• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.419-428
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• 2007

This paper describes the development of a six-axis force/moment sensor with rectangular taper beams for an intelligent robot's wrist and ankle. In order to accurately push and pull an object with an intelligent robot's hand, and in order to safely walk with an intelligent robot's foot, the robot's wrist and ankle should measure three forces Fx, Fy, and Fz, and three moments Mx, My, and Mz simultaneously from the mounted six-axis force/moment sensor to the intelligent robot's wrist and ankle. Unfortunately, the developed six-axis force/moment sensor utilized in other industrial fields is not proper for an intelligent robot's wrist and ankle in the size and the rated output of the six-axis force/moment sensor. In this paper, the structure of a six-axis force/moment sensor with rectangular taper beams was newly modeled for an intelligent robot's wrist and ankle, and the sensing elements were designed by using the derived equations, following which the six-axis force/moment sensor was fabricated by attaching strain-gages on the sensing elements. Moreover, the characteristic test of the developed sensor was carried out by using the six-component force/moment sensor testing machine. The rated outputs from the derived equations agree well with those from the experiments. The interference error of the sensor is less than 2.87%.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.7 s.196
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• pp.90-97
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• 2007

This paper describes the development of 6-axis force/moment sensor considered adult weight far an intelligent foot of humanoid robot. In order to walk on uneven terrain safely, the foot should perceive the applied forces Fx, Fy, Fz and moments Mx, My, Mz to itself and control the foot using the forces and moments. The applied forces and moments should be measured from a 6-axis force/moment sensor attached to the foot, which is composed of Fx sensor, Fy sensor, Fz sensor, Mx sensor, My sensor and Mz sensor in a body. Each sensor should get the deferent rated load, because the applied forces and moments to foot in walking are deferent. Therefore, one of the important things in the sensor is to design each sensor with the deferent rated load and the same rated output. In this paper, a 6-axis force/moment sensor (rated load of Fx and Fy are 500Nm and Fz sensor is 1000N, and those of Mx and My are 18Nm, Mz sensor is 8Nm) for perceiving forces and moments in a humanoid robot's foot was developed using many PPBs (parallel plate-beams). The structure of the sensor was newly modeled, and the sensing elements (plate-beams) of the sensor were designed using by ANSYS software (FEM (Finite Element Method) program). Then, a 6-axis force/moment sensor was fabricated by attaching strain-gages on the sensing elements, and the characteristic test of the developed sensor was carried out. The rated outputs from FEM analysis agree well with that from the characteristic test.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.1491-1500
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• 2008

This paper proposes an intelligent surveillance system to recognize suspicious patterns of the human behavior by using the Hidden Markov Model. First, the method finds foot area of the human by motion detection algorithm from image sequence of the surveillance camera. Then, these foot locus form observation series of features to learn the HMM. The feature that is position of the human foot is changed to each code that corresponds to a specific label among 16 local partitions of image region. Therefore, specific moving patterns formed by the foot locus are the series of the label numbers. The Baum-Welch algorithm of the HMM learns each suspicious and specific pattern to classify the human behaviors. To recognize the inputted human behavior pattern in a test image, the probabilistic comparison between the learned pattern of the HMM and foot series to be tested decides the categorization of the test pattern. The experimental results show that the method can be applied to detect a suspicious person prowling in corridor.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.161-172
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• 2017

Foot mechanisms play the role of interface between the main body of robotic systems and the ground. Biomimetic design of the foot mechanism is proposed in the paper. Specifically, multi-chained and multiple contact characteristics of general foot mechanisms are analyzed and their advantages are highlighted in terms of impulse. Using Newton-Euler based closed-form external and internal impulse models, characteristics of multiple contact cases are investigated through landing simulation of an articulated leg model with three kinds of foot. It is shown that in comparison to single chain and less articulated linkage system, multi-chain and articulated linkage system has superior characteristic in terms of impulse absorption as well as stability after collision. The effectiveness of the simulation result is verified through comparison to the simulation result of a commercialized software.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.360-365
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• 2013

