• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.344-349
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• 2017

최근 전 세계적으로 고층건물의 외벽청소, 대형 구조물의 벽면검사, 조선에서의 벽면 용접 등 다양한 용도의 벽면이동 로봇들이 개발되고 있다. 기존에 개발된 벽면이동 로봇 중 바퀴형 이동로봇은 요철이 있는 벽면을 이동할 수 없다는 단점이 있으며 보행형 이동로봇은 복잡한 링크구조로 인해 많은 액추에이터가 필요로 하고, 더불어 제어가 복잡해지며 내구성의 문제가 발생한다. 또한 로봇의 무게가 무겁다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해 간단한 구조를 가진 새로운 벽면이동 로봇을 제시한다. 본 논문의 벽면이동 로봇은 단 한 쌍의 축과 액추에이터를 이용하여 고릴라의 보행방식을 모사하여 이동하며, 진공펌프와 흡착패드를 이용하여 벽면에 진공 흡착한다. 본 논문에서 개발한 로봇의 구성요소로는 이동을 위한 DC모터, 흡착을 위한 진공펌프, 제어를 위한 마이크로 컨트롤러, 기타 동력전달과 형체 유지를 위한 축과 프레임이 있다. 로봇의 성능은 수직 및 수평에서 실험적으로 검증하였다. 본 논문에서 개발한 벽면이동 로봇을 기반으로 다양한 장치를 탑재한 산업현장, 재난재해 현장에서 다양한 기능을 수행하는 로봇의 개발이 가능할 것이라 전망한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1193-1200
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• 2015

An effective swing trajectory of legged robots is different from the swing trajectories of humans or animals because of different dynamic characteristics. Therefore, it is important to find optimal parameters through experiments. This paper proposes a real-time nonlinear programming (RTNLP) method for optimization of the swing trajectory of the legged robot. For parameterization of the trajectory, the swing trajectory is approximated to parabolic and cubic spline curves. The robotic leg is position-controlled by a high-gain controller, and a cost function is selected such that the sum of the motor inputs and tracking errors at each joint is minimized. A simplified dynamic model is used to simulate the dynamics of a robotic leg. The purpose of the simulation is to find the feasibility of the optimization problem before an actual experiment occurs. Finally, an experiment is carried out on a real robotic leg with two degrees of freedom. For both the simulation and the experiment, the design variables converge to a feasible point, reducing the cost value.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.278-284
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• 2019

Legged locomotion has high mobility on irregular surfaces by touching the ground at discrete points. Inspired by the creature's legged locomotion, legged robots have been developed to explore unstructured environments. In this paper, we propose a modular crawler that can easily adjust the number of legs for adapting the environment that the robot should move. One module has a pair of legs, so the number of legs can be adjusted by changing the number of modules. All legs are driven by a single driving motor for simple and compact design, so the driving axle of each module is connected by the universal joint. Universal joints between modules enable the body flexion for steering or overcoming higher obstacles. A prototype of crawler with three modules is built and the driving performance and the effect of module lifting on the ability to overcome obstacles are demonstrated by the experiments.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.500-507
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• 2022

In this study, a motion planning method based on the integer representation of contact status between wheels and the ground is proposed for planning swing motion of a 6×6 wheel-legged robot to cross large obstacles and gaps. Wheel-legged robots can drive on a flat road by wheels and overcome large obstacles by legs. Autonomously crossing large obstacles requires the robot to perform complex motion planning of multi-contacts and wheel-rolling at the same time. The lift-off and touch-down status of wheels and the trajectories of legs should be carefully planned to avoid collision between the robot body and the obstacle. To address this issue, we propose a planning method for swing motion of robot legs. It combines an integer representation of discrete contact status and a trajectory optimization based on the direct collocation method, which results in a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. The planned motion is used to control the joint angles of the articulated legs. The proposed method is verified by the MuJoCo simulation and shows that over 95% and 83% success rate when the height of vertical obstacles and the length of gaps are equal to or less than 1.68 times of the wheel radius and 1.44 times of the wheel diameter, respectively.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.201-207
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• 2012

Jumping is considered as a suitable way for realizing fast locomotion on the ground. As for the issue of developing mobile robots that can jump up and forward enough for accomplishing useful missions, this paper first introduces two types of jumping principles that are found in biological animals or insects. We also present how the principles are applied to several jumping robot examples that include outcomes for the past a few years and also our recent one. Design ideas and features of the robots are explained and compared in order to discuss important issues and guidelines for the design of jumping robots.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2016

