• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.324-329
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• 2022

This paper proposes a shift-register-based multichannel ultrasonic focusing delay control method using a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) for a high resolution of ultrasonic focusing system. The proposed method can achieve the ultrasonic focusing through the delay control of driving signals of each ultrasonic transducer of an ultrasonic array. The delay of the driving signals of all ultrasonic channels can be controlled by setting the shift register in the CPLD. The experiment verified that the frequency of the clock used for the delay control increased, the error of the focusing point decreased, and the diameter of the focusing point decreased as the length of the shift register in the proposed method. The proposed method used only one CPLD for ultrasonic focusing and did not require to use complex hardware circuits. Therefore, the resources required for the design of an ultrasonic focusing system could be reduced. The proposed method can be applied to the fields of human computer interaction (HCI), virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.11-19
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• 2024

Flight simulators are crucial devices for aircraft piloting training and simulation, requiring regular inspections to maintain performance and operational quality. This study explores the development of an automated inspection system for flight simulators to automate quality inspections of control loading systems (CLS). While quality inspection of the control loading system (CLS) is essential for flight simulators, manual inspections are common practice. To address this, we developed an Auto Qualification Test Guide (Auto QTG) using artificial control logic and sensor data and applied it to the militarily simulator. Experimental results demonstrate that Auto QTG successfully automates quality inspections of CLS, enhancing accuracy and efficiency. This automated inspection system is expected to contribute to improving the operation and maintenance of flight simulators.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.415-420
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• 2017

Underactuated prosthetic hands are relatively light and economical. In this work, an economical grasping force control system is proposed for underactuated prosthetic hands with adaptive grasp capability. The prosthetic hand is driven by a main cable based on a set of electromyography sensors on the forearm of a user. Part of the main cable tension related to grasping force is fed back to the user by a skin-mounted vibrator. The proper relationship between the grasping force and the vibrator drive voltage was established and prototype tests were performed on a group of users. Relatively accurate grasping force control was achieved with minimal training of users.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.219-224
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• 2006

3 차원 입력 장치는 키보드나 마우스 같은 일반적인 입력 장치로는 받아 들이기 어려운 3 차원 입력을 사용자로부터 간편하고 직관적인 방법으로 받아들일 수 있다는 측면에서 활발히 연구 및 사용되고 있다. 또한 햅틱 장치는 가상 물체의 조작에 따른 시각적인 피드백 외에 가상 물체의 느낌을 피드백 힘을 통해 사용자에게 전달해 줌으로써 컴퓨터와 사용자간의 상호 작용에 큰 도움을 준다. 본 논문은 햅틱 피드백이 적용된 실시간 가변형 모델과 효과적인 3 차원 입력에 대한 기반 연구를 하고자 한다. 그리고 이에 대한 한 가지 사례로써 햅틱 장치를 이용한 가상 판화 시스템을 제작 한다. 가상 판화 시스템은 시각 처리 부분과 촉각 처리 부분, 그리고 사용자의 3 차원 입력을 돕는 인터페이스 부분으로 구성되어 있다. 시각 처리 부분은 3 차원 공간 상에서 사용자의 조각에 따른 판화 표면의 변형을 처리하며 촉각 처리 부분은 실제 판화를 제작할 때 느끼는 촉각을 햅틱 인터페이스를 이용하여 사용자에게 전달한다. 이를 위해 먼저 시각 처리 부분에서는 NURBS 기반의 자유 형상 변형 (FFD)기법을 이용하였는데 가상 조각도에 의한 물체 표면의 지역적인 변형을 구현하기 위해 조각도가 닿는 부분에 대해 기조 격자점 (control point)을 증가시켜 원하는 부분에 대한 지역적인 변화를 용이하도록 하였고 다음으로 촉각 처리 부분에서는 S-chain 모델을 이용하였는데 S-chain 모델을 객체 전체에 적용하지 않고 접촉이 일어날 경우 그 접촉점을 기준으로 S-chain 모델을 지역적으로 적용하는 방법을 고안하여 실제 구현에 이용하였다. 인터페이스 적인 측면에서 사용자의 3 차원 입력장치를 통한 인터렉션은 사용자로 하여금 보다 자유로운 입력을 허용하지만 이에 따른 깊이 지각 문제를 발생시킨다. 이러한 문제를 최소화 시키고 사용자의 깊이 지각을 강화시키기 위해 사용자에게 제공되는 시각적 자극을 변형시키고 다양한 정보를 제공하도록 하였다. 가상 판화 시스템은 가상 환경에서 사용자의 조작에 따른 다양한 결과물을 제작 및 출력해 볼 수 있도록 해준다. 또한 가상 환경에서 이러한 기반을 제공함으로써 가상 환경의 장점인 복사, 이동 및 영구 보존 특성을 동시에 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 작업을 위한 기반 기술로써 햅틱 및 가변형 모델, 3 차원 입력 장치에 대한 시각적 인터페이스에 대해 다루고 이 기반 기술을 바탕으로한 가상 판화 시스템의 구현에 대하여 논하고자 한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.672-678
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new rehabilitation robot with upper and lower limb connections for gait training. As humans change a walking speed, their nervous systems adapt muscle activation patterns to modify arm swing for the appropriate frequency. By analyzing this property, we can find a relation between arm swinging and lower limb motions. Thus, the lower limb motion can be controlled by the arm swing for walking speed adaptation according to a patent's intension. This paper deals with the design aspects of the suggested gait rehabilitation robot, including a trajectory planning and a control strategy. The suggested robot is mainly composed of upper limb and lower limb devices, a body support system. The lower limb device consists of a slider device and two 2-dof footpads to allow walking training at uneven and various terrains. The upper limb device consists of an arm swing handle and switches to use as a user input device for walking. The body support system will partially support a patient's weight to allow the upper limb motions. Finally, we showed simulation results for the designed trajectory and controller using a dynamic simulation tool.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.577-584
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• 2003

