• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.340-346
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• 2008

An unmanned surveillance robot consists of a machine gun, a laser receiver, a thermal imager, a color CCD camera, and a laser illuminator. It has two axis control systems for elevation and azimuth. Because the current robot system is mounded at a fixed post to take care of surveillance tasks, it is necessary to modify such a surveillance robot to be installed on an UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) system in order to watch blind areas. Thus, it is required to have a stabilization system to compensate the disturbance from the UGV. In this paper, a simulation based design scheme has been adopted to develop a mobile surveillance robot. The 3D CAD geometry model has first been produced by using Pro-Engineer. The required pan and tilt motor capacities have been analyzed using ADAMS inverse dynamics analysis. A target tracking and stabilization control algorithm of the mobile surveillance robot has been developed in order to compensate the motion of the vehicle which will experience the rough terrain. To test the performance of the stabilization control system of the robot, ADAMS/simulink co-simulations has been carried out.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.580-585
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• 2005

A QRT(Quad-Rotor Type) hovering robot system is developed for quick detection and observation of the circumstances under calamity environment such as indoor fire spots. The UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is equipped with four propellers driven by each electric motor, an embedded controller using a DSP, INS(Inertial Navigation System) using 3-axis rate gyros, a CCD camera with wireless communication transmitter for observation, and an ultrasonic range sensor for height control. The developed hovering robot shows stable flying performances under the adoption of RIC(Robust Internal-loop Compensator) based disturbance compensation and the vision based localization method. The UAV can also avoid obstacles using eight IR and four ultrasonic range sensors. The VTOL(Vertical Take-Off and Landing) flying object flies into indoor fire spots and sends the images captured by the CCD camera to the operator. This kind of small-sized UAV can be widely used in various calamity observation fields without danger of human beings under harmful environment.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2003

새로운 3차원 도립진자 시스템의 구현 및 퍼지제어에 관하여 논한다. 기존의 1차원 또는 2차원 도립진자 시스템과 달리, 3차원 도립진자 시스템은 상하 운동을 포함하는 인간의 도립진자 제어행위를 적절히 모사할 수 있는 새로운 시스템이다. 3차원 도립진자 시스템의 특성 분석과 퍼지제어기 설계를 위하여 3축 직교로봇과 도립진자를 포함하는 기구부의 동력학식을 유도한다. 로봇의 여유자유도와 제한된 작업영역을 고려하면서 도립진자의 요오(yaw) 및 피치(pitch)각을 제어하기 위한 퍼지제어기 설계 방법을 제안한다. 개발된 PC 기반의 다축제어보드를 이용한 실험 결과를 통하여 제안된 시스템의 성능을 검증한다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2013

This paper shows the development of a snake robot (KAEROT-snake V) which consists of 16 1-DOF actuator modules and head module. The modules are connected serially and the joint axis of each module is rotated by $90^{\circ}$ with respect to the previous joint so that the snake robot can move in the 3D space. A tail actuator module includes slip-ring and metal connector. KAEROT-snake IV developed in prior research could move in the 3D space and climb up in a narrow pipe. But its design was not appropriate to the unstructured tough environment and its speed was somewhat slow. A new actuator module is designed to enclose all parts of the module so that any wire is not exposed. The size and weight of the new module was slightly reduced. And the rotation speed and torque of the joint was increased by about twice when compared with pre-module. An embedded controller was developed so small that it can be mounted inside the module. The performance of the developed robot was demonstrated through various locomotion experiments.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2014

본 논문은 인간과 상호작용하는 엔터테인먼트 4족 애완 로봇과 스마트폰에서 로봇 조종이 가능한 로봇제어기 및 로봇에서 제공하는 센서 정보들을 이용하여 컴퓨터에서 가정용 기기들을 제어하는 홈스마트제어시스템을 구현하기 위한 것으로 로봇은 20 자유도를 가지면서 Microsoft사의 키넥트 센서, 적외선거리 센서, 3축 모션 센서, 그래픽 LCD, 온습도 및 가스 센서로 구성되어 있다. 로봇의 엔터테인먼트 기능을 구현하기 위하여 보행 알고리즘, 키넥트 센서를 이용한 모션 및 음성인식 알고리즘, 감정표현을 위한 알고리즘을 제시하였으며 로봇을 조종할 수 있는 스마트폰 로봇제어 알고리즘 및 가정용 기기를 제어하는 홈스마트제어 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘들은 구현한 로봇과 컴퓨터 및 스마트폰에 적용하여 실험으로 검증하였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2021

