• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2759-2761
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 진화 알고리즘의 한 방법인 mGA를 이용하여 지능형 로봇의 주행제어 방법을 제안한다. 지능형 로봇의 주행에 필요한 퍼지 제어기의 설계는 전문가적 지식에 많이 의존한다. 이러한 전문가의 경험에 의해 설정된 퍼지 제어기의 여러 구성 요소들의 매개 변수 값들이 최적의 값이라는 보장이 없다. 상기 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 퍼지 제어기의 구성요소인 퍼지 규칙의 수와 멤버쉽 함수의 매개 변수들을 mGA를 이용하여 동정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에 의해 동정된 매개 변수들의 정확성과 효율성을 평가하기 위하여 지능형 로봇의 벽면 주행에 대한 모의실험을 수행한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.108-119
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• 2011

로봇주행은 환경 정보와 위치 정보를 기반으로 현재 위치로부터 목적지까지 경로를 생성하고 제어하는 기술 체계를 의미한다. 주행 기술은 이미 로봇청소기, 군용로봇, 무인주행 자동차, 농업용 무인트랙터 등 개인용 서비스 로봇으로부터 전문서비스 로봇까지 다양한 응용제품의 형태로 구현되고 있다. 즉, 로봇주행은 로봇의 이동(mobility) 기능을 구현하는 것으로 제품 형태로 혹은 획기적인 기술 시연을 통해 보편화되고 있다. 본 고에서는 로봇주행 기술의 개요와 이를 구성하는 핵심 요소기술의 동향을 살펴보고 산업 및 표준화 동향을 살펴봄으로써 인식, 제어, SW, 시스템 공학 등 첨단융합기술로서의 로봇주행의 중요성과 기술확보 방향에 대해 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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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.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.400-405
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• 2009

A new method for the catadioptric omnidirectional stereo vision with single camera is presented in this paper. The proposed method uses a concave lens with a convex mirror. Since the optical part of the proposed method is simple and commercially available, the resultant omnidirectional stereo system becomes versatile and cost-effective. The closed-form solution for 3D distance computation is presented based on the simple optics including the reflection and the reflection of the convex mirror and the concave lens. The compactness of the system and the simplicity of the image processing make the omnidirectional stereo system appropriate for real-time applications such as autonomous navigation of a mobile robot or the object manipulation. In order to verify the feasibility of the proposed method, an experimental prototype is implemented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2450-2452
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• 2004

Map building is essential to a mobile robot navigation system. Localization and path planning methods depend on map building strategies. A topological map is commonly constructed using the GVG(Generalized Voronoi Graph). The advantage of the GVG based topological map is compactness. But the GVG method have many difficulties because it consists of collision-free path. In this paper, we proposed an extended map building method, the AVG (Areal Voronoi Graph) based topological map. The AVG based topological map consists of collision-free area. This feature can improve map building, localization and path planning performance.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.118-120
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• 2009

In this paper, we present the Q-learning method for adaptive traffic signal control on the basis of multi-agent technology. The structure is composed of sixphase agents and one intersection agent. Wireless communication network provides the possibility of the cooperation of agents. As one kind of reinforcement learning, Q-learning is adopted as the algorithm of the control mechanism, which can acquire optical control strategies from delayed reward; furthermore, we adopt dynamic learning method instead of static method, which is more practical. Simulation result indicates that it is more effective than traditional signal system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.63.6-63
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• 2001

For robot navigation and visual reconstruction , structure from motion (SFM) is an active issue in computer vision community and its properties are also becoming well understood. As a drawback in SFM, it is well known that the SFM methods, using small motion model such as optical flow and direct method, have inevitably motion ambiguity between translation and rotation, which is called bas-relief ambiguity. In this paper based on the robust direct method using stereo image sequence, we present a new method for improving those ambiguities. Basically, the direct method uses nearly all image pixels for estimating motion parameters and depths, and global optimization techniques are adopted for finding its solution ...

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.123.1-123
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• 2001

For Autonomous navigation of the mobile robots, the robots' capability to recognize 3D environment is necessary. In this paper, an on-line 3D map building method for autonomous mobile robots is proposed. To get range data on the environment, we use an sensor system which is composed of a structured light and a CCD camera based on optimal triangulation. The structured laser is projected as a horizontal strip on the scene. The sensor system can rotate $\pm$ $30{\Circ}$ with a goniometer. Scanning the system, we get the laser strip image for the environments and update planes composing the environment by some image processing steps. From the laser strip on the captured image, we find a center point of each column, and make line segments through blobbing these center poings. Then, the planes of the environments are updated. These steps are done on-line in scanning phase. With the proposed method, we can efficiently get a 3D map about the structured environment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.123.5-123
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• 2001

For autonomous navigation of the mobile robots, the robots' capability to recognize 3D environment is necessary. In this paper, an on-line 3D map building method for autonomous mobile robots is proposed. To get range data on the environment, we use a sensor system which is composed of a structured light and a CCD camera based on optimal triangulation. The structured laser is projected as a horizontal strip on the scene. The sensor system can rotate$\pm$30$^{\circ}$ with a goniometer. Scanning the system, we get the laser strip image for the environments and update planes composing the environment by some image processing steps. From the laser strip on the captured image, we find a center point of each column, and make line segments through blobbing these center points. Then, the planes of the environments are updated. These steps are done on-line in scanning phase. With the proposed method, we can efficiently get a 3D map about the structured environment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.77.6-77
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• 2002

This paper describes a motored wheelchair that is suitable for disabled persons. A distinguish feature of our wheelchair is that a closed link mechanism is introduced. This link module changes conventional motored wheelchairs to computer controlled ones. It means that using intelligent functions of the computer, conventional motored wheelchairs can be navigated like an intelligent robot. Three examples of intelligent navigation functions are demonstrated. The first one is a motored wheelchair controlled by the head movement of the operator. The second one is a motored wheelchair with the image processing. Last one is a motored wheelchair with the remote sensing function.