• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.96-104
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• 2003

To assess tunnel safety, cracks in tunnel lining are measured by inspectors who observe cracks with their eyes. A manual inspection is, however, slow and subjective. This paper, therefore, proposes vision-based inspection system for measuring cracks in the tunnel lining that inspects cracks fast and objective. The system is consisted of an on-vehicle system and a lab system. An on-vehicle system acquires image data with line CCD camera. A lab system extracts crack then inform their thickness, length and orientation by using image processing. To improve accuracy of crack recognition the geometric properties of a crack was applied to image processing. The proposed system were verified with experiments in both laboratory and field environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.558-561
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• 2002

A CCD camera with a laser strip was applied to realize the automation of welding Process in GMAW. It takes relatively long time to process image on-line control using the basic Hough transformation, but it has a tendency of robustness over the noise such spatter and arc light. The adaptive Hough transformation was used to extract the laser stripe and to obtain specific weld points In this study, a neural network based on the generalized delta rule algorithm was adapted for the process control of GMA, such as welding speed, arc voltage and wire feeding speed.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.124-130
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• 1998

High-speed 3D vision systems are essential for autonomous robot or vehicle control applications. In our study, a stereo vision process has been developed. It consists of three steps : extraction of edges in right and left images, matching corresponding edges and calculation of the 3D map. This process is implemented in a VME 150/40 Imaging Technology vision system. It is a modular system composed by a display, an acquisition, a four Mbytes image frame memory, and three computational cards. Programmable accelerator computational modules are running at 40 MHz and are based on TMS320C31 DSP with a $64{\times}32$ bit instruction cache and two $1024{\times}32$ bit internal RAMs. Each is equipped with 512 Kbytes static RAM, 4 Mbytes image memory, 1 Mbytes flash EEPROM and a serial port. Data transfers and communications between modules are provided by three 8 bit global video bus, and three local configurable pipeline 8 bit video bus. The VME bus is dedicated to system management. Tasks between DSPs are distributed as follows: two DSPs are used to edges detection, one for the right image and the other for the left one. The last processor computes the matching process and the 3D calculation. With $512{\times}512$ pixels images, this sensor generates dense 3D maps at a rate of about 1 Hz depending of the scene complexity. Results can surely be improved by using a special suited multiprocessors cards.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.4C
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• pp.401-410
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose water quality monitoring system using vision camera and multiple objects tracking method. The proposed system analyzes object individually using vision camera unlike monitoring system using sensor method. The system using vision camera consists of individual object segmentation part and objects tracking part based on interrelation between successive frames. For real-time processing, we make background image using non-parametric estimation and extract objects using background image. If we use non-parametric estimation, objects extraction method can reduce large amount of computation complexity, as well as extract objects more effectively. Multiple objects tracking method predicts next motion using moving direction, velocity and acceleration of individual object then carries out tracking based on the predicted motion. And we apply exception handling algorithms to improve tracking performance. From experiment results under various conditions, it shows that the proposed system can be available for real-time water quality monitoring system since it has very short processing time and correct multiple objects tracking.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.982-987
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• 2006

