• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.871-875
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• 2003

To detect and avoid obstacles is one of the important tasks of mobile navigation. In a real environment, when a mobile robot encounters dynamic obstacles, it is required to simultaneously detect and avoid obstacles for its body safely. In previous vision system, mobile robot has used it as either a passive sensor or an active sensor. This paper proposes a new obstacle detection algorithm that uses a stereo camera as both a passive sensor and an active sensor. Our system estimates the distances from obstacles by both passive-correspondence and active-correspondence using laser slit. The system operates in three steps. First, a far-off obstacle is detected by the disparity from stereo correspondence. Next, a close obstacle is acquired from laser slit beam projected in the same stereo image. Finally, we implement obstacle avoidance algorithm, adopting the modified Dynamic Window Approach (DWA), by using the acquired the obstacle's distance.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.93-98
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• 2023

In this paper, the development of an autonomous electric vehicle for logistics with a robotic arm is introduced. The manual driving electric vehicle was converted into an electric vehicle platform capable of autonomous driving. For autonomous driving, an encoder is installed on the driving wheels, and an electronic power steering system is applied for automatic steering. The electric vehicle is equipped with a lidar sensor, a depth camera, and an ultrasonic sensor to recognize the surrounding environment, create a map, and recognize the vehicle location. The odometry was calculated using the bicycle motion model, and the map was created using the SLAM algorithm. To estimate the location of the platform based on the generated map, AMCL algorithm using Lidar was applied. A user interface was developed to create and modify a waypoint in order to move a predetermined place according to the logistics process. An A-star-based global path was generated to move to the destination, and a DWA-based local path was generated to trace the global path. The autonomous electric vehicle developed in this paper was tested and its utility was verified in a warehouse.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 자율운항선박이 복잡한 항계 내에서 다양한 해상 객체와의 충돌을 회피하기 위하여 계층적 경로 생성 기법을 연계하는 프레임워크를 제안한다. 항계 내에는 항로를 항행하는 선박 외에도 정박 영역 내 정박 또는 묘박 중인 선박뿐만 아니라 항로 표지나 부표와 같은 정적 객체들이 다양하게 분포되어 있다. 자율운항선박의 효율적 운항을 위해서는 운항 중에 조우하게 되는 객체의 정적/동적 속성에 따라 경로 생성 기법이 달리 적용되어야 한다. 본 연구에서 제안한 경로 생성 프레임워크는 항계 내의 정적 객체나 항행 가항 영역 및 항행 불가항 영역 등에 대한 위치 정보들은 사전적 정보로 활용 가능하므로, 샘플링 기반의 전역 경로 생성 기법을 적용하여, 초기 출발지에서 최종 목적지까지의 예상 경로를 생성한다. 그리고 생성된 전역 경로를 추종하며 운항하는 과정에서 조우하게 되는 동적 객체들과의 조우 상황별 국제해상 충돌예방규칙(COLREGs)을 고려한 지역 경로를 생성한다. 샘플링 기반의 전역 경로와 국소 영역에서의 충돌 회피를 위한 지역 경로를 연계하기 위한 계층적 경로 생성 프레임워크를 설계하고, 수치 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 프레임워크의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.344-365
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• 2009

The performance of a tracking system is greatly increased if multiple types of sensors are combined to achieve the objective of the tracking instead of relying on single type of sensor. To conduct the multi-modal tracking, we have previously developed a multi-modal sensor-based tracking model where acoustic sensors mainly track the objects and visual sensors compensate the tracking errors [1]. In this paper, we find a network synchronization problem appearing in the developed tracking system. The problem is caused by the different location and traffic characteristics of multi-modal sensors and non-synchronized arrival of the captured sensor data at a processing server. To effectively deliver the sensor data, we propose a time-based packet aggregation algorithm where the acoustic sensor data are aggregated based on the sampling time and sent to the server. The delivered acoustic sensor data is then compensated by visual images to correct the tracking errors and such a compensation process improves the tracking accuracy in ideal case. However, in real situations, the tracking improvement from visual compensation can be severely degraded due to the aforementioned network synchronization problem, the impact of which is analyzed by simulations in this paper. To resolve the network synchronization problem, we differentiate the service level of sensor traffic based on Weight Round Robin (WRR) scheduling at the routers. The weighting factor allocated to each queue is calculated by a proposed Delay-based Weight Allocation (DWA) algorithm. From the simulations, we show the traffic differentiation model can mitigate the non-synchronization of sensor data. Finally, we analyze expected traffic behaviors of the tracking system in terms of acoustic sampling interval and visual image size.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.595-606
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• 2011

This study was conducted to investigate the seismic behavior of steel member resisting frames considering the relative stiffness of the connection and beams. Six-story steel moment frames were designed to study the seismic behavior. The connections were classified into Double Web-Angle connections (DWAs), Top- and Seat-angles with double Web-angles (TWSs), FEMA-Test Summary No. 28, Specimen ID: UCSD-6 (SAC), and Fully Restrained (FR). The rotational stiffness of the semi-rigid connections was estimated using the Three-Parameter Power Model adopted by Chen and Kishi. The relative stiffness, which is the ratio of the rotational stiffness of the connections to the stiffness of the beams, was used. Push-over, repeated loading, and time history analysis were performed for all the frames. The seismic behavior of each frame was analyzed with the story drift, plastic hinge rotation, and hysteretic energy distribution.