• 공학교육연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2016

These days, ICT-related products are pouring out due to development of mobile technology and increase of smart phones. Among the ICT-related products, wearable devices are being spotlighted with the advent of hyper-connected society. In this paper, a body-attached type wearable device using EMG(electromyography) sensors is studied. The research field of EMG sensors is divided into two parts. One is medical area and another is control device area. This study corresponds to the latter that is a method of transmitting user's manipulation intention to robots, games or computers through the measurement of EMG. We used commercial device MYO developed by Thalmic Labs in Canada and matched up EMG of arm muscles with gesture controller. In the experiment part, first of all, various arm motions for controlling devices are defined. Finally, we drew several distinguishing kinds of motions through analysis of the EMG signals and substituted a joystick with the motions.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.677-680
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• 2003

Perceptual landmarks are an effective solution for a mobile robot realizing steady and reliable long distance navigation. But the prerequisite is those landmarks must be detected and recognized robustly at a higher speed under various lighting conditions. This made image processing more complicated so that its speed and reliability can not be both satisfied at the same time. Color based target detection technique can separate target color regions from non-target color regions in an image with a faster speed, and better results were obtained only under good lighting conditions. Moreover, in the case that there are other things with a target color, we have to consider other target features to tell apart the target from them. Such thing always happens when we detect a target with its single character. On the other hand, we can generally search for only one target for each time so that we can not make use of landmarks efficiently, especially when we want to make more landmarks work together. In this paper, by making use of the moment invariants of each landmark, we can not only search specified target from separated color region but also find multi-target at the same time if necessary. This made the finite landmarks carry on more functions. Because moment invariants were easily used with some low level image processing techniques, such as color based target detection and gradient runs based target detection etc, and moment invariants are more reliable features of each target, the ratio of target detection were improved. Some necessary experiments were carried on to verify its robustness and efficiency of this method.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1981-1982
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 자율 이동 로봇에 대한 인터넷 기반의 가상실험실의 구현 방법을 제안한다. 제어공학 연구에서는 개발된 새로운 이론들을 적용하고 검증할 수 있는 적절한 실험장비의 확보가 필수적이나 매번 이를 위한 실험장비의 확보는 비경제적이다. 오늘날 인터넷의 보급은 보편화 되어있다. 또한 인터넷을 이용할 수 있는 기술들이 발전되고 장비들이 개발, 발전되고 있다. 이러한 흐름을 공학연구에 적용 할 수 있다. 인터넷 기반의 자율 이동 로봇의 가상실험실은 인터넷의 이용이 가능한 곳이면, 시간과 장소의 제한을 받지 않고 자율 이동 로봇에 대한 실험을 하고 결과를 얻을 수 있는 장점이 있다. 이러한 방법은 다른 실험장비에 대해서도 가능하게 할 수 있다. 자율 이동 로봇은 제어 컴퓨터의 탑재가 가능하여. 통신선에 의한 이동거리의 제약을 받지 않으나 무선인터넷이 가능한 공간에서만 실험이 가능하다. 본 논문에서 제안된 가상실험실은 자율 이동 로봇에 탑재한 컴퓨터(클라이언트)와 일반컴퓨터(서버) 구조를 가지며 다중제어 인터페이스로 구현된다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.142-159
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• 1996

Engineering of automated tools for the agro-food industries and the rural world activities have to pick up two challenges : to answer the immediate important problems related to the situation of these industries, and to imaging the tools that their professional will need next century. Creating or modifying automated tools in the next few will be made taking into account parameters either technical (environmental protection, health and safety), or social and economical (investment , employment). There will be a strong interaction with disciplines like ecology, medicine, ergonomy, psycho-sociology , etc. , The partners for such a research, tools manufactures and users, should have an early involvement in its content, in order to find rapidly the solution to the drastic problems they are meeting. On a longer term , during the next 20 years , there will be an important evolution of the rural space management and of the food processes. This will imply the emergence of new types of activities and know-how's , with lines of automated tools to be invented and developed , like : micro-system for organic localized tasks -mobile and adaptive equipments highly autonomous for natural space actions - device for perception , decision and control reproducing automatically the expert behaviors of human operators. Design of such automated tools need to overcome technological difficulties like the automation of the expert-decision process, or the management of complex design.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.498-504
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 퍼지 로직을 이용한 수중 로봇의 충돌 회피를 제안하였다. VFF(Virtual Force Field) 방법은 이동 로봇 분야에서 널리 사용하고 있는 충돌 회피 알고리즘이다. 본 논문에서는 이를 수중 로봇의 자율 항해를 위한 형태로 변형시킨 Modified Virtual Force Field(MVFF)를 제시하였다. 보다 정교한 알고리즘을 위해서 퍼지 로직을 이용한 MVFF를 구성하였고, 이를 수중 로봇의 경로 유지와 충돌 회피에 적용하였다 퍼지 로직은 수중 로봇의 자율 항해 동안 직면하게 되는 다양한 상황들을 다루었다. 제안한 충돌 회피 알고리즘은 다수개의 고정 장애물에 대해서 좋은 성능을 제시하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 제안된 방법이 수중 로봇의 충돌 회피에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있음을 보였다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권9호
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• pp.1215-1230
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• 1995

