• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1521-1527
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• 2013

This study proposes a wearable master device that can measure the joint stiffness and the angular displacement of a human operator to enhance the adapting capability of a slave system. A lightweight inertial sensor and the exoskeleton mechanism of the master device can make an operator feel comfortable, and artificial pneumatic muscles having a working principle similar to that of human muscles improve the performance of the slave device on emulating what a human operator does. Experimental results revealed that the proposed master/slave system based on the muscle stiffness sensor yielded uniform tracking performance compared with a conventional position-feedback controller when the payload applied to the slave system changed.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2021

This study is implemented as a sensor-less position controller capable of multi-turn detection to replace the expensive absolute encoder used in the turret servo system. For sensor-less control, the position information of the rotor is essential. For this, a magnetic flux estimator was implemented from the mathematical model of IPMSM used in the turret servo system. The position of the rotor and the angular velocity of the rotor were obtained using the rotor magnetic flux calculated from the magnetic flux estimator. Using the zero-crossing technique, one pulse was generated for each rotation of the estimated rotor magnetic flux to measure the number of multi-turns. Simulation and experiment results confirmed the usefulness of the proposed method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1365-1370
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• 2004

In this paper, a novel anti-sway control system that uses an inclinometer as a sway sensor is investigated. The inclinometer, when compared with a vision system, is very cheap, durable, and its maintenance is easy. However, it gives almost the same performance. Various observers for estimating the angular velocity of the load and the trolley velocity are presented. A state feedback controller with an integrator is designed. After a time-scale analysis, a 1/4-size pilot crane of the rail-mounted quayside crane is constructed. The performance of the proposed control system was verified with a real rubber-tired gantry crane at a container terminal as well as with the pilot crane constructed. Experimental results are provided.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.72-75
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• 2004

In this paper, a finger-click recognition method is proposed to improve the recognition performance for finger-clicking of a wearable input device, called $SCURRY^{TM}$. The proposed method is composed of three parts including feature extraction part, valid click discrimination part, and cross-talk avoidance part. Two types of MEMS inertial sensors are embedded into the wearable input device to measure the angular velocity of a hand (hand movement) and the acceleration rates at the ends of fingers (finger-click motion). The experiment applied to the $SCURRY^{TM}$ device shows the improved stability and performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.117-118
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• 2016

줄넘기는 줄을 돌리는 손동작과 뛰어오르는 동작이 결합된 운동으로 정확한 카운트를 위해서는 두 동작을 함께 고려해야 한다. 이전의 연구들에서는 단순 반복적인 운동인 윗몸일으키기, 팔굽혀펴기, 아령 운동과 함께 치부하여 하나의 동작만을 체크하여 카운트 하였다. 이것은 실제 줄넘기 동작과는 차이가 있으며 두 동작 중 하나의 동작만을 하고 있다면 확인해내지 못하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 6축 가속도 자이로 센서를 이용하여 두 동작을 모두 확인하고 카운트하는 방법을 제안한다. 가속도 센서를 이용하여 뛰어오르는 동작을 확인하며 자이로 센서를 이용하여 손동작을 확인한다. 이때 확인되는 값의 파형을 이용하여 줄넘기 횟수를 카운트하게 된다. 제안하는 방법은 실제 실험을 통하여 카운트 방법의 성능을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.723-732
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• 2016

This paper proposes an approach to fused navigation of an unmanned surface vehicle(USV) and to detection of the outlier or interference of global positioning system(GPS). The method fuses available sensor measurements through extended Kalman filter(EKF) to find the location and attitude of the USV. The method uses error covariance of EKF for detection of GPS outlier or interference. When outlier or interference of the GPS is detected, the method excludes GPS data from navigation process. The measurements to be fused for the navigation are GPS, acceleration, angular rate, magnetic field, linear velocity, range and bearing to acoustic beacons. The method is tested through simulated data and measurement data produced through ground navigation. The results show that the method detects GPS outlier or interference as well as the GPS recovery, which frees navigation from the problem of GPS abnormality.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1984.12a
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• pp.100-106
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• 1984

Traditional methods for estimating the location of underwater target, i.e. the triangulation method and the wavefront curvature method, have been utilized. The location of a target is defined by the range and the bearing, which estimates can be obtained by evaluating the time delay between neighboring sensors. Many components of error occur in estimating the target range, among which the error due to the fluctuation of heading angle is outstanding. In this paper, the wavefront curvature method was used. We considered the error due to the heading fluctuation as the $\beta$-density process, from which we analized the range estimates with $\beta$-density function exist in some finite limits, and its mean value and variation are depicted as a function of true range and heading fluctuation. Given heading angles and sensor separation, maximum estimated heading errors are presented as a function of true range.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.257-260
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• 2006

카오스 로봇의 하드웨어 구현에서 로봇의 차제 또는 바퀴가 정확하기 자기 위치를 인식하고 지시한 방향과 거리만큼 이동하는 것이 가장 중요하다. 이를 위해 정확한 방향을 움직일 수 있는 각속도 센서는 로봇에서 매우 중요한 위치를 차지한다. 정확한 각속도 센서를 설계하기 위해서는 정확하게 전압을 주파수로 바꾸어주는 VF(Voltage to Frequence) 컨버터의 설계가 선행되어야 하며 이를 만족하는 것으로 선형성이 보장되어야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 VF 컨버터에서 선형성을 개선시키기 위한 방법을 제시하고 제시한 방법을 기초로 한 VF 컨버터를 설계하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1061-1062
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• 2008

Rodents demonstrate an outstanding capability for tactile perceptions using their whiskers. The mechanoreceptors in the whisker follicles are responsive to the deflections or vibrations of the whisker beams. It is believed that the sensor processing can determine the location of an object in touch, that is, the angular position and direction of the object. We designed artificial whiskers modelling the real whiskers and tested tactile localization. The robotic system needs to adjust its position against an object to help the shape recognition. We show a robotic adjustment of position based on tactile localization. The behaviour uses deflection curves of the whisker sensors for every sweep of whiskers and estimates the location of a target object.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.204-209
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• 2003

The line-of-sight stabilization system is an equipment which is loaded on a vehicle and stabilizes the direction of the line-of-sight of the vision sensor to obtain a not-swayed image in the existence of external disturbances. To obtain accurate Euler angles and angular velocities simultaneously we usually need a control system which uses high-price inertial sensors including Vertical Gyro(VG) or Rate Integrating Gyro(RIG). In this paper, we design and implement a control system of a gimbal, which is a line-of-sight stabilization system using a low-cost mixed algorithm of a rate gyro and an accelerometer instead of a VG and a RIG. In the experiment where we laid the implemented line-of-sight stabilization system on the rate table. we can see the stabilized performance to external disturbances.