• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.124-132
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• 2001

Autonomous of welding process in shipyard is ultimately necessary., since welding site is spatially enclosed by floors and girders, and therefore welding operators are exposed to hostile working conditions. To solve this problem, a welding robot that can navigate autonomously within the enclosure needs to be developed. To achieve the welding ra나, the robotic welding systems needs a sensor system for the recognition of the working environments and the weld seam tracking, and a specially designed environment recognition strategy. In this paper, a three-dimensional laser vision system is developed based on the optical triangulation technology in order to provide robots with work environmental map. At the same time a strategy for environment recognition for welding mobile robot is proposed in order to recognize the work environment efficiently. The design of the sensor system, the algorithm for sensing the structured environment, and the recognition strategy and tactics for sensing the work environment are described and dis-cussed in detail.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.776-787
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• 2002

Automation of welding process in shipyards is ultimately necessary, since the welding site is spatially enclosed by floors and girders, and therefore welding operators are exposed to hostile working conditions. To solve this problem, a welding mobile robot that can navigate autonomously within the enclosure has been developed. To achieve the welding task in the closed space, the robotic welding system needs a sensor system for the working environment recognition and the weld seam tracking, and a specially designed environment recognition strategy. In this paper, a three-dimensional laser vision system is developed based on the optical triangulation technology in order to provide robots with 3D work environmental map. Using this sensor system, a spatial filter based on neural network technology is designed for extracting the center of laser stripe, and evaluated in various situations. An environment modeling algorithm structure is proposed and tested, which is composed of the laser scanning module for 3D voxel modeling and the plane reconstruction module for mobile robot localization. Finally, an environmental recognition strategy for welding mobile robot is developed in order to recognize the work environments efficiently. The design of the sensor system, the algorithm for sensing the partially structured environment with plane segments, and the recognition strategy and tactics for sensing the work environment are described and discussed with a series of experiments in detail.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제49권9호
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• pp.307-313
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• 2012

본 논문은 자동 로봇 용접을 위한 Hand-Eye 레이저 거리 측정기 기반 용접 평면 인식 기법을 제안한다. 로봇 용접은 대상체의 형상에 의해 미리 정의된 용접선을 따라 금속 대상체를 용접 평면에 접합하는 과정이다. 따라서 성공적인 로봇 용접을 위해서는 용접 평면의 위치와 방향을 정확히 검출해야 한다. 만약 평면의 위치와 방향을 정확히 검출하지 못한다면 자동 로봇 용접은 실패하게 된다. 정밀한 용접 평면 인식을 위해 레이저 거리 측정기를 이용해 평면상의 직선을 검출한다. 레이저 거리측정기에 의한 직선 검출을 위해 Hough 변환을 적용한다. Hough 변환은 투표 방법을 기반으로 하기 때문에 센서의 측정 오차를 줄일 수 있다. 이 때 레이저 거리 측정기가 부착된 로봇 관절을 회전시켜 평면상의 두 개의 직선을 검출한 후 두 직선의 방향 벡터에 외적을 취해 평면의 방향을 인식한다. 제안된 방법의 실효성을 검증하기 위해 Simlab사에서 개발한 로봇 시뮬레이터인 RoboticsLab을 이용해 시뮬레이션을 수행한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.287-288
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• 2007

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.218-222
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• 2014

In this paper, we introduce an autonomous calibration method for a 2D laser displacement sensor (e.g. laser vision sensor and laser range finder) by matching a single point on a flat structure. Many arc welding robots install a 2D laser displacement sensor to expand their application by recognizing their environment (e.g. base metal and seam). In such systems, sensing data should be transformed to the robot's coordinates, and the geometric relation (i.e. rotation and translation) between the robot's coordinates and sensor coordinates should be known for the transformation. Calibration means the inference process of geometric relation between the sensor and robot. Generally, the matching of more than 3 points is required to infer the geometric relation. However, we introduce a novel method to calibrate using only 1 point matching and use a specific flat structure (i.e. circular hole) which enables us to find the geometric relation with a single point matching. We make the rotation component of the calibration results as a constant to use only a single point by moving a robot to a specific pose. The flat structure can be installed easily in a manufacturing site, because the structure does not have a volume (i.e. almost 2D structure). The calibration process is fully autonomous and does not need any manual operation. A robot which installed the sensor moves to the specific pose by sensing features of the circular hole such as length of chord and center position of the chord. We show the precision of the proposed method by performing repetitive experiments in various situations. Furthermore, we applied the result of the proposed method to sensor based seam tracking with a robot, and report the difference of the robot's TCP (Tool Center Point) trajectory. This experiment shows that the proposed method ensures precision.