• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.861-866
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• 2013

This paper presents the development of a racing game by controlling multiple smartphones based on ad hoc communication. The proposed racing game by the smartphone-based control interface does not require any specific game console or remote controller. Thus, any multiple users who have smartphones are able to play the game in a monitor at the same time. In addition, the developed game is applicable to actual mobile robots in cases where the positions of all robots are measured, since its game unit is a mobile robot model with a differential drive. An experimental result shows that the racing game in a PC can be realized by the proposed communication interface through four iPhones based on acceleration sensors.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.86-93
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• 2017

The Expanded Guide Circle (EGC) method has been originally proposed as the guidance navigation method for improving the efficiency of the remote operation using the sensory information. The previous algorithm is, however, concerned only for the omni-directional mobile robot, so it needs to suggest a suitable one for a mobile robot with non-holonomic constraints. The ego-kinematic transform is a method to map points of $R^2$ into the ego-kinematic space which implicitly represents non-holonomic constraints for admissible paths. Thus, robots with non-holonomic constraints in the ego-kinematic space can be considered as "free-flying object". In this paper, we propose an effective obstacle avoidance method for mobile robots with non-holonomic constraints by applying EGC method in the ego-kinematic space using the ego-kinematic transformation. This proposed method shows that it works better for non-holonomic mobile robots such as differential-drive robot than the original one. The simulation results show its effectiveness of performance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.471-476
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• 2015

This paper presents a maximum velocity trajectory planning algorithm for differential mobile robots with wheel velocity constraint to cope with physical limits in the joint space for two-wheeled mobile robots (TMR). In previous research, the convolution operator was able to generate a central velocity that deals with the physical constraints of a mobile robot while considering the heading angles along a smooth curve in terms of time-dependent parameter. However, the velocity could not track the predefined path. An algorithm is proposed to compensate an error that occurs between the actual and driven distance by the velocity of the center of a TMR within a sampling time. The velocity commands in Cartesian space are also converted to actuator commands to drive two wheels. In the case that the actuator commands exceed the maximum velocity the trajectory is redeveloped with the compensated center velocity. The new center velocity is obtained according to the curvature of the path to provide a maximum allowable velocity meaning a time-optimal trajectory. The effectiveness of the algorithm is shown through numerical examples.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.696-703
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• 2005

Since most autonomous mobile robots are powered by a battery, it is important to increase the continuous operating time without recharging. This can be achieved by improving the energy efficiency of a mobile robot, but little research on energy efficiency has been performed. This paper proposes two methods for improving the energy efficiency of an omnidirectional mobile robot.. One method is to realize a continuously variable transmission (CVT) by adopting the mechanism of steerable omnidirectional wheels. The other is the proposed steering algorithm in which wheel arrangement of the mobile robot is continuously adjusted so as to obtain the maximum energy efficiency of the motors during navigation. In addition, new omnidirectional wheels which can be transformed to the conventional wheels depending on the driving conditions are proposed to compensate for less efficient omnidirectional drive mode. Various tests show that motion control of the OMR-SOW works satisfactorily and the proposed steering algorithm for CVT can provide higher energy efficiency than the algorithm using a fixed steering angle. In addition, it is shown that the differential drive mode can give better energy efficiency than the omnidirectional drive mode.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.261-266
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• 2002

현재까지 검사를 목적으로 하는 배관 검사용 로봇에 관한 많은 연구가 소개되어 왔다. 그러나 지하매설 배관의 복합한 배관 요소 내에서 주행 할 수 있는 충분한 이동성을 갖추고 있는 로봇을 개발한다는 것은 여전히 어려운 것처럼 보인다. 배관 검사에 사용하기 위한 로봇은 수평관 및 수직관과 같은 기본적인 배관요소 내에서 자유롭게 주행해야 한다. 더불어 축소관이나 곡관에서 주행 할 수 있고 특히 분기관에서 조향 능력은 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 배관 검사 로봇의 개발에 있어 필수적인 요소와 기술이 소개되며 지난 수년간 연구를 통하여 개발한 배관검사 로봇이 소개된다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.349-358
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• 2010

