• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.115-125
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• 1996

This paper presents a new algorithm for the self-localization of a mobile robot using one degree perspective Invariant(Cross Ratio). Most of conventional model-based self-localization methods have some problems that data structure building, map updating and matching processes are very complex. Use of a simple cross ratio can be effective to the above problems. The algorithm is based on two basic assumptions that the ground plane is flat and two locally parallel sloe-lines are available. Also it is assumed that an environmental map is available for matching between the scene and the model. To extract an accurate steering angle for a mobile robot, we take advantage of geometric features such as vanishing points. Feature points for cross ratio are extracted robustly using a vanishing point and intersection points between two locally parallel side-lines and vertical lines. Also the local position estimation problem has been treated when feature points exist less than 4points in the viewed scene. The robustness and feasibility of our algorithms have been demonstrated through real world experiments In Indoor environments using an indoor mobile robot, KASIRI-II(KAist Simple Roving Intelligence).

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.942-950
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• 2011

Automation is important in modern agricultural environment, which demands the highest level of technology. In the paper an independent four-wheel steering driving platform is developed especially for horticulture in glass house farm. Mathematical modeling of the four wheel system is carried out for smooth movement. The relationships between steering angle, the turning radius, and escape trajectory are simulated using the dynamic analysis program. Optimal driving algorithm is sought through the performance evaluation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.500-503
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• 1990

Neural network is a computational model of the biological nervous system developed to exploit its intelligence and parallelism. Applying neural networks to robots creates many advantages over conventional control methods such as learning, real-time control, and continuous performance improvement through training and adaptation. In this paper, dynamic control of a six-link robot will be presented using neural networks. The neural network model used in this paper is the backpropagation network. Simulated control of the PUMA 560 arm shows that it can move at high speed as well as adapt to unforseen load changes. The results are compared with the conventional PD control scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.532-532
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• 2000

Conventional artificial intelligence systems are not properly responding under dynamically changing environments. To overcome this problem, reactive planning systems implementing new Al principles, called behavior-based Al or emergent computation, have been proposed and confirmed their usefulness. As another alternative, biological information processing systems may provide many feasible ideas to these problems. Immune system, among these systems, plays important roles to maintain its own system against dynamically changing environments. Therefore, immune system would provide a new paradigm suitable for dynamic problem dealing with unknown environments. In this paper, a new approach to behavior-based Al by paying attention to biological immune system is investigated. The feasibility of this method is confirmed by applying to behavior control of an autonomous mobile robot in cluttered environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06b
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• pp.43-46
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• 2010

지능형 로봇의 인간-로봇 상호작용(Human-Robot Interaction)은 현재 세계적으로 주목받는 연구 분야 중 하나이다. 이 논문에서는 지능형 로봇의 작업 완결성을 높이기 위한 방편의 일환으로 사용자에게 작업 내용을 공개하고, 문제 발생 시 사용자의 개입을 유도하는 형태의 인간-로봇 상호작용을 제안한다. 이러한 형태의 서비스는 지능형 로봇이 작업 수행 중 필요한 경우 사용자의 선택 통해 예상치 못한 상황에 대해 유연한 대처를 할 수 있으며, 동시에 로봇의 현재 상황을 사용자가 확인할 수 있도록 하는 수단을 제공한다. 이를 위해 이 논문은 Android 플랫폼과 로봇 간의 로봇-사용자 정보교환을 구현하고, 나아가 범용적이고 일반적인 인간-로봇 상호작용을 위한 연구방향을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 2019

This study deals with empathic concern in the age of the fourth industrial revolution. A study, investigating emotional and empathic responses towards a situation of negative human-robot interaction, was conducted using mobile surveys and self-reports. In total, 116 subjects were recruited regardless of their disciplinary and demographic backgrounds. For data analysis, a mixed method was used. Results show that people differ in emotional and empathic responses in human-robot interaction. This individual difference was influenced by educational backgrounds and gender. Suggestions for engineering education were discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.257-258
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• 2021

Construction robotics is rapidly forming a market in conjunction with the development of sensing and artificial intelligence technologies. The layout work for accurately constructing the shape and dimensions of the building frame requires high accuracy and precision, and is one of the high demands for productivity and quality improvement through construction automation. Thus, as a preliminary study, we derived the elemental factors and performance requirements for developing an automated layout robot. In addition, alternatives on driving and marking units were investigated based on literature review and practioner's interview. The result of this study will be used as a basic data for the layout robot design.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.153-162
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• 2017

Many people have wondered that a job could be reduced greatly due to the automation by artificial intelligence and labor replacement by robot, drone, and autonomous car in the era of the $4^{th}$ industrial revolution. In this article, many foreign and domestic reports on the change of future employment were collected and discussed. And the optimistic and pessimistic prospects on employment in worldwide and domestic levels were listed and analysed.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.436-443
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• 2023

With the advancement of robot intelligence, the concept of man and unmanned teaming (MUM-T) has garnered considerable attention in military research. In this paper, we present a transformer-based architecture for predicting the health status of agents, with the help of multi-head attention mechanism to effectively capture the dynamic interaction between friendly and enemy forces. To this end, we first introduce a framework for generating a dataset of battlefield situations. These situations are simulated on a virtual simulator, allowing for a wide range of scenarios without any restrictions on the number of agents, their missions, or their actions. Then, we define the crucial elements for identifying the battlefield, with a specific emphasis on agents' status. The battlefield data is fed into the transformer architecture, with classification headers on top of the transformer encoding layers to categorize health status of agent. We conduct ablation tests to assess the significance of various factors in determining agents' health status in battlefield scenarios. We conduct 3-Fold corss validation and the experimental results demonstrate that our model achieves a prediction accuracy of over 98%. In addition, the performance of our model are compared with that of other models such as convolutional neural network (CNN) and multi layer perceptron (MLP), and the results establish the superiority of our model.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.941-948
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• 2022

Disaster response robots are deployed to disaster sites where human access is difficult and dangerous. The disaster response robots explore the disaster sites prevent a structural collapse and perform lifesaving to minimize damage. It is difficult to operate robots in the disaster sites due to rough terrains where various obstacles are scattered, communication failures and invisible environments. In this paper, we developed a series connectable wheeled robot module. The series connectable wheeled robot module was developed into two types: an active driven robot module and a passive driven robot module. A wheeled robot was built by connecting the two active type robot modules and one passive type robot module. Two robot modules were connected by one DoF rotating joint, allowing the wheeled robot to avoid obstructions in a vertical direction. The wheeled robot performed driving and obstacle avoidance using only pressure sensors, which allows the wheeled robot operate in the invisible environment. An obstacle avoidance experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of the wheeled robot consisting of two active driven wheeled robot modules and one passive driven wheeled robot module. The wheeled robot successfully avoided step-shaped obstacles with a maximum height of 80 mm in a time of 24.5 seconds using only a pressure sensors, which confirms that the wheeled robot possible to perform the driving and the obstacle avoidance in invisible environment.