• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1410-1413
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• 2010

유비쿼터스와 로봇 제어기술이 융합하여 상호작용 하면서 로봇 기술이 빠르게 발전하고 있다. 그 중 인간의 생각과 행동을 대신 해주는 서비스 로봇인 휴머노이드 로봇에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구는 휴머노이드 로봇을 이용하여 초상화를 실시간으로 빨리 그리는 새로운 기법과 그 기법을 적용하는 소프트웨어 시스템을 제안한다. 이때 사람을 인지하는 것, 종이위에서 붓(펜)이 움직이는 궤적과 속도를 제어하는 기술이 핵심이다. 더욱이 유비쿼터스 환경에서 중요한 컨트롤 포인트로 인식되고 있는 모바일 기기를 이용한 로봇 제어 기술도 계획 중이다. 본 과제에서는 로봇의 궤적을 최적화 하여 드로잉 속도를 빠르게 하고, 더 부드럽고 자연스러운 초상화를 드로잉 하며 실시간과 적응성을 높인다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.61-70
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• 2014

Verbal communication has limits in the interaction between robot and man, and therefore nonverbal communication is required for realizing smoother and more efficient communication and even the emotional expression of the robot. This study derived 7 pieces of nonverbal information based on shopping behavior using the robot designed to support shopping, selected facial expression as the element of the nonverbal information derived, and coded face components through 2D analysis. Also, this study analyzed the significance of the expression of nonverbal information using 3D animation that combines the codes of face components. The analysis showed that the proposed expression method for nonverbal information manifested high level of significance, suggesting the potential of this study as the base line data for the research on nonverbal information. However, the case of 'embarrassment' showed limits in applying the coded face components to shape and requires more systematic studies.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.450-456
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• 2014

Humanoid robot is the most suitable robot platform for effective human and robot interaction. However, the robot's complicated body structure containing more than twenty joint actuators makes it difficult to generate stable and elaborate postures using the conventional inverse kinematic method. This paper proposes an alternative approach to generate difficult postures of touching an object placed in front of the foot by the left or right hand with its torso bent forward in single support phase using the fast computational optimization method, particle swarm optimization. The simulated postures are also applied to a commercial humanoid robot platform, which validates the feasibility of the proposed approach.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1427-1434
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a psychological state estimation process that computes children's attention and tension in response to training stimuli. Joint attention was adopted as the training stimulus required for behavioral intervention, and the Discrete trial training (DTT) technique was applied as the training protocol. Three types of training stimulation contents are composed to check the user's attention and tension level and provided mounted on a character-shaped tabletop robot. Then, the gaze response to the user's training stimulus is estimated with the vision-based head pose recognition and geometrical calculation model, and the nervous system response is analyzed using the PPG and GSR bio-signals using heart rate variability(HRV) and histogram techniques. Through experiments using robots, it was confirmed that the psychological response of users to training contents on joint attention could be quantified.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.55-78
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• 2021

Tosolve complex and diverse social problems and ensure the quality of life of individuals, social robots that can interact with humans are attracting attention. In the past, robots were recognized as beings that provide labor force as they put into industrial sites on behalf of humans. However, the concept of today's robot has been extended to social robots that coexist with humans and enable social interaction with the advent of Smart technology, which is considered an important driver in most industries. Specifically, there are service robots that respond to customers, the robots that have the purpose of edutainment, and the emotionalrobots that can interact with humans intimately. However, popularization of robots is not felt despite the current information environment in the modern ICT service environment and the 4th industrial revolution. Considering social interaction with users which is an important function of social robots, not only the technology of the robots but also other factors should be considered. The design elements of the robot are more important than other factors tomake consumers purchase essentially a social robot. In fact, existing studies on social robots are at the level of proposing "robot development methodology" or testing the effects provided by social robots to users in pieces. On the other hand, consumer emotions felt from the robot's appearance has an important influence in the process of forming user's perception, reasoning, evaluation and expectation. Furthermore, it can affect attitude toward robots and good feeling and performance reasoning, etc. Therefore, this study aims to verify the effect of appearance of social robot and consumer emotions on consumer's attitude toward social robot. At this time, a social robot design evaluation model is constructed by combining heterogeneous data from different sources. Specifically, the three quantitative indicator data for the appearance of social robots from the ABOT Database is included in the model. The consumer emotions of social robot design has been collected through (1) the existing design evaluation literature and (2) online buzzsuch as product reviews and blogs, (3) qualitative interviews for social robot design. Later, we collected the score of consumer emotions and attitudes toward various social robots through a large-scale consumer survey. First, we have derived the six major dimensions of consumer emotions for 23 pieces of detailed emotions through dimension reduction methodology. Then, statistical analysis was performed to verify the effect of derived consumer emotionson attitude toward social robots. Finally, the moderated regression analysis was performed to verify the effect of quantitatively collected indicators of social robot appearance on the relationship between consumer emotions and attitudes toward social robots. Interestingly, several significant moderation effects were identified, these effects are visualized with two-way interaction effect to interpret them from multidisciplinary perspectives. This study has theoretical contributions from the perspective of empirically verifying all stages from technical properties to consumer's emotion and attitudes toward social robots by linking the data from heterogeneous sources. It has practical significance that the result helps to develop the design guidelines based on consumer emotions in the design stage of social robot development.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.203-204
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• 2020

