• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.3658-3665
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• 2010

As the population of elderly people and disabled people are increased, various demands for human welfare using robot system are raised. Especially autonomous rehabilitation system using robot could reduce the human effort while maintaining the its intrinsic efficacy. This study deals with mobile gait rehabilitation system which combined with BWS (Body Weight Support) for training of elderly and handicapped people who suffer the muscle force weakness of lower extremity. BWS which is designed by kinematic analysis of body lifting characteristics and walking guide system are integrated with main control system and wheeled platform. This mobile platform is operated by UCS (User Command System) and autonomous trajectory planning algorithm. Finally, through the EMG (Electromyography) signal measuring and its analysis for subject, performance and feasibility of developed system is verified.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.171-176
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• 2016

By developing rider robot using omni wheel drive, a usability test for 6 people was conducted after finding out inconvenient factors and ways of improvement. The results of this research are as follows. First, we researched inconvenient factors captured by object of experiment using a rider robot who is living in the dormitory. It showed that the disabled showing 1.6 of satisfaction degree felt more inconvenient for normal people showing 4 of satisfaction degree. It was found that the height of seats is 10 centimeters higher, which caused inconvenience for moving. Second, each of the disabled and normal people showed 2.33 and 2.62 of satisfaction degree below the average for seats, back of a seat, armrest, footrest, security belts. However, for the revised design both of them showed 3.5 of satisfaction degree over the average. Third, most people felt this robot is quite expensive and said they would purchase it if subsidized by the government. Therefore, based on inconvenient factors and ways of improvement found in this research, further study needs to be conducted so as to improve the quality of life of the disabled.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.676-678
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• 2003

Microtunneling techniques play a crucial role in the construction of pipelines. This paper shows the automatic tunneling algorithm of microtunneling system using fuzzy logic technology to assist operators to assure the quality of microtunneling construction. To have effective output value of fuzzy controller, we slightly modified the conventional defuzzification methods. The proposed automatic tunneling algorithm shows good tunneling results comparable with those of experts.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.666-674
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• 2001

Classical methods to find a minimal set of rules based on the rough set theory are known to be ineffective in dealing with new instances added to the universe. This paper introduces an inductive learning algorithm for incrementally retrieving a minimal set of rules from a given decision table. Then, the algorithm is validated via simulations with two sets of data, in comparison with a classical non-incremental algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is effective in dealing with new instances, especially in practical use.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1-7
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• 1998

Robots utilized in the field of welfare or agriculture should be light in weight and flexible in structure. A pneumatic actuator has properties such that it is more powerful compared with a motor of same weight, and that it is flexible, clean and unexplosive. In this paper we propose a new structure of the pneumatic actuator with two-degree-of-freedom. By using proposed pneumatic actuators, we can easily construct multi-degree-of-freedom pneumatic manipulators. Here we constructed a fourteen-degree-of-freedom pneumatic dual manipulator. The performance of the dual manipulators is confirmed through experiments for ball-handling with impedance control. In the experiments several control schemes, including the decentralized control and the simple adaptive control (SAC), were used. The results show that a flexibility of the pneumatic actuator is appropriate to accomplish the coordinative motion of the right and left arms of the robot.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.280-285
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• 2007

This paper presents a robustly adaptive flux observer for speed-sensorless induction motor control. The proposed approach employs additional robustifying signals to cope with the parametric uncertainties instead of designing an estimator, which has been normally used in power electronic drives. For that, the sliding-mode like adaptive controls are designed and their gain parameters are determined so that the observer dynamics are stable in the sense of Lyapunov, and furthermore they can guarantee the robustness against parametric uncertainties in induction motor systems. Estimated rotor speed is to be used to generate feedback control signal for the speed sensorless vector control system. To show the validity and efficiency of the proposed system, simulation results are presented.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.76-79
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• 2007

수화는 하나의 제스처가 하나의 단어를 나타내는 수화 단어와 한글을 알파벳으로 표현하는 지문자로 구성되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 USB 카메라로부터 촬영한 영상을 얻고 히스토그램을 이용하여 피부색 영역을 추출한다. 얼굴 영역 추적을 활용하여 이미지를 그리드화하고 지문자의 위치를 파악하여 초성, 중성, 종성을 구분하고 한글 음절을 구성하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.723-726
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• 2007

본 논문은 하이퍼 수화문장의 구성요소 중 하나인 신체요소 동작기호 데이터베이스와 수화동작 데이터베이스를 구축하는 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스를 다룬다. 청각장애인과 수화사용자가 수화단어를 간편하게 편집할 수 있도록 신체요소 동작기호 편집 프로그램을 개발하였으며, 이를 이용하여 약 1,300 개의 수화단어 데이터베이스를 구축하였다.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 2015

The system for controlling the robotic arm through the foot motion detection was implemented for the disabled who not free to use of the arm. In order to get an image on foot movement, two cameras were setup in front of both foot. After defining multiple regions of interest by using LabView-based Vision Assistant from acquired images, we could detect foot movement based on left/right and up/down edge detection within the left/right image area. After transferring control data which was obtained according to left/right and up/down edge detection numbers from two foot images of left/right sides through serial communication, control system was implemented to control 6-joint robotic arm into up/down and left/right direction by foot. As a result of experiment, we was able to get within 0.5 second reaction time and operational recognition rate of more 88%.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.179-189
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• 2022

In the face of revolutionary changes in industry, the relationship between labor and income needs to be reconceptualized in the period of social revolution. The absolute decrease in labor due to the absence of labor is caused by automation, smartization, AI, robot labor, etc., which we must accept whether we want to or not. However, while gross social product and capital of the state or society increase, individual income is likely to decrease. During this transformation period, the state or politics must prepare for the problems caused by the decline in individual income. Until now, there have been various levels of discussion on social welfare or social security from the perspective of welfare or assistance. Attempts or studies at the experimental level have been conducted at the level of many countries or local governments and have found positive and negative effects. There is no basic income system that is widely implemented at the national level, and various discussions are taking place from a future-oriented perspective. Therefore, I propose to look at it from a new perspective based on the perspective so far. We explored that it is part of a positive approach to examine the importance and necessity of basic income in terms of working hours, quality of labor, income, quality of life, value of spare time, and work-life balance. The goal is to actively accept the absolute lack of working hours, replacement of mechanical labor, and polarization due to changes in the industry paradigm, and to look at the problems that come from a positive perspective. If we are going to accept it anyway, we should not look at these issues as short-sighted, but prepare them preemptively and establish a primitive plan from a long-term and overall perspective. Smartphones have changed the world over the past decade and have been lost, but wouldn't there be a lot of new discoveries? Shouldn't we think of it as a great opportunity to improve the quality of life through technological changes?