• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.375-382
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• 2016

This paper realizes control of the motion of a swimming robot fish in order to implement an underwater robot fish aquarium. And it implements positional control of a two-axis trajectory path of the robot fish in the aquarium. The performance of the robot was verified though certified field tests. It provided excellent performance in driving force, durability, and water resistance in experimental results. It can control robot motion, that is, it recognizes an object by using an optical flow object-detecting algorithm, which uses a video camera rather than image-detecting sensors inside the robot fish. It is possible to find the robot's position and control the motion of the robot fish using a radio frequency (RF) modem controlled via personal computer. This paper proposes realization of robot fish motion-tracking control using the optical flow object-detecting algorithm. It was verified via performance tests of lead-lag action control of robot fish in the aquarium.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.145-151
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• 2003

A global ultrasonic sensor system for self-localization of a mobile robot is proposed in this paper. The global ultrasonic sensor system consists of three or more ultrasonic transmitters fixed at some positions in the world coordinate and receivers in the moving coordinate of a mobile robot. In this global sensor system it is easy to get state vector of the mobile robot in the world coordinate from the distance information between each ultrasonic transmitter and receiver. An extended kalman filter algorithm is used to process the noisy ultrasonic signal and to estimate the state vector. In case of using several independent ultrasonic transmitters, it is necessary to avoid the cross talk among the ultrasonic waves and to synchronize between each ultrasonic transmitter and receiver. The small sized radio frequency modules are adopted to solve the cross talk and the synchronization problem Computer simulation and experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed ultrasonic sensor system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.239-244
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• 2010

This paper is to present map building of mobile robot using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and ultrasonic sensor. For mobile robot to perform map building, the mobile robot needs its localization and accurate driving in space. In this reason, firstly, kinematic modeling of mobile robot under non-holonomic constrains is introduced. Secondly, based on this modeling, a tracking controller is designed for tracking a given path based on backstepping method using Lyapunov function. The Lyapunov function is also introduced for proving the stability of the designed tracking controller. Thirdly, 2D map building is performed by RFID system, mobile robot system and ultrasonic sensors. The RFID mobile robot system is composed of DC motor, encoder, ultra sonic sensor, digital compass, RFID receiver and RFID antenna. Finally, the path tracking simulation results and map building experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the designed controller.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.954-962
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• 2002

In a park or street, we can see many people jogging or walking with their dogs tracking their masters. In this study, an entertainment robot that imitates a dog's behavior is created. The robot's task is tracking a moving target that is recognized as the master. In order to design the robot, the ecological approach. in which the robot's goals and surroundings heavily influence its design, is used. A three-wheel type locomotion system is designed as the robot's physical structure which can follow a human jogging in outdoor space like a park. A sensor system which can detect the position of a master for the robot in the outdoor space, is developed. This sensor system consists of a signal transmitter which is at the hand of a master and some sensors which are mounted on the robot. The transmitter emits RF(radio frequency) and ultrasonic signals and the sensors detect the direction and distance from the robot to the transmitter by using the received signals. For the control architecture of the robot, a purely reactive behavior-based method is used in order to increase speed of response. The developed robot is evaluated through experiments conducted in indoor and outdoor environments.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.206-212
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 ITO 터치 패널 센서를 로봇의 피부로 이용하여 로봇 팔을 제어하는 물리적 인간-로봇 상호작용 방법을 제안한다. 사람과 로봇간의 물리적 상호작용을 구현하기 위해서는 힘/토크 센서를 사용하는 방법과 작은 소자 타입의 센서를 배치하여 만든 촉각 센서를 사용하는 방법이 연구되고 있다. 하지만, 이러한 센서들은 가격적인 측면이나 성능적인 측면에서 장단점이 존재하며, 본 연구에서는 터치 패널을 로봇의 피부로 사용하여 물리적 상호작용을 하는 방법을 제안하고 전체적인 시스템을 구축하여 실험을 통해 힘/토크 센서의 정확성과 소자 타입 센서의 경제성을 보이고자 한다. 실험은 터치 패널에서 기준점을 잡아 제스처를 생성하여 로봇 팔을 제어하는 방법과 엔드이펙터에 장착하여 로봇 팔을 제어하는 방법에 대해 진행하였다. 이러한 실험을 통해 터치 패널을 이용한 교시 제어의 가능성도 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1240-1247
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• 2011

