• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.15-16
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• 2012

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.318-324
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• 2010

In this paper, the structure of the gravity compensator has been designed and applied to a light structure of a new 6-axis robot manipulator to enhance its torque performance. Also, analyses on the kinematics and inverse-kinematics of the manipulator have been performed. An FEM analysis has been performed on the structure of robot links to have an excellent performance of delivering 25 kg payload despite of 30kg weight, which is very light compared with other manipulators. Through the FEM analysis, the stability on the vending or fracture of the links of the robot manipulator has been verified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.97-98
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• 2011

This paper is about the study of a new exo-skeleton device applying a gravity compensator. The exo-skeleton devices is to reduce the external torque applied to the human body joint for the purpose of helping the disabled, reducing heavy payload for industry workers or military soldiers. Most of the exoskeleton devices are actuated by the motors, but motors are limited in energy such that a short durability is always a big problem. In this paper, an exoskeleton device using a new gravity compensator based on a torsion bar is proposed to reduce the torque load applied to human body joints. The exoskeleton device is designed for the lower body of human. Analyses on the torsion bar spring and link of the exoskeleton device using FEM method were performed. To reduce the applied torque to the human joint, a torsion bar gravity compensator is applied to the exoskeleton. The effect of the torsion bar compensator for the exoskeleton device was verified through load test using developed test equipment.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.396-410
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• 2009

The goal of this work is to present an advanced method of an estimation of the Modeling Uncertainties coming up in industrial rigid robot's manipulator and actuators. First, with the given physical robot model, the motion equation was derived. Considering a fictitious model, a new extended motion equation is developed. Based on this extended model, an observer and observer bank are designed for the estimation of modeling uncertainties which are involving the effects of gravity, friction, mass unbalance, and Coriolis which show the nonlinear characteristics in operation states.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.789-796
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• 2016

The weight of an antenna system pointing satellite on the mobile platform is restricted by the weight limit of the mobile platform. The maximum power of the actuator driving the antenna system is thus limited because a high power actuator needs a heavier weight. Thus, a drive system is designed to have a low torque requirement by reducing the gravitational torque depending on gravity or acceleration of the mobile platform, including vibration, shock, and accelerated motion. To reduce the gravitational torque, the mathematical model of the gravitational torque is preferentially obtained. However, the method to directly estimate the mathematical model in an antenna system has not previously been reported. In this paper, a method is proposed to estimate the gravitational torque as a mathematical model in the antenna system. Additionally, a method is also proposed to calculate the optimal weight of the balancing weight to compensate for the gravitational torque.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.920-926
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• 2007

새로운 매체와 접촉 시 발생하는 거부감을 최소화 하고 별도의 학습 없이 사용 가능한 직관적 명령 전달 방식의 매개 인터페이스를 제안한다. 제안하는 매개 인터페이스는 3차원 공간에서 사용가능한 가상 마우스와 TV 리모트 컨트롤러의 기능적 결합을 목표로 하고 실버세대들에게 익숙한 매체인 펜을 형태로 삼아 개념적으로 설계되었다. 구체적인 구현은 가속도계의 신호를 분석하거나 펜촉에 레이저 포인터를 추가하여 레이저 포인터의 좌표 변화를 웹캠으로 추적, 인식하는 방법으로 구분하였고 본 논문에서는 가속도계의 경우를 소개한다. 가속도계 신호분석을 통해 마우스의 기능을 모사하고 동작을 감지하는데 발생하는 문제점과 이를 해결하기 위한 기존 연구를 분석하고 동작 중에 중력방향의 수직축이 바뀌면서 발생하는 가속도계 신호의 오류를 보상하기 위해 제안된 Zero Velocity Compensation 방법을 소개한다. ZVC의 결과에 필수적인 저주파의 시계열 신호 실시간 끝점 추출과 동시에 패턴인식을 위한 특징추출 기능을 수행하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안하며 기존의 방법과 실험적으로 성능을 비교한다. 또한 입력된 가속도계 신호를 학습된 인식기를 통해 인식하는 기존의 연구에서 더 나아가, 마우스의 좌표변화를 짧은 시간동안 가속도 신호의 실시간 분석을 통해 모사하기 위해 변형시킨 알고리즘을 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.48-55
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• 2011

Hydraulic excavator is one of the most widely used heavy machines in construction sites including dismantling. In the dismantling sites, the excavators equipped with crusher or breaker carry out dangerous operations, so drivers are always exposed to unexpected danger. For safety operation, remote control of the hydraulic excavator has been studied using proportional control valve, which requires an appropriate motion control of its bucket tip. In this case, kinematics and dynamics analysis have to be preceded through modeling of excavator. However, it is difficult to acquire reasonable results from the analysis due to insufficient information of physical parameters such as mass of each links and locations of mass centers, etc. This study deals with the trajectory control of bucket tip, which is based on experimental estimation of cylinder output force. The estimated forces are fed into the control of each cylinder in order to compensate gravitational and frictional effects in the cylinders. The control was applied to horizontal trajectories that are for flattening work.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.1141-1146
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• 2014

As life expectancy becomes longer, reduction of human muscular strength threatens quality of human life. Many robotic devices have thus been developed to support and help human daily life. This paper deals with a new type of in-wheel actuator that can be effectively used for the robotic devices. BLDC motor, drive board, brake, ARS (Attribute Reference System), and torque sensor are combined in the single actuator module. The torque sensor is used to recognize human intention and the in-wheel actuator drives walking aids in our system. Its feasibility was tested with the active walking aid device equipped with the in-wheel actuator. Based on it, we designed an admittance filter algorithm to react on uphill and downhill drive. By adjusting mass, damping, and spring parameters in accordance with the ARS output, it provided convenient drive to the old on uphill and downhill walks.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.505-510
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• 2017

This paper presents a low-cost robotic device for shoulder rehabilitation, which is capable of treating various shoulder disabilities. A 3-DOF passive shoulder joint tracking module was designed to allow for translational motion of the shoulder joint center during arm swing, which is essential for natural shoulder movement. The weight of the user's arm and the device were compensated for by springs, to enable gravity-free shoulder motion. In order to reduce the device's cost, only one actuator was used, which can be aligned with the user's shoulder joint in various orientations. The device is capable of implementing five representative shoulder motions, including flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, horizontal abd/adduction, internal/external rotation, and oblique raise. The proposed low-cost shoulder rehabilitation robot is expected to provide effective rehabilitation for patients with various shoulder impairments.