• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.689-695
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• 2003

Fault-tolerance is an important design criterion for robotic systems operating in hazardous or remote environments. This paper addresses the issue of tolerating a locked joint failure in gait planning for hexapod walking machines which have symmetric structures and legs in the form of an articulated arm with three revolute joints. A locked joint failure is one for which a joint cannot move and is locked in place. If a failed joint is locked, the workspace of the resulting leg is constrained, but hexapod walking machines have the ability to continue static walking. A strategy of fault-tolerant tripod gait is proposed and, as a specific form, a periodic tripod gait is presented in which hexapod walking machines have the maximum stride length after a locked failure. The adjustment procedure from a normal gait to the proposed fault-tolerant gait is shown to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed scheme.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2005

Fault-tolerant gait generation of a hexapod robot with crab walking is proposed. The considered fault is a locked joint failure, which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known position. Due to the reduced workspace of a failed leg, fault-tolerant crab walking has a limitation in the range of heading direction. In this paper, an accessible range of the crab angle is derived for a given configuration of the failed leg and, based on the principles of fault-tolerant gait planning, periodic crab gaits are proposed in which a hexapod robot realizes crab walking after a locked joint failure, having a reasonable stride length and stability margin. The proposed crab walking is then applied to path planning on uneven terrain with positive obstacles. i.e., protruded obstacles which legged robots cannot cross over but have to take a roundabout route to avoid. The robot trajectory should be generated such that the crab angle does not exceed the restricted range caused by a locked joint failure.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권4호
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• pp.536-543
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new type of hexapod robot that can walk fast. Most of the conventional hexapod robots are either rectangular type of hexagonal type. Those robots have drawbacks in the speed and stability of walking. The proposed robot has six legs, one fore leg, one hind leg, two left legs and two right legs. The proposed robot forms relatively wide supporting polygons along the walking direction, so it can walk very fast stably. We implemented the proposed hexapod robot and showed the feasibility of the robot by 3+3 walking experiment and 2+4 walking experiment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.943-951
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• 2003

A strategy for fault-tolerant gaits of autonomous legged robots is proposed. A legged robot is considered to be fault tolerant with respect to a given failure if it is guaranteed to be capable of walking maintaining its static stability after the occurrence of the failure. The failure concerned in this paper is a locked joint failure for which a joint in a leg cannot move and is locked in place. If a failed joint is locked, the workspace of the resulting leg is constrained, but legged robots have fault tolerance capability to continue static walking. An algorithm for generating fault-tolerant gaits is described and, especially, periodic gaits are presented for forward walking of a hexapod robot with a locked joint failure. The leg sequence and the formula of the stride length are analytically driven based on gait study and robot kinematics. The transition procedure from a normal gait to the proposed fault-tolerant gait is shown to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed scheme.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.585-593
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• 2004

Fault-tolerant gait planning in legged locomotion is to design gaits with which legged robots can maintain static stability and motion continuity against a failure in a leg. For planning a robust and deadlock-free fault-tolerant gait, kinematic constraints caused by a failed leg should be closely examined with respect to remaining mobility of the leg. In this paper, based on the authors's previous results, deadlock avoidance scheme for fault-tolerant gait planning is proposed for a hexapod robot walking over even terrain. The considered fault is a locked joint failure, which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known position. It is shown that for guaranteeing the existence of the previously proposed fault-tolerant tripod gait of a hexapod robot, the configuration of the failed leg must be within a range of kinematic constraints. Then, for coping with failure situations where the existence condition is not satisfied, the previous fault-tolerant tripod gait is improved by including the adjustment of the foot trajectory. The foot trajectory adjustment procedure is analytically derived to show that it can help the fault-tolerant gait avoid deadlock resulting from the kinematic constraint and does not make any harmful effect on gait mobility. The post-failure walking problem of a hexapod robot with the normal tripod gait is addressed as a case study to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.457-463
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 육족 보행 로봇의 새로운 힘 분배 알고리듬을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 고려하는 육족 보행 로봇은 다리 하나에 관절고착고장이 발생하여 내고장성 정적 세다리 걸음새로 보행한다. 제안되는 힘 분배 알고리듬의 핵심은 내고장성 걸음새가 가지는 안정여유도를 결정하는 지지 다리의 미끄러짐을 최소화시키는 것이다. 불연속적으로 움직이는 내고장성 세다리 걸음새는 정상 걸음새보다 안정도가 떨어진다는 약점이 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 힘 분배 알고리듬은 이러한 약점을 고려하여 내고장성 걸음새의 지지 다리가 세 개라는 성질과 Zero-Interaction Force 원리를 이용하여 최적화 기법을 쓰지 않고 대수적으로 모든 다리의 힘 성분을 구한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 사례 연구를 통해서 제안된 힘 분배 알고리듬과 기존 방법의 비교 분석을 실시하고 제안된 방법의 효용성을 입증한다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.124-129
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• 2013

