• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.62-75
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• 2008

Vision-based simultaneous localization and map building using a single camera, while compelling in theory, have not until recently been considered extensive in the practical realm of the real world. In this paper, we propose a simple framework for the monocular SLAM of an indoor mobile robot using natural line features. Our focus in this paper is on presenting a novel approach for modeling the landmark before integration in monocular SLAM. We also discuss data association improvement in a particle filter approach by using the feature management scheme. In addition, we take constraints between features in the environment into account for reducing estimated errors and thereby improve performance. Our experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed SLAM algorithm in real-time.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.14-19
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• 2021

This paper presents LiDAR static obstacle map based vehicle dynamic state estimation algorithm for urban autonomous driving. In an autonomous driving, state estimation of host vehicle is important for accurate prediction of ego motion and perceived object. Therefore, in a situation in which noise exists in the control input of the vehicle, state estimation using sensor such as LiDAR and vision is required. However, it is difficult to obtain a measurement for the vehicle state because the recognition sensor of autonomous vehicle perceives including a dynamic object. The proposed algorithm consists of two parts. First, a Bayesian rule-based static obstacle map is constructed using continuous LiDAR point cloud input. Second, vehicle odometry during the time interval is calculated by matching the static obstacle map using Normal Distribution Transformation (NDT) method. And the velocity and yaw rate of vehicle are estimated based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) using vehicle odometry as measurement. The proposed algorithm is implemented in the Linux Robot Operating System (ROS) environment, and is verified with data obtained from actual driving on urban roads. The test results show a more robust and accurate dynamic state estimation result when there is a bias in the chassis IMU sensor.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.312-321
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• 2003

본 논문은 장애물을 인식하고 회피하면서 목적지까지 자율적으로 이동할 수 있는 로봇을 구현한 논문이다. 우리는 본 논문에서 영상처리보드의 구현이라는 하드웨어적인 부분과 자율 이동로봇을 위한 영상궤환 제어라는 소프트웨어의 두 가지 결과를 나타내었다. 첫 번째 부분에서, 영상처리를 수행하는 제어보드로부터 명령을 받는 로봇을 나타내었다. 우리는 오랫동안 CCD카메라를 탑재한 자율 이동로봇에 대하여 연구해왔다. 로봇의 구성은 DSP칩을 탑재한 영상보드와 스텝모터 그리고 CCD카메라로 구성된다. 시스템 구성은 이동로봇의 영상처리 보드에서 영상을 획득하고 영상처리 알고리즘을 수행하고 로봇의 이동경로를 계산한다. 이동로봇에 탑재된 CCD카메라에서 획득한 영상 정보는 매 샘플링 시간마다 캡쳐한다. 화면에서 장애물의 유무를 판별한 후 좌 혹은 우로 회전하여 장애물을 회피하고 이동한 거리를 Feedback하는 시스템을 구현하여 초기에 지정한 목표지점가지 로봇이 갈 수 있도록 간략한 경로를 계획하여 절대좌표를 추적해 나가는 알고리즘을 구현한다. 이러한 영상을 획득하고 알고리즘을 처리하는 영상처리 보드의 구성은 DSP (TMS320VC33), ADV611, SAA7111, ADV7176A, CPLD(EPM7256ATC144), SRAM 메모리로 구성되어 있다. 두 번째 부분에서는 장애물을 인식하고 회피하기 위하여 두 가지의 영상궤환 제어 알고리즘을 나타낸다. 첫 번째 알고리즘은 필터링, 경계검출 NOR변환, 경계치 설정 등의 영상 전처리 과정을 거친 영상을 분할하는 기법이다. 여기에서는 Labeling과 Segmentation을 통한 pixel의 밀도 계산이 도입된다. 두 번째 알고리즘은 위와 같이 전처리된 영상에 웨이브렛 변환을 이용하여 수직방향(y축 성분)으로 히스토그램 분포를 20 Pixel 간격으로 스캔한다. 파형 변화에 의하여 장애물이 있는 부분의 히스토그램 분포는 거의 변동이 없이 나타난다. 이러한 특성을 분석하여 장애물이 있는 곳을 찾아내고 이것을 회피하기 위한 알고리즘을 세웠다. 본 논문은 로봇에 장착된 한 개의 CCD 카메라를 이용하여 장애물을 회피하면서 초기에 설정해둔 목적지가지 도달하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, 영상처리 보드를 설계 및 제작하였다. 영상처리 보드는 일반적인 보드보다 빠른 속도(30frame/sec)와 해상도를 지원하며 압축 알고리즘을 탑재하고 있어서 영상을 전송하는 데에 있어서도 탁월한 성능을 보인다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.82-90
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• 2005

Recently, the in-line vision inspection has become the subject of growing research area in the visual control systems and robotic intelligent fields that are required exact three-dimensional pose. The objective of this article is to study the pc based in line visual inspection with the hand-eye structure. This paper suggests three dimensional structured light measuring principle and design method of laser sensor header. The hand-eye laser sensor have been studied for a long time. However, it is very difficult to perform kinematical analysis between laser sensor and robot because the complicated mathematical process are needed for the real environments. In this problem, this paper will propose auto-calibration concept. The detail process of this methodology will be described. A new thinning algorithm and constrained hough transform method is also explained in this paper. Consequently, the developed in-line inspection module demonstrate the successful operation with hole, gap, width or V edge.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.498-505
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• 2024

