• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 2016

The research on two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) mobile robots has been ongoing in a number of robotic laboratories around the world. In this paper, we consider a robust controller design for the TWIP mobile robot driving on uniform slopes. We use a 2 degree-of-freedom (DOF) model which is obtained by restricting the spinning motion in a 3 DOF motion dynamic equation. In order to design the robust controller guaranteeing stability of the TWIP mobile robot driving on inclined surface, we propose a sliding mode control based on the theory of variable structure systems and design a sliding surface using the theory of the linear quadratic regulation (LQR). For simulation, the dynamic model of the TWIP mobile robot is constructed using Mathworks' Simulink and the sliding mode control is also implemented using Simulink. From simulation results, we show that the proposed controller effectively controls the TWIP mobile robot driving on slopes.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.23-29
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• 2016

This paper presents balancing control of a two-wheel mobile robot (TWMR). TWMR is aimed to maintain balance while moving. Although TWMR can be controlled by linear controllers such as PD controller, time-delayed controller is employed for robustness. Performances of PD controllers and time-delayed controllers are compared. Especially, experimental studies on different acceleration estimation for the time-delayed controller are conducted. Performances by different acceleration estimations of the balancing angle, of the position, and of both angle and position are compared empirically.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.172-180
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• 2006

본 논문은 Dijkstra 알고리즘에 기초한 최단거리 경로계획을 하며 이 경로를 추적하기 위한 슬라이딩 모드 제어를 제시한다. 슬라이딩 모드 제어기는 동적매개변수 불확실성과 입력외란이 존재 시에도 강인 점근적으로 계획된 경로를 추적하도록 한다. 더불어 작업장 내의 이동로봇의 위치를 USB 카메라에 의해 감지하며, Pin-hole 카메라모델로 하여 카메라에 의해 관측되는 작업장 내의 이륜구동로봇의 위치좌표를 결정하였으며, 이 위치를 정확히 감지하기 위해 Tsai법을 사용하여 카메라 보정한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 슬라이딩 모드 제어기의 성능을 검증하기 위해 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.536-544
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• 2011

In this paper, a controller for two wheeled inverted pendulum type robot is designed to have more stable balancing capability than conventional controllers. Traditional PID control structure is chosen for the two wheeled inverted pendulum type robot, and proper gains for the controller are obtained for specified user's weights using trial-and-error methods. Next a neural network is employed to generate PID controller gains for more stable control performance when the user's weight is arbitrarily selected. Through simulation studies we find that the designed controller using the neural network is superior to the conventional PID controller.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.432-439
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• 2012

In this paper, instead of the conventional PD controller for balancing control of two wheeled inverted pendulum robots, an improved PD controller using the neural network is proposed and implemented for performance verification. First, a two wheeled inverted pendulum robot system is constructed for experiment. Next proper gains of the conventional PD controller according to users' weights are obtained for balancing the robot by use of the trial and error method. The PD gains based on the trial and error method are generalized through the neural network. Experiment results show that the PD controller based on the neural network has better performance than the conventional PD controller.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 2013

In this paper, a control system for two wheeled inverted pendulum robot is implemented to have more stable balancing capability than the conventional control system. Fuzzy control structure is chosen for the two wheeled inverted pendulum robot, and fuzzy membership function factors for the control system are obtained for 3 specified weights using a trial-and-error method. Next a neural network is employed to generate fuzzy membership function factors for more stable control performance when the weight is arbitrarily selected. Through some experiments, we find that the proposed fuzzy control system using the neural network is superior to the conventional fuzzy control system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.228-236
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• 2012

In this paper, a controller for two wheeled inverted pendulum robot is designed to have more stable balancing capability than conventional controller. Fuzzy control structure is chosen for the two wheeled inverted pendulum robot, and fuzzy membership function factors for the controller are obtained for specified 3 users' weights using trial-and-error method. Next a neural network is employed to generate fuzzy membership function factors for more stable control performance when the user's weight is arbitrarily selected. Through the simulation study we find that the designed fuzzy controller using the neural network is superior to the conventional fuzzy controller.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.7
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• pp.127-132
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a controller gain based on model based design and implement the two-wheel inverted pendulum type robot using NXT Lego and RobotC language. Two-wheel inverted pendulum robot consists of NXT mindstorm, servo DC motor with encoder, gyro sensor, and accelerometer sensor. We measurement wheel angle using bulit-in encoder and calculate wheel angle speed using moving average method. Gyro measures body angular velocity and accelerometer measures body pitch angle. We calculate body angle with complementary filter using gyro and accelerometer sensor. The control gain is a weighted value for wheel angle, wheel angular velocity, body pitch angle, and body pich angular velocity, respectively. We experiment and observe the effect of two-wheel inverted pendulum with respect to change of control gains.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2011

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1871-1880
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• 2011

In this paper, a controller for two wheeled inverted pendulum robot, i.e., Segway type robot that is a convenient and easily handled vehicle is designed to have more stable balancing and faster velocity control compared to the conventional method. First, a widely used PID control structure is applied to the two wheeled inverted pendulum robot and proper PID control gains for some specified weights of users are obtained to get accurate balancing and velocity control by use of experimental trial-and-error method. Next, neural network is employed to generate appropriate PID control gains for arbitrarily selected weight. Here the PID gains based on the trial-and-error method are used as training data. Simulation study has been carried out to find that the performance of the designed controller using the neural network is more excellent than the conventional PID controller in terms of faster balancing and velocity control.