• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.164-170
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• 2011

This paper proposes a novel monocular vision-based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) method using both position and orientation information of ceiling lamps. Conventional approaches used corner or line features as landmarks in their SLAM algorithms, but these methods were often unable to achieve stable navigation due to a lack of reliable visual features on the ceiling. Since lamp features are usually placed some distances from each other in indoor environments, they can be robustly detected and used as reliable landmarks. We used both the position and orientation of a lamp feature to accurately estimate the robot pose. Its orientation is obtained by calculating the principal axis from the pixel distribution of the lamp area. Both corner and lamp features are used as landmarks in the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) to increase the stability of the SLAM process. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme works successfully in various indoor environments.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 1994년도 춘계공동학술대회논문집; 창원대학교; 08월 09일 Apr. 1994
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• pp.42-48
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• 1994

This paper presents the navigation method for a mobile robot which uses a single camera and fluorescent lamp as a guide mark, projected on a convex mirror. The current position and heading direction of the mobile robot are obtained from the image of the guide mark. While the mobile robot travels to a goal position, the current position and heading direction of the mobile robot are updated continuously and the desired path and actual moving path are displayed on the monitor screen in real time. This proposed method eliminates the need to rotate the camera to track the guide mark, since a panoramic view of the surrounding area is available from the convex mirror, and natural guide marks such as usual florescent lamp on the ceiling or door frame can be used for navigation.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2018

강화학습기반 Q-learning 알고리즘은 이산적인 상태와 액션의 조합을 사용하여, 한 번에 하나의 행위에 대한 목표를 학습하는데 유용하다. 여러 액션을 학습하기 위해서는 행위 기반 아키텍처를 적용하고 적절한 행위 조절 방법을 사용하면 로봇으로 하여금 빠르고 신뢰성 있는 액션을 가능하게 할 수 있다. Q-learning은 인기 있는 강화학습 방법으로 단순하고, 수렴성이 있고 사전 훈련 환경에 영향을 덜 받는 특성(off-policy)으로 인해 로봇 학습에 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Q-learning 알고리즘을 램프 로봇에 적용하여 복수 행위(사람인식, 책상의 물체 인식)를 학습시키는데 사용하였다. Q-learning의 학습속도(learning rate)는 복수 행위 학습 단계의 로봇 성능에 영향을 줄 수 있으므로 학습속도 변경을 통해 최적의 복수 행위 학습 모델을 제시한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1259-1263
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• 2004

This paper describes position estimation algorithm using neural network for the navigation of the vision-based wheeled mobile robot (WMR) in a corridor with taking ceiling lamps as landmark. From images of a corridor the lamp's line on the ceiling in corridor has a specific slope to the lateral position of the WMR. The vanishing point produced by the lamp's line also has a specific position to the orientation of WMR. The ceiling lamps have a limited size and shape like a circle in image. Simple image processing algorithms are used to extract lamps from the corridor image. Then the lamp's line and vanishing point's position are defined and calculated at known position of WMR in a corridor. To estimate the lateral position and orientation of WMR from an image, the relationship between the position of WMR and the features of ceiling lamps have to be defined. But it is hard because of nonlinearity. Therefore, data set between position of WMR and features of lamps are configured. Neural network are composed and learned with data set. Back propagation algorithm(BPN) is used for learning. And it is applied in navigation of WMR in a corridor.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.161-164
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• 2006

