• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2011

This paper presents the implementation and control of a mobile manipulator robot for indoor service. The robot has two arms for tasks and a mobile base for mobility. The robot is designed to have several characteristics. Firstly, the robot has the capability of changing the height of the robot. Secondly, the robot can be changed into a balancing mode of two contact points from mobile mode of four contact points. The robot has a balancing mode like an inverted pendulum robot as well as mobile robot mode. Lastly, as a novel concept, the robot is designed to have the capability of separating into two systems, the robot ann and the mobile robot as well. The mobile base can be separately used for a cleaning service.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.239-242
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• 2002

점차 많은 형태의 가정용 로봇이 개발되고 있으며 일부 제품화되어 출시되고 있다. 이러한 가정용 로봇을 원격지에서 제어하고자 할 때 대부분이 인터넷이나 무선을 이용한 원격제어 또는 실시간 모니터링을 통해 제어하여 그 상황을 시뮬레이션으로 구현하고 있다. 그러나 제어대상이 극히 제한적인 수의 이동로봇인데 반해 다수의 가족 구성원인 제어조작자가 중복적으로 청소로봇과 같은 이동로봇을 제어하고자 접근을 시도했을 때 이동로봇에 다중적인 업무가 주어지게 될 수 도 있다. 이에 Database 를 이용하여 수행 업무의 우선순위와 제어조작자의 권한의 우선순위를 지정한 명령어를 Database 내에 구성하여 간접적으로 전송하여 제어하고자 한다. 그리고 제어를 통한 동작 시 실제 이동로봇의 속도와 방향 제어를 위해 퍼지 및 신경망을 이용한 지능제어를 구성하여 제어의 효율성을 극대화 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.3626-3635
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• 2011

The modular robots are a kind of system that was developed to overcome the limitation of the movement for the mobile robot with wheels or legs. In legs type mobile robot case, they are limited for velocity and balance during moving at the uneven terrain. In wheeled mobile robot case, they are also limited to overcome dump, stair and so on. The modular robots can overcome moving limitation because of their transforming ability. However, they are researched not only driving mechanism but also combination mechanism. In this paper we proposed four kinds of unique structure for the combination and separation and also its algorithm. The effectiveness of the structure is verified with building the real structure and taking experiments to the designed modular robot

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.296-303
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• 2011

This paper describes a game called the "robot hopscotch game" which uses mobile robots. In this game, a mobile robot moves on a board which consists of a number of square cells. This is similar to the usual hopscotch game in which a human player hops through a course on the ground. In the robot hopscotch game, each cell has a visual light communication unit. The unit sends identification signal and the robot which moves over the cell receives the signal for location recognition. In the game, a human player or a human operator competes with a robot or other human player on how accurately and fast they move to a goal location passing through the given way point cells. People played the game at the RoboWorld 2008 which was held at COEX Seoul, on 16th to 20th of October 2008. The replies to the questionnaire to the users show that users have interests on the game and expect further expansion of robot use though they are not in favor of the robot's outlook and they feel inconvenience on manipulation of the robot.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1421-1424
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• 2013

본 논문은 진공을 이용한 흡착방식과 바퀴형 이동방식을 이용하고 환경 탐지용 센서를 부착한 벽면 이동형 로봇의 구현에 관한 연구로서, 대형 구조물의 안전 검사 및 위험한 시설물의 보수 작업등을 보조하기 위한 목적이 있다. 로봇의 무게에 따른 중력을 견딜 수 있도록 강력한 진공흡착방식을 고안하여 다양한 벽면재질에도 견딜 수 있도록 설계하였으며, 바퀴형 이동방식을 택하여 높은 이동성과 제어 능력을 고려하였다. 벽면의 모서리를 이동하기 위해 이중 벽로봇 구조와 모서리 극복 이동 메카니즘을 제안하였으며 또한 환경 감지를 위한 카메라를 부착하여 시각정보 등 유용한 정보를 관리자와 통신을 통해 교환할 수 있도록 하여 지능능력과 활용성을 갖추었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.448-453
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• 2012

