• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.991-996
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• 2010

In this paper, a new indoor positioning system based on incident angle measurement of infrared sensor has been suggested. Though there have been various researches on indoor positioning systems using vision sensor or ultrasonic sensor, they have not only advantages, but also disadvantages. In a new positioning system, there are three infrared emitters on fixed known positions. An incident angle sensor measures the angle differences between each two emitters. Mathematical problems to determine the position with angle differences and position information of emitters has been solved. Simulations and experiments have been implemented to show the performance of this new positioning system. The results of simulation were good. Since there existed problems of noise and signal conditioning, the experimented has been implemented in limited area. But the results were acceptable. This new positioning method can be applied to any indoor systems that need absolute position information.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.434-443
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• 2008

This paper develops a novel automatic parking algorithm based on a fuzzy logic controller with the vehicle pose for the input and the steering rate for the output. It localizes the vehicle by using only external sensors - a vision sensor and ultrasonic sensors. Then it automatically learns an optimal fuzzy if-then rule set from the training data, using an evolutionary fuzzy system. Furthermore, it also finds the green zone for the ready-to-reverse position in which parking is possible just by reversing. It has been tested on a 4-wheeled Pioneer mobile robot which emulates the real vehicle.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2015

A 3D camera-based on-site work-related musculoskeletal disorder risk assessment(WMDs) tool has been developed. The device consists of Kinect a 3D camera manufactured by Microsoft, a servo-motor, and a mobile robot. To complement inherent narrow field of view(FOV) of Kinect, Kinect is rotated according to PID servo-control algorithm by a servo-motor attached underneath, to track movement of a subject, producing skeleton-based motion data. With servo-control, full 360 degrees tracking of a test subject is possible by single Kinect. It was found from experimental tests that the proposed device can be successfully employed for on-site WMDs risk assessing tool.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 합동 추계학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.150-153
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• 2002

When a system is teleoperated in the indoor environment through the wireless LAN, we must consider the communication time delay. The time delay is random and unbounded due to the inherent characteristic and surrounding environment. As result of this, the stability and performance of the teleoperated system is degraded. In this paper, we present the adaptive control algorithm to overcome this problem by measuring time delay and allocating task corresponding to time delay dynamically. And the simple experiment is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.273-283
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• 2008

This article describes a cooperative localization technique of multiple robots sharing position information of each robot. In case of conventional methods such as EKF, they need to linearization process. Consequently, they are not able to guarantee that their result is range containing true value. In this paper, we propose a method to merge the data of redundant sensors based on constraints propagation techniques on intervals. The proposed method has a merit guaranteeing true value. Especially, we apply the constraints propagation technique fusing wheel encoders, a gyro, and an inexpensive GPS receiver. In addition, we utilize the correlation between GPS data in common workspace to improve localization performance for multiple robots. Simulation results show that proposed method improve considerably localization performance of multiple robots.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2010

This paper presents a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of an indoor hallway environment using Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) along with a line segment as a landmark. Based on the fact that fluent line features can be extracted around the ceiling and side walls of hallway using vision sensor, a horizontal line segment is extracted from an edge image using Hough transform and is also tracked continuously by an optical flow method. A successive observation of a line segment gives initial state of the line in 3D space. For data association, registered feature and observed feature are matched in image space through a degree of overlap, an orientation of line, and a distance between two lines. Experiments show that a compact environmental map can be constructed with small number of horizontal line features in real-time.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 학술발표 논문집
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• pp.161-165
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• 2001

최근 인터넷은 전 세계적으로 대중화되고 다양한 분야에서 많이 응용되고 있다. 특히 인터넷을 이용한 Telerobot 시스템의 연구가 활발히 진행되면서, 인터넷상에서의 네트워크 상태나 대역폭에 따른 시간지연 문제가 중요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 이는 조작자가 의도하는 데로 이동로봇을 제어하기 위해 반드시 해결되어야할 문제이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 원격지의 조작자가 지시하는 데로의 원활한 주행을 위하여 이동로봇에 전송되는 명령에 신간정보를 함께 보냄으로써, 이를 수신한 이동로봇이 지연시간을 계산하여 시간지연에 따른 경로오차를 보상하거나, 이전의 경로를 이용하여 앞으로의 경로를 예측함으로써 이동로봇이 적절한 경로를 주행할 수 있도록 함을 목적으로 한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.341-346
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• 2004

Nowadays, versatile robots are developed around the world. Novel algorithms are needed for controlling such robots. A 2-Layer fuzzy controller can deal with many inputs as well as many outputs, and its overall structure is much simpler than that of a general fuzzy controller. The main problem encountered in fuzzy control is the design of the fuzzy controller. In this paper, the fuzzy controller is designed by the schema co-evolutionary algorithm. This algorithm can quickly and easily find a global solution. Therefore, the schema co-evolutionary algorithm is used to design a 2-layer fuzzy controller in this study. We apply it to a mobile robot and verify the efficacy of the 2-layer fuzzy controller and the schema co-evolutionary algorithm through the experiments.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.62-75
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• 2008

Vision-based simultaneous localization and map building using a single camera, while compelling in theory, have not until recently been considered extensive in the practical realm of the real world. In this paper, we propose a simple framework for the monocular SLAM of an indoor mobile robot using natural line features. Our focus in this paper is on presenting a novel approach for modeling the landmark before integration in monocular SLAM. We also discuss data association improvement in a particle filter approach by using the feature management scheme. In addition, we take constraints between features in the environment into account for reducing estimated errors and thereby improve performance. Our experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed SLAM algorithm in real-time.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2442-2445
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• 2001

현재까지의 자율 주행 로봇에 대한 연구는 완전히 지능화된 로봇으로 작업을 수행하는 연구가 대부분이었다. 자율 주행 로봇이 완전한 지능을 지니기 위해서는 고비용, 고성능의 센서가 필요하다. 본 논문은 지능화 공간의 개념을 사용하여 네트워크 기반의 자율 주행 로봇을 구동하기 위한 능동적인 시스템 구조를 제안하며 고성능의 센서가 없어도 효과적인 주행을 함을 보인다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템 구조에서 네트워크상의 여러 가지 자원들(로봇, 비전 시스템, 디스플레이시스템)은 서비스가 되어 서로의 기능을 능동적으로 사용할 수 있다. 네트워크상에서 각 서비스를 공유하기 위하여 JAVA기반의 프로토콜 Jini를 사용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 자율 주행 로봇은 주변 환경 및 주어진 작업에 따라 기능적으로 모듈화된 서비스를 환경상의 여러 자원들과 공유하여 운용된다.