• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.449-455
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• 2014

This paper presents a method for developing a TM (Traversability Map) from a DTM (Digital Terrain Model) collected by remote sensors of autonomous mobile robots. Such a map can be used to plan traversable paths and estimate navigation speed quantitatively in real time for robots capable of performing autonomous tasks over rough terrain environments. The proposed method consists of three parts: a DTM partition module which divides the DTM into equally spaced patches, a terrain information module which extracts the slope and roughness of the partitioned patches using the curve fitting and the fractal-based triangular prism method, and a traversability analysis module which assesses traversability incorporating with extracted terrain information and fuzzy inference to construct a TM. The potential of the proposed method is validated via simulation works over a set of fractal DTMs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.75-76
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• 2015

본 논문은 실내 이동로봇의 자율주행 방법을 적용한 결과를 기술한다. 구체적으로는 경로 계획, 장애물 회피, 위치 추정에 대해서 설명한다. 위의 기능들은 작성된 지도 정보와 Encoder, IMU, 초음파센서, 비콘 등 여러 센서 데이터를 토대로 구현되었다. 경로계획에는 A* 알고리즘을 활용하여 최단거리 경로를 구했으며, 장애물 회피에는 초음파센서를 활용한 자체 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 또한 비콘을 활용한 삼변 측량법을 활용하여 위치 추정을 하였다. 이러한 방법들을 통합하여 실내 네비게이션 방법을 실제로 구현하여 실험하였으며, 실험을 통하여, 제안한 방법이 로봇을 안전하게 자율주행하게 함을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.256-268
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• 2020

This study is about a design method for deriving task safety scenarios for the application of collaborative robots. A five-step process for deriving task safety scenarios for collaborative robots has been proposed, which focuses on the type of collaboration between human and collaborative robot. The three types of collaboration were classified according to the collaboration workspace and the worktime of human and collaborative robot. Based on these three types of collaboration, task safety scenarios include scenarios that predict risk from unintended use during work. Collaboration with collaborative robot is a human-centered process because human actions can create dangerous situations. Besides, we improved the understanding of this design methodology by presenting examples of the application of task safety scenarios according to the process for each type of collaboration.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Mechanical Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.95-103
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• 2011

Robots in various types carry and assemble parts through repeatedly and accurately moving to stored locations by combining linear motions. And, linear systems are used in orthogonal axes of robots and driven via ball screws, such as 2-axis cartesian coordinate robot in this paper. This paper presents the effect of the linear motion guide that is used in $2^{nd}$ axis in 2-axis cartesian coordinate robot. Some simulation results show that the linear motion guide influence greatly in robot performance such as the nominal life of linear guide. When use LM guide that have capacity near in $2^{nd}$ axis, this paper show that the nominal life on LM block of $1^{st}$ axis increases 37.4% and that the specification of $2^{nd}$ axis LM guide influences greatly the nominal life of $1^{st}$ axis LM block.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.373-376
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• 2012

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. 또한 환경 감지를 위한 센서와 카메라를 부착하여 시각정보 등 유용한 정보를 관리자와 통신을 통해 교환할 수 있도록 하여 지능능력과 활용성을 갖추었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.417-420
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• 2012

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. 또한 환경 감지를 위한 센서와 카메라를 부착하여 시각정보 등 유용한 정보를 관리자와 통신을 통해 교환할 수 있도록 하여 지능능력과 활용성을 갖추었다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.225-232
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• 2023

With the recent increase of multiple robots cooperating in smart manufacturing logistics environments, it has become very important how to predict the safety and efficiency of the individual tasks and dynamically assign them to the best one of available robots. In this paper, we propose a novel task policy learner based on deep relational reinforcement learning for predicting the safety and efficiency of tasks in a multi-robot manufacturing logistics environment. To reduce learning complexity, the proposed system divides the entire safety/efficiency prediction process into two distinct steps: the policy parameter estimation and the rule-based policy inference. It also makes full use of domain-specific knowledge for policy rule learning. Through experiments conducted with virtual dynamic manufacturing logistics environments using NVIDIA's Isaac simulator, we show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2024.01a
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• pp.193-194
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• 2024

스마트홈과 연동하는 안전한 방범창은 외부의 침입자를 차단하고 주거 내의 물품 도난 및 개인의 신변을 보호하기 위한 안전설비로 다양한 형태의 방범창이 존재한다. 스마트홈은 건물 내의 센서가 화재를 감지하면 방범창 내부의 원격시스템이 자동으로 방범창을 매우 짧은 시간 안에 개방할 수 있도록 설계한다. 화재 등 재난시 상하부 방법창이 자동으로 개폐되도록 랙피니언을 이용하여 방범창의 위쪽 창틀을 상승시켜 창살이 움직일 수 있도록 개방하고 동시에 아래쪽 창틀이 회전하도록 구성하여 화재 및 폭우 등에 인명피해를 줄일 수 있도록 설계한다. 스마트홈 시스템과의 연계로 재난을 미리 감지하고 탈출구를 개방한다면 신속하고 안전한 대피가 가능하고, 기존의 프레임 부분 변경에 간단한 시스템만 변경하여 적용할 수 있어, 간단한 구조로 설치할 수 있고 낮은 비용으로 스마트홈을 구성할 수 있다. 특히 스마트홈과 연동하여 재난을 미리 감지하고 탈출구를 개방함으로써 신속하고 안전한 대피가 가능하여 다양한 재난을 대비할 수 있다.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2024

As the service robot market grows among the food technology industry, the quality of robot service that affects consumer behavioral intentions in the restaurant industry has become important. Serving robots, which are common in restaurants, reduce employee work through order and delivery, but because they do not respond to service failures, they increase customer dissatisfaction as well as increase employee work. In order to improve the quality of service beyond the simple function of receiving and serving orders, functions of recovery effort, fairness, empathy, responsiveness, and certainty of the process after service failure, such as serving employees, are also required. Accordingly, we assumed the type of failure of restaurant serving service as two internal and external factors, and developed a serving robot with a vocational ethics module to respond with a professional ethical attitude when the restaurant serving service fails. At this time, the expression and action of the serving robot were developed by adding a failure mode reflecting failure recovery efforts and empathy to the normal service mode. And by recruiting college students, we tested whether the service robot's response to two types of service failures had a significant effect on evaluating the robot. Participants responded that they were more uncomfortable with service failures caused by other customers' mistakes than robot mistakes, and that the serving robot's professional ethical empathy and response were appropriate. In addition, unlike the robot's favorability, the evaluation of the safety of the robot had a significant difference depending on whether or not a professional ethical empathy module was installed. A professional ethical empathy response module for natural service failure recovery using generative artificial intelligence should be developed and mounted, and the domestic serving robot industry and market are expected to grow more rapidly if the Korean serving robot certification system is introduced.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.91-100
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• 1999

We propose a decision model to incorporates the values assigned by a group of experts on different factors in selecting robots. Using this model, SN ratio of taguchi method for each of subjective factors as well as values of weights are used in this comprehensive method for robot selection. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the model and to show a rank reversal when compared to a model that does not eliminate extreme values and eliminates the highest and lowest experts' values allocating the weights and the subjective factors.