• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.305-311
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 4족 로봇 몸체의 xz-축 스웨이(sway)를 이용하여 4족 로봇의 몸체 흔들림을 최소로 하고 안정도 여유를 최대로 하는 걸음새 생성 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 물결 걸음새(wave gait)를 기반으로 생성하고, 안정도 판별은 움직이는 다리의 높이 변화량과 4족 로봇의 몸체 기울기 정보를 이용한다. 이 때, 4족 로봇의 보행 시 z-축 스웨이로 인한 몸체의 충격을 줄이기 위해 푸리에 급수(Fourier series)를 이용하여 다리의 유연한 이동 궤적을 생성한다. 마지막으로, 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리듬의 실제 적용 가능성 및 효용성을 검증하기 위해 모의 실험 및 4족 로봇의 실제 보행 실험을 수행하여 제안한 방법의 보행 성능을 검증한다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.12-17
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 컴플라이언스 특성의 발을 갖는 이족 로봇의 다리 메커니즘을 제시한 후, 이족 로봇을 위한 전형적인 보행 패턴에서 발의 접촉 반발력과 이것이 무릎과 힙 관절에 미치는 영향을 고찰하고자 한다. 이러한 분석은 보행 로봇이 걸음 동작을 수행할때, 발의 물리적인 접촉력의 영향을 파악하는데 있어서 유용하고, 다리 메커니즘의 관절 사양을 결정하는데 활용될 수 있다. 결과적으로, 로봇 발 메커니즘의 컴플라이언스 특성이 발의 접촉 반발력에 의해 영향을 받는 보행 다리 관절의토오크 특성을 완화시키는데 기여할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.632-637
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• 2017

Even though the potential for an accident in nuclear power plants is very low, multiple emergency plans are necessary because the impact of such an accident to the public is enormous. One of these emergency plans involves a robotic system for investigating accidents under conditions of high radiation and contaminated air. To develop a robot suitable for operation in a nuclear power plant, we focused on eliminating the three major obstacles that challenge robots in such conditions: the disconnection of radio communication, falling on uneven floors, and loss of localization. To solve the radio problem, a Wi-Fi extender was used in radio shadow areas. To reinforce the walking, we developed two- and four-leg convertible walking, a floor adaptive foot, a roly-poly defensive falling design, and automatic standing recovery after falling methods were developed. To allow the robot to determine its location in the containment building, a bar code landmark reading method was chosen. When a severe accident occurs, this robot will be useful for accident condition monitoring. We also anticipate the robot can serve as a workman aid in a high radiation area during normal operations.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.392-402
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploratory and descriptive survey study design to examine 1) the physical difficulty by care task, 2) overall occupation-related physical burden by the characteristics of caregivers and care receivers, and 3) the level of help by the use of care robots and devices among formal caregivers working in facilities for older adults. In this study, 308 formal caregivers working in facilities were recruited from 8 nursing homes and 5 geriatric hospitals between Aug. 2021 and Sept. 2022 in South Korea. There were significant differences in ADLs between nursing homes and geriatric hospitals: eating, dressing, hygiene, transfer to bed, transfer to the toilet and walking. For each care item, the items the caregivers had the most difficulty ranked first were bathing, excretion assistance, and mobility support. The difference in occupation-related physical burden according to general characteristics was found to have statistically significant differences in female and bad perceived health. Among the 205 caregivers who had experience using care robots and devices, pressure ulcer prevention was the most experienced one, and those also were the most helpful and exercise aids were the least helpful. In order to reduce the physical burden on care providers, it is necessary to develop and introduce a care robots centered on the care site. Furthermore, national level public support systems are required to enable facilities to actively utilize care robots and devices.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.448-453
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• 2012

