• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.249-256
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• 2022

대퇴의족은 절단하지를 대체하여 보행을 수행하는 기기이며, 불연속적으로 변하는 보행 환경에 대응하기 위해 사용자의 의도 제공을 통한 보행 모드 변경을 요구한다. 외부의 제어 기기 없는 자연스러운 보행 모드 변경을 위한 요구로 절단 부위와 직접 접촉하는 소켓 내부의 생체 역학적 특징을 통해 사용자의 의도를 검출하는 연구가 수행되어 왔다. 하지만 아직까지 절단 부위의 신체 및 소켓 내부 환경에 적합한 센서 시스템의 요구가 남아있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 절단 부위의 신체 특성에 적합하고 소켓 내부 온습도 조건에 영향을 받지 않으며 다양한 크기의 제작이 쉬운 필름 형태의 센서 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 센서는 Velostat 필름으로 제작되었으며 크기에 따라 달라지는 압력 계측 특성이 고려되었다. 실험을 통해 착용자의 의도적인 자세 수행에 의한 소켓 내부 압력 변화를 계측하였으며 보행 모드 변경 의도 검출의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.406-416
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• 2015

Timing plays a key role in expressing the qualitative aspects of a character's motion; that is, conveying emotional state, personality, and character role, all potentially without changing spatial positions. Temporal editing of locomotion style is particularly difficult for a novice animator since observers are not well attuned to the sense of weight and energy displayed through motion timing; and the interface for adjusting timing is far less intuitive to use than that for adjusting pose. In this paper, we propose an editing system that effectively captures the timing variations in an example locomotion set and utilizes them for style transfer from one motion to another via both global and upper-body timing transfers. The global timing transfer focuses on matching the input motion to the body speed of the selected example motion, while the upper-body timing transfer propagates the sense of movement flow - succession - through the torso and arms. Our transfer process is based on key times detected from the example set and transferring the relative changes of angle rotation in the upper body joints from a timing source to an input target motion. We demonstrate that our approach is practical in an interactive application such that a set of short locomotion cycles can be applied to generate a longer sequence with continuously varied timings.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.1014-1022
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• 2009

A biped robot in locomotion can be regarded to be kinetically redundant in that the link-chain from its foot on the ground to its swing foot has more degrees of freedom that needed to realize stable bipedal locomotion. This paper proposes a new method to generate a trajectory for bipedal locomotion based on this redundancy, which directly generates a locomotion trajectory at the joint level unlike some other methods such as LIPM (linear inverted-pendulum mode) and GCIPM (gravity-compensated inverted-pendulum mode), each of which generates a trajectory of the center of gravity or the hip link under the assumption of the dominance of the hip-link inertia before generating the trajectory of the whole links at the joint level. For the stability of the trajectory generated in the proposed method, a stability condition based on the ZMP (zero-moment point) is used as a constraint as well as other kinetic constraints for bipedal motions. A 6-DOF biped robot is used to show how a stable locomotion trajectory can be generated in the sagittal plane by the proposed method and to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.429-438
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• 1994

An electrical stimulator was designed to induce locomotion for paraplegic patients caused by central nervous system injury. Optimal stimulus parameters, which can minimize muscle fatigue and can achieve effective muscle contraction were determined in slow and fast muscles in Sprague-Dawley rats. Stimulus patterns of our stimulator were designed to simulate eleclromyographic activity monitored during locomotion of normal subjects. Muscle types of the lower extremity were classified according to their mechanical property of contraction, which are slow muscle (msoleus m.) and fast muscle (medial gastrocnemius m., rectus femoris m., vastus lateralis m.). Optimal parameters of electrical stimulation for slow muscles were 20 Hz, 0.2 ms square pulse. For fast muscle, 40 Hz, 0.3 ms square pulse was optimal to produce repeated contraction. Higher'stimulus intensity was required when synergistic muscles were stimulated simultaneously than when they were stimulated individually. Electrical stimulation for each muscle was designed to generate bipedal locomotion, so that individual muscles alternate contraction and relaxation to simulate stance and swing phases. Portable electrical stimulator with 16 channels built in microprocessor was constructed and applied to paraplegic patients due to lumbar cord injury. The electrical slimulator restored partially gait function in paraplegic patients.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2211-2216
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• 2005

This paper describes a novel navigation algorithm using a locomotion interface with two 6-DOF parallel robotic manipulators. The suggested novel navigation system can induce user's real walking and generate realistic visual feedback during navigation, using robotic manipulators. For realistic visual feedback, the virtual environment is designed with three components; 3D object modeler for buildings and terrains, scene manager and communication manager component. The walking velocity of the user is directly translated to VR actions for navigation. Finally, the functions of the RPC interface are utilized for each interaction mode. The suggested navigation system can allow a user to explore into various virtual terrains with real walking and realistic visual feedback.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.358-366
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• 2006

