• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.244-250
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• 2008

This paper describes the design and implementation of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and also estimates how well autonomous navigation and remote control of UGV can be performed through the optimized arbitration of several sensor data, which are acquired from vision, obstacle detection, positioning system, etc. For the autonomous navigation, lane detection and tracing, global positioning, and obstacle avoidance are necessarily required. In addition, for the remote control, two types of experimental environments are established. One is to use a commercial racing wheel module, and the other is to use a haptic device that is useful for a user application based on virtual reality. Experimental results show that autonomous navigation and remote control of the designed UGV can be achieved with more effectiveness and accuracy using the proper arbitration of sensor data and navigation plan.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.809-817
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• 2008

This paper describes an obstacle detecting system of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The unmanned ground vehicle is consists of several systems such as vehicle control system, navigation system, obstacle detecting system and integration system. Among these systems, the obstacle detecting system is a driving assistance system of UGV. Through the UGV is driving, the system detects obstacles such as cars, human, tree, curb and hills and then send information of obstacles position to integration system for safety driving. In this research, the obstacle detecting system is composed of 5 laser scanners and develop algorithms of detecting obstacles, curb, uphill and downhill road.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.856-864
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• 2008

This paper describes a vehicle low speed driving assistant (VLDA) system that is composed of laser scanner. This vehicle is designed for following lead vehicle (LV) without driver's operation. The system is made up several component systems that are based on unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). Each component system is applied to use advanced safety vehicle developed to complete UGV system. VLDA system was divided into vehicle control system and obstacle detecting system. The obstacle detecting system calculate distance and angle of LV and transmit these data to vehicle control system using front, left and right laser scanners. Vehicle control system makes vehicle control values such as steering angle, acceleration and brake position and control vehicle's movement with steering, acceleration and brake actuators. In this research, we designed VLDA system like as low speed cruise control system and test it on real road environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1246-1253
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• 2009

To be high efficient for a navigation of unmanned ground vehicle, it must be able to distinguish between safe and hazardous regions in its immediate environment. We present an advanced method using laser range finder for building global 2D digital maps that include environment information. Laser range finder is used for mapping of obstacles and driving environment in the 2D laser plane. Rotary encoders are used for localization of UGV. The main contributions of this research are the development of an algorithm for global 2D map building and it will turn a UGV navigation based on map matching into a possibility. In this paper, a map building algorithm will be introduced and an assessment of algorithm reliability is judged at an each environment.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.549-556
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• 2009

One of the basic technology for implementing the autonomy of UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle) is a path planning algorithm using obstacle and raw terrain information which are gathered from perception sensors such as stereo camera and laser scanner. In this paper, we propose a generation method of DVGM(Directional Velocity Grid Map) which have traverse speed of UGV for the five heading directions except the rear one. The fuzzy system is designed to generate a resonable traveling speed for DVGM from current patch to the next one by using terrain slope, roughness and obstacle information extracted from raw world model data. A simulation is conducted with world model data sampled from real terrain so as to verify the performance of proposed fuzzy inference system.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2010

This study shows the path generation algorithm for an UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle). The developed UGV frame which has a 4-wheel driven mechanism and diesel source is applied. Proposed vehicle system in this research is aimed to military purpose. To achieve the unmanned autonomous driving, following two main issues are considered. First, behavior module for positioning and posture of vehicle system and second, cognition module to receive the information from environment are proposed and verified. To do this, rover which can acquire the positioning information from earth coordinate and IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) which can measure the posture are combined to design the path planning algorithm.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.220-229
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• 2018

In the midst of disaster, such as an earthquake or a nuclear radiation exposure area, there are huge risks to send human crews. Many robotic researchers have studied to send UGVs in order to replace human crews at dangerous environments. So far, two-dimensional camera information has been widely used for teleoperation of UGVs. Recently, three-dimensional information based teleoperations are attempted to compensate the limitations of camera information based teleoperation. In this paper, the 3D map information of indoor and outdoor environments reconstructed in real-time is utilized in the UGV teleoperation. Further, we apply the LTE communication technology to endure the stability of the teleoperation even under the deteriorate environment. The proposed teleoperation system is performed at explosive disposal missions and their feasibilities could be verified through completion of that missions using the UGV with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team of Busan Port Security Corporation.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2022

This paper proposes a distributed model predictive formation control algorithm for a group of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) with guaranteeing collision avoidance between UGVs. Generally, the model predictive control based formation control has a disadvantage in that it takes a long time to compute control inputs when considering collision avoidance between UGVs. In this paper, in order to overcome this problem, the formation control algorithm is implemented in a distributed manner so that it could be individually controlled. Also, a collision-avoidance method considering real-time is proposed. The proposed formation control algorithm is implemented based on robot operating system (ROS), open source-based middleware. Through the various simulation tests, it is confirmed that the formation control of five UGVs is successfully performed while avoiding collisions between UGVs.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 야지 환경에서 동작하는 무인이동로봇에서 획득한 3차원 LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) 센서 정보와 로봇이 이동하는 지형의 3차원 DSM (Digital Surface Map)에서 정사윤곽선(Ortho-edge) 특징영상을 생성하고 정합하여 로봇의 현재 위치를 추정하는 기술을 제안한다. 최근의 무인이동로봇의 위치 인식에 대한연구는 GPS (Global Positioning System), IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), LIDAR 등의 위치인식 센서를 융합하는 경우가 많아지고 있다. 특히 LIDAR에서 획득한 거리정보를 ICP(Iterative Closest Point) 기반의 기하정합으로 로봇의 위치를 추정하는 기술이 개발되고 있다. 그러나 이동로봇에서 획득한 센서 정보는 DSM의 센싱 방향과 큰 차이차이가 있어 기존의 기하정합 기술을 사용하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 서로 다른 센싱 방향에서 획득한 3차원 LIDAR 거리정보와 DSM에서 정사윤곽선이라는 특징 영상을 생성하고 이들을 정합하여 로봇의 위치를 추정하는 새로운 기술을 제안한다. DSM으로부터 현재 시점의 정사윤곽선 영상을 생성하는 방법, 전방향 LIDAR 거리센서에서 정사윤곽선 영상을 생성하는 방법, 그리고 정사윤곽선 영상의 정합 기술을 설명하였다. 실험에서는 다양한 주행 경로에 대한 위치 추정의 오차를 분석하고 제안 기술의 성능의 우수성을 보였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.250-256
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• 2012

Unmanned ground vehicles may be operated by remote control unit through the wireless communication or autonomously. However, the autonomous technology is still challenging and not perfectly developed. For some reason or other, the wireless communication is not always available. If wireless communication is abruptly disconnected, the UGV will be nothing but a lump of junk. What was worse, the UGV can be captured by enemy. This paper suggests a method, autonomous return technology with which the UGV can autonomously go back to a safer position along the reverse path. The suggested autonomous return technology for UGV is based on multi-correlated information based DB creation and matching. While SUGV moves by remote-control, the multi-correlated information based DB is created with the multi-sensor information; the absolute position of the trajectory is stored in DB if GPS is available and the hybrid MAP based on the fusion of VISION and LADAR is stored with the corresponding relative position if GPS is unavailable. In multi-correlated information based autonomous return, SUGV returns autonomously based on DB; SUGV returns along the trajectory based on GPS-based absolute position if GPS is available. Otherwise, the current position of SUGV is first estimated by the relative position using multi-sensor fusion followed by the matching between the query and DB. Then, the return path is created in MAP and SUGV returns automatically based on the MAP. Experimental results on the pre-built trajectory show the possibility of the successful autonomous return.