• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.909-915
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• 2008

Recently, the interests in the development and application of unmaned robots are increasing in various fields including surveillance and reconnaissance, planet exploration, and disaster relief. Unmaned robots are usually controlled from distance using radio communications but they should be equipped with an autonomous travelling function to cope with unexpected terrains and obstacles. This means that they should be able to evaluate terrain's characteristics quantitatively using mounted sensors so as to traverse harsh natural terrains autonomously. For this purpose, this paper presents a method for extracting terrain information, that is, slope and roughness from elevation maps as a prior step of traversability analysis. Slope is extracted using the curve fitting based on the least squares method and roughness using three metrics and their weighted average. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified on both a fractal map and the world model map of a real terrain.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.116-128
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• 2013

This paper focuses on development of a testbed for analysis of robot-terrain interaction on rough terrain and also, through one wheel driving experiments using this testbed, prediction of maximum velocity and acceleration of UGV. Firstly, from the review regarding previous researches for terrain modeling, the main variables for measurement are determined. A testbed is developed to measure main variables related to robot-terrain interaction. Experiments are performed on three kinds of rough terrains (grass, gravel, and sand) and traction-slip curves are obtained using the data of the drawbar pull and slip ratio. Traction-slip curves are used to predict driving performance of UGV on rough terrain. Maximum velocity and acceleration of UGVs are predicted by the simple kinematics and dynamics model of two kinds of 4-wheel mobile robots. And also, driving efficiency of UGVs is predicted to reduce energy consumption while traversing rough terrains.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.753-757
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• 2015

This paper introduces an experimental rescue robot, HUBO T-100 and presents the optimal motion control method. The objective of the rescue robot is to extract patients or wounded soldiers in the battlefield and hazardous environments. Another mission is to dispose and transport an explosive ordnance to safe places. To execute these missions, the upper body of the rescue robot is humanoid in form to execute various kinds of tasks. The lower body features a hybrid tracked/legged design, which allows for a variety of mode of locomotion, depending on terrain conditions in order to increase traversability. The weight lifting motion is one of the most important task for performing rescue related missions because the robot must lift an object or impaired person lying on the ground for transferring. Here, dynamics based motion optimization is employed to minimize joint torques while maintaining stability simultaneously. Physical experiments with a real humanoid robot, HUBO T-100, are presented to verify the proposed method.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.26-34
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• 2008

차량의 접근 가능한 구역에 대한 판단과 경로 계획은 무인 차량의 자율 주행에 있어서 필수적이다 차량의 접근 가능한 구역과 경로계획을 위한 정보는 3차원 지형형상을 분석하여 얻을 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 카메라의 색 정보와 2차원 레이저 거리센서(2D LRF)를 융합하여 모바일 로봇의 휠 인코더를 통해 복원한 3차원 지형형상과, GPS/IMU 정보와 2차원 레이저 거리 센서로 복원한 3차원 지형형상을 적은 데이터로 표현하는 방법을 제시하였다. 카메라의 색 정보와 2차원 레이저 거리센서의 융합을 위해 카메라의 좌표계와 LRF의 좌표계 사이의 기하학적인 관계를 격자무의 평면을 이용하여 구하였다. 카메라와 2차원 레이저 거리센서의 융합을 통한 3차원 지형형상 복원은 모바일 로봇을 이용하여 실내에서 실험하였고, GPS/IMU 정보와 2차원 레이저 거리센서를 통한 3차원 지형형상 복원은 차량을 이용하여 실외에서 실험하였다. 이런 시스템에서 복원한 3차원 지형형상은 점군 기반으로 되어있고, 이는 매우 많은 양의 정보를 필요로 한다. 정보의 양을 줄이기 위해 점군 기반을 대신하여 입방형 격자 기반의 지형형상으로 복원하였다.