• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.1082-1091
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• 2007

In this paper, we developed a new hybrid mobile robot which can climb stairs and go over thresholds by crawl gait with embedded real-time control software. This robot is also categorized into hybrid robot that has advantages of wheeled mobile robot and legged mobile robot, but adopts gait feature of crocodile named belly crawl. We imitated the belly crawl using four legs of 2 DOF, four omni-directional wheels, and embedded control software which controls legs and wheels. This software is developed using RTAI/Linux, real-time drivers. As a result, the new hybrid mobile robot has crawl gait. Using this feature, the new hybrid mobile robot can climb stairs and go over thresholds just by path planning of each leg with size of stairs and thresholds, and computing the movement distance of robot body center without considering stability. The performance of our new hybrid mobile robot is verified via experiments.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.28-33
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 휴머노이드를 이용한 로봇 축구 시스템을 새롭게 제안하며, 다수의 인간형 로봇을 제어하는 방법과 축구 경기를 하기 위한 전략 알고리즘 등에 대해 기술하였다. 로봇의 위치와 방향을 파악하기 위해서 로봇의 위쪽 어깨 부분에 각각의 로봇을 구분할 수 있는 칼라 태그를 부착하였고, 빠른 위치와 방향 인식을 위해 전용의 PC를 통해 영상인식을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 휴머노이드 로봇 축구 시스템은 기존의 바퀴 구동형 축구 로봇을 한 단계 발전시킨 것으로, 앞으로 많은 연구를 통하여, 인간처럼 자율 이동이 가능한 로봇 축구 경기가 가능하리라 본다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.1113-1114
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• 1996

We describe an algorithm to control an autonomous guided vehicle with 2-diagonal driving wheels, which navigates in the clean room.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2013

This paper presents interaction force control between a balancing robot and a human operator. The balancing robot has two wheels to generate movements on the plane. Since the balancing robot is based on position control, the robot tries to maintain a desired angle to be zero when an external force is applied. This leads to the instability of the system. Thus a hybrid force control method is employed to react the external force from the operator to guide the balancing robot to the desired position by a human operator. Therefore, when an operator applies a force to the robot, desired balancing angles should be modified to maintain stable balance. To maintain stable balance under an external force, suitable desired balancing angles are determined along with force magnitudes applied by the operator through experimental studies. Experimental studies confirm the functionality of the proposed method.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.161-167
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• 2007

It is dangerous that an inspector overhauls defects and condition of the inner parts of an oil tanker because of many harmful gases, complex structures, and etc. However, these inspections are necessary to many oil tankers over old years. In this study, we proposed the design of mobile robot for inspection of CAS in oil tanker. The developed CAS inspection mobile robot has four modules, a measurement module of oil tanker's thickness, a corrosion inspection module, a climbing module of the surface on a wall, and a monitoring module. In order to get over at a check position, the driving control algorithm was developed. Magnetic wheels are used to move on the surface of a wall. This study constructed a communication network and the monitoring program to operate the developed mobile robot from remote sites. In order to evaluate the inspection ability, the experiments about performance of CAS inspection using the developed mobile robot have been carried out.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2017

In this paper, we suggest the method for a mobile robot to move safely from an initial position to a goal position in the wide environment like a building. There is a problem using odometry encoder sensor to estimate the position of a mobile robot in the wide environment like a building. Because of the phenomenon of wheel's slipping, a encoder sensor has the accumulated error of a sensor measurement as time. Therefore the error must be compensated with using other sensor. A vision sensor is used to compensate the position of a mobile robot as using the regularly attached light's panel on a building's ceiling. The method to create global path planning for a mobile robot model a building's map as a graph data type. Consequently, we can apply floyd's shortest path algorithm to find the path planning. The effectiveness of the method is verified through simulations and experiments.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.216-220
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• 2022

This paper proposes an inspection robot that can operate on a single square rail. Various inspection robots have been developed to identify emergency situations in industrial environments, such as those involving fires or individuals with cardiac arrest. Because the robots must operate in wide areas and long tunnels, they are designed to move along a rail installed on the ceiling. Double rail track are typically used to ensure the stability of robot movement. However, the cost for installing a double rail track is nearly two times that for a single rail track. Moreover, it is challenging to install double rail tracks while ensuring the same curvature and interval between the two rails. Therefore, in this study, an inspection robot that operate on a single square rail track is developed. To ensure stable movement in the longitudinal and lateral directions, two passive guide parts are used, and the main active wheel is allowed to move on the upper side of the square rail. The prototype was manufactured, and experiments were performed for different robot velocities.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2010

Security robot has gradually developed and deployed in order to protect civilian's lives as well as fortune and subjugate the shortcomings of CCTV which lacks of mobility. We have developed a security robot for outdoor environment and the main purpose of the driving mechanism is to overcome the bumps or projections with high speed. The robot platform consists of 4 omnidirectional wheel-based driving mechanisms and suspension for each driving mechanism. In this paper, principal suspension parameters of outdoor security robot for overcoming obstacles with stability are studied and approximately optimized using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) since it is difficult to find the exact relationship between suspension parameters and the shock, which is significantly associated with stability of the robot, at the robot platform. Simulation using ADAMS is conducted for assessing the feasibility of optimized design parameters.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2015

Two-wheeled driying mobild robots are precise controlled in terms of linear contol methods without considering the nonlinear dynamical characteristics. However, in the high maneuvering situations such as fast turn and abrupt start and stop, such neglected terms become dominant and heavy influence the overall driving performance. This study describes the nonlinear optimal control method to take advantage of the exact nonlinear dynamics of the balancing robot. Simulation results indicate that the optimal control outperforms in the respect of transient performance and required wheel torques. A design example is suggested for the state matrix that provides design flexibility in the control. It is shown that a well-planned state matrix by reflecting the physics of a balancing robot greatly conrtibutes to the driving performance and stability.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 밸런싱 로봇의 동역학적 모델의 해석으로부터 기울기와 조향이 독립되어 있어 서로 영향을 받지 않는 것을 증명하고, 다변수 시스템에 적합한 제어기로써 두 개의 최적 LQR 제어기 구조를 갖는 제어시스템을 제안하였다. 또한 제안한 제어시스템의 성능을 입증하기 위하여 밸런싱 로봇의 자세제어에 적용하여 모의실험과 실험을 수행하였고, PID 제어기와의 비교평가를 통하여 그 우수성을 검증하였다.