• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.2129-2136
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• 2012

With the increased demand of ubiquitous home services, intelligent robots have wide attentions. This kind of robots offer various services through middleware components which can connect with remote servers. In this paper we present an UPnP(Universal Plug and Play) based open-source software framework which makes control the robots remotely. This UPnP architecture for home networking can provide various communication methodologies like command control, eventing, presentation with web services and so on. This paper shows successful implementation results on two real platforms.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.33 no.3 s.262
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• pp.49-55
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• 2006

인간과 로봇의 자연스러운 상호작용을 위하여 영상과 음성을 기반으로 한 인간-로봇 상호작용 (HRI: Human Robot Interaction) 기술들을 소개한다. URC개념의 서버/클라이언트 구조를 갖는 소프트웨어 로봇에 수행 가능한 얼굴 인식 및 검증, 준 생체정보(semi biometrics)를 이용한 사용자 인식, 제스처인식, 화자인식 및 검증, 대화체 음성인식 기술들에 대하여 살펴본다. 이러한 인간-로봇 상호작용 기술들은 초고속 인터넷과 같은 IT 인프라를 이용하는 URC(Ubiquitous Robotic Companion) 기반의 지능형 서비스 로봇을 위한 핵심기술로서 사용되어진다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.617-618
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• 2008

The paper describes the design and implementation of full-software videophone module for Korean Government's Ubiquitous Robotic Companion project 2007. The project shows the commercial feasibility of video service, particularly videophone service with 3G WCDMA cellular mobile phone.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.482-491
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• 2009

The purpose of this research is to design and develop teacher assistant contents 'My Class' for an intelligent robot iRobiQ, using in early childhood educational setting. After observing daily activities and correspondence role of teachers in educational settings, we selected the robots' target contents as 6 main functions (Attendance, Activity, Gallery, Learning, Role Calling, and Timer). We designed the contents according to the PLU (Player-Learner-User) model which suggests importance of entertainment, education, and enabling features to meet player, learner, and user requirements. We also considered 'emotional' features to satisfy 'companion' requirements. The developed contents in this study was deployed in kindergarten classrooms consisting of five-years-old for 4 weeks to see how they response and use the contents. We found that both teachers and children were likely to show positive responses to the contents. Especially, young children responded to the entertainment and emotional features more actively than to the other features. And they continually explored for something new inside the contents. Finally, this paper discusses what should be considered to develop more useful teacher assistant contents for iRobiQ.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.19A no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Network-based intelligent robot is connected with network system, provides interactions with humans, and carries out its own roles on ubiquitous computing environments. URC (Ubiquitous Robot Companion) robot has been proposed to develop network-based robot by applying distributed computing techniques. On URC robot, it is possible to save the computing power of robot client by environments, has been proposed to develop robot software using service-oriented architecture on server-client computing environments. The SOMAR client robot consists of two layers - device service layer and robot service layer. The device service controls physical devices, and the robot service abstracts robot's services, which are newly defined and generated by combining many device services. RSEL (Robot Service Executing Language) is defined in this paper to represent relations and connections between device services and robot services. A RESL document, including robot services by combining several device services, is translated to a programming language for robot client system using RSEL translator, then the translated source program is compiled and uploaded to robot client system with RPC (Remote Procedure Call) command. A SOMAR client system is easy to be applied to embedded systems of host/target architecture. Moreover it is possible to produce a light-weight URC client robot by reducing workload of RSEL processing engine.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.237-245
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• 2010

Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has been providing the pilot service of URC(Ubiquitous Robot Companion), which is a network-based personal robot, to 1000 Korean households since 2006 to define potential users' needs and adoption behaviors. Personal innovativeness might play a critical role in adoption of URC services by users because much sophisticated and convergence technologies are incorporated into URC services. Also, defining not only perceived beliefs about URC services but also expected beliefs about them are very crucial to reduce disconfirmation between users' perception and expectation of URC services. From this point of view, this paper aimed to examine robot users' adoption behavior by considering constructs such as personal innovativeness, usefulness (perceived usefulness - expected usefulness, P-E), user attitude, and intention to use. The findings reveal that personal innovativeness is negatively related to usefulness (P-E) whereas usefulness (P-E) influences significantly and positively on user attitude. It is also shown that usefulness (P-E) and user attitude have strong positive effects on intention to use.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1435-1439
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• 2004