최근 다양한 환경에서 지능형 로봇의 안정된 이동과 작업계획에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 상하 결합가능한 구조의 4족 로봇의 설계 및 작업 계획방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 4족 로봇은 리니어 모터를 이용하여 다리 길이를 조절하고, 팔각뿔 형태의 도킹모듈을 이용하여 상하 결합과 분리가 가능하도록 설계하였다. 또한 로봇이 다양한 환경에서 안정된 이동과 정보 수집을 위하여 지자기 센서, PSD 센서, LRF 센서와 카메라를 사용하였다. 리니어 모터를 이용한 장애물 회피 동작방법과 상하 결합 동작방법을 제안하고 구현하였다. 로봇은 다리 길이를 조절하여 장애물을 극복하고, 두 대의 로봇이 상하 결합을 통하여 협력 작업방법을 제안하였다. 두 대의 4족 로봇이 상하 결합을 통하여 4족과 6족 보행을 하고, 상부 결합 로봇의 4개의 다리를 4개의 팔 또는 2개의 팔로 사용할 수 있으며, 결합된 로봇을 이용하여 물건 옮기기 작업을 구현하고, 각 동작들을 실제 실험으로 기능을 검증하였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.227-234
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• 2011

The Interest in robotics has been steadily increasing in recent times both in Korea as well as abroad. Research on robots for new and diverse fields is ongoing. This study discusses the current research and development on robot actuator, which are used to control the joints of robots, and focuses on developing more efficient technology for joint control, as compared with the current technologies. It also aims to find means to apply the abovementioned technology to diverse industrial fields. We found that easy and effective control of actuators could be achieved by using ZigBee sensor networks, which were widely being used on wireless communications. Throughout the experiments it is proved that the developed wireless actuator could be used for easy control of various robot joints. This technology can be effectively applied to develop two-legged robots that will be able to walk like human, or even quadruped and hexapod robots. It can also be applied to motors used in industry. In this study, we develop an extremely minimized ZigBee sensor network module that can be used to control various servo motors with low power consumption even if it is long distances. We realized effective wireless control by optimizing the ZigBee antenna, and were able to quickly check the status of relevant Tree node through mutual communication between the servo motors composing the ZigBee sensor network and the main server control modules. The developed Servo Motor with ZigBee sensor network modules can be applied in both robotics as well as for home or factory automation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1987년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국과학기술대학, 충남; 16-17 Oct. 1987
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• pp.69-73
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• 1987

In this paper the continuous static stable gait, kinematics and the basic control algorithm of the quadruped walking robot have been discussed. The control method described in this paper will be extended for the walking robot to walk on an uneven terrain.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.936-941
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• 2014

Walking mechanisms are very important for legged robots to ensure their stable locomotion. In this research, Klann-linkage is suggested as a walking mechanism for a water-running robot and is optimized using level average analysis. The structure of the Klann-linkage is introduced first and design variables for the Klann-linkage are identified considering the kinematic task of the walking mechanism. Next, the design problem is formulated as a path generation optimization problem. Specifically, the desired path for the foot-pad is defined and the objective function is defined as the structural error between the desired and the generated paths. A process for solving the optimization problem is suggested utilizing the sensitivity analysis of the design variables. As a result, optimized lengths of Klann-linkage are obtained and the optimum trajectory is obtained. It is found that the optimized trajectory improves the cost function by about 62% from the initial one. It is expected that the results from this research can be used as a good example for designing legged robots.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.585-593
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• 2004

Fault-tolerant gait planning in legged locomotion is to design gaits with which legged robots can maintain static stability and motion continuity against a failure in a leg. For planning a robust and deadlock-free fault-tolerant gait, kinematic constraints caused by a failed leg should be closely examined with respect to remaining mobility of the leg. In this paper, based on the authors's previous results, deadlock avoidance scheme for fault-tolerant gait planning is proposed for a hexapod robot walking over even terrain. The considered fault is a locked joint failure, which prevents a joint of a leg from moving and makes it locked in a known position. It is shown that for guaranteeing the existence of the previously proposed fault-tolerant tripod gait of a hexapod robot, the configuration of the failed leg must be within a range of kinematic constraints. Then, for coping with failure situations where the existence condition is not satisfied, the previous fault-tolerant tripod gait is improved by including the adjustment of the foot trajectory. The foot trajectory adjustment procedure is analytically derived to show that it can help the fault-tolerant gait avoid deadlock resulting from the kinematic constraint and does not make any harmful effect on gait mobility. The post-failure walking problem of a hexapod robot with the normal tripod gait is addressed as a case study to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.