• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.601-607
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• 2010

For commercial success of emerging service robots, the fault tolerant technology for system reliability and human safety is crucial. Traditionally fault tolerance methods have been implemented in application level. However, from our studies on the common design patterns in fault tolerance, we argue that a framework-based approach provides many benefits in providing reliability for system development. To demonstrate the benefits, we build a framework-based fault tolerant engine for OPRoS (Open Platform for Robotic Services) standards. The fault manager in framework provides a set of fault tolerant measures of detection, isolation, and recovery. The system integrators choose the appropriate fault handling tools by declaring XML configuration descriptors, considering the constraints of components and operating environment. By building a fault tolerant navigation application from the non-faulttolerant components, we demonstrate the usability and benefits of the proposed framework-based approach.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.780-785
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• 2010

The OPRoS (Open Platform for Robotic Services) framework is proposed as an application runtime environment for service robot systems. For the successful deployment of the OPRoS framework, fault tolerance support is crucial on top of its basic functionalities of lifecycle, thread and connection management. In the previous work [1] on OPRoS fault tolerance supports, we presented a framework-based fault tolerance architecture. In this paper, we extend the architecture with component-based fault tolerance techniques, which can provide more simplicity and efficiency than the pure framework-based approach. This argument is especially true for fault detection, since most faults and failure can be defined when the system cannot meet the requirement of the application functions. Specifically, the paper applies two widely-used fault detection techniques to the OPRoS framework: 'bridge component' and 'process model' component techniques for fault detection. The application details and performance of the proposed techniques are demonstrated by the same application scenario in [1]. The combination of component-based techniques with the framework-based architecture would improve the reliability of robot systems using the OPRoS framework.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.755-761
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• 2014

Heterogeneous components have different component models, which prevents such components from sharing the functionalities of other components based on the different models. As one of methods for linking heterogeneous components, this paper suggests a proxy component to construct a bridge between heterogeneous components of OPRoS (Open Platform for Robotic Service) and RTM (Robot Technology Middleware). The proxy component consists of two types of components called Adaptor and Interceptor, via which the heterogeneous components can exchange data and services easily. The proposed method enables adaptor and interceptor components to directly invoke the services of the latter and the former, respectively, in order to exchange data and services on a real-time basis. The proxy component can be implemented for OPRoS and RT (Robot Technology) component models to connect with RT and OPRoS ones, respectively. It is shown through a simple experiment that the proposed method works well for real-time control.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.215-218
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• 2016

로봇은 다양한 기능을 하는 기기들이 유기적으로 결합하여 동작한다. OPRoS (Open Platform for Robotic Services) 프레임웍은 여러 기관 및 개발자가 로봇에 탑재되는 부품을 컴포넌트 형태로 개발하여 자유롭게 결합시킬 수 있는 통합 개발 환경을 제공한다. 로봇의 신뢰성 있는 동작을 확보하기 위해 개발자는 또 다른 개발자가 만든 컴포넌트들과 상호 운용을 시험해야 한다. 이를 위해 가장 먼저, 개발된 컴포넌트와 의미 있는 결합을 할 수 있는 타 컴포넌트를 검색할 수 있어야 한다. 본 연구는 OPRoS 프레임웍이 제공하는 인터페이스에 의미를 부여하고 모델화 하여 의미 모델간의 매핑 기법으로 연계 가능한 타 컴포넌트를 검색할 수 있는 로봇 상호 운용성 평가 시스템을 제시한다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.83-91
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• 2011

본 논문에서 최근 다양한 로봇에 기존에 개발된 소프트웨어를 쉽게 적용하기 위한 플랫폼 개발에 기여하고 있는데, 국내에서 개발한 지능형로봇 개발을 위한 공통기반 플랫폼(OPRoS)에서 동작하는 3차원 물체 인식 컴포넌트 개발한 내용을 기술하였다. 컴포넌트 구성 내용과 3차원 공간 인식을 위해 사용한 기존 시각차 맵과 깊이 맵에 대한 알고리즘에 대한 언급을 했으며, 또한 시각차 맵을 만들기 위해 스테레오 매칭 방법과 블럭 매칭 방법을 표현했다. 기존 알고리즘으로 만들어진 컴포넌트는 OPRoS가 탑재된 컴퓨터에서 동작을 시켜 실험을 하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권10호
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• pp.1738-1745
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• 2016

In this paper, we present localization and autonomous navigation method using GPU(Graphics Processing Unit)-based SIFT(Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm and virtual force method for mobile robots. To do this, at first, we propose the localization method to recognize the landmark using the GPU-based SIFT algorithm and to update the position using extended Kalman filter. And then, we propose the A-star algorithm for path planning and the virtual force method for autonomous navigation of the mobile robot. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed method through some experiments using the mobile robot with OPRoS(Open Platform for Robotic Services).