• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.570-576
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• 2012

In this research a moving platform for a mobile robot which can run with upright posture is proposed. It is able to stand with standing arms and run uprightly based on an inverted pendulum mechanism. Conventional mobile robots generally may equip 4 wheels or 3 wheels including a caster and have good statistic stability. They need a steering mechanism to choose which way to go since they have a square or rectangular configuration with multiple wheels. When a mobile robot meets a sharply perpendicular and narrow crossroad, it may need a special steering scheme such as going forward and backward repeatedly or it sometimes cannot even pass through the crossroad because of its size. The proposed moving platform for a mobile robot changes to a upright posture which has a small planar area and is able to pass through the crossroad. We propose a moving platform for a mobile robot with a inverted pendulum mechanism and standing arms which can make the mobile robot upright.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.329-334
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• 2011

This paper presents the method for location estimation with obstacle tracking method. A laser scanner is used to implement the system, and we assume that the map information is known. We matches the measurement of the laser scanner to estimate the location of the robot by using sequential monte carlo (SMC) method. After estimating the robot's location, the pose of obstacles are detected and tracked, hence, we can predict the collision risk of them. Finally, we present the experiment results to verify the proposed method.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.275-283
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• 2020

A leader-follower robot system using low cost small mobile robots has been developed. Sine the developed mobile robot is made of widely used low cost parts, it can be built easily and fastly. Characteristics of the developed sensor array composed of seven low-cost infrared(IR) distance sensors has been investigated, and a positioning algorithm of the reader robot is proposed. Through a series of experiments, it has been verified that the proposed algorithm can detect the position of the reader robot well.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.126-129
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• 2002

도우미로봇은 혼자 힘으로 걷기 어려운 노약자를 보조하는 보행 보조 기능과 다양한 오락 기능을 수행하는 로봇이다. 이 로봇은 음원 위치 추정기법에 의해서 어느 방향에서 소리가 발생하였는지 알아내고 그 방향으로 머리를 회전한다. 로봇의 머리에는 CCD카메라가 장착되어 있어서 카메라로부터 들어오는 영상에서 사람의 얼굴을 찾고 그 사람이 있는 곳까지 자율 주행기능에 의해서 장애물을 회피하며 이동한다. 사용자의 앞까지 이동하면 로봇은 이동을 멈추고 사용자로부터 명령을 받을 때까지 대기한다. 노약자는 로봇의 전반부에 부착되어 있는 터치스크린을 이용하여 로봇에게 다양한 명령을 내릴 수 있다. 로봇은 명령에 따라 보행 보조 작업을 수행하거나 전자메일, 음악, 영화 등 다양한 엔터테인먼트 서비스를 수행하게 된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2011

현 시대는 로봇의 시대라 할 만큼 다채로운 로봇들이 개발되고 있으며, 인간의 기능들을 본 떠 만든 로봇 암(Robot arm: manipulator)과 워킹로봇(Walking robot: biped robot, quadruped robot, popping robot, etc.)물체인식 및 물체 추적 로봇(Tracking robot with image processing -. Domo robot, MIT.)이나 곤충과 동물 등의 생체 로봇에 대한 개발 또한 진행하고 있다. 지능형 이동로봇에서 가장중요하고 기본이 되는 기술인 무선통신망을 이용한 통신 기술과 지표면을 걷는 워킹로봇이 아닌 개활지나 밀폐된 공간에서 주행이 자유롭고 속도 및 주변 반응에 대해서 즉시 반응할 수 있는 장점을 가져 개발이용이한 바퀴를 이용한 2축 이동로봇에 관하여 연구하였다. 본 연구는 무선통신망을 이용하여 인터넷이 되는 곧 이면 어디서든 원격제어를 통하여 이동로봇을 전진, 후진, 좌회전. 우회전 및 속도제어 위치제어를 할 수 있고 GPS로 로봇의 위치와, 카메라를 이용하여 영상자료를 수집하고 센서를 이용하여 장애물 감지 및 자율주행 하는 등 여러 분야에 응용 할 수 있는 로봇을 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1395-1401
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• 2005

Mobile manipulator is a robot that has mobility and manipulability with the combination of the task robot and mobile robot. One of the most important feature of the Mobile Manipulator is redundant freedom. Using the redundant freedom, Mobile Manipulator can move various mode, perform dexterous motion. It can have the wider workspace and better performance in avoidance of singularity and obstacle than the fixed base structured robot. Cooperation control using the Mobile Manipulator improves the performance of the robot with redundant freedom in workspace. In this paper, configuration control of the Mobile Manipulator has been studied using Task Segment and TOMM(Task-Oriented Manipulability Measure). For verifying the proposed algorithm, we implemented a mobile manipulator, PURL-II, which is composed of a mobile robot with 3DOF and a task robot with SDOF.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.924-927
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• 2014

최근 주요 홈서비스 로봇 중 하나인 청소 로봇에 대한 수요가 증가하면서 주어진 공간을 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 높은 커버리지 성능이 주목받고 있다. 이에 따라 로봇의 커버리지 성능을 높이기 위하여 청소 로봇의 자율적인 운행을 통해 지도를 작성하고 이를 활용한 경로를 생성하여 로봇의 운행에 반영하였다. 하지만, 저가형 청소 로봇은 낮은 성능의 처리 성능을 가지고 있기 때문에 불가능하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 단순한 운행 기능만을 가지고 있는 청소 로봇의 이동 패턴을 유전 프로그래밍을 이용하여 최적의 운행 계획을 설계하는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 실험을 통해 제안 기법을 통해 생성된 이동 패턴이 기존 기법에 비해 높은 운행 효율성을 보장함을 확인 하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1205-1212
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• 2021

Robots that can actually help people a lot by dealing with dangerous tasks that are difficult for people to do, such as disaster situations, lifesaving, handling dangerous goods, and reconnaissance of dangerous areas, continue to become an issue. Therefore, in this paper, we intend to implement a mobile robot arm that can implement a human motion will on the robot arm to enable active response according to the situation and control the vehicle according to hand movements to give mobility. A controller is manufactured using a flex sensor and agyro sensor, and the roll and pitch values of the two gyro sensors are adjusted to control the angle of the robot arm and specify the vehicle direction. In addition, by designating the levels of the three flex sensors, the motor is operated according to hand movements, and a robot arm is implemented so that objects can be picked up and moved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.312-318
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• 2012

Recently, although the need of marine robots being raised in extreme areas, the basis is very deficient. Fortunately, as the robot competition is vitalizing and the need of the robot education is increasing, it is desirable to establish the basis of the R&D and industrialization of marine robots and to train professionals through the development and diffusion of marine robot kits. However, in conventional case, there is no underwater-type autonomous marine robot kit for the marine robot competition, which has the abilities of the underwater locomotion and target detection and avoidance. To solve this problem, a marine robot kit which has the abilities of the underwater locomotion, the waterproof and the weight adjustment, is developed. To verify the performance of the developed kit, test and evaluation such as surge, pitch, yaw, obstacle avoidance is performed. The test and evaluation results show that the possibility of the real applications of the developed kit.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.412-417
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• 2014

This paper presents the development and control of an omni-directional holonomic mobile robot platform, which is equipped with three lateral orthogonal-wheel assemblies. Omni-directionality can be achieved with decoupled rotational and translational motions. Simulation studies on collision avoidance are conducted. A real robot is built and its hardware is implemented to control the robot. Control algorithm is embedded on DSP and FPGA chips. Hardware for motor control such as PWM, encoder counter, serial communication modules is implemented on an FPGA chip. Experimental studies of following joystick commands are performed to demonstrate the functionality and controllability of the robot.