• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.203-209
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• 2001

This paper develops a control method for some generic formation tasks of multiple mobile robots with inaccurate sensor information. Inaccurate sensor information means that all the robots have only local sensors that cannot accurately measure absolute distances and directions of objects. That is, all the sensors have limitation on the range, and uncertainty in the values. Therefore, more robust and reliable control logic is proposed and implemented. The logic is developed considering generic situations and increasing the number of robots participating in the formation. Petri nets are used for modeling and design of the control logic, which can visualize the control models and make it easy to check the states of each robot. Physically homogeneous mobile robots are designed and built to evaluate the developed logic. Each robot is equipped with eighteen infrared sensors and a UHF transceiver module. The experiment results are analyzed quantitatively by using the data of the relative distances and angles between the robots. And the trajectories of the robots during the formation are also evaluated. The developed control approach is demonstrated with experiments to be successful and efficient for the formation of autonomous mobile robots.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.243-248
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• 2002

In this paper, mobility of planar mobile robots is discussed. Firstly, simplified joint models for four typical wheels of the mobile robots are described including both rotational and translational friction parameters. Then, based on these joint models and through the inclusion of the additional imaginary joint particularly to the mobile robots which lack geometric generality, mobility analysis of various types of planar mobile robots is performed.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.201-204
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• 2004

In this paper, a direct adaptive tracking controller based Lyapunov method is designed for a wheeled mobile robots. A wheeled mobile robots have three degrees of freedom and two control variables. Therefore, it is difficult to control a mobile robot using the general linear control. We introduce two kinds of Lyapunov function for the design of the controller and verify the controller. A mobile robots using the designed adaptive direct tracking controller is well-behaved and is easily implemented.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.8
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• pp.948-954
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a cooperative motion planning algorithm for two tightly-coupled mobile robots. Specifically, the considered cooperative work is that two mobile robots should transfer a long rigid object along a predefined path. To resolve the problem, we introduce a master-slave concept for two obile robots having the same structure. According to the velocity of the master robot and the positions of two robots on the path, the velocity of the slave robot is determined. The slave normally tracks the master's motion, but in case that the velocity of the slave exceeds the velocity limit, the roles of the robots should be interchanged. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is proved by computer simulations.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.180-188
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• 1999

The objective of this paper is, based upon the principles of artificial life, to induce emergent behaviors of multiple autonomous mobile robots which complex global intelligence form from simple local interactions. Here, we propose an architecture of neural network learning with reinforcement signals which perceives the neighborhood information and decides the direction and the velocity of movement as mobile robots navigate in a group. As the results of the simulations, the optimum weight is obtained in real time, which not only prevent the collisions between agents and obstacles in the dynamic environment, but also have the mobile robots move and keep in various patterns.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.427-427
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• 2000

In this study, singularity of two types of mobile robots for various input joints are investigated: One is the mobile robot with three caster wheels and the other is the mobile robot with two conventional wheels and one caster wheel. Kinematic models are derived via the transfer method of generalized coordinates. Then, determinants of the Jacobian of the mobile robots are used to identify the singularity configurations.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.152-152
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a new approach to intelligent motion and autonomous maneuvering of mobile robots using hybrid system. In high Level, the discrete states are defined by using the sensor-based search windows and the reference motions of a mobile robot as a low vevel are specified in the abstracted motions, The mobile robots can perform both the motion planning and autonomous maneuvering with obstacle avoidance in indoor navigation problem. Simulation and experimental results show that hybrid system approach is an effective method for the autonomous maneuvering in indoor environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.59.3-59
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• 2001

In this paper, the method of analyzing mobility of the mechanisms is suggested. The method based on the joint screws provides accurate values of mobility of the mechanisms even with the lack of geometric generality. To show its validity, the method is applied to finding mobilities of planar mobile robots and a rough-terrain mobile robot, Mars Rover. To do so, simplified joint model for each of four different typical wheels of the mobile robots are described including friction velocities, firstly. Then, mobility analyses of planar mobile robots and the Mars Rover mobile robot for navigation on the rocky road on Mars are performed. It is confirmed that the obtained results in this study coincide with the previous ones which ...

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.25 no.4_1
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• pp.521-531
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• 2022

This study proposed a new approach to intelligent control of a mobile robot system by back properpagation based on multi-layer neural network. A experiment result is given in which some artificial assumptions about the linear and the angluar velocities of mobile robots from recent literature are dropped. In this study, we proposed a new thinique to impliment the real time conrol of he position and velocity of mobile robots. With the proposed control techinique, mobile robots can now globally follow any path such as a straight line, a circle and the path approaching th toe origin using proposed controller. Computer simulations are presented, which confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm. Moreover, practical experimental results concerning the real time control are reported with several real line constraints for mobile robots with two wheel driving.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.139-145
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• 2015

This paper proposed a method of cooperative control of three mobile robots for carrying an object placed on a floor together. Each robot moves to the object independently from its location to a pre-designated location for grasping the object stably. After grasping the common object, the coordination among the robots has been achieved by a master-slave mode. That is, a trajectory planning has been done for the master robot and the distances form the master robot to the two slave robots have been kept constant during the carrying operation. The localization for mobile robots has been implemented using the encoder data and inverse kinematics since the whole system does not have the slippage as much as a single mobile robot. Before the carrying operation, the lifting operations are implemented using the manipulators attached on the top of the mobile robots cooperatively. The real cooperative lifting and carrying operations are implanted to show the feasibility of the master-slave mode control based on the kinematics using the mobile manipulators developed for this research.