• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.313-316
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 파티클 필터를 이용한 이동 로봇의 위치 추정 방법을 제안한다. 이동 로봇의 위치를 추정하기 위해알기 위해 이동 로봇에 설치되어 있는 초음파 센서를 이용하여 주변 환경과의 거리를 측정한다. 그리고 측정된 센서 값과 이동 동작의 불확실성을 고려하여, 위치 추정 오차를 줄이고자 가우스 확률분포와 파티클 필터 기법을 이용하여 이동 로봇의 위치를 추정한다. 본 논문에서는 구현된 시스템과 실험 결과를 소개한다.

• ICROS
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.56-61
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• 2011

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.133-138
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• 2016

Force control and collision detection for a robot are usually conducted using a 6-axis force/torque sensor mounted at the end-effector. However, this scheme suffers from high-cost and the inability to detect collisions at the robot body. As an alternative, joint torque sensors embedded in each joint were used, which also suffered from various errors in torque measurement. To resolve this problem, a robot joint module with an improved joint torque sensor is proposed in this study. In the proposed torque sensor, a cross-roller bearing and disk-type coupling are added to prevent the moment load from adversely affecting the measurement of the joint torque under consideration. This joint design also aims to reduce the stress induced during the assembly process of the sensor. The performance of the proposed joint torque sensor was verified through various experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.387-390
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 교구용 소형 로봇으로 구현한 군집로봇 시스템을 소개한다. 각 로봇에 내장된 블루투스 무선통신으로 군집로봇 네트워크를 구성하였다. 실험에 사용한 로봇은 $LEGO^{(R)}$ $MINDSTORMS^{(R)}$ NXT이다. 여러 로봇이 라인으로 표현한 대형 미로를 동시에 탐사하는 환경을 가정하였다. 이런 상황에서 각 로봇은 주어진 임무를 수행하면서 센서로 주변 환경 정보를 측정해서 대표 로봇에게 보낸다. 여기에 필요한 메시지 구조를 군집로봇에 적절하도록 설계하였다. 이렇게 군집로봇을 구현하고 실험한 결과, 그룹 대표로봇이 통신을 중계하는 방법으로 통신거리 제약을 해소할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.361-368
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• 2015

This paper reports an unscented Kalman filter approach for localization of a mobile robot in an indoor environment. The method proposes a new model of measurement uncertainty which adjusts the error covariance according to the measured distance. The method also uses non-zero off diagonal values in error covariance matrices of motion uncertainty and measurement uncertainty. The method is tested through experiments in an indoor environment of 100*40 m working space using a differential drive robot which uses Laser range finder as an exteroceptive sensor. The results compare the localization performance of the proposed method with the conventional method which doesn't use adaptive measurement uncertainty model. Also, the experiment verifies the improvement due to non-zero off diagonal elements in covariance matrices. This paper contributes to implementing and evaluating a practical UKF approach for mobile robot localization.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.348-354
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• 2011

Mobile robots performed various missions in various environments. In order to move to target precisely, the mobile robots need a precise position sensing system In this paper, a new high precision docking sensor is proposed. Proposed docking sensor consists of linear CCD(charge coupled device) sensor and ultrasonic sensors. The docking sensor system can measure lateral position(X), longitudinal position(Y) and angle(${\theta}$) between the sensor and flat target with simple mark. Two ultrasonic sensors measure two distances which can be converted to longitudinal position and angle. Linear CCD sensor measures lateral position using center mark of the target. To verify performance of the sensor, the sensor is applied to an omnidirectional mobile robot. Several experimental results show highly precise performance of the sensor. Repeatability of the docking sensor is less than 1mm and $0.2^{\circ}$. Proposed docking sensor can be applied for precise docking of mobile robot.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.209-216
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• 2007

In this paper, we embodied posture-stabilization and dynamic gait in a walking robot. 10 RC servo motors are used to operate joints. And the joints have enough moving ranges suitable in any walking pattern. Each joint trajectory is generated by cubic spline interpolation method and the stability of the trajectory is verified by using Zero Moment Point from the robot modeling. To avoid complex structure and expression, Zero Moment Point of the biped robot used angular acceleration is suggested. To measure the stability of the biped robot, Tilt sensor and gyro sensor are used. Finally, Personal Computer is used computer monitoring and data processing. Most of computation, such as 10 RC servo motor control, joint trajectory generating, ZMP compensation, sense measuring, etc, was used Digital Signal Processor.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 2016

In this paper a cervical rehabilitation robot for Mckenzie exercises to be effective to neck pain relief is proposed. The robot has two degrees of freedom (DOF) for Lateral flexion and extension, Dorsal and Vental flexion which enable user to perform cervical stretching and isometric exercises for neck muscles. The mechanical parts of the cervical rehabilitation robot can be mounted on a back- or head-rest of chair, and user can perform the Mckenzie exercise with seated. In experiments we measured the range of motion of cervical part, EMG signals from neck muscles and the contact forces of a head bracket fixing the head part of user, and then evaluated their performances. From the experimental results, we showed a feasibility of the cervical rehabilitation robot proposed in this study.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.775-781
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• 2011

For the measurement of absolute position of mobile robot in indoor environments, the ultrasonic positioning systems using ultrasound have been researched for several years. Most of these ultrasonic positioning systems to avoid interference between the ultrasound are used for sequential transmitting. However, due to the use of sequential transmitting, the positions of transmitter to receive an ultrasound will change when the mobile robot moves. Therefore the accuracy of positioning is reduced. In this paper, the new position estimation algorithm with weighting factor according to the time of receipt is proposed. By applying the proposed algorithm to existing Ultrasonic Satellite System(USAT), the improved USAT is configured. The positioning performance of the improved USAT with the proposed position estimation algorithm are verified by experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.289-292
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• 2008

기존의 웹 수집 로봇에서 처리하지 못하는 자바스크립트 함수 링크를 처리하기 위하여 인터넷 익스플로러의 "Active Script Engine"을 사용하였다. 또한 자바스크립트 함수 링크를 처리 하였을 경우 웹 수집 로봇의 수집량을 측정하기 위하여 웹 수집 로봇을 개발하였다. 웹 수집 로봇을 개발하기 위해서 구글봇과 네이봇 등 웹 수집 로봇의 구조를 파악하여, 수집 로봇에 활용되는 구성요소를 구현하고 분산처리형태의 웹 수집 로봇을 설계하여 개발했다. 또한 개발된 웹 로봇에 제안된 자바스크립트 처리 모델을 추가하여 성능 평가를 하였다. 성능평가 방법은 자바스크립트를 사용하는 웹사이트의 게시판을 대상으로 하여 웹 수집량을 비교 분석하는 것이다. 웹사이트 게시물 1000개인 경우, 일반 웹 로봇의 경우에는 1페이지밖에 수집하지 못하였고, 제안된 웹 로봇의 경우 1000개 이상의 웹 페이지를 수집하는 결과를 얻었다.