There are many researches to develop robots that improve its mobility to adapt in various uneven environments. In the paper, a hybrid wheeled and legged mobile robot is designed and a obstacle avoidance algorithm is proposed based on low power walking using LRF(Laser Range Finder). In order to stabilize the robot's motion and reduce energy consumption, we implement a low-power walking algorithm through comparison of the current value of each motors and correction of posture balance. A low-power obstacle avoidance algorithm is proposed by using LRF sensor. We improve walking stability by distributing power consumption and reduce energy consumption by selecting a shortest navigation path of the robot. The proposed methods are verified through walking and navigation experiments with the developed hybrid robot.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.304-309
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• 2014

In this paper, we design a hybrid wheeled and legged mobile robot with a waist joint. The proposed hybrid mobile robot is designed to have a hybrid structure with leg and wheel for the efficient movement in flat and uneven surfaces. The proposed robot have a waist joint that is used to stably transform from wheeled driving to legged walking of the robot and to overcome non-flat surface. In order to recognize various environments we use LRF sensor, PSD sensor, CCD camera. Also, a motion planning method for hybrid mobile robot with a waist joint is proposed to select wheeled driving motion and legged walking motion of the robot based the environment types. We verify the efficient mobility of the developed hybrid mobile robot through navigation experiments using the proposed motion planning method in various environments.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2003

The main goal of existing mobile robot system was a complete autonomous navigation and the vision information was just used as an assistant way such as monitoring For this reason, the researches have been going towards sophistication of autonomousness gradually and the production costs also has been risen. However, it is also important to control remotely an inexpensive mobile robot system which has no intelligence at all. Such systems may be much more effective than fully autonomous systems in practice. Visual information from a simple camera and distance information from ultrasonic sensors are used for this system. Collision avoidance becomes the most important problem for this system. In this paper, we developed a force feedback joystick to control the robot system remotely with collision avoiding capability. Fuzzy logic is used for the algorithm in order to implement the expert s knowledge intelligently. Some experimental results show the force feedback joystick werks very well.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.164-172
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• 2008

This paper presents the efficient localization of a mobile robot traveling on the floor with tags installed, using the spatial and temporal information acquired from passive RFID environment. Compared to previous research, the proposed localization method can reduce the position estimation error and also cut down the initial cost tag installation cost. Basically, it is assumed that a mobile robot is traveling over a series of straight line segments, each at a certain constant velocity, and that the number of tags sensed by a mobile robot at each sampling instant is at most one. First, the velocity and position estimation of a mobile robot starting from a known position, which is valid for all segments except the first one. Second, for the first segment in which the starting position is unknown, the velocity and position estimation is made possible by enforcing a mobile robot to traverse at least two tags at a constant velocity with the steering angle unchanged. Third, through experiments using our passive RFID localization system, the validity and performance of the mobile robot localization proposed in this paper is demonstrated.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.363-365
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• 2009

대부분의 이동 로봇은 효율적인 경로계획을 위하여 최단거리 및 최소비용을 갖는 경로를 선택한다. 그러나 다수의 로봇이 존재하는 환경에서는 이웃하는 로봇 상호간에 동적 장애물로 인식되어 주행성능을 떨어뜨리게 된다. 또한 트래픽량이 거의 없는 환경에서는 무선 통신의 전송거리 제한으로 이동 로봇간 네트워킹이 원활하게 수행될 수 없는 문제도 있다. 따라서 적당한 거리의 이웃 로봇들과 협업을 위한 네트워킹을 하면서 동적인 경로계획 및 주행을 하는 것이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 A* 알고리즘을 수정하여 로봇의 동적인 트래픽을 고려한 경로계획 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 기법을 이용하여 경로설정과정에서의 로봇 상호간 병목현상을 완화시키며, 일관된 협업 통신도 유지할 수 있다. 모의 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘이 동적인 트래픽을 고려하여 경로를 선택함을 보인다.