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A 2D / 3D Map Modeling of Indoor Environment (실내환경에서의 2 차원/ 3 차원 Map Modeling 제작기법)

  • Jo, Sang-Woo;Park, Jin-Woo;Kwon, Yong-Moo;Ahn, Sang-Chul
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.355-361
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    • 2006
  • In large scale environments like airport, museum, large warehouse and department store, autonomous mobile robots will play an important role in security and surveillance tasks. Robotic security guards will give the surveyed information of large scale environments and communicate with human operator with that kind of data such as if there is an object or not and a window is open. Both for visualization of information and as human machine interface for remote control, a 3D model can give much more useful information than the typical 2D maps used in many robotic applications today. It is easier to understandable and makes user feel like being in a location of robot so that user could interact with robot more naturally in a remote circumstance and see structures such as windows and doors that cannot be seen in a 2D model. In this paper we present our simple and easy to use method to obtain a 3D textured model. For expression of reality, we need to integrate the 3D models and real scenes. Most of other cases of 3D modeling method consist of two data acquisition devices. One for getting a 3D model and another for obtaining realistic textures. In this case, the former device would be 2D laser range-finder and the latter device would be common camera. Our algorithm consists of building a measurement-based 2D metric map which is acquired by laser range-finder, texture acquisition/stitching and texture-mapping to corresponding 3D model. The algorithm is implemented with laser sensor for obtaining 2D/3D metric map and two cameras for gathering texture. Our geometric 3D model consists of planes that model the floor and walls. The geometry of the planes is extracted from the 2D metric map data. Textures for the floor and walls are generated from the images captured by two 1394 cameras which have wide Field of View angle. Image stitching and image cutting process is used to generate textured images for corresponding with a 3D model. The algorithm is applied to 2 cases which are corridor and space that has the four wall like room of building. The generated 3D map model of indoor environment is shown with VRML format and can be viewed in a web browser with a VRML plug-in. The proposed algorithm can be applied to 3D model-based remote surveillance system through WWW.

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Development and Verification of the Automated Cow-Feeding System Driven by AGV (무인이송로봇기반 자동 소사료 공급 시스템 개발 및 검증)

  • Ahn, Sung-Su;Lee, Yong-Chan;Yoo, Ji-Hun;Lee, Yun-Jung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.232-241
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents an automated cow-feeding system based on an AGV and screw conveyor for domestic livestock farms, which are becoming larger and more commercialized. The system includes a hopper module for loading pellet-type mixed feed at the top of the system, a transfer module mounted with a screw conveyor to transfer feed from the hopper module to the outlet module, an outlet module composed of belt conveyors, and an electromagnetic guided driving-type AGV. The weight of the loaded feed is measured by a load cell located under the transfer module. The system reads the feed discharge information stored in RFID tags installed in each cowshed cell, and a predetermined amount of feed is discharged while the AGV is moving. A cow-feed test system was constructed to determine the design parameters of the screw conveyor in the transfer module that determine the feeding capacity. These parameters include the screw's outer diameter, the screw shaft outer diameter, and screw pitch. The parameters were applied to the finalized cow-feed system construction. A DSP-based main controller and cow-feeding algorithm for different scenarios were also developed to control the system. Experimental results confirmed that the system could supply a total of 21 kg of feed uniformly at 420 g/s for a cowshed cell which has 7 cows. The driving distance was 5 m and the speed was 0.1 m/s. Thus, the proposed system could be applied to standardized domestic livestock farms.

