• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.167-168
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• 2012

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.1038-1046
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• 2008

This paper presents a framework to generate human-like movements of a humanoid in real time using the movement primitive database of a human. The framework consists of two processes: 1) the offline motion imitation learning based on an Evolutionary Algorithm and 2) the online motion generation of a humanoid using the database updated bγ the motion imitation teaming. For the offline process, the initial database contains the kinetic characteristics of a human, since it is full of human's captured motions. The database then develops through the proposed framework of motion teaming based on an Evolutionary Algorithm, having the kinetic characteristics of a humanoid in aspect of minimal torque or joint jerk. The humanoid generates human-like movements far a given purpose in real time by linearly interpolating the primitive motions in the developed database. The movement of catching a ball was examined in simulation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2126-2131
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• 2005

Interactions of a humanoid with a human are important, when the humanoid is requested to provide people with human-friendly services in unknown or uncertain environment. Such interactions may require more complicated and human-like behaviors from the humanoid. In this work the arm motions of a human are discussed as the early stage of human motion imitation by a humanoid. A motion capture system is used to obtain human-friendly arm motions as references. However the captured motions may not be applied directly to the humanoid, since the differences in geometric or dynamics aspects as length, mass, degrees of freedom, and kinematics and dynamics capabilities exist between the humanoid and the human. To overcome this difficulty a method to adapt captured motions to a humanoid is developed. The geometric difference in the arm length is resolved by scaling the arm length of the humanoid with a constant. Using the scaled geometry of the humanoid the imitation of actor's arm motions is achieved by solving an inverse kinematics problem formulated using optimization. The errors between the captured trajectories of actor arms and the approximated trajectories of humanoid arms are minimized. Such dynamics capabilities of the joint motors as limits of joint position, velocity and acceleration are also imposed on the optimization problem. Two motions of one hand waiving and performing a statement in sign language are imitated by a humanoid through dynamics simulation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.511-521
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• 2018

The ability to realize human-motion imitation using robots is closely related to developments in the field of artificial intelligence. However, it is not easy to imitate human motions entirely owing to the physical differences between the human body and robots. In this paper, we propose a work chain-based inverse kinematics to enable a robot to imitate the human motion of upper limbs in real time. Two work chains are built on each arm to ensure that there is motion similarity, such as the end effector trajectory and the joint-angle configuration. In addition, a two-phase filter is used to remove the interference and noise, together with a self-collision avoidance scheme to maintain the stability of the robot during the imitation. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of our solution on the humanoid robot Nao-H25 in terms of accuracy and real-time performance.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.287-299
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• 2008

People have expected a humanoid robot to move as naturally as a human being does. The natural movements of humanoid robot may provide people with safer physical services and communicate with persons through motions more correctly. This work presented a methodology to generate the natural motions for a humanoid robot, which are converted from human motion capture data. The methodology produces not only kinematically mapped motions but dynamically mapped ones. The kinematical mapping reflects the human-likeness in the converted motions, while the dynamical mapping could ensure the movement stability of whole body motions of a humanoid robot. The methodology consists of three processes: (a) Human modeling, (b) Kinematic mapping and (c) Dynamic mapping. The human modeling based on optimization gives the ZMP (Zero Moment Point) and COM (Center of Mass) time trajectories of an actor. Those trajectories are modified for a humanoid robot through the kinematic mapping. In addition to modifying the ZMP and COM trajectories, the lower body (pelvis and legs) motion of the actor is then scaled kinematically and converted to the motion available to the humanoid robot considering dynamical aspects. The KIST humanoid robot, Mahru, imitated a dancing motion to evaluate the methodology, showing the good agreement in the motion.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.143-151
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• 2007

This paper deals with a tangible interface system that introduces robot as remote avatar. It is focused on a new method which makes a robot imitate human arm motions captured from a remote space. Our method is functionally divided into two parts: capturing human motion and adapting it to robot. In the capturing part, we especially propose a modified potential function of metaballs for the real-time performance and high accuracy. In the adapting part, we suggest a geometric scaling method for solving the structural difference between a human and a robot. With our method, we have implemented a tangible interface and showed its speed and accuracy test.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1939-1940
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• 2006

휴머노이드 로봇의 동작 생성에 있어 최대 관심사 중 하나는 '얼마나 인간처럼 행동하는가?' 이다. 이를 위해 동작 획득 장비를 사용하여 얻은 인간 동작을 로봇으로 전이함으로써 인간과 유사한 움직임을 구현하는 것이 일반적인 방법이다. 인간의 동작 전환 과정에서 동작을 구분하고 그 구분된 동작을 재결합하는 과정이 빈번이 발생한다. 지금까지 동작을 구분하고 재결합하는 것은 많은 부분 수동적으로 처리되었다. 그러한 방법들이 실효적인 성과를 얻었지만 보다 더 효과적이고 체계적으로 인간다운 동작을 구현 할 수 있는 시스템이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는, 기구학에 근거하여 인간의 상체 동작을 구분하고 가중 함수를 이용하여 구분한 동작을 재결합함으로써 새로운 연속 동작을 생성한다. 생성된 연속 동작을 휴머노이드 로봇에 구현하여 제안한 동작모방시스템의 실효성을 검증한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.315-316
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• 2007

This paper presents a new methodology to improve movement database for a humanoid robot. The database is initially full of human motions so that the kinetics characteristics of human movement are immanent in it. then, the database is updated to the pseudo-optimal motions for the humanoid robot to perform more natural motions, which contain the kinetics characteristics of robot. for this, we use the evolutionary algorithm. the methodology consists of two processes : (1) the offline imitation learning of human movement and (2) the online generation of natural motion. The offline process improve the initial human motion database using the evolutionary algorithm and inverse dynamics-based optimization. The optimization procedure generate new motions using the movement primitive database, minimizing the joint torque. This learning process produces a new database that can endow the humanoid robot with natural motions, which requires minimal torques. In online process, using the linear combination of the motion primitive in this updated database, the humanoid robot can generate the natural motions in real time. The proposed framework gives a systematic methodology for a humanoid robot to learn natural motions from human motions considering dynamics of the robot. The experiment of catching a ball thrown by a man is performed to show the feasibility of the proposed framework.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

애니메이션 캐릭터의 동작을 만들어내기 위해 펜으로 스케치하는 형식의 인터페이스를 이용하는 저작 도구들이 연구되어 왔지만, 아직까지 음향적인 요소에 있어서 직관적인 인터페이스를 사용하여 만들어내는 방법은 연구되지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 음향과 대응되는 의성어의 발성을 통하여 표현하면 이에 대응되는 음향샘플이 선택되어 삽입되는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 일반적으로 사용되는 통계적 모델을 기반으로 하는 패턴인식 방법을 이용하여 의성어 발성만으로 대응되는 음향샘플을 어느 정도 인식할 수 있는지를 실험해본 결과 의성어의 음성샘플을 이용한 경우 최대 97%의 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 새로운 음향샘플 등록 시에 발생하는 음성데이터 수집의 어려움을 극복하기 위하여 음성모델을 만드는 대신에 의성어의 음성샘플 하나만 사용하는 GLR Test를 활용해보니 기존의 방법과 거의 대등한 인식률을 실험적으로 확인할 수 있었다.