• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.312-318
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• 2012

Recently, although the need of marine robots being raised in extreme areas, the basis is very deficient. Fortunately, as the robot competition is vitalizing and the need of the robot education is increasing, it is desirable to establish the basis of the R&D and industrialization of marine robots and to train professionals through the development and diffusion of marine robot kits. However, in conventional case, there is no underwater-type autonomous marine robot kit for the marine robot competition, which has the abilities of the underwater locomotion and target detection and avoidance. To solve this problem, a marine robot kit which has the abilities of the underwater locomotion, the waterproof and the weight adjustment, is developed. To verify the performance of the developed kit, test and evaluation such as surge, pitch, yaw, obstacle avoidance is performed. The test and evaluation results show that the possibility of the real applications of the developed kit.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.146-147
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• 2015

현재 선박이나 교각 해양플랜트는 많은 철판으로 구성이 되어 있다. 특히 해양플랜트와 선박에는 오랜시간 바다에 있으므로 각종 해양생물들이 붙어 번식을 한다. 이러한 해양생물은 선박의 속도 및 연료 소모에 상당한 영향을 미친다. 그러므로 선박이나 해양플랜트 구조물은 정기적으로 벽면에 서식하는 해양생물을 제거하고 있으며 이러한 제거과정과 도장을 다시하는 과정에서 작업자들에게 위험이 따른다. 본 연구는 선박이나 해양플랜트와 같은 철로된 구조물의 위험한 작업을 대신할 로봇의 기반인 철판 벽면을 이동하는 로봇을 연구하였다. 현재 많은 벽면 로봇들이 연구되고 있다. 영구자석 또는 전자석 휠을 사용하거나 공압을 이용하여 수직벽면에서 작업을 한다. 특히 공압 방식을 많이 사용하였는데 수직벽면에 로봇이 밀착될 만큼 강한 공압이 필요하게 되기 때문에 부가적인 장치가 많이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 부가적인 장치를 최소화하고 효과적인 동작을 하기위해 전자석 방식을 선택 하였으며 간편하게 선박의 수직벽면을 작업할 수 있는 전자석 방식의 4 륜 로봇을 개발하고자 한다. 선박의 수직벽면 작업용 4 륜구동 로봇을 전자석을 이용하여 수직벽면에 부착할 수 있도록 설계하였으며 자력의 세기와 방향을 제어하여 로봇이 선박의 수직면에 밀착되어 자유롭게 이동이 가능하도록 개발 하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1213-1218
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• 2013

Recently, although the need of marine robots such as the underwater robot, surface robot and airborne robot being raised in extreme areas, the basis is very deficient. Fortunately, as the need of the robot education is increasing, it is desirable to establish the R&D basis of marine robots and to train future talents through the development and diffusion of marine robot kits. However, in conventional case, there is no marine robot-kit based on the balloon, which has the abilities of the airborne locomotion and obstacle avoidance. To solve this problem, a balloon-based autonomous airborne robot-kit that has the ability of the obstacle avoidance with an infrared sensor, is developed. The test and evaluation results show the possibility of the real applications and the necessity of additional work.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.300-311
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• 2019

An ROV trencher is a type of heavy-duty work class ROV equipped with high-pressure water jet tools for cutting into the sea floor and burying cables. This kind of trencher is mostly used for PLIB operations. This paper introduces the development of this kind of ROV trencher, which has a 698 kW power system, with a 250 kW hydraulic system and two 224 kW water jet systems. The project was launched in January 2014. After four years of design, manufacturing, and system integration, we carried out two sea trials near the Yeongilman port (about 20-30 m in depth) in Pohang to evaluate the system performance in November 2017 and August 2018. Through tests, we found that most of specifications were satisfied, including a maximum bury depth of 3 m, maximum bury speed of 2 km/h, and maximum forward speed of 1.54 m/s.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.178-188
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• 2019

When burying underwater cables using robots, heading control is one of the key functions for the robots to improve task efficiency. This paper addresses the heading control issue for URI-T, an ROV for underwater construction tasks, including the burial and maintenance of cables or small diameter pipelines. Through modeling and identifying the heading motion of URI-T, the dynamic characteristics and input limitation are analyzed. Based on the identification results, a PD type controller with appropriate input treatment is designed for the heading control of URI-T. The performance of the heading controller was verified in water tank experiments. The field applicability of the proposed controller was also evaluated through the sea trial of URI-T at the East Sea, with a water depth of 500 m.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.38 no.7
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• pp.30-36
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• 2011

최근 들어 녹색 성장과 해양 개발에 맞는 다양한 목적의 해양 구조물이 계획 또는 시공되고 있으며, 대형 해양 구조물에 대한 수요를 바탕으로 해양 구조물이 점차적으로 대수심 조건으로 옮겨가고 있는 추세이다. 이에 따라 미래 시장 예측을 통한 해양 구조물 수요 변화에 대해 미리 대처하고 미래해양구조물 니즈에 적극적으로 부합할 수 있는 방향으로 해양구조물 시공장비, 특히 수중로봇의 연구개발이 이루어져야 한다. 이 논문에서는 미래 해양구조물에 대한 개발 동향과 함께, 이에 따라 필요한 수중시공로봇의 역할과 기존의 개발 현황, 그리고 최근 기획사업을 통해 도출된 향후 연구개발 방향에 대한 분석내용을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.831-836
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• 2010

In real system application, the path planning and following system for the coordinated control of heterogeneous marine robots based on the underwater acoustic communication has the following problems: surface and underwater robots have different maneuvering properties, an underwater robot requires more effective operating, it has a limited communication range because of the transmission loss (TL) of acoustic wave, it has a communication error because of the Doppler distortion of acoustic wave, and further, it requires an easy design procedure in terms of its structures and parameters. To solve these problems, an intelligent path planning algorithm using the evolution strategy (ES) and the fuzzy logic controller (FLC) based on system modeling, is proposed. To verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, the path planning and following of an underwater robot is performed according to the maneuvering of a surface robot. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm effectively solves the problems.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.80-80
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• 2018

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.342-348
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• 2015

Recently, many waste is getting into the ocean because of natural disasters and trash of illegality. These destroy the marine ecosystem and the great views around the ocean. Many methods are used for the removal of the waste in the ocean and one of the main waste forms is floating debris. In order to remove the waste, the nets are mostly used and the ships are recently used. However, many problems are occurred due to low number of people and techniques in the ship-based removal. To solve this problem, a surface robot for floating debris removal is developed. To verify the performance of the developed robot, tests of surge, yaw, and floating debris removal are executed. The test results show the possibility of real applications and the need for additional studies.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2012

최근 육상자원의 한계로 해양 자원에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 수중에서 자유자재로 운용할 수 있는 수중로봇의 경제적 가치가 부각되고 있으며, 특히 기술적 한계를 극복하기 위해 물고기나 수중생물을 모사한 생체모방형 수중로봇에 대한 연구가 활발해지고 있어 이를 소개하고자 한다.