• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.591-595
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• 2000

In this paper color coordinate system transformation based visual servo controller has been considered Mobile robot always has a position error and an orientation error resulted from wheel slipping etc.. Even more, the errors have accumulative properties. So feedback from environments is important. In this paper by using color model faster land mark extraction can be achieved. And the global position and the orientation of mobile robot can be known by only two land mark positions in image coordinate system. Finally, the adoption of visual information in path tracking problem makes visual servo control.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.617-629
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• 2021

Although the actual visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms provide highly accurate tracking and mapping, most algorithms are too heavy to run live on embedded devices. In addition, the maps they produce are often unsuitable for path planning. To mitigate these issues, we propose a completely closed-loop online dense RGB-D SLAM algorithm targeting autonomous indoor mobile robot navigation tasks. The proposed algorithm runs live on an NVIDIA Jetson board embedded on a two-wheel differential-drive robot. It exhibits lightweight three-dimensional mapping, room-scale consistency, accurate pose tracking, and robustness to moving objects. Further, we introduce a navigation strategy based on the proposed algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed SLAM algorithm, its computational efficiency, and its benefits for on-the-fly navigation while mapping.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.101-126
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• 2014

In this article we present modular neural control for a leg-wheel hybrid robot consisting of three legs with omnidirectional wheels. This neural control has four main modules having their functional origin in biological neural systems. A minimal recurrent control (MRC) module is for sensory signal processing and state memorization. Its outputs drive two front wheels while the rear wheel is controlled through a velocity regulating network (VRN) module. In parallel, a neural oscillator network module serves as a central pattern generator (CPG) controls leg movements for sidestepping. Stepping directions are achieved by a phase switching network (PSN) module. The combination of these modules generates various locomotion patterns and a reactive obstacle avoidance behavior. The behavior is driven by sensor inputs, to which additional neural preprocessing networks are applied. The complete neural circuitry is developed and tested using a physics simulation environment. This study verifies that the neural modules can serve a general purpose regardless of the robot's specific embodiment. We also believe that our neural modules can be important components for locomotion generation in other complex robotic systems or they can serve as useful modules for other module-based neural control applications.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2014

본 논문은 두 바퀴 이동로봇의 주행에 있어서 주어진 경로를 물리적 제한을 만족하면서 주행하는 관절 공간 궤적 생성방법을 실시간 운영체제를 이용하여 구현함으로써 실시간 제어 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 경로계획에서 이동로봇의 방향을 고려하기 위하여 베지어곡선을 이용하였으며, 컨볼루션 연산자를 이용하여 로봇의 두 바퀴의 속도의 제한을 만족시켰다. 관절 공간의 궤적 생성과 생성된 궤적에 대한 속도명령, 그리고 엔코더 값 감시 등 실시간 태스크를 주기적 태스크로 구현하였으며 동기화를 위하여 실시간 메커니즘인 이벤트 플래그를 이용하여 구현하였다. 실제 로봇에 실시간 태스크를 구현하여 속도명령의 실시간성과 이에 따른 이동로봇의 주행실험 결과를 이용하여 궤적 추종 성능을 비실시간 시스템과 분석하였다. 결과를 통하여 실시간 성을 요구하는 제어시스템에서 실시간 다중 태스크 시스템의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.597-599
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• 2005

To make the autonomous mobile robot move in the unknown space, we have to know the information of current location of the robot. So far, the location information that was obtained using Encoder always includes Dead Reckoning Error, which is accumulated continuously and gets bigger as the distance of movement increases. In this paper, we analyse the effect of the size of the two wheels of the mobile robot and the wheel track of them among the factors of Dead Reckoning Error. And after this, we compensate this Dead Reckoning Error by Kalman filter using Gyro Sensors. To accomplish this, we develop the controller to analyse the error components of Gyro Sensor and to minimize the error values. We employ the numerical approach to analyse the error components by linearizing them because each error component is nonlinear. And we compare the improved result through simulation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2014

Accurate estimation of the robot's position has an important role in autonomous navigation. Odometry is one of the most widely used techniques for mobile robot positioning. However, odometry has a well-known drawback that the position errors are accumulated when the travel distance increases. The UMBmark method is the conventional odometry calibration scheme for two wheel differential mobile robots. In the UMBmark method, the approximations for small angles are used in order to simplify the calculations. In this paper, we propose the new calibration scheme by using experimental orientation errors. Kinematic parameters can be calculated accurately without approximations by using experimental orientation errors. The numerical simulation and experimental results show that the odometry accuracy can be improved by the proposed method.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.44-53
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• 1993

In this paper, we discuss on the control algorithm to make the wheeled inverse pendulum type mobile robot move in two dimensional plane. The robot considered in this paper has two independently driven wheels in same axel which suport and move it-self, and is assumed to have the fyro type sensor to know the inclination algle of the body and rotary encoders to know wheel's rotation angular velocity. The control algorithm is divided into three parts. The first part is for the posture and velocity control for forward-backward direction, the second is the steering control, and the last part is for the control of total system to track the given trajectory. We handle the running velocity control of the robot as part of the posture control to keep the balance because the posture relates deeply with the velocity and can be controlled by the velocities of the wheels. The control problem is analyzed as the tracking control, and the controller is realized with the state feedback and feed-forward of the reference velocity. Constructing the control system which contained one intergrator in forward path, we also realized the control system without observer for the estimation of the accumulated errors in the inclination angle of the body. To prevent the robot from being unstable state by sudden variation of the reference velocity when it starts and stops, or changes velocity, the reference velocity of which acceleration is slowly changing, is ordered to the robot. To control its steering, we give the different reference velocities for both wheels which are calculated from the desired angular velocity of the body. Finally, we presents the experimental results of the experimental robot Yamabico Kurara in which the proposed control algorithm had been implemented.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 구륜 이동 로봇의 기구학적 불완전성에 기인한 주행오차를 감소시키기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 별도의 표식장치 없이 엔코더만을 이용하여 구륜 반경과 차축변위를 보정한다. 또한 모터제어기의 가속해상도의 제약에 기인한 방향각 오차를 보상하기 위한 속도궤적을 제안한다. 제안된 속도궤적에 따라, 2개의 구동구륜 중 임의의 한 구륜의 속도는 주행거리에 따라 가변된다. 완전한 기구학적 보정이 이루어져도, 구륜 이동 로봇은 완전한 직선 주행을 할 수 없으며, 이러한 현상은 모터 제어기의 가속 해상도의 제약에 기인함을 보인다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법의 유효성을 입증하기 위해 2 자유도 구륜 이동 로봇에 대해 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 제시한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.774-782
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the autonomous and high-speed indoor navigation of wheeled mobile robots using hybrid system controller. The hierarchical structure of hybrid system presented consists of high-level reasoning process and the low-level motion control process and the environmental interaction. In a discrete event system, the discrete states are defined by the user-defined constraints and the reference motion commands are specified in the abstracted motions. The hybrid control system applied for the nonholonomic mobile robots can combine the motion planning and autonomous navigation with obstacle avoidance in the indoor navigation problem. For the evaluation of the proposed algorithm, the algorithm is implemented to the two-wheel driven mobile robot system. The experimental results show that the hybrid system approach is an effective method for the autonomous navigation in indoor environments.

• 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.