• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2006

This paper presents the strategy for searching a hidden object in an unknown area for using by multiple distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS). To search the target in Markovian space, DARS should recognize th ε ir surrounding at where they are located and generate some rules to act upon by themselves. First of all, DARS obtain 6-distances from itself to environment by infrared sensor which are hexagonally allocated around itself. Second, it calculates 6-areas with those distances then take an action, i.e., turn and move toward where the widest space will be guaranteed. After the action is taken, the value of Q will be updated by relative formula at the state. We set up an experimental environment with five small mobile robots, obstacles, and a target object, and tried to research for a target object while navigating in a un known hallway where some obstacles were placed. In the end of this paper, we present the results of three algorithms - a random search, an area-based action making process to determine the next action of the robot and hexagon-based Q-learning to enhance the area-based action making process.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 특별세미나 특별세션
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• pp.189-197
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• 2006

Maglev using EMS becomes unstable by unexpected big air-gap disturbance. The main causes of the unexpected air-gap disturbance are step-wise rail joint and large distance between rail splices. For the stable operation of the Maglev, the conventional system uses the threshold method, which selects one gap sensor among two gap sensors installed on the magnet to read the gap between magnet and guide rail. But the threshold method with a wide bandwidth makes the discontinuous air-gap signal at the rail joints because of the offset in air gap sensors and/or the step-wise rail joins. Further more, in the case of the one with a narrow bend-width, it makes Maglev system unstable because of frequent alternation. In this paper, a new method using fuzzy rule to reduce air-gap disturbances proposed to improve the stability of Maglev system. It treats the air-gap signal from dual gap sensors effectively to make continuous signal without air gap disturbance. Simulation and experiment results proved that the proposed scheme was effective to reduce air-gap disturbance from dual gap sensors in rail joints.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.192-197
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• 2011

This paper describes the mathematical modeling, control algorithm, system design, hardware implementation and experimental test of a Manta-type Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (MUUV). The vehicle has one thruster for longitudinal propulsion, one rudder for heading angle control and two elevators for depth control. It is equipped with a pressure sensor for measuring water depth and Doppler Velocity Log for measuring position and angle. The vehicle is controlled by an on-board PC, which runs with the Windows XP operating system. The dynamic model of 6DOF is derived including the hydrodynamic forces and moments acting on the vehicle, while the hydrodynamic coefficients related to the forces and moments are obtained from experiments or estimated numerically. We also utilized the values obtained from PMM (Planar Motion Mechanism) tests found in the previous publications for numerical simulations. Various controllers such as PID, Sliding mode, Fuzzy and $H{\infty}$ are designed for depth and heading angle control in order to compare the performance of each controller based on simulation. In addition, experimental tests are carried out in a towing tank for depth keeping and heading angle tracking.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2006

최근 로봇 개발의 현황을 살펴보면 인간과 로봇이 공존하면서 인간이 로봇으로부터 서비스를 받을 수 있는 로봇의 개발이 지속적으로 증가하는 추세다. 그 중에서도 특히 관심을 끌고 있는 것은 복지 로봇에 관한 연구이다. 현재 가장 일반화되어 있는 복지 로봇은 시각 장애인의 주행을 도와주는 안내 로봇이며 장애물을 인식하여 안전한 경로를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 논문에서는 장애물 충돌회피의 기능뿐만 다양한 센서를 장착하여 환경 정보를 파악하여 사용자에게 가장 안전한 이동방향과 이동 속도를 제시한다. 또한 지도 정보를 이용하여 사용자에게 가장 친숙하고 안전한 주행 경로를 선택하는 안내 로봇을 제시한다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2003

