• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2021

There is a gradual increase in the need for energy charging in marine environments because of energy limitations experienced by electric ships and marine robots. Buoys are considered potential energy charging systems, but there are several challenges, which include the need to maintain a fixed position and avoid hazards, dock with ships and robots in order to charge them, be robust to actions by birds, ships, and robots. To solve these problems, this study proposes a smart buoy robot that has multiple thrusters, multiple docking and charging parts, a bird spike, a radar reflector, a light, a camera, and an anchor, and its mechanism is developed. To verify the performance of the smart buoy robot, the position control under disturbance due to wave currents and functional tests such as docking, charging, lighting, and anchoring are performed. Experimental results show that the smart buoy robot can operate under disturbances and is functionally effective. Therefore, the smart buoy robot is suitable as an energy charging system and has potential in realistic applications.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.95-103
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• 2024

The diversity of smart EV(electric vehicle)-related industries is increasing due to the growth of battery-based eco-friendly electric vehicle component material technology, and labor-intensive industries such as logistics, manufacturing, food, agriculture, and service have invested in and studied automation for a long time. Accordingly, various types of robots such as autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robots are being utilized for each process to improve industrial engineering such as optimization, productivity management, and work management. The technology that should accompany this unmanned automobile industry is unmanned automatic charging technology, and if autonomous mobile robots are manually charged, the utility of autonomous mobile robots will not be maximized. In this paper, we conducted a study on the technology of unmanned charging of autonomous mobile robots using charging terminal docking and undocking technology using an unmanned charging system composed of hardware such as a monocular camera, multi-joint robot, gripper, and server. In an experiment to evaluate the performance of the system, the average charging terminal recognition rate was 98%, and the average charging terminal recognition speed was 0.0099 seconds. In addition, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the docking and undocking success rate of the charging terminal, and the experimental results showed an average success rate of 99%.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2006

In this paper, we develope the navigation system for patrol robots in indoor environment. The proposed system consists of PDA map modelling, a localization algorithm based on a global position sensor and an automatic charging station. For the practical use in security system, the PDA is used to build object map on the given indoor map. And the builded map is downloaded to the mobile robot and used in path planning. The global path planning is performed with a localization sensor and the downloaded map. As a main controller, we use PXA270 based hardware platform in which embedded linux 2.6 is developed. Data handling for various sensors and the localization algorithm are performed in the linux platform. Also, we implemented a local path planning algorithm for object avoidance with ultra sonar sensors. Finally, for the automatic charging, we use an infrared ray system and develop a docking algorithm. The navigation system is experimented with the two-wheeled mobile robot using North-Star localization system.

• 센서학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.278-285
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• 2005

This paper describes techniques of camera calibration and artificial landmarks detection for the automatic charging of a mobile robot, equipped with a fish-eye camera in the direction of its operation for movement or surveillance purposes. For its identification from the surrounding environments, three landmarks employed with infrared LEDs, were installed at the charging station. When the robot reaches a certain point, a signal is sent to the LEDs for activation, which allows the robot to easily detect the landmarks using its vision camera. To eliminate the effects of the outside light interference during the process, a difference image was generated by comparing the two images taken when the LEDs are on and off respectively. A fish-eye lens was used for the vision camera of the robot but the wide-angle lens resulted in a significant image distortion. The radial lens distortion was corrected after linear perspective projection transformation based on the pin-hole model. In the experiment, the designed system showed sensing accuracy of ${\pm}10$ mm in position and ${\pm}1^{\circ}$ in orientation at the distance of 550 mm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.810-816
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• 2007

A security robot system named EGIS-SR is a mobile security robot through one of the new growth engine project in robotic industries. It allows home surveillance through an autonomous mobile platform using onboard cameras and wireless security sensors. EGIS-SR has many sensors to allow autonomous navigation, hierarchical control architecture to handle lots of situations in monitoring home surveillance and mighty networks to achieve unmanned security services. EGIS-SR is tightly coupled with a networked security environment, where the information of the robot is remotely connected with the remote cockpit and patrol man. It achieved an intelligent unmanned security service. The robot is a two-wheeled mobile robot and has casters and suspension to overcome a doorsill. The dynamic motion is verified through $ADAMS^{TM}$ simulation. For the main controller, PXA270 based hardware platform based on linux kernel 2.6 is developed. In the linux platform, data handling for various sensors and the localization algorithm are performed. Also, a local path planning algorithm for object avoidance with ultrasonic sensors and localization using $StarGazer^{TM}$ is developed. Finally, for the automatic charging, a docking algorithm with infrared ray system is implemented.

• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.101-117
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• 2023

우주상에 존재하는 우주물체에 접근하여 궤도상에서 제거하는 능동 제거 기술(active debris removal, ADR)과 연료 충전, 배터리 교환 등의 위성의 수명연장을 위한 기술인 궤도상 서비싱(on-orbit servicing)은 우주물체의 증가와 함께 그 관심이 커지고 있다. 인공위성연구소에서는 국내에서 발사되었던 국가 자산 중 임무가 종료된 후 궤도상에서 여전히 우주를 돌고 있는 국가 우주자산을 포획 및 제거하는 목적의 위성을 개발하기 위한 연구를 수행 중에 있다. ADR 소형위성은 지금껏 국내에서 개발되었던 지구 및 우주환경 관측 위성과 다르게 랑데부/도킹 기술 등을 포함한 우주 탐사 임무 등 미래 임무에 요구되는 기술을 구현 및 실증하는 것을 주요 임무로 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 여러 국가 우주자산들 중 1990년대에 발사된 우리별 위성의 포획 및 제거 임무를 갖고 있는 ADR 소형위성의 궤도 전이 방법에 대해서 소개한다. 소형 위성은 무게가 약 200 kg 이하가 되도록 개발을 수행할 예정이고, 2027년 한국형 발사체를 통해 궤도상에 투입되는 상황을 가정하여 임무를 설계했다. 특히, 지구의 J2 섭동력을 이용해서 목표물과 다른 RAAN 일변화를 만들어 줌으로써, 목표물로의 궤도면 변경을 직접 천이 방식과 비교하여 더 적은 연료를 이용하는 전략을 구성하였다. 이 방법을 이용하여 소형위성급 무게의 위성으로 우주쓰레기 제거 임무를 가능하게 하며, 뉴스페이스 시대에 새로운 형태의 우주탐사를 수행하는 기술 검증 플랫폼이 될 것으로 기대한다.