챗봇이란 인공지능 기반으로 인간과 대화하는 로봇을 일컬으며, 요청과 응답구조로 운영되는 인공지능 프로그램을 말한다. 챗봇은 사용자와 상호작용하기 위해 대화형 인터페이스를 사용하는 소프트웨어로 기존 사용자의 언어를 이해하고 학습하여 인간이 대화하듯이 대화를 하도록 설계되어있다. 챗봇을 사용하는 회사는 인건비를 줄이고 빅데이터를 기반으로 전문적이고 정확한 답변을 제공할 수 있어 활용 효율성이 높은 편이다. 그러나 회사가 챗봇을 적극적으로 도입하고 사용자에게 긍정적인 영향을 줄 것이라는 기대와 달리 사용자는 챗봇을 계속 사용하지 않고있다. 따라서 본 논문은 챗봇 서비스의 지속사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 파악하고자 한다. 특히 인공지능 특성이 챗봇 서비스 지속적 사용의도에 미치는 영향을 연구한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.449-452
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 인간이 환경에 대한 상황을 직접적으로 파악할 수 있는 시각 정보를 제공하기 위해 다중 카메라를 이용한 사용자 시각기반 어라운드 뷰를 개발하였다. 4대의 하향식 경사 카메라를 통하여 영상을 획득하고 켈리브레이션한다. 렌즈의 왜곡을 보정하고 호모그라피 행렬을 계산하여 지표면과 수평이 되는 관점으로 영상을 변환한다. 그 결과 사용자에게 종합적 상황정보 획득이 용이하도록 정보화하기 위한 위성 영상 관점의 정보를 획득할 수 있다. 그리고 4대의 카메라를 동시에 사용하기 위한 하드웨어적 한계를 극복하고자 영상처리가 가능한 임베디드 카메라 모듈을 개발하였다. 사용자-로봇 상호작용을 위해 버튼 및 조이스틱과 같은 기계적 입력장치를 사용하지 않고 사용자의 자연스러운 제스처를 통하여 제어 명령을 입력할 수 있는 터치 패드를 사용하여 사용자 인터페이스를 구축하였다. 개발한 시스템은 시 공간적 한계를 극복하고 원격에서 로봇의 상황정보를 획득하여 사용자 친화적인 로봇제어를 할 수 있다. 위의 내용들을 검증하기 위하여 같은 상황 환경에서의 기존의 시스템과 비교 실험을 진행하였고 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 시스템의 효용성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.309-315
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• 2015

This paper presents a lower-limb exoskeleton testbed and its control method. An exoskeleton is a wearable robotic system that can enhance wearer's muscle power or assist human's movements. Among a variety of its applications, especially for military purpose, a wearable robot can be very useful for carrying heavy loads during locomotion by augmenting soldiers' mobility and endurance. The locomotion test on a treadmill was performed up to maximum 4km/h walking speed wearing the lower-limb exoskeleton testbed with a 45kg backpack load.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.85-94
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• 2020

AI-based smart factory technologies are only increase short-term productivity. To solve this problem, collaborative intelligence combines human teamwork, creativity, AI speed, and accuracy to actively compensate for each other's shortcomings. However, current automation equipmens require high safety measures due to the high disaster intensity in the event of an accident. In this paper, we design and implement a factory safety control system that uses a depth camera to implement workers and facilities in the virtual world and to determine the safety of workers through simulation.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.12-21
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• 2021

This article presents the future vision and core technologies of the "Life Companion Robot," which is one of the 12 future concepts introduced in the ETRI Technology Roadmap published in November 2020. Assistant robots, care robots, and life support robots were proposed as the development stages of life companion robots. Further, core technologies for each of the ten major roles that must be directly or indirectly performed by life companion robots are introduced. Finally, this article describes in detail three major artificial intelligence technologies for autonomous robots.