• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2005

Obstacle avoidance of underwater robots based on a modified virtual force field algorithm is proposed in this paper. The VFF(Virtual Force Field) algorithm, which is widely used in the field of mobile robots, is modified for application to the obstacle avoidance of underwater robots. This Modified Virtual Force Field(MVFF) algorithm using the fuzzy lgoc can be used in moving obstacles avoidance. A fuzzy algorithm is devised to handle various situations which can be faced during autonomous navigation of underwater robots. The proposed obstacle avoidance algorithm has ability to handle multiple moving obstacles. Results of simulation show that the proposed algorithm can be efficiently applied to obstacle avoidance of the underwater robots.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2015

Buoys are widely used in marine areas because they can mark positions and simultaneously acquire and exchange underwater, surface, and airborne information. Recently, the need for controlling and optimizing a buoy's position and attitude has been raised to achieve successful communication in a heterogeneous collaborative network composed of an underwater robot, a surface robot, and an airborne robot. A buoy in the form of a marine robot would be ideal to address this issue, as it can serve as a moving node of the communication network. Therefore, a buoy-based autonomous surface robot-kit with the abilities of sonar-based avoidance, dynamic position control, and static attitude control was developed and is discussed in this paper. The test and evaluation results of this kit show the possibility of real-world applications and the need for additional studies.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.34-42
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• 2010

Agricultural automation has become more and more important by environmental change. The automation demands the highest technology due to the ever changing various conditions in agriculture system. In the paper, semi-autonomous pesticide spray robot system has been developed for rose farming in the glass house. The robot is in autonomous mode during pesticide spraying process driven on pipe rail. The robot is manually driven while moving from a rail to the next rail. The drive platform and autonomous operation control system are developed based on IT fusion technology. The pesticide spray system is also developed with nozzles and booms for precision mist spray system. Experimental data of nozzle test is also included.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1166-1171
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• 2004

In this study, the concept of autonomous mobility is applied to a gait support mobile robot. The aim of the development of the service robot is to assist the elderly with gait rehabilitation. This study proposes an ergonomic service robot design parameter. The gait assistant path pattern is derived from analysis of the elderly gait. A lever is installed in the AMR in order to measure both the pulling force and the leading force of the elderly. The path generation of the mobile robot is developed through consideration and analysis of elderly gait patterns. The ergonomic design parameters (dimensions, action scope and working space) are determined based on moving scope of the elderly. The gait assistant mobile robot was offered the elderly guide service and internet service based on the ergonomic design parameters.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.204-216
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• 2006

Latest advances in hardware technology and state of the art of mobile robot and artificial intelligence research can be employed to develop autonomous and distributed monitoring systems. And mobile service robot requires the perception of its present position to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in populated environments. To realize these abilities, robot needs to keep track of relevant changes in the environment. This paper proposes a localization of mobile robot using the images by distributed intelligent networked devices (DINDs) in intelligent space (ISpace) is used in order to achieve these goals. This scheme combines data from the observed position using dead-reckoning sensors and the estimated position using images of moving object, such as those of a walking human, used to determine the moving location of a mobile robot. The moving object is assumed to be a point-object and projected onto an image plane to form a geometrical constraint equation that provides position data of the object based on the kinematics of the intelligent space. Using the a priori known path of a moving object and a perspective camera model, the geometric constraint equations that represent the relation between image frame coordinates of a moving object and the estimated position of the robot are derived. The proposed method utilizes the error between the observed and estimated image coordinates to localize the mobile robot, and the Kalman filtering scheme is used to estimate the location of moving robot. The proposed approach is applied for a mobile robot in ISpace to show the reduction of uncertainty in the determining of the location of the mobile robot. Its performance is verified by computer simulation and experiment.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.27-35
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• 1998

자율 주행 로봇이 주어진 환경에 대한 정보를 이용하여 장애물을 회피하며 안전하고 효율적으로 목표지점까지 주행하기 위해서는 최적의 이동 경로가 생성되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 유전 알고리즘을 이용하여 고정 및 움직이는 장애물이 존재하는 작업환경 내에서 전역경로 계획, 지역경로 계획을 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 이동 로봇은 유전 알고리즘을 이용하여 먼저 최적의 전역 경로를 탐색하고 미지의 장애물을 발견하면 이와 충돌을 회피하기 위해 새로운 지역 경로를 탐색한다. 또한 움직이는 장애물이 작업공한내 존재하면 이동 로봇은 이를 피하기 위해 최적의 경로를 탐색한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 유전 알고리즘은 기존의 알고리즘에 비해 국부적 최소 값에 빠지지 않고 경로 탐색능력이 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 학술대회 논문집 전문대학교육위원
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• pp.38-41
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• 2003

An Autonomous Mobile Robot(AMR) performs duty by sensing a recognized situation and controlling suitably. The existing algorithm has some advantages that it is possible to express the obstacle exactly and the robot is sensitive to the change of environment. However, this algorithm needs to control repeatedly according to the modelling and working environment that requires a great quantity of calculations. In this paper, We supplement shortcoming and designed direction algorithm of AMR using fuzzy controller. Fuzzy controller does not derive special quality spinning expression for system, and uses rules by value expressed by language. It is used extensively to non-linear, plant which mathematical modelling is difficult etc... Fuzzy control algorithm of AMR that is used by this research applies obstacle position, distance of obstacle, Progress direction of robot, speed of robot, Perception area of sensor, etc... by fuzzy control and decide steering angle of robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.741-748
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a method of tracking and capturing a moving object by a mobile robot. The position of the moving object is acquired from the relation through color-based image information from a 2-DOF active camera mounted on the mobile robot. The direction and rotational angular velocity of the moving object are estimated using a state estimator. A Kalman fiber is used as the state estimator for taking characteristics of robustness against noises and uncertainties included in the input data. After estimating the trajectory of the moving object, we decide on the optimal trajectory and plan the motion of the mobile robot to capture the target object within the shortest distance and time. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the simulations and experiments.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2000

Recently, the progress of industrialization has been taken concern of material handling automation. So for, the conveyor belt has been popular for material handling. However, this system has many disadvantages such as the space, cost, etc. In this paper, a new navigation algorithm using fuzzy is introduced. The mobile robot follows a line installed on the roads. These informations are inputted with three approximate sensors. These obtained informations are analyzed with fuzzy control technique fur autonomous steering. Therefore, unlike existing systems, high reliability is guaranteed under bad environment conditions. The installation and maintenance of a line is easily made at lower cost. This developed mobile robot can be applied to material handling automation in manufacturing system, hospital, inter-office document del ivory.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

A major concern for Autonomous Military Robot in the rough terrain is the problem of moving robot from an initial configuration to goal configuration. In this paper, We generate a local path to looking for the best route to move an goal configuration while avoiding known obstacle from world model, not violating the mobility constraints of robot. Trough a Simulator for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle, We can simulate a traversability of unmanned autonomous vehicle based on steering, acceleration, braking command obtained from local path planning.