• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.182-188
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• 2011

This paper describes a method of road tracking by using a vision and laser with extracting road boundary (road lane and curb) for navigation of intelligent transport robot in structured road environments. Road boundary information plays a major role in developing such intelligent robot. For global navigation, we use a global positioning system achieved by means of a global planner and local navigation accomplished with recognizing road lane and curb which is road boundary on the road and estimating the location of lane and curb from the current robot with EKF(Extended Kalman Filter) algorithm in the road assumed that it has prior information. The complete system has been tested on the electronic vehicles which is equipped with cameras, lasers, GPS. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the combined laser and vision system by our approach for detecting the curb of road and lane boundary detection.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2017년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.961-964
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• 2017

드론의 대중화에 따른 사고위험의 증가로 안전한 조종 방법에 대한 연구의 필요성이 대두되었다. 따라서 조종자의 조종능력에 구애받지 않는 자율비행제어기술이 필요하게 되었고, 이를 보다 안정적으로 구현하기 위하여 자율주행 소프트웨어 플랫폼으로 주목받고 있는 Robot Operating System(ROS)를 사용하였다. ROS를 기반으로 Laser Range Finder(LRF)와 Particle Filter를 사용하여 자율적으로 객체추적이 가능하며 지능적으로 장애물을 회피하여 비행 할 수 있는 안정적인 자율비행제어시스템을 구현하고자 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.218-222
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• 2014

In this paper, we introduce an autonomous calibration method for a 2D laser displacement sensor (e.g. laser vision sensor and laser range finder) by matching a single point on a flat structure. Many arc welding robots install a 2D laser displacement sensor to expand their application by recognizing their environment (e.g. base metal and seam). In such systems, sensing data should be transformed to the robot's coordinates, and the geometric relation (i.e. rotation and translation) between the robot's coordinates and sensor coordinates should be known for the transformation. Calibration means the inference process of geometric relation between the sensor and robot. Generally, the matching of more than 3 points is required to infer the geometric relation. However, we introduce a novel method to calibrate using only 1 point matching and use a specific flat structure (i.e. circular hole) which enables us to find the geometric relation with a single point matching. We make the rotation component of the calibration results as a constant to use only a single point by moving a robot to a specific pose. The flat structure can be installed easily in a manufacturing site, because the structure does not have a volume (i.e. almost 2D structure). The calibration process is fully autonomous and does not need any manual operation. A robot which installed the sensor moves to the specific pose by sensing features of the circular hole such as length of chord and center position of the chord. We show the precision of the proposed method by performing repetitive experiments in various situations. Furthermore, we applied the result of the proposed method to sensor based seam tracking with a robot, and report the difference of the robot's TCP (Tool Center Point) trajectory. This experiment shows that the proposed method ensures precision.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권2호
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• pp.285-292
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a distributed search of a cluster robot using tree structure in an unknown environment. In the proposed method, the cluster robot divides the unknown environment into 4 regions by using the LRF (Laser Range Finder) sensor information and divides the maximum detection distance into 4 regions, and detects feature points of the obstacle. Also, we define the detected feature points as Voronoi Generators of the Voronoi Diagram and apply the Voronoi diagram. The Voronoi Space, the Voronoi Partition, and the Voronoi Vertex, components of Voronoi, are created. The generated Voronoi partition is the path of the robot. Voronoi vertices are defined as each node and consist of the proposed tree structure. The root of the tree is the starting point, and the node with the least significant bit and no children is the target point. Finally, we demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method through several simulations.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.202-207
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• 2013

본 논문은 물류 창고 내에서 화물이송을 위한 무인이송로봇을 설계 제작하고 운영기법을 제안한다. 무인이송로봇의 자율 주행을 위해서는 먼저 실시간으로 자기위치를 파악하고 목표지점까지의 경로를 추종해야 한다. 기존의 여러 방식이 제안되었지만 설치 및 유지보수에 대한 비용이 많이 들기 때문에 목적에 따라 유동적으로 작업 환경을 바꾸기는 어렵다는 단점이 있다. 무인 화물이송로봇의 리프트는 상하 운동을 통하여 수화물이 적재된 팔레트의 승하차가 가능하며, 구동 중 다양한 환경에서 여러 기능을 수행하기 위해 초음파센서, LRF센서, RFID, QR코드, 카메라를 장착하였으며, 목표지점까지 효과적으로 주행하며 화물운송을 하는 운영방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 주행 및 운영기법은 실험을 통하여 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.584-593
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• 2012

This paper introduces an AVP (Automated Valet Parking) system which applies an autonomous driving concept into the current PAS (Parking Assistant System). The present commercial PAS technology is limited into vehicle. It means vehicle only senses and controls by and for itself to assist the parking. Therefore, the present PAS is restricted to simple parking events. But AVP includes wider parking events and planning because it uses infra-sensor network as well as vehicle sensor. For the realization of AVP, the commercial steering system of a compact vehicle was modified into steer-by-wire structure and various sensors like LRF (Long Range Finder) and camera were installed in a parking area. And local & global server decides where and when the vehicle can go and park in the testing area after recognized the status of environment and vehicle from those sensors. GPS solution was used to validate the AVP performance. More various parking situations, vehicles and obstacles will be considered in the next research stages based on these results. And we expect this AVP solution with more intelligent vehicles can be applied in a big parking lot like a market, an amusement park, etc.