천정크레인 설비의 자동화에 사용될 수 있는 반진동 제어알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안하는 제어알고리즘은 1) 복잡한 비선형계통 제어에 유용한 것으로 알려진 보상 FLC를 갖는 FCL, 2) 화물의 진동을 적게 하도록 가속도, 속도, 위치 기준 궤적을 발생하는 기준패턴발생기, 3) 속도, 위치 오차를 궤환하는 가속도 궤환제어기로 구성된다. 특히, 제안한 알고리즘은 화물의 진동각 정보를 제어에 활용하지 않으므로 고가의 진동각 센서가 필요 없다는 특징을 갖는다. 시뮬레이션에 의한 연구와 모형 크레인에 대한 실험 연구에 의해 제안하는 알고리즘의 유용성을 보인다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2005년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.264-268
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 기술의 여러응용 서비스에서 가장 핵심적인 요소 기술 중의 하나인 사용자의 상황인식시스템에 대하여 기술한다. 제안하는 시스템은 실험 대상자의 우측 상완에 착용하는 $SenseWear^{(R)}$ PRO2 Armband(BodyMedia사)에 내장된 2차원 가속도센서를 이용하여 데이터를 획득하고, 눕기, 앉기, 걷기, 뛰기 4단계 동작의 인체동작상태의 구분은 PC 기반의 퍼지추론 시스템으로 구현 하였다. 이를 이용하여 분석한 인체동작 인식률은 눕기, 앉기, 걷기 뛰기에 대하여 각각 100%, 98.64%, 99.27%, 100%로 나타났다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.165-171
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• 2004

Robots will be able to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in near future. One of the most important aspects in the development of human-friendly robots is to cooperation between humans and robots. In this paper, we proposed a method for multi-object identification in order to achieve such human-centered system and robot localization in intelligent space. The intelligent space is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. The Intelligent Space achieves the human centered services by accelerating the physical and psychological interaction between humans and intelligent devices. As an intelligent device of the Intelligent Space, a color CCD camera module, which includes processing and networking part, has been chosen. The Intelligent Space requires functions of identifying and tracking the multiple objects to realize appropriate services to users under the multi-camera environments. In order to achieve seamless tracking and location estimation many camera modules are distributed. They causes some errors about object identification among different camera modules. This paper describes appearance based object representation for the distributed vision system in Intelligent Space to achieve consistent labeling of all objects. Then, we discuss how to learn the object color appearance model and how to achieve the multi-object tracking under occlusions.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.10-15
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• 2009

With the development of techniques, robots are getting smaller, and the number of robots needed for application is greater and greater. How to coordinate large number of autonomous robots through local interactions has becoming an important research issue in robot community. Swarm Robot Systems (SRS) is a system that independent autonomous robots in the restricted environments infer their status from pre-assigned conditions and operate their jobs through the cooperation with each other. In the SRS, a robot contains sensor part to percept the situation around them, communication part to exchange information, and actuator part to do a work. Especially, in order to cooperate with other robots, communicating with other robots is one of the essential elements. Because Bluetooth has many advantages such as low power consumption, small size module package, and various standard protocols, it is rated as one of the efficient communicating technologies which can apply to small-sized robot system. In this paper, we will develop Bluetooth communicating system for autonomous robots. And we will discuss how to construct and what kind of procedure to develop the communicating system for group behavior of the SRS under intelligent space.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.17-21
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• 2007

Multi-Agent Robotic System (MARS) is a system that independent autonomous robots in the restricted environments infer their status from pre-assigned conditions and operate their jobs through the cooperation with each other. In the MARS, a robot contains sensor part to percept the situation around themselves, communication part to exchange information, and actuator part to do given work. Especially, in order to cooperate with other robots, communicating with other robots is one of the essential elements. Because Bluetooth has many advantages such as low power consumption, small size module package, and various standard protocols, Bluetooth is rated as one of the efficient communicating technologies which can apply to small-sized robot system. In this paper, we will develop Bluetooth communicating system for autonomous robots. For the purpose, the communication system must have several features-separated module, flexible interface. We will discuss how to construct and what kind of procedure to develop the communicating system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1036-1043
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• 2014

In this paper, a new haptic device is proposed for the teleoperation, which can recognize the invisible environment of a mobile robot. With this new device, it is possible for the user to identify the location of an obstacle and to avoid it. The haptic device has been attached on the top of a joystick so that the user can remotely control the mobile robot to avoid the obstacles which are recognized by the ultrasonic sensors. Also, the invisible environment is recognized more accurately overlapping the data from the ultrasonic sensors. There are five vibration motors in the haptic device to indicate the direction of the obstacle. So the direction of the obstacle can be recognized by the vibration at the finger on each vibration motor. For various situations and surrounding environments, experiments are performed using fuzzy controller and overlapping ultrasonic sensors. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed haptic joystick.