• 제목/요약/키워드: Micro Robotics

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우주탐사용 나노기술 개발 동향 (Current Status of Nanotechnology Development for Space Exploration)

  • 이호성;채연석
    • 항공우주산업기술동향
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.90-98
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    • 2008
  • 나노기술(NT, Nanotechnology)은 분자 및 원자 수준에서 물질을 제작 및 가공할 수 있는 초극미세기술을 의미하며, 재료, 물리, 전자 등의 기존의 기술 분야들을 융합하여 새로운 기술 영역을 구축하는 학제간 연구(Interdisciplinary)가 필요한 분야이다. 국내에서는 탄소나노튜브가 향후 반도체를 견인할 10대 신성장동력 미래기술로 선정되어 활발한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 나노기술이 미소과학 분야라면 우주기술(ST, Space Technology)는 거대 복합과학 분야를 대표하는 기술로서 기계, 재료, 전자, 통신 등의 기술을 활용하는 시스템 기술이다. 우리나라의 우주개발은 선진국 보다 비록40년 가량 늦었지만 15년 남짓한 기간에 기술자립화 단계로 나아가는 비약적인 성과를 보여주고 있다. 전남 고흥에 나로우주센터가 완공되면 우리 땅에서, 우리 위성을, 우리 발사체로 발사할 수 있게 된다. 나노기술분야는 나노재료, 나노전자, 나노제조 등 매우 광범위하므로 우주기술 개발을 위한 제한된 자원의 견지에서, 비용 대비 성능이 가장 우수하게 평가되는 나노 기술적 구성요소들에 집중하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 미국 NASA에서 수행중인 나노기술 개발현황과 유럽의 9차 나노포럼에서 보고한 우주항공분야의 나노기술을 기초로, 현재 우주항공선진국에서 수행중인 개발 현황을 정리하였다. 성능 나노기술의 도움으로 이전에는 불가능하였던 우주 기술이 현실로 다가오고 있는바, 우주개발의 경쟁력을 얻기 위해서는 나노기술을 접목해야만 한다는 것을 알 수 있다. 우리나라는 국가우주개발중장기계획에 따라 2025년 달탐사 착륙선을 개발할 계획이므로, 나노기술을 적극적으로 활용하여 선진국수준의 기술을 확보해야 할 것이다.

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Tool-Setup Monitoring of High Speed Precision Machining Tool

  • Park, Kyoung-Taik;Shin, Young-Jae;Kang, Byung-Soo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.956-959
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    • 2004
  • Recently the monitoring system of tool setting in high speed precision machining center is required for manufacturing products that have highly complex and small shape, high precision and high function. It is very important to reduce time to setup tool in order to improve the machining precision and the productivity and to protect the breakage of cutting tool as the shape of product is smaller and more complex. Generally, the combination of errors that geometrical clamping error of fixing tool at the spindle of machining tool and the asynchronized error of driving mechanism causes that the run-out of tool reaches to 3$^{\sim}$20 times of the thickness of cutting chip. And also the run-out is occurred by the misalignment between axis of tool shank and axis of spindle and spindle bearing in high speed rotation. Generally, high speed machining is considered when the rotating speed is more than 8,000 rpm. At that time, the life time of tool is reduced to about 50% and the roughness of machining surface is worse as the run-out is increased to 10 micron. The life time of tool could be increased by making monitoring of tool-setup easy, quick and precise in high speed machining tool. This means the consumption of tool is much more reduced. And also it reduces the manufacturing cost and increases the productivity by reducing the tool-setup time of operator. In this study, in order to establish the concept of tool-setup monitoring the measuring method of the geometrical error of tool system is studied when the spindle is stopped. And also the measuring method of run-out, dynamic error of tool system, is studied when the spindle is rotated in 8,000${\sim}$60,000 rpm. The dynamic phenomena of tool-setup are analyzed by implementing the monitoring system of rotating tool system and the non-contact measuring system of micro displacement in high speed.

