• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2020

Recently, robotic technologies have significantly improved, bringing considerable enhancements in many sectors; the main objective of this paper is to figure out if these innovations have also involved the building industry. To achieve this purpose, it has been considered crucial to first reshape and clarify some concepts, incorporating a much more flexible understanding of the term "robot", as well as the formulation of its future potential. Subsequently, it has been carried out an analysis of the various advanced devices that are currently available to be employed in the construction processes; the review includes a thorough classification of construction robots, divided into 18 families reflecting their purpose of use, and a dissection based on the term used to define them. The attention has been focused on the most updated and recent robots and, in their absence, on the most advanced machines prevailing. This operation has been achieved taking into account the development history of construction robots, as well as the analyses and classifications previously conducted, reconsidering them according to the just mentioned reflections. Furthermore, an in-depth exploration of the exoskeletons, as well as on a sophisticated robot recently developed by Schindler Group has been executed.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

The stocker system is another name of automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) and being popularly used as main material handling tools in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and semiconductor fabrication facilities. Recently the use of the stocker system has been extended to transportation from conventional storage and retrieval in LCD fabrication facilities. Toolsets are connected in the ground level of the stocker system and 4~6 stories of the shelves are placed in the upper or lower ground level. As a consequence of the more sophisticated design, move requests imposed on the system greatly increased. For solving this problem, the industry adopted the dual-robot stocker system that two robots are moving along the same guide line in the stocker system. This research develops a closed-form solution to estimate a delivery rate of the dual robot stocker system under given design and operation parameters. Using this stochastic model, industry practitioners could analyze performance levels under given various design parameters, and ultimately the model helps optimizing the design parameters.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.545-554
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• 2005

Passive velocity field control (PVFC) was previously developed for fully mechanical systems, in which the motion task was specified by behaviors in terms of a velocity field and the closed-loop was passive with respect to the supply rate given by the environment input. However, the PVFC was only applied to a single manipulator. The proposed control law was derived geometrically and the geometric and robustness properties of the closed-loop system were also analyzed. In this paper, we propose a virtual passivity-based algorithm to apply decentralized control to multiple 3­wheeled mobile robotic systems whose subsystems are under nonholonomic constraints and convey a common rigid object in a horizontal plain. Moreover, it is shown that multiple robot systems ensure stability and the velocities of augmented systems converge to a scaled multiple of each desired velocity field for cooperative mobile robot systems. Finally, the application of proposed virtual passivity-based decentralized algorithm via system augmentation is applied to trace a circle and the simulation results is presented in order to show effectiveness for the decentralized control algorithm proposed in this research.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.749-754
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• 2021

농업인구의 감소, 고령화 등의 문제를 해결하기 위해 다양한 농작업의 자동화를 목적으로 농업용 로봇의 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 농가 작업 중 가장 노동력이 많이 투입되는 과정은 수확 과정으로 타 과정 대비 약 2~3배 소모된다. 농가의 수확물 이송 작업은 인건비가 가장 많이 들고 작업 중 부상의 위험성도 있기 때문에 이송 작업을 농업용 로봇을 통해 자동화시키면 안전성 향상과 더불어 생산성을 대폭 향상할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 농가 작업 현장에 최적화되고 자율주행이 가능한 농업용 로봇을 제안한다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.565-570
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• 2021

우리나라 농업은 고령화로 인해 인력이 부족해 생산성이 감소하고 있다. 이를 극복하기 위해 농업용 로봇 시장이 빠르게 성장하고 있으며 농업용 로봇의 원격제어와 자율주행에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 농업용 로봇의 외형 및 구조를 설계하고 구동을 위한 장치 및 제어시스템을 구현하였다. LiDAR 센서를 활용, 최적화해 자율주행을 위한 필수 기능인 객체 인식기술을 적용하였다. 이를 통해 농업에서 노동력이 가장 많이 필요한 운송작업의 인건비 절감과 더불어 생산성을 향상 시킬 수 있다.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.285-296
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 영상처리 기술을 활용한 치과용 로봇 조명장치를 개발하여 그 정확도를 측정하여 보고자 한다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 치과용 로봇 조명장치는 환자의 얼굴을 카메라로 인식을 하여 구강의 위치를 찾아 로봇이 움직여 라이트를 비추게 하는 것으로서 모션 제어 부, 라이트 제어 부, 영상 처리부로 구성되어 있다. 카메라로 영상을 획득 후 동작변화 영상을 추출 한 다음 아다부스트 알고리즘(Adaboost algorithm)을 통해, 얼굴 검출에 필요한 특징을 추출하여 실시간으로 얼굴 영역을 검출하도록 하였다. 영상처리를 통한 환자 구강의 추출 실험 시 정면영상에서 높은 얼굴인식률을 나타냈고 얼굴영역이 인식이 되면, 안정적인 라이트 로봇 암(Light robot arm)의 제어가 가능했다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 사장교의 핵심부재인 케이블 점검을 위한 자동화 검사 시스템을 개발하였다. 강자성체로 이뤄진 연속체 구조물인 케이블의 내외부 검사에 적합한 비파괴검사법으로는 선행연구를 통해 검증된 누설자속탐상법이 적용되었고, 홀센서와 영구자석을 이용하여 다채널의 누설자속 측정용 자기센서헤드를 제작하였다. 또한 케이블 검사의 자동화로 접근성을 높이기 위해 사장교 케이블을 따라 이동할 수 있는 바퀴굴림 방식의 케이블 등반 로봇을 설계 및 제작하였고, 로봇을 다양한 디바이스에서 모니터링 및 제어하기 위한 컨트롤 프로그램을 제작하였다. WLAN 방식의 무선통신기술을 적용하여 원격으로 계측 데이터 전송 및 로봇제어를 가능하게 하였다. 최종적으로 본 연구를 통해 개발된 세부 기술들이 연동된 누설자속탐상법 기반 케이블 이동형 진단 시스템을 이용하여 실제 운용중인 서해대교의 케이블을 대상으로 현장 시험을 수행함으로써 본 시스템의 현장 적용성을 검증해보았다.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.689-698
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• 2015

