• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.713-721
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• 2010

E-textile technology has earned a great deal of interest in many fields; however, existing wearable network protocols are not optimized for use with conductive yarn. In this paper, some of the basic properties of conductive textiles and requirements on wearable personal area networks (PANs) are reviewed. Then, we present a wearable personal network (WPN), which is a four-layered wearable PAN using bus topology. We have designed the WPN to be a lightweight protocol to work with a variety of microcontrollers. The profile layer is provided to make the application development process easy. The data link layer exchanges frames in a master-slave manner in either the reliable or best-effort mode. The lower part of the data link layer and the physical layer of WPN are made of a fabric serial-bus interface which is capable of measuring bus signal properties and adapting to medium variation. After a formal verification of operation and performances of WPN, we implemented WPN communication modules (WCMs) on small flexible printed circuit boards. In order to demonstrate the behavior of our WPN on a textile, we designed a WPN tutorial shirt prototype using implemented WCMs and conductive yarn.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1662-1667
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• 2005

In this paper, analysis, design, control and prototype construction of a wearable wire-driven haptic interface called HapticPen is discussed. This device can be considered as a wire driven parallel mechanism which three wires are attached to a pen-tip. Wire tensions are provided utilizing three DC servo motors which are attached to a solid frame on the user's body. This device is designed as input as well as output device for a wearable PC. User can write letters or figures on a virtual plate in space. Pen-tip trajectory in space is calculated using motor encoders and force feedback resulting from contact between pen and virtual plate is provided for constraining the pen-tip motion onto the virtual plane that can be easily setup by arbitrary non-collinear three points in space. In this paper kinematic model, workspace analysis, application analysis, control and prototype construction of this device are presented. Preliminary experiments on handwriting in space show feasibility of the proposed device in wearable environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.153.3-153
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• 2001

Recently, the researches on the mobile computing technologies for palm computers, PDA´s and wearable computers became very active. In the development of mobile devices, one of the key technologies is the human interface. So, this paper suggests a new input device for PDA´s and wearable computers so-called key-glove. The design methods of key-glove are discussed in this paper and we manufactured the key-glove which recognizes that character is typed in though the hand´s movements analysis and is designed as an input device for wearable computers and virtual environment. Also, we are executes a performance test for alphanumeric data entry, command entry and X-Y pointer input. In the results, we are confirmed in its ...

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.37-40
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• 2002

Intelligent Wearable Module is intelligent system that arises when a human is part of the feedback loop of a computational process like a certain control system. Applied system is mobile robot. This paper represents the mobile robot control system remote controlled by Intelligent Wearable Module. So far, owing to the development of internet technologies, lots of remote control methods through internet have been proposed. To control a mobile robot through internet and guide it under unknown environment, We propose a control method activated by Intelligent Wearable Module. In a proposed system, PDA acts as a user interface to communicate with notebook as a controller of the mobile robot system using TCP/IP protocol, and the notebook controls the mobile robot system. Tlle information about the direction and velocity of the mobile robot feedbacks to the PDA and the PDA send new control method produced from the fuzzy inference engine.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2010

웨어러블 단말기에서 가장 문제가 되고 있는 부분은 디스플레이 장치이다. 이러한 문제의 해결 방안으로 안경처럼 착용하는 모니터의 일종인 HMD(Head Mounted Display)가 개발되어 사용되고 있다. 그러나 HMD에서도 문제점은 존재한다. HMD를 착용하고 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 감상하는 도중에 콘텐츠를 선택하거나 실행할 경우 버튼, 키, 마우스 등을 조작해야 하나, HMD를 착용한 경우에는 매우 불편하다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 가장 근본적인 방법은 새로운 인터페이스를 개발하는 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 제스처 인식 기반의 웨어러블 영상시청 시스템을 개발하였다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 착용형 컴퓨터를 위한 촉각 사용자 인터페이스 및 이를 활용한 개선된 입력알고리즘을 제안한다. 유비쿼터스 환경의 도래에 따른 차세대 PC의 진화 방향은, 인간이 느끼는 색상, 빛의 밝기, 소리, 향기, 맛, 감촉 등의 오감정보의 효과적인 융합과 재현을 목표로, 사용자 중심의 인간-기계 관계의 형성으로 나아가고 있다. 그러나 이러한 기능의 다양함과는 별개로, H/W플랫폼의 진화 방향은 항상 휴대가 간편하도록 소형화, 경량화 및 착용화 형태로 개발되어지고 있다. 이러한 차세대 PC의 소형화 및 경량화 관련 진화에 가장 큰 걸림돌이 되는 부분은 사용자 입출력 장치로서, 기존의 키보드 및 모니터 등의 장치를 활용한 사용자 인터페이스에는 소형화의 한계가 존재하고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 소형화, 경량화 및 착용화를 위한 새로운 방법의 사용자 입력장치 및 입력알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 기존에 제안되어진 유사 장치와의 비교 분석을 통한 제안시스템 및 알고리즘의 실효성을 평가한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.839-847
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• 2014