Most recently, CP(Cellular Phone) has been one of the most important technologies in the IT(Information Tech-nology) field, and it is situated in a position of great importance industrially and economically. To produce the best CP in the world, a new technological concept and its advanced implementation technique is required, due to the extreme level of competition in the world market. The RT(Robot Technology) has been developed as the next generation of a future technology. Current robots require advanced technology, such as soft computing, human-friendly interface, interaction technique, speech recognition, object recognition etc. unlike the industrial robots of the past. Therefore, this paper explains conceptual research for development of the RCP(Robotic Cellular Phone), a new technological concept, in which a synergy effect is generated by the merging of IT & RT. RCP infra consists of $RCP^{Mobility}$ $RCP^{Interaction}$, $RCP^{Integration}$ technologies. For $RCP^{Mobility}$, human-friendly motion automation and personal service with walking and arming ability are developed. $RCP^{Interaction}$ ability is achieved by modeling an emotion-generating engine and $RCP^{Integration}$ that recognizes environmental and self conditions is developed. By joining intelligent algorithms and CP communication network with the three base modules, a RCP system is constructed. Especially, the RCP mobility system is focused in this paper. $RCP^{Mobility}$ is to apply a mobility technology, which is popular robot technology, to CP and combine human-friendly motion and navigation function to CP. It develops a new technological application system of auto-charging and real-world entertainment function etc. This technology can make a CP companion pet robot. It is an automation of human-friendly motions such as opening and closing of CPs, rotation of antenna, manipulation and wheel-walking. It's target is the implementation of wheel and manipulator functions that can give service to humans with human-friendly motion. So, this paper presents the definition, the basic theory and experiment results of the RCP mobility system. We confirm a good performance of the RCP mobility system through the experiment results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.1192-1194
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• 2017

반려 식물 시장의 변화에 따라 다양한 스마트 화분 시스템이 등장하고 있다. 기존의 스마트 화분 시스템에서 문제점들이 보였고, 이를 연구를 통해 확인하였다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 보완하여, 자동 충전이 가능하고, 초보자나 아이들이 친밀감을 가지고 식물을 기르기 적합한 시스템을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.860-862
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• 2007

최근 IT분야에서는 URC(Ubiqutious Robotic Companion)라는 새로운 개념의 로봇 시스템에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 NXT Mindstorm을 이용한 길안내 네트워크 로봇 시스템을 제안한다. LEGO brick을 이용해 이동 가능한 로봇을 제작하고 RFID 시스템을 장착한다. 로봇의 이동은 네트워크 서버를 통해 NXT Mindstorm으로 직접 전달하여 제어한다. 또한 로봇의 경로이탈이 발생하면 RFID 리더는 Tag의 정보를 읽어 네트워크 서버로 전달하며, 네트워크 서버는 전달받은 데이터 처리 후 NXT Mindstorm으로 명령을 전달하여 제어한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.676-686
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• 2010

An URC (Ubiquitous Robot Companion) is aimed for providing the best service according to situational information that it recognizes. In order to offer human-friendly and intelligent services, a robot middleware requires the technique to automate and control URC service processes, which are based on context-awareness. In this paper, we propose a context-aware workflow system to provide web services based URC services according to situational information. The proposed system offers a platform-independent command object model to control heterogeneous URCs, and supports web services based context-aware URC services. Therefore, the proposed system can increase the reliability of URC services in ubiquitous network environment, on which the diverse URC robots and platforms exist. And it can enhance the flexibility and adaptability of the functional and structural changes of URC systems.