• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.291-294
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 주어진 환경에 대한 정보가 충분하지 않은 상황에서 지능형 에이전트에게 요구되는 스스로의 위치를 파악하기 위해 로봇이 자신의 위치 추정과 동시에 주위 환경을 인식하여 주변 지도를 작성하는 방법을 제안한다. 이동 로봇의 위치를 추정하기 위해 센서 측정값을 통해 계산된 결과 값을 파티클 필터에 적용하며 로봇의 환경 지도 작성을 위해 점유 격자 지도 방법을 사용한다. 이 두 방법을 병합하여 동시적 위치 추정 및 지도 작성 문제에 적용하여 시스템을 설계 및 구현해보고 실험결과를 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.577-582
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• 2004

This paper describes position estimation algorithm using neural network for the navigation of the vision-based Wheeled Mobile Robot (WMR) in a corridor with taking ceiling lamps as landmark. From images of a corridor the lamp's line on the ceiling in corridor has a specific slope to the lateral position of the WMR. The vanishing point produced by the lamp's line also has a specific position to the orientation of WMR. The ceiling lamps has a limited size and shape like a circle in image. Simple image processing algorithms are used to extract lamps from the corridor image. Then the lamp's line and vanishing point's position are defined and calculated at known position of WMR in a corridor To estimate the lateral position and orientation of WMR from an image, the relationship between the position of WMR and the features of ceiling lamps have to be defined. Data set between position of WMR and features of lamps are configured. Neural network are composed and teamed with data set. Back propagation algorithm(BPN) is used for learning. And it is applied in navigation of WMR in a corridor.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.785-791
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the optimal traversable destination from the location-based information of the object recognized by the mobile robot to perform the object delivery service. The location estimation process is to apply the generalized Voronoi graph to the grid map to create an initial topology map composed of nodes and links, recognize objects and extract location data using RGB-D sensors, and collect the shape and distance information of obstacles. Then, by applying the hybrid approach that combines the center of gravity and thinning method, the optimal moving position for the service robot to perform the task of grabbing is estimated. And then, the optimal node information for the robot's work destination is updated by comparing the geometric distance between the estimated position and the existing node according to the node update rule.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2426-2428
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• 2004

자율이동로봇에 있어서 기본적이면서도 가장 중요한 문제 중의 하나는 자신의 위치를 추정하는 것이다. 만약 로봇 자신이 어디에 있는지 알지 못한다면 효과적으로 로봇의 동작을 계획할 수도 없을 뿐 아니라, 목표물을 찾을 수도 없으며 목표에 도달하는 데 있어서도 상당한 문제가 생기게 된다. 이미 로봇의 자기 위치추정 문제에 대해서는 GPS, 시각, 레이져, 초음파 센서등을 이용한 많은 기술들이 개발된 상태이다. 하지만 각각의 방법들에 있어서 정확성의 향상은 하드웨어 비용의 증가와 추가 전력을 고려해야 하는 등의 문제를 가져오게 되었다. 문제의 핵심은 저렴하면서도 손쉽고 정확한 값을 갖는 알고리즘을 개발하는 데 있다고 할 수 있는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 센서를 이용하여 이러한 문제에 대한 만족할 만한 답을 얻고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.332-340
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• 2013

This paper reports a programming toolkit for implementing localization and navigation of a mobile robot both in real world and simulation. Many of the previous function libraries are difficult to use because of their complexity or lack of usability. The proposed toolkit consist of functions for dead reckoning, motion model, measurement model, and operations on directions or heading angles. The dead reckoning and motion model deals with differential drive robot and bicycle type robot driven by front wheel or rear wheel. The functions can be used for navigation in both real environment and simulation. To prove the feasibility of the toolkit, simulation results are shown along with the results in real environment. It is expected the proposed toolkit is used for test of algorithms for mobile robot navigation such as localization, map building, and obstacle avoidance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.781-790
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• 2008

In order to improve on the divergence by noise convariance in the Kalman filter position estimation, we propose a method of position estimating through compensating the autonomous mobile robot's noise. Proposed method is the modified Kalman filter using neural network. It is prevented the divergence by the estimation of measurement noise covariance and system noise covariance. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we performed simulations and experiments for position estimation. The results show that convergence and position error is reduced than the Kalman filter method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.1-12
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• 2005

A Mobile manipulator - a serial connection of a mobile robot and a task robot - is a very useful system to achieve various tasks in dangerous environment. because it has the higher performance than a fixed base manipulator in regard to the size of it's operational workspace. Unfortunately the use of a mobile robot introduces non-holonomic constraints, and the combination of a mobile robot and a manipulator generally introduces kinematic redundancy. In this paper, first a method for estimating the position of object at the cartesian coordinate system acquired by using the geometrical relationship between the image captured by 2-DOF active camera mounted on mobile robot and real object is proposed. Second, we propose a method to determine a optimal path between current the position of mobile manipulator whose mobile robot is non-holonomic and the position of object estimated by image information through the global displacement of the system in a symbolic way, using homogenous matrices. Then, we compute the corresponding joint parameters to make the desired displacement coincide with the computed symbolic displacement and object is captured through the control of a manipulator. The effectiveness of proposed method is demonstrated by the simulation and real experiment using the mobile manipulator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2007

이 논문에서는 Encoder, Gyro, 다수의 IR센서를 이용한 실내용 이동로봇의 자기위치 추정에 관한 방법 중 첫 번째 실험으로 다수의 IR센서로부터 획득한 거리데이터를 이용하여 작성한 환경지도에서 모서리를 검출하고, 이를 바탕으로 각 센서에서 측정된 데이터를 병합하도록 하였다. 마지막으로 얻어진 환경지도와 실제 환경을 비교하여 그 성능을 평가하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.43-54
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• 2012

This paper presents a new localization technique of an UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle) by matching ortho-edge images generated from a DSM (Digital Surface Map) which represents the 3D geometric information of an outdoor navigation environment and 3D range data which is obtained from a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor mounted at the UGV. Recent UGV localization techniques mostly try to combine positioning sensors such as GPS (Global Positioning System), IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), and LIDAR. Especially, ICP (Iterative Closest Point)-based geometric registration techniques have been developed for UGV localization. However, the ICP-based geometric registration techniques are subject to fail to register 3D range data between LIDAR and DSM because the sensing directions of the two data are too different. In this paper, we introduce and match ortho-edge images between two different sensor data, 3D LIDAR and DSM, for the localization of the UGV. Details of new techniques to generating and matching ortho-edge images between LIDAR and DSM are presented which are followed by experimental results from four different navigation paths. The performance of the proposed technique is compared to a conventional ICP-based technique.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.758-765
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• 2001

This paper proposes a method to automatically extract stable visual landmarks from sensory data. Given a 2D occupancy map, a mobile robot first extracts vertical line features which are distinct and on vertical planar surfaces, because they are expected to be observed reliably from various viewpoints. Since the feature information such as position and length includes uncertainty due to errors of vision and motion, the robot then reduces the uncertainty by matching the planar surface containing the features to the map. As a result, the robot obtains modeled stable visual landmarks from extracted features. This extraction process is performed on-line to adapt to an actual changes of lighting and scene depending on the robot’s view. Experimental results in various real scenes show the validity of the proposed method.