• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2014

본 논문은 홈 웰니스 로봇에서의 센싱 플랫폼 기술 구현에 관한 연구이다. 실내 이동로봇의 자기위치인식은 정교한 궤도 제어를 위하여 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 RF 센서 네트워크와 퍼지추론을 이용하여 로봇의 실내 위치인식 알고리즘을 구현하고자 한다. RFID 센서를 이용하여 로봇 자기위치를 인식하고, 삼변측량과 삼각측량의 장점들을 결합하기 위하여 퍼지 추론기를 이용한 협업 알고리즘을 제안한다. 삼변측량 자기위치 인식을 구현하기 위하여 RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator)방식을 구현하고, 삼각측량 자기위치 인식을 구현하기 위해 TOA(Time of Arrival)방법을 사용한다. 태그로부터 측정된 거리와 위상각의 차이를 이용하여 삼변 및 삼각측량기법을 통해 얻은 결과값들을 퍼지 추론에 의하여 실시간으로 융합하여 개선된 최종 위치를 계산한다. 본 논문에서 설계한 RFID 센서 네트워크 환경과 홈 웰니스 로봇에 탑재 되어 있는 리더 시스템을 기반으로 제안한 알고리즘의 적용 실험 결과들을 통하여 개선된 성능을 확인 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.404-404
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• 2000

This paper presents a single vision-based sel(-localization method in an corridor environment. We use the Hough transform for finding parallel lines and vertical lines. And we use these cross points as feature points and it is calculated relative distance from mobile robot to these points. For matching environment map to feature points, searching window is defined and self-localization is performed by matching procedure. The result shows the suitability of this method by experiment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.389-394
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• 2006

Inaccurate localization exposes a robot to many dangerous conditions. It could make a robot be moved to wrong direction or damaged by collision with surrounding obstacles. There are numerous approaches to self-localization, and there are different modalities as well (vision, laser range finders, ultrasonic sonars). Since sensor information is generally uncertain and contains noise, there are many researches to reduce the noise. But, the correctness is limited because most researches are based on statistical approach. The goal of our research is to measure more exact robot location by matching between built VRML 3D model and real vision image. To determine the position of mobile robot, landmark-localization technique has been applied. Landmarks are any detectable structure in the physical environment. Some use vertical lines, others use specially designed markers, In this paper, specially designed markers are used as landmarks. Given known focal length and a single image of three landmarks it is possible to compute the angular separation between the lines of sight of the landmarks. The image-processing and neural network pattern matching techniques are employed to recognize landmarks placed in a robot working environment. After self-localization, the 2D scene of the vision is overlaid with the VRML scene.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.318-320
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• 2006

Inaccurate localization exposes a robot to many dangerous conditions. It could make a robot be moved to wrong direction or damaged by collision with surrounding obstacles. There are numerous approaches to self-localization, and there are different modalities as well (vision, laser range finders, ultrasonic sonars). Since sensor information is generally uncertain and contains noise, there are many researches to reduce the noise. But, the correctness is limited because most researches are based on statistical approach. The goal of our research is to measure more exact robot location by matching between built VRML 3D model and real vision image. To determine the position of mobile robot, landmark-localitzation technique has been applied. Landmarks are any detectable structure in the physical environment. Some use vertical lines, others use specially designed markers, In this paper, specially designed markers are used as landmarks. Given known focal length and a single image of three landmarks it is possible to compute the angular separation between the lines of sight of the landmarks. The image-processing and neural network pattern matching techniques are employed to recognize landmarks placed in a robot working environment. After self-localization, the 2D scene of the vision is overlaid with the VRML scene.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.442-448
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• 2011

이동 로봇의 위치인식 기술을 위하여 SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)에 관한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시야각이 넓은 어안렌즈를 장착한 단일 카메라를 사용하여 천장의 특징점을 이용한 자기위치 인식에 관한 방안을 제시한다. 여기서는 어안렌즈 기반의 비전 시스템이 가지는 왜곡 영상의 보정, SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) 기반의 강인한 특징점을 추출하여 이전 영상과 이동한 영상과의 정합을 통해 최적화된 영역 함수를 도출하는 과정, 그리고 기하학적 적합모델 설계 등을 제시한다. 제안한 방법을 실험실 환경 및 복도 환경에 적용하여 그 유용성을 확인한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2004

This paper describes self-localization of a mobile robot from the multiple candidates of landmarks in outdoor environment. Our robot uses omnidirectional vision system for efficient self-localization. This vision system acquires the visible information of all direction views. The robot uses feature of landmarks whose size is bigger than that of others in image such as building, sculptures, placard etc. Robot uses vertical edges and those merged regions as the feature. In our previous work, we found the problem that landmark matching is difficult when selected candidates of landmarks belonging to region of repeating the vertical edges in image. To overcome these problems, robot uses the merged region of vertical edges. If interval of vertical edges is short then robot bundles them regarding as the same region. Thus, these features are selected as candidates of landmarks. Therefore, the extracted merged region of vertical edge reduces the ambiguity of landmark matching. Robot compares with the candidates of landmark between previous and current image. Then, robot is able to find the same landmark between image sequences using the proposed feature and method. We achieved the efficient self-localization result using robust landmark matching method through the experiments implemented in our campus.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.920-923
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• 1996

This paper presents a new algorithm for the self-localization of a mobile robot using perspective invariant(Cross Ratio). Most of conventional model-based self-localization methods have some problems that data structure building, map updating and matching processes are very complex. Use of the simple cross ratio can be effective to the above problems. The algorithm is based on two basic assumptions that the ground plane is flat and two parallel walls are available. Also it is assumed that an environmental map is available for matching between the scene and the model. To extract an accurate steering angle for a mobile robot, we take advantage of geometric features such as vanishing points(V.P). Point features for computing cross ratios are extracted robustly using a vanishing point and the intersection points between floor and the vertical lines of door frames. The robustness and feasibility of our algorithms have been demonstrated through experiments in indoor environments using an indoor mobile robot, KASIRI-II(KAist SImple Roving Intelligence).

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.321-326
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• 2009

The mobile air cleaner analyzes a distribution of polluted air to purify the air fast, calculates an optimal position and moves the position so that it can remove indoor dust more quickly. At this time, the self-localization is necessary to make the mobile air cleaner move accurately to the calculated position. This paper proposed a self-localization algorithm having high accuracy without complicated calculation and implemented it by combining a ultrasonic sensor and video processing technologies, so that it is suitable for a mobile air cleaner, and as a test result, the mean error of $\pm1cm$ appeared between the actually measured position and the calculated position.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2019

The self-driving cars identify appropriate navigation paths and obstacles to arrive at their destinations without human control. The autonomous cars are capable of sensing driving environments to improve driver and pedestrian safety by sharing with neighbor traffic infrastructure. In this paper, we have focused on pedestrian protection and have designed an improved localization algorithm to track mobile users on roads by interacting with smart traffic lights in vehicle environments. We developed smart traffic lights with the RSSI sensor and built the proposed method by improving the Kalman filter algorithm to localize mobile users accurately. We successfully evaluated the proposed algorithm to improve the mobile user localization with deployed five smart traffic lights.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1597-1600
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• 1997

Most autonomous mobile robots view things only in front of them. As a result they may collide against objects moving from the side or behind. To overcome the problem we have built an Active Omni-directional Range Sensor that can obtain omni-directional depth data by a laser conic plane and a conic mirror. Also we proposed a self-localization algorithm of mobile robot in unknown environment by fusion of Odometer and Active Omn-directional Range Sensor.