• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

This paper addresses the vision based autonomous walking control system. To handle the obstacles which exist beyond the field of view(FOV), we used the 3d panoramic depth image. Moreover, to decide the avoidance direction and walking motion of a humanoid robot for the obstacle avoidance by itself, we proposed the vision based path planning using 3d panoramic depth image. In the vision based path planning, the path and walking motion are decided under environment condition such as the size of obstacle and available avoidance space. The vision based path planning is applied to a humanoid robot, URIA. The results from these evaluations show that the proposed method can be effectively applied to decide the avoidance direction and the walking motion of a practical humanoid robot.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.28-33
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 휴머노이드를 이용한 로봇 축구 시스템을 새롭게 제안하며, 다수의 인간형 로봇을 제어하는 방법과 축구 경기를 하기 위한 전략 알고리즘 등에 대해 기술하였다. 로봇의 위치와 방향을 파악하기 위해서 로봇의 위쪽 어깨 부분에 각각의 로봇을 구분할 수 있는 칼라 태그를 부착하였고, 빠른 위치와 방향 인식을 위해 전용의 PC를 통해 영상인식을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 휴머노이드 로봇 축구 시스템은 기존의 바퀴 구동형 축구 로봇을 한 단계 발전시킨 것으로, 앞으로 많은 연구를 통하여, 인간처럼 자율 이동이 가능한 로봇 축구 경기가 가능하리라 본다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권7호
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• pp.1040-1046
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• 2015

This paper introduces GP(Genetic Programming) based color detection model for an object detection of humanoid robot vision. Existing color detection methods have used linear/nonlinear transformation of RGB color-model. However, most of cases have difficulties to classify colors satisfactory because of interference of among color channels and susceptibility for illumination variation. Especially, they are outstanding in degraded images from robot vision. To solve these problems, we propose illumination robust and non-parametric multi-colors detection model using evolution of GP. The proposed method is compared to the existing color-models for various environments in robot vision for real humanoid Nao.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.374-382
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• 2007

Robot mobility and intelligence become more important for robots to be used in various fields other than automation. The main purpose of providing mobility to a robot is to extend the robot's manipulability. In this paper, we introduce a small humanoid robot that can autonomously play golf as an example of incorporating robot intelligence, mobility, and manipulability. The robot has 12 degrees of freedom for legs and has various basic walking patterns. It can move to a desired position and change orientation by combining the basic waking patterns. The robot has a color CCD camera and can extract coordinates of the objects in the environments. The small humanoid robot has 8 degrees of freedom for arms and can play golf autonomously with two kinds of dexterous swing motions. Kinematic analysis of the robot arms, vision data processing for the recognition of the environments, algorithm for playing robotic golf have been performed or proposed. The experimental results show that the robot can play golf autonomously.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.998-1004
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• 2008

In this paper, a visual servoing control technique of humanoid robot arms is implemented for tracking a moving object. An embedded time-delayed controller is designed on an FPGA(Programmable field gate array) chip and implemented to control humanoid robot arms. The position of the moving object is detected by a stereo vision camera and converted to joint commands through the inverse kinematics. Then the robot arm performs visual servoing control to track a moving object in real time fashion. Experimental studies are conducted and results demonstrate the feasibility of the visual feedback control method for a moving object tracking task by the humanoid robot arms called the ROBOKER.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.226-236
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• 2008

In this paper, control software architecture is designed to enable a heterogeneous multiple humanoid robot demonstration executing tasks cooperating with each other. In the heterogeneous humanoid robot team, one large humanoid robot and two small humanoid robots are included. For the efficient and reliable information sharing between many software components for humanoid control, sensing and planning, CORBA based software framework is applied. The humanoid tasks are given in terms of finite state diagram based human-robot interface, which is interpreted into the XML based languages defining the details of the humanoid mission. A state transition is triggered based on the event which is described in terms of conditions on the sensor measurements such as robot locations and the external vision system. In the demonstration of the heterogeneous humanoid team, the task of multiple humanoid cleaning the table is given to the humanoid robots and successfully executed based on the given state diagram.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.641-646
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• 2010

스테레오 카메라를 갖춘 인간형 로봇이 자율적으로 주변 상황을 인지하면서 목적지까지의 경로를 실시간으로 생성 및 수정하는 간단한 알고리즘을 제시한다. 특징점들을 시각적 이미지에서 추출함으로써 주위의 장애물들을 인지한다. 인간형 로봇의 뒤뚱거리는 보행 움직임을 모델링함으로써 로봇의 중심부 기준에서의 실제 경로를 유추하여 계획된 경로와 비교함으로써 시각적 피드백 제어를 구현하고 성공적인 네비게이션을 수행한다. 실제 인간형 로봇의 네비게이션 실험을 통해 제안된 알고리즘의 가능성을 입증한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1777-1778
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• 2007

In this paper, We design and implement a humanoid robot, With Educational purpose, which can collaborate and communicate with human. We present an affective human-robot communication system for a humanoid robot, D2, which we designed to communicate with a human through dialogue. D2 communicates with humans by understanding and expressing emotion using facial expressions, voice, gestures and posture. Interaction between a human and a robot is made possible through our affective communication framework. The framework enables a robot to catch the emotional status of the user and to respond appropriately. As a result, the robot can engage in a natural dialogue with a human. According to the aim to be interacted with a human for voice, gestures and posture, the developed Educational humanoid robot consists of upper body, two arms, wheeled mobile platform and control hardware including vision and speech capability and various control boards such as motion control boards, signal processing board proceeding several types of sensors. Using the Educational humanoid robot D2, we have presented the successful demonstrations which consist of manipulation task with two arms, tracking objects using the vision system, and communication with human by the emotional interface, the synthesized speeches, and the recognition of speech commands.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 3차원 작업 환경에서 휴머노이드 로봇의 행동 프리미티브를 이용한 행동 계획 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 휴머노이드 로봇이 효과적으로 다양한 작업을 수행하기 위하여 행동 프리미티브를 정의하였다. 행동 프리미티브를 이용함으로써 다양한 장애물을 갖는 복잡한 작업 환경에서 로봇에 장착한 센서로 외부 환경 정보를 받아들이고 이를 이용하여 실시간 대응 및 작업이 가능하도록 하였다. 제안한 행동 계획방법은 임베디드 비전 시스템을 사용한 휴머노이드 로봇을 실제 제작하여 실험을 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.879-888
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• 2013

This paper addresses the vision based local path planning system for obstacle avoidance. To handle the obstacles which exist beyond the field of view (FOV), we propose a Panoramic Environment Map (PEM) using the MDGHM-SIFT algorithm. Moreover, we propose a Complexity Measure (CM) and Fuzzy logic-based Avoidance Motion Selection (FAMS) system to enable a humanoid robot to automatically decide its own direction and walking motion when avoiding an obstacle. The CM provides automation in deciding the direction of avoidance, whereas the FAMS system chooses the avoidance path and walking motion, based on environment conditions such as the size of the obstacle and the available space around it. The proposed system was applied to a humanoid robot that we designed. The results of the experiment show that the proposed method can be effectively applied to decide the avoidance direction and the walking motion of a humanoid robot.