• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.239-246
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• 2004

In this paper, we develop and implement a high integrity GNC(Guidance, Navigation, and Control) system, based on the combined use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), for autonomous land vehicle applications. This paper highlights guidance for the predetermined trajectory and navigation with detection of possible faults during the fusion process in order to enhance the integrity of the navigation loop. The implementation of the GNC system to the autonomous land vehicle presented with fault detection methodology considers high frequency faults from the GPS receiver caused by shadowing and multipath error The implementation, based on a low-cost, strapdown INS aided by standard GPS technology, is described. The results of the field test in the urban environment are presented and showed effectiveness of the GNC system.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2002

It has been integrated into several navigation systems. This paper shows that system recognizes difficult indoor roads without any specific marks such as painted guide line or tape. In this method the robot navigates with visual sensors, which uses visual information to navigate itself along the read. The Neural Network System was used to learn driving pattern and decide where to move. In this paper, I will present a vision-based process for AMR(Autonomous Mobile Robot) that is able to navigate on the indoor read with simple computation. We used a single USB-type web camera to construct smaller and cheaper navigation system instead of expensive CCD camera.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.203-209
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• 2010

This paper presents a hierarchical fuzzy motion planner for humanoid robots in 3D uneven environments. First, we define both motion primitives and locomotion primitives of humanoid robots. A high-level planner finds a global path from a global navigation map that is generated based on a combination of 2.5 dimensional maps of the workspace. We use a passage map, an obstacle map and a gradient map of obstacles to distinguish obstacles. A mid-level planner creates subgoals that help the robot efficiently cope with various obstacles using only a small set of locomotion primitives that are useful for stable navigation of the robot. We use a local obstacle map to find the subgoals along the global path. A low-level planner searches for an optimal sequence of locomotion primitives between subgoals by using fuzzy motion planning. We verify our approach on a virtual humanoid robot in a simulated environment. Simulation results show a reduction in planning time and the feasibility of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.182-188
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• 2011

This paper describes a method of road tracking by using a vision and laser with extracting road boundary (road lane and curb) for navigation of intelligent transport robot in structured road environments. Road boundary information plays a major role in developing such intelligent robot. For global navigation, we use a global positioning system achieved by means of a global planner and local navigation accomplished with recognizing road lane and curb which is road boundary on the road and estimating the location of lane and curb from the current robot with EKF(Extended Kalman Filter) algorithm in the road assumed that it has prior information. The complete system has been tested on the electronic vehicles which is equipped with cameras, lasers, GPS. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the combined laser and vision system by our approach for detecting the curb of road and lane boundary detection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.227-230
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• 2006

현대인의 생활 깊숙한 곳에 자리 잡고 있는 자동차가 없으면 일상적인 생활에 매우 불편할 정도로 우리 생활 속에서 중요한 존재이다. 그러나 쉽게 운전면허를 따고 많은 사람이 이용하지만, 정작 초행의 목적지로 가고자 할 때는 많은 어려움을 겪는다. 그래서 우리는 좀 더 효율적인 자동차 이용을 위해서 차량에 네비게이션을 장착하고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 네비게이션 시스템은 퍼지 로직을 이용하여 운전자의 성향을 판단하고 그에 맞는 경로를 안내해주는 지능형 네비게이션에 대한 연구이다. 각 경로의 성향을 분석하고 운전자의 성향과 비슷한 경로를 추천해주는 지능형 네비게이션일뿐만 아니라, 빠른 경로 안내는 물론 사용자의 성향의 변화에 쉽게 수정 및 업데이트가 간단한 차세대 네비게이션을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.328-332
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• 2007

본연구에서는 센서의 융합을 통하여 환경을 인식하며, 주변환경에 대한 지식을 갱신, 학습할수 있는 방법론을 연구하며, 동적인 장애물의 감지및 움직임 예측에 기반한 지능적 회피 알고리즘과 AHP를 이용한 Navigation Strategy수정과 이동 로봇 스스로 최적의 결과를 낼수 있게 개선 시키는 알고리즘을 구현한다. 그와 더불어 AHP를 이용하여 Navigation Performance를 최대로 높일 수 있는 방향을로 진화시키는 알고리즘을 구현한다. 또한 부여된 임무수행을 위한 목표물 추적을 위한 비전 시스템에서의 대상체 추출및 인식 알고리즘을 개발하며 인간뇌의 환경인식 체계와 유사한 방식의 Map building기법을 연구한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.269-273
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• 2000

This paper proposes a algorithm for several mobile robots navigation. There are three parts in this algorithm. First part generates robots turning angle and moving distance for goal approaching, sencond part generates robots avoiding angle and avoiding distance for static obstacles or other robots and third part adjust between robots moving distance and avoiding distance. Most simulation results of this algorithm are very effective for several mobile robots traveling in unknown field.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.1258-1261
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• 1993

This paper presents a methodology of path planning and navigation for an autonomous mobile robot. A fast algorithm using decomposition technique, which computes the optimal paths between all pairs of nodes, is proposed for real-time calculation. The robot is controlled by fuzzy approximation reasoning. Our new methodology has been implemented on a mobile robot. The results show that the robot successfully navigates to its destination following the optimal path.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2006

생활의 일부라 할 수 있는 교통시스템은 도시화, 산업화가 진행됨에 따라 더욱 복잡해지고 있다. 이를 보완하기 위해 내비게이션, 텔레메틱스 와 같은 다양한 보조 수단이 개발되고 있다. 하지만 이러한 운전자 보조 시스템은 개별화된 특성을 반영하지 않으며, 가장 일반적인 경우에 치중되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 개별화되고 사용자 중심적인 운전자 보조 시스템을 제안하며, 어떠한 정보가 이에 활용될 수 있는지를 고찰해 보았다. 또한 이런 정보를 해결하기 위한 소프트 컴퓨팅 기법을 제안하고자 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2024-2029
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• 2005

In this paper, it is shown how a mobile robot can navigate with high speed in dynamic real environment. In order to achieve high speed and safe navigation, a robot collects environmental information. A robot empirically memorizes locations of high risk due to the abrupt appearance of dynamic obstacles. After collecting sufficient data, a robot navigates in high speed in safe regions. This fact implies that the robot accumulates location dependent environmental information and the robot exploits its experiences in order to improve its navigation performance. This paper proposes a computational scheme how a robot can distinguish regions of high risk. Then, we focus on velocity control in order to achieve high speed navigation. The proposed scheme is experimentally tested in real office building. The experimental results clearly show that the proposed scheme is useful for improving a performance of autonomous navigation. Although the scope of this paper is limited to the velocity control in order to deal with unexpected obstacles, this paper points out a new direction towards the intelligent behavior control of autonomous robots based on the robot's experience.