• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.4087-4094
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• 2010

본 보행 로봇의 자세 제어는 일반적으로 센서 시스템을 통한 외부 환경 및 기타 정보의 인식을 통해 수행된다. 보다 정교한 로봇의 제어를 위해서는 필연적으로 고성능 센서를 요구하게 되지만, 이들은 대부분 고가이거나 내구성 측면에서 매우 취약한 것이 사실이다. 따라서 필드로봇과 같이 야지의 환경에서 운용되는 로봇 시스템의 제어를 위해서 이러한 센서 시스템을 다수 채용하는 것은 비현실적이며, 특히 양산시에도 큰 걸림돌로 작용할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 신경망 이론의 역전파 알고리즘에 기반을 둔 가상센서 알고리즘을 활용하여 기존의 센싱 데이터를 추정할 수 있는 기법을 소개하고자 한다. 특히 본 논문에서는 추정된 센서 데이터의 품질을 향상 시킬 수 있는 알고리즘 측면에서의 변수 조절 및 센서 시스템과 같은 하드웨어 측면에서의 변화를 통해 성능인자에 영향을 미치는 요소를 파악함과 동시에, 본 기법의 타당성에 대한 측면을 함께 논하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.771-782
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• 2017

본 논문은 노약자들의 발목근력보조를 위한 착용형 로봇에 대해서 서술하였다. 기존 착용형 로봇들은 보행 시 필요한 근력을 보조하기 위해 대부분 모터와 감속기를 사용하였다. 하지만 모터와 감속기의 조합은 무게가 무거울 뿐만 아니라 감속기 치차의 마찰때문에 실제 사람의 근육과 달리 강성과 토크를 동시에 제어하기 어려운 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 모터/감속기 조합보다 가볍고 안전하며 근력을 보조하는 힘을 충분히 발휘할 수 있는 Mckibben 공압 근육을 사용하였다. 발목의 피칭 모션에 이용되는 종아리 가자미근 및 앞정강근의 힘을 한 쌍의 공압 근육을 사용한 상극구동으로 보조하였으며, 상극구동제어를 위해 상극구동 모델 파라미터들을 실험적으로 도출하였다. 사용자의 보행의지를 판단하고자 발바닥에 부착된 압력변위센서로 압력과 압력중심위치를 측정하여 발바닥의 하중과 발목토크를 계산하였고, 이를 기반으로 공압 근육 관절의 강성과 토크를 동시에 제어하였다. 최종적으로, 트레드밀에서 근전도 신호를 측정하여 발목근력보조로봇의 성능을 실험적으로 입증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.315-322
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• 2009

This paper explains a control and navigation algorithm of a 6-DOF gait rehabilitation robot, which can allow a patient to navigate in virtual reality (VR) by upper and lower limbs interactions. In gait rehabilitation robots, one of the important concerns is not only to follow the robot motions passively, but also to allow the patient to walk by his/her intention. Thus, this robot allows automatic walking velocity update by estimating interaction torques between the human and the upper limb device, and synchronizing the upper limb device to the lower limb device. In addition, the upper limb device acts as a user-friendly input device for navigating in virtual reality. By pushing the switches located at the right and left handles of the upper limb device, a patient is able to do turning motions during navigation in virtual reality. Through experimental results of a healthy subject, we showed that rehabilitation training can be more effectively combined to virtual environments with upper and lower limb connections. The suggested navigation scheme for gait rehabilitation robot will allow various and effective rehabilitation training modes.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.96-103
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• 2009

This paper describes a humanoid robot's intelligent foot with two six-axis force/moment sensors. The developed humanoid robots didn't get the intelligent feet for walking on uneven surface safely. In order to walk on uneven surface safely, the robot should measure the reaction forces and moments applied on the sales of the feet, and they should be controlled with the measured the forces and moments. In this paper, an intelligent foot for a humanoid robot was developed. First, the body of foot was designed to be rotated the toe and the heel to all directions, second, the six-axis force/moment sensors were manufactured, third, the high-speed controller was manufactured using DSP(digital signal processor), fourth, the humanoid robot's intelligent foot was manufactured using the body of foot, two six-axis force/moment sensors and the high-speed controller, finally, the characteristic test of the intelligent foot was carried out. It is thought that the foot could be used for a humanoid robot.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.276-280
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• 2020

A linear piezoelectric actuator that utilizes the elliptical motion of the two tips of the actuator is proposed. This device is easy to fabricate owing to its simple structure, consisting of three piezo ceramic benders and is suitable for use in micro robotic applications. A π-shaped structure, which was composed of four piezo ceramic benders, was constructed. Two of the benders were positioned on the center of the actuator, and the joints were attached at the ends of the cantilever. The other two benders were positioned on the side of the actuator and were attached between the joint and the tips. The actuator structure was designed to obtain the first bending mode of the horizontal vibration and the vertical vibration at the same frequency, resulting in elliptical motions at the tips. When two sinusoidal wave voltages with a 90-degree phase difference were applied to the two pairs of the actuator benders, elliptical motions were obtained at the tips. The driving characteristics of the prototype actuator were then measured using a laser doppler vibrometer.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.86-93
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• 2021