Traditional ankle rehabilitation procedures are tedious, repetitive, and require therapist's help. Therefore, they do not provide patients with good motivation to actively participate in the rehabilitation exercises. In addition, objective diagnosis and evaluation of the treatment progress have been difficult because records of exercise history are made by passive instruments from time to time. The virtual reality technology can make these procedures more fun so that patients can perform everyday rehabilitation exercises more actively. Moreover, haptics technology can give active resistance to the patients ankle motion to improve strength of muscles as well as can record ankle's motion and force histories for objective diagnosis and evaluation. This paper summarizes development of a virtual environment fur reforming the conventional ankle rehabilitation procedures. First of all, conventional rehabilitation procedures have been summarized. Secondly, haptic design and control, user interface design, virtual environment contents design are described. Lastly, mutual cooperation among many developers including medical doctors and therapists and future works are commented.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.585-591
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• 2003

A virtual force is generated and fed back to the operator to make the teleoperation more reliable, which reflects the relationship between a slave robot and an uncertain remote environment as a form of an impedance. In general, for the teleoperation, the teleoperated mobile robot takes pictures of the remote environment and sends the visual information back to the operator over the Internet. Because of the limitations of communication bandwidth and narrow view-angles of camera, it is not possible to watch certain regions, for examples, the shadow and curved areas. To overcome this problem, a virtual force is generated according to both the distance between the obstacle and the robot and the approaching velocity of the obstacle w.r.t the collision vector based on the ultrasonic sensor data. This virtual force is transferred back to the master (two degrees of freedom joystick) over the Internet to enable a human operator to estimate the position of obstacle at the remote site. By holding this master, in spite of limited visual information, the operator can feel the spatial sense against the remote environment. It is demonstrated by experiments that this collision vector based haptic reflection improves the performance of teleoperated mobile robot significantly.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.2753-2758
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• 2003

Tactile sensation is essential for many manipulation and exploration tasks not only in a real environment but also in a virtual environment. In this paper, we discuss a conceptual design of an integrated tactile display system. The system comprises two parts: a 2 DOF force feedback device for kinesthetic display and a tactile feedback device for displaying the normal stimulation to skin and the skin slip/stretch. Psychophysical experiments measure the effects of fingerpad selection, the direction of finger movements and the texture width on tactile sensitivity. We also investigate characteristics of lateral finger movement while subjects perceive different textures. From the experimental results, the principal parameters for designing a tactile display are suggested. A tactile display device is implemented using eight piezoelectric bimorphs and a linear actuator, and is attached to a 2 DOF translational force feedback device to simultaneously simulate texture and stiffness of the object.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.1053-1056
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• 2004

Research in Human Computer Interface (HCI) is towards development of an application environment able to deal with interactions of both human and computers that can be more intuitive and efficient. This can be achieved by bridging the gap between the synthetic virtual environment and the natural physical environment. Thus a project called Tangible Space Initiative (TSI) has been launched by KIST. TSI is subdivided into Tangible Interface (TI) which controls 3D cyber space with user's perspective, Responsive Cyber Space (RCS) which creates and controls the virtual environment and Tangible Agent (TA) which senses and acts upon the physical interface environment on behalf of any components of TSI or the user. This paper is a brief introduction to a new generation of Human Computer Interface that bring user to a new era of interaction with computers in the future.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1802-1807
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• 2005

Tangible interface can be understood as a newly defined concept, which can provide an effective and seamless interaction between the human as a subjective existence and the cyberspace as an objective existence. Tactile sensation is essential for many exploration and manipulation tasks in the tangible space. In this paper, we suggest the design of an integrated tactile sensor-display system that provides both of sensing and feedback with kinesthetic force, pressure distribution, vibration and slip/stretch. A new tactile sensor with PDVF strips and display system with bimorph actuators has been developed and integrated by developed signal processing algorithm. In the scenario of haptic navigation in the tangible space, tactile feedback system is successfully experimented.