• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2023

로봇은 군사 분야로까지 활용 범위를 넓히며 다가올 미래전에서 감시경계, 적군 탐지 등 중요한 임무를 맡게 될 것으로 전망된다. 군집 로봇은 다수라는 장점으로 단일 로봇이 수행하기 어렵거나 오랜 시간이 소요된 임무를 보다 효율적으로 수행할 수 있다. 상호 간 인지 및 협업이 필수인 군집 로봇은 방대한 데이터를 주고 받으며, 이로 인해 SW의 검증이 점점 더 어려워지고 있다. 임무 검증의 신뢰성을 높이기 위해 사용하는 Hardware-in-the-loop simulation은 복잡한 군집 로봇의 SW 검증을 가능하게 하나, HILS 장치와 시뮬레이터 간 주고 받는 검증 데이터의 양이 검증 대상 시스템 수에 따라 기하급수적으로 증가하여 통신 과부하가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 군집 로봇의 임무 검증에서 발생하는 통신 과부하 문제를 해소하기 위해 디지털 트윈 기반의 통신 최적화 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 Digital Twin based Multi HILS Framework 하에서 Network DT은 Network Controller 알고리즘을 통해 임무 시나리오에 따라 각 로봇에게 네트워크 자원을 효율적으로 할당할 수 있으며, 군집에 참여하는 개별 로봇들이 요구하는 Sensor Generation Rate를 모두 만족시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 데이터 전송에 대한 실험 결과 패킷 손실 비율을 기존 15.7%에서 약 0.2%로 감소시킬 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.722-730
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• 2008

This paper proposes two novel algorithms enabling mobile robots to cooperate with each other in a reliability-based system and a time-critical system. In the reliability-based cooperative system, the concepts of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) and an object entropy are adopted in order to coordinate a specific task. A logical robot group is created based on the exchange of request and reply messages in a robot communication group whose organization depends on transmission range. In the time-critical cooperative system, relational entropy is used to define the relationship between mobile robots. A group leader is selected based on optimizing power consumption. The proposed algorithm has been verified based on the computer-based simulation and soccer robot experiment. The performance metrics are defined. The metrics include the number of messages needed to make a logical robot group and to obtain the relationship of robots and the power consumption to select a group leader. They are verified by simulation and experiment.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 새로운 형태의 로봇 제어기의 구조인 이기종 멀티프로세서 제어기의 개념적인 구조를 제시하며, 제어기 내에 분산된 멀티프로세서들을 sRIO 통신을 이용하여 통합하는 구조적인 방법을 소개한다. 또한 sRIO 통신으로 통합된 이기종 멀티프로세서의 구현을 위한 방법으로 FPGA 내에 설계된 sRIO IP Core를 활용한 시뮬레이션을 수행하고 그 결과를 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.720-725
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• 2008

This paper proposes a system architecture for USN with a service robot to provide more active assisted living services for elderly persons by monitoring their mental and physical well-being with USN environments at home, hospital, or silver town. Sensors embedded in USN are used to detect preventive measures for chronic disease. Logged data are transferred to main controller of a service robot via wireless channel in which the analysis of data is performed. For the purpose of handling emergency situations, it needs real-time processing on gathering variety sensor data, routing algorithms for sensor nodes to a moving sink node and processing of logged data. This paper realized multi-hop sensor network to detect user movements with biometric data transmission and performed algorithms on Xenomai, a real-time embedded Linux. To leverage active sensing, a mobile robot is used of which task was implemented with a priority to process urgent data came from the sink-node. This software architecture is anticipated to integrate sensing, communication and computing with real-time manner. In order to verify the usefulness of a proposed system, the performance of data transferring and processing on a real-time OS with non real-time OS is also evaluated.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1076-1094
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• 2022

Technology for emotion recognition is an essential part of human personality analysis. To define human personality characteristics, the existing method used the survey method. However, there are many cases where communication cannot make without considering emotions. Hence, emotional recognition technology is an essential element for communication but has also been adopted in many other fields. A person's emotions are revealed in various ways, typically including facial, speech, and biometric responses. Therefore, various methods can recognize emotions, e.g., images, voice signals, and physiological signals. Physiological signals are measured with biological sensors and analyzed to identify emotions. This study employed two sensor types. First, the existing method, the binary arousal-valence method, was subdivided into four levels to classify emotions in more detail. Then, based on the current techniques classified as High/Low, the model was further subdivided into multi-levels. Finally, signal characteristics were extracted using a 1-D Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and classified sixteen feelings. Although CNN was used to learn images in 2D, sensor data in 1D was used as the input in this paper. Finally, the proposed emotional recognition system was evaluated by measuring actual sensors.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.284-294
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• 2008

