• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2018

Presently, the exploration of an unknown environment is an important task for the development of mobile robots and mobile robots are navigated by means of a number of methods, using navigating systems such as the sonar-sensing system or the visual-sensing system. To fully utilize the strengths of both the sonar and visual sensing systems, In mobile robotics, multi-sensor data fusion(MSDF) became useful method for navigation and collision avoiding. Moreover, their applicability for map building and navigation has exploited in recent years. In this paper, as the preliminary step for developing a multi-purpose autonomous carrier mobile robot to transport trolleys or heavy goods and serve as robotic nursing assistant in hospital wards. The aim of this paper is to present the use of multi-sensor data fusion such as ultrasonic sensor, IR sensor for mobile robot to navigate, and presents an experimental mobile robot designed to operate autonomously within indoor environments. Simulation results with a mobile robot will demonstrate the effectiveness of the discussed methods.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2017년도 제56차 하계학술대회논문집 25권2호
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• pp.401-402
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 아두이노와 스마트 폰 어플리케이션을 이용한 수중탐사로봇을 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템은 스마트폰으로 간편하게 조종을 할 수 있으며, 한눈에 알아보기 쉽게 수중의 영상 및 온도와 ph값, 수질 오염도를 체크할 수 있다. 양식업 사업에서 실시간으로 체크해 빠른 대처와 조치를 취할 수 있어 효율적으로 양식업을 관리 할 수 있다는 점에서 기대효과를 볼 수 있다. 또한 해양사고 발생 시 수중탐사로봇이 먼저 투입하여 인명구조를 하는 인력과 제 2의 피해자가 최소화 될 수 있고 더 이상 인명피해가 나지 않도록 안전적인 측면에서도 기대할 수 있다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.367-371
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• 2014

In early 1990s, the Korean government has launched a deep-sea research program to secure the stable long-term supply of strategic metallic minerals including Cr, Cu and Ni. Through the pioneering surveys, Korea registered $150,000km^2$ of Mn-nodule field in the Clarion-Clipperton area, the NE equatorial Pacific to the international sea-bed authority (ISA) in 1994. Following the ISA exploration code, the final exclusive exploration area of $75,000km^2$ was assigned in 2002, based on results of eight-year researches of chemico-physical properties of nodules, bottom profiles and sediment properties. Since that time, environmental studies, mining technical developments including robot miner and lifting system and establishment of smelting systems were accompanied with the detailed geophysical studies to decipher the priori mining area until 2009. Major points of the recent Korea Mn-nodule program are deployed on a commercial scale until 2015. In order to meet the goals, we developed a 1/5 scaled robot miner compared to commercial one in 2012 and performed a mining test at the water depth of 1,370 m in 2013. In addition, detailed 25,000 scaled mining maps in the priori area, which can provide operation roots of the miner, will be prepared and an environmental-friendly mining strategy will be pursued based on the environmental impact test and environmental monitoring.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2010

We propose a space and time based sensor fusion method and a robust landmark detecting algorithm based on sensor fusion for mobile robot navigation. To fully utilize the information from the sensors, first, this paper proposes a new sensor-fusion technique where the data sets for the previous moments are properly transformed and fused into the current data sets to enable an accurate measurement. Exploration of an unknown environment is an important task for the new generation of mobile robots. The mobile robots may navigate by means of a number of monitoring systems such as the sonar-sensing system or the visual-sensing system. The newly proposed, STSF (Space and Time Sensor Fusion) scheme is applied to landmark recognition for mobile robot navigation in an unstructured environment as well as structured environment, and the experimental results demonstrate the performances of the landmark recognition.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.400-400
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• 2000

This paper purposed that verify the validity of Petri Net method for control progressive increase of system complexity, before extend the realized single robot system to multi-robot system. An autonomous mobile robot(AMR) needs decision making, motion control, path planning, tracking a path, obstacle avoidance, and sensor fusion, to complete its task. An AMR integrates and operates these technics through a consistent command system. An error in a command hierarchy which is like duplication or omission of a control command hierarchy for each module results in serious problems. This paper minimizes the error by modeling each module and whole system using Petri Net graphical representation and applies it to the exploration task of an AMR

