• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1054-1059
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• 2005

To support the expansion of the autonomous robot market, the establishment of evaluation standards of the robot performance are essential. In this paper, to venture the standardization of the performance evaluation of the autonomous robot, the authors take the autonomous cleaning robot(ACR) as the initial stepping stone. Recently, the ACR has been being developed and marketed actively in many countries including Korea and it believes to be the fore-runner among various types of autonomous robot products. Standards of the performance evaluation for the ACR could be easily modified and applied to other autonomous robots. This paper formulates and suggests a group of standards for the performance evaluation based on a evaluation platform for the ACR. The newly developed performance evaluation platform has been designed to include all the important aspects of living environments in reality. In the platform the performance of the ACR is measured in terms of mobility, cleaning performance, avoidance of obstruction(safety), and operation noise. A few commercially available ACR products are collected and tested in the evaluation platform and compared against the performance evaluation standards formulated.

• 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.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.70-78
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate how young children recognize the image of robots, and how they understand the relationship between themselves and robots based on school experience. 20 children from kindergarten A had no direct experience with educational robots, whereas 20 children from kindergarten B had experience in using educational robots in their classroom. Total 40 children from age group 5 class participated in this study. We collected data using interview and drawing test. The findings of the study are as follows: First, participating children recognized robots as having both the character of a machine and a human. But children with previous robot experience provided description of robots as a machine-tool. Both groups were not able to explain the structure of robots in details. Second, participating children understood that they can develop a range of social relationships with robots, including simple help to family replacement. There were mixed views on robots among the children with previous experience, but children with no experience described robots as taking the role of peers or family members. These findings could contribute to the development of robots and related programs in the field of early childhood education.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.429-434
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• 2013

This paper proposes a CPSO (Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization)-based MPC (Model Predictive Control) scheme to deal with formation control problem of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots. In a distributed MPC framework, each robot needs to optimize control input sequence over a finite prediction horizon considering control inputs of the other robots where their cost functions are coupled by the state variables of the neighboring robots. In order to optimize the control input sequence, a CPSO algorithm is adopted and modified to fit into the formation control problem. Experiments are performed on a group of nonholonomic mobile robots to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CPSO-based MPC for multi-robot formation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2005

In recent years, vision sensors are widely used to mobile robot for navigation or exploration. The analog signal transmission of visual data being used in this area, however, has some disadvantages including noise weakness in view of the data storage. A large amount of data also makes it difficult to use this method for a mobile robot. In this paper, a digital data compressing technology based on MPEG4 which substitutes for analog technology is proposed to overcome the disadvantages by using DWT(Discreate Wavelet Transform) instead of DCT(Discreate Cosine Transform). The TI Company's DSP chip, TMS320C6711, is used for the image encoder, and the performance of the proposed method is evaluated by PSNR(Peake Signal to Noise Rates), QP(Quantization Parameter) and bitrate.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2015

In traditional programing education, computers were used as the main tool. Consequently, it was problematic to provide education in an environment without computers or for learners without computer skills. To address this problem, this study developed and validated an unplugged robot education system capable of computerless programming education. The key feature of the proposed system is that programing can be done only by connecting programming blocks in symbols of a flow chart with built-in commands. Validation of the system was performed by a specialist group. Validity was very high with values of content validity ratio (CVR) over 0.7 in all evaluation criteria except "Ease of error debugging" and "Linkages to educational curriculum," whose CVR values were each 0.6. Future directions include improvement in the two areas that scored lower than the others did by, respectively, system improvement to support debugging in error conditions that may occur during the programming process, and development of user guide to support linkages to educational curriculum.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2010

This paper proposes networked swarm robotic systems with group based control scheme using spring damper impendence feature. The proposed algorithm is applied to keep system arrangement in unexpected situations based on the spring-damper impedance and fuzzy logic. Using the proposed scheme, each robot overcome collision problems efficiently. The structure of UBSR (UMPC Based Swarm Robot) system consists of user level, cognitive level, and executive level. This structure is designed to easily meet the different configuration requirements for other levels. Simulation results show an availability of the proposed method.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.455-466
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• 2013

본 연구의 목적은 지능형 로봇 IrobiQ를 활용한 유아용 학교폭력 예방교육 프로그램 [모두 지킴이]를 개발하는 것이다. 개발 내용은 첫째, 현장에서 실제 발생될 수 있는 폭력 유형인 집단 따돌림(왕따), 성폭력 그리고 기본 인성교육이다. 둘째, 각 주제에 적합한 활동형태는 대집단, 개별, 소집단, 자유선택활동 및 학교와 부모의 연계를 목적으로 하는 부모교육이다. 셋째, 활동유형은 동시, 동화, 동요, 미술, 이야기 나누기 등이다. 넷째, 콘텐츠는 이미지, TTS(text to speech), 터치기능, 음량인식기능 및 녹음기능 등을 활용하여 제작하였다. 본 콘텐츠를 유아에게 적용하고 30명의 전문가들을 대상으로 시연하여 수용성 설문을 실시한 결과, 긍정 반응을 보였다. 본 연구의 결과는 로봇을 활용한 학교 폭력 예방 프로그램의 효과를 최적화하기 위한 기초 자료로서 상호 작용성을 보다 증진시킬 수 있는 추후 연구를 제안한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.385-393
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 선체 청소로봇의 자동화를 위한 새로운 위치추정 방법을 제안하였으며, 제안한 위치추정 방법을 실제 선체 청소로봇에 적용 가능성을 평가하기 위해 동일한 주행방법을 가지는 소형로봇에 적용하여 위치추정 실험을 수행하였다. 위치추정 실험을 통해 광 변위센서를 사용한 위치추정 방법이 회전 엔코더를 사용한 방법보다 더 정확하게 위치를 추정하는 것을 확인하였으며, 더불어 제안한 위치추정 방법을 통해 로봇 주행방향 또한 기존의 회전 엔코더 방식보다 정확하게 계산되는 것을 확인하였다. 이후의 연구에서 제안한 위치추정 방법에 오차보정을 위한 센서를 추가하여 위치추정 정확도를 보완하고, 이를 실제 선체 청소로봇에 적용하여 사용할 계획이다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.157-162
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• 2019

최근 ICT 기술 기반으로 변화하고 있는 산업 환경의 변화로 인하여 전문직에 국한 되어있던 S/W 교육에 대한 인식 또한 변화하고있다. 세계 주요국들은 경쟁적으로 S/W 교육에 대한 투자를 하고있으며, 대상 연령층 또한 낮아지고 있는 추세이다. 이 가운데 로봇 플랫폼을 이용한 언플러그드 코딩방식은 직관적인 코딩 방식과 로봇 플랫폼을 이용한 피드백으로 유, 초등 연령을 대상으로하는 가장 효과적인 S/W 교육 방식중 하나로 알려져있다. 하지만 로봇 플랫폼을 이용한 언플러그드 코딩방식은 로봇 플랫폼에 코딩을 위한 인터페이스가 내장된 방식으로, H/W적 한계로 인하여 복잡한 코딩을 위한 다양한 인터페이스를 구성할 수 없다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위하여 IR리모컨을 인터페이스로 하여 로봇 제어를 위한 다양한 명령어를 입력 할 수 있으며, 로봇 센서를 이용하여 분기분을 이용한 코드 작성이 가능한 언플러그드 시스템을 제안하였다.