• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2013

In this paper, we describe a vision sensor-based driving algorithm for indoor automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) that facilitates a path tracking task using two mono cameras for navigation. One camera is mounted on vehicle to observe the environment and to detect markers in front of the vehicle. The other camera is attached so the view is perpendicular to the floor, which compensates for the distance between the wheels and markers. The angle and distance from the center of the two wheels to the center of marker are also obtained using these two cameras. We propose five movement patterns for AGVs to guarantee smooth performance during path tracking: starting, moving straight, pre-turning, left/right turning, and stopping. This driving algorithm based on two vision sensors gives greater flexibility to AGVs, including easy layout change, autonomy, and even economy. The algorithm was validated in an experiment using a two-wheeled mobile robot.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.316-321
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• 2005

We designed and implemented fish robots for various purposes such as autonomous navigation, maneuverability control, posture balancing and improvement of quick turns in a tank of 120 X 120 X 180cm size. Typically, fish robots have 30-50 X 15-25 X 10-20cm dimensions; length, width and height, respectively. It is essential to have the ability of quick and smooth turning to avoid collision with obstacles or walls of the water pool at a close distance. Infrared distance sensors are used to detect obstacles, magneto-resistive sensors are used to read direction information, and a two-axis accelerometer is mounted to compensate output of direction sensors. Because of the swing action of its head due to the tail fin movement, the outputs of an infrared distance sensor contain a huge amount of noise around true distances. With the information from accelerometers and e-compass, much improved distance data can be obtained by fuzzy logic based estimation. Successful swimming and smooth turns without collision demonstrated the effectiveness of the distance estimation.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.288-294
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• 2014

Understanding a ship's present position has been one of the most important tasks during a ship's voyage, in both ancient and modern times. Particularly, a ship's dead reckoning (DR) has been used for predicting traffic situations and collision avoidance actions. However, the current system that uses the traditional method of calculating DR employs the received position and speed data only. Therefore, it is not applicable for predicting navigation within the harbor limits, owing to the frequent changes in the ship's course and speed in this region. In this study, planned routes were applied for improving the reliability of the proposed system and predicting the traffic patterns in advance. The proposed method of determining the dead reckoning position (DRP) uses not only the ships' received data but also the navigational patterns and tracking data in harbor limits. The Mercator sailing formulas were used for calculating the ships' DRPs and planned routes. The data on the traffic patterns were collected from the automatic identification system and analyzed using MATLAB. Two randomly chosen ships were analyzed for simulating their tracks and comparing the DR method during the timeframes of the ships' movement. The proposed method of calculating DR, combined with the information on planned routes and DRPs, is expected to contribute towards improving the decision-making abilities of operators.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

This paper proposes a gradation image processing method for the development of a Road Sign Recognition Platform (RReP), which aims to facilitate the rapid and accurate management and surveying of approximately 160,000 road signs installed along the highways, national roadways, and local roads in the cities, districts (gun), and provinces (do) of Korea. RReP is based on GPS(Global Positioning System), IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), INS(Inertial Navigation System), DMI(Distance Measurement Instrument), and lasers, and uses an imagery information collection/classification module to allow the automatic recognition of signs, the collection of shapes, pole locations, and sign-type data, and the creation of road sign registers, by extracting basic data related to the shape and sign content, and automated database design. Image division and merging, which were applied in this study, produce superior results compared with local binarization method in terms of speed. At the results, larger texts area were found in images, the accuracy of text recognition was improved when images had been gradated. Multi-threshold values of natural scene images are used to improve the extraction rate of texts and figures based on pattern recognition.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.239-242
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• 2002

점차 많은 형태의 가정용 로봇이 개발되고 있으며 일부 제품화되어 출시되고 있다. 이러한 가정용 로봇을 원격지에서 제어하고자 할 때 대부분이 인터넷이나 무선을 이용한 원격제어 또는 실시간 모니터링을 통해 제어하여 그 상황을 시뮬레이션으로 구현하고 있다. 그러나 제어대상이 극히 제한적인 수의 이동로봇인데 반해 다수의 가족 구성원인 제어조작자가 중복적으로 청소로봇과 같은 이동로봇을 제어하고자 접근을 시도했을 때 이동로봇에 다중적인 업무가 주어지게 될 수 도 있다. 이에 Database 를 이용하여 수행 업무의 우선순위와 제어조작자의 권한의 우선순위를 지정한 명령어를 Database 내에 구성하여 간접적으로 전송하여 제어하고자 한다. 그리고 제어를 통한 동작 시 실제 이동로봇의 속도와 방향 제어를 위해 퍼지 및 신경망을 이용한 지능제어를 구성하여 제어의 효율성을 극대화 하고자 한다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.737-742
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• 2009

청소 로봇, 관광 안내 로봇부터 우주 탐사로봇까지 자율이동로봇의 응용분야가 넓어짐에 따라서 자율이동로봇의 인기는 급속도로 높아지고 있다. 하지만 동적인 환경 내에서 자율이동로봇의 안전한 네비게이션을 위한 만족스러운 제어 알고리즘은 여전히 연구 과제이다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 Potential field method를 이용한 제어 방법을 제안하였고, 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 알고리즘을 실행하고 분석하였고, 이 실험 결과들로서 Potential field method를 사용한 행동(behavior)에 기반한 제어 시스템의 유효성을 나타내었다.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.283-296
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• 2005

