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Design of a Propagation Wave Type Microrobot for Moving on the Slippery Surface

  • Kim, Eui-Jin;Park, Jong-Hyeon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2072-2077
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    • 2003
  • Animal-like robots are serving an important role as a linkage between biology and engineering. So, in this paper, we aim to develop a biomimetic microrobot that mimics the locomotion mechanism of a gastropod. This microrobot has 3 DOF (x, y translation and rotation), and has small size, unlimited traveling range, high resolution and low cost. Its movement can be made using propagation wave that is generated by the controllable sinusoidal voltage source and piezoelectric effects. This soft motion that can be generated by propagation wave and piezoelectric mechanism would be useful for the motion on the slippery surface. So we modeled the propagation wave mechanism including piezoelectric effect and friction on the contact surface, and could know the velocity of the microrobot is dependent on the driving frequency, input voltage peak, propagation wavelength and surface friction coefficient. With these results we design the microrobot, and accomplish its fabrication and experimentation. The development of this microrobot shall be aimed to design an autonomous moving actuator like animal. Also it can be used from micromanipulation system technology to biology and medicine.

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Proposal of Moving Mechanism of Window Cleaning Robot (유리창 청소 로봇의 이동 메커니즘 제안)

  • Lee, Dong-Hyuk;Moon, Hyung-Pil;Roh, Se-Gon;Hwang, Dal-Yeon;Yu, Won-Pil;Choi, Hyouk-Ryeol
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 2010
  • Recently researches on the window cleaning robot are being conducted actively. Moving mechanismsof these window cleaning robots are divided into two categories, which are towed type and walking type. Towed type is focused on fast cleaning on the flat surface of building and walking type has priority on cleaning task on relatively complex surface with overcoming obstacles. Currently commercialized towed type window cleaning robot has weakness that it is hard to adhere closely with the wall and easy to be affected by wind. In case of walking type it has the problem that the position errors are continuously accumulated during motion. In this paper, we propose new towed and walking type mechanism which can compensate previous weaknesses. After that we estimate the performance of each proposed mechanism by simulation.

Simulations of time dependent temperature distributions of Super-ROM disk structure using finite element method (유한요소법을 이용한 Super-ROM 디스크 구조의 열 분포 해석)

  • Ahn, Duck-Won;You, Chun-Yeol
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.132-136
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    • 2005
  • It is widely accepted that the reading mechanism of Super-RENS(super-resolution near field structure) and Super-ROM(super-resolution read only memory) is closely related with non-linear temperature dependent material properties such as refractive indices, phase change. Furthermore, the dynamic change of the temperature distribution also an essential part of reading mechanism of Super-RENS/ROM. Therefore, the knowledge of the temperature distribution as a function a time is one of the important keys to reveal the physics of reading mechanism in Super-RENS/ROM. We calculated time-dependent temperature distribution in a 3-dimensional Super-ROM disk structure when moving laser beam is irradiated. With a help of commercial software FEMLAB which employed finite element method, we simulated the temperature distribution of ROM structure whose pit diameter is 120-nm with 50-nm depth. Energy absorption by moving laser irradiation, time variations of heat transfer processes, heat fluxes, heat transfer ratios, and temperature distributions of the complicate 3-dimensional ROM structure have been obtained.

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Design of Cymbal Displacement Amplification Device for Micro Punching System (마이크로 펀칭시스템 구현을 위한 심벌변위확대기구의 설계)

  • Choi, Jong-Pil;Lee, Kwang-Ho;Lee, Hye-Jin;Lee, Nak-Gue;Kim, Seong-Uk;Chu, Andy;Kim, Byeong-Hee
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents the development of a micro punching system with modified cymbal mechanism. To realize the micro punching, we introduced the hybrid system with a macro moving part and micro punching part. The macro moving part consists of a ball screw, a linear guide and the micro step motor and micro punching part includes the PZT actuators and displacement amplification device with modified cymbal mechanism. The PZT actuator is capable of producing very large force, but they provide only limited displacements which are several micro meters. Thus the displacement amplification device is necessary to make those actuators more efficient and useful. For this purpose, a cymbal mechanism in series is proposed. The finite element method was used to design the cymbal mechanism and to analyze the mode shape of the one. The displacement and mode shape error between the FEM results and experiments are within 10%. A considerable design effort has been focused on optimizing the flexure hinge to increase the output displacement and punching force.

Development of Monitoring Robot with Quadruped Link Mechanism (4족 링크 구조의 감시용 로봇 시스템 개발)

  • 정기범;박병훈;전병준;김동환
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.46-46
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    • 2000
  • A quadruped monitoring robot is introduced. The robot has several features that poses arbitrary position thanks to a 4-wheel hive mechanism, transmits an image and command data via RF wireless communication, and moreover, the imaged date are transferred through a network communication. The robot plays a role in monitoring what is happening around the robot and covers wide range due to a moving camera operated by the 4-wheel mechanism. The robot system can be applied k versatile models based the distinguished techniques introduced in this paper

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A Study on the Mixed Usage of Logical Block and Moving Block in CBTC System (CBTC 시스템에서 논리 폐색과 이동 폐색의 혼용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyung-Hoon;Yang, Chan-Seok;Cho, Yong-Gee
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.2726-2730
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposes a CBTC wayside signaling system, which redeems existing track-circuit-based ones by using movement authorities mixed with logical block and moving block. Only one train can be entered into the logical block or the route for existing wayside signaling system. Applying moving block for CBTC system enables the train to get nearer to the preceding one, because its protection mechanism uses train's safe boundary, not fixed block unit. By narrowing the existing route set to switch machine and applying the moving block beyond that area, more than one train can enter into one route area. This paper shows that the efficient train control, i.e. shortening the headway, is possible using the moving block mixed with logical block in wayside signaling system.

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