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Self-Diagnostic Signal Monitoring System of KWP2000 Vehicle ECU using Bluetooth

  • Choi, Kwang-Hun;Lee, Hyun-Ho;Lee, Young-Choon;Kwon, Tae-Kyu;Lee, Seong-Cheol
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.132-137
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    • 2004
  • On-Board Diagnostic(OBD) systems are in most cars and light trucks on the load today. During the 1970's and early 1980's manufacturers started using electronic means to control engine functions and diagnose engine problems. The CARB's diagnostic requirements to meet EPA emission standards have been designated as OBD with a goal of monitoring all of the emissions-related components, as well as the chassis, body, accessory devices and the diagnostic control network of the vehicle for proper operation. In this paper, we present a remote measurement system for the wireless monitoring of diagnosis signal and sensors output signals of ECU adopted KWP2000, united the OBD communication protocol, on OBD-compliant vehicle using the wirless communication technique of Bluetooth. In order to measure the ECU signals, the interface circuit is designed to communicate ECU and designed terminal wirelessly according to the ISO, SAE regulation of communication protocol standard. A microprocessor S3C3410X is used for communicating ECU signals. The embedded system's software is programmed to measure the ECU signals using the ARM compiler and ANCI C based on MicroC/OS kernel to communicate between bluetooth modules using bluetooth stack. The diagnostic system is developed using Visual C++ MFC and protocol stack of bluetooth for Windows environment. The self-diagnosis and sensor output signals of ECU is able to monitor using PC with bluetooth board connected in serial port of PC. The algorithms for measuring the ECU sensor output and self-diagnostic signals are verified to monitor ECU state. At the same time, the information to fix the vehicle's problem can be shown on the developed monitoring software. The possibility for remote measurement of self-diagnosis and sensor signals of ECU adopted KWP2000 in embedded system verified through the developed systems and algorithms.

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Simultaneous and Multi-frequency Driving System of Ultrasonic Sensor Array for Object Recognition

  • Park, S.C.;Choi, B.J.;Lee, Y.J.;Lee, S.R.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.582-587
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    • 2004
  • Ultrasonic sensors are widely used in mobile robot applications to recognize external environments, because they are cheap, easy to use, and robust under varying lighting conditions. However, the recognition of objects using a ultrasonic sensor is not so easy due to its characteristics such as narrow beam width and no reflected signal from a inclined object. As one of the alternatives to resolve these problems, use of multiple sensors has been studied. A sequential driving system needs a long measurement time and does not take advantage of multiple sensors. Simultaneous and pulse coding driving system of ultrasonic sensor array cannot measure short distance as the length of the code becomes long. This problem can be resolved by multi-frequency driving of ultrasonic sensors, which allows multi-sensors to be fired simultaneously and adjacent objects to be distinguished. Accordingly, this paper presents a simultaneous and multi-frequency driving system for an ultrasonic sensor array for object recognition. The proposed system is designed and implemented using a DSP and FPGA. A micro-controller board is made using a DSP, Polaroid 6500 ranging modules are modified for firing the multi-frequency signals, and a 5-channel frequency modulated signal generating board is made using a FPGA. To verify the proposed method, experiments were conducted in an environment with overlapping signals, and the flight distances for each sensor were obtained from filtering of the received overlapping signals and calculation of the time-of-flights.

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Development of Energy Management System for Micro-Grid with Photovoltaic and Battery system

  • Asghar, Furqan;Talha, Muhammad;Kim, Sung-Ho
    • 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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    • 제25권3호
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    • pp.299-305
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    • 2015
  • Global environmental concerns and the ever increasing need of energy, coupled with steady progress in renewable energy technologies, are opening up new opportunities for utilization of renewable energy resources. Distributed electricity generation is a suitable option for sustainable development thanks to the load management benefits and the opportunity to provide electricity to remote areas. Solar energy being easy to harness, non-polluting and never ending is one of the best renewable energy sources for electricity generation in present and future time. Due to the random and intermittent nature of solar source, PV plants require the adoption of an energy storage and management system to compensate fluctuations and to meet the energy demand during night hours. This paper presents an efficient, economic and technical model for the design of a MPPT based grid connected PV with battery storage and management system. This system satisfies the energy demand through the PV based battery energy storage system. The aim is to present PV-BES system design and management strategy to maximize the system performance and economic profitability. PV-BES (photovoltaic based battery energy storage) system is operated in different modes to verify the system feasibility. In case of excess energy (mode 1), Li-ion batteries are charged using CC-CV mechanism effectively controlled by fuzzy logic based PID control system whereas during the time of insufficient power from PV system (mode 2), batteries are used as backup to compensate the power shortage at load and likewise other modes for different scenarios. This operational mode change in PV-BES system is implemented by State flow chart technique based on SOC, DC bus voltages and solar Irradiance. Performance of the proposed PV-BES system is verified by some simulations study. Simulation results showed that proposed system can overcome the disturbance of external environmental changes, and controls the energy flow in efficient and economical way.