최근 다양한 환경에서 지능형 로봇의 안정된 이동방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 복합 바퀴-다리형 이동 로봇의 설계 방법을 제안하고, LRF(Laser Range Finder)센서를 이용한 복합 이동형 로봇의 저전력 보행 기반 장애물 회피 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 로봇의 자세 안정화와 소비에너지를 줄이기 위해 모터 전류값을 바탕으로 자세를 보정하여 저전력 보행 알고리즘을 구현하였고, 이를 기반으로 LRF센서를 이용한 장애물 회피 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 로봇의 각 다리에서 소비되는 전력을 고르게 분포시키게 자세를 보정하여 보행을 안정화시키고, 최단 경로로 장애물을 회피하여 이동함으로써 전체 소비 에너지를 감소시키며 보행 안정성을 향상하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 방법들은 실제 복합 이동 로봇의 보행 및 장애물 회피 실험을 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2018

The evolution of bipedal robots was the foundation stone for development of Humanoid robots. The highly complex and non-linear dynamic of human walking made it very difficult for researchers to simulate the gait patterns under different conditions. Simple controllers were developed initially using basic mechanics like Linear Inverted Pendulum (LIP) model and later on advanced into complex control systems with dynamic stability with the help of high accuracy feedback systems and efficient real-time optimization algorithms. This paper illustrates a number of significant mathematical models and controllers developed so far in the field of bipeds and humanoids. The key facts and ideas are extracted and categorized in order to describe it in a comprehensible structure.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.86-96
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• 2011

The human-following is one of the significant procedure in human-friendly navigation of mobile robots. There are many approaches of human-following technology. Many approaches have adopted various multiple sensors such as vision system and Laser Range Finder (LRF). In this paper, we propose detection and tracking approaches for human legs by the use of a single LRF. We extract four simple attributes of human legs. To define the boundary of extracted attributes mathematically, we used a Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) scheme. We establish an efficient leg-tracking scheme by exploiting a human walking model to achieve robust tracking under occlusions. The proposed approaches were successfully verified through various experiments.

• EDISON SW 활용 경진대회 논문집
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• 제6회(2017년)
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• pp.540-546
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• 2017

Bipedal robots tend to have greater mobility than conventional treaded or wheeled robots yet they are commonly complicated by instabilities in balance. This paper presents a bipedal robot based upon Jansen's locomotive mechanism which addresses these challenges in stability and efficiency. In order to achieve a functioning robot, we considered a multitude of variables in its motion including, the Ground Score, Drag Score, step size, foot lift, stride, and instantaneous speed of the Jansen mechanism. Matlab and Jansen Opt solver were used to optimize the legs of the robot. A trial and error experimental method was used to determine the best combination of link lengths, and m.Sketch was used to model our results. Finally, we drew the entirety of the robot's figure by using the Edison design.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.242-248
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• 2007

Robot system development consists of several sub-tasks such as layout design, motion planing, and sensor programming etc. In general, on-line programming and debugging for such tasks demands burdensome time and labor costs, which motivates an off-line graphic simulation system. MSRS(Microsoft Robotics Studio) released in recent years is an appropriate tool for the graphic simulation system since it supports CCR(Concurrency and Coordination Runtime), DSS(Decentralized System Services), and dynamics simulation based on PhysX and graphic animation as well. In this paper, we developed an MSRS based network simulation system for quadruped walking robots, which controls virtual 3D graphic robots existing in remote side through internet.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.246-252
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• 2005

Intelligent Space is a space where many sensors and intelligent devices are distributed. Mobile robots exist in this space as physical agents, which provide human with services. To realize this, human and mobile robots have to approach each other as much as possible. Moreover, it is necessary for them to perform interactions naturally. It is desirable for a mobile robot to carry out human affinitive movement. In this research, a mobile robot is controlled by the Intelligent Space through its resources. The mobile robot is controlled to follow walking human as stably and precisely as possible. In order to follow a human, control law is derived from the assumption that a human and a mobile robot are connected with a virtual spring model. Input velocity to a mobile robot is generated on the basis of the elastic force from the virtual spring in this model. And its performance is verified by the computer simulation and the experiment.