This paper proposes a controller to regulate the supply pressure of the hydraulic power unit (HPU) for driving a bipedal robot. We establish flow rate models for charging accumulator, actuating joints and leaking from actuators and spool valves. This determines the pump driving motor speed to satisfy the demanded flow rate for operating the bipedal robot without the energy loss caused by the bypass through a pressure regulating valve. We apply proposed controller to an onboard HPU mounted on top of bipedal robot platform with twelve degrees of freedom. We implement air-walking motion and squat motion which require variable flow rate to the bipedal robot. Through this experiment, the energy efficiency of proposed controller was verified by comparing the electric energy consumed when the controller was applied and when the pump operated at constant speed. We also shows the capability of the HPU's control performance to regulate supply pressure.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2021

One of the most challenging issues when robots interact with the environment is to establish contact quickly and avoid high impact force at the same time. The proposed method implements the passive suspension system using the redundancy of the torque-controlled robot. Instead of utilizing the actual mechanical compliance, the distal joints near the end-effector are controlled to act as a virtual spring-damper system with low feedback gains. The proximal joints are precisely controlled to push the mid-link, which is defined as the boundary link between the proximal and distal joints, towards the environment with high feedback gains. Compared to the active compliance methods, the contact force measurements or estimates are not required for contact establishment and the control time delay problems do not occur correspondingly. The proposed method was applied to the landing foot control of the 12-DoF biped robot DYROS-RED in the simulations. In the results, the impact force during landing was significantly reduced at the same collision speed.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2022

Multiple AMRs have been proved to be effective in improving warehouse productivity by eliminating workers' wasteful walking time. Although Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF)-based solution is an optimal approach for this task, its deployment in practice is challenging mainly due to its imperfect plan-execution capabilities and insufficient computing resources for high-density environments. In this paper, we present a MAPF-based fleet management system architecture that robustly manages multiple robots by re-computing their paths whenever it is necessary. To achieve this, we defined four events that trigger our MAPF solver framework to generate new paths. These paths are then delivered to each AMR through ROS2 message topic. We also optimized a graph structure that effectively captures spatial information of the warehouse. By using this graph structure we can reduce computational burden while keeping its rescheduling functionality. With proposed MAPF-based fleet management system, we can control AMRs without collision or deadlock. We applied our fleet management system to the real logistics warehouse with 10 AMRs and observed that it works without a problem. We also present the usage statistic of adopting AMRs with proposed fleet management system to the warehouse. We show that it is useful over 25% of daily working time.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.444-449
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 구조가 간단하고 소형화 제작이 용이한 소형보행 로봇용 구동원을 제안한다. 두 개의 직교방향 모멘트를 핀조인트 구조의 다리에서 회전벡터로 변환하여 이동표면에 타원궤적이 발생하도록 설계하였고, 다른 구동원 대비 효율성과 에너지 밀도가 높은 압전 세라믹을 활용하여 압전벤더 액츄에어터를 제작하였다. 또한 사용된 압전 벤더 액츄에이터는 유한요소해석을 통한 자체 무게대비 최대의 출력을 낼 수 있도록 재질 및 형상을 최적화하였다. 두 개의 다리로 구성된 단위 액츄에이터는 모듈화 되어 여러 개의 액츄에이터로 결합이 가능하고 매운 빠른 속도로 이동 및 거친 지형에서도 운용이 가능하다. 실험결과로 T자형 로봇 액츄에이터의 다양한 속도 (2 mm/sec.에서 266 mm/sec까지)와 운송능력(최대 10 g에서 50 mm/s까지)을 확인 하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2016

The Voice recognition is one of convenient methods to communicate between human and robots. This study proposes a speech recognition method using speech recognizers based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) with a combination of techniques to enhance a biped robot control. In the past, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) were used, however, currently they are less commonly applied to speech recognition systems. This Research confirms that the HMM, an accepted high-performance technique, can be successfully employed to model speech signals. High recognition accuracy can be obtained by using HMMs. Apart from speech modeling techniques, multiple feature extraction methods have been studied to find speech stresses caused by emotions and the environment to improve speech recognition rates. The procedure consisted of 2 parts: one is recognizing robot commands using multiple HMM recognizers, and the other is sending recognized commands to control a robot. In this paper, a practical voice recognition system which can recognize a lot of task commands is proposed. The proposed system consists of a general purpose microprocessor and a useful voice recognition processor which can recognize a limited number of voice patterns. By simulation and experiment, it was illustrated the reliability of voice recognition rates for application of the manufacturing process.