• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1232-1239
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• 2009

This paper proposes an exploration strategy to efficiently find a specific place in large unknown environments with wall-following based path planning. Many exploration methods proposed so far showed good performance but they focused only on efficient planning for modeling unknown environments. Therefore, to successfully accomplish the room finding task, two additional requirements should be considered. First, suitable path-planning is needed to recognize the room number. Most conventional exploration schemes used the gradient method to extract the optimal path. In these schemes, the paths are extracted in the middle of the free space which is usually far from the wall. If the robot follows such a path, it is not likely to recognize the room number written on the wall because room numbers are usually too small to be recognized by camera image from a distance. Second, the behavior which re-explores the explored area is needed. Even though the robot completes exploration, it is possible that some rooms are not registered in the constructed map for some reasons such as poor recognition performance, occlusion by a human and so on. With this scheme, the robot does not have to visit and model the whole environment. This proposed method is very simple but it guarantees that the robot can find a specific room in most cases. The proposed exploration strategy was verified by various experiments.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.473-480
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• 2000

A fuzzy PID controller is proposed for the posture control of a two DOF robot vehicle inspecting the defects of the inner wall of sewage pipes. The main difficulty in controlling these kinds of vehicles lies in that the center of two mobile shafts does not coincide with the weight center of the vehicle due to its long and wide shape. In this case the previous controller, based on the assumption that the gap between these centers are small, can not guarantee satisfactory transient response characteristics. In this paper, this gap is included in the mathematical modelling of the robot kinematics, and in order to compensate the unsatisfactory transient response characteristics, the fuzzy PID controller is proposed. This controller tunes the PID control gains with respect to the current state of the errors between the reference and the current postures. A series of simulations has been performed to investigate the tracking performance of the proposed controller for the lane changing path and the robustness to the external disturbance. The simulation results show that the proposed controller has a satisfactory tracking performance in the transient state as compared with that of the backstepping control given in reference.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.1268-1275
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• 2003

In this paper, a compact 3-DOF mobile microrobot with sub-micron resolution is presented. It has many outstanding features : it is as small as a coin ; its precision is of sub-micrometer resolution on the plane ; it has an unlimited travel range ; and it has simple and compact mechanisms and structures which can be realized at low cost. With the impact actuating mechanism, this system enable both fast coarse motion and highly precise fine motion with a pulse wave input voltage controlled. The 1 -DOF impact actuating mechanism is modeled by taking into consideration the friction between the piezoelectric actuator and base. This modeling technique is extended to simulate the motion of the 3-DOF mobile robot. In addition, experiments are conducted to verify that the simulations accurately represent the real system. The modeling and simulation results will be used to design the model-based controller for the target system. The developed system can be used as a robotic positioning device in the micromanipulation system that determines the position of micro-sized components or particles in a small space, or assemble them in the meso-scale structure.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.213-218
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 이동 로봇이 호텔과 같은 실내에서 길 안내 및 짐을 운반해줄 수 있는 자율주행이 가능한 안내 시스템을 연구하였다. 일반적인 자율 주행 안내시스템에 사용되는 이동 로봇의 경우 정확도 향상을 위해 시스템에 다량의 센서가 추가되어 비용의 문제가 발생된다. 따라서 센서의 수를 줄이며 정확도와 인식률을 높이기 위해 비용이 비싸지 않은 소형 MCU중 하나인 라즈베리 파이 3를 이용하여 자율 주행 안내 시스템을 구현하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1824-1832
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 스마트 홈 서비스 로봇인 맥봇II(Mess-Cleanup Robot; McBot II)를 설계한다. 그것은 맥봇I에 비하여 더욱 지능적이고 실용적인 시스템으로 개발하였다. 지금까지 진공청소기는 가사 노동의 부담을 덜어주었지만 진공청소기를 운용하는 점에서 노동의 강도는 차이가 없다. 최근에 이 문제의 해결을 위해 상용화된 청소로봇이 나왔지만 큰 시장을 형성하지는 못했다. 왜냐하면 여전히 진공청소 이전에 큰 부피의 쓰레기나 신문, 옷가지 등을 정리정돈 하지 못하는 문제를 가지고 있다. 따라서 우리는 실제 환경에서 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 더 발전된 새로운 정리정돈 로봇 맥봇II를 개발한다. 특히, 본 논문에서는 로봇의 기계적인 설계와 기본적인 제어에 초점을 맞추어 논문을 구성한다. 맥봇II는 인간이 허리 및 손을 이용하여 정리 정돈 작업을 수행하는 메커니즘을 모델로 하여 설계되어 진다. 작업 시 인간의 허리 기능은 변화 범위가 큰 수직형 리프트와 전후진이 가능한 어깨 조인트 구조로 구현한다. 정리정돈 작업을 직접 수행하는 로봇 팔과 핸드는 실용성을 위하여 최소 자유도를 갖는 시스템으로 설계한다. 또한 맥봇II가 좁은 면적의 실내에서 장애물과의 충돌을 방지하면서 고속의 이동 능력을 갖기 위하여 홀로노믹(Holonomic)특성의 이동로봇으로 설계한다. 끝으로 최적화 설계로 구현된 로봇의 몸체/이동/로봇팔/핸드의 동작 제어 실험 결과들을 통하여 맥봇 II의 향상된 성능을 확인한다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.407-422
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• 2014