고전의 관현악기에서부터 현대의 각종 전자악기까지, 인류는 그 문화와 시대의 변화에 따라 다양한 형태의 악기를 개발하고 활용하였다. 최근에는 전기전자 기술의 발달로 다양한 센서와 프로그램을 활용해서 여러 가지 음색과 효과를 내는 악기가 개발되고 있다. 그 중에서 사람의 움직임을 직접 감지해서 음악적 도구로 활용하는 기술이 주목 받고 있다. 이를 위해 터치 센서(touch sensor), 비젼 센서(vision sensor), 자기장 센서(magnetic sensor), 초음파 센서(ultrasonic sensor) 등이 응용되고 있다. 그러나 지금까지의 센서 기술로는 사람의 움직임과 관련된 위치, 속도, 가속도 등에 대한 정보를 직접 추출하기가 어렵고, 구현된 시스템도 공간의 제약을 받거나 혹은 구현된 부피가 크거나 복잡한 구성형태를 지니고 있는 문제점이 있었다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 사람의 움직임과 관련된 가속도 정보를 직접 감지해서 새로운 형태의 악기로 활용될 수 있는 시스템을 연구하고 개발하였다. 이를 위해 6개의 가속도 정보를 처리하는 기술과 DSP(Digital Signal Processor) 활용 기술, Max/MSP 활용 기술이 응용 되었으며, 소형의 시스템을 개발하기 위해 시그널 컨디셔닝(signal conditioning) 회로와 DSP 보드를 자체 개발하였다. 실험을 통해 사람의 움직임과 관련된 각종 정보가 적절한 소프트웨어의 활용으로 다양한 음색의 변화는 물론 음높이, 음량의 변화까지도 제어할 수 있음을 확인하였고, 새로운 형태의 악기로써 무대 공연이나 노래방 등에 폭넓게 활용될 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 1996

용접은 힘든 작업환경 때문에 심한 인력난을 겪고 있는 3D 업종 중의 하나이 다. 특히 아크용접을 위해서는 숙련된 작업자가 필요하기 때문에 인력난은 더욱 심각 하다. 현장에서 젊은 작업자는 보기 힘들고 대부분의 작업자는 중년이상의 나이이다. 따라서 머지않아 많은 업체들이 인력난으로 조업을 중단해야 할 사태도 우려하지 않을 수 없는 형편이다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결할 수 있는 용접자동화는 최근 많은 관심을 끌고 있으며 이제 세계적인 추세가 되었다. 용접자동화의 이점은 무엇보다도 일정한 수준의 품질과 생산성에서 찾아볼 수 있다. 용접자동화에서는 가공자동화와는 달리 시스템의 자율성이 특히 중요하다. 작업조건의 설정, 용접봉의 위치와 방향 등은 전적 으로 컴퓨터와 센서시스템을 장착한 로봇에 의해 결정되어야 한다. 따라서 작업자들이 용접에 이용하는 각종 지능적인 능력을 습득하고 이를 각종 제어기와 센서로 모방하여 자율적으로 제어하는 인공지능기술을 응용하는 용접을 로봇의 개발에 관한 각종 연구 가 활발히 진행되고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.603-605
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• 2005

In this paper, we deal with a calibration method for low cost motion capture sensor using PSD (Position Sensitive Detection). The PSD sensor is employed to measure the direction of incident light from moving markers attached to motion body. To calibrate the PSD optical module, a conventional camera calibration algorithm introduced by Tsai. The 3-dimensional positions of the markers are measured by using stereo camera geometry. From the experimental results, the low cost motion capture sensor can be used in a real time system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.780-785
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• 1992

We present a multi-sensor fusion method in positioning control of a robot by using fuzzy logic. In general, the vision sensor is used in the gross motion control and the force/torque sensor is used in the fine motion control. We construct a fuzzy logic controller to combine the vision sensor data and the force/torque sensor data. Also, we apply the fuzzy logic controller to the peg-in-hole process. Simulation results uphold the theoretical results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.583-586
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• 1995

In this paper, a nor fuzzy control algorithm for the target tracking system is proposed, and its characteristics are analyzed and compared with those of the traditional PID controller. Fuzzy rules are generated experimentally using Mamdani's minimum operation and the center of area method. The experimental results prove that the proposed fuzzy algorithm is excellent in our tracking system and its performance is superior to that of the PID controller.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.2 no.1 s.2
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• pp.139-149
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• 1998

There are some problems in robot navigations with a single kind of sensor. We propose a system that takes advantages of both CCD camera and ultrasonic sensors for the concerning matter. A coordinate extraction algorithm to avoid obstacles during the navigation is also proposed. We implemented a CCD based vision system at the front part of the vehicle and did experiments to verify the suggested algorithm's availability. From experimental results, the error rate was reduced when a CCD camera was used rather than when only ultrasonic sensors were used. Also we can generate path to avoid those obstacles using the measured values.