The purpose of this paper is to build a computer vision system that endows an autonomous mobile robot the ability of automatic measuring of the analog and digital meters installed in nuclear power plant(NPP). This computer vision system takes a significant part in the organization of automatic surveillance and measurement system having the instruments and gadzets in NPP under automatic control situation. In the meter image captured by the camera, the meter area is sorted out using mainly the thresholding and the region labeling and the meter value recognition process follows. The positions and the angles of the needles in analog meter images are detected using the projection based method. In the case of digital meters, digits and points are extracted and finally recognized through the neural network classifier. To use available database containing relevant information about meters and to build fully automatic meter recognition system, the segmentation and recognition of the function-name in the meter printed around the meter area should be achieved for enhancing identification reliability. For thus, the function- name of the meter needs to be identified and furthermore the scale distributions and values are also required to be analyzed for building the more sophisticated system and making the meter recognition fully automatic.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.291-296
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 군집로봇시스템에서 목표물 추적을 위하여 SVM을 이용한 12각형 기반의 Q-learning 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘의 유효성을 보이기 위해 본 논문에서는 여러 대의 로봇과 장애물 그리고 하나의 목표물로 정하고, 각각의 로봇이 숨겨진 목표물을 찾아내는 실험을 가정하여 무작위, DBAM과 AMAB의 융합 모델, 마지막으로는 본 논문에서 제안한 SVM과 12각형 기반의 Q-learning 알고리즘을 이용하여 실험을 수행하고, 이 3가지 방법을 비교하여 본 논문의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2022

Multiple AMRs have been proved to be effective in improving warehouse productivity by eliminating workers' wasteful walking time. Although Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF)-based solution is an optimal approach for this task, its deployment in practice is challenging mainly due to its imperfect plan-execution capabilities and insufficient computing resources for high-density environments. In this paper, we present a MAPF-based fleet management system architecture that robustly manages multiple robots by re-computing their paths whenever it is necessary. To achieve this, we defined four events that trigger our MAPF solver framework to generate new paths. These paths are then delivered to each AMR through ROS2 message topic. We also optimized a graph structure that effectively captures spatial information of the warehouse. By using this graph structure we can reduce computational burden while keeping its rescheduling functionality. With proposed MAPF-based fleet management system, we can control AMRs without collision or deadlock. We applied our fleet management system to the real logistics warehouse with 10 AMRs and observed that it works without a problem. We also present the usage statistic of adopting AMRs with proposed fleet management system to the warehouse. We show that it is useful over 25% of daily working time.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2022

Welding is a significant part of the construction industry. Since most high-rise building construction structures rely on a robust metal frame welded together, welding defect can damage welded structures and is critical to safety and quality. Despite its importance and heavy usage in construction, the labor shortage of welders has been a continuous challenge to the construction industry. To deal with the labor shortage, the ultimate goal of this study is to design and develop an automated robotic welding system composed of a welding machine, unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), robotic arm, and visual sensors. This paper proposes and focuses on automated weaving using the robotic arm. For automated welding operation, a microcontroller is used to control the switch and is added to a welding torch by physically modifying the hardware. Varying weave patterns are mathematically programmed. The automated weaving is tested using a brush pen and a ballpoint pen to clearly see the patterns and detect any changes in vertical forces by the arm during weaving. The results show that the weave patterns have sufficiently high consistency and precision to be used in the actual welding. Lastly, actual welding was performed, and the results are presented.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.741-746
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• 2015

최근 모바일 운영체제 시장이 확대됨과 동시에 반도체 및 무선통신의 발달로 안드로이드 운영체제가 탑재된 각종 스마트폰 및 에어컨, 스마트TV, 청소로봇, 카메라 등 그 수가 빠른 속도로 보급되고 있다. 이로 인해, 일상생활에서 사용하는 다양한 제품들을 네트워크로 연결하여 정보수집이 가능하게 되었다. 그러나 여러 기기들을 한 번에 제어하는 방법이 아닌, 한 기기의 제어를 한 애플리케이션이 담당하는 형태가 대부분이고, 하나의 디바이스에서 모든 기기들을 관리할 수 있는 애플리케이션이 부족한 실정이다. 이에 따라, 본 논문에서는 유무선 공유기(AP)에 안드로이드 운영체제를 기반으로 하는 기기들을 등록시키고, 서버에 등록되어있는 기기를 웹으로 관리, 제어할 수 있는 시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다. 이는 현재 연구가 활발히 진행 중인 IoT(Internet of Things)분야에 널리 활용될 것으로 사료된다.