• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.390-395
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• 2012

This paper describes an implementation of automatic mutual localization of swarm robots using a particle filter. Each robot determines the location of the other robots using wireless sensors. The measured data will be used for determination of the movement method of the robot itself. It also affects the other robots' self-arrangement into formations such as circles and lines. We discuss the problem of a circle formation enclosing a target that moves. This method is the solution for enclosing an invader in a circle formation based on mutual localization of the multi-robot without infrastructure. We use trilateration, which does require knowing the value of the coordinates of the reference points. Therefore, specifying the enclosure point based on the number of robots and their relative positions in the coordinate system. A particle filter is used to improve the accuracy of the robot's location. The particle filter is operates better for mutual location of robots than any other estimation algorithms. Through the experiments, we show that the proposed scheme is stable and works well in real environments.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.370-388
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• 2015

The localization of multi-agents, such as people, animals, or robots, is a requirement to accomplish several tasks. Especially in the case of multi-robotic applications, localization is the process for determining the positions of robots and targets in an unknown environment. Many sensors like GPS, lasers, and cameras are utilized in the localization process. However, these sensors produce a large amount of computational resources to process complex algorithms, because the process requires environmental mapping. Currently, combination multi-robots or swarm robots and sensor networks, as mobile sensor nodes have been widely available in indoor and outdoor environments. They allow for a type of efficient global localization that demands a relatively low amount of computational resources and for the independence of specific environmental features. However, the inherent instability in the wireless signal does not allow for it to be directly used for very accurate position estimations and making difficulty associated with conducting the localization processes of swarm robotics system. Furthermore, these swarm systems are usually highly decentralized, which makes it hard to synthesize and access global maps, it can be decrease its flexibility. In this paper, a simple pyramid RAM-based Neural Network architecture is proposed to improve the localization process of mobile sensor nodes in indoor environments. Our approach uses the capabilities of learning and generalization to reduce the effect of incorrect information and increases the accuracy of the agent's position. The results show that by using simple pyramid RAM-base Neural Network approach, produces low computational resources, a fast response for processing every changing in environmental situation and mobile sensor nodes have the ability to finish several tasks especially in localization processes in real time.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2009

With the development of techniques, robots are getting smaller, and the number of robots needed for application is greater and greater. How to coordinate large number of autonomous robots through local interactions has becoming an important research issue in robot community. Swarm Robot Systems (SRS) is a system that independent autonomous robots in the restricted environments infer their status from pre-assigned conditions and operate their jobs through the cooperation with each other. In the SRS, a robot contains sensor part to percept the situation around them, communication part to exchange information, and actuator part to do a work. Especially, in order to cooperate with other robots, communicating with other robots is one of the essential elements. Because Bluetooth has many advantages such as low power consumption, small size module package, and various standard protocols, it is rated as one of the efficient communicating technologies which can apply to small-sized robot system. In this paper, we will develop Bluetooth communicating system for autonomous robots. And we will discuss how to construct and what kind of procedure to develop the communicating system for group behavior of the SRS under intelligent space.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.429-434
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• 2013

This paper proposes a CPSO (Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization)-based MPC (Model Predictive Control) scheme to deal with formation control problem of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots. In a distributed MPC framework, each robot needs to optimize control input sequence over a finite prediction horizon considering control inputs of the other robots where their cost functions are coupled by the state variables of the neighboring robots. In order to optimize the control input sequence, a CPSO algorithm is adopted and modified to fit into the formation control problem. Experiments are performed on a group of nonholonomic mobile robots to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CPSO-based MPC for multi-robot formation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.725-730
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose the localization algorithm for the cooperative behavior of the swarm robots based on WSN (Wireless Sensor Network). The proposed method is as follows: First, we measure positions of the L-bot (Leader robot) and F-bots (Follower robots) by using the APIT (Approximate Point In Triangle) and the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication). Second, we measure relative positions of the F-bots against the pre-measured position of the L-bot by using trilateration. Then, to revise a position error caused by noise of the wireless signal, we use the particle filter. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method though some simulations.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.806-816
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• 2011