The paper introduces dynamic generation technique of foot trajectories using CPG(Central Pattern Generator). In this approach, the generated foot trajectories can be changeable according to variable outputs of CPG in various environments, because they are given as mapping functions of the output signals of the CPG oscillators. It enables to provide an adaptable foot trajectory for environmental change. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, experiments on humanoid robot Nao is executed in the Webot simulation. The performance and motion features of CPG based approach is analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.374-377
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• 2006

본 논문은 역설계 기법을 이용하여 비접촉 방법으로 인체의 발을 3차원으로 복원하고, 발에 관련된 분야에서 필요한 데이터를 추출하는 시스템에서 신발 제작에 필요한 데이터를 지능 기법을 이용하여 분류하는 모듈을 제안한다. 신발의 경우 개개인의 신체조건이 다르고 유행과 개성을 추구하고자 하기 때문에 기존의 생산체계로는 한계가 있다. 측정데이터를 기반으로 하는 맞춤 신발은 기존의 전통적인 수제화 방식과 대량생산 방식의 장점만을 취하여 저렴하고 편리하게 제작된다. 또한 3차원 측정기를 이용하여 측정한 화형 데이터를 적당하게 분류한다면 기성화와 수제화 제작에 필요한 라스트 생성과 개인의 발의 구조 분석에 활용 가능 할 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 획득된 발 데이터를 미리 정해 놓은 그룹으로 결정하기위해 신경망을 사용하여 신발 제작에 필요한 최적의 라스트 데이터를 선택하게 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.391-395
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• 2004

본 논문은 맞춤형 신발제작을 위하여 맞춤형 신발에 필요한 화형제작용 데이터를 위한 3차원 측정 장치를 통해 획득한 발의 형상을 인공지능 기법을 기반으로 하는 최적화된 형상을 복원하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구를 위해 개발된 시스템은 PC를 기반으로 하는 기존의 3차원측정 방식을 이용하여 상, 하, 좌, 우로 각각 장착된 8대의 CCD 카메라와 4대의 레이져를 통해 화형 및 발의 형상 데이터를 획득한다 획득된 데이터들은 인공지능 기법을 이용한 영상처리 알고리즘으로 처리되며, 처리 결과는 기존의 지능 기법을 도입하지 않은 시스템에 비해 노이즈제거 특성이 향상되었고, 후처리과정을 간소화 할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 3차원 측정을 위해 기구적인 부분과 하드웨어적인 부분의 시스템을 구성하고, 데이터 처리용 소프트웨어에서 입력영상의 전처리 과정 중 영상의 이진화 단계에서 임계값을 결정하기 위하여 간단한 신경망을 사용하였으며, 이에 대한 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.871-877
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• 2004

In this paper, for manufacturing a custom-made shoes, shape of foot acquired three-dimensional measurement device which makes shoe-last data for needing a custom-made shoes is founded on artificial intelligence technique and it shows method restoring to the original shape in optimized state. the developed system for this study is based on PC which uses existing three dimensional measurement method. And it gains shoe-last and data of foot shape going through 8 CCD(Charge Coupled Device) Which equipped top and bottom, right and left sides and 4 lasers which also equipped both sides and upper and lower sides. The acquired data are processed image processing algorithm using artificial intelligence technique. And result of data management is better quality of removing noise than other system not using artificial intelligence technique and it can simplify post-processing. So, this paper is constituted hardware and software system and it used neural network for determining threshold value, when input image on pre-processing step is being stage of image binarization and present that results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.289-290
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• 2009

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.622-628
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• 2009

A proper walking pattern is to be assigned for a walk of multi-legged robots. For the purpose of identifying a good walking pattern for multi-legged robots, this paper consider a simple model of quadruped robotic walking and analyze its walking balance based on the centroid of foot polygons formed in every step. A performance index to estimate the walking balance is also proposed. Simulation studies show that the centroid trajectory of foot polygons and the walking balance in a common quadruped walking are different according to the walking pattern employed. Based on the walking balance index and a bio-mimetic aspect, a useful walking pattern for quadruped robots is finally addressed.