• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.445-446
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• 2011

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1067-1072
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• 2014

The ability to overcome obstacles is necessary for field robots for various applications including the ability to climb stairs. While much research has been performed focusing on overcoming obstacles, the resulting robots do not have sufficient ability to overcome obstacles such as stairs. In this research, the purpose is to overcome relatively large obstacles by flipping locomotion through the modification of the stair climbing robotic platform of the previous research. We propose two scenarios to overcome large obstacles: a rear wheel driving system and an elevation system using a ball screw. The research is performed based on static analyses on obstacle-climbing. As the simulation results indicate, we determined the optimal posture of the robot for climbing obstacles for rear wheel driving. Also, an elevation system is analyzed for obstacle climbing. Between the two scenarios an elevation system is determined to reduce the operating torque of the actuator, and the prototype was recently assembled. The climbing ability of the robotic platform is verified. We expect the application area for this robotic platform will be in accident areas of nuclear power plants.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.915-920
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• 2013

Payload capacity and transition ability are essential for climbing robots to apply the robots to various applications such as inspection and exploration. This paper presents a new climbing robotic platform with multi-link structure of track-wheel modules to enhance payload capacity and transition ability, and its tracking controller design and experimental results. The compliances between track-wheel modules achieve stable internal and external transitions while the large adhesion area of the track-wheel module enhances the payload capacity of the robot. Kinematic model-based tracking controller is designed and implemented for autonomous internal transition, and the gains of the controller are optimized by experimental design. Experiments on the automatic internal transitions are performed and the results guarantee autonomous internal transition with little tracking error.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2011년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회 1부
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• pp.167-169
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• 2011

Construction Automation as a way to solve the problems of lack of skilled labor by decrease in construction population productivity and quality decrease. We are on the way to develop a construction automation system adequate for domestic circumstances in Korea; it is called RCA(Robotic-crane based Construction Automation) system. Climbing hydraulic robot system is a part of RCA system and makes Construction Factory(CF) climb next floor. The controller can control movement needs to be developed for CF safety. Synchronous control the actual field was applied to the controller logic and synchronous control of the process through which the safety has been verified. The purpose of this study that control of climbing hydraulic robot system behavior on real-time, and to improve safety for overall construction automation system through synchronous motion controller.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2004

Most tasks of the large vertical or ceiling structures have been carried out by human power. Those tasks require us much operation costs and times, safety devices, etc. So the need of automation for those tasks have been rising. That automation needs a wall-climbing mobile vehicle. Most former researches are things about attachment devices and moving mechanisms. A wall-climbing mobile vehicle must be designed by a method different from the case of the vehicle of the horizontal environment. That is because gravity acts as a negative role on the stability of a wall-climbing vehicle. In this thesis, the particular shape characteristics of a wall-climbing mobile vehicle are derived by the wall-environment modeling. In addition, some design constraints of the permanent magnetic wheel as an attachment device was studied. According to those requirements and constraints, one specific wall-climbing mobile vehicle was designed and some experiments were made on the attachment ability of that vehicle.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2005년도 창립60주년 기념 추계 학술대회
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• pp.201.1-201.1
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• 2005

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.191-195
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• 2019

This paper presents a rope modeling and verification for the robotic platform of the wall cleaning robot (ROPE RIDE). ROPE RIDE has the characteristics of climbing up and down using a rope fixed on the roof like traditional workers. In order to perform a stable operation with a wall cleaning robot, it is necessary to estimate the position of the robot in a vertical direction. However, due to the high coefficient of extension and nonlinearity of the climbing rope, it is difficult to predict the behavior of the rope. Thus, in this paper, the mathematical modeling of the rope was carried out through the preliminary experiment. Extensive experiments using different types of rope were used to determine the parameters of the constitutive equation of climbing ropes. The validity of the determined parameters of various ropes was verified through the experiment results.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.740-743
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• 2005

Most works of the large vertical ceiling structures have been performed by human manually. These works require much more operation costs, labors and times, etc. Beside most people avoid this works because of it's characteristic such as danger, dirty and difficulty. So necessity of automation for these works has been rising. This automation needs a wall climbing mobile vehicle because of the movement of platform large workspace. In this study, we aim at develop the wheel which can be used for vertical wall-climbing mobile robot using electromagnet wheel. The wheel proposed can be available for several working processes on structures which consist magnetic substance.

• 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.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2009

IVarious driving mechanisms to adapt to uneven environment have been developed for many urban search and rescue (USAR) missions. A tracked mechanism has been widely used to maintain the stability of robot's pose and to produce large traction force on uneven terrain in this research area. However, it has a drawback of low energy efficiency due to friction force when rotating. Moreover, single tracked mechanism can be in trouble when the body gets caught with high projections, so the track doesn't contact on the ground. A transformable tracked mechanism is proposed to solve these problems. The mechanism is designed with several articulations surrounded by tracks, used to generate an attack angle when the robot comes near obstacles. The stair climbing ability of proposed robot was analyzed since stairs are one of the most difficult obstacles in USAR mission. Stair climbing process is divided into four separate static analysis phases. Design parameters are optimized according to geometric limitations from the static analysis. The proposed mechanism was produced from optimized design parameters, and demonstrated in artificially constructed uneven environment and the actual stairway.