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Guideline of Animal Robot Design for Psychotherapy of Emotionally Disturbed Children (정서장애 아동의 심리치료를 위한 동물로봇 디자인의 가이드라인)

  • Mun, Keum-Hi
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2013
  • This research is for selection of animal and establishment of guideline which for animal robot design for the purpose of emotionally disturbed children's psychotherapy. In the case of emotionally disturbed children because of poor expression about themselves's emotional condition, there are many restriction in the existing cure and educational method. Using research method of animal shape robot which is starting to make attempt since the late 1990s is effective to learning disturbed children. For the development of animal robot for psychotherapy of emotionally disturbed children first of all which animal is selected is very important. Therefore at the early stage of research preference surveyed to children including emotionally disturbed children and decide an object of animal robot. And what kind of shape is very preferred is also preference surveyed. Through focusing group interview about shape, color, facial expression, sound, and move which have an influence on outward shape design of robot, present the guideline which is needed to animal robot design for emotionally disturbed children.

Design of Ultra-light Robot-arm Capable of Carrying Heavy Weight (고중량 이송 가능한 초경량 로봇 팔의 설계)

  • Choi, Hyeung-Sik;Cho, Jong-Rae;Leem, Kun-Wha;Lee, Jong-Hoon;Kim, Young-Hwan
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.343-350
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, a six degree-of-freedom robot arm which is very light but capable of delivering heavy loads was studied. The proposed robot arm has much higher load capacity than conventional robot arms actuated by motors with speed reducers such as the harmonic drive since a new type of robot actuator based on a closed chain mechanism driven by the ball screw was adopted. Analysis on the design scheme and on the mechanism of the joint actuator of the robot arm were made. Since the robot arm was designed very light, it has deflection in the links. To analyze this, a finite element analysis on the structure of the designed robot links was made using ANSYS software. Verifying experiments on the performance of high load capacity of the robot arm was performed by loading heavy weights on the robot arm. Through experiments. the correctness of the numerical analysis was also verified.

A Graphical User Interface Design for Surveillance and Security Robot (감시경계 로봇의 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스 설계)

  • Choi, Duck-Kyu;Lee, Chun-Woo;Lee, Choonjoo
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 2015
  • This paper introduces a graphical user interface design that is aimed to apply to the surveillance and security robot, which is the pilot program for the army unmanned light combat vehicle. It is essential to consider the activities of robot users under the changing security environment in order to design the efficient graphical user interface between user and robot to accomplish the designated mission. The proposed design approach firstly identifies the user activities to accomplish the mission in the standardized scenarios of military surveillance and security operation and then develops the hierarchy of the interface elements that are required to execute the tasks in the surveillance and security scenarios. The developed graphical user interface includes input control component, navigation component, information display component, and accordion and verified by the potential users from the various skilled levels with the military background. The assessment said that the newly developed user interface includes all the critical elements to execute the mission and is simpler and more intuitive compared to the legacy interface design that was more focused on the technical and functional information and informative to the system developing engineers rather than field users.

Optimal Gait Trajectory Generation and Optimal Design for a Biped Robot Using Genetic Algorithm (유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 이족 보행 로봇의 최적 설계 및 최적 보행 궤적 생성)

  • Kwon Ohung;Kang Minsung;Park Jong Hyeon;Choi Moosung
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.10 no.9
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    • pp.833-839
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    • 2004
  • This paper proposes a method that minimizes the consumed energy by searching the optimal locations of the mass centers of links composing of a biped robot using Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm. Generally, in order to utilize optimization algorithms, the system model and design variables must be defined. Firstly, the proposed model is a 6-DOF biped robot composed of seven links, since many of the essential characteristics of the human walking motion can be captured with a seven-link planar biped walking in the saggital plane. Next, Fourth order polynomials are used for basis functions to approximate the walking gait. The coefficients of the fourth order polynomials are defined as design variables. In order to use the method generating the optimal gait trajectory by searching the locations of mass centers of links, three variables are added to the total number of design variables. Real-Coded GA is used for optimization algorithm by reason of many advantages. Simulations and the comparison of three methods to generate gait trajectories including the GCIPM were performed. They show that the proposed method can decrease the consumed energy remarkably and be applied during the design phase of a robot actually.

Task based design of modular robot manipulator using efficient genetic algorithms

  • Han, Jeongheon;Chung, Wankyun;Youm, Youngil;Kim, Seungho
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.243-246
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    • 1996
  • Modular robot manipulator is a robotic system assembled from discrete joints and links into one of many possible manipulator configurations. This paper describes the design method of newly developed modular robot manipulator and the methodology of a task based reconfiguration of it. New locking mechanism is proposed and it provides quick coupling and decoupling. A parallel connection method is devised and it makes modular robot manipulator working well and the number of components on each module reduced. To automatically determine a sufficient or optimal arrangement of the modules for a given task, we also devise an algorithm that automatically generates forward and inverse manipulator kinematics, and we propose an algorithm which maps task specifications to the optimized manipulator configurations. Efficient genetic algorithms are generated and used to search for a optimal manipulator from task specifications. A few of design examples are shown.

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Design of Fuzzy Logic Control System for Segway Type Mobile Robots

  • Kwak, Sangfeel;Choi, Byung-Jae
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.126-131
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    • 2015
  • Studies on the control of inverted pendulum type systems have been widely reported. This is because this type of system is a typical complex nonlinear system and may be a good model to verify the performance of a proposed control system. In this paper, we propose the design of two fuzzy logic control systems for the control of a Segway mobile robot which is an inverted pendulum type system. We first introduce a dynamic model of the Segway mobile robot and then analyze the system. We then propose the design of the fuzzy logic control system, which shows good performance for the control of any nonlinear system. In this paper, we here design two fuzzy logic control systems for the position and balance control of the Segway mobile robot. We demonstrate their usefulness through simulation examples. We also note the possibility of simplifying the design process and reducing the computational complexity. This possibility is the result of the skew symmetric property of the fuzzy rule tables of the system.