• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2010

무인 로봇이나 무인 항공기 등의 위치 추정 등에 사용되는 산악 영상에서 지평선을 검출하는 것은 지평선의 복잡성, 환경에 의한 가려짐, 영상의 노이즈 때문에 매우 힘들다. 이러한 어려움에도 불구하고 지평선 검출은 무인 이동체에 다양하게 적용될 수 있는 매우 중요한 연구 주제이다. 본 논문에서는 다중 스케일 케니 영상과, 위상 정보, 그리고 영상 속에서의 지평선의 위치 정보를 이용하여 지평선 검출 알고리즘을 개발 하였다. 다중 스케일 케니 영상은 추정(localization)에 강한 고 스케일 케니 영상과 탐색(detection)에 강한 저 스케일 케니 영상으로 구성된다. 알고리즘의 적절한 단계에 각각의 케니 영상을 선택적으로 적용함으로 복잡한 환경에서도 좋은 지평선 검출 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 다양한 영상을 통해 검증되었으며 기존의 기법과 비교되었다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2013

In order to operate a search and rescue robot in hazardous area, the robot requires high mobility and adaptable locomotion for moving in unpredictable environments. In this paper, we propose the deformable soft wheel robot that can produce three kinds of driving modes; caterpillar driving mode, normal wheel driving mode, legged-wheel driving mode. The robot changes its driving mode as it faces the various obstacles such as a small gap, stairs etc. Soft film and composite materials are used for fabrication of deformable wheel structure and Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) coil spring actuators are attached on the structure as an artificial muscle. Film lamination and an composite manufacturing process is introduced and the robot design is required to be modified and compromised to applying the manufacturing process. The prototype is developed and tested for verifying feasibility of the deformable wheel locomotion.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2013

'Multi-scale mass-deployable cooperative robots' is a next generation robotics paradigm where a large number of robots that vary in size cooperate in a hierarchical fashion to collect information in various environments. While this paradigm can exhibit the effective solution for exploration of the wide area consisting of various types of terrain, its technical maturity is still in its infant state and many technical hurdles should be resolved to realize this paradigm. In this paper, we propose to develop new design and manufacturing methodologies for the multi-scale mass-deployable cooperative robots. In doing so, we present various fundamental technologies in four different research fields. (1) Adaptable design methods consist of compliant mechanisms and hierarchical structures which provide robots with a unified way to overcome various and irregular terrains. (2) Soft composite materials realize the compliancy in these structures. (3) Multi-scale integrative manufacturing techniques are convergence of traditional methods for producing various sized robots assembled by such materials. Finally, (4) the control and communication techniques for the massive swarm robot systems enable multiple functionally simple robots to accomplish the complex job by effective job distribution.