• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.435-441
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• 2013

A swarm robot system consists of with multiple mobile robots, each of which is called an agent. Each agent interacts with others and cooperates for a given task and a given environment. For the swarm robotic system, the loss of the entire work capability by malfunction or damage to a single robot is relatively small and replacement and repair of the robot is less costly. So, it is suitable to perform more complex tasks. The essential component for a swarm robotic system is an inter-robot collaboration strategy for teamwork. Recently, the swarm intelligence theory is applied to robotic system domain as a new framework of collective robotic system design. In this paper, FA (Firefly Algorithm) which is based on firefly's reaction to the lights of other fireflies and their social behavior is employed to optimize the group behavior of multiple robots. The main application of the firefly algorithm is performed on path planning of swarm mobile robots and its effectiveness is verified by simulations under various conditions.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1132-1137
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• 2013

In swarm robot systems, it is vital to maintain network connectivity to ensure cooperative behavior between robots. This paper deals with the behavior control algorithm of the swarm robots for maintaining network connectivity. To do this, we divide swarm robots into search-robots, base-robots, and relay-robots. Using these robots, we propose behavior control algorithm to maintain network connectivity. The behavior control algorithms to maintain network connectivity are proposed for the local path planning using virtual force and global path planning using the Delaunay triangulation, respectively. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed method through some simulations.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.413-421
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 로봇 축구용 카메라를 사용하는 기존 경로계획의 제한적인 사항을 극복하기 위해서 컬러 인식법에 의한 경로계획방법을 제시한다. 제안된 연구에서는 움직이는 목표물이 스웜로봇과 멀리 있어도 로봇의 직선 시야를 기반으로 동료 로봇을 따라가며, 움직이는 목표물을 추적 할 수 있다. 제안된 포텐셜 필드는 동료 로봇과의 충돌과 장애물과의 충돌을 피하면서 스웜 로봇들이 움직이는 목표물을 향하여 이동하게 한다. 결국, 스웜 로봇들 사이의 시각적 도움에 의해 최종 목표물에 모든 스웜 로봇들이 도달하게 된다. 제안된 방법은 움직이는 파티클, 즉 점 로봇이 아닌 논홀로노믹 제한이 있는 유니 사이클 로봇들을 대상으로 자기 조직화 방법을 제시하기 때문에 실제 하드웨어 적용시 유용하다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2019

Embedded swarm systems consist of a large number of robots that use local control laws based on spatial information nearby environment and adjacent robots. In this paper, we propose a new scheme for indirect swarm configuration in swarm interaction system to adapt the swarm operation according to the desired goal. Also, we provide a method for the operator to observe the state of the swarm, which results in providing appropriate input to the swarm. We analyze the stability properties of the proposed swarm system and show the simulation results.

• 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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• 제18권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2012

We can efficiently collect crops or minerals by operating multi-robot foraging. As foraging spaces become wider, control algorithms demand scalability and reliability. Swarm robotics is a state-of-the-art algorithm on wide foraging spaces due to its advantages, such as self-organization, robustness, and flexibility. However, high initial and operating costs are main barriers in performing multi-robot foraging system. In this paper, we propose a novel method to improve the energy efficiency of the system to reduce operating costs. The idea is to employ a new behavior model regarding role division in concert with the search space division.

• 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.

• 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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• 제16권3호
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• pp.227-232
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• 2010

In this paper we consider the multi-robot system that collects target objects spread in an unexplored environment. The robots cooperate each other to improve the capability and the efficiency. The robots attract or intimidate each other as behaviors of bacterial swarms or particles with electrical moments. The interactions would increase the working efficiency in some environments but it would decrease the efficiency in some other environments. Therefore, the system needs to adapt to the working environment by adjusting the strengths of the interactions. The strengths of the interactions are expressed as sets of gene codes that mean the weights of each kind of attracting or intimidating vectors. The proposed system adjusts the gene codes using evolutional strategy. The proposed approach has been validated by computer simulation. The results of this paper show that our inter-swarm interacting strategy and optimizing algorithm improves the working efficiency, adaptively to the characteristics of environments.

• 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.