Enhanced Processor-Architecture for the Faster Processing of Genetic Algorithm (유전 알고리즘 처리속도 향상을 위한 강화 프로세서 구조)

  • Yoon, Han-Ul;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.224-229
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    • 2005
  • Generally, genetic algorithm (GA) has too much time and space complexity when it is running in the typical processor. Therefore, we are forced to use the high-performance and expensive processor by this reason. It also works as a barrier to implement real device, such a small mobile robot, which is required only simple rules. To solve this problem, this paper presents and proposes enhanced processor-architecture for the faster GA processing. A typical processor architecture can be enhanced and specialized by two approaches: one is a sorting network, the other is a residue number system (RNS). A sorting network can improve the time complexity of which needs to compare the populations' fitness. An RNS can reduce the magnitude of the largest bit that dictates the speed of arithmetic operation. Consequently, it can make the total logic size smaller and innovate arithmetic operation speed faster.

An Evolution of Cellular Automata Neural Systems using DNA Coding Method (DNA 코딩방법을 이용한 셀룰라 오토마타 신경망의 진화)

  • Lee, Dong-Wook;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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    • v.36S no.12
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    • pp.10-19
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    • 1999
  • Cellular Automata Neural Systems(CANS) are neural networks based on biological development and evolution. Each neuron of CANS has local connection and acts as a form of pulse according to the dynamics of the chaotic neuron. CANS are generated from initial cells according to the CA rule. In the previous study, to obtain the useful ability of CANS, we make the pattern of initial cells evolve. However, it is impossible to represent all solution space, so we propose an evolving method of CA rule to overcome this defect in this paper. DNA coding has the redundancy and overlapping of gene and is apt for the representation of the rule. In this paper, we show the general expression of CA rule and propose translation method from DNA code to CA rule. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme was verified by applying it to the navigation problem of autonomous mobile robot.

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Database based Global Positioning System Correction (데이터베이스 기반 GPS 위치 보정 시스템)

  • Moon, Jun-Ho;Choi, Hyuk-Doo;Park, Nam-Hun;Kim, Chong-Hui;Park, Yong-Woon;Kim, Eun-Tai
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.205-215
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    • 2012
  • A GPS sensor is widely used in many areas such as navigation, or air traffic control. Particularly, the car navigation system is equipped with GPS sensor for locational information. However, when a car goes through a tunnel, forest, or built-up area, GPS receiver cannot get the enough number of satellite signals. In these situations, a GPS receiver does not reliably work. A GPS error can be formulated by sum of bias error and sensor noise. The bias error is generated by the geometric arrangement of satellites and sensor noise error is generated by the corrupted signal noise of receiver. To enhance GPS sensor accuracy, these two kinds of errors have to be removed. In this research, we make the road database which includes Road Database File (RDF). RDF includes road information such as road connection, road condition, coordinates of roads, lanes, and stop lines. Among the information, we use the stop line coordinates as a feature point to correct the GPS bias error. If the relative distance and angle of a stop line from a car are detected and the detected stop line can be associated with one of the stop lines in the database, we can measure the bias error and correct the car's location. To remove the other GPS error, sensor noise, the Kalman filter algorithm is used. Additionally, using the RDF, we can get the information of the road where the car belongs. It can be used to help the GPS correction algorithm or to give useful information to users.

Study on the line tracer robot applying the intellectual PID (지적 PID를 적용한 라인 트레이스 로봇에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Heon;Kim, Min;Jeong, Jae-Hoon;Park, Won-Hyeon;Choi, Myoung-Hoon;Lim, Jae-Jun;Byun, Gi-Sik;Kim, Gwan-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.731-733
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    • 2016
  • The primary goal of the line tracer is to accurately and quickly detect the movement up to the target position given by the sensor juhaengseon. It has been used in applications in various fields such as the current unmanned transport vehicles, laser cutting machine, autonomous mobile robots and unmanned driving is possible, and is held annually at various universities in the competition field with the possibility of great progress, depending on the application. However, there arises a large difference in running performance, depending on the hardware design and control. In this paper, improving the characteristics of the tracer line and characters to design a PID controller is to apply the point on ways of improving the properties of the system.

