• 한국정보기술학회 영문논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.129-137
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• 2018

Smart machines are one of the topics of our society recently. A smart machine should have a wiser or smarter function than the past. In the modern society, the environment of each family is being improved toward the direction of smart home. In this environment, smart speakers are now increasingly serving as interfaces for controlling various devices in the home, from devices that listen to conventional music. In this paper, we review the technology development trends of domestic and foreign smart speaker market, and describe the core technologies required. In Korea, while SKT and KT are dominant in the speaker market, major IT companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple are focusing on launching related products and technology development.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.487-495
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• 2012

In this paper, a Smart Home Service Robot, McBot II, which performs mess-cleanup function etc. in house, is designed much more optimally than other service robots. It is newly developed in much more practical system than McBot I which we had developed two years ago. One characteristic attribute of mobile platforms equipped with a set of dependent wheels is their omni- directionality and the ability to realize complex translational and rotational trajectories for agile navigation in door. An accurate coordination of steering angle and spinning rate of each wheel is necessary for a consistent motion. This paper develops trajectory controller of 3-wheels omni-directional mobile robot using fuzzy azimuth estimator. A specialized anthropomorphic robot manipulator which can be attached to the housemaid robot McBot II, is developed in this paper. This built-in type manipulator consists of both arms with 4 DOF (Degree of Freedom) each and both hands with 3 DOF each. The robotic arm is optimally designed to satisfy both the minimum mechanical size and the maximum workspace. Minimum mass and length are required for the built-in cooperated-arms system. But that makes the workspace so small. This paper proposes optimal design method to overcome the problem by using neck joint to move the arms horizontally forward/backward and waist joint to move them vertically up/down. The robotic hand, which has two fingers and a thumb, is also optimally designed in task-based concept. Finally, the good performance of the developed McBot II is confirmed through live tests of the mess-cleanup task.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2465-2467
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• 2004

In this paper we present the guideline to evaluate the easiness of using personal robots and their learning abilities based on the analysis of their built-in commands, user interfaces, and intelligences. Recently, we are breathing with robots that can be able to do lots of roles. cleaning, security, pets and education in real life. They can be classified as home robots, guide robots, service robots, robot pets, and so on. There are, however, no standards to evaluate their ability, so it is not easy to select an appropriate robot when a user wants to buy it. Thus, we present, as a guideline that can be a standard for the evaluation of the personal robots, the standards by means of analyzing existing personal robots and results of the recent research works. We will, also, describe how to apply the evaluation method th the personal robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1593-1597
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• 2003

The home service robot supports human beings by performing various kinds of works at home. This paper presents a simple control method for opening a door from the viewpoint of the mobile manipulation. The simulation shows various results of path planning and motion planning for opening a door. The joint trajectories were generated by the simulation system. In general, a six-axis force/torque sensor at an end-effector is needed in order to maintain the static equilibrium of the manipulator. But we show another method. From three components of applied forces which was directly obtained by the three-axis force sensor and three components of applied forces which was indirectly estimated by the joint-torque sensors, all of joint torques that will exactly balance forces at the end-effector in the static situation can be found. It is more practical method than using a six-axis force sensor in a wrist. Experimental results have shown that the opening a door can be realized more effectively from the suggested control method of mobile manipulation.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2007

A network-based robot [1] is a robot that explores service servers in the network environment for analyzing sensor data and making decision. Since network-based robot architecture was proposed, it's possible to reduce costs of robots. We hope robots would be all around at home environment. Therefore, normal users who are not experts need to be able to control those robots by using easy commands. We developed a scripting language, named CCSLR, to help users and developers who control various robots in ubiquitous environment. We focused on how to design the common language for various robots and how to translate a CCSLR script into a sequence of low-level commands of the target robot. In this paper, we propose scripting methods, with three layers. The CCSLR system reads the profile information from the knowledge representation database. Users don't have to know all about kinematical and mechanical details of a robot. Then again, the CCSLR system will use the profile information to translate the script into separated executable library commands. The CCSLR system manages robot's changing state every time a robot executes a command.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2013

