• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2004

The robots that will be needed in the near future are human-friendly robots that are able to coexist with humans and support humans effectively. To realize this, humans and robots need to be in close proximity to each other as much as possible. Moreover, it is necessary for their interactions to occur naturally. It is desirable for a robot to carry out human following, as one of the human-affinitive movements. The human-following robot requires several techniques: the recognition of the moving objects, the feature extraction and visual tracking, and the trajectory generation for following a human stably. In this research, a predictable intelligent space is used in order to achieve these goals. An intelligent space is a 3-D environment in which many sensors and intelligent devices are distributed. Mobile robots exist in this space as physical agents providing humans with services. A mobile robot is controlled to follow a walking human using distributed intelligent sensors as stably and precisely as possible. The moving objects is assumed to be a point-object and projected onto an image plane to form a geometrical constraint equation that provides position data of the object based on the kinematics of the intelligent space. Uncertainties in the position estimation caused by the point-object assumption are compensated using the Kalman filter. To generate the shortest time trajectory to follow the walking human, the linear and angular velocities are estimated and utilized. The computer simulation and experimental results of estimating and following of the walking human with the mobile robot are presented.

• 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.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2143-2147
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• 2005

Human-Robot interaction (HRI) has recently become one of the most important issues in the field of robotics. Understanding and predicting the intentions of human users is a major difficulty for robotic programs. In this paper we suggest an interaction method allows the robot to execute the human user's desires in an intelligent room-based domain, even when the user does not give a specific command for the action. To achieve this, we constructed a full system architecture of an intelligent room so that the following were present and sequentially interconnected: decision-making based on the Bayesian belief network, responding to human commands, and generating queries to remove ambiguities. The robot obtained all the necessary information from analyzing the user's condition and the environmental state of the room. This information is then used to evaluate the probabilities of the results coming from the output nodes of the Bayesian belief network, which is composed of the nodes that includes several states, and the causal relationships between them. Our study shows that the suggested system and proposed method would improve a robot's ability to understand human commands, intuit human desires, and predict human intentions resulting in a comfortable intelligent room for the human user.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2007

In this paper, we developed not only a reliable sound localization system including a VAD(Voice Activity Detection) component using three microphones but also a face tracking system using a vision camera. Moreover, we proposed a way to integrate three systems in the human-robot interaction to compensate errors in the localization of a speaker and to reject unnecessary speech or noise signals entering from undesired directions effectively. For the purpose of verifying our system's performances, we installed the proposed audio-visual system in a prototype robot, called IROBAA(Intelligent ROBot for Active Audition), and demonstrated how to integrate the audio-visual system.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.975-978
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• 2003

This paper presents an artificial intelligent model for a soccer robot. We classified soccer robot as artificial intelligent model into three elemental groups as instinct, intuition, reason. Instinct is responsible for keeping the ball, driving or rushing toward the ball. This is very simple fundamental action without regard to associates and enemies. Intuition contributes to the fast/slow moving and simple basic turing to get near to the ball and to make a goal noticing associates and enemies. Reason is the most intelligent part. The law of reason is not simple relatively with instinct and intuition. We also compared nerve system and muscles of human being model with controller and motor of physical soccer robot model individually. We had designed several algorithms and made programs th investigate effects and control soccer robot.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.980-985
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• 1988

In this paper, a control system of the PUMA 560 robot manipulator using a PC (Personal Computer) is presented. The hardware of the designed control system is composed of IBM-PC/AT, interface board, selection board, interrupt generating circuit, and the servo control unit of the PUMA controller. A robot control library is developed using assembly and C language, and is composed of several low-level functions and arm interface routines, world model routines, arm kinematics routines, and motion command service routines. Using the designed library, joint interpolated motion and Cartesian interpolated motion of the PUMA robot manipulator are realized. In the future, our system is expected to be a very helpful basis and a useful tool for developing various control algorithms of robot manipulator using sensory information.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.476-481
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• 2008

보안이 중요시되는 공간에서 지능형 감시 시스템의 필요성이 점차 중요시되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 embedded Linux 기반의 Mobile Robot에 Network Camera를 탑재하여 침입자를 추적할 수 있는 시스템 구현에 목적을 두고 있다. Network Camera부터 Wireless Lan을 이용하여 서버로 영상을 전송하고, 서버에서 블록매칭 알고리즘을 이용하여 침입자의 이동경로를 파악하며 침입자에 대한 방향 정보를 전송하여 침입자를 추적한다. 로봇이 침입자를 추적함에 따라 침입자의 유효 영상을 얻는다. 본 논문에 의해서 구현된 시스템은 다른 감시 시스템과 연동하여 지능형 감시 시스템으로서 신뢰성을 더할 수 있다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.389-395
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 지능재어기법을 이용하여 이족로봇 제어기를 설계한다. 이족로봇 제어기는 복잡성을 해결하기 위해 4개 소 그룹으로 모듈화 하고, 이 모듈들은 신경망을 이용한 계층적 모듈라 신경망 (Hierarchical Mixture of Experts; HME) 기법을 도입한다. 그리고 신경망은 직접제어기법으로 이족로봇의 역 동력학을 학습한다. HME는 나무구조의 네트워크로 입출력 집합을 학습하여 출력공간에 대한 입력공간을 재분할하는 능력을 가지고 있다. EM 알고리즘을 이용한 HME는 반복적 학습을 통하여 이족로봇의 동력학을 모델링하며 HME 의 가상오차를 생성하여 이족로봇보행시 안전한 보행을 수행할 수 있는 이족로봇의 제어기를 설계한다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2009

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.825-832
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• 2004

A small biped robot system is designed and implemented. The robot system consists of a mechanical robot body, a control system, a sensor system, and a user interface system. The robot has 12 dofs for two legs, 6 dofs for two arms, 2 dofs for a neck, so it has total 20 dofs to have dexterous motion capability. The implemented robot has the capability of performing intelligent actions such as playing soccer, resisting external forces, and walking on a slope terrain. In this paper, we focus on the robot's capability of playing soccer. The robot uses a color CCD camera attached on its head as a sensor for playing soccer. To make the robot play soccer with only one camera, an algorithm, which consists of searching, localization, and motion planning, is proposed and experimented. The results show that the robot can play soccer successfully in the given environments.