In this paper, we describe an implementation of small mobile robot that can be used at research and application of mobile sensor networking. This robot that will constitute the sensor network, as a platform of multi-robot system for each to be used as sensor node, has to satisfy restrictions in many aspects in order to perform sensing, communication protocol, and application algorithms. First, the platform must be designed with a robust structure and low power consumption since its maintenance after deployment is difficult. Second, it must have flexibility and modularity to be used effectively in any structure so that it can be used in various applications. Third, it must support the technique of wireless network for ubiquitous computing environment. At last, to let many nodes be scattered, it must be cost-effective and small. Considering the above restrictions of the mobile platform for sensor network, we designed and implemented robots control the current of actuator by using additional circuit for power efficiency. And we chose MSP430 as MCU, CC2420 as RF transceiver, and etc, that have the strength in the aspect of power. For flexibility and modularity, the platform has expansion ports. The results of experiments are described to show that this robot can act as sensor node by RF communication process with Zigbee standard protocol, execute the navigation process with simple obstacle avoidance and the moving action with RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator), operate at low-power, and be made with approx. $100.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.55-60
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• 2002

This paper presents a controller for the multiple DC motors using the CAN(Controller Area Network). The controller has a benefit of reducing the cable connections and making the controller boards compact through the network including expansibility. CAN, among the field buses, is a serial communication methodology which has the physical layer and the data link layer in the ISO's OSI (Open System Interconnect) 7 layered reference model. It provides the user with many powerful features including multi-master functionality and the ability to broadcast / multicast telegrams. When we use a microprocessor chip embedding the CAN function, the system becomes more economical and reliable to react shortly in the data transmission. The controller, we proposed, is composed of two main controllers and a sub controller, which have built with a one-chip microprocessor having CAN function. The sub controller is plugged into the Pentium PC to perform a CAN communication, and connected to the main controllers via the CAN. Main controllers are responsible for controlling two motors respectively. Totally four motors, actuators for the biped robot in our laboratory, are controlled in the experiment. We show that the four motors are controlled properly to actuate the biped robot through the network in real time.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.756-765
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• 2001

An effective dexterous motion control method of redundant robot manipulators based on neural optimization network is proposed to satisfy multi-criteria such as singularity avoidance, minimizing energy consumption, and avoiding physical limits of actuator, while performing a given task. The method employs a neural optimization network with parallel processing capability, where only a simple geometric analysis for resolved motion of each joint is required instead of computing of the Jacobian and its pseudo inverse matrix. For dexterous motion, a joint geometric manipulability measure(JGMM) is proposed. JGMM evaluates a contribution of each joint differential motion in enlarging the length of the shortest axis among principal axes of the manipulability ellipsoid volume approximately obtained by a geometric analysis. Redundant robot manipulators is then controlled by neural optimization networks in such a way that 1) linear combination of the resolved motion by each joint differential motion should be equal to the desired velocity, 2) physical limits of joints are not violated, and 3) weighted sum of the square of each differential joint motion is minimized where weightings are adjusted by JGMM. To show the validity of the proposed method, several numerical examples are illustrated.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 초음파 송신 시간을 일정 패턴으로 계획하여 송신하고 연속해서 수신되는 거리 데이터 값을 이전상태의 데이터를 통해 예측된 거리값으로 매핑 시키는 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 에러값에 대한 패턴을 인식하여 다중반사에 의한 에러를 판별 및 제거할 수 있다. 그리고 이동 로봇을 이용하여 다중반사 환경에서 실험을 통하여 거리값의 손실 없이 정확한 데이터를 획득할 수 있음을 실험을 통하여 보였다. 이동로봇에 다양한 센서기술들을 이용하여 실내에서 활용하기 적합한 지능적 역할을 수행할 수 있는 다목적용 자율 이동 로봇에 환경인식을 위한 다중 초음파센서를 장착하여 초음파 반사에 따른 크로스토크 실험결과를 제하였다. 또한, 기존 로봇에 장착된 초음파를 이용하여 계획송신(Scheduling firing)방법을 적용하여 임의의 환경에서의 실험결과를 통해 제시한 방법에 대한 유효성을 검증하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.600-603
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose the design method of distributed control system using Controller Area Network (CAN). CAN is an advanced serial communication protocol for distributed real-time control systems. It is a contention-based multi-master network whose timeliness properties come from its collision resolution algorithm which gives a high schedulable utilization and guaranteed bus access latency. With proposed method using CAN, we apply to robot controller. The effectiveness of proposed method is demonstrated by the simulation and experiment.