• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.251-257
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• 2012

Unmanned ground vehicles have important military, reconnaissance, and materials handling application. Many of these applications require the UGVs to move at high speeds through uneven, natural terrain with various compositions and physical parameters. This paper presents a framework for high speed autonomous navigation based on the integrated real time traversability. Specifically, the proposed system performs real-time dynamic simulation and calculate maximum traversing velocity guaranteeing safe motion over rough terrain. The architecture of autonomous navigation is firstly presented for high-speed autonomous navigation. Then, the integrated real time traversability, which is composed of initial velocity profiling step, dynamic analysis step, road classification step and stable velocity profiling step, is introduced. Experimental results are presented that demonstrate the method for a $6{\times}6$ autonomous vehicle moving on flat terrain with bump.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.480-487
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• 2009

Autonomous Lane detection with vision is a difficult problem because of various road conditions, such as shadowy road surface, various light conditions, and the signs on the road. In this paper we propose a robust lane detection algorithm to overcome shadowy road problem using a statistical method. The algorithm is applied to the vision-based mobile robot system and the robot followed the lane with the lane following controller. In parallel with the lane following controller, the global position of the robot is estimated by the developed localization method to specify the locations where the lane is discontinued. The results of experiments, done in the region where the GPS measurement is unreliable, show good performance to detect and to follow the lane in complex conditions with shades, water marks, and so on.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.606-616
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• 2022

Semantic segmentation in autonomous driving for unstructured environments is challenging due to the presence of uneven terrains, unstructured class boundaries, irregular features and strong textures. Current off-road datasets exhibit difficulties like class imbalance and understanding of varying environmental topography. To overcome these issues, we propose a deep learning framework for semantic segmentation that involves a pooled class semantic segmentation with five classes. The evaluation of the framework is carried out on two off-road driving datasets, RUGD and TAS500. The results show that our proposed method achieves high accuracy and real-time performance.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.551-553
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• 2006

An autonomous navigation technology for the mobile robot is investigated in this paper. The proposed robot path planning algorithm employs the dynamic programming to find the optimal path. The algorithm finds the global optimal path through the local computation on the environmental map. Since the robot computes the new path at every point, it can avoid the obstacle successfully during the navigation. The experimental results of the robot navigation are included in this paper.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.187-194
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• 2012

This paper compares two collision avoidance algorithms using a simulator. The collision avoidance is vital for autonomous navigation of a mobile robot. Artificial potential field method and elastic force method are major approaches for the collision avoidance. The two algorithms are compared in the respect of the time for motion completion and the length of the motion path. The simulator is developed based on IPC(Inter Process Communication) and a differential drive mobile robot is used for the comparison.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1775-1776
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 이동로봇에 장착된 초음파센서 모듈을 이용하여 실내 환경에 대한 기본적인 지도를 작성하고, 작성된 지도를 바탕으로 이동로봇의 위치를 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 이동로봇은 실내 주행 중에 초음파센서로부터 얻어진 일반적인 거리정보를 가지고 격자지도를 작성한다. 작성된 지도를 바탕으로 다양한 형태와 불확실한 장애물을 표현하기에 적합한 확률적 표현을 이용한 몬테카를로 위치측정 기법을 사용하여 이동로봇의 위치를 측정한다. 제시된 방법을 이용하여 실내환경에서의 실험을 통하여 이동로봇의 위치를 측정하여 효율성을 평가한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.23-31
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• 2022

Mobile robot intelligence refers to planning the path of robots to move indoors and outdoors and establishing a physical action plan that can be driven safely and smoothly according to the surrounding environments' structures. This report introduces technical issues in mobile robot intelligence. Furthermore, we describe the latest mobile intelligence technology of four-legged walking, logistics, and agricultural robots. Finally, we discuss mobile robot intelligence research prospects and its potential for solving real-world problems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.945-948
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• 2020

최근 코로나 사태로 인하여 한국에서는 사람 간에 거리를 두는 사회적 거리 두기와 생활 속 거리두기를 시행하고 있다. 또 식당에서의 지출 중 가장 큰 비율을 차지하고 있다. 인건비를 절감하기 위해 본 연구는 2D Lidar 센서를 사용하여 식당에서의 사람과의 접촉이 가장 큰 서빙의 역할을 로봇이 직접 하는 것을 목표로 하였다. Lidar 센서를 이용해서 SLAM을 구현하였고 안드로이드 앱을 사용하여 주문 결제를, Four Bar Linkage를 사용하여 음식 전달 부분을 구현하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.549-559
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• 2015

In this paper, an efficient dynamic reactive motion planning method for an autonomous vehicle in a dynamic environment is proposed. The purpose of the proposed method is to improve the robustness of autonomous robot motion planning capabilities within dynamic, uncertain environments by integrating a virtual plane-based reactive motion planning technique with a sensor fusion-based obstacle detection approach. The dynamic reactive motion planning method assumes a local observer in the virtual plane, which allows the effective transformation of complex dynamic planning problems into simple stationary ones proving the speed and orientation information between the robot and obstacles. In addition, the sensor fusion-based obstacle detection technique allows the pose estimation of moving obstacles using a Kinect sensor and sonar sensors, thus improving the accuracy and robustness of the reactive motion planning approach. The performance of the proposed method was demonstrated through not only simulation studies but also field experiments using multiple moving obstacles in hostile dynamic environments.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.396-401
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• 2016

Owing to developments in the internet of things, many products have developed and various researches have processed. Smart home systems in Internet of things area are receiving attention from many people than the other areas. Autonomous mobile robots perform various parts in many industries. In this paper, a smart housekeeping robot was implemented using internet of things and an autonomous mobile robot. In order to make a smart housekeeping robot, Raspberry Pi, wireless USB camera, and uBrain robot of Huins Corp. is used. To control the robot, cell-phone connected with IP of Raspberry Pi, and then Raspberry Pi connected with uBrain robot using Bluetooth. a smart housekeeping robot was controlled using commands of a cell-phone application. If some user wants to move a robot automatically, we implemented that a robot can be chosen an autonomous driving mode from the user. In addition, we checked a realtime video using a cell-phone and computer. This smart housekeeping robot can help user check their own homes in real time.