power and multiple functions rather than a computer, which contributes to the intelligence and miniaturization of the robot system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.231-237
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• 2010

소방방재로봇이 2009년 9월부터 대구시 산하 소방서에 배치되어 시범적으로 운용되고 있다. 운용자인 소방관을 대상으로 심층면담과 설문 등을 통해 각종 문제점들과 기능 개선사항을 분석함으로써 현장 적응성, 실효성 있는 로봇의 개발방향을 제시하고자 했다. 소방관 보조로봇은 조종 편의성을 높이고, 장애물 통과 및 이동성이 용이하도록 바퀴 성능을 우선적으로 개선하여야 하며, 소방 필드로봇은 조종 편의성을 높이고, 무게의 경량화와 아울러 제어 통신선 꼬임을 방지하기 위한 무선통신방식을 안정화할 필요가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 현재 운용중인 로봇에 대한 기능 만족도는 전반적으로 낮으며, 보조로봇에 대해서는 현장 투입의사가 8.4% 수준으로 미미하였다. 이에 소방방재로봇의 조기 상용화를 이루기 위해서는 현장에서의 사용 활성화가 우선되어야 하며 이를 통해 국내 로봇산업의 성장과 경쟁력을 높일 수 있을 것이다.