최근 인간의 지적 욕구 충족과 급속한 과학 기술의 발전으로 새로운 측위 시스템인 광역위성항법시스템(GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System)이 개발되었다 GPS로 대표되는 광역위성항법시스템은 저렴한 가격에 언제 어디서나 3차원 위치 정보를 제공할 수 있다. 위치정보 산업은 과거 군사적인 목적뿐만 아니라 민간 목적으로 폭넓게 사용되고 있다. 이는 차량 및 항공 항법, 토목 공사, GIS의 자료원, 텔레메틱스, 위치기반서비스 등에서 단순한 측위 시스템의 기능이 아닌 사회 기반 시설의 역할을 담당하고 있다. 미국에 의한 고의적 잡음은 해제되었지만, GPS의 독점과 의존은 절대적이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 순수 민간 목적으로 제작되고 서비스 할 예정인 차세대 GNSS인 유럽의 Galileo의 영향을 연구하기 위해 소프트웨어를 개발하였으며 이를 바탕으로 측위 기법별 분석을 통해 우리나라에 미치는 실질적인 영향을 분석하였다. 또한 위성수신고도각을 높게 설정하여 도심지와 같은 차폐환경에서 GPS 단독처리에 의한 방법보다 GPS/Galileo 결합 형태의 우수성을 입증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1444-1447
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• 2004

The vacuum-cleaner had made the burden of house chore lighten but the operation labour of a vacuum-cleaner had been so severe. Recently, the cleaning robot was producted to perfectly solve the cleaning labour of a house but it also was not successful because it still had a problem of mess-cleaning, which is the clean-up of big trash and the arrangement of newspapers, clothes, etc. The cleaning robot is to just vacuum dust and small trash and has no function to arrange and take away before the automatic vacuum-cleaning. For this reason, the market for the cleaning robot is not yet built up. So, we need a design method and technological algorithm of new automatic machine to solve the problem of mess-cleanup in house. In this paper, a Home Mess-Cleanup Robot(HMR), which has a practical function of the automatic mess-cleanup, is developed. It need functions of agile automatic navigation, novel manipulation system for mess-cleanup. The automatic navigation system has to be controlled for the full scanning of living room, to recognize the absolute position and orientation of the self, the precise tracking of the desired path, and to distinguish the mess object to clean-up from obstacle object to just avoid. The manipulation system, which is not needed in the vacuum-cleaning robot, must have the functions, how to distinguish big trash to clean from mess objects to arrange, how to grasp in according to the form of mess objects, how to move to the destination in according to mess objects and arrange them. Then, it should be an intelligent system so that the mess cleaning task can be autonomously performed in a wide variety of situations and environments. It need to also has the entertainment functions for the good communication between the human and HMR. Therefore, the Home Mess-cleanup Robot with Entertainmental Human Interface is developed in this paper. Finally, the good performance of the designed machine, HMR'4, is confirmed through the results of the mess clean-up and arrangement.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.1011-1019
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• 2005

In this paper, Ubiquitous Home Mess-Cleanup Robot(UHMR), which has a practical function of the automatic mess-cleanup, is developed. The vacuum-cleaner had made the burden of house chore lighten but the operation labour of a vacuum-cleaner had been so severe. Recently, the cleaning robot was producted to perfectly solve the cleaning labour of a house but it also was not successful because it still had a problem of mess-cleaning, which was the clean-up of big trash and the arrangement of newspapers, clothes, etc. The cleaning robot is to just vacuum dust and small trash but has no function to arrange and take away before the automatic vacuum-cleaning. For this reason, the market for the cleaning robot is not yet built up. So, we need a design method and technological algorithm of new automatic machine to solve the problem of mess-cleanup in house. It needs functions of agile automatic navigation, novel manipulation system for mess-cleanup. The automatic navigation system has to be controlled for the full scanning of living room, to recognize the absolute position and orientation of tile self, the precise tracking of the desired path, and to distinguish the mess object to clean-up from obstacle object to just avoid. The manipulate,, which is not needed in the vacuum-cleaning robot, must have the functions, how to distinguish big trash to clean from mess objects to arrange, how to grasp in according to the form of mess objects, how to move to the destination in according to mess objects and arrange them. We use the RFID system to solve the problems in this paper and propose the reading algorithm of RFID tags installed in indoor objects and environments. Then, it should be an intelligent system so that the mess cleaning task can be autonomously performed in a wide variety of situations and environments. It needs to also has the entertainment functions for the good communication between the human and UHMR. Finally, the good performance of the designed UHMR is confirmed through the results of the mess clean-up and arrangement.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.323-328
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• 2014

정보통신기술과 타 산업분야 기술과의 융복합은 전통적인 제조업을 비롯한 의료, 건설 분야뿐 만이 아니라 국방 분야에서도 그 수요가 점점 증대되고 있어 민 군의 공통적인 기술 수요와 요구사항들이 새롭게 대두되고 있다. 미래 전장환경은 점차 네트워크를 근간으로 하는 NCW(Network Centric Warfare)로 전환될 것으로 예측되고 있다. NCW 는 C4I-ISR-PGM 의 사이클로 이루어지는 적의 탐지부터 타격까지를 의미하는 것이다. 이를 위하여는 정보통신 기술이 근간이 되어야 하며, 실제 전장을 모사할 수 있는 사이버 전장환경이 수반되어야 더욱 더 효과적이다. 본 논문에서는 최근에 연구개발이 본격화하고 있는 스마트 국방 IT 기술 개발 현황 및 향후 전망에 대해 제시하고자 한다.