• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.114-120
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• 2007

This paper introduces a mobile robotic system being developed for urban search and rescue. In order to search human victims in narrow spaces, we developed two types of serially linked mobile robots, named KAEROT-Centipede and KAEROT-SnakeTV1, that can climb over large vertical steps or travel inside narrow vertical pipes. To send such mobile robots to the disaster areas coping with large obstacles, we also developed a assistant mobile robot, named KAEROT-QuadTrack, that has 4 articulated track modules. This paper describes the mechanical structure and control architecture of the serially linked mobile robots and the supporting configuration for torque reduction of the assistant mobile robot during spinning motion that usually requires large driving torque. The experimental results show that such robotic systems have good mobility over the various terrains in disaster areas.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.2142-2148
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• 2015

This paper proposes novel real-time footstep planning and following methods for the navigation of humanoid robots. A footstep command is defined by a walking direction and step lengths for footstep planning. The walking direction is determined by a uni-vector field navigation method, and the allowable yawing range caused by hardware limitation is considered. The lateral step length is determined to avoid collisions between the two legs while walking. The sagittal step length is modified by a binary search algorithm when collision occurs between the robot body and obstacles in a narrow space. If the robot body still collides with obstacles despite the modification of the sagittal step length, the lateral step length is shifted at the next footstep. For footstep following, a walking pattern generator based on a 3-D linear inverted pendulum model is utilized, which can generate modifiable walking patterns using the zero-moment point variation scheme. Therefore, it enables a humanoid robot to follow the footstep command planned for each footstep. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through simulation and experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.8
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• pp.1035-1044
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• 2001

The existing search engine cause heavy loads on web servers and networks, because they operate robots not considering the loads of many distributed diverse web servers and networks. As the information update period is 3～4 weeks, information is not updated at proper time. Although there is no contents to be updated on web servers, the robot collects and updates the contents of the web servers. This study proposes a intelligential search engine considering the load of web servers and networks, designs a real-time controlled search engine and intelligent robots, and implements them. The intelligent robot updates distributed information real-time. Robot control policies are also proposed, which can upgrade the overall performance of the system by monitoring the loads of web servers and networks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2009

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.11S
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• pp.3732-3838
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• 2000

As the Internet sites and users have rapidly been increased, the development for search engines has also been accelerated to satisfy users' expectations. As the result, not only the action of collecting documents through many search engines gave hosts workload, but also regular updating all the information is needed since information is newly added. With the circumstances, the necessity of the technology to collect massive information in hosts has been increased for the speed which is a basic requisite of search systems, and for more accurate collection of documents. Also, the role of search engines grows bigger for Internet users' various demands and flexible process through World Wide Web. In this paper, we design and implement a robot agent and a remote control system which doesn't give an excessive workload on a target server and makes the collection of documents done in a short period by considering an average workload rate on the target server and the rate of the workload that a robot experience in collection time, after we compare and analyze the existing Robot Agent Systems and supplement their weak points.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.795-801
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• 2005

This paper focuses on planning strategies for object interception by the robotic manipulator on a conveyor system in minimum time. The goal is that the robot is able to intercept object with minimum time on a conveyor line that moves at a given speed. The search algorithm for minimum time solution is given in detail for all possible cases for initial locations of robot. Simulations results show the validity of the given algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2852-2854
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a method to a synchronization of chaotic mobile robots that have unstable limit cycles in a chaos trajectory surface. We assume all obstacles in the chaos trajectory surface have a VDP (Van der Pol) equation with an unstable limit cycle. The proposed methods are assumed that if one of two chaotic mobile robot receives the synchronization command, the other robot also follows the same trajectory during the chaotic robot search on the arbitrary surface.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.2315-2327
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• 1992

A robot assembly method which uses configuration and force/torque information of tactile sensor system and performs chamferless peg-in-hole tasks is suggested and experimentally studied. When the robot gripes the peg with random orientation, the realignment of the peg to the hole center line is successfully performed with the gripping configuration information of the tactile sensor and the inverse kinematics of the robot. The force/torque information of the tactile sensor makes it possible to control the contacting force between mating parts during hole search stage. The suggested algorithm employs a hybrid position/force control and the experiments show that the algorithm accomplishes well peg-in-hole tasks with permissible small contacting force. The chamferless peg-in-hole tasks with smaller clearance than the robot repeatibility can be excuted without any loss or deformation of mating parts. This study the possibility of precise and chamferless parts mating by robot and tactile sensor system.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.321-338
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• 2008

This paper presents a Modified Multiple Depth First Search algorithm for the exploration of the indoor environments occupied with obstacles in random distribution. The proposed algorithm was designed and implemented to employ one or a team of Khepera II mini robots for the exploration process. In case of multi-robots, the BlueCore2 External Bluetooth module was used to establish wireless networks with one master robot and one up to three slaves. Messages are sent and received via the module's Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) interface. Real exploration experiments were performed using locally developed teleworkbench with various autonomy features. In addition, computer simulation tool was also developed to simulate the exploration experiments with one master robot and one up to ten slaves. Computer simulations were in good agreement with the real experiments for the considered cases of one to one up to three networks. Results of the MMDFS for single robot exhibited 46% reduction in the needed number of steps for exploring environments with obstacles in comparison with other algorithms, namely the Ants algorithm and the original MDFS algorithm. This reduction reaches 71% whenever exploring open areas. Finally, results performed using multi-robots exhibited more reduction in the needed number of exploration steps.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06e
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• pp.125-128
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• 2002

One of ultimate purpose that performance to information society been going recently festinately intends is in human's welfare improvement. Also, research about assist for disabled person that belong on category that is disabled persons' cloth elevation estranged in the past according to disabled person population's increase and change of advanced human rights consciousness to ruins of industrial society and traffic civilization is afoot abuzz. Guidance robot of sight obstacle can speak as its part. This research is thing about voice system about location set and search in guidance robot that is embodying to make sight disabled person can visit schedule place smoothly.