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Learning of Fuzzy Rules Using Fuzzy Classifier System (퍼지 분류자 시스템을 이용한 퍼지 규칙의 학습)

  • Jeong, Chi-Seon;Sim, Gwi-Bo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Classifier System(FCS) makes the classifier system be able to carry out the mapping from continuous inputs to outputs. The FCS is based on the fuzzy controller system combined with machine learning. Therefore the antecedent and consequent of a classifier in FCS are the same as those of a fuzzy rule. In this paper, the FCS modifies input message to fuzzified message and stores those in the message list. The FCS constructs rule-base through matching between messages of message list and classifiers of fuzzy classifier list. The FCS verifies the effectiveness of classifiers using Bucket Brigade algorithm. Also the FCS employs the Genetic Algorithms to generate new rules and modify rules when performance of the system needs to be improved. Then the FCS finds the set of the effective rules. We will verify the effectiveness of the poposed FCS by applying it to Autonomous Mobile Robot avoiding the obstacle and reaching the goal.

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A study to detect and leaked personal information on the smartphone. (Web을 이용한 안드로이드 기기 제어 시스템 설계)

  • Kim, Wung-Jun;He, Yi-Lun;Park, Sung-Hyun;Ban, Tae-Hak;Kim, Yong-Un;Jung, Hoe-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.845-847
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    • 2014
  • In recent years, the mobile OS market, enlargement and, at the same time, Android has mounted various smart phones and feature air conditioning, smart TV, cleaning robot, camera, etc. that the number is being spread at a rapid pace. But a lot of devices to control the modules and applications at once, this is not a device for controlling the dissemination of applications all in one place, and in charge of the devices that allow you to manage applications are lacking. Accordingly, in this paper, use the Web Server registered in the appliance can be controlled by management, Web access, is proposing and designing the system. This is the current research is actively in progress in the field of IoT (Internet of Things) would be utilized.

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Analysis of the Valuation Model for the state-of-the-art ICT Technology (첨단 ICT 기술에 대한 가치평가 모델 분석)

  • Oh, Sun-Jin
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.705-710
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    • 2021
  • Nowadays, cutting-edge information communication technology is the genuine core technology of the fourth Industrial Revolution and is still making great progress rapidly among various technology fields. The biggest issue in ICT fields is the machine learning based Artificial Intelligence applications using big data in cloud computing environment on the basis of wireless network, and also the technology fields of autonomous control applications such as Autonomous Car or Mobile Robot. Since value of the high-tech ICT technology depends on the surrounded environmental factors and is very flexible, the precise technology valuation method is urgently needed in order to get successful technology transfer, transaction and commercialization. In this research, we analyze the characteristics of the high-tech ICT technology and the main factors in technology transfer or commercialization process, and propose the precise technology valuation method that reflects the characteristics of the ICT technology through phased analysis of the existing technology valuationmodel.

Efficient Visual Place Recognition by Adaptive CNN Landmark Matching

  • Chen, Yutian;Gan, Wenyan;Zhu, Yi;Tian, Hui;Wang, Cong;Ma, Wenfeng;Li, Yunbo;Wang, Dong;He, Jixian
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.4084-4104
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    • 2021
  • Visual place recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task of mobile robot navigation and localization. The existing VPR methods are usually based on some pairwise similarity of image descriptors, so they are sensitive to visual appearance change and also computationally expensive. This paper proposes a simple yet effective four-step method that achieves adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) landmark matching for VPR. First, based on the features extracted from existing CNN models, the regions with higher significance scores are selected as landmarks. Then, according to the coordinate positions of potential landmarks, landmark matching is improved by removing mismatched landmark pairs. Finally, considering the significance scores obtained in the first step, robust image retrieval is performed based on adaptive landmark matching, and it gives more weight to the landmark matching pairs with higher significance scores. To verify the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method, evaluations are conducted on standard benchmark datasets. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method reduces the feature representation space of place images by more than 75% with negligible loss in recognition precision. Also, it achieves a fast matching speed in similarity calculation, satisfying the real-time requirement.