We presents a dynamic modeling of 4-wheel 2-DOF. WMR. The classic dynamic model utilizes a greatly simplified wheel motion representation and using of a simplified dynamic model confronts with a problem for accurate position control of wheeled mobile robot. In this paper, we treats the dynamic model for describes relationship between the wheel actuator force/torque and WMR motion through the use of Newton's equilibrium laws. To calculate the WMR position in real time, we introduced the Dead-Reckoning algorithms and the simulation result show that the proposed dynamic model is useful. We can be easily extend the proposed WMR model to mobile robot of similar type and this type of methodology is useful to analyze, design and control any kinds of rolling robots.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제5권7호
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• pp.827-835
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• 1999

In this paper, a dead reckoning navigation system for differential drive mobile robots is presented. The navigation system consists of two incremental encoders and a gyroscope. We have built a third order polynomial function for compensating the nonlinear scale factor errors of the gyroscope. We utilize an indirect Kalman filter that feeds back estimated errors to the main navigation system. Also, the observability of the filter is analyzed in order to systematically evaluate the filter's performance. Experimental results show that the proposed navigation system provides a reliable position and heading angle by mutually compensating the encoder and the gyroscope errors. The proposed filter also reduces the computational burden and enhances the navigation system's reliability. The observability analysis confirms the characteristics of inevitably unbounded position error growth in dead reckoning navigation systems.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2417-2419
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• 2003

이동성에 nonholonomic 제약을 받는 차륜 구동 이동 로봇의 불확실한 환경에서의 자율 주행 제어기를 제안하였다. 전체 시스템은 on-line으로 지역경로 계획을 하는 planner 부분과 차륜 구동 이동 로봇의 nonholonomic 제약을 극복하면서 계획된 지역 경로를 충실히 추종하기 위한 제어기 부분의 두 부분으로 구성하였다. Planner는 빠른 응답을 생성하고, 전역적인 정보를 사용하지 않기 위하여 반사적인 제어 방식에 의한 경로 생성 방식을 채택하였고, 제어기 부분은 비선형 posture feedback stabilizer로 설계하였다. 제안된 시스템은 단순한 형태의 제어 방식으로 완전한 자율적인 판단에 의한 장애물 회피와 목표 지점으로의 수렴 능력을 보여 준다. 본 시스템의 단순하면서도 효과적인 자율주행 능력은 반사제어 방식의 장점과 feedback 제어기의 증명된 안정성에서 기인한다. 시뮬레이션과 자체 구현한 차륜 구동 이동 로봇인 "MARI"로 실제 환경에서의 실험을 실시하여 제안된 제어기의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.421-432
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• 2013

본 논문은 이동 로봇의 자율 주행을 위한 중요한 기술 중 하나인 위치 추정을 위한 함수 구현에 관해 서술되었다. 기존의 로봇 자율주행용 함수 라이브러리 중 일부는 모의실험에만 사용할 수 있기 때문에 실제 적용에 제한이 따른다. 본 논문은 실내 이동 로봇의 위치 추정을 위해 사용할 수 있는 함수의 개발에 중점을 두었다. 함수들은 추측항법, 이동 로봇의 운동 모델, 거리 측정 센서의 측정 모델, 그리고 빈번히 사용되는 방향 관련 연산에 대해 구현되었다. 구현된 함수들은 다양한 로봇과 센서에 적용할 수 있다. 사용자는 적절한 함수를 선택하여 로봇 운동과 센서 측정 불확실성의 다양한 유형을 구현할 수 있다. 구현된 함수들은 모의실험과 실제 실험을 통해 시험 및 증명되었다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.104-114
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• 1995

Mathematical models of industrial robots or manipulators are composed of highly nonlinear equations with nonlinear couplings between the variables of motions. These nonlin- earities were not considered important in the first stage that the working speed of the manipulator was not so fast, but the effect of nonlinear forces has become serious, as the working speed has been increased. So more improvement of performance cannot be expected by the control of manipulator using approximate linearization. As an approach for solving these problems, there is a method that eliminates nonlinear theory, which makes possible cecoupling of coupling terms and arbitrary arranging of poles is briefly introduced in this study. When the theory is applied to design the control law, its feasibility is examined whether the reasonable control results are obtained by simulating position, velocity, torque and tracing trajectory. The relations between the coefficients of the linearized differential equations and the maximum error and torque for the prescribed trajectory are also examined. Finally, the method for selecting the values for getting the most rapid and precise response within maximum torque of each drive is suggested in the choice of coefficients of characteristic equations which are obtained as a result of the control.