Interest about social security has recently increased in favor of safety for infrastructure. In addition, advances in computer vision and pattern recognition research are leading to video-based surveillance systems with improved scene analysis capabilities. However, such video surveillance systems, which are controlled by human operators, cannot actively cope with dynamic and anomalous events, such as having an invader in the corporate, commercial, or public sectors. For this reason, intelligent surveillance systems are increasingly needed to provide active social security services. In this study, we propose a core technique for intelligent surveillance system that is based on swarm robot technology. We present techniques for invader enclosing using swarm robots based on multiple distributed object environment. The proposed methods are composed of three main stages: location estimation of the object, specified object tracking, and decision of the cooperative behavior of the swarm robots. By using particle filter, object tracking and location estimation procedures are performed and a specified enclosing point for the swarm robots is located on the interactive positions in their coordinate system. Furthermore, the cooperative behaviors of the swarm robots are determined via the result of path navigation based on the combination of potential field and wall-following methods. The results of each stage are combined into the swarm robot-based invader-enclosing technique on multiple distributed object environments. Finally, several simulation results are provided to further discuss and verify the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed techniques.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권1호
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• pp.130-134
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a space partitioning technique for swarm robots by using the Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation. The proposed method consists of two parts such as space partition and collision avoidance. The space partition for searching a given space is carried out by a density function which is generated by some accidents. The collision avoidance is implemented by the potential field method. Finally, the numerical experiments show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.349-354
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• 2014

이 논문에서는 여러 대의 로봇들이 협력하여 미로를 탈출하는 방법을 제안한다. 논문에서 사용된 교육용 로봇들은 ZigBee로 서로 통신할 수 있으나, 로봇들의 연산기능이 낮아 서로 협력하여 문제를 해결할 수 없다. 로봇의 모션제어로 통로를 직립 보행하도록 하였으며, 절대거리 센서를 이용하여 교차로와 막다른 골목을 인식하면 중앙제어 시스템에 전송하여 명령을 받는다. 여러 로봇들이 동시에 미로에 들어가서 효과적으로 미로를 탐색하도록 하는 미로 탐색 알고리즘을 수정하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2013

This paper suggests a hybrid path planning method of multi-robots, where a path deviation prevention for maintaining a specific formation is implemented by using repulsive function, $A^*$ algorithm and UKF (Unscented Kalman Filter). The repulsive function in potential field method is used to avoid collision among robots and obstacles. $A^*$ algorithm helps the robots to find optimal path. In addition, error estimation based on UKF guarantees small path deviation of each robot during navigation. The simulation results show that the swarm robots with designated formation successfully avoid obstacles and return to the assigned formation effectively.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2023

로봇은 군사 분야로까지 활용 범위를 넓히며 다가올 미래전에서 감시경계, 적군 탐지 등 중요한 임무를 맡게 될 것으로 전망된다. 군집 로봇은 다수라는 장점으로 단일 로봇이 수행하기 어렵거나 오랜 시간이 소요된 임무를 보다 효율적으로 수행할 수 있다. 상호 간 인지 및 협업이 필수인 군집 로봇은 방대한 데이터를 주고 받으며, 이로 인해 SW의 검증이 점점 더 어려워지고 있다. 임무 검증의 신뢰성을 높이기 위해 사용하는 Hardware-in-the-loop simulation은 복잡한 군집 로봇의 SW 검증을 가능하게 하나, HILS 장치와 시뮬레이터 간 주고 받는 검증 데이터의 양이 검증 대상 시스템 수에 따라 기하급수적으로 증가하여 통신 과부하가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 군집 로봇의 임무 검증에서 발생하는 통신 과부하 문제를 해소하기 위해 디지털 트윈 기반의 통신 최적화 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 Digital Twin based Multi HILS Framework 하에서 Network DT은 Network Controller 알고리즘을 통해 임무 시나리오에 따라 각 로봇에게 네트워크 자원을 효율적으로 할당할 수 있으며, 군집에 참여하는 개별 로봇들이 요구하는 Sensor Generation Rate를 모두 만족시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 데이터 전송에 대한 실험 결과 패킷 손실 비율을 기존 15.7%에서 약 0.2%로 감소시킬 수 있었다.