• ICROS
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.63-76
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 산업 현장에서 활용될 수 있는 문자 인식 시스템의 예로써 슬라브에 기록되어 있는 번호를 인식하는 시스템을 다루었다. 특히 기존의 OCR(optical character recognition) 시스템에서 채용되는 알고리즘들을 제시하였다. 산업현장에는 슬라브 번호와 같이 여러가지 노이즈가 존재하는 문자들을 인식하는 시스템을 필요로 하는 곳이 많으리라 여겨진다. 따라서 이러한 상황에 강항 알고리즘들이 많이 개발되어야 할 것이다. 끝으로 향후 개발 방향을 밝히면 다음과 같다. 우선 하드웨어 측면에서는 현재 옆면에 설치되어 있는 에어리어(area) 카메라들을 라인(line) 카메라로 대체할 예정이다. 그럼으로써 카메라들 사이에 생기는 시야의 중첩 문제라든가 광각 렌즈의 사용으로 발생하는 문제점들이 해결되리라 여겨진다. 소프트웨어 측면에서는 모든 부분에 있어서 계속적인 향상이 있어야겠지만 특히 인식부의 취약점들 - 공백 문자와 숫자의 구분, 혼동되는 숫자들의 검증, 보다 지능적인 재분할 - 이 보강되어야 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.560-563
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• 2017

물류 창고에서 화물 이송 자동화를 위해서 기존의 여러 방식들이 제안 되었지만 설치 및 유지 보수에 대한 비용이 많이 들고 목적에 따라 유동적으로 작업환경을 바꾸기 어려울뿐더러 갑작스러운 작업환경변화에 대처하기 힘들다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 무인 화물 이송 이동 로봇이 다양한 환경에서 여러 가지 기능들을 수행하기 위해 초음파 센서 적외선센서를 장착하였으며 라인을 다라 목표점까지 주행하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하고 시뮬레이터를 제작하여 실험을 해 보았다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1488-1493
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• 2003

Recently, higher and bigger building is trend of the construction. Accordingly the building material is getting bigger and construction equipments are developed. But operation is still depends on human resource. Therefore there have several problems that are safety, laborious operation, and shortage of worker. In the various construction sites, the automation in construction is introduced to solve these problems. This paper proposed the automation system in construction that installs curtain wall in a high building. The system is expected effects that are reduction of a construction period, retrenchment of the cost and assurance of safety.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.122-126
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• 2005

A technique for alignment to true north is presented based on synchronized measurements of vision image by a camera and output voltage of wind direction sensor. The true wind direction is evaluated by means of image processing techniques with least square sense, and then evaluated true value is compared with measured output voltage of the sensor. The uncertainty analysis about the component error for the proposed method in practical situation is performed. The proposed technique is applied to real meteorological tower (wind measuring tower) at the Daekwanryung test site. In addition, some uncertainty analysis of this method is presented.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.80-88
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• 1999

This paper deals with the position determination problem of stereo camera systems used as a sensor for 3D robotic manipulation. Stereo cameras having parallel rays of sight and been set up on the same baseline are assumed. The distance between the sensor and the space measured is determined so as to get insensitive parameters to the uncertainty of control points used for calibration and to satisfy the error condition set by considering the repeatability of the robot. The baseline width is determined by minimizing the mutual effect of 3D positional error and stereo image coordinate error. Unlike existing techniques, the technique proposed here is developed without complicated constraints and modelling process of the object to be observed. Thus, the technique of this paper is more general and its effectiveness is proved by simulation.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.333-339
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• 2019

Cobots are industrial robots with greatly enhanced safety functions that enable them to work in the same space with workers without protector. Cobots are regulated by the Industrial Safety and Health Act and must be certified according to the manufacturing stage, installation stage and usage stage. The ISO 10218-2 standard applied in the installation phase is difficult to apply in the field. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a risk assessment method based on ISO 12100 standard. This paper proposes a new methodology that combines 'JSA' and 'What-if', which reflects the human error and the lack of known risk factors. Accordingly, a new risk assessment template was proposed and the effectiveness of the developed new template was examined. The current cobot safety regulations need to be unified with safety inspections scheme, and robot safety experts and infrastructures need to be expanded and Robot safety regulations should be unified to 'Robot Act'. Based on this research, risk assessment methods suitable for the field need to be developed additionally, and robot safety regulation needs to be transformed to promote the industry.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.101-107
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• 2009

In this paper, we describe a method of detecting emergency situation using images from surveillance cameras and propose a mobile robot tracking system for detailed examination of that situation. We are able to track a few persons and recognize their actions by an analyzing image sequences acquired from a fixed camera on all sides of buildings. When emergency situation is detected, a mobile robot moves and closely examines the place where the emergency is occurred. In order to recognize actions of a few persons using a sequence of images from surveillance cameras images, we need to track and manage a list of the regions which are regarded as human appearances. Interest regions are segmented from the background using MOG(Mixture of Gaussian) model and continuously tracked using appearance model in a single image. Then we construct a MHI(Motion History Image) for a tracked person using silhouette information of region blobs and model actions. Emergency situation is finally detected by applying these information to neural network. And we also implement mobile robot tracking technology using the distance between the person and a mobile robot.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.202-207
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• 2013

In the paper, we design a autonomous mobile robot for freight transportation and propose an operation method of the robot in the warehouse. In order to implement autonomous navigation, it is needed to recognize the position of the robot and track the path to the target. Previous methods are hard to change the workspace environment and need high cost to install and keep a maintenance of the system. The lifter of freight transportation robot is designed to load and unload a baggage through up and down motion. Also, ultrasonic sensor, RFID, QR-code and camera sensor is used to carry out various functions while the robot navigates in the various environment. We design an operation method of the mobile robot in order to effectively arrive a goal position and transport a freight. The proposed methods are verified through various experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1235-1241
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• 2012

In this paper, each driving motor for leg joints on a robot is controlled by estimating the direction of the legs measuring each joint angle and attitude angle of robot. We used quadruped working robot named TITAN-VIII in order to carry out this experimental study. 4 load cells are installed under the bottom of 4 legs to measure the pressed force on each leg while it's walking. The walking experiments of the robot were performed in 8 different conditions combined with duty factor, the length of a stride, the trajectory height of the foot and walking period of robot. The validity of attitude control for quadruped walking robot is evaluated by comparing the pressed force on a leg and the power consumption of joint driving motor. As a result, it was confirmed that the slip-condition of which the foot leave the ground late at the beginning of new period of the robot during walking process, which means the attitude control of the robot during walking process wasn't perfect only by measuring joint and attitude angle for estimating the direction of the foot.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.9-10
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• 2012

This paper presents an observer to measure the lengths of cylinders of an underwater robot for harbour construction using a pressure sensor. In harbour constructing, we place heavy armour stones weighing over 2~3 tons on the surface of the bank to protect it from storming wave. This work typically done by a diver is difficult and dangerous so that we have developed Stone Diver which is the underwater robot for harbour construction. The robot needs a position sensor to control the hydraulic cylinder. The position sensors mounted outside the cylinders cause poor durability in construction site where shock and dust usually occur. However, the pressure sensor mounted inside a waterproof box improves the durability. Based on the dynamic parameters and the pressures in the cylinder, the observer measures the cylinder's position. This paper presents the positional accuracy of the pressure based observer and the performance of the underwater robot to assemble the armour stones.