• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2008

군집 로봇(swarm robots)의 경우 작업을 수행하기 위해서는 여러 로봇의 협동 작업이 필요하게 된다. 따라서 로봇이 주어진 환경을 인식하고 모델링 하는 것, 주어진 복잡한 작업을 분석하고 단순한 작업으로 나누는 것, 로봇에서 주어진 작업을 효과적으로 이행하는 것 등이 연구의 핵심이 되고 있다. 침입자 발견시 군집 로봇이 침입자를 효과적으로 추적하기 위해서는 다양한 경로를 통해 침입자가 이동할 수 있는 경로를 예상하고 분산 이동해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 알려진 맵에서 군집 로봇이 침입자를 효과적으로 추적하기 위한 분산 이동 방법을 제안한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.341-346
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• 2004

Nowadays, versatile robots are developed around the world. Novel algorithms are needed for controlling such robots. A 2-Layer fuzzy controller can deal with many inputs as well as many outputs, and its overall structure is much simpler than that of a general fuzzy controller. The main problem encountered in fuzzy control is the design of the fuzzy controller. In this paper, the fuzzy controller is designed by the schema co-evolutionary algorithm. This algorithm can quickly and easily find a global solution. Therefore, the schema co-evolutionary algorithm is used to design a 2-layer fuzzy controller in this study. We apply it to a mobile robot and verify the efficacy of the 2-layer fuzzy controller and the schema co-evolutionary algorithm through the experiments.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.222-229
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• 2005

This paper presents a self-organizing scheme for multi-agent swarm systems based on coupled nonlinear oscillators (CNOs). In this scheme, unicycle robots self-organize to flock and arrange group formation through attractive and repulsive forces among themselves. The main result is the maintenance of flexible and scalable formation. It is also shown how localized distributed controls are utilized throughout group behaviors such as formation and migration. In the paper, the proposed formation ensures safe separation and good cohesion performance among the robots. Several examples show that the proposed method for group formation performs the group behaviors such as reference path following, obstacle avoidance and flocking, and the formation characteristics such as flexibility and scalability, effectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.413-414
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• 2007

Successful speech recognition in noisy environments for intelligent robots depends on the performance of preprocessing elements employed. We propose an architecture that effectively combines adaptive beamforming (ABF) and blind source separation (BSS) algorithms in the spatial domain to avoid permutation ambiguity and heavy computational complexity. We evaluated the structure and assessed its performance with a DSP module. The experimental results of speech recognition test shows that the proposed combined system guarantees high speech recognition rate in the noisy environment and better performance than the ABF and BSS system.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.315-320
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• 2009

The popularity of autonomous mobile robots have been rapidly increasing due to their new emerging application areas, from room cleaning, tourist guidance to space explorations. However, the development of a satisfactory control algorithm that will enable the autonomous mobile robots to navigate safely especially in dynamic environments is still an open research problem. In this paper, a newly proposed potential field based control method is implemented, analyzed, and improvements are suggested based on experimental results obtained from simulations. The experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the behavior-based control using the proposed potential field generation technique.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.327-333
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• 2011

Intelligent robots are widely needed in various areas of industry from extremely dangerous environments to service tasks. For autonomous mobile robots, it is significant to move itself safely to a destination point, recognizing its surroundings. Advances in sensor technology and its applications are achieved in order to develop an intelligent robot. In this paper, a mobile robot with a path-finding algorithm is presented. The path-finding algorithm is the one that does not only find a path to designated destination and also recognizes obstacles on the way, calculating its distance. 10 ultrasonic sensor are mounted on the front and rear of the mobile robot to figure out its position. Specular reflection and wide viewing angle, which are inherent characteristics of ultrasonic waves, cause errors in measuring distance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.592-600
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• 2018

As the field of robots is evolving to intelligent robots that can replace even humans' mental or emotional labor, 'robot ethics' needed in relationship between humans and robots is becoming a crucial issue these days. The purpose of this study is to consider the ethics of robots and humans that is essential in this post-human age. It will deal with the followings as the main contents. First, with the cases of developing ethics software intended to make robots practice ethics, the authors begin this research being conscious about the matter of whether robots can really judge what is right or wrong only with the ethics codes entered forcibly. Second, regarding robot ethics, we should consider unethicality that might arise from learning data internalizing human biasness and also reflect ethical differences between countries or between cultures, that is, ethical relativism. Third, robot ethics should not be just about ethics codes intended for robots but reflect the new concept of 'human ethics' that allows humans and robots to coevolve.

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.24 no.3 s.202
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• pp.25-34
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• 2006

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.36-42
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• 2000

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.813-817
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• 2008

Intelligent Robots (IR) get data of the current situation from sensors and perform knowledgeable services. Self-reconfiguration of IR is an important factor to change itself without stopping while supporting environment and technology change. In this paper, we propose an agent based self-reconfiguration framework of IR using ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). This framework focuses on dynamic discovery and reconfiguration of service-oriented applications using multi-agent system in intelligent robots. When IR meets an irresolvable situation it downloads a necessary service agent from an external service repository, executes the agent, and resolves the situation. Agent technology provides an intelligent approach for collaborations of IR. The prototype has also been implemented to show the validity of our study.