본 논문은 2개의 6자유도 제어가능 발판타입 플랫폼으로 이뤄진 이동인터페이스를 이용한 새로운 네비게이션 알고리즘을 제시하고 있다. 제안된 이동인터페이스는 2개의 플랫폼 위에 사람이 위치한 상태에서 사람의 걸음 모션을 센서시스템으로 예측하여 플랫폼 위에서 지속적인 걸음이 가능하도록 플랫폼을 제어하고 사용자 걸음 모션 정보를 가상환경에서의 네비게이션 입력정보로 사용한다. 따라서, 제안된 이동인터페이스는 사용자의 실제 걸음을 유도하고 걸음 동안 사용자에게 실감의 시각 피드백 제공으로 몰입감을 가지고 가상환경과 전신 운동의 상호작용을 할 수 있도록 허락한다. 이때, 가상환경 상에서 자연스런 네비게이션이 가능하도록 보행 분석에 사용되는 걸음 조건들을 사용하여 플랫폼 위에서의 자연스런 걸음 및 가상환경시스템에서의 자연스런 네비게이션이 가능토록 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 제안된 네비게이션 알고리즘 평가를 위해 3차원 객체모델러, 화면 매니져, 통신 매니져로 구성된 가상도시를 구축하여 발판타입 이동인터페이스에 네비게이션 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 실험 결과 평지 및 경사에서 사용자의 자연스런 걸음 및 시각 피드백이 가능함을 알 수 있었고, 제안된 이동인터페이스 및 네비게이션 알고리즘을 통해 다양한 형상의 가상지면에서 실감의 네비게이션이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.248-253
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to develop a portable gait-event detection system which is necessary for the cycle-to-cycle FES(functional electrical stimulation) control of locomotion. To make the system portable, we made following modifications in the gait signal measurement system. That is, 1) to make the system wireless using Bluetooth communication, 2) to make the system small-sized and battery-powered by using low power consumption ${\mu}$ P(ATmega8535L). The gait-events were analyzed in off-line at the main computer using ANN(Artificial Neural Network). The Proposed system showed no mis-detection of the gait-events of normal subject and hemiplegia subjects. The performance of the system was better than the previous wired-system.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.435-440
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• 2007

Fish-mimetic robots or fish-mimetic propulsors have been developed or under construction. A mechanical system cannot have the same functions as bio-organic systems. Thus, the hydrodynamic characteristics of fish locomotion should be well understood in order to develop and control a feasible intelligent fish-mimetic robot with its optimal motion pattern known. In this paper, a mackerel-mimetic robot fish is fabricated in order to understand the hydrodynamic characteristics of fish locomotion. A simplified unsteady flow theory is also applied to the hydrodynamic analysis of the motion of the anterior part of the robotic fish. The normal and axial forces of the fish are measured by changing the amplitude and frequencies of fanning motion. It is found that the present theoretical results agree with the measured data.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 1994

In this paper. a way to analysis a corridor scene for a vehicle's automatic locomotion is presented In general, it's necessary for a vision system of vehicles to identify its positions in given environments. The suggested algorithm is to decide base lines of a corridor image using the vanishing point finding. Feature points are extracted on the base line using a base line extraction tree. This algorithm is suitable for a motorized wheelchair's self locomotion in a building.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.109-111
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• 1989

An electrical stimulator was designed to induce locomotion for paraplegic patients caused by central nervous system injury. Optimal stimulus parameters, which can minimize muscle fatigue and can achieve effective muscle contraction were determined in slow and fast muscles in Sprague-Dawley rats. Stimulus patterns of our stimulator were designed to simulate electromyographic activity monitored during locomotion of normal subjects. Muscle types of the lower extremity were classified according to their mechanical property of contraction, which are slow muscle (msoleus m.) and fast muscle (medial gastrocneminus m., rectus femoris m., vastus lateralis m.). Optimal parameters of electrical stimulation for slow muscles were 20 Hz, 0.2 ms square pulse. For fast muscle, 40 Hz, 0.3 ms square pulse was optimal to produce repeated contraction. Higher stimulus intensity was required when synergistic muscles were stimulated simultaneously than when they were stimulated individually. Electrical stimulation for each muscle was designed to generate bipedal locomotion, so that individual muscles alternate contraction and relaxation to simulate stance and swing phases. Portable electrical stimulator with 16 channels built in microprocessor was constructed and applied to paraplegic patients due to lumbar cord injury. The electrical stimulator restored partially gait function in paraplegic patients.