거동이 불편한 노인 및 장애인의 이동을 위한 휠체어 사용 시, 사용하지 않는 상 하지의 근력 저하 등 운동 능력의 감소를 초래할 수 있다. 특히, 척수손상 및 뇌졸중 편마비와 같은 중증 장애인은 거동이 제한되어 운동이 부족하고 근력 유지가 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 중증 장애인의 특성을 고려하여 상 하지 운동 및 재활훈련이 가능한 지능형 휠체어 로봇 시스템을 설계하였다. 이 시스템은 전동 휠체어, 개인의 특성 파악을 위한 생체인식모듈, 그리고 상 하지 재활 로봇으로 구성되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 개발된 로봇의 설계 및 구성에 대해 설명하고 운용 방법을 제시한다. 또한, 제안한 시스템의 추종 성능을 검증하기 위하여, 비장애인 피험자를 대상으로 재활 운동 수행시 생체 신호 변화에 따른 위험상황 분석과 휠체어 로봇이 이동하면서 상 하지 재활운동 기능에 대한 성능평가를 수행한 결과, 피험자의 재활 운동 수행 시 위험상황 분석에 대한 평균 정확도는 86.7%, 관절각도 최대 오차는 상지 2.5도, 하지 2.3도로 재활 운동 수행에 충분한 추종성능을 나타냈다.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2019

현재 우리 사회에서 자주 언급되고 있는 단어들 중 하나는 스마트 머신이라 할 수 있다. 스마트 머신은 똑똑하거나 혹은 지능적인 기능을 포함한 기계를 의미한다. 이러한 스마트 머신이 최근 우리 가정환경에서 적용되고 있는 사례들이 늘어나고 있다. 바로 스마트 홈의 결과로서 발생하는 현상들이다. 스마트 홈 환경에서 스마트 스피커는 전통적인 음악 재생의 기능에서 벗어나 이제는 스마트 홈의 다양한 구성 요소인 디바이스들을 제어하는 인터페이스 역할이 증대되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내, 외 스마트 스피커 시장의 기술 동향 등을 살펴보고, 현 제품들에 대한 문제점을 분석하였으며, 필요한 핵심기술에 대해 기술하였다. 국내 스마트 스피커 시장에서는 SKT와 KT가 관련 산업을 리드하고 있으며, 반면에 국외에서는 대표적인 IT 기업인 아마존, 구글, 애플 등이 관련 제품의 출시 및 기술 개발에 주력하고 있다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.300-306
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• 2005

In this paper we present a guideline to evaluate how easy the use of personal robots is and how good their learning abilities are, based on the analysis of their built-in commands, user interfaces, and intelligences. Recently, we are living with robots that can be able to do lots of roles; cleaning, security, pets and education in real life. They can be classified as home robots, guide robots, service robots, robot pets, and so on. There we, however, no standards to evaluate their abilities, so it is not easy to select an appropriate robot when a user wants to buy it. Thus, we present, as a guideline that can be a standard for the evaluation of the personal robots, the standards by means of analyzing existing personal robots and results of the recent research works. We will, also, demonstrate how to apply the evaluation method to the cleaning robot as an example.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.4193-4199
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 안드로이드 기반 스마트폰을 장착하여 지능형 로봇의 성능 구현이 가능하도록 스마트폰 애플리케이션과 로봇 플랫폼을 설계 및 구현하였다. 터치스크린, 사운드 입출력, 네트워크 그리고 각종 센서 기능을 갖고 있는 스마트폰을 전원부와 모터 등의 단순 기능을 갖는 로봇플랫폼에 접목시켜 원격제어, 홈오토메이션, 게임기, R-러닝 등의 기능을 수행할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 연구에 사용된 스마트폰은 블루투스 통신을 이용하여 로봇과 데이터를 송수신하며 원격지의 컴퓨터와는 WI-FI를 통해 인터넷으로 통신을 수행하도록 설계 하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.717-719
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• 2004

Currently mobile devices change rapidly our life and they have considerable influences over many parts of our society. If the mobile device is applied to a control system, the usability of the control system is increased with its convenient accessibility and mobility. This paper realizes a motor control system by using a mobile device. The device uses Intel Xscale PXA-250 in which Widows CE is ported. The device is very popular at the applications of mobile devices. Also we consider its application to a mobile robot such as home service robot.