• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.834-838
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• 2013

This paper proposes a new ball robot which has a four axis structure and four motors that directly actuate the ball to move or to maintain the balance of the robot. For the Balancing control, it is possible to use non-model-based controller to control simply without complex formula. All the gains of the controller are heuristically adjusted during the experiments. The tilt angle is measured by IMU sensors, which is used to generate the control input of the roll and pitch controller to make the tilt angle zero. The performance of the designed control system has been verified through the real experiments with the developed ball robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.336-341
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• 2015

This paper proposes a balancing and driving control system for a Mecanum wheel ball robot which has a two axis structure and four motors. The inverted pendulum control method is adopted to maintain the balance of the ball robot while it is driving. For the balancing control, an anon-model-based controller has been designed to control the device simply without the need of a complex formula. All the gains of the controller are heuristically adjusted during the experiments. The tilt angle is measured by IMU sensors, which is used to generate the control input of the roll and pitch controller to make the tilt angle zero. For the driving control, the PID control algorithm has been adopted with angles of the wheels and the encoder data. The performance of the designed control system has been verified through the real experiments with the suggested ball robot.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.113-127
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• 2018

Robotics and automation are rapidly growing in the industries replacing human labor. The idea of robots replacing humans is positively influencing the business thereby increasing its scope of research. This paper discusses the development of an experimental platform controlled by a robotic arm through Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS is an open source platform over an existing operating system providing various types of robots with advanced capabilities from an operating system to low-level control. We aim in this work to control a 7-DOF manipulator arm (Robai Cyton Gamma 300) equipped with an external vision camera system through ROS and demonstrate the task of balancing a ball on a plate-type end effector. In order to perform feedback control of the balancing task, the ball is designed to be tracked using a camera (Sony PlayStation Eye) through a tracking algorithm written in C++ using OpenCV libraries. The joint actuators of the robot are servo motors (Dynamixel) and these motors are directly controlled through a low-level control algorithm. To simplify the control, the system is modeled such that the plate has two-axis linearized motion. The developed system along with the proposed approaches could be used for more complicated tasks requiring more number of joint control as well as for a testbed for students to learn ROS with control theories in robotics.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.1236-1242
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• 2019

최근 로봇 기술의 발전에 따라 모바일 로봇에 대한 연구가 주목을 받고 있다. 현재 모바일 로봇의 대부분은 2륜 및 4륜 기반으로 개발되어 직선 주행에는 강하지만 방향전환 및 제자리 회전에 제한이 있으며, 이러한 문제점을 극복하고자 구 형태의 바퀴를 사용하는 볼 로봇에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 볼 로봇은 협소한 공간에서 큰 제약 없이 이동이 가능하다는 장점을 가지고 있지만, 구조적으로 불안정하여 안정적인 자세 및 주행 제어가 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 무선통신으로 자세 및 주행 제어가 가능한 스마트폰 어플리케이션을 제안하고, 이를 적용하여 제작된 볼 로봇을 이용하여 자세 및 주행 제어 실험을 수행하였다. 실험을 통해 Roll 각도 오차 ±0.8도, Pitch 각도 오차 ±0.7도 이내에서 제어됨을 확인하였으며, 1m 주행제어에 대해 x축 방향 위치오차 ±0.1m, y축 방향 위치오차 ±0.08m 이내에서 제어됨을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.713-717
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• 2014

In this paper, the travel control of the spherical wheeled robot with a mecanum wheel is impelemented. Four typical wheels or three omni wheels are used to consist of the ball-bot. the slip is occured when the typical wheels is used to the ball-bot. In order to reduce these slip, the spherical wheeled robot with macanum wheels is proposed. Through some experiments, we find that the proposed spherical wheeled robot with a mecanum wheel is superior to the conventional spherical wheeled robot with typical wheels.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.484-491
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• 2002

We developed a new type of human-sized BWR (biped walking robot) driven by a new actuator based on the ball screw which has high strength and high gear ratio. Each leg of the robot is composed of three pitch joints and one roll joint. In all, a 10 degree-of-freedom robot with two balancing joints was developed. A new type of actuator for the robot is proposed, which is composed of four bar link mechanism driven by the ball screw. The robot overcomes the limit of the driving torque of conventional BWRs. The BWR was designed to walk autonomously by adapting small DC motors for the robot actuators and has a space to board DC battery and controllers. In the performance test, the BWR performed sitting-up and down motion, and walking motion. Through the test, we found the possibility of a high performance biped-walking.

• 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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• 제10권4호
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• pp.186-192
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• 2015

This paper proposes a robust balance and driving control for omni-directional ball robot(generally called ball-bot) with two axis mecanum wheel. Slip between ball and mecanum wheel actuator inevitably occurs along diagonal axis due to its instantaneous strong torque. In order to reduce and saturate slip, exact distance calculation scheme especially for rotational movement is essential. So this research solved Euler-Lagrange dynamics for proposed two axis ball robot based on practical mechanical modeling. Robust balance control was carried out by PID controller according to the pitch and roll angles of ball robot by using sensor fusion between AHRS and wheel encoder. Proposed PID controller enhances stability by reducing steady state error and settling time. Proposed slip control algorithm for omni-directional ball robot has been demonstrated by experiments for balance control and arbitrary driving control.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.458-461
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• 1997

We have developed a human-sized BWR(biped walking robot) driven by a new actuator based on the ball screw which has high strength and high gar ratio. Each leg of the robot is composed of three pitch joints and one roll joint. In all, a 10 degree-of-freedom robot with two balancing joints was developed. For the purpose of autonomous walking and higher performance, we improved the previous developed BWR. We improved the motor drive efficiency, designed the ball screw actuator in a modular type, and simplified the electric wires. Through this modification, we achieved better performance in walking.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.15-18
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• 2000

We developed a human-sized BWR(biped walking robot) driven by a new actuator based on the ball screw which has high strength and high gear ratio. The robot overcomes the limit of the driving torque of conventional BWRs. Each leg of the robot is composed of three pitch joints and one roll joint. In all, a 10 degree-of-freedom robot with two balancing joints was developed. The BWR was developed to walk autonomously such that it is actuated by small torque motors and is boarded with DC battery and controllers. In the performance test, the BWR performed nice motions of sitting-up and sitting-down. Through the test, we could find capability of high performance in biped-walking.