원격구동 셀룰로오스 종이 작동기의 응용연구 (Wirelessly Driven Cellulose Electro-Active Paper Actuator: Application Research)

  • 김재환;양상렬;장상동;고현우;문성철;김동구;강진호
    • 대한기계학회논문집B
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    • 제36권5호
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    • pp.539-543
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    • 2012
  • 셀룰로오스 EAPap 작동기는 생체 모방형 작동기의 하나로 생체적합하고 가볍고 비교적 낮은 전압에서도 큰 변위를 발생시킨다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 셀룰로오스를 재생하면서 셀룰로오스 파이버를 배열함으로써 압전 종이를 만들었다. 한편 셀룰로오스에 탄소나노튜브, 산화금속 나노분말, 전도성 고분자, 이온성 유체등을 물리적, 화학적으로 결합시켜 다양한 하이브리드 나노복합재를 만들었다. 본 논문에서는 셀룰로오스 EAPap 의 제조공정 및 이를 응용한 바이오센서, 화학센서, 유연트랜지스터, 그리고 작동기의 응용 디바이스에 대해 소개한다. 또한 셀룰로오스 EAPap 을 무선으로 구동하는 기술에 대해 소개한다. 이는 생체모방로봇, 정찰 등에 활용될 수 있다.

Development of Chip-based Precision Motion Controller

  • Cho, Jung-Uk;Jeon, Jae-Wook
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.1022-1027
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    • 2003
  • The Motion controllers provide the sophisticated performance and enhanced capabilities we can see in the movements of robotic systems. Several types of motion controllers are available, some based on the kind of overall control system in use. PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)-based motion controllers still predominate. The many peoples use MCU (Micro Controller Unit)-based board level motion controllers and will continue to in the near-term future. These motion controllers control a variety motor system like robotic systems. Generally, They consist of large and complex circuits. PLC-based motion controller consists of high performance PLC, development tool, and application specific software. It can be cause to generate several problems that are large size and space, much cabling, and additional high coasts. MCU-based motion controller consists of memories like ROM and RAM, I/O interface ports, and decoder in order to operate MCU. Additionally, it needs DPRAM to communicate with host PC, counter to get position information of motor by using encoder signal, additional circuits to control servo, and application specific software to generate a various velocity profiles. It can be causes to generate several problems that are overall system complexity, large size and space, much cabling, large power consumption and additional high costs. Also, it needs much times to calculate velocity profile because of generating by software method and don't generate various velocity profiles like arbitrary velocity profile. Therefore, It is hard to generate expected various velocity profiles. And further, to embed real-time OS (Operating System) is considered for more reliable motion control. In this paper, the structure of chip-based precision motion controller is proposed to solve above-mentioned problems of control systems. This proposed motion controller is designed with a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) by using the VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language) and Handel-C that is program language for deign hardware. This motion controller consists of Velocity Profile Generator (VPG) part to generate expected various velocity profiles, PCI Interface part to communicate with host PC, Feedback Counter part to get position information by using encoder signal, Clock Generator to generate expected various clock signal, Controller part to control position of motor with generated velocity profile and position information, and Data Converter part to convert and transmit compatible data to D/A converter.

