• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.603-608
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• 2007

In the conventional AOA(angle-of-arrival) positioning utilizing reverse-link wireless channel, each sensor should be equipped with an array antenna to measure the incident angle of signal transmitting from a tag. To perform the complicated signal processing for angle measurements, sensor size and its power consumption will be large. In some applications like mobile robot location, there exists no strict restriction in tag size or in power consumption. Rather, it is desirable that the sensor would be as small as possible. This paper presents a new AOA positioning method utilizing forward-link channel. Under the assumption that the mobile robot is operating on the flat surface, the measurement model for FLAOA(tiJrward-link AOA) is derived first. Two kinds of position estimation algorithms using FLAOA measurements are proposed; Gauss-Newton method and closed-fonn solution method. With the proposed methods, we can ohtain the attitude of robot as well as its position. Positioning performance of proposed methods is compared by computer simulation. Simulation results show that the closed-form solution method using FLAOA measurements is suitable for indoor robot positioning.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.44-52
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• 2019

본 논문은 라이다 센싱 정보와 RGB-D 카메라 영상 정보를 융합하여 이용하는 교육용 실내 자율주행 로봇 시스템을 구현한다. 이 시스템은 라이다 센싱 정보를 획득하기 위해 기존의 소 채널 라이다 센싱 방식을 이용한다. 또한 소 채널 라이다 센싱 방식의 약점을 보완하기 위해, RGB-D 카메라 깊이 영상과 딥러닝 기반 객체인식 알고리즘을 이용하는 3차원 구조물 인식 방법을 제안하고 이 시스템에 적용한다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.971-980
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• 2010

이 논문은 모바일 로봇이 고정 장애물 또는 움직이는 장애물이 존재하는 환경에서 장애물을 회피하며 운행될 수 있는 제어 알고리즘을 연구하였다. 이 제어 알고리즘은 $D^*$ 알고리즘과, 충돌 위험도 퍼지로직, 이동로봇의 행동결정 퍼지로직을 사용하여 전역경로계획과 지역경로계획을 수행한다. $D^*$ 알고리즘에는 로봇이 이동하는 2 차원 공간을 정방형 격자 분활하여 적용한다. 이 알고리즘은 파이썬 프로그래밍 언어와 이동로봇의 운동방정식을 사용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 알고리즘을 적용하여 로봇이 이동하는 장애물을 피하거나 모르는 고정 장애물을 피하면서 원하는 위치로 이동하는 것을 볼 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2014

Conventional two-wheeled balancing robots are limited in terms of turning speed because they lack the lateral motion to compensate for the centrifugal force needed to stop rollover. In order to improve lateral stability, this paper suggests a two-wheeled balancing mobile platform equipped with a tilting mechanism to generate roll motions. In terms of static force analysis, it is shown that the two-body sliding type tilting method is more suitable for small-size mobile robots than the single-body type. For the mathematical modeling, the tilting-balancing platform is assumed as a 3D inverted pendulum and the four-degrees-of-freedom equation of motion is derived. In the velocity/posture control loop, the desired tilting angle is naturally determined according to the changes of forward velocity and steering yaw rate. The efficiency of the developed tilting type balancing mobile platform is validated through experimental results.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel face detection method that finds tiny faces located at a long range even with low-resolution input images captured by a mobile robot. The proposed approach can locate extremely small-sized face regions of $12{\times}12$ pixels. We solve a tiny face detection problem by organizing a system that consists of multiple detectors including a mean-shift color tracker, short- and long-rage face detectors, and an omega shape detector. The proposed method adopts the long-range face detector that is well trained enough to detect tiny faces at a long range, and limiting its operation to only within a search region that is automatically determined by the mean-shift color tracker and the omega shape detector. By focusing on limiting the face search region as much as possible, the proposed method can accurately detect tiny faces at a long distance even with a low-resolution image, and decrease false positives sharply. According to the experimental results on realistic databases, the performance of the proposed approach is at a sufficiently practical level for various robot applications such as face recognition of non-cooperative users, human-following, and gesture recognition for long-range interaction.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.661-669
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• 1995

