• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.733-737
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a mechanism that can compensate for gravity in a robot manipulator. Industry robots generate torque due to carrying heavy weight. For this reason, the robots need high specification motors, which increases the prices of the robots and their production costs. In order to resolve these problems, a mechanism for gravity compensation has been developed using a spring and wire system. But this system has problems related to wire stretching. A winding mechanism is therefore used to supplement this drawback of the wire. The robot used was developed by the 1-DOF system. Analysis was performed for the performance of the mechanism. Experiments were conducted to compare simulation results and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07b
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• pp.840-842
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• 1995

It is very important to understand the 3-dimensional movement of a robot manipulator in developing a robot manipulator system. The robot design software package is required to test the specification. Usually these robot simulators are turn-key based and not possible to be used on the other robot system. The aim of this paper is to develop a general purpose robot simulator. AutoCad is selected for the developing environment to avoid the difficulties of building a cad system from the scratch. Because Autocad provides a semi-open structure to a Lisp programmer, it is quite successful to achieve the goal of building the simulator. At the moment the kinematic analysis is possible on the package. Further study will be advanced to the application and analysis of dynamic area, which would not be that difficult to be implemented, considering the many third party tools available for Autocad.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.314-319
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• 2002

The Automation and Control Group at the University of Brasilia is developing an automatic welding station based on an industrial robot and a controllable welding machine. Several techniques were applied in order to improve the quality of the welding joints. This paper deals with the implementation of a laser-based computer vision system to guide the robotic manipulator during the welding process. Currently the robot is taught to follow a prescribed trajectory which is recorded a repeated over and over relying on the repeatability specification from the robot manufacturer. The objective of the computer vision system is monitoring the actual trajectory followed by the welding torch and to evaluate deviations from the desired trajectory. The position errors then being transfer to a control algorithm in order to actuate the robotic manipulator and cancel the trajectory errors. The computer vision systems consists of a CCD camera attached to the welding torch, a laser emitting diode circuit, a PC computer-based frame grabber card, and a computer vision algorithm. The laser circuit establishes a sharp luminous reference line which images are captured through the video camera. The raw image data is then digitized and stored in the frame grabber card for further processing using specifically written algorithms. These image-processing algorithms give the actual welding path, the relative position between the pieces and the required corrections. Two case studies are considered: the first is the joining of two flat metal pieces; and the second is concerned with joining a cylindrical-shape piece to a flat surface. An implementation of this computer vision system using parallel computer processing is being studied.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.549-549
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• 2000

In the previous work, we dealt with a traffic analysis of network-based control system and its architecture using the CAN protocol. It is difficult to determine an optimal network architecture for a specific system. In this paper, we propose the architecture of network-based control system applicable to a specific AGV system with manipulator arms. We define the fixed number of periodic messages to be occurred in this system. In the proposed system architecture, we analyse its traffic for the real-time communication of all messages, determine the optimal sampling period of an analog sensor to be satisfied with the required specification and the number of possible sensors to be added through simulation.