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Web-based Measurement of ECU Signals on Vehicle using Embedded Linux

  • Choi, Kwang-Hun;Lee, Lee;Lee, Young-Choon;Kwon, Tae-Kyu;Lee, Seong-Cheol
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.138-142
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we present a new method for monitoring of ECU's sensor signals of vehicle. In order to measure the ECU's sensor signals, the interfaced circuit is designed to communicate ECU and the Embedded Linux is used to monitor communication result through Web the Embedded Linux system and this system is said "ECU Interface Part". In ECU Interface Part the interface circuit is designed to match voltage level between ECU and SA-1110 micro controller and interface circuit to communicate ECU according to the ISO, SAE communication protocol standard. Because Embedded Linux does not allow to access hardware directly in application level, anyone who wants to modify any low level hardware must develop device driver. To monitor ECU's sensor signals the most important thing is to match serial level between ECU and ECU Interface Part. It means to communicate correctly between two hardware we need to match voltage and signal level, and need to match baudrate. The voltage of SA-1110 is 0 ${\sim}$ +3.3V and ECU is 0 ${\sim}$ +12V and, ECU's communication Line K does multiple operation so, the interface circuit is used to match voltage and signal level. In Addition to ECU's baudrate is 10400bps, it's not standard baudrate in computer environment. So, we need to develop a device driver to control the interface circuit, and change baudrate. To monitor ECU's sensor signals through web there's a network socket program is working in Embedded Linux. It works as server program and manages user's connections and commands. Anyone who wants to monitor ECU's sensor signals he just only connect to Embedded Linux system with web browser then, Embedded Linux webserver will return the ActiveX webbased measurement software. It works in web browser and inits ECU, as a result it returns sensor signals through web. All the programs are developed with GCC(GNU C Compiler) and, webbased measurement software is developed with Borland C++ Builder.

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네덜란드의 혁신클러스터정책과 시사점 (The Innovation Ecosystem and Implications of the Netherlands.)

  • 김영우
    • 벤처혁신연구
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.107-127
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    • 2022
  • 본 연구는 네덜란드의 지역별 혁신 클러스터정책을 통해 네덜란드 경제의 성장동인을 찾고자 한다. 전통적으로 농업과 물류중심의 경제구조를 가진 네덜란드는 1990년대 지역 클러스터를 만들면서 첨단 허브 국가로서 역할을 충실하게 해왔고 작은 나라임에도 세계 수출의 7위를 차지하는 등 혁신국가의 이미지를 만드는데 성공했다. 그 바탕에는 혁신을 위한 체계적인 분석 접근법으로 '지역 혁신 시스템(Rational Innovation System)'의 개념을 도입하고 지역의 특색을 살린 산학연 모델이 가장 큰 요인으로 작용했다. 여기에는 적절한 중앙정부의 혁신 생태계 조성을 위한 정책적 방향 제시와 지역을 중심으로 한 산학연 모델이 크게 작용한 것으로 평가받고 있다. 이런 점을 종합적으로 살펴 볼 때 본고에서는 다음과 같은 시사점을 발견할 수 있다. 첫째, 혁신 클러스터의 활성화이다. 둘째, Top 9을 중심으로 한 신산업육성정책과 미래산업 전략을 활성화하고 있다. 셋째, 산학연 협력을 구체화하고 있다. 넷째, 스타트업의 창업을 육성하고 있다. 이를 종합하면 네덜란드는 2019년 설립된 TechLeap은 네덜란드의 기술 생태계를 정량화하고 가속화하는 데 도움을 주는데 자본, 시장 및 인재에 대한 접근성을 개선하기 위한 프로그램 및 이니셔티브를 통해 기술 기업이 확장할 수 있는 최적의 환경을 조성해 네덜란드를 미래의 기술 선도기업들을 위한 보금자리로 만들기 위해 노력하고 있다. 첨단농업과 물류국가로 알려진 네덜란드는 4차 산업혁명시대를 맞이하여 로테르담을 중심으로 하는 물류의 항구에서 ICT 기술을 기반으로 하는 '지식항구(brainport)'로 확장하고 있다. 네덜란드는 물류 국가에서 산업화에 성공했지만 최근 지역혁신 생태계를 만들기 위한 중앙정부의 비전 제시와 지역의 특화산업을 연계한 산학연 클러스터 모델이 가장 큰 디딤돌 역할을 하고 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 네덜란드의 혁신정책은 혁신 클러스터 생태계를 중심으로 지역을 개발하고 일자리 창출과 새로운 산업을 위한 투자를 통해 유럽의 '디지털 관문'으로서 역할에 보다 충실할 것으로 전망된다.