• 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.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2008

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), based on already well-researched Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), has been under vigorous scrutiny since recent developments in robot technology. Robots may be more successful in establishing common ground in project-based education or foreign language learning for children than in traditional media. Backed by its strong IT environment and advances in robot technology, Korea has developed the world's first available e-Learning home robot. This has demonstrated the potential for robots to be used as a new educational media - robot-learning, referred to as 'r-Learning'. Robot technology is expected to become more interactive and user-friendly than computers. Also, robots can exhibit various forms of communication such as gestures, motions and facial expressions. This study compared the effects of non-computer based (NCB) media (using a book with audiotape) and Web-Based Instruction (WBI), with the effects of Home Robot-Assisted Learning (HRL) for children. The robot gestured and spoke in English, and children could touch its monitor if it did not recognize their voice command. Compared to other learning programs, the HRL was superior in promoting and improving children's concentration, interest, and academic achievement. In addition, the children felt that a home robot was friendlier than other types of instructional media. The HRL group had longer concentration spans than the other groups, and the p-value demonstrated a significant difference in concentration among the groups. In regard to the children's interest in learning, the HRL group showed the highest level of interest, the NCB group and the WBI group came next in order. Also, academic achievement was the highest in the HRL group, followed by the WBI group and the NCB group respectively. However, a significant difference was also found in the children's academic achievement among the groups. These results suggest that home robots are more effective as regards children's learning concentration, learning interest and academic achievement than other types of instructional media (such as: books with audiotape and WBI) for English as a foreign language.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2008

청소 로봇은 지도 작성 및 위치 인식을 기준으로 청소 방법을 랜덤(random)방식과 매핑(mapping)방식으로 분류 할 수 있다. 랜덤방식은 지도를 작성하지 않아 가격경쟁력이 있지만 효율이 떨어진다. 반면, 매핑방식은 지도를 작성하므로 청소 효율이 높지만 상대적인 가격경쟁력이 떨어진다. 그러므로 랜덤방식과 매핑방식의 문제점들을 보안하기 위해 본 논문은 고가의 센서 정보를 사용하지 않고 사람이 청소 로봇에게 청소 공간에 대한 정보를 알려주며, 이 정보를 이용하여 기존의 청소 로봇보다 효율적이고 저렴한 청소 로봇을 제안한다. 또한 기존의 청소 로봇과 본 논문에서 제안한 청소 로봇과의 성능 비교를 통해서 본 논문에서 제안한 방식의 효율성을 보인다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2017

This paper proposes combination of a cognitive agent architecture named Soar (State, operator, and result) and ROS (Robot Operating System), which can be a basic framework for a robot agent to interact and cope with its environment more intelligently and appropriately. The proposed Soar-ROS human-robot interaction (HRI) agent understands a set of human's commands by voice recognition and chooses to properly react to the command according to the symbol detected by image recognition, implemented on a humanoid robot. The robotic agent is allowed to refuse to follow an inappropriate command like "go" after it has seen the symbol 'X' which represents that an abnormal or immoral situation has occurred. This simple but meaningful HRI task is successfully experimented on the proposed Soar-ROS platform with a small humanoid robot, which implies that extending the present hybrid platform to artificial moral agent is possible.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1096-1101
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• 2009

In this paper, an embedded system has been designed for force control application to interact between a robot arm and a human operator. Force induced by the human operator is converted to the desired position information for the robot to follow. For smooth operations, the impedance force control algorithm is utilized to represent interaction between the robot and the human operator by filtering the force. To improve the performance of position control of the robot arm, a velocity term has been obtained and tested by several filters. A PD controller for position control has been implemented on an FPGA as well. Experimental studies are conducted with the ROBOKER to test the functionality of the designed hardware.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2007

In this paper, we developed not only a reliable sound localization system including a VAD(Voice Activity Detection) component using three microphones but also a face tracking system using a vision camera. Moreover, we proposed a way to integrate three systems in the human-robot interaction to compensate errors in the localization of a speaker and to reject unnecessary speech or noise signals entering from undesired directions effectively. For the purpose of verifying our system's performances, we installed the proposed audio-visual system in a prototype robot, called IROBAA(Intelligent ROBot for Active Audition), and demonstrated how to integrate the audio-visual system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.1229-1239
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• 2016

For efficient interaction between humans and robots, robots should be able to understand the meaning and intention of human behaviors as well as recognize them. This paper proposes an interactive human intention reading method in which a robot develops its own knowledge about the human intention for an object. A robot needs to understand different human behavior structures for different objects. To this end, this paper proposes a hierarchical behavior knowledge network that consists of behavior nodes and directional edges between them. In addition, a human intention reading algorithm that incorporates reinforcement learning is proposed to interactively learn the hierarchical behavior knowledge networks based on context information and human feedback through human behaviors. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through play-based experiments between a human and a virtual teddy bear robot with two virtual objects. Experiments with multiple participants are also conducted.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2020

This paper examines the trends of recently developed human-care robots and social interaction technologies. As one of the solutions to the problems of an aging society, human-care robots have gained considerable attention from the public and the market. However, commercialized human-care robots do not meet user expectations for the role as companions. Current robot services based on short-term interaction and fragmentary pieces of intelligence have encountered difficulty in eliciting natural communication with humans. This results in the failure of human-robot social bonding. Social interaction is being actively investigated as a technique for improving robots' natural communication skills. Robots can form a natural bond with humans through social interaction, which consequently increases their effectiveness. In this paper, we introduce recent human-care robot-related issues and subsequently describe technical challenges and implications for the success of human-care robots. In addition, we review recent trends on social interaction technologies and the datasets required.

• 아동학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.97-111
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• 2008

This paper presents three related experiments designed to identify factors that may affect the level of intimacy between children and a robot placed in a kindergarten setting. In total, 68 children aged three to five took part in the experiments, where they were instructed to share four or five stickers with a robot as they wished. Data were collected by means of video-taping and by interviewing the motivations of the children for their conducts in the experiment. The results of the study suggest the following factors that may affect the extent to which a child feels intimacy towards a robot: gender, age, prior experiences with a robot, interaction time with a robot, and the perception of robot appearance design.

• 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디자인학회 2004년도 춘계 학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.324-325
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• 2004