로봇 기술이 발전함에 따라 모바일 로봇의 주행 시스템에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 2륜 및 4륜의 휠을 기반으로 구성되는 모바일 로봇의 주행 시스템은 직선과 같은 단반향 주행에 장점이 있으나 방향 전환 및 제자리 회전에 단점을 가지고 있다. 볼을 휠로 사용하는 볼 로봇은 전방향 이동에 장점이 있으나, 구조적인 불안정한 특성에 의해 균형을 유지하기 위한 자세 제어 및 이동을 위한 주행 제어가 요구된다. 기존의 볼 로봇은 모터에 부착된 엔코더를 이용하여 주행제어를 위한 위치를 추정함으로써 오차가 누적되는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 영상처리를 통해 볼 로봇의 위치 좌표를 추정하고, 이를 주행 제어에 사용하는 주행 제어 시스템을 제안하였다. 볼 로봇의 위치를 추정하기 위한 영상처리부, 통신부, 표시부 및 제어부를 포함하는 볼 로봇의 주행 제어 시스템을 설계 및 제작하고, 주행 제어 시스템을 적용한 볼 로봇의 주행 실험을 통해 x축 방향 ±50.3mm 및 y축 방향 ±53.9mm의 오차범위 이내에서 오차의 누적 없이 제어됨을 확인하였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.194-202
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• 2008

This paper describes a new method for indoor environment mapping and localization with stereo camera. For environmental modeling, we directly use the depth and color information in image pixels as visual features. Furthermore, only the depth and color information at horizontal centerline in image is used, where optical axis passes through. The usefulness of this method is that we can easily build a measure between modeling and sensing data only on the horizontal centerline. That is because vertical working volume between model and sensing data can be changed according to robot motion. Therefore, we can build a map about indoor environment as compact and efficient representation. Also, based on such nodes and sensing data, we suggest a method for estimating mobile robot positioning with random sampling stochastic algorithm. With basic real experiments, we show that the proposed method can be an effective visual navigation algorithm.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.288-294
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is manufacturing of monolithic housing for modularization of steering gear. Monolithic housing is difficult to weld with only rotation and linear motion. It is for this reason that housing of joining parts have a slope of 76.3 degrees. For this reason, welding trajectory was measured by the cooperative controled robot system, and then allowing for measured results, we developed the dedicated system. The developed system can be welded by using only 3 axises in contrast with robot system using 8 axises in housing welding. In addition, we applied CMT and laser welding device to dedicated system and as a result of experiment, sound bead and excellent roundness could be obtained.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2008

Based on object recognition technology, we present a new global localization method for robot navigation. For doing this, we model any indoor environment using the following visual cues with a stereo camera; view-based image features for object recognition and those 3D positions for object pose estimation. Also, we use the depth information at the horizontal centerline in image where optical axis passes through, which is similar to the data of the 2D laser range finder. Therefore, we can build a hybrid local node for a topological map that is composed of an indoor environment metric map and an object location map. Based on such modeling, we suggest a coarse-to-fine strategy for estimating the global localization of a mobile robot. The coarse pose is obtained by means of object recognition and SVD based least-squares fitting, and then its refined pose is estimated with a particle filtering algorithm. With real experiments, we show that the proposed method can be an effective vision- based global localization algorithm.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2001

This paper describes the design of a two-axis force sensor for robots finger. In detects the x-direction force Fx and y-direction force Fy simultaneously. In order to safely grasp an unknown object using the robots fingers, they should detect the force or gripping direction and the force of gravity direction, and perform the force control using the forces detected. Therefore, the robots hand should be made by the robots finger with tow-axis force sensor that can detect the x-direction force and y-direction force si-multaneously. Thus, in this paper, the two-axis force sensor for robots finger is designed using several parallel-plate beams. The equations to calculate the strain of the beams according to the force in order to design the sensing element of the force sensor are derived and these equations are used to design the aize of two-axis force sensor sensing element. The reliability of the derive equa-tions is verified buy performing a finite element analysis of the sensing element. The strain obtained through this process is compared to that obtained through the theory analysis and a characteristics test of the fabricated sensor. It reveals that the rated strains calculated from the derive equations make a good agreement with the results from the Finite Element Method analysis and from the character-istic test.