• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1082-1088
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new gel-type biomimetic variable-focus lens system. The miniaturization of conventional lens system is limited due to the use of a set of glass lenses for adjusting the focal length. Biologically inspired by the focus adjustment mechanism of the human eye, a gel-type single lens system with variable-focus is presented. The proposed system consists of a gel-type lens, mechanical parts such as body, rotation ring, and winding-type SMA actuator. In addition, the proposed system is designed to operate with a simple and miniaturized mechanical structure using a new attachment and driving mechanism. The focusing performance of the proposed system is verified through a series of experiments and measurements of the shape of the lens using tomography.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2012.03a
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• pp.404-405
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• 2012

The research of the biological mimics robot which utilizes the operation of the organism and which it applies to the robot is progressed on the ground, aerial, and underwater robot sector. In the field of flying robot, the research for implementing the wing movement structure of the bird and insect is progressed. The joint structure for the wing movement of the bird is implemented. The operation of the wing is simulated. For this purpose, by using the Matlab/Simulink, the joint structure of the wing is modelled. The joint movement of the wing is tested through the simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.563-570
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• 2009

In the future, most military activities will be replaced by robots. Because of many dangerous factors in battlefield, reconnaissance should be performed by robot. Reconnaissance robot should be small for not being detected, be light and simple structure for personal portability and overcome unexpected rough terrain for mission completion. In case of small and light robot, it can't get enough friction force for movement. Therefore small reconnaissance robot need jumping function for movement. In this paper we proposed a biologically inspired jumping mechanism. And we adjusted moment and jumping angle by using four bar linkage, especially varying coupler length.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2016

오픈플로우 네트워크에서 컨트롤과 데이터 플레인은 스위치나 라우터로 분리되어있다. 이 중 인밴드(in-band) 오픈플로우 네트워크에서 컨트롤 트래픽은 데이터 트래픽과 같은 채널을 사용한다. 그러므로 데이터 트래픽 경로의 오류 발생은 컨트롤과 데이터 트래픽에 영향을 미친다. 기존의 오픈플로우 네트워크에서 오류 복구는 컨트롤러와 스위치 간 모니터링을 필요로 한다. 하지만 수백만 개 이상의 플로우가 흐르는 네트워크에서 이는 오버헤드를 발생시킨다. 이 논문은 기존 모니터링 오버헤드를 줄이기 위해 개미 행동양식을 활용한 인밴드 오픈플로우 네트워크에서 오류 복구 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.175-180
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• 2012

A nonlinear navigation filter for biomimetic robot using analytic approximation of mean and covariance of state variable is proposed. The approximations are performed at the time update step in the filter structure. The mean is approximated to the 3rd order of Taylor's series expansion of true mean and the covariance is approximated to the 3rd order either. The famous EKF is a nonlinear filtering method approximating the mean to 1st order and the covariance to the 3rd order. The UKF approximate them to the higher orders by numerical method. The proposed method derived a analytical approximation of them for navigation system and therefore don't need so called sigma point transformation in UKF. The simulation results show that the proposed method can be a good alternative of UKF in the systems which require less computational burden.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 2012

This paper proposes a biomimetic finger module to be used in a lightweight hand prosthesis. The finger module consists of finger skeleton and an actuator module driven by SMA (Shape Memory Alloy). The prototype finger module can perform flexion and extension motions; finger flexion is driven by a contraction force of SMA, but it is extended by an elastic force of an extension spring inserted into the finger skeleton. The finger motions are controlled by feedback of electric resistance of SMA because the finger module has no sensors to measure length and angle. Total weight of a prototype finger module is 30g. In experiments the finger motions and finger grip force are tested and compared with simulation results when a constant contraction force of SMA is given. The experimental results show that the proposed SMA-driven finger module is feasible to the lightweight hand prosthesis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1789-1790
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• 2007

이 논문에서 우리는 생체모방 시스템을 구현하기 위해 일반적인 기계 시스템과 인간의 신경 진동자 모델을 결합하였다. 이러한 시스템은 외부환경의 변화에 따른 효과적인 자율 적응 운동 형태를 생성할 수 있다. 인간 및 동물의 주기적 자율 운동을 관장하는 Central Pattern Generator (CPG)는 신경 진동자 네트웍에 의해서 표현가능하고 이는 신경 진동자 모델 내부의 sensory 피드백 신호를 통해, 주기성을 같은 외란에 상호 작용하여 적절한 운동을 생성해 낸다. 따라서 이를 기계 시스템에 결합하면 이러한 시스템은 변화되는 환경이나 잘 알지 못하는 외란에 대하여 자율적으로 적응된 운동을 보일 수 있다. 이를 위해 본 논문은 이러한 신경 진동자 모델과 결합된 realtime 시스템을 구현하고 그 자율 적응 운동의 생성 가능성을 살펴본다.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.56 no.4
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• pp.391-395
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• 2018

Increasing demands for zirconia material in clinics, assessment of biocompatibility of zirconia is essential. In this article, a review of in vitro studies of zirconia compatibility was performed. Zirconia showed great biocompatibility at in vitro studies with various cell lines such as fibroblasts, osteoblasts, and lymphocytes. Many studies reported that zirconia caused no cytotoxicity or mutation. Zirconia also showed less bacterial adhesion. There were no adverse effects except for small reduced strength with in vitro study mimicking long-term exposure of body fluid. According to the study with ostoblast-like cells, zirconia could regulate genes of immunity, molecular transport, and cell cycle. Such gene regulating was considered as one of the reasons of zirconia biocompatibility. With biocompatibility of zirconia powders, in vitro studies had controversial conclusions. It seems that zirconia powders might have cytotoxicity.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.8
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• pp.299-308
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• 2014

Various literatures related computing of information processing have been recently shown the researches inspired from the remarkably excellent human capabilities which recognize and categorize very complex visual patterns such as body motions and facial expressions. Applied from human's outstanding ability of perception, the classification function of visual sequences without context information is specially crucial task for computer vision to understand both the coding and the retrieval of spatio-temporal patterns. This paper presents a biological process based action recognition model of computer vision, which is inspired from visual information processing of human brain for action recognition of visual sequences. Proposed model employs the structure of neural fields of bio-inspired visual perception on detecting motion sequences and discriminating visual patterns in human brain. Experimental results show that proposed recognition model takes not only into account several biological properties of visual information processing, but also is tolerant of time-warping. Furthermore, the model allows robust temporal evolution of classification compared to researches of action recognition. Presented model contributes to implement bio-inspired visual processing system such as intelligent robot agent, etc.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.337-343
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• 2020

This study proposed piezoelectric ceramic bender actuators for application to small walking robots. As the space where human access has recently become increasingly restricted (e.g., highly concentrated radioactive storage areas, viral contaminated areas, terrorist zones, etc.), the scope of using robots is becoming more diverse, and many actions that were possible only in the past have been attempted to be replaced by small robots. This robotic concept has the advantage of being simple in structure, making it compact and producing a large size work force. The dynamic modeling, using finite element analysis, maximized the robot's mobility performance by optimizing the shape of the actuator, and the results were verified through fabrication and experimentation. The actuator moved at a maximum speed of 236 mm/s under no load conditions, and it could move at a speed of 156 mm/s under load conditions of 5g. The proposed actuator has the advantage of modular additions depending on the mission and required performance, which ensured that they are competitive against similar drive sources previously created.