• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

In this paper, hardware design methods for segway type 2-wheeled mobile robots are presented. Basically five guide lines are offered to build robots properly for the purpose of experiments; motor selection, battery selection, MCU selection, motor placement, and construction of body. The robots built with these five guide lines will give the best test environment to gain meaningful results in experiments as a precise and exact test-bed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.285-290
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• 2013

As well as the advanced development of modern society, and the environmental problems caused by the use of fossil fuels is emerging. So do not reap the performance level of the car to be able to replace existing fossil fuel and low-emission energy and technology development are continually strives. Therefore, this study aims to present the direction of the new interface 21st century Mobile Auto Electric Segway technology in the field of security and disadvantages based. The Segway is a problem because the control itself skewed by certain slope where the slope in the wrong adjustment tipping. In this study, the year saw the introduction of two pressure sensors(Load cell) used to solve these drawbacks, according to the ratio of the weight control methods. In addition, the ramps operate in a straightforward, using an acceleration sensor and a gyro sensor in order to compensate for the slope value in free control method to study looked. Measured by calculating the value of the occupant's weight and according to the inclination of the pressure sensor pressure sensing experiment results this year, we can see that the control variable for the change in body weight is greater than the inclination. Segway is also easy to control, and the stability of the ramps, etc. As a result, created using a pressure sensor.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.109-111
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• 2009

In this paper, we discuss how to design 2-wheeled mobile robot hard wares as reasonable and practical as possible. A segway type mobile robot consists of 2 wheels only, placed in parallel rather than horizon. 2-wheeled mobile robots make you overcome high cost and time consuming maintenance procedures of the robot by reducing the number of robot hardwares. The most challenging thing in a 2-wheeled mobile robot that has many more valid virtues than the traditional mobile robots is to make it balance itself whenever it stands still or goes forward. But balancing itself is not an easy matter and there are many researches and experiments on this issue. When researchers test theories on 2-wheeled mobile robots to improve its self balancing performance, they should consider how to design hard wares of that mobile robot. No matter how great those new theories are, if a testbed for those theories is not suitable, performance output would be poor and meaningless. In this point of view, to design a proper 2-wheeled mobile robot as a testbed is a very important issue with development of new theories. So we define 4 guide lines to design segway type mobile robots reasonably; about motor, battery, and MCU selection and shock-proof design with robust motor setting.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1339-1340
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity control scheme for segway. To design the controller, we use the prescribed performance function and analyze the stability of the proposed control system using the Lyapunov stability theorem. By prescribed performance function, we can adjust the transient and steady-state response. Finally, the simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.411-412
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• 2016

최근 퍼스널 모빌리티에 대한 관심과 수요가 증대됨에 따라 전기에너지를 구동원으로 하는 소형 이동형 제품을 생활속에서 쉽게 접할 수 있게 되었다. 이러한 퍼스널 모빌리티 제품은 자이로센서 기술이 접복된 바퀴가 하나인 외발 전동휠과 세그웨이류의 제품, 전동퀵보드, 전동스쿠터 등 다양한 제품이 출시되고 있다. 또한 이들 제품의 구동전원은 대부분 리튬이차전지가 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 충전과 방전을 반복하는 다셀이 직렬로 구성된 리튬 이차전지 배터리팩에서 발생되는 셀간 편차와 이로 인해 배터리팩의 전체적인 효율성이 저하되는 것을 방지하는 셀 밸런싱에 관한 기술로 과거 완속형의 표준충전에 적합한 1단 밸런싱의 문제점을 보완하기 위해 표준충전과 급속충전을 임의로 선택하여 사용하는 경우에도 정상적인 셀 밸런싱 수행은 물론 빠른 셀 밸런싱을 수행하기 위한 기법에 대해 살펴보았다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1164-1169
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• 2014

This paper proposes an angle estimation of Segway robot for the slop driving. Most of Segway robot was controlled by pose control of keeping robot's balance and motor control of driving. In motor control, we analyzed Segway robot kinetically and estimated an angle of inclination using the velocity that depends on input force. In pose control, also, we used PD controller and evaluated a stability of controller through MATLAB simulation. Assuming the robot keeps its balance stably using controller, we could linearize dynamics. We could obtain the result through the experiment which estimates an angle using the velocity of Segway robot that is derived from linearized dynamics.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.93-94
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• 2016

