• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.279-285
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• 2002

농업에서 소요되는 노동력 중에서 가장 많은 비중을 차지하고 있는 것이 수확작업이다. 수확작업은 어렵고 힘든 지루한 작업이 반복적으로 수행되는 작업이다. 지상 1m내외에서 결과하는 과채류의 경우 수확 중 많은 노동력을 필요로 한다. 특히 과채류 수확은 연속된 단순 반복 작업으로 작업인의 피로도가 더욱 심화되는 실정으로 재배에 많은 어려움을 낳고 있다. 또한 농산물 수입개방으로 값싼 외국산농산물이 대량 유입되고 있는 실정으로 농산물의 생산비 절감을 통한 대외 경쟁력을 갖추기 위해서는 과채류 수확에 있어서 로봇의 엔드이펙터를 이용하여 수확하는 것이 필요한 실정이다. 그러므로 로봇 수확기의 개발에 있어서 중요한 요소 중 하나인 엔드이펙터 개발이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 세가지 형태의 엔드이펙터를 설계 제작하여 실험을 통하여 비교 분석 후 최적의 엔드이펙터를 개발하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.33-38
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• 2013

The general purposed control system for driving a motion of many different typed robot end-effector, which consists of a controller based on ARM Cotex M3-11017 MCU and an application software for generating a motion of end-effector, was developed. Experimental results show that a positioning error is nearly negligible and a repeatability error is 0.04%. Accordingly the developed control system can be applied practically to actuate a robot end-effector for inspection and maintenance of steam generator heat pipe in nuclear power plant.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.87-94
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• 2009

This study was conducted to develop an automation system of inoculation processing of a lily callus. The results are summarized as followings: The end-effector was manufactured as suction and machine type. And these end-effectors can separate the callus from the mediums and divide the separated callus and then inoculate the divided callus to new mediums. Using the machine type end-effect0r, the results of the experiment showed the success rate in the division process was 100% while the separation and inoculation process was 92%. To develop the automation controller of inoculation process, the system was developed to control an external device and the manipulator. The data communication program between a robot and a personal computer was also developed using CAsyncsocket and Ethernet Interface.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.63-67
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• 2003

Cucumber fruits requires a lot of labor to harvest in time in Korea, since the fruits are cut and grabbed by hand. In this study, we developed an end-effector for robotic harvester of cucumber fruits. Its development involved the integration of an end-effector system with a PC compatible, DC motors, and a motor controller board. Software, written in Pic-basic, combined the functions of motor control with various circumstances. Cucumber's properties were measured and analyzed for precision of the end-effector. The results were similar to those of other vegetables. Properties including hardness of cucumber fruits were used as basic data for development of a harvester.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.264-267
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.151-157
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• 2006

As people's living standard is being improved, human works are being replaced by robots. However, because most robots are used in process industry, fixed on the ground, we need to develop human robots that have wide applications. Currently many researches are being conducted on human robots with the object of replacing human works, but because of lack of relevant hardware, such robots are being applied limitedly to very simple tasks. To overcome the limitation, the present study developed a kinematical mechanism and a controller. Based on human kinematics, the shoulders and the arms were composed of master arms with 3 degree of freedom, and we reproduced motions similar to human ones through the characteristics of joint variables and experiment on the trajectory of the end effector.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.243-246
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• 2017

In this study, flexible fixtures and end effectors are conceptually designed for the holding of thin-walled carbon-fiber reinforced-plastic (CFRP) workpieces in machining processes. Firstly, the fixture scenarios and system requirements for the conceptual designs of flexible-fixture and core units are proposed, including the propounding of the workpiece-holding mechanism and the core-unit requirements. A ball-joint pneumatic system is determined as a locking mechanism of the flexible-fixture system for the machining of thin-walled components. Secondly, conceptual designs of the core units are suggested with the driven requirements from the fixture scenarios. A self-tilting mechanism and an end-effector return mechanism are also proposed. Finally, the prototypes of the core units are manufactured, and the workpiece-holding capacity of each prototype is measured.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.411-417
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• 2004

Recently, instruments and systems related on biological technology have been enormously developed. Particularly, many researches for biological cell injection have been carried out. Usually, excessive contact force occurring when the end-effector and a biological cell contact might make a damage on the cell. Unfortunately, the excessive force could easily destroy the membrane and tissue of the cell. In order to overcome the problem, we proposed a new injection system for biological cell manipulation. The proposed injection system can measure the contact force between a pipette and a cell by using a force sensor. Also, we used vision technology to correctly guide the tip of the pipette to the cell. Consequently, the proposed injection system could safely manipulate the biological cells without any damage. This paper presents the introduction of our new injection system and design concepts of the new micro end-effector. Through a series of experiments the proposed injection system shows the possibility of application for precision biological cell manipulation such as DNA operation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.302-306
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bio-Environment Control Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.30-34
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• 1999

과채류 수확작업은 어렵고 힘든 지루한 작업이 반복적으로 수행된다. 지상 1m내외에서 결과하는 과채류의 경우 수확 중 많은 노동력을 필요로 한다. 특히 오이의 수확은 연속된 단순 반복 작업으로 작업인의 피로도가 매우 높다. 또한 농산물 수입개방으로 값싼 외국산 농산물이 대량 유입되고 있는 실정으로 농산물의 생산비 절감을 통한 대외 경쟁력을 갖추기 위해서는 과채류 수확에 있어서 로봇을 이용한 수확기 개발이 필요한 실정이다. (중략)