• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.901-906
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• 2007

Algorithms of path planning and obstacle avoidance are essential to autonomous mobile robots that are working in unknown environments in the real time. This paper presents a new navigation algorithm for an autonomous mobile robot with vision and IR sensors using fuzzy rules. Temporary targets are set up by distance variation method and then the algorithms of trajectory planning and obstacle avoidance are designed using fuzzy rules. In this approach, several digital image processing technique is employed to detect edge of obstacles and the distances between the mobile robot and the obstacles are measured. An autonomous mobile robot with single vision and IR sensors is built up for experiments. We also show that the autonomous mobile robot with the proposed algorithm is navigating very well in complex unknown environments.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2023

Path driving tests are necessary for the development of self-driving cars or robots. These tests are being conducted in simulation as well as real environments. In particular, for development using reinforcement learning and deep learning, development through simulators is also being carried out when data of various environments are needed. To this end, it is necessary to utilize not only manually designed paths but also various randomly and automatically designed paths. This test site design can be used for actual construction and manufacturing. In this paper, we introduce a method for randomly generating a driving test path consisting of a combination of arcs and segments. This consists of a method of determining whether there is a collision by obtaining the distance between an arc and a line segment, and an algorithm that deletes part of the path and recreates an appropriate path if it is impossible to continue the path.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.299-310
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• 2022

The ability of an automated driving system is based on vehicle sensors, judgment and control algorithms, etc. The safety of automated driving system is highly related to the operational status of the road network and compliant road infrastructure. The safe operation of automated driving necessitates continuous monitoring to determine if the road and traffic conditions are suitable and safe. This paper presents a node and link system to build a road monitoring system by considering the ODD(Operational Design Domain) characteristics. Considering scalability, the design is based on the existing ITS standard node-link system, and a method for expressing the monitoring target as a node and a link is presented. We further present a technique to classify and manage hazard risk into five levels, and a method to utilize node and link information when searching for and controlling the optimal route. Furthermore, we introduce an example of system implementation based on the proposed node and link system for Sejong City.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.153-154
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 ROS(Robot Operating System)를 기반으로 한 로봇(Robot)에 LiDAR 센서를 설치하여 SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) 기술인 동시적 위치 추적 지도 작성 기법을 이용하여 실내 맵 정보를 습득하고, 이를 기반으로 장애물과 건물 실내를 안전하고 정확하게 이동할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 로봇에 자바에서 제공하는 개발 툴킷 Swing 및 AWT 라이브러리를 이용하여 GUI(Graphical User Interface)를 구현하였고 터치스크린을 장착하여 사용자가 원하는 제품을 선택하고 선택한 제품의 목적지를 습득한 맵을 토대로 좌표 값을 설정하여 ROS에서 지원하는 이동 프로세스를 실행시켜 목적지까지 경로를 설정하고 자율 주행하게 된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.238-241
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• 2018

본 논문은 Linux ubuntu에서 로봇 개발 플랫폼 ROS(Robot Operating System)을 이용하여 실내 자율주행 관련 패키지와 LRF센서를 사용한 경로탐색을 하기까지의 과정 그리고 향후의 설계 방안에 대해 다룬다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.530-533
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• 2017

이 연구는 센서와 자율주행 자동차의 경로 추종의 효율성에 관한 연구이다. 자율주행 자동차의 '기술 현황'과 '주요 사용 센서 현황'을 통해 사용센서를 선정하였고, 선정한 센서들의 특성을 분석하였다. 초음파, 적외선, 조도 센서를 이용해 환경 변수가 제한된 상황에서 경로 추종 주행 연구를 실시하였다. 이 연구를 통해 동일 환경이라도 센서의 값이 상이한 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.17-22
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• 2019

This paper describes the tracking algorithm performance evaluation for autonomous vehicle using a safety envelope based path. As the level of autonomous vehicle technologies evolves along with the development of relevant supporting modules including sensors, more advanced methodologies for path generation and tracking are needed. A safety envelope zone, designated as the obstacle free regions between the roadway edges, would be introduced and refined for further application with more detailed specifications. In this paper, the performance of the path tracking algorithm based on the generated path would be evaluated under safety envelop environment. In this process, static obstacle map for safety envelope was created using Lidar based vehicle information such as current vehicle location, speed and yaw rate that were collected under various driving setups at Seoul National University roadways. A level of safety was evaluated through CarSim simulation based on paths generated with two different references: a safety envelope based path and a GPS data based one. A better performance was observed for tracking with the safety envelop based path than that with the GPS based one.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.521-526
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• 2016

This paper suggests a new design that makes use of rotary inertia that can allow autonomous movement of an autonomous colonoscope robot in the colon of a patient as a locomotive mechanism. As commercial colonoscopy causes a lengthy time of pain and discomfort to the patients when colonoscopy patients are reluctant to receive surgery, there is a tendency to avoid the test in the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. To solve this problem, research has been conducted on the next generation of robotic colonoscopes that can reduce the discomfort and pain by moving autonomously within the colon of the patients. In the driving mechanism utilizing the rotational inertia, a flywheel is driven by a motor to store energy and produce rotational inertia. By the energy stored and released by the flywheel, the stick phenomenon that occurs when the robot is running in the intestine can be overcome effectively. To do this, a controller that can control the velocity of the flywheel and is robust to high frequency noise was designed and implemented. The driving mechanism using the rotational inertia presented here showed that the structure is also effective and the experiment can be run easily compared to another mechanism.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.265-275
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• 2023

The purpose of this paper is to devise an optimal route allocation algorithm for automated vehicle(AV) in monitoring quality of road infrastructure to support the road safety. The tasks of an AV in this paper include visiting node-links at least once during its operation and checking status of road infrastructure, and coming back to its depot.. In selecting optimal route, its priority goal is visiting the node-links with higher risks while reducing costs caused by operation. To deal with the problem, authors devised reward maximizing algorithm for AVs. To check its validity, the authors developed simple toy network that mimic node-link networks and assigned costs and rewards for each node-link. With the toy network, the reward maximizing algorithm worked well as it visited the node-link with higher risks earlier then chinese postman route algorithm (Eiselt, Gendreau, Laporte, 1995). For further research, the reward maximizing algorithm should be tested its validity in a more complex network that mimic the real-life.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.1123-1124
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• 2023

본 논문은 실시간 차선 인식을 기반으로 한 자율주행 알고리즘을 제안한다. 자율주행 알고리즘은 크게 차선 인식과 의사결정으로 구분된다. 차선 인식 부분에서는 직관적인 판단을 위해 버드 아이 뷰로 영상데이터를 변환하여 안정적 차선 인식을 위하여 차선 영역을 추출하고 노이즈를 제거하는 전처리과정을 거친다. 이렇게 처리된 영상에서 Hough 변환을 통하여 차선을 검출한다. 의사결정 부분에서는 검출된 차선과 현재 위치를 기반으로 진행할 경로를 결정한다.