In this paper, a cable-driven endoscopic manipulator (CEM) is designed for the Chinese latest compact fusion reactor. The whole CEM arm is more than 3000 mm long and includes end vision tools, an endoscopic manipulator/control system, a feeding system, a drag chain system, support systems, a neutron shield door, etc. It can cover a range of ±45° of the vacuum chamber by working in a wrap-around mode, etc., to meet the need for observation at any position and angle. By placing all drive motors in the end drive box via a cable drive, cooling, and radiation protection of the entire robot can be facilitated. To address the CEM motion control problem, a discrete trajectory tracking method is proposed. By restricting each joint of the CEM to the target curve through segmental fitting, the trajectory tracking control is completed. To avoid the joint rotation angle overrun, a joint limit rotation angle optimization method is proposed based on the equivalent rod length principle. Finally, the CEM simulation system is established. The rationality of the structure design and the effectiveness of the motion control algorithm are verified by the simulation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.798-802
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• 2003

The robustness and reliability of vision algorithms is the key issue in robotic research and industrial applications. In this paper, the robust real time visual tracking in complex scene is considered. A common approach to increase robustness of a tracking system is to use different models (CAD model etc.) known a priori. Also fusion of multiple features facilitates robust detection and tracking of objects in scenes of realistic complexity. Because voting is a very simple or no model is needed for fusion, voting-based fusion of cues is applied. The approach for this algorithm is tested in a 3D Cartesian robot which tracks a toy vehicle moving along 3D rail, and the Kalman filter is used to estimate the motion parameters, namely the system state vector of moving object with unknown dynamics. Experimental results show that fusion of cues and motion estimation in a tracking system has a robust performance.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.355-357
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• 2005

The distance between objects and a service robot can be measured by stereo vision system, but the two cameras need the same number of image grabber boards. In this paper, an approach to measure the distance is presented by using one camera which moves horizontally via motor position control. Images are captured at two different places where we know, and distance calculation is performed with the images and the camera position data. With a simple algorithm the proposed system requires only one image grabber board and no camera sequence controls are necessary, which resuces the system costs.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.320-326
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm emulating the DNA characteristics for noise-tolerant pattern matching problem on digital system. The digital pattern matching becomes core technology in various fields, such as, robot vision, remote sensing, character recognition, and medical diagnosis in particular. As the properties of natural DNA strands allow hybridization with a certain portion of incompatible base pairs, DNA-inspired data structure and computation technique can be adopted to bio-signal pattern classification problems which often contain imprecise data patterns. The key feature of noise-tolerance of DNA computing comes from control of reaction temperature. Our hardware system mimics such property to diagnose cardiovascular disease and results superior classification performance over existing supervised learning pattern matching algorithms. The hardware design employing parallel architecture is also very efficient in time and area.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.215-218
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• 2002

본 논문에서 구현한 시스템은 비젼(vision)시스템을 이용하여 자율 이동로봇의 경로를 탐색하고 추출된 정보로부터 자율 이동로봇의 위치제어 성능을 제시하고자 한다. 일반적인 로봇시스템은 자신이 이동해야 할 목표 지점을 자율적으로 생성할 수 없으므로 기타 다른 시스템의 정보를 이용하여 미로를 탐색하거나 장애물을 인식하고 식별하여 자신의 제어전략을 수립한다. 그리고, 본 연구에서 제시한 시스템은 자율이동로봇의 행동 환경을 호스트 PC인 비젼시스템이 로봇의 현재 위치, 로봇이 이동해야 할 목표위치, 장애물의 위치와 형태 둥둥을 분석한다. 분석된 결과값을 RF-Module을 이용해서 로봇에 전송하면 로봇은 그 데이터를 받아서 동작하게 되며 로봇이 오동작 또는 장애물로 인해 정확한 목적지까지 도달하지 못할때 호스트 PC는 새로운 최단경로를 만들거나 장애물을 회피 할 전략을 로봇에게 보내준다. 본 연구에 적용한 알고리즘은 A* 알고리즘을 사용하였으며, 본 알고리즘은 매우 단순하면서도 실시간 처리에 적용가능하며, 자율 이동로봇의 충돌회피, 최단 경로 생성에 대한 성능을 실험을 통하여 제시한다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권2호통권95호
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• pp.39-49
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• 1999

This paper describes the development of a vision-aided position and orientation recognition system for automatically adjusting electronic tuners which control the waveform by rotating variable resisters. The position and orientation recognition system estimates the center and the angle of the tuner grooves so that the main controller may correct the difference from the ideal position and thereby manipulate the variable resisters automatically. In this paper a robust algorithm is suggested which estimates the center and the angle of the tuner grooves fast and precisly from the source image with lighting variance and video noise. In the algorithm morphological filtering, 8-chain coding, and invariant moments are sequentially used to figure out image segments concerned. The performance of the proposed system was evaluated using a set of real specimens. The results indicate the system works well enough to be used practically in real manufacturing lines. If the system adopts a high speed frame grabber which enables real time image processing, it can also be applied to positioning of robot manipulators as well as automated PCB adjusters.