• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.395-404
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• 2006

The objective of this paper is to generate a desired flight path to be followed by an autonomous airship. The space is supposed without obstacles. As there are six degrees of freedom and only three inputs for the LSC AS200 airship, three equality constraints appear due to the under-actuation.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.484-492
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• 2022

This paper presents a simple and robust under-actuated robotic finger mechanism that enables self-adaptive grip, fingertip pinch, and caging grasp functions. In order to perform daily activities using hands, the fingers should be able to perform adaptive gripping and pinching motion, and the caging grasp function is required to realize natural gripping motions and improve grip reliability. However, general commercial prosthetic hands cannot implement all three functions because they use under-actuation mechanism and simple mechanical structure to achieve light-weight and high robustness characteristic. In this paper, new mechanism is proposed that maintains structural simplicity and implements all the three finger functions with simple one degree-of-freedom control through a combination of a four-bar linkage mechanism and a wire-driven mechanism. The basic structure and operating principle of the proposed finger mechanism were explained, and simulation and experiments using the prototype were conducted to verify the gripping performance of the proposed finger mechanism.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.5758-5762
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• 2014

정전기적으로 구동되는 마이크로 소자는 센서 및 엑츄에이터 산업 분야에서 널리 활용되고 있다. 정전기적으로 구동되는 마이크로 소자 구조체는 수 마이크로미터 이하의 전극 사이 간격으로서 정전기적인 부착 현상에 의한 고장이 발생 한다. 본 연구에서는 마이크로 소자의 부착 현상을 개선하기위하여 전극의 길이와 면적을 달리한 마이크로 소자의 구조체를 제작하고, 원자 층 증착방법에 의한 알루미나 코팅 전과 후의 마이크로 소자의 풀인 전압(pull-in voltage)을 측정 비교 분석 하였다. 마이크로 소자의 상부 전극 길이 변화에서는 알루미나 코팅 후에 풀인 전압의 상승이 관찰되었고 전극면적이 클수록 풀인 전압 상승이 관찰되었다. 정전기적으로 구동되는 마이크로 소자의 부착 현상을 개선하기위한 방안으로 본 연구에서 적용된 알루미나 코팅 방법은 효과적인 방법이다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2020

Vibrations of a wind turbine blade have a negative impact on its performance and result in failure of the blade, therefore an approach to effectively control vibration in turbine blades are sought by wind industry. The small domestic horizontal axis wind turbine blades induce flap wise (out-of-plane) vibration, due to varying wind speeds. These flap wise vibrations are transferred to the structure, which even causes catastrophic failure of the system. Shape memory alloys which possess physical property of variable stiffness across different phases are embedded into the composite blades for active vibration control. Previously Shape memory alloys have been used as actuators to change their angles and orientations in fighter jet blades but not used for active vibration control for wind turbine blades. In this work a GFRP blade embedded with Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) and tested for its vibrational and material damping characteristics, under martensitic and austenite conditions. The embedment portrays 47% reduction in displacement of blade, with respect to the conventional blade. An analytical model for the actuated smart blade is also proposed, which validates the harmonic response of the smart blade.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.257-266
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• 2019

The benefit of data fusion in improving the performance of Higher Order Sliding Mode (HOSM) observer is brought out in this paper. This improvement in the performance of HOSM observer, resulted in the improvement of active vibration control of a piezo actuated structure, when controlled by a Discrete Sliding Mode Controller (DSMC). The structure is embedded with two piezo sensors for measuring the first two vibrating modes. The fused output of sensors is applied to the HOSM observer for generating state estimates, these states generated are applied to the DSMC, designed for the fourth order linear time invariant model of the structure. In the simulation study, the structure is excited at the first and second mode resonance. It is found that better vibration suppression is obtained, when the states generated by the fused output of sensors is applied as controller input, than the vibration suppression obtained by applying the states generated by using individual sensor output. The closed loop performance of DSMC obtained with HOSM observer is compared with the closed loop performance obtained with the conventional observer. Results obtained shows that better vibration suppression is obtained when the states generated by HOSM observer is applied as controller input.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.37.5-37
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• 2001

A robust control for robot manipulators actuated by induction motors using neural networks(NNs) is considered. The control is designed to compensate for nonlinear dynamics associated with the mechanical subsystem and the electrical subsystems only with the measurements of link position, link velocity and stator winding currents. Two-layer NNs are used to approximate unknown functions occurring from parameter variation during backstepping design process. Specially, through the use of nonlinear observers for rotor flux, observed backstepping controller is designed to achieve uniform ultimately bounded link position tracking of the given reference signal ...

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2009

최근 정보통신의 발달로 인해 유비쿼터스 환경이 급속히 확산됨에 따라 교통운영 및 관리분야에서도 무선통신기술을 응용한 진보가 이루어지고 있고, 그에 따른 신호제어전략을 개발하여 신호교차로의 운영 효율성과 안전성을 획기적으로 향상시킬 필요성이 있다. 본 논문은 차량 내 단말기와 신호제어시스템과의 무선통신 및 네트워크 기술, 감응식 신호제어기술을 응용하여 최종 목표인 무선통신 환경에서의 개별차량 감응식 신호제어 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 신호제어를 위한 개별차량의 정보수집환경을 정의하였고, 개발된 제어전략을 평가하기 위해 PARAMICS의 API를 통하여 V2I와 V2V를 이용한 정보수집환경을 구현하여 새로운 개별차량 감응식 신호제어 알고리즘에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 시뮬레이션 분석결과, WSN 신호제어가 저포화와 근포화의 조건에서 모두 정주기식제어와 완전감응식제어에 비해 최대 64%의 지체감소 효과를 나타내는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1993년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); Seoul National University, Seoul; 20-22 Oct. 1993
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• pp.507-512
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• 1993

In this paper we discuss the nonlinear motion of a conservative two-link arm using first integrals, which includes one integral constant. In the analysis of the motion, the constant plays important role. First, we give some discussion on the free motion by focusing on the integral constant. As the result, the free motion can be classified into two types-the one is oscillation and the other is rotation. Second, we discuss the forced motion of the arm actuated only at the second joint. We take the first integral in a more general form, and show that the forced motion of the second link can be expressed as a variation of the integral constant. Also, the characteristic of the forced motion actuated by arbitrary constant torques is discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.132.5-132
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• 2001

In teleoperation field robotic system such as hydraulically actuated robotic excavator, the maneuverability and convenience is the most important part in the operation of robotic excavator. Particularly the force information is important in dealing with digging and leveling operation in the teleoperated excavator. Excavators are also subject to a wide variation of soil-tool interaction forces. This paper presents a new force reflecting joystick in a velocity-force type bilateral teleoperation system. The master system is electrical joystick and the slave system is hydraulically actuated cylinder with linear position sensor. Particularly Pneumatic motor is used newly in the master joystick for force reflection and the information of the pressure of salve cylinder is measured and utilized as the force feedback signal. Also force-reflection gain greatly affects the ...

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.137.4-137
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• 2001

Omni-directional mobile robots have been employed popularly in several application areas. However, the optimal design has not been considered yet. This paper introduces an optimal design methodology for omni-directional mobile robots. Optimal design parameters such as the offset distance and the wheel radius are identified with respect to isotropy. Furthermore, the force transmission ratio and actuator sizing problem are treated. Conclusivel, three cases are compared minimum actuation, two active caster wheel, and three active caster wheel, we claim that the redundantly actuated mobile robot with three active caster wheel has the best performance.