• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.1C
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• pp.26-35
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• 2006

In this paper, an automatic mobile robot system for a intelligent path planning using the detection scheme of the spatial coordinates based on stereo camera is proposed. In the proposed system, face area of a moving person is detected from a left image among the stereo image pairs by using the YCbCr color model and its center coordinates are computed by using the centroid method and then using these data, the stereo camera embedded on the mobile robot can be controlled for tracking the moving target in real-time. Moreover, using the disparity map obtained from the left and right images captured by the tracking-controlled stereo camera system and the perspective transformation between a 3-D scene and an image plane, depth information can be detected. Finally, based-on the analysis of these calculated coordinates, a mobile robot system is derived as a intelligent path planning and a estimation. From some experiments on robot driving with 240 frames of the stereo images, it is analyzed that error ratio between the calculated and measured values of the distance between the mobile robot and the objects, and relative distance between the other objects is found to be very low value of $2.19\%$ and $1.52\%$ on average, respectably.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.115-121
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• 2017

In this paper, the intelligent vision system for an effective and intelligent path-planning of an industrial AGV system based on stereo camera system is proposed. The depth information and disparity map are detected in the inputting images of a parallel stereo camera. The distance between the industrial AGV system and the obstacle detected and the 2D path coordinates obtained from the location coordinates, and then the relative distance between the obstacle and the other objects obtained from them. The industrial AGV system move automatically by effective and intelligent path-planning using the obtained 2D path coordinates. From some experiments on AGV system driving with the stereo images, it is analyzed that error ratio between the calculated and measured values of the distance between the objects is found to be very low value of 2% on average, respectably.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.6
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• pp.705-717
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a rapid lane detection method to extract a preceding vehicle from sequential images captured by a single monocular CCD camera. We detect positions of lanes for an individual image within the limited area that would not be hidden and thereby compute the slopes of the detected lanes. Then we find a search area where vehicles would exist and extract the position of the preceding vehicle within the area with edge component by applying a structured method. To verify the effects of the proposed method, we capture the road images with a notebook PC and a CCD camera for PC and present the results such as processing time for lane detection, accuracy and vehicles detection against the images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 레이저 센서를 장착한 자율 이동 로봇을 이용하여 실내에서 장애물들을 검출한다. 데이터에서 나오는 패턴을 인식해 사람과 정적 장애물을 실시간으로 구분한 후 사람의 속도와 로봇의 속도를 각각 비교하여 따로 지정해준 안전거리를 유지하며 주행한다. 예상치 못한 상황이 발생될 것을 대비해 로봇의 전방에 범퍼 센서를 장착하여 안전성을 고려하였다. 로봇의 자기 위치 인식을 위해 StarGazer센서를 이용하였다. 패턴은 레이저 센서 데이터의 거리, 각 값을 이용하여 다리 패턴의 너비를 구하고 너비의 가운데 점을 중심점으로 지정해 추적하며 구동하는 알고리즘을 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.25-34
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• 1999

In this paper, an algorithm is presented to recognize lane and obstacles based on highway road image. The road images obtained by a video camera undergoes a pre-processing that includes filtering, edge detection, and identification of lanes. After this pre-processing, a part of image is grouped into 27 sub-windows and fed into a three-layer feed-forward neural network. The neural network is trained to indicate the road direction and the presence of absence of an obstacle. The proposed algorithm has been tested with the images different from the training images, and demonstrated its efficacy for recognizing lane and obstacles. Based on the test results, it can be said that the algorithm successfully combines the traditional image processing and the neural network principles towards a simpler and more efficient driver warning of assistance system

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.416-419
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 운전자의 편의를 위해 직관적인 방향 정보를 햅틱 정보로 전달하기 위한 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템을 구현하기 위해, 햅틱 진동에 방향성을 추가하기 위한 햅틱 기술을 적용하였다. 제안하는 시스템의 작동 과정은 인지와 햅틱 신호 생성으로 나누어지며, 그 과정은 다음과 같다. 인지 과정에서는 차량의 양 측면에 달린 카메라를 이용해 차선을 검출한다. 또한 상단에 부착된 라이다 센서를 이용해 장애물의 방향과 거리를 판단한다. 동적 햅틱 신호 생성 과정에서는 인지된 정보들을 활용하여 차선 이탈과 장애물 충돌의 경보를 구분할 수 있고, 방향성을 포함하는 동적 햅틱 신호가 생성된다. 생성된 신호는 스티어링 휠과 시트에 부착된 진동 모터를 통해 전달된다. 이러한 기능을 갖는 시스템은 로봇을 사용한 시뮬레이션 환경에서 진행되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1062-1067
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• 2003

A vision system for Intelligent vehicles here. The system exploits the characteristics of the gray level histogram of the road to detect lane markers. Each lane maker is then analyzed using a decision tree, and finally the relations between lane markers are analyzed to create structures defining the lane boundaries. The resulting system also generates images that can be used ae preprocessing stages in lane detection, lane tracking or obstacle detection algorithm. The system runs in realtime ay rates of about 30Hz.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.766-769
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• 2010

시각 정보는 사람이 정보를 획득 하는데 가장 주요한 수단이다. 시각이라는 수단을 상실한 시각장애인을 위하여 흰 지팡이, Navbelt, MELDOG 등의 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 연구의 일환으로 점자 블록 검출에 대한 연구를 진행한다. 기존 색상 기반 방법의 단점을 보완하기 위하여 스테레오 비전 시스템을 이용하여 장애물이나 벽면을 제거하고, 2차에 걸친 필터링 시스템을 적용하여, 보다 정밀한 후보 영역을 검출하였다. 그리고 윈도우를 이용하여 보행로 판단에 적용함으로 직선의 보행로만 아니라 교차로 형태의 보행로 인식에서도 안정적인 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.35-42
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• 2014

It is possible to improve the obstacle avoidance capability by training and recognizing the obstacles which is in certain indoor environment. We propose the technique that use underlying intensity value along with intensity map from RGB-D image which is derived from stereo vision Kinect sensor and recognize an obstacle within constant distance. We test and experiment the accuracy and execution time of the pattern recognition algorithms like PCA, ICA, LDA, SVM to show the recognition possibility of it. From the comparison experiment between RGB-D data and intensity data, RGB-D data got 4.2% better accuracy rate than intensity data but intensity data got 29% and 31% faster than RGB-D in terms of training time and intensity data got 70% and 33% faster than RGB-D in terms of testing time for LDA and SVM, respectively. So, LDA, SVM have good accuracy and better training/testing time to use for obstacle avoidance based on intensity dataset of mobile robot.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.291-297
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• 2009

This paper introduces an electronic travel aid, named SmartWand, which detects obstacles using a ultrasonic sensor. In addition to obstacle detection, the SmartWand senses color information of objects and the environmental brightness. It is designed to be attached to a ordinary white cane in order to detect the obstacles at head-hight which cannot be covered by the cane. We have improved the first version of the SmartWand based on a user evaluation. The second version is much lighter and smaller than the previous one. It has been enhanced by two new functions. The SmartWand eliminates impact errors due to tapping the ground using a moving average filtering algorithm and restricts the detection range to the path in the moving direction using an acceleration sensor. We have tested these functions in various environments to determine the parameters for these functions.