6족 보행 로봇은 2족 또는 4족 보행 로봇에 비하여 안정적인 보행이 가능한 장점이 있다. 따라서 6족 보행 로봇은 이러한 보행의 안정성을 기반으로 다양한 지능적인 동작을 수행하기에 유리한 구조이다. 본 논문에서는 전형적인 6족 보행 로봇과는 달리 로봇의 진행 방향에 대하여 전후 다리와 좌우에 각각 한 쌍의 다리를 갖는 6족 보행 로봇을 제안하고 제안된 로봇을 사용하여 다양한 지능형 동작을 수행한다. 26개의 모듈형 모터를 사용하여 로봇 기구부를 구성하고 호스트 PC, DSP 주제어기, AVR 보조 제어기, 스마트폰/스마트패드로 구성되는 제어기를 구현한다. 구현된 로봇은 스테레오 카메라, 적외선 센서, 초음파 센서, 접촉 센서 등 다양한 센서 데이터를 사용하여 비평탄면 보행, 공차기, 원격 제어 및 3차원 모니터링 등 다양한 지능형 동작을 수행할 수 있음을 실험을 통하여 검증한다.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 기구학적 구속조건을 고려한 육각 보행 로봇의 새로운 내고장성 걸음새를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 고려하고 있는 고장은 관절고착고장으로 로봇 다리의 관절 하나가 어떤 위치에 고착되어서 보행이 끝날 때까지 움직일 수 없는 상태를 말한다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 육각 보행 로봇의 직선 보행을 위한 기존의 내고장성 걸음새가 고장 난 다리의 기구학적 구속조건에 따라서 교착 상태에 빠질 수도 있음을 해석적으로 증명한다. 그런 다음 이러한 교착 상태를 회피하기 위해서 새로운 내고장성 걸음새 계획을 제안한다. 제안하는 내고장성 걸음새는 다리의 궤적을 변경함으로써 고장 난 다리가 야기하는 교착 상태에서 벗어날 수 있으며, 기존 내고장성 걸음새의 다리 움직임 순서와 보폭을 그대로 유지한다. 제안한 걸음새 계획의 우수성을 입증하기 위해서 평탄 지형에서 정상적인 걸음새로 걷고 있는 육각 보행 로봇이 고장이 일어난 후 제안한 걸음새 계획을 이용하여 교착 상태에서 벗어나 내고장성 걸음새로 전이하는 사례 연구도 기술한다.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.91-93
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• 2000

Insects have many excellent features and functions in their small bodies, such as hexapod walking, flapping flight, vision systems, sensory hairs, etc, and those characteristics can be thought as good models for many types of robots. Insects also will be good models far micro-machines because of its size. Insect behavior consists of simple reflex acts and programmed behavior, Some robots were made in order to clarify the emergent mechanism of insect behavior, Through some experiments it would be found that even if insect behavior consists of some simple action patterns, it looks intelligent through interactions its sensors and actuators with its complex environment. In the near futures small robots inspired by insects will be used in many fields of our life. I hope that insect-model based robots will play an active part in many fields and that they will make us happy.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.227-234
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• 2011

The Interest in robotics has been steadily increasing in recent times both in Korea as well as abroad. Research on robots for new and diverse fields is ongoing. This study discusses the current research and development on robot actuator, which are used to control the joints of robots, and focuses on developing more efficient technology for joint control, as compared with the current technologies. It also aims to find means to apply the abovementioned technology to diverse industrial fields. We found that easy and effective control of actuators could be achieved by using ZigBee sensor networks, which were widely being used on wireless communications. Throughout the experiments it is proved that the developed wireless actuator could be used for easy control of various robot joints. This technology can be effectively applied to develop two-legged robots that will be able to walk like human, or even quadruped and hexapod robots. It can also be applied to motors used in industry. In this study, we develop an extremely minimized ZigBee sensor network module that can be used to control various servo motors with low power consumption even if it is long distances. We realized effective wireless control by optimizing the ZigBee antenna, and were able to quickly check the status of relevant Tree node through mutual communication between the servo motors composing the ZigBee sensor network and the main server control modules. The developed Servo Motor with ZigBee sensor network modules can be applied in both robotics as well as for home or factory automation.