Objective: The purpose of the study is to develop quantitative usability evaluation criteria for senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot. Background: The Republic of Korea has become the most rapidly aging society, and is anticipated to enter the post-aged society in 2026. To raise the quality of life of a senior with limited mobility and to reduce the burden of caregivers, many high-tech assistive products with information technologies are developed nowadays. The senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot is one person robot vehicle to move a senior to the destination for hospitals, nursing homes or silver town complex. With built-in navigation system and environmental monitoring censors, it automatically seeks the path to the destination and avoids collision to obstacles and pedestrians on the way. Due to the early stage of the product, few usability studies in this field have been done, mostly on general service robots to assist seniors, power wheelchairs and delivery robots. ISO and KS standards for the service robots are focused on safety. Method: Based on the reference usability index, the early draft of the usability evaluation questionnaires was developed. After small group tests and interviews, the experts modified the initial draft to the Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot (UEC-SFATR). Result: UEC-SFATR consisted of 4 subscales - Safety, Controllability, Efficiency and Satisfaction. All of the 4 subscales of UEC-SFATR were passed the reliability criteria by 4 groups of seniors, divided by gender and familiarity of smart-devices. Conclusion: UEC-SFATR covers wider area of user experiences of the SFATR and is a good measurement tool to help both the users and developers of the robot. Application: This study provides guide to the future product development and product competitiveness evaluation by quantifying user experiences for the SFATR.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1444-1446
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• 2005

Recently most machineries have been small size and mobile type. And human body insertion type endoscope and micro robot technology has been developed. Then the motors used in this field are developed in micro size such as about 2mm in diameter. The structure of this motor is similar to a general brushless DC(BLDC) motor but because of small size there is no position sensor such as hall sensor. In this paper, a design and fabrication result of an ultra-small brushless DC motor is presented. This motor is designed to 3-phase coreless winding and operated with sensor-less type driver. Test results confirmed the feasibility of the proposed motor drive system design.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.343-345
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• 2007

This paper proposes an inertial navigation system(INS) with which a biped robot can determine his position, velocity, posture, etc. The proposed system provides the information of robots independently without using any outer signals. The defect of the algorithm is the en'or accumulation as the robot increases the mobile range. However, in this application the problem is not so critical because the working space is small and operation period of the robots is relatively short. With the proposed INS system biped robots obtain enhanced intelligence to execute their tasks. The structure and theoretical backgrounds are utilized to design the INS system. The method for application of INS system to biped robots has been illustrated.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.333-338
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• 2005

This paper presents the target object search algorithm under Dynamic Programming (DP) in the Tree-type maze. We organized an experimental environment with the concatenation of Y-shape diverged way, small mobile robot, and a target object. By the principle of optimality, the backbone of DP, an agent recognizes that a given whole problem can be solved whether the values of the best solution of certain ancillary problem can be determined according to the principle of optimality. In experiment, we used two different control algorithms: a left-handed method and DP. Finally we verified the efficiency of DP in the practical application using our real robot.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2022

Utilization of small robots in psychology and biology provides a new breakthrough in understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of various animal behavior. The expansion of robot use in animal research is partly due to increased availability of economically plausible mobile robots and also due to the current shift in animal research toward more ecologically valid experiments. Ground-breaking experimental findings are expected when the behavioral variables are manipulated in more natural situations. In addition, the results from laboratory could be generalized more easily with added ecological validity. The current paper attempts to review a wide range of applications of animal robots used to study animal behavior and to highlight major advantages and limitations. In particular, this review focuses more on the psychological impact of animal robots than engineering details about their structure and operation. Finally, this review will provide some practical considerations when employing robots in animal experiments.