• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.148-161
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• 1998

We investigate a design methodology for master arm which is employed in remote-site control. Though counter-balancing has been employed for the purpose of lessening the actuator loads, it results in the increase of dynamic load at the task position. Therefore, there exists a trade-off between counter-balancing and dynamic performance. The concept of a composite index is introduced to simultaneously consider those two effects in the design of master arms. Several alternative designs of master arms are suggested.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.145-150
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• 2022

The importance of flexible polymer-based pressure sensors is growing in fields like healthcare monitoring, tactile recognition, gesture recognition, human-machine interface, and robot skin. In particular, health monitoring and tactile devices require high sensor sensitivity. Researchers have worked on sensor material and structure to achieve high sensitivity. A simple and effective method has been to employ three-dimensional pressure sensors. Three-dimensional (3D) structures dramatically increase sensor sensitivity by achieving larger local deformations for the same pressure. In this paper, the performance, manufacturing method, material, and structure of high-sensitivity flexible pressure sensors based on 3D structures, are reviewed.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.411-414
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• 2003

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is employed to train fuzzy-neural networks (FNN), which can be employed as an important building block in real life robot systems, controlled by voice-based commands. The FNN is also trained to capture the user spoken directive in the context of the present performance of the robot system. The system has been successfully employed in a real life situation for navigation of a mobile robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.726-734
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• 2007

Generally, a mobile robot is moved by original input programs. However, it is very hard for a non-expert to change the program generating the moving path of a mobile robot, because he doesn't know almost the teaching command and operating method for driving the robot. Therefore, the teaching method with speech command for a handicapped person without hands or a non-expert without an expert knowledge to generate the path is required gradually. In this study, for easily teaching the moving path of the autonomous mobile robot, the autonomous mobile robot with the function of speech recognition is developed. The use of human voice as the teaching method provides more convenient user-interface for mobile robot. To implement the teaching function, the designed robot system is composed of three separated control modules, which are speech preprocessing module, DC servo motor control module, and main control module. In this study, we design and implement a speaker dependent isolated word recognition system for creating moving path of an autonomous mobile robot in the unknown environment. The system uses word-level Hidden Markov Models(HMM) for designated command vocabularies to control a mobile robot, and it has postprocessing by neural network according to the condition based on confidence score. As the spectral analysis method, we use a filter-bank analysis model to extract of features of the voice. The proposed word recognition system is tested using 33 Korean words for control of the mobile robot navigation, and we also evaluate the performance of navigation of a mobile robot using only voice command.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권12호
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• pp.129-137
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• 2013

최근 다양한 컴퓨터기반 장치들의 사용 확대에 따라 장애인에게도 정보접근의 용이성 확보가 요구되고 있다. 특히 사지를 움직일 수 없는 중증 장애인들을 위한 새로운 입력 인터페이스 기술의 개발이 절실히 요구된다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 중증 장애인이 활용 가능한 눈동자 움직임 및 깨물기를 통한 안전도(EOG)와 근전도(EMG)신호를 이용하여 아홉 가지의 명령이 가능한 인터페이스 시스템을 개발하였다. 구현된 시스템은 하드웨어로 구성된 센서모듈과 특징추출 및 패턴분류를 포함하는 소프트웨어부로 구성된다. 개발된 기술은 사용자의 편의성을 극대화하기 위해 두 개의 전극만을 이마부위에 부착하여 안전도와 근전도를 동시에 측정하고, 이를 통해 아홉 가지의 명령전달이 가능하도록 하였다. 성능평가를 위한 java 기반 실시간 모니터링 프로그램의 실험결과 92.52%의 인식률을 보였다. 또한, 구현된 시스템의 실용성을 입증하기 위해 다섯 종류의 명령을 이용하여 ER1 로봇의 조종에 성공적으로 적용 가능함을 보임으로써 장애인을 위한 새로운 인터페이스로서의 가능성을 보였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.94-106
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• 2017

Unmanned military vehicles (UMVs) will be increasingly applied to the various military operations. These UMVs are most commonly characterized as dealing with "4D" task - dull, dirty, dangerous and difficult with automations. Although most of the UMVs are designed to a high degree of autonomy, the human operator will still intervene in the robots operation, and tele-operate them to achieve his or her mission. Thus, operator capacity, along with robot autonomy and user interface, is one of the important design factors in the research and development of the UMVs. In this paper, we propose the method to assess the operator capacity of the UMVs. The method is comprised of the 6 steps (problem, assumption, goal function identification, operator task analysis, task modeling & simulation, results and assessment), and herein colored Petri-nets are used for the modeling and simulation. Further, an illustrative example is described at the end of this paper.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.243-249
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• 2015

