• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2010

Robotic software has been dramatically complicated as performing intelligent service tasks. These types of robots demand a very powerful software framework to make them easy. Robotic software framework means an integrated software environment that simplifies jobs of robotic software engineer by providing tools, reusable components, and runtime environments. Finally it reduces the project cost. There are lots of works related with them. Among them we focus on five frameworks that are MSRDS, ERSP, OROCOS, OpenRTM, and OPRoS. In terms of intelligent service robot, the study on robotic software frameworks is very important. And outlook on them is also very important in the sense of that the robotic software frameworks should be used to initiate service robot market.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2007

Intelligent Robot is considered as one of the Next Generation Growth Engine in many countries. The application fields are expected to be widen from 80's robotics for manufacturing to many applications such as military, space, medical, personal, etc. To reduce the R&D investment risk Technical Roadmap is prepared by Japan, Europe and Korea. In this paper, the technical Roadmap of the countries was analysed to get the idea of future of Robotics. Robotics is considered as one of solutions of future aged society. Robot can assist and company with elderly people in the near future. On the other hand, Robot is considered as a core technology of manufacturing competitive power. Industrial competitiveness also would be dependent on robot technology. Special Service robot has many application areas and each country has different target based on the situation. With the comparison of technical roadmap, we have suggested some ideas to improve Korea's roadmap.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.643-644
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• 2007

서비스를 제공받는 대상의 상황정보를 고려한 서비스 제공은 좀더 사용자에게 적절한 서비스를 제공 가능하게 할 수 있다. 그러나, 서비스 제공을 위하여 사용자의 주변 상황 분석에 필요한 정보의 습득에는 한계가 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 사용자에게 제공 가능한 서비스를 한정하고 제한된 상황에서 상황정보를 습득하고 분석하여 사용자에게 능동적으로 서비스를 제공하는 방법을 제시한다. 제한된 상황과 서비스는 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 모델링하여 외부 입력의 불확실성을 해소한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.23-28
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• 2004

This paper proposes a sensor-fusion technique where the data sets for the previous moments are properly transformed and fused into the current data sets to enable accurate measurement, such as, distance to an obstacle and location of the service robot itself. In the conventional fusion schemes, the measurement is dependent on the current data sets. As the results, more of sensors are required to measure a certain physical parameter or to improve the accuracy of the measurement. However, in this approach, instead of adding more sensors to the system, the temporal sequence of the data sets are stored and utilized for the measurement improvement. Theoretical basis is illustrated by examples and the effectiveness is proved through the simulations. Finally, the new space and time sensor fusion(STSF) scheme is applied to the control of a mobile robot in an unstructured environment as well as structured environment.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1835-1845
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• 2005

In this paper a safe arm with passive compliant joints and visco-elastic covering is designed for human-friendly service robots. The passive compliant joint (PCJ) is composed of a magneto-rheological (MR) damper and a rotary spring. In addition to a spring component, a damper is introduced for damping effect and works as a rotary viscous damper by controlling the electric current according to the angular velocity of spring displacement. When a manipulator interacts with human or environment, the joints and cover passively operate and attenuate the applied collision force. The force attenuation property is verified through collision experiments showing that the proposed passive arm is safe in view of some evaluation measures.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.204-216
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• 2006

