• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.55-62
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• 2013

The exoskeleton robot to assist walking of hemiplegia patients or disabled persons has been studied in this paper. The exoskeleton robot with degrees of freedom of 2 axis has been developed and tested for joint motion. The obtained EMG signal from normal person was analyzed and the control signal was extracted from it for convenient and automotive performance of assistance robot to help hemiplegia patient walks as normal person does. the purpose of using FES(Functional Electrical Stimulation) for hemiplegia patient's walk is to restore damaged body function by this, but this could give fatal electrical shock to patients by wrong use or cause quick fatigue in muscle by continuous stimulation. The convenient movement of hemiplegia patients with minimum muscle fatigue was looked possibly by operation of assistance robot exoskeleton using control signal. and the walking assistance exoskeleton robot seemed works more efficiently than using FES stimulator. The experiment in this study was performed based on usual motion in our life like walking, standing-up, sitting-down, and particularly feedback control system using Piezo sensor along with button switch was applied for smooth swing motion in walking. The experiment also shows that hemiplegia patients can move conveniently by using electromyogram signal of healthy leg for the operation signal of assistance robot system attached at damaged symmetrical leg.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.323-332
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• 2016

A robot's recognition and diagnosis of pronunciation and its speech are the most important interactions in RALL(Robot Assisted Language Learning). This study is to verify the effectiveness of robot TTS(Text to Sound) technology in assisting Korean English language learners to acquire a native-like accent by correcting the prosodic errors they commonly make. The child English language learners' F0 range and speaking rate in the 4th grade, a prosodic variable, will be measured and analyzed for any changes in accent. We compare whether robot with the currently available TTS technology appeared to be effective for the 4th graders and 1st graders who were not under the formal English learning with native speaker from the acoustic phonetic viewpoint. Two groups by repeating TTS of RALL responded to the speaking rate rather than F0 range.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.345-346
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• 2008

본 논문은 원자력 발전소내의 기기들 중 원자로 내부 기기의 초음파 비파괴 검사를 위한 로봇의 위치 제어를 위한 방법을 설명하였다. 기존에는 레일과 같은 보조 시설물을 설치하여 검사를 하는 것이 일반적이었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 보조 시설물 없이 카메라 영상에 의한 위치제어에 관하여 기술하였다. 여러 가지 방법 중에 정합 필터를 이용하여 로봇의 현재위치를 추정하는 방법을 사용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법을 실험한 결과 로롯의 제어를 위한 샘플링 타임은 100msec 정도로 일반석인 로봇의 제어 주기로 사용하기에는 다소 길었다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 정합필터를 병렬 계산을 이용하여 계산하도록 하고 이를 병렬언어로 널리 사용되고 있는 MPI(Message Passing Interface) 언어로 구현하였다. 다수의 컴퓨터와 이더넷을 이용할 수 있으며 최근 일반화되고 있는 멀티코어 CPU도 응용이 가능하였다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.103-109
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to ethical review on the development and service with care assistance robot. An integrative review concept analysis method was used. We analyzed the classification and role of service robots, the concept of the robot ethic and the care ethic. And there were derived the development and service about care assistance robot in ethical viewpoint. For improving current care problem, government had support to developing four types care assistance robots. But there were provided carefully care service due to the limitations of robot technology and lack of overall social awareness with care robot. In addition, in order to be successfully application in the field, care assistance robots were developed to provide high-quality care service that can consider to personal culture and living environment with the development of artificial intelligence and robot technology, as well as ethical care service.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.482-491
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• 2009

The purpose of this research is to design and develop teacher assistant contents 'My Class' for an intelligent robot iRobiQ, using in early childhood educational setting. After observing daily activities and correspondence role of teachers in educational settings, we selected the robots' target contents as 6 main functions (Attendance, Activity, Gallery, Learning, Role Calling, and Timer). We designed the contents according to the PLU (Player-Learner-User) model which suggests importance of entertainment, education, and enabling features to meet player, learner, and user requirements. We also considered 'emotional' features to satisfy 'companion' requirements. The developed contents in this study was deployed in kindergarten classrooms consisting of five-years-old for 4 weeks to see how they response and use the contents. We found that both teachers and children were likely to show positive responses to the contents. Especially, young children responded to the entertainment and emotional features more actively than to the other features. And they continually explored for something new inside the contents. Finally, this paper discusses what should be considered to develop more useful teacher assistant contents for iRobiQ.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.15-22
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• 2012

