• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.167-174
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• 2014

In this paper, we address a task allocation problem for a robot team that performs a search and attack mission. The robots are limited in sensing and communication capabilities, and carry different types of resources that are used to attack a target. The environment is uncertain and dynamic where no prior information about targets is given and dynamic events unpredictably happen. The goal of robot team is to collect total utilities as much as possible by destroying targets in a mission horizon. To solve the problem, we propose a distributed task allocation framework incorporated with effective resource management based on resource welfare. The framework we propose enables the robot team to retain more robots available by balancing resources among robots, and respond smoothly to dynamic events, which results in system performance improvement.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.401-407
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• 2019

In this paper, the position estimation considering wheel slip of mecanum wheeled mobile robots is discussed. Since the mecanum wheeled mobile robot does not need a space to rotate, it is very suitable in narrow industrial fields. However, the slip caused by the roller attached to the wheel makes it difficult to estimate the position precisely. Due to these limitations, mecanum wheels are rarely applied to unmanned mobile robots in automation factories. In this paper, a method to compensate the orientation and distance error caused by the slip is proposed. The exact orientation is measured by fusing gyro and magnetometer sensor data with application of Kalman filter. In addition, the kinematic model accounting slip effects will be defined to compensate the distance error.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.72-80
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a digital DC-Link current control approach for BLDC actuation systems. The proposed approach consists of the following two components: first, DC-Link current measurement with sampling instances synchronized with PWM frequency, and second, current control using single DC-Link current rather than three phases current of a motor. The proposed method proved its performance through experiments and simulation. The results showed that the control performance are increased compared with the BLDC actuation system which does not use current control.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.26
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• pp.89-119
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to progress the development plan of safety management on the intelligent robot through safety analysis on the intelligent robot, major present condition of safety management on the intelligent robot, enforcement method of safety management on the intelligent robot. The following is the result of the study. First, we have to establish the provision or the special legislation to regulate the safety management of the intelligent robot substantially in the intelligent robot development and supply promotion law, the enforcement ordinance, the enforcement regulation. And, we should propel to establish the provision on the safety management of the intelligent robot in the laws related on ethics and safety. Second, we should establish the Robot Ethical Charter through the national and international agreement to give a guarantee against the safety management of the intelligent robot. Furthermore, we have to induces people's interest on the safety management of the intelligent robot through offering the public information of the Robot Ethical Charter for coexistence of human and robot and have to understand about rights of the intelligent robot. Third, the security industry and learned circles have to recognize the important effect that the intelligent robot gets in the security industry and try to grope the safety management and the application plan on the intelligent robot. Also, the security industry and learned circles should concern not only using and managing of the intelligent robot including the military robot, the security robot but also protecting human from the intelligent robot.

• ICROS
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.19-31
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• 2013

본 고는 국내외의 지형참조항법시스템 관련 기술의 발전 동향을 살펴보고자 한다. 지형참조항법은 국외에서 1940년대부터 그 필요성이 대두된 학문으로 잠수정, 군용 전투기 등 다양한 분야에서 주로 군사목적으로 연구가 진행되었다. 1950년 ATRAN의 개발을 시작으로 1990년대 PTAN 지형참조항법기술까지 발전되어 무인기뿐만 아닌 Tomahawk 같은 유도무기에도 그 활용 범위를 넓혀가고 있다. 하지만 하드웨어적인 제약과 GPS의 발달로 관련 연구가 주춤하였으나 컴퓨터 기술의 발달, 지형측정센서의 정확도 향상과 더불어 GPS 교란 가능성 등이 부각되면서 최근 다시 관성항법시스템(INS)을 보조하는 대체 항법으로서 주목받고 있다. 주로 다중 측정치를 이용하는 방법과 비선형 필터를 이용하여 항법해 성능을 향상시키거나 병렬 다중필터를 이용하여 항법해의 신뢰성을 향상시키는 방향으로 연구가 진행 중이다. 그리고 다양한 지구물리데이터와 통합한 데이터베이스기반 복합항법 기술로 발전하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.232-234
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 무인기(UAV)를 활용하여 재난현장을 분석하고 uGIS기법에 의한 처리방안에 대하여 제시한다. 무인기는 군사적인 용도로 개발되면서부터 급속한 민간의 활용으로 확산되면서 소형에서 대형까지 매우 다양한 시스템으로 수 많은 분야에 적용되고 있다. 특히 무인기는 재난재해의 현장에 어떠한 수단보다도 원활하고 신속 정확한 분석과 모니터링을 동시에 수행할 수 있으며, 그 과정을 uGIS기법에 의한 실시간 현장영상의 제공과 현장의 변화관리를 지속가능하게 공중을 나르는 로봇형 공간정보의 한 기술로서 자료의 전송, 보존 및 관리와 운영을 할 수 있다는 새로운 uIT분야의 하일라이트로서 크게 부각되어, 향후에도 무한한 영향력을 발휘할 수 있는 잠재력을 견지할 수 있는 수단으로 기여될 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.853-860
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• 2014

