• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권8호
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• pp.849-857
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• 2009

To guarantee the safety and reliability of obsolete thermal power plants, on site routine patrol in their facilities has been done by human workers. Due to their poor working environments, however, a patrol robot system has been gradually required instead of the human workers from the viewpoint of the workers' safety and work efficiency. For this purpose, this paper presents a patrol robot, controllers, and its control scheme. Especially, this robot system uses a line tracing algorithm, which uses a vision camera instead of IR sensors, and an RFID system for its patrol operation. We confirmed its effectiveness through experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2007

This paper demonstrates the development of a mobile robot for patrol. We fuse differential GPS, angle sensor and odometry data using the framework of extended Kalman filter to localize a mobile robot in outdoor environments. An important feature of road environment is the existence of curbs. So, we also propose an algorithm to find out the position of curbs from laser range finder data using Hough transform. The mobile robot builds the map of the curbs of roads and the map is used fur tracking and localization. The patrol robot system consists of a mobile robot and a control station. The mobile robot sends the image data from a camera to the control station. The remote control station receives and displays the image data. Also, the patrol robot system can be used in two modes, teleoperated or autonomous. In teleoperated mode, the teleoperator commands the mobile robot based on the image data. On the other hand, in autonomous mode, the mobile robot has to autonomously track the predefined waypoints. So, we have designed a path tracking controller to track the path. We have been able to confirm that the proposed algorithms show proper performances in outdoor environment through experiments in the road.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2010

This paper reports the development of a mobile robot for patrol using a single laser range finder. A Laser range finder is useful for outdoor environment regardless of illumination change or various weather conditions. In this paper we combined the motion control of the mobile robot and the algorithm for detecting the outdoor environment. For obstacle avoidance, we adopted the Vector Field Histogram algorithm. A laser range finder is mounted on the mobile robot and looking down the road with a small tilt angle. We propose an algorithm for detecting the surface of the road. The outdoor patrol robot platform is equipped with a DGPS system, a gyro-compass sensor, and a laser range finder. The proposed obstacle avoidance and road detection algorithms were experimentally tested in success.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.370-376
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• 2022

기술의 발전으로 스마트 선박과 관련된 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있으며, 기관실을 무인으로 순찰할 수 있는 기관실 순찰 로봇도 이러한 연구 중의 하나이다. 순찰로봇은 인공지능을 통해 학습된 정보를 기반으로 기관실을 이동하며 기기 정상 유무 및 누수, 누유, 화재 등의 이상 유무를 파악한다. 기관실 순찰로봇에 관한 연구는 인공지능을 이용한 객체 검출에 관한 연구가 주로 진행되고 있으나, 순찰로봇의 이동 및 제어에 관한 연구는 부족한 상황이다. 이는 순찰로봇이 객체를 검출하더라도 검출한 객체까지 이동할 방법이 없다는 문제를 야기한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 기관실 이상상황 발생 시 빠르게 이상 유무를 파악할 수 있는 기동성을 확보하기 위해, A* 알고리즘을 적용하여 순찰로봇이 최단경로를 탐색할 수 있는지를 확인하였다. 라이다를 장착한 소형차를 이용하여 선박 기관실을 주행하며 데이터를 얻어, SLAM으로 매핑하여 지도를 만들었다. 매핑한 지도에서 순찰로봇의 출발 지점과 목표 지점을 설정하고, A* 알고리즘을 적용하여 출발 지점부터 목표 지점까지 최단 경로를 탐색하는지를 확인하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 매핑된 지도에서 출발 지점부터 목표 지점까지의 장애물을 회피하며 최단 경로를 잘 탐색함을 확인 할 수 있었으며, 기관실 순찰로봇에 적용하면 선박안전에 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2023년도 가을학술발표대회논문집
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• pp.267-268
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• 2023

