• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.237-245
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• 2010

Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has been providing the pilot service of URC(Ubiquitous Robot Companion), which is a network-based personal robot, to 1000 Korean households since 2006 to define potential users' needs and adoption behaviors. Personal innovativeness might play a critical role in adoption of URC services by users because much sophisticated and convergence technologies are incorporated into URC services. Also, defining not only perceived beliefs about URC services but also expected beliefs about them are very crucial to reduce disconfirmation between users' perception and expectation of URC services. From this point of view, this paper aimed to examine robot users' adoption behavior by considering constructs such as personal innovativeness, usefulness (perceived usefulness - expected usefulness, P-E), user attitude, and intention to use. The findings reveal that personal innovativeness is negatively related to usefulness (P-E) whereas usefulness (P-E) influences significantly and positively on user attitude. It is also shown that usefulness (P-E) and user attitude have strong positive effects on intention to use.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.70-74
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• 2006

In this paper, We propose the real-time monitor and control mechanism based-on web service for intelligent robot called URC(Ubiquitous Robotic Companion). URC is intelligent robot designed to interact with external digital device that can communicate through wire or wireless. In this paper, we designed the result of this study into the target robot called NETTORO and proved its practical worth. we optimized web-service technology in Embedded system environment so that can monitor and control indoors in remote place through acquired information from various sensors / actuators and then we designed. Also, we described command port to WSDL, so that can apply variously such as web server or application program in AXIS engine through gSOAP transmission protocol.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.303-305
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• 2006

In this paper, we present an implementation of the URC (Ubiquitous Robotics Companion) robot S/W platform which is based on the Qplus/Esto. We applied this platform to the NETTORO which is made by hanwool robotics for URC exhibition services and test the URC services on it. We expect this platform to be used in variable URC robots as standard S/W platform for improving the compatibility and reusing the developed components.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 2008

Combining robot and network gives us many advantages like lightweight hardware specification of robot, a various robot service, simple upgrade of robot, easy management and so on. Among these advantages, Presence service and openAPI are most important. Presence is simple but powerful service. It makes user to know the status information of robot and enables user to control robot from a remote place. OpenAPI which is also a feature of WEB2.0 enables $3^{rd}$ parties to make a various mashup service easily and rapidly. Finally presence and openAPI can help URC service to be ubiquitous and successful.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.102
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• pp.24-26
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• 2007

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.24 no.3 s.202
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• pp.5-11
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1393-1396
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• 2005

URC 로봇을 위한 통신 프로토콜을 개발하기 위해서는 홈네트워킹에서 사용되는 프로토콜들이 어떤 진화과정을 거치는지 아는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 홈네트워크 연동 미들웨어로 UPnP를 선택하였다. UPnP 기반의 URC 로봇과 연동은 블루투스를 이용한 무선 시리얼 통신상에서 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.117-125
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• 2009

Early in 21st century, researches about intelligent service robot that provide various services for a human out of the industrial robot only has simple pattern repetition. It concentrates in the research regarding the URC(Ubiquitous Robotic Companion) robot which connects the network in the intelligent service. This paper proposes the robot system based on network to guide a way. The robot has made by lego brick and used ultrasonic sensor, rotation sensor and RFID tag to recognize external environment. Also, it includes a PDA to process the data between robot and server. The network server transmits information to robot controller by bluetooth and it controls the course movement and evasion of the robot. In this research, the robot system based on network to guide a way is easy to expand service and is able to process a data in real time due to data processing in the server as a part of intelligent robot. And it can reduce the cost to build a robot thank to use cheaper sensor equipment.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.46 no.5 s.306
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• pp.61-69
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• 2006

이 글에서는 최근 국민소득 2만불 시대의 견인차가 될 것으로 인식되어 10대 차세대 신성 장동력의 하나로 추진 중인 지능형 서비스 로봇의 산업 및 기술 동향을 분석하고 신성장동력으로서의 URC(Ubiquitous Robot Companion)의 개념과 관련 기술을 소개해 보고자한다.

• 전기의세계
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.20-29
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• 2007