현재 농산물 물류를 담당하는 거점산지유통센터에서의 박스구분적재 작업은 대부분 수작업으로 이루어지고 있다. 농산물의 적재과정은 많은 노동력을 필요로 하며 이러한 작업은 농촌에 거주하고 있는 사람들을 시간제 고용으로 해결하였으나, 최근 농촌 고령화가 심각하게 진행되면서 노동력 확보에 어려움이 따르며 시설 자동화나 로봇이용 등 대책이 강구되고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 사과박스 구분적재 자동화를 위한 로봇 시스템을 제안한다. 제안방법은 거점산지유통센터에 컨베이어, 로봇, 바코드리더기 등의 장비와 소팅플랜, 작업통제, 제어정보생성, 모니터링의 소프트웨어 모듈을 설계하고 구현한다. 구현된 시스템을 운영 시험 및 평가를 통하여 자동화된 로봇 시스템이 기존의 수작업을 대체하여 작업효율성 향상과 안전성 문제 해결을 확인한다.

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2014

This study was conducted to determine the major patent and analyze the patent trend of unmanned and automated agricultural production for the open field operation. As a result of conducting a search for patent applications related to these technologies, 1,080 valid patents were selected by evaluating the relevance of the patents and removing noise patents. As a result of the country-based analysis using the selected valid patents, it was found out that the largest number of patent applications were filed in the United States with 541 cases, followed by Japan with 326 cases, the European Union with 128 cases, and Korea with 85 cases. Upon classifying the valid patents into core technology, the path generation and tracking technology accounts for 33% with 353 cases; the implementing control with environmental condition technology accounts for 22% with 236 cases; the robot design technology accounts for 21% with 228 cases; the plant and environment sensing technology accounts for 19% with 206 cases; the yield and quality monitoring technology accounts for 5% with 58 cases. Finally, 10 core patents were selected by performing a patent index evaluation. The United States registered all of the 10 core patents. The results showed that Korea falls behind in the open field-related unmanned and automated agricultural production, compared to other developed agricultural countries.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2020

In general, auto parts production assembly line is assembled and produced by automatic mounting by an automated robot. In such a production site, quality problems such as misalignment of parts (doors, trunks, roofs, etc.) to be assembled with the vehicle body or collision between assembly robots and components are often caused. In order to solve such a problem, the quality of parts is manually inspected by using mechanical jig devices outside the automated production line. Automotive inspection technology is the most commonly used field of vision, which includes surface inspection such as mounting hole spacing and defect detection, body panel dents and bends. It is used for guiding, providing location information to the robot controller to adjust the robot's path to improve process productivity and manufacturing flexibility. The most difficult weighing and measuring technology is to calibrate the surface analysis and position and characteristics between parts by storing images of the part to be measured that enters the camera's field of view mounted on the side or top of the part. The problem of the machine vision device applied to the automobile production line is that the lighting conditions inside the factory are severely changed due to various weather changes such as morning-evening, rainy days and sunny days through the exterior window of the assembly production plant. In addition, since the material of the vehicle body parts is a steel sheet, the reflection of light is very severe, which causes a problem in that the quality of the captured image is greatly changed even with a small light change. In this study, the distance between the car body and the door part and the door are acquired by the measuring device combining the laser slit light source and the LED pattern light source. The result is transferred to the joint robot for assembling parts at the optimum position between parts, and the assembly is done at the optimal position by changing the angle and step.