• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.809-815
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• 2004

Researches on mobile robots have been mainly focused on the autonomous navigation and a lot of interesting results have been published so far. Most of applications are, however, fancy, unpractical, and very expensive to be used for 'UN-expensive' purpose. Well-known soccer robot may be an example of unpractical application. Un-autonomous mobile robot has, however, potential for a lot of practical applications. Especially, tele-operation of the un-autonomous mobile robot may the central issue of research. Major research topics for the tele-operated un-autonomous mobile robot include development of a force reflecting joystick for tele-operation and development of a sophisticated algorithm for smooth tele-operation. A new concept named fuzzy command smoothing algorithm is proposed in this paper in order to provide smooth motion to a tele-operated mobile robot. It gives smooth motion command to the mobile robot from possibly abrupt quick turn motion command of the joystick using fuzzy logic. Simulation results verify the usefulness of the proposed algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.877-882
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• 2016

Disaster robots have accepted tele-operation in order to share the intelligence of human operators and robot systems. Virtual wall is one of the tele-operation technology to support recognition of human operator. If the virtual wall can block the robot from dangers, the operator will feel comfortable and can concentrate on fundamental missions. In this paper, we proposes and compares three methods for virtual wall visualization in tele-operation using 3D reconstruction. First is a virtual wall visualized only with edges. A wall filled with transparent color is the second method. Finally, third method is a texture-mapped virtual wall. In the experiments, we discuss their merits and demerits in view of robot tele-operation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.153-160
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• 1998

A master-slave system for tele-operation had been developed and tested for several decades. In this paper the master robot is composed of several wires and provides position information of the handle which is driven by a operator within the master robot work space. A PC is used for the command calculation for a slave robot. This paper deals with the relation between the number of strings and D.O.F of the master robot, control method of the slave robot during the operation and the monitoring method over the working area by the computer graphics simulation. The D.O.F of the master robot can be modified by adding or subtracting some strings. The controller of the slave robot uses the advanced PD control method to keep the performance against varying working load.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1290-1303
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• 2005

In this research, a remote control system has been developed and implemented, which combines autonomous obstacle avoidance in real-time with force-reflective tele-operation. A tele-operated mobile robot is controlled by a local two-degrees-of-freedom force-reflective joystick that a human operator holds while he is monitoring the screen. In the system, the force-reflective joystick transforms the relation between a mobile robot and the environment to the operator as a virtual force which is generated in the form of a new collision vector and reflected to the operator. This reflected force makes the tele-operation of a mobile robot safe from collision in an uncertain and obstacle-cluttered remote environment. A mobile robot controlled by a local operator usually takes pictures of remote environments and sends the images back to the operator over the Internet. Because of limitations of communication bandwidth and the narrow view-angles of the camera, the operator cannot observe shadow regions and curved spaces frequently. To overcome this problem, a new form of virtual force is generated along the collision vector according to both distance and approaching velocity between an obstacle and the mobile robot, which is obtained from ultrasonic sensors. This virtual force is transferred back to the two-degrees-of-freedom master joystick over the Internet to enable a human operator to feel the geometrical relation between the mobile robot and the obstacle. It is demonstrated by experiments that this haptic reflection improves the performance of a tele-operated mobile robot significantly.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2006

Though the final goal of mobile robot navigation is to be autonomous, operators' intelligent and skillful decisions are necessary when there are many scattered obstacles. There are several limitations even in the camera-based tele-operation of a mobile robot, which is very popular for the mobile robot navigation. For examples, shadowed and curved areas cannot be viewed using a narrow view-angle camera, especially in bad weather such as on snowy or rainy days. Therefore, it is necessary to have other sensory information for reliable tele-operations. In this paper, sixteen ultrasonic sensors are attached around a mobile robot in a ring pattern to measure the distances to obstacles. A collision vector is introduced in this paper as a new tool for obstacle avoidance, which is defined as a normal vector from an obstacle to the mobile robot. Based on this collision vector, a virtual reflection force is generated to avoid the obstacles and then the reflection force is transferred to an operator who is holding a joystick to control the mobile robot. Relying on the reflection force, the operator can control the mobile robot more smoothly and safely. For this bi-directional tele-operation, a master joystick system using a hall sensor was designed to resolve the existence of nonlinear sections, which are usual for a general joystick with two motors and potentiometers. Finally, the efficiency of a force reflection joystick is verified through the comparison of two vision-based tele-operation experiments, with and without force reflection.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.50.4-50
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• 2002

$\textbullet$ Definition of TeleCare $\textbullet$ Motivations behind Internet TeleCare with Robots $\textbullet$ Framework of Robot Operation Management $\textbullet$ Database Structure $\textbullet$ Chat Room Conference $\textbullet$ Remote Robot Control by Softswitch $\textbullet$ Experimental Results and Conclusion

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1998년도 제13차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.386-390
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• 1998

A master-slave system is proposed as a teaching device for a dual arm robot. The slave robots are remotely controlled by two delta-type master arms. In order to help the operator to observe the target object from the desired position and desired direction, cameras are mounted on a specialized manipulator, Movements of two slave arms are coordinated with that of the cameras. Due to this coordinated movements, the operator needs not to care the geometrical relation between the cameras and the slave robots.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.692-697
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• 2003

지난 몇 년 동안 인터넷기반 원격제어 연구에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷기반 원격 제어시스템을 구현한다. 로봇의 주변환경 및 제어 정보를 강인하게 전송하기 위하여 데이터를 패킷 형태로 만든다. 또한 매우 큰 용량을 갖는 영상 데이터를 전송하기 위하여 JPEG 압축 알고리즘을 이용한다. 인터넷 기반 원격제어의 주된 문제점은 데이터 전송 지연 또는 데이터 손실이다. 이러한 특수한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 2-layer fuzzy controller를 장착한 자율이동로봇을 소개한다. 그리고, 컬러 인식 시스템을 구현하여 로봇을 물체를 인지할 수 있도록 하였다. 다양한 입력 센서가 장착된 로봇에 2-layer fuzzy controller를 적용하여 그 효율성을 입증한다. 2-layer fuzzy controller는 다양한 입력과 출력을 갖는 로봇을 강인하게 제어할 수 있고 제어 비용도 낮기 때문에 그것이 다양한 분야에 적용되어 질 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2009

본 논문은 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크와 이동로봇에 내장된 회전 센서를 이용하여 실내에서의 이동로봇에 위치를 인식하고 이를 바탕으로 인터넷을 통한 원격제어 시스템 개발을 제안한다. 사용한 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)은 ZigBee 기반으로 위치 인식 엔진을 탑재하고 RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator) 신호를 사용하여 노드간의 거리를 측정한다. 본 논문에서는 노드 간의 정확한 거리 정보를 얻고 이를 바탕으로 위치를 추정하기 위해 실험 입 출력 데이터를 가지고 퍼지 모델을 구하였고 거리의 오차를 수정하였다. 또한, RSSI 값의 부정확으로 인한 위치 인식의 오류를 보정하기 위해 이동로봇에 내장된 회전 센서를 이용하여 이동로봇의 좌표를 구하고 이를 위치 좌표의 보정에 사용하여 위치 인식의 정확성을 개선하였다. 제안된 방법에 의한 위치 인식을 기반으로 인터넷을 통한 원격제어 시스템을 개발하였다. 제안된 방법이 USN에 의해 추정된 위치 정보만을 사용하는 경우보다 정확하게 이동로봇의 위치를 추정하고 인터넷을 통한 원격 주행이 가능함을 보였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.305-306
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• 2011