• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.347-350
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• 2012

The researches on driver assistance systems that can prevent an accident have been actively performed due to social issues of traffic accidents with development of vehicle industry in recent. It is required for researchers to develope systems which assist driver's perception and judgment when considering that over 70% of traffic accidents occur by drivers' carelessness and 75% of the total accidents occur at the speed of less 29km per hour. In this paper, we implemented a front and rear vehicle monitoring system that monitors distance in real-time from a vehicle to obstacles at the low-speed or back-ward driving. The implemented system consists of a high angle ultrasonic sensor with distance detection of 10m and 10-degree angle, a wide angle ultrasonic sensor with the detection distance of 3m and a 180-degree, and a ATmega128 chip of ATmel company.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.534-539
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• 2008

This paper is about intelligent hexapod robot for the support walking of the aged person. The robot using various sensors and small camera has various abilities of forward backward walking, turing left or right, control the speed of walking, avoiding the obstacles and detecting risky situation of fire or gas. To let the aged feel soft and safe walking, we used special servo motor and developed hexapod walking mechanism and effective algorithm.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1507-1514
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to propose a functional improvement solution of integrated control board for safe driving of Smart electric wheelchair for a single person. In the case of existing electric wheelchair products in Korea and elsewhere, safety-related functions or devices are not included in many cases. Therefore, the incidence of electric wheelchair-related accidents is continuously increasing in the current situation in which the elderly and the disabled people have been continuously increased. However, currently only high and middle-priced products are equipped with basic safety devices in electric wheelchairs, so low-priced products require safety related functions. Therefore, sensing obstacles that the user can not recognize while moving an electric wheelchair and detecting automatically the terrain change to control the motor by developing a smart control platform. This provides an integrated control board that can be applied to various electric wheelchairs for more stable driving.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.4
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• pp.255-262
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• 2009

We present an autonomous entertainment dolphin robot system based on ubiquitous sensor networks(USN). Generally, It is impossible to apply to USN and GPS in underwater bio-mimetic robots. But An Entertainment dolphin robot which presented in this paper operates on the water not underwater. Navigation of the underwater robot in a given area is based on GPS data and the acquired position information from deployed USN motes with emphasis on user interaction. Body structures, sensors and actuators, governing microcontroller boards, and swimming and interaction features are described for a typical entertainment dolphin robot. Actions of mouth-opening, tail splash or water blow through a spout hole are typical responses of interaction when touch sensors on the body detect users' demand. Dolphin robots should turn towards people who demand to interact with them, while swimming autonomously. The functions that are relevant to human-robot interaction as well as robot movement such as path control, obstacle detection and avoidance are managed by microcontrollers on the robot for autonomy. Distance errors are calibrated periodically by the known position data of the deployed USN motes.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.93-94
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• 2008

로봇을 개발함에 있어 많이 겪는 어려움 중 하나는 열악한 시뮬레이션 환경 및 소프트웨어 개발이다. Microsoft사(社)의 MSRDS(Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio)는 3D시뮬레이션 환경과 로봇 구동을 위한 각종 표준화된 서비스들을 지원함으로써 이러한 문제점들을 해결할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 원자력 발전소의 중 저준위 폐기물 저장창고 검사 로봇을 대상으로 MSRDS를 이용하여 3D 시뮬레이션 및 온라인 피드백 제어를 수행하였다. 로봇은 사륜으로 이루어져 있으며, 주행 환경 확인을 위한 카메라, 장애물 감시용 LRF(Laser Range Finer)센서, 주변 환경 감지를 위한 온도센서, 습도센서 및 MSRDS가 장착된 산업용 3D가 탑재되어 있다. MSRDS의 제어신호는 이벤트로 생성되어 3D 시뮬레이션 렌더링 시간과 동기화되며, Brick 서비스를 통해 전송된다. 피드백은 10ms 주기로 LRF 센서, Motor 엔코더 값을 받아 3D 시뮬레이션에 반영된다. 본 논문에서는 MSRDS의 시뮬레이션 및 실제 로봇과의 동기화 방식을 제시하며 구동 실험으로 검증하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.525-532
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• 2017

The system is consisted of arduino and sensors for protecting bicycle and safety of driver. The speed indicator is composed of speed alarms which are less than 15km/h, 15~30km/h, over 30km/h through limit switch. At that time, the accuracy is 96.6% compared to actual speed. Also, It gives a person warning ablut the obstacle of 5cm tall through ultrasonic sensor in night. Auto Lock System is operated to protect bicycle and the text message is sent to the user, if the bicycle lock was broken. This system puts emphasis on safety and usability, providing a application to know consuming calories.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.152-156
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• 2011

AVM(Around View Monitoring) 시스템은 차량 주변에 대한 영상을 운전자에게 제공함으로써 안전 운전을 도와주는 시스템이다. 측면 거울이나 실내 거울을 통해서 볼 수 없는 사각 지대는 운전자의 안전 운행에 위협이 된다. 사각지대는 특히 후진 주행, 주차, 좁은 골목길 주행, 굽은 길 회전 등에서 차량 파손 및 인사 사고의 원인이 된다. 이러한 위험을 피하기 위해 후방의 장애물을 감지하는 후방 센서나 후방 카메라 등과 같은 운전자의 시야를 개선하는 ECU들이 개발되어 사용되고 있다. 이러한 ECU들의 도움을 받더라도 차량의 전, 후, 좌, 우 사방의 상황을 동시에 볼 수 없기 때문에 사고를 피하기 위해 운전자들은 주의를 기울여 운전해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 운전자의 안전 운행을 돕기 위해 차량 주변 영상을 실시간으로 제공하는 4SM 시스템을 설계하고 구현한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 4SM 시스템은 차량의 전, 후, 좌, 우에 장착된 4대의 카메라로부터 입력된 영상을 통합하여 Bird's Eye View 영상을 운전자가 한 눈에 차량 주변 상황을 인식할 수 있도록 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.138-144
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• 2014

Now, Autonomous unmanned vehicle has become an issue in next generation technology. 2D Laser scanner as the distance measurement sensor is used. 2D Laser scanner detects the distance of 80m, measured angle is -5 to 185 degree. Laser scanner detects only the plane, but using motor swings. As a result, traffic signs detect and analyze patterns. Traffic signs when driving at low speed, shape of the detected pattern is very similar. By shaking the laser scanner, traffic signs and other obstacles became clear distinction.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.766-772
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• 2015

This paper proposes an object detection method based on motion estimation using background subtraction in the fisheye images obtained through omni-directional camera mounted on the vehicle. Recently, most of the vehicles installed with rear camera as a standard option, as well as various camera systems for safety. However, differently from the conventional object detection using the image obtained from the camera, the embedded system installed in the vehicle is difficult to apply a complicated algorithm because of its inherent low processing performance. In general, the embedded system needs system-dependent algorithm because it has lower processing performance than the computer. In this paper, the location of object is estimated from the information of object's motion obtained by applying a background subtraction method which compares the previous frames with the current ones. The real-time detection performance of the proposed method for object detection is verified experimentally on embedded board by comparing the proposed algorithm with the object detection based on LKOF (Lucas-Kanade optical flow).