Unmanned patrol robots are currently being developed for autonomous data survey in construction sites. As the amount of data acquired by robots increases, it is important to utilize proper metadata and system to manage data flow. In this study, we developed three materials, metadata design, robot system and web system, in the purpose of automating construction site data survey using unmanned patrol robots. The metadata was mainly designed to represent when and where raw data was acquired. To identify the location of data acquired, localization data from SLAM algorithm was converted to suit the construction drawings. The robot system and web system were developed to generate, store and parse the raw data and metadata automatically. The materials developed in this study was adopted to Boston Dynamics SPOT, a quadruped robot. Autonomous data survey of 360-picture and environment sensor was tested in two construction sites and the robot worked as intended. As a further study, development on the autonomous data survey to improve the convenience and productivity will be continued.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.447-448
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• 2011

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2006

In this paper, we develope the navigation system for patrol robots in indoor environment. The proposed system consists of PDA map modelling, a localization algorithm based on a global position sensor and an automatic charging station. For the practical use in security system, the PDA is used to build object map on the given indoor map. And the builded map is downloaded to the mobile robot and used in path planning. The global path planning is performed with a localization sensor and the downloaded map. As a main controller, we use PXA270 based hardware platform in which embedded linux 2.6 is developed. Data handling for various sensors and the localization algorithm are performed in the linux platform. Also, we implemented a local path planning algorithm for object avoidance with ultra sonar sensors. Finally, for the automatic charging, we use an infrared ray system and develop a docking algorithm. The navigation system is experimented with the two-wheeled mobile robot using North-Star localization system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.249-251
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• 2009

Mobile patrol robots are mainly used in aerospace and military engineering because they can work at dangerous environment replacing a man. This paper presents a study on the remote monitoring and control system of a mobile patrol robot platform using TCP/IP. The mobile robot consists of intel PXA270 and linux-based system. It can get environment information such as images, temperature, humidity and slope by using two cameras and various sensors. And it transmits information data to a monitoring system through the ad-hoc network which is one of wireless network solutions. At this time, a mobile robot is a server and a monitoring system is a client. Users can monitor environment information which is received from a mobile robot by an application based on PC. We have used TCP/IP protocol, socket programming, interface technique of process and devices and control algorithm to embody the mobile robot and its monitoring system. Experimental results shows that the system can be utilized as a remote patrol monitoring tool.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.697-709
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• 2010

본 논문에서는, 국방 로봇에 있어 핵심적으로 기술 개발이 요구되는 감시 정찰 분야의 무기 체계 확보를 위한 새로운 구동 메커니즘을 적용한 휴대용 정찰 로봇 개발 방법을 제시하였다. 본 논문은 차륜형 바퀴의 장점과 날개형 바퀴의 장점을 모두 수용하여, 바퀴의 형상이 가변되는 가변형 정찰 로봇이라는 새로운 메커니즘의 제시이다. 특히, 본 논문에서 중점적으로 다루고 있는 순응형 가변구동 정찰로봇은 바퀴의 형상이 노면의 상태에 따라 평지에서는 회전체가 안쪽으로 모여 차륜형의 원형을 이루어 기존의 구동 메커니즘에 비하여 용하고 빠른 이동 능력을 얻을 수 있으며, 험지에서는 별도 구동자의 작용 없이 단순한 구조적 특성으로 회전체가 펼쳐지게 되어 날개 형태로 변형됨으로써 험지 극복능력이 뛰어난 특징이 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.883-895
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• 2007

In this work, we present the development of a patrol robot which is intended to navigate outdoor rough terrain. Proposed mechanism consists of six legs for overcoming an obstacle, and six wheels for traveling. Also, in order to absorb vibration in rough terrain effectively, the slide-spring system and tubed type tire are adopted to each leg and each wheel. The control system of robot consists of several imbedded boards for management of lots of diverse devices such as sensors designed for rough terrain, motor controllers, camera, micro controller and so on. And the base system of the robot is designed to operate in real time and to surveille in the vicinity of the robot, and the robot system is controlled by wireless LAN connected to GUI-based remote control system, while CAN communication connects the control board and the device controllers for sensors and motor controllers. For operating this robot system efficiently, we propose the control algorithms for autonomous navigation using GPS, stabilization maintenance by posture control, obstacle-avoidance by impedance control, and obstacle-overcoming with interference-avoidance between wheels. The performance of the robot and the proposed algorithms are tested and proved by a set of experiments in outdoor rough terrain.