In direct vehicle teleoperation, a human operator drives a vehicle at a distance through a pair of master and slave device. However, if there is time delay, it is difficult to remotely drive the vehicle due to slow response. In order to address this problem, we introduced a novel methodology of shared vehicle teleoperation using a virtual driving interface. The methodology was developed with four components: 1) virtual driving environment, 2) interface for virtual driving environment, 3) path generator based on virtual driving trajectory, 4) path following controller. Experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed approach in simple and cluttered driving environment as well. In the experiments, we compared two sampling methods, fixed sampling time and user defined instant, and finally merged method showed best remote driving performance in term of completion time and number of collision.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.863-870
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• 2015

본 논문은 키넥트 센서 (Kinect sensor)를 탑재한 Human Robot Interface (HRI) 시스템에서 손 위치 데이터를 측정하여 제스처 인식 및 처리성능을 높이기 위하여 Moving Mean-Shift 기반 사용자 손 위치 보정 알고리즘($CAPUH_{MMS}$)을 제안하였다. 또한, $CAPUH_{MMS}$의 성능을 자체 개발한 실시간 성능 시뮬레이터로 이동궤적에 대한 평균 오차 성능개선 비율을 다른 보정 기법인 $CA_{KF}$ (Kalman-Filter 기반 보정 알고리즘) 및 $CA_{LSM}$ (Least-Squares Method 기반 보정 알고리즘)의 성능과 비교하였다. 실험결과, $CAPUH_{MMS}$의 이동궤적에 대한 평균 오차 성능개선 비율은 양손 상하 운동에서 평균 19.35%으로, 이는 $CA_{KF}$ 및 $CA_{LSM}$ 보다 각각 13.88%, 16.68% 더 높은 평균 오차 성능 개선 비율을, 그리고 양손 좌우 운동에서 평균 28.54%으로 $CA_{KF}$ 및 $CA_{LSM}$ 보다 각각 9.51%, 17.31% 더 높은 평균 오차 성능 개선 비율을 나타낸 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1121-1125
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• 2004

The RT(Robot Technology) has been developed as the next generation of a future technology. According to the 2002 technical report from Mitsubishi R&D center, IT(Information Technology) and RT(Robotic Technology) fusion system will grow five times larger than the current IT market at the year 2015. Moreover, a recent IEEE report predicts that most people will have a robot in the next ten years. RCP(Robotic Cellular Phone), CP(Cellular Phone) having personal robot services, will be an intermediate hi-tech personal machine between one CP a person and one robot a person generations. 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 interaction system is really focused in this paper. The $RCP^{interaction}$(Robotic Cellular Phone for Interaction) is to be developed as an emotional model CP as shown in figure 1. $RCP^{interaction}$ refers to the sensitivity expression and the link technology of communication of the CP. It is interface technology between human and CP through various emotional models. The interactive emotion functions are designed through differing patterns of vibrator beat frequencies and a feeling system created by a smell injection switching control. As the music influences a person, one can feel a variety of emotion from the vibrator's beats, by converting musical chord frequencies into vibrator beat frequencies. So, this paper presents the definition, the basic theory and experiment results of the RCP interaction system. We confirm a good performance of the RCP interaction system through the experiment results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.379-384
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• 2009

A human gaze detection and tracing method is importantly required for HMI(Human-Machine-Interface) like a Human-Serving robot. This paper proposed a novel three-dimension (3D) human gaze estimation method by using a face recognition, an orientation estimation and SVMs (Support Vector Machines). 2,400 images with the pan orientation range of $-90^{\circ}{\sim}90^{\circ}$ and tilt range of $-40^{\circ}{\sim}70^{\circ}$ with intervals unit of $10^{\circ}$ were used. A stereo camera was used to obtain the global coordinate of the center point between eyes and Gabor filter banks of horizontal and vertical orientation with 4 scales were used to extract the facial features. The experiment result shows that the error rate of proposed method is much improved than Liddell's.