친환경 이동수단 중 1인용 이동수단인 퍼스널 모빌리티에 대한 관심과 수요가 증대됨에 따라 과거 전기자전거에서 현재는 전동퀵보드, 전동스쿠터, 외발휠, 세그웨이류 등 그 종류와 외관적 형태는 매우 다양하다. 하지만 공통적인 부분은 전기에너지를 구동원으로 하고 있으며, 전기에너지를 저장하기 위한 수단으로 리튬이온 배터리가 사용된다는 것이다. 리튬이온배터리에서 배터리를 안전하고 효율적으로 사용하도록 제어하는 부분이 배터리관리시스템이며, 기능중에서 배터리 셀간을 정밀하게 균형을 잡아주며, 모든 셀이 완전 충전상태가 될 수 있도록 도와주는 셀 밸런싱 기능이 있다. 이러한 셀 밸런싱 기술은 주행거리 혹은 사용시간을 늘려주는 역할을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 충전과 방전을 반복하는 다셀로 구성된 리튬이온배터리에서 셀 밸런싱이 수행되는 과정을 살펴보고 단일 밸런싱과 다중 밸런싱의 차이 및 장단점을 살펴보았다. 이를 통해 완속에서 급속충전으로의 변화, 빠른 셀 밸런싱 등의 필요성에 대해 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.139-146
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• 2020

In this paper, the slope of the footplate is adjusted to compensate for the centrifugal force with a series elastic actuator (SEA) attached to the Segway's body to improve the cornering characteristics during turning. To ensure Segway's driving safety in the curvature motion, it is necessary to compensate for the centripetal force by tilting the footplate to generate inward force from gravity. When the footplate is tilted under the control of SEA, the vertical load on both wheels has been changed accordingly. The frictional force of the wheel has been changed by the change of the vertical force, which requires adjustment of driving torque to keep the curvature trajectory. That is, the driving torque has been controlled to keep the curvature trajectory considering the frictional force caused by the turning motion. Four SEAs are attached to the footplate to control the slope of the footplate and the real curvature motion has been demonstrated to verify the effects of SEAs in the high- speed curvature motion.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.587-593
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method to solve the difficulties in constructing an environment capable of practical training on the theoretical contents of robot control field. We make a two-wheeled mobile robot with Segway structure using LEGO block. In order to demonstrate the validity of using the developed robot as a practical application of advanced control theory of robotics education such as dynamic system and nonlinear system, the robot takes a stable posture while balancing the change of gravity during running. The results of the experiment are shown. By presenting the results, the robots made using the LEGO block are used for practical training of advanced control theory of robotics. It can be used as a tool.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1-13
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• 2018

Divers types of Personal Mobility(PM) are appeared on the market after the Segway is introduced. PMs have propagated very rapidly with their ease of use, and accidents related with PM show a sudden increase. Many studies on the PM are performed as its trend, but dring safety of passengers are excluded. In this study, criteria which can be adopted for PM's driving safety evaluation are reviewed. Also result of driving safety evaluation on 3 types of PM(wheel chair, kickboard, scooter(seating/standing) and walking using deducted criteria is given. COG(Center of the gravity) and SM(Stability Metric) are finally selected two criteria among many of them used in other fields. COG indicates how the center of mass deviates from the direction of the gravity. SM is a normalized value of generated force when PM moves as internal force, angular momentum, and ground reaction force. 0 means stop, and negative value means rollover, so it can be used for safety evaluation of PM. Average and standard deviation of measurement are standard of safety on the COG analysis. Wheel chair is the most safe and kickboard is the most unstable on the COG analysis. Wheel chair is also ranked as top safe on the SM analysis. Among two riding types(seating and standing) on the scooter, seating type is evaluated more safer than standing type. It is proposed that more various type of PMs are need to get safety evaluation for drivers and devices themselves together.