• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1807-1808
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• 2008

When it is used for autonomous mobile robots by using dead-reckoning system, odometry system with encorder is the simplest method as well as well-known in the industry. However, odometry system is reflected slide, friction and mechanical errors of wheels when operating the position estimation. And also in order to minimize errors of direction angle which is the most important factor that it is designed the controller in controlling kinematics and quadratic curve, PID that came into the values of sensor fusion with encorder and gyroscope sensor. After designing, the autonomous mobile robot is producted practically and inspected how it works.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.117-123
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• 2014

Localization is one of the essential tasks necessary to achieve autonomous navigation of a mobile robot. One such localization technique, Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) is often applied to a digital surface model. However, there are differences between range data from laser rangefinders and the data predicted using a map. In this study, commonly observed from air and ground (COAG) features and candidate selection based on the shape of sensor data are incorporated to improve localization accuracy. COAG features are used to classify points consistent with both the range sensor data and the predicted data, and the sample candidates are classified according to their shape constructed from sensor data. Comparisons of local tracking and global localization accuracy show the improved accuracy of the proposed method over conventional methods.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.99-105
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• 2008

To achieve autonomous mobile robot navigation, accurate localization technique is the fundamental issue that should be addressed. In augmented reality, the position of a user is required for location-based services. This paper presents indoor localization using infrared reflective artificial landmarks. In order to minimize the disturbance to the user and to provide the ease of installation, the passive landmarks are used. The landmarks are made of coated film which reflects the infrared light efficiently. Infrared light is not visible, but the camera can capture the reflected infrared light. Once the artificial landmark is identified, the camera's relative position/orientation is estimated with respect to the landmark. In order to reduce the number of the required artificial landmarks for a given environment, the pan/tilt mechanism is developed together with the distortion correction algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2503-2506
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 청소로봇의 주행에 관해 연구되어지고 있는 이론적인 제어알고리즘이 갖는 주행오차저감방법에 관해 연구하였다. 청소로봇의 양 바퀴의 속도에 따라 그려지는 이상적인 회전반경과 실제 실험을 통해 그려지는 회전반경은 다르다. 이는 청소로봇이 주행 시 나타나는 오차가 원인이다. 많은 이론적인 제어알고리즘이 청소로봇의 주행에 잘 적용되기 위해 주행 시 나타나는 오차를 수정하거나 보상해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이상적인 회전반경과 실험을 통해 얻은 회전반경의 비교를 통해 오차와 회전반경을 구하고 이를 주행에 적용하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.205-209
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• 2008

본 논문은 입력되는 영상에서 특정 객체를 찾기 위하여 특징 검출 및 매칭 결과를 분석하여 기술한다. 영상의 특징을 추출하는 방법 중 코너를 특징으로 하는 방법인 해리스 코너 검출(Harris corner detection)을 이용하여 코너를 추출하였으며, 추출한 특징을 이용하여 다양한 크기의 템플릿을 만들어 입력된 영상과 상관계수를 구해 최대값을 가지는 위치를 찾아 입력된 영상과 객체를 매칭 시킨 결과를 분석하였다. 본 논문의 연구 결과들은 객체의 탐지 등과 같은 영상 분석 기반 기술에 활용될 수 있으리라 기대된다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.463-470
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• 2005

This paper describes a method aimed at improving dead-reckoning accuracy with gyroscopes in mobile robots. The method is a precision calibration procedure for gyroscopes, which effectively reduces the ill effects of nonlinearity of the scale-factor and temperature dependency. This paper also describes the methods of gyro data collection fur all ambient temperature$(-40^{\circ}C{\~}+80^{\circ}C)$ using cubic spline interpolation and defining the error function. The sensor used was a vibrating gyroscope called the EWTS82NA21, which is low lost and commonly used in car navigation system, made by Panasonic. This angular rate sensor utilizes Coriolis force generated by a vibrating tuning fork. The paper also provides experimental results to check the performance and the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.375-381
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• 2011

This paper deals with the improvement of visual path following through velocity variation according to the coordinate of feature points. Visual path follow first teaches driving path by selecting milestone images then follows the route by comparing the milestone image and current image. We follow the visual path following algorithm of Chen and Birchfield [8]. In [8], they use fixed translational and rotational velocity. We propose an algorithm that uses different translational velocity according to the driving condition. Translational velocity is adjusted according to the variation of the coordinate of feature points on image. Experimental results including diverse indoor cases show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.165-171
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose the hardware and software of a test-bed of a hovering AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle). Test-bed to develop as the underwater robot for the hovering -type is planning to apply for marine resource development and exploration for deep sea. The RTU that controls a azimuth thruster and a vertical thruster of test-bed is a intergrated-type thruster. The main control unit that collects sensor's data and performs high-speed processing and controls a movement of test-bed is a underwater hybrid navigation system. Also it transfers position, posture, state information of test-bed to the host PC of user using a wireless communication. The host PC checks a test-bed in real time by using a realtime monitoring system that is implemented by LabVIEW.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.343-353
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• 1995

The path navigation of autonomous guided vehicle(AGV) or autonomous mobile robot(AMR) assumed that the environment was completely known and the obstacles were fixed. So that, in an environment only partly known or not known at all, the previous works were not successful since the path exploration techniques involved in the work were neither directly applicable nor extensible. In order to improve such problems, this paper was adopted the quadtree technique and proposed the algorithm for an optimal path planning autonomously in an environment and proved a validity through a simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2183-2185
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a method of designing neural networks using biological inspired developmental and evolutionary concept. The living things are best information processing system in themselves. One individual is developed from a generative cell. And a species of this individual have adapted itself to the environment by evolution. Ontogeny of organism is embodied in cellular automata and phylogeny of species is realized by evolutionary algorithms. The connection among cells is determined by a rule of cellular automata. In order to obtain the best neural networks in the environment, we evolve the arrangement of initial cells. The cell, that is neuron of neural networks, is modeled on chaotic neuron with firing or rest state like biological neuron. A final output of network is measured by frequency of firing state. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by applying it to navigation problem of robot.