• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.252-254
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• 2005

Completer coverage path planning requires the robot path to cover every part of the workspace, which is an essential issue in cleaning robots and many other robotic applications such as vacuum robots and painter robots. In this paper, a novel Water Flowing Algorithm (WFA) is proposed for cleaning robots to complete coverage path planning in unknown environment without obstacles. The robot covers the whole workspace just like that water fills up a container. First the robot goes to the lowest point in the workspace just like water flows to the bottom of the container. At last the robot will come to highest point in the workspace just like water overflows from the container and simultaneously the robot has covered the whole workspace. The computer simulation results show that the proposed algorithm enable the robot to plan complete coverage paths.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.255-262
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• 2011

Many intelligent robots have to be given environmental information to perform tasks. In this paper an intelligent robot, that is, a cleaning robot used a sensor fusing method of two sensors: LRF and StarGazer, and then was able to obtain the information. Throughout wall following using laser displacement sensor, LRF, the working area is built during the robot turn one cycle around the area. After the process of wall following, a path planning which is able to execute the work effectively is established using flow network algorithm. This paper describes an algorithm for minimal turning complete coverage path planning for intelligent robots. This algorithm divides the whole working area by cellular decomposition, and then provides the path planning among the cells employing flow networks. It also provides specific path planning inside each cell guaranteeing the minimal turning of the robots. The proposed algorithm is applied to two different working areas, and verified that it is an optimal path planning method.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.789-794
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• 2005

This paper describes an algorithm for minimal turning complete coverage Path planning for cleaning robots. This algorithm divides the whole cleaning area by cellular decomposition, and then provides the path planning among the cells employing a flow network. It also provides specific path planning inside each cell guaranteeing the minimal turning of the robots. The minimal turning of the robots is directly related to the faster motion and energy saving. The proposed algorithm is compared with previous approaches in simulation and the result shows the validity of the algorithm.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.538-545
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• 2000

In this paper we proposed a new map construction and path planning method for mobile robot. In our proposed method first we introduced triangular representation map that mobile robot can navigate through shorter path and flexible motion instead of grid representation map for mobile robot navigation. method in which robot can navigate complete space through as short path as possible in unknown environment is proposed. Finally we proposed new path planning method in a quadtree representation map. To evaluate the performance of our proposed new path planning method in a quadtree representation map. To evaluate the performance of our proposed triangular representation map it was compared with the existing distance transform path planning method. And we considered complete coverage navigation and new path planning method through several examples.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.2431-2434
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 전체 영역 경로 계획인 CCPP(Complete Coverage Path Planning)를 이용해 전 청소 영역을 청소하는 방법을 나타내고 청소영역을 해석 하였다. 그리고, Template방법에 CD(Cell Decomposition)을 접목시킨 방법을 이용해 청소영역을 청소 후 재 경로계획으로 청소 안된 영역을 효율적으로 청소하는 방법을 연구하였다. 또한 청소기의 회전 및 직선 모션에 따른 청소 영역을 비교 해석해 최적 시간과 거리에 따른 경로 계획을 살펴보았다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.639-642
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 청소로봇이 전 청소 영역을 CCPP(Complete Coverage Path Planning)를 이용해 경로를 생성한 후 재 경로계획 시 장애물의 미소한 변화로도 기존에 생성한 전 경로패턴을 바꾸지 않고 수정 할 수 있는 CD(Cell Decomposition)와 FN(Flow Network)을 이용한 CCPP 방식을 제안 하였다. 그리고 제안된 경로 계획에 대해 시뮬레이션으로 결과를 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.73-80
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• 2009

This paper describes a path planning algorithm, which is the minimal turning path based on the shape and size of the cell to clean up the whole area with two cleaning robots. Our method divides the whole cleaning area with each cell by cellular decomposition, and then provides some path plans among of the robots to reduce the rate of energy consumption and cleaning time of it. In addition we suggest how to plan between the robots especially when they are cleaning in the same cell. Finally simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm in an unknown area with multiple robots. And then we compare the performance index of two algorithms such as total of turn, total of time.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.429-432
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• 2003

In this paper, a novel neural network approach is proposed for cleaning robot to complete coverage path planning with obstacle avoidance in stationary and dynamic environments. The dynamics of each neuron in the topologically organized neural network is characterized by a shunting equation derived from Hodgkin and Huxley's membrane equation. There are only local lateral connections among neurons. The robot path is autonomously generated from the dynamic activity landscape of the neural network and the previous robot location without any prior knowledge of the dynamic environment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2335-2337
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• 2001

In this paper, we address a new complete coverage navigation algorithm and guidance methodology for the cleaning robot. The proposed algorithm is based on the grid map. Six templates, excluding a Back-Trace(BT) template are used as the local navigation method. The effectiveness of the algorithm proposed in this paper is thoroughly demonstrated through simulations and the evaluation of parameters for the path execution.