• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.299-305
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• 2014

In this paper, a simple version of the hybrid navigation system using Kalman filter is proposed. The implemented hybrid navigation system is composed of a GPS to measure the position and the velocity, and a IMU(inertial measurement unit) to measure the acceleration and the posture of a mobile robot. A discrete Kalman filter is applied to provide the position of the robot by fusing both of the sensor data. When GPS signal is available, the navigation system estimates the position of the robot from the Kalman filter using position and velocity from GPS, and acceleration from IMU. During the interval until next GPS signal arrives, the system calculates the position of the robot using acceleration from IMU and velocity obtained at the previous step. Performance of the navigation system is verified by comparing the real path and the estimated path of the mobile robot. From experiments, we conclude that the navigation system is acceptable for the mobile robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.774-782
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the autonomous and high-speed indoor navigation of wheeled mobile robots using hybrid system controller. The hierarchical structure of hybrid system presented consists of high-level reasoning process and the low-level motion control process and the environmental interaction. In a discrete event system, the discrete states are defined by the user-defined constraints and the reference motion commands are specified in the abstracted motions. The hybrid control system applied for the nonholonomic mobile robots can combine the motion planning and autonomous navigation with obstacle avoidance in the indoor navigation problem. For the evaluation of the proposed algorithm, the algorithm is implemented to the two-wheel driven mobile robot system. The experimental results show that the hybrid system approach is an effective method for the autonomous navigation in indoor environments.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.19-26
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• 1995

In this paper, a fuzzy-neural hybrid control approach is proposed for controlling a mobile robot that can avoid an unexpected obstacle in a navigational space. First, to describe the global structure of a known environment, a heuristic collision-free space band is introduced. Based on the band, the moving information in the known environment is trained to a neural controller. Then, during the execution of a mobile robot navigation moving information at each position is given the neural controller. If the mobile robot encounters an unexpected obstacle, a fuzzy controller activates to avoid the unexpected obstacle. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the control algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.558-565
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• 2011

Various robot platforms have been designed and developed to perform given tasks in a hazardous environment for surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue, etc. We considered a terrain-adaptive and transformable hybrid robot platform that is equipped with rapid navigation capability on flat floors and good performance in overcoming stairs or obstacles. The navigation mode transition is determined and implemented by adaptive driving mode control of the mobile robot. In order to maximize the usability of wheel-track hybrid robot platform, we propose a terrain-adaptive and user-friendly remote controller and verify the efficiency and performance through its navigation performance experiments in real and test-bed environments.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.270-277
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• 2010

Various robot platforms have been designed and developed to perform given tasks in a hazardous environment for the purpose of surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and etc. We have considered a terrain adaptive hybrid robot platform which is equipped with rapid navigation on flat floors and good performance on overcoming stairs or obstacles. Since our special consideration is posed to its flexibility for real application, we devised a design of a transformable robot structure which consists of an ordinary wheeled structure to navigate fast on flat floor and a variable tracked structure to climb stairs effectively. Especially, track arms installed in front side, rear side, and mid side are used for navigation mode transition between flatland navigation and stairs climbing. The mode transition is determined and implemented by adaptive driving mode control of mobile robot. The wheel and track hybrid mobile platform apparatus applied off-road driving mechanism for various professional service robots is verified through experiments for navigation performance in real and test-bed environment.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2014

Mobile robots use an environment map of its workspace to complete the surveillance task. However grid-based maps that are commonly used map format for mobile robot navigation use a large size of memory for accurate representation of environment. In this reason, grid-based maps are not suitable for path planning of mobile robots using embedded board. In this paper, we present the path planning algorithm that produce a secure path rapidly. The proposed approach utilizes a hybrid map that uses less memory than grid map and has same efficiency of a topological map. Experimental results show that the fast path planning uses only 1.5% of the time that a grid map based path planning requires. And the results show a secure path for mobile robot.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2013

모바일 로봇은 자신의 임무를 수행하기 위해 탐색 기능을 가지고 있어야 한다. 탐색은 감시 로봇, 구조 로봇, 자원 탐사 로봇 등에 사용될 수 있다. 로봇이 환경을 탐색하기 위해서는 지도와 같은 환경에 대한 정보를 가지고 있어야 한다. 그러나 기존에 많이 사용되는 그리드 지도는 용량이 너무 커서 모바일 로봇에 사용하기 힘들다는 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 저 사양의 모바일 로봇에서 사용할 수 있는 하이브리드 지도를 제안한다. 또한 제안하는 하이브리드 지도를 사용하여 모든 영역을 탐색하는 방법을 제안하고 있다. 제안하는 방법은 로봇의 작업 환경을 현재 처리할 수 있는 영역과 처리 할 수 없는 영역으로 나누고, 나누어진 영역을 탐색하는 동시에 지도를 업데이트하며 영역을 확장해 나간다. 탐색이 완료된 영역은 하이브리드 맵 형태로 저장한다. 생성한 하이브리드 맵을 사용하여 로봇은 장애물이 없는 영역으로 이동 경로를 생성할 수 있다. 실험결과에 따르면 기존 그리드 지도에 비해 약 6%의 메모리만을 사용해 환경 지도를 생성할 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.297-305
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• 1999

Autonomous mobile robots are required to achieve multiple goals while responding quickly to the dynamic environments. An appropriate robot control architecture, which clearly and systematically defines the relationship among the inputs, the processing functions and the outputs, thus needs to be embedded in the robot controller. This paper proposes a kind of hybrid control architecture which combines the key features of the two well-known robot control architectures; hierarchical and behavioral- based. The overall control architecture consists of three layers, i.e. the highest planner, the middle plan executor, and the lowest monitor and behavior-based controller. In the planned situation, only one behavior module is chosen by the logical coordinator in the plan executor according to the way point bin. In the exceptional situation, the central controller in the plan executor issues an additional control command to reach the planned way point. Several simulations and experiments with autonomous mobile robot show that the proposed architecture enables the robot controller to achieve the multiple sequential goals even in dynamic and uncertain environments.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.455-457
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• 2007

The objective of this study is development of a installed working robot for a troy cable with mobile and tension system. In this paper, an approach to designing controllers for dynamic hybrid Tension/Mobile control of a installed robot for a troy wire cable is presented. Mobile control system of robot is designed based on equation of dc motor and motion for moving robot and tension control system is designed based on equation of ac servomotor for generating torque and dynamic equation of a wire cable. The control parameters is determined by simulation in independence operation of two system.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.373-379
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• 2015

A hybrid navigation system is implemented to apply for a mobile robot. The hybrid navigation system consists of an inertial navigation system and a global positioning system. The inertial navigation system quickly calculates the position and the attitude of the robot by integrating directional accelerations, angular speed, and heading angle from a strap-down inertial measurement unit, but the results are available for a short time since it tends to diverge quickly. Global positioning system delivers position, heading angle, and traveling speed stably, but it has large deviation with slow update. Therefore, a hybrid navigation system uses the result from an inertial navigation system and corrects the result with the help of the global positioning system where an indirect feedback Kalman filter is used. We implement and confirm the performance of the hybrid navigation system through driving a car attaching it.