In this thesis we designed the vision system to inspect the defect of a back light unit of plat panel display device. The vision system is divided into hardware and inspection algorithm of defect. Hardware components consist of illumination part, robot-arm controller part and image-acquisition part. Illumination part is made of acrylic panel for light diffusion and five 36W FPL's(Fluorescent Parallel Lamp) and electronic ballast with low frequency harmonics. The CCD(Charge-Coupled Device) camera of image-acquisition part is able to acquire the bright image by the light coming from lamp. The image-acquisition part is composed of CCD camera and frame grabber. The robot-arm controller part has a role to let the CCD camera move to the desired position. To take inspections of surface images of a flat panel display it can be controlled and located every nook and comer. Images obtained by robot-arm and image-acquisition board are saved on the hard-disk through windows programming and are tested whether there are defects by using the image processing algorithms.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.577-582
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 비전 기반 구륜이동로봇이 복도에 설치된 조명을 표식으로 사용하여 복도를 주행하기 위해 필요한 벽면으로부터의 거리와 방향각을 신경망을 이용하여 추정하는 알고리즘에 대해 기술하였다. 복도의 천정에 설치된 조명은 구륜이동로봇의 위치에 따라 조명 배열선의 기울기가 변하며, 구륜이동로봇의 방향각에 따라 정의된 소멸점의 위치가 변한다는 특징을 이용하였다. 획득된 영상에서 조명은 크기가 제한되어 있으며, 모양이 원에 가깝다는 특징을 이용하여 단순한 알고리즘에 의해 추출하였다. 기지의 구륜이동로봇의 위치와 방향각에서 복도 영상을 획득하여 조명 배열선의 기울기와 소멸점의 위치를 계산하여 이들 사이의 관계를 확인하였다. 주행 중 구륜이동로봇의 위치와 방향각을 추정하기 위해 신경망을 구성하고, 획득된 데이터를 이용하여 역 전파 알고리즘(back propagation algorithm)에 의해 학습을 수행하였다. 구륜이동로봇의 제작하고, 학습결과를 이용하여 실제 복도 주행 실험을 수행하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.132-138
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• 2006

With a great requirement of innovation caused by severe competition current companies are encouraged to improve bottleneck areas in production procedure. Specially a chassis line in which assembly processes are mainly carried out manually has the large potential to be automated. The putting of spare tire in trunk in chassis line is still dominated by free dropping method. Through that, parts in trunk such as luggage room lamp, jack and so on were damaged and the complaint of assembler in the next process was occurred due to physical strength. To eliminate these, tile robot system was in this paper developed to place spare tire on the mounting hole in trunk. The movement of robot was synchronized with the velocity of chassis hanger. With this automated system the productivity of the chassis line was increased from the benefits such as simplification of the system using only robot without the mechanically synchronized transport, inserting spare tire into the right position with robot, reduction of damaged parts and production of various type of car.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.41.1-41
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• 2002

This paper describes a robust landmark matching method to reduce ambiguity of candidate of landmark. General robot system acquires the candidate of landmark through vision sensor in outdoor environment. Our robot uses the omnidirectional vision system to get all around the view. Thus, the robot obtains more candidates of landmark than the conventional vision system. To obtain the candidates of landmark, robot uses the two types of feature. They are vertical edge and merged region of vertical edges. The former is to extract the vertical line of building, street lamp, etc. The latter is to reduce ambiguity of vertical edge in similar region. It is difficult to match the candidates of landmark...

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.154-158
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• 2002

This paper describes a path tracking method for vision-based and autonomous mobile robot in a corridor. At first, we extract the ceiling-lamp of the corridor through simple preprocessing (gray, thresholding, labeling, etc.) for robot position and orientation. Then, we design the controller for path-tracking. Simulations conducted, and acceptable vehicle localization results were obtained to prove the feasibility of the proposed approach.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1163-1168
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• 2005

This paper proposes a soft-remote-control (soft-remocon) system based on EMG signals for the Intelligent Sweet Home. The proposed system is applied to Intelligent Sweet Home which was developed to help the independence living of the elderly and physically handicapped individuals. The goal of proposed system is to control home-installed electronic devices such as TV, air-conditioner, curtain and lamp in Intelligent Sweet Home using EMG signals. Features such as VAR and DAMV having good separability performance are selected for pattern classification. FMMNN is adopted as a pattern classifier. Classification results are allowed to a developed remote control module and then corresponding infrared pulses can operate home-installed electronic devices. We concluded that EMG as an input interface for home-installed electronic devices in Intelligent Sweet Home.