The localization of mobile robot in environment is a major concern in mobile robot navigation. So, many kinds of localization techniques have been researched for several years. Among them, the positioning system using ultrasound has received attention. Most of these ultrasonic positioning systems to synchronize the transmitters and receivers are used for RF (Radio Frequencies). However, due to the use of RF, the interference problems can not be avoided and the performance of radio frequencies directly affects the positioning performance. So we proposed the ultrasonic positioning system without synchronizing RF. The proposed system is based on existing USAT (Ultrasonic Satellite System) adopted infrastructure transmitting type, and consists of transmitter and receiver synchronizing modules instead of the radio frequency transmitters and receiver. The ultrasonic transmitters and receivers are synchronized individually by the transmitter and receiver synchronizing modules. In order to calculate the bias between the transmitter and receiver synchronizing modules, new positioning algorithm similar to GPS was proposed. The positioning performance of the improved USAT without synchronizing RF and the validity of the proposed positioning algorithm are verified and evaluated by experiments.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2005

In a park or street, we can see many people jogging or walking with their dogs that are chasing their masters. In this study, a pet robot that imitates dog's behavior is developed. The task of robot is to chase a person who is recognized as the master. The physical structure and the sensor system are designed for the task and environment. A three-wheel type locomotion system is designed as the robot's physical structure which can follow a person who is jogging in outdoor environment like a park. A sensor system, which can detect relative position of the master to the robot in highly dynamic and hazardous worlds, is developed. This sensor system consists of a signal transmitter which is held by the master and ultrasonic sensor array which are mounted on the robot. The transmitter emits RF (radio frequency) and ultrasonic signals simultaneously. The ultrasonic sensor array detects the signals and calculates direction and distance between the robot and the transmitter. The developed RF-ultrasonic sensor is evaluated through experiments. A purely reactive behavior-based control architecture is used for the robot. The behavior control performance of the robot is assessed in outdoor and indoor tests.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.529-536
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• 2004

Autonomous navigation of an indoor mobile robot using the global ultrasonic system is presented in this paper. Since the trajectory error of the dead-reckoning navigation grows with time and distance, the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot requires to localize the current position of the robot, so that to compensate the trajectory error. The global ultrasonic system consisting of four ultrasonic generators fixed at a priori known positions in the work space and two receivers on the mobile robot has the similar structure with the well-known satellite GPS(Global Positioning System), and it is useful for the self-localization of an indoor mobile robot. The EKF(Extended Kalman Filter) algorithm for the self-localization is proposed and the autonomous navigation based on the self-localization is verified by experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12궈1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2006

This paper presents methods of robot localization using recent radio frequency identification technology. If the absolute position and orientation of a tag are given in an indoor environment where RFID tags are installed, a robot can estimate its location using the relationship of the identified tag and the robot in a relative coordinate. To derive this relationship, we propose three estimation techniques using a model of a RFID reader, the direction of identification and the detection range. In this algorithm, a suitable estimation method is selected out of the three proposed techniques depending on the situations and trajectory of robot in the detection range. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed methods can provide good performance for localization.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.320-324
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• 2003

최근, 가상현실분야가 매우 다양하게 각 산업분야에서 응용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 가상환경하에서 인터페이스 조작에 의하여 로봇의 움직임을 제어하였다. 3D Graphic Tool을 사용하여 가상로봇을 생성하고 생성된 가상로봇에 실제로봇의 텍스쳐를 입혀 X파일로 변환시켜 3차원 가상현실에 적용되는 Direct 3D Graphic의 Component들을 사용하여 실제로봇과 동일한 모습을 재현하였다. 또한 조이스틱을 통해서 가상로봇의 움직임을 표현하고 실제로봇을 제어했다. 개발된 로봇은 크게 로봇 제어부와 Host PC에서의 Visual I/F program으로 구성되어 있다. 개발된 로봇의 구동부와 Camera의 구동부는 2자유도를 갖고 있으며 사용자 친화적으로 개발된 조이스틱으로 원격조종된다. 외부 상황은 비젼 시스템과 초음파 센서로 인식되며, 화상 및 센서 데이터, 명령어 둥을 각각 900MHz와 447MHz RF로 통신된다. 사용자는 실제 로봇을 제어하기 위하여 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 로봇 제어 명령을 내리면 로봇을 구동하기 위한 원격 송/수신부에서 447MHz의 특정소출력국용 주파수를 사용하는 모듈을 통해 Half duplex 방식으로 4800bps로 실외 500m까지 제어한다.