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2017

이 논문은 원격언어교육으로서 2가지 형태의 비디오 영상수업과 로봇영상 수업에 따른 아이와 로봇상호작용을 연구한다. 원격지의 미국 아이와 6명의 한국 아이들로 실험수업을 진행했으며, 일대일 인터뷰를 통한 나래이션 및 관찰분석을 하였다. 실험결과 로봇영상 수업이 2가지 형태의 비디오 영상수업보다 활발한 상호작용을 보였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.284-291
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• 2012

Recently, development of underwater robot has actively been in progress in the world as ROV(Remotely Operator Vehicle) and AUV(Autonomous Unmmanded Vehicle) style. But KIOST(Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology), beginning in 2010, launched the R&D project to develop the robot, dubbed CRABSTER(Crab + (Lob)ster) in a bid to enhance the safety and efficiency of resource exploration. CRABSTER has been designed to be able to walk and swim with its own legs without screws. Among many research subjects regarding CRABSTER, optimal swimming patterns are handled in this paper. In previous studies, drag forces during one period with different values for angle of each joint were derived. However kinematics of real-robot and fluid-dynamics are not considered. We conducted simulations with an optimization algorithm for swimming by considering simplified fluid dynamics in this paper. Drag-coefficients applied to the simulation were approximated values calculated by CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics : Tecplot 360, ANSYS). In addition, optimized swimming patterns were applied to a real robot. The experiments with the real robot were conducted in circumstances in the water. As a result, when the experiments were carried out in the water, a regular pattern of drag force output came out depending on the movement of the robot. We confirmed the fact that the drag forces from the simulation and the experiment has a high similarity.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.457-467
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 로봇을 하나의 에이전트로 보고 로봇에 필요한 기능-환경인지, 지능, 행동-등을 부-에이전트로 하는 로봇 구조를 제안하였다. 각각의 부 에이전트들은 로봇 기능의 기초단위를 구성하는 마이크로 에이전트로 구성된다. 로봇의 제어 구조는 행위기반 반사행동 제어 형태와 행동 선택 에이전트로 구성되며, 행동 선택 에이전트에서의 행동 선택은 행동 우선순위, 수행성능, 강화학습에 의한 학습기능을 부가하였다. 제시된 로봇 구조는 다중 부-에이전트 구조로 각각의 기능에 대하여 지능을 부여하기 쉬우며 다중 로봇 제어를 위한 새로운 접근 방법이다. 제시된 로봇을 장애물을 회피와 chaotic한 탐색을 목표로 하여 모의실험을 수행하였으며 8bit 마이크로 콘트롤러를 이용하여 제작 실험하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.189-200
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• 2007

This paper addresses the localization and navigation problem in the movement of service robots by using invisible two dimensional barcodes on the floor. Compared with other methods using natural or artificial landmarks, the proposed localization method has great advantages in cost and appearance since the location of the robot is perfectly known using the barcode information after mapping is finished. We also propose a navigation algorithm which uses a topological structure. For the topological information, we define nodes and edges which are suitable for indoor navigation, especially for large area having multiple rooms, many walls, and many static obstacles. The proposed algorithm also has the advantage that errors which occur in each node are mutually independent and can be compensated exactly after some navigation using barcodes. Simulation and experimental results were performed to verify the algorithm in the barcode environment, showing excellent performance results. After mapping, it is also possible to solve the kidnapped robot problem and to generate paths using topological information.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2005

In recent years, vision sensors are widely used to mobile robot for navigation or exploration. The analog signal transmission of visual data being used in this area, however, has some disadvantages including noise weakness in view of the data storage. A large amount of data also makes it difficult to use this method for a mobile robot. In this paper, a digital data compressing technology based on MPEG4 which substitutes for analog technology is proposed to overcome the disadvantages by using DWT(Discreate Wavelet Transform) instead of DCT(Discreate Cosine Transform). The TI Company's DSP chip, TMS320C6711, is used for the image encoder, and the performance of the proposed method is evaluated by PSNR(Peake Signal to Noise Rates), QP(Quantization Parameter) and bitrate.