• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.5450-5456
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• 2011

In order to build a ship, painting on ship cargo tank is one of the most dangerous parts as it involves working in high altitudes and a closed ship cargo tank. Therefore, researchers have been developing devices that will enable mobile robots to operate on vertical walls. The wall-climbing robots have been widely used to attach on the wall such as suction types. These types can be utilized regardless of the wall material. However, it is required to adhere and control the suction cups. To moderate this drawbacks, this paper proposes an automatic painting robot that uses a permanent magnet mobile robot. Using the magnetic characteristics, this robot can move on the boat vertically and horizontally even while hanging on the ceiling of the ship cargo tank. Also, we made a prototype to test adhesive force of the permanent magnet wheel and mobile robot as well as the towing capacity and auto-piloting ability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2004

로보코드는 사용자가 직접 제작할 수 있는 슈팅게임 환경으로서, 이를 이용한 경진대회가 개최되고 있다. 매우 다양한 작전을 구사하는 로봇들이 인터넷을 통해 공개되지만, 대부분의 전략은 사람이 직접 설계하여 행동이 단순하고, 변화하는 환경에 따라 행동을 구사하는데에 어려움을 가지고 있다. 이로 인해 아무리 훌륭한 전략을 가지고 있더라도 환경적 요소에 따라 예상치 못한 이벤트가 발생했을 경우 적절한 행동을 선택하여 행하기가 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 동적인 환경에서 적절한 행동을 선택하는 행동선택 네트워크를 이용하여 상대 전략에 따라 적절한 행동을 선택하는 방법을 제안하고 로보코드에 적용하여 실험하였다. 실험결과, 상대 탱크의 전략에 따라 다양한 행동들을 자동으로 선택하였으며, 경기 결과로 그 전략의 우수성이 입증되었다.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.87-94
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• 2000

Crack sealing, a routine and necessary part of pavement maintenance, is a dangerous, costly, and labor-intensive operation. Within the North America, about ${\$}200$ million is spent annually on crack sealing, with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) spending about ${\$}7$ million annually (labor alone accounts for over 50 percent of these costs). Prompted by concerns of safety and cost, the University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with TxDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed a unique computer-guided Automated Road Maintenance Machine (ARMM) for pavement crack sealing. In 1999, successful field tests have been undertaken in 8 States around the U.S. This paper first describes significance of the automated crack sealing and technical advances in automated crack sealers including the ARMM, developed in the U.S. It then discusses the ARMM's field implementation and performance evaluation results, and improvements and modifications suggested through the technology evaluation during the field trials. Current research efforts and future work plans in its further development are also presented in this paper.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.245-253
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an effective web service software platform for remote monitoring and control. We removed the servlet container for better web service performance so as to improve the gSOAP processing which is an essential element of web service implementation. Furthermore, we designed the web service server/client software platform which can be applied to robot or ubiquitous sensor applications. For validation of this study we tested it by manufacturing robot hardware for monitoring control which combined tanks and sensors on a LDS4000 engine board mounted with a PXA270 processor. The practical excellence and the efficiency of the result of this study was validated by the comparison of gSOAP message exchange load between the web service client application and the conventional remote monitoring control technique through a web server.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.131-137
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• 2016

In this paper, a feasibility on a ground-penetrating radar for detecting subsurface cavities near buried pipes has been investigated. The experimental setup was implemented by employing an impulse ground-penetrating radar system, a xy Cartesian coordinate robot, an underground material filled tank, a metal pipe and a simulated cavity model. In particular, the simulated cavity model was constructed by packing Styrofoam chips and balls, which have both similar electrical properties to an air-filled cavity and a solid shape. Through typical three experiments, B-scan data of the radar have been acquired and displayed as 2-D gray-scale images. According to the comparison of B-scan images, we show that the subsurface cavities near the buried pipes can be detected by using the radar survey.