최근 컴퓨터 기술의 발전으로 웨어러블 컴퓨터 기술이 개발되고 있다. 이는 HCI (human-centric interface)기술과 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 기술을 기반으로 한다. 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템은 WiMedia PHY/MAC 기술과 결합된 USB 기술로 WUSB (wireless universal serial bus) 기술을 사용하여 구성할 수 있다. 본 논문은 U-Health 기능을 지원하는 무선 웨어러블 컴퓨터시스템을 구성하기 위해 WUSB기술과 WBAN (wireless body area networks) 기술을 결합한 통신시스템 구조에 초점을 맞추었다. 이를 위해 WBAN 망에서 WUSB 통신 구간을 할당하는 통신 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 통신구조에서 WUSB 통신 구간은 WBAN Privated Period를 사용한다. 성능 평가에서는 WBAN 통신 점유율에 따른 WUSB 통신 수율을 이론적인 분석과 시뮬레이션을 통해 비교 분석하여 WUSB over WBAN 통신의 효율성을 평가하였다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2016

These days, ICT-related products are pouring out due to development of mobile technology and increase of smart phones. Among the ICT-related products, wearable devices are being spotlighted with the advent of hyper-connected society. In this paper, a body-attached type wearable device using EMG(electromyography) sensors is studied. The research field of EMG sensors is divided into two parts. One is medical area and another is control device area. This study corresponds to the latter that is a method of transmitting user's manipulation intention to robots, games or computers through the measurement of EMG. We used commercial device MYO developed by Thalmic Labs in Canada and matched up EMG of arm muscles with gesture controller. In the experiment part, first of all, various arm motions for controlling devices are defined. Finally, we drew several distinguishing kinds of motions through analysis of the EMG signals and substituted a joystick with the motions.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2138-2142
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• 2005

A wearable sensor system is proposed as a man-machine interface to control a device for walking assistance. The sensor system is composed of small sensors to detect the information about the user's body motion such as the activity level of skeletal muscles and the acceleration of each body parts. Each sensor includes a microcomputer and all the sensors are connected into a network by using the serial communication function of the microcomputer. The whole network is integrated into a belt made of soft fabric, thus, users can put on/off very easily. The sensor system is very reliable because of its decentralized network configuration. The body information obtained from the sensor system is used for controlling the assisting device to achieve a comfortable and an effective walking training.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.176-183
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• 2009

This paper proposes command signal generating method for a wearable robot using the force as the input signal. The basic concept of this system pursues the combination of the natural and sophisticated intelligence of human with the powerful motion capability of the robot. We define a task for the command signal generation to operate with the human body simultaneously, paying attention to comfort and ease of wear. In this study, we suggest a basic exoskeleton experimental system to evaluate a HRI(Human Robot Interface), selecting interfaces of arm braces on both wrists and a weight harness on the torso to connect the robot and human. We develop the HRI to provide a command for the robot motion. It connects between the human and the robot with the multi-axis load-cell, and it measures the relative force between the human and the robot. The control system calculates the trajectory of end-effector using this force signal. In this paper, we verify the performance of proposed system through the motion of elbow E/F(Extension/Flexion), the shoulder E/F and the shoulder Ab/Ad (Abduction/Adduction).