원자력시설에서 점검 및 보수작업을 위하여 이동로보트 KAEROT을 개발하였다. 이동로보트의 주행장치는 소차륜들이 부착된 유성차륜의 형태로 구성되어 높은 안정성을 유지하며 계단을 포함한 많은 장애물의 승하강이 가능하도록 설계하였다 본 논문에서는 로보트의 원격조작을 용이하게 하기 위하여 이동로보트의 기구학적 해석을 통하여 역기구학 해를 구하였고, 자동 계단승월 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 이동경로를 결정한 후 제안된 기준경로를 추종할 수 있도록 각 차륜의 각속도를 구하는 것이다. 제작 오차가 있는 실험실내 계단에 대하여 시뮬레이션 및 실험을 수행하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 로보트 몸체의 경사각도를 낮게 유지시킬 수 있었고, 주행중 안정성을 높혀주었다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.626-631
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 Dynamic Programming(DP)을 적용한 트리구조 미로내의 목표물 탐색 알고리즘을 구현한다. DP는 큰 문제를 이루는 작은 문제들을 먼저 해결하고 작은 문제들의 최적해를 이용하여 순환적으로 큰 문제를 해결한다. 먼저 실험을 위해 적외선 센서론 부착한 소형 이동 로봇과, 'Y'형태로 갈라진 길을 연결한 트리 구조의 미로 환경을 구성한다. 실험에서는 두 개의 서로 다른 알고리즘 - 좌수법, DP - 을 사용하여 목표물 탐색을 시도한다. 마지막으로 위 실험을 통해 DP를 미로 탐색문제에 적용했을 때의 성능을 검증한다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.246-257
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• 2004

This paper proposes two contributions. One is an analysis for the limit of the subject of goal-directed reactive robot navigation, and the other is an effective navigation method employing the scheme of the subject. The analysis for the subject is presented in order to clarify the limit of the method. On the basis of the analysis, a safety-guaranteeing and deadlock-free reactive navigation method is newly proposed. The proposed method has a simple behavior-based frame such that it can make the required navigation tasks such as obstacle avoidance, deadlock resolving, and etc. with a very small set of behaviors in entirely unknown environments such as a living room, an office, and etc. Some results of experiments show these validities.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권spc3호
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• pp.275-281
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• 2012

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are the most appropriate for energy source of small robot applications. PEMFC has superior in power density and thermodynamic efficiency as compared with the Direct Methaol Fuel Cell (DMFC). Furthermore, PEMFC has lighter weight and smaller size than DMFC which are very important factors as small robot power system. The most significant factor of mobile robots is weight which relates closely with energy consumption and robot operation. This research tried to find optimum specifications in terms of type, number of cell, active area, cooling method, weight, and size. In order to find optimum 500W PEMFC, six options are designed in this paper and studied to reduce total stack weight by applying new materials and design innovations. However, still remaining problems are thermal management, robot space for energy sources, and soon. For a thermal management, design options need to analysis of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for determining which option has the improved performance and durability.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.211-216
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• 2012

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are the most appropriate for energy source of small robot applications. PEMFC has superior in power density and thermodynamic efficiency as compared with the Direct Methaol Fuel Cell (DMFC). Furthermore, PEMFC has lighter weight and smaller size than DMFC which are very important factors as small robot power system. The most significant factor of mobile robots is weight which relates closely with energy consumption and robot operation. This research tried to find optimum specifications in terms of type, number of cell, active area, cooling method, weight, and size. In order to find optimum 500W PEMFC, six options are designed in this paper and studied to reduce total stack weight by applying new materials and design innovations. However, still remaining problems are thermal management, robot space for energy sources, and so on. For a thermal management, design options need to analysis of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for determining which option has the improved performance and durability.