• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2004

Most tasks of the large vertical or ceiling structures have been carried out by human power. Those tasks require us much operation costs and times, safety devices, etc. So the need of automation for those tasks have been rising. That automation needs a wall-climbing mobile vehicle. Most former researches are things about attachment devices and moving mechanisms. A wall-climbing mobile vehicle must be designed by a method different from the case of the vehicle of the horizontal environment. That is because gravity acts as a negative role on the stability of a wall-climbing vehicle. In this thesis, the particular shape characteristics of a wall-climbing mobile vehicle are derived by the wall-environment modeling. In addition, some design constraints of the permanent magnetic wheel as an attachment device was studied. According to those requirements and constraints, one specific wall-climbing mobile vehicle was designed and some experiments were made on the attachment ability of that vehicle.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1128-1133
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• 2011

This is a testing equipment system to analyze variation of creep force according to wheel-rail tread profile, running speed of vehicle, vertical and lateral force, wheel/rail contact point, attack angle and so on. The creep force affect vehicle derailment, especially climbing derailment. This system is composed of main frame, wheelset and rail disks driver, hydraulic actuator, controller, environmental chamber, safety system and so on.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제38권7호
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• pp.699-709
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 단일윤축 탈선이론을 적용하여 측풍 조건에서 주행 중인 철도차량의 탈선을 예측하는 방법을 제시하였다. 기존 연구에서는 측풍에 의한 탈선은 모두 전복탈선이라고 가정하여 탈선 예측 이론을 개발하였다. 그러나 이러한 가정은 특수한 주행조건하에서 차륜 타고오름 탈선의 가능성을 무시하고 있다. 또 기존의 측풍 탈선 이론은 주행 중 발생하는 차륜-궤도 사이의 마찰력, 동적상호작용과 같은 주행조건이 탈선에 미치는 영향을 고려할 수 없었다. 본 논문의 방법은 차륜-궤도 사이의 동적 영향, 횡가속도 및 켄트 영향, 측풍 영향 등을 동시에 고려할 수 있었다. 본 이론의 결과를 기존 이론 및 시뮬레이션 결과와 비교하여 타당성을 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2003

An autonomous stair robot recognizing the stair, and climbing up and down the stair by utilizing a robot vision, photo sensors, and appropriate climbing algorithm is introduced. Four arms associated with four wheels make the robot climb up and down more safely and faster than a simple track typed robot. The robot can adjust wheel base according to the stair width, hence it can adopt to a variable width stair with different algorithms in climbing up and down. The command and image data acquired from the robot are transferred to the main computer through RF wireless modules, and the data are delivered to a remote computer via a network communication through a proper data compression, thus, the real time image monitoring is implemented effectively.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.55-56
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• 2006

This paper describes a new concept of the robot that can climb on the vertical plane. The engineering design problem of the main structure is presented and the experimental results regarding a new mechanism of climbing on the vertical wall are discussed. The locomotive motion of the robot is realized by using a series chain of two caterpillar wheels on which 24-suction pads are installed. White each caterpillar wheel rotates on the vertical plane surface, the vacuum pads are activated in sequence based on the sequential opening by specially designed mechanical valves. The detail design feature of the valve is also described in this paper. The overall size of the robot is around 460 mm in width and length, respectively, and 200 mm in height. Its mass is slightly over 14 kg. The main mechanical structure of the robot consists of driving motors, vacuum caterpillar system, steering part, vacuum pump and battery. The performance of the robot is verified on the vertical wall.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.177-185
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• 2010

In this paper, a wall climbing robot, called LAVAR, is developed, which is using an impeller for adhering. The adhesion mechanism of the robot consists of an impeller and two-layered suction seals which provide sufficient adhesion force for the robot body on the non smooth vertical wall and horizontal ceiling. The robot uses two driving-wheels and one ball-caster to maneuver the wall surface. A suspension mechanism is also used to overcome the obstacles on the wall surface. For its design, the whole adhering mechanism is analyzed and the control system is built up based on this analysis. The performances of the robot are experimentally verified on the vertical and horizontal flat surfaces.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.118-125
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• 2012

Based on recent advances in technology, many robots are developed and they are used in a hazardous environment such as military operation, fire, and building collapse and so on. Among them, reconnaissance robot should be able to perform various missions which people can not do. So it needs the capability of moving with hiding its position on rough terrain, overcoming obstacles, and guaranteeing its efficiency of reconnaissance. For this reason there are in progress of researching biomimetic robots. Therefore in this paper we proposed robot mechanism, two modules based on the screw and wheel mechanism which mimic snake, and the spiral climbing method was considered for overcoming the situation when moving on the trees.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.128-131
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new design of the permanent magnet reluctance wheel which will make it possible to attach the robot to a vertical plane and move it. In the newly suggested design, a permanent magnet is utilized to enhance the adhesive force during attachment, and an electromagnet is produced to weaken the magnetic field of the permanent magnet and reduce the adhesive force for easier detachment of wheels from steel plates. To characterize the performance of this new wheel design, a 3-D finite element analysis is executed using a commercial FE program. The results show that the adhesive force is reduced effectively by the electromagnet which flows in the reverse direction of the magnetic loop of the permanent magnet when the current is supplied to the coil.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1996

In this paper, describe the automatic climbing wheelchair system use an articulated crawler mobile robot. This wheelchair system(call system) is composed of sensor detecting part and wireless communication part with PC. The sensor parts are consisted of sloping sensor and ultrasonic sensor part. The sloping sensor measures the sloping angle of system, and the ultrasonic sensor measures the distance of system's front wheel center from stair. PC will generate the operation data to climb up the stair using the measured data and make primitives for the system. At firsts This system transfer from sensor data to the PC. PC calculate the operation data to climb up the stair from the internal algorithm. We simulated the system in various stair angle slope($25^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$), and tested it on the real staircase with width 37cm, highlt 18cm, Angle $26^{\circ}$ . There were $0.350^{\circ}$ - $1.060^{\circ}$ Angle errors while climbing because adapted sensor has a precision $0.35^{\circ}$ in resolution. Finally, We implemented the sensor detecting part and the wireless communication park and practiced our system in 4cm/sec speed.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.661-669
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• 1995

원자력시설에서 점검 및 보수작업을 위하여 이동로보트 KAEROT을 개발하였다. 이동로보트의 주행장치는 소차륜들이 부착된 유성차륜의 형태로 구성되어 높은 안정성을 유지하며 계단을 포함한 많은 장애물의 승하강이 가능하도록 설계하였다 본 논문에서는 로보트의 원격조작을 용이하게 하기 위하여 이동로보트의 기구학적 해석을 통하여 역기구학 해를 구하였고, 자동 계단승월 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 이동경로를 결정한 후 제안된 기준경로를 추종할 수 있도록 각 차륜의 각속도를 구하는 것이다. 제작 오차가 있는 실험실내 계단에 대하여 시뮬레이션 및 실험을 수행하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 로보트 몸체의 경사각도를 낮게 유지시킬 수 있었고, 주행중 안정성을 높혀주었다.