This paper introduces a Korean rescue robot and presents a whole body kinematic control strategy. The mission of the rescue robot is to move and lift patients or soldiers with impaired mobility in the battlefields, hospitals and hazardous environments. In order for a robot to rescue and assist humans, reliable mobility in various environments, large load carrying capacity, and dextrous manipulability are required. For these objects the robot has variable configuration mobile platform with tracks, dual arm manipulator, and two types of grippers. The electric actuators provide the strength to lift a wounded soldier up to 120 kg using whole body joints. To control the robot with multi degree of freedom, we need to synthesize complex whole-body behaviors, and to manage multiple task primitives systematically. We are to present a whole body kinematic control methodology, and demonstrate its effectiveness through numerical simulations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.250-256
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• 2012

Unmanned ground vehicles may be operated by remote control unit through the wireless communication or autonomously. However, the autonomous technology is still challenging and not perfectly developed. For some reason or other, the wireless communication is not always available. If wireless communication is abruptly disconnected, the UGV will be nothing but a lump of junk. What was worse, the UGV can be captured by enemy. This paper suggests a method, autonomous return technology with which the UGV can autonomously go back to a safer position along the reverse path. The suggested autonomous return technology for UGV is based on multi-correlated information based DB creation and matching. While SUGV moves by remote-control, the multi-correlated information based DB is created with the multi-sensor information; the absolute position of the trajectory is stored in DB if GPS is available and the hybrid MAP based on the fusion of VISION and LADAR is stored with the corresponding relative position if GPS is unavailable. In multi-correlated information based autonomous return, SUGV returns autonomously based on DB; SUGV returns along the trajectory based on GPS-based absolute position if GPS is available. Otherwise, the current position of SUGV is first estimated by the relative position using multi-sensor fusion followed by the matching between the query and DB. Then, the return path is created in MAP and SUGV returns automatically based on the MAP. Experimental results on the pre-built trajectory show the possibility of the successful autonomous return.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.508-516
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• 2016

When GPS signals are not available, a relative localization can be alternatively used to represent the topological relationship between mobile nodes. A relative location map of a network can be constructed by using the distance information between all the pairs of nodes in the network. If a network is large, a number of small local maps are individually constructed and are merged to obtain the whole map. However, this approach may result in a high computation and communication overhead. In this paper, we propose a reference-node selection scheme for relative localization map construction, which chooses a subset of nodes as a reference node that is supposed to construct local maps. The scheme is a greedy algorithm that iteratively chooses nodes with high degree as a reference node until the chosen local maps are successfully merged with a sufficient number of common nodes between nearby local maps. The simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme achieves higher localization accuracy with a reduced computational overhead.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.10
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• pp.986-992
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• 2012

As the utilization of smart mobile devices such as smartphones increases, the desire to utilize such devices to control and monitor combat situations also arises. As smart mobile devices with various ICT get integrated with various weaponry system, a new phase of future warfare can be introduced. Moreover, smartphone-based real-time information technology for joint battle command system will be converged with surveillance control to become a leading example of convergence of cyber defense and information technology. Furthermore, mobile device security technology ideal for mobile wireless network environments can be applied to military robots. The following paper will give an overview of smart mobile device usage used for military purposes in battle command system, various security threats and the mobile device security technology to correspond to such security threats.