Latest advances in hardware technology and state of the art of mobile robot and artificial intelligence research can be employed to develop autonomous and distributed monitoring systems. And mobile service robot requires the perception of its present position to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in populated environments. To realize these abilities, robot needs to keep track of relevant changes in the environment. This paper proposes a localization of mobile robot using the images by distributed intelligent networked devices (DINDs) in intelligent space (ISpace) is used in order to achieve these goals. This scheme combines data from the observed position using dead-reckoning sensors and the estimated position using images of moving object, such as those of a walking human, used to determine the moving location of a mobile robot. The moving object is assumed to be a point-object and projected onto an image plane to form a geometrical constraint equation that provides position data of the object based on the kinematics of the intelligent space. Using the a priori known path of a moving object and a perspective camera model, the geometric constraint equations that represent the relation between image frame coordinates of a moving object and the estimated position of the robot are derived. The proposed method utilizes the error between the observed and estimated image coordinates to localize the mobile robot, and the Kalman filtering scheme is used to estimate the location of moving robot. The proposed approach is applied for a mobile robot in ISpace to show the reduction of uncertainty in the determining of the location of the mobile robot. Its performance is verified by computer simulation and experiment.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 휴대폰의 무선 인터넷 플랫폼(WIPI) 어플리케이션을 통해 화재 및 가스누출 등 각종 위험을 통보해 주는 지능형 홈서비스 로봇을 구현하였다. 지능형 홈서비스 로봇은 세 가지 구성요소(로봇부, 미들웨어부, 모바일부)로 이루어진다. 로봇부는 가스 센서, 화재 감지 센서, 초음파 센서, 모터, 카메라, 블루투스 모듈로 구성되며, 각종 위급 상황을 감지한다. 미들웨어부는 미들웨어 어플리케이션을 통해 로봇부와 모바일부를 연결하고, 로봇을 모니터링하며 SMS 모듈을 이용하여 응급상황을 통지한다. 모바일부는 TCP/IP 프로토콜을 이용하여 미들웨어부와 통신하며 로봇에 각종 명령을 내려주고 행동을 제어한다. 제안된 방식은 Atmega 128 프로세서로 로봇부의 모듈들을 제어하며 로봇부와 미들웨어부는 가정 내에 설치되며 외부에서 모바일부를 통하여 제어한다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.334-340
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• 2007

This paper introduces a prototype smart home environment that is built in the research building to demonstrate the feasibility of a robot-assisted future home environment. Localization, navigation, object recognition and handling are core functionalities that an intelligent service robot should provide. A huge amount of research effort has been made to make the service robot perform these functions with its own sensors, actuators and a knowledge base. With all complicated configuration of sensors, actuators and a database, the robot could only perform the given tasks in a predefined environment or show the limited capabilities in a natural environment. We started a smart home environment for service robots for simple service robots to provide reliable services by communicating with the environment through the wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we introduce various types of smart devices that are developed for assisting the robot in the environment by providing sensor and actuator capabilities. In addition, we present how the devices are integrated to constitute the smart home environment for service robots.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.298-303
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• 2013

로봇의 응용분야는 산업화의 주요 적용 분야였던 자동화 영역을 넘어서 가정, 의료 등 일반 서비스 분야로 그 영역을 빠르게 확대하고 있다. 이러한 배경에서 최근 로봇 플랫폼의 소프트웨어 표준화를 위한 여러 연구 활동이 진행되고 있다. 따라서 기존 자동차 산업과 자동차 부품 산업의 형태와 동일하게 앞으로의 로봇 산업 역시, 로봇 부품산업이 큰 부분으로 자리 매김할 것으로 예상된다. 이러한 부품에는 로봇의 외형을 이루는 기구적 부분과 로봇의 기능을 지능적으로 수행할 각종 센서와 엑추에이터로 구성되는 전자적인 부분으로 구분할 수 있다. 전자적 부품들은 중앙처리부와 유기적으로 연결되고, 중앙처리부는 로봇에 장착된 전자적 자원들을 파악하여 제어 방식을 구성하고 효율적으로 동작하도록 제어하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 로봇의 각 구성 부품간의 통신을 CAN(Controller Area Network)을 통해 일원화하여 결선구조를 단순화하고, 중앙처리부의 인터페이스를 개방하는 방법을 적용한 새로운 플랫폼 모델 개발을 제시한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.735-742
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• 2007

The importance of the interaction capability of a robot increases as the application of a robot is extended to a human's daily life. In this paper, a portable mediate interface Handybot is developed with various interaction channels to be used with an intelligent home service robot. The Handybot has a task-oriented channel of an icon language as well as a verbal interface. It also has an emotional interaction channel that recognizes a user's emotional state from facial expression and speech, transmits that state to the robot, and expresses the robot's emotional state to the user. It is expected that the Handybot will reduce spatial problems that may exist in human-robot interactions, propose a new interaction method, and help creating rich and continuous interactions between human users and robots.