The mechanical system of wearable walking assist robot needs to be optimized for adapting with human body structure and the planned control algorithm should have a secure procedure when a incongruity situation which can cause musculoskeletal injury occurs because a wearable robot is attached to a body. The understanding of walking or musculoskeletal motions characteristics must be preceeded and analyzed for developing novel wearable walking assist robot. In this study we tried to find out the capacities of powers and torques of joint actuators to design optimized performances of system and to obtain the analysis data to figure out the characteristics of joint movements during some types of walk. The major types of walk and motion are stair climbing and descending, sit-to-stand motion, and slope walking. In this study all these motions were analyzed experimentally except slope walking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2011

Medical robot has four fields. Surgery assistant robot, robotic surgery, Surgery Simulator, rehabilitation robot. Thus, medical robots is often high precision and reliability requirements for operations are being developed. Medical service robot's another sector is care for service robots. Care services robot is the hospital's reception work and biometric data acquisition of patients, the hospital in location and content information provide to patients. But now medical service robot practical acceptance process failed to progress. In this paper were the medical service robot systems design and implementation. Implemented the robot system is using the standard protocols for the exchange of medical information and can be linked with hospital information system. The hospital's patient reception and processing, to provide care waiting number information.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3018-3020
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 손과 발을 자기의 의지대로 움직일 수 없는 장애인들이 전동 휠체어나 로봇 팔과 같은 보조 장치를 손, 발의 사용 없이 조작 할 수 있는 시스템 개발을 위한 연구에 대해서 소개한다. 손과 발을 사용하지 않고 전동 휠체어나 로봇 팔을 조작하려면 장애인의 의도를 파악하고 이 정보에 의한 구동 방식이 필요하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 장애인의 눈동자의 움직임과 머리의 움직임 그리고 음성 신호를 이용하여 보조 장치들을 구동시키고자 한다. 이를 구현하기 위해서는 시선의 방향을 측정할 수 있는 기술과 머리의 위치와 방향을 측정하는 기술, 그리고 음성으로 표현되는 간단한 명령들을 인식할 수 있는 기술이 필요하며, 이러한 기술의 통합을 바탕으로 보조장치들을 구동시키기 위한 편리한 사용자 지향의 인터페이스 기술을 개발하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.485-487
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 인간의 근력을 보조 또는 증폭시켜 줄 수 있는 유압 구동식 외골격 로봇을 개발하였다. 인간 신체 데이터와 보행 분석 데이터를 기반으로 로봇의 외골격을 설계 하였으며, 이를 구동하기 위한 알고리즘, 제어기 H/W 등을 개발하였다. 근력지원 외골격 로봇을 설계 제작하여, 실제 실험을 통해 설계, 제어 등 로봇의 현장 적용 가능성 등을 판단할 수 있는 플랫폼을 가질 수 있었다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1501-1507
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• 2017

Telepresence in robot assisted learning has preferred low-height, shorter than life-size robotic platforms for reasons such as operational stability, user convenience and psychological comfort in human robot interaction. If, however, the reason for using a telepresence robot is to display the authority of a social superior to a social inferior, one can hypothesize that a robotic platform which reflects real-life height advantage would be better suited for the stated purpose than conventional low-height platforms. In order to test the hypothesis, we examined whether the height of the robot had an effect on an instructor connected to a telepresence robot in robot-assisted learning with regard to controlling a large number of elementary school students. The pre-and post experiment demonstrates that the use of a life-size telepresence robot, compared to a child-size telepresence robot, failed to make a meaningful difference in the instructors' authority being accepted by the students. However, behavioral measures shows that a taller robot has more merits in controlling students.