• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.363-365
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• 2009

대부분의 이동 로봇은 효율적인 경로계획을 위하여 최단거리 및 최소비용을 갖는 경로를 선택한다. 그러나 다수의 로봇이 존재하는 환경에서는 이웃하는 로봇 상호간에 동적 장애물로 인식되어 주행성능을 떨어뜨리게 된다. 또한 트래픽량이 거의 없는 환경에서는 무선 통신의 전송거리 제한으로 이동 로봇간 네트워킹이 원활하게 수행될 수 없는 문제도 있다. 따라서 적당한 거리의 이웃 로봇들과 협업을 위한 네트워킹을 하면서 동적인 경로계획 및 주행을 하는 것이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 A* 알고리즘을 수정하여 로봇의 동적인 트래픽을 고려한 경로계획 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 기법을 이용하여 경로설정과정에서의 로봇 상호간 병목현상을 완화시키며, 일관된 협업 통신도 유지할 수 있다. 모의 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘이 동적인 트래픽을 고려하여 경로를 선택함을 보인다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.31-36
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• 2005

Intelligent Space (iSpace) is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. According to the cooperation of many intelligent devices, the environment comes to have intelligence. In iSpace, the locations of multiple humans and other objects are obtained and tracked by using multiple camera and color-based method. In addition, we describe a context-aware information system which is based on Spatial-Knowledge-Tags (SKT). SKT system enables humans to access information and data by using spatial location of human and stored information in storage. The proposed tracking method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.357-364
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• 2014

기존 증강현실 콘텐츠 경우 고정된 마커를 빠르게 이동시키면 가시화에 끊김 현상이 발생하게 된다. 따라서 동적 마커를 사용할 경우에도 콘텐츠가 끊어짐 없이 사용자에게 제공되는 방법이 요구된다. 카메라에 입력된 한 장의 이미지 내에 두 개 이상의 마커가 존재할 경우 기존의 이미지 기반 마커와 SLAM(Simultaneous Localization & Mapping) 방식을 통해서는 각각의 마커를 동시에 추적할 수 없다. 본 논문은 각 마커 위에 정합된 객체들 간의 상호작용은 불가능하다는 점을 극복함은 물론, 빠르게 움직이는 마커를 실시간으로 추적하여 그 위에 원하는 객체를 정확하게 증강 가시화하는 방법론을 제안한다. 이를 위해, 주행형 로봇과 시범 콘텐츠의 가상로봇을 동기화하여, 주행형 로봇 상에 콘텐츠가 가시화되도록 하였다. 그리고 카메라 한 대로 다중 동적객체를 추적하여 서로 상호작용하는 기술을 제안하였다. 결과적으로 가상로봇과 실제로봇을 연동하여 상호작용하도록 함으로써 실시간 동적객체 추적 및 가시화 기술의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.249-254
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• 2001

Abstract In this paper, we propose a method of cooperative control based on artifical intelligent system in distributed autonomous robotic system. In general, multi-agent behavior algorithm is simple and effective for small number of robots. And multi-robot behavior control is a simple reactive navigation strategy by combining repulsion from obstacles with attraction to a goal. However when the number of robot goes on increasing, this becomes difficult to be realized because multi-robot behavior algorithm provide on multiple constraints and goals in mobile robot navigation problems. As the solution of above problem, we propose an architecture of fuzzy system for each multi-robot speed control and fuzzy-neural network for obstacle avoidance. Here, we propose an architecture of fuzzy system for each multi-robot speed control and fuzzy-neural network for their direction to avoid obstacle. Our focus is on system of cooperative autonomous robots in environment with obstacle. For simulation, we divide experiment into two method. One method is motor schema-based formation control in previous and the other method is proposed by this paper. Simulation results are given in an obstacle environment and in an dynamic environment.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.570-576
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 역진자 기구와 기립 암을 이용하여 직립주행이 가능한 이동로봇용 구동 플랫폼을 개발한다. 기존에 주류를 이루고 있는 이동로봇은 4륜 혹은 3륜으로 구동되고 있으므로 그 몸체는 정역학적으로 용이하게 안정성이 확보되는 특징을 갖고 있다. 기존의 이동로봇의 형태는 평면적으로 넓적한 형태의 정사각형 혹은 직사각형 형태를 갖고 있으므로 몸체의 조향을 위해서 독립구동륜형 혹은 조향형 차륜을 장치하고 있다. 이동로봇은 협소한 지형에서 90도로 굽은 통로를 주행할 때, 전후진을 반복하는 등 특별한 조향기법을 필요로 하거나 몸체의 평면적 때문에 물리적으로 조향이 불가능한 경우에 처하게 된다. 이 때, 이동로봇은 평면적이 작은 방향 즉, 직립된 상태로 몸체의 형상을 변형시켜 해당 지형을 주행함으로써 주행곤란 문제를 회피할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이동로봇의 몸체를 직립시킬 수 있는 기립 암과 역진자 기구가 결합된 구동 플랫폼을 제안한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권8호
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• pp.3030-3038
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• 2023

Nowadays, mobile robots have been used to search for uncontrolled radioactive source in indoor environments to avoid radiation exposure for technicians. However, in the indoor environments, especially in the presence of obstacles, how to make the robots with limited sensing capabilities automatically search for the radioactive source remains a major challenge. Also, the source search efficiency of robots needs to be further improved to meet practical scenarios such as limited exploration time. This paper proposes an automatic source search strategy, abbreviated as ACA: the location of source is estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN), and the path is planned by the A-star algorithm. First, the search area is represented as an occupancy grid map. Then, the radiation dose distribution of the radioactive source in the occupancy grid map is obtained by Monte Carlo (MC) method simulation, and multiple sets of radiation data are collected through the eight neighborhood self-avoiding random walk (ENSAW) algorithm as the radiation data set. Further, the radiation data set is fed into the designed CNN architecture to train the network model in advance. When the searcher enters the search area where the radioactive source exists, the location of source is estimated by the network model and the search path is planned by the A-star algorithm, and this process is iterated continuously until the searcher reaches the location of radioactive source. The experimental results show that the average number of radiometric measurements and the average number of moving steps of the ACA algorithm are only 2.1% and 33.2% of those of the gradient search (GS) algorithm in the indoor environment without obstacles. In the indoor environment shielded by concrete walls, the GS algorithm fails to search for the source, while the ACA algorithm successfully searches for the source with fewer moving steps and sparse radiometric data.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel face detection method that finds tiny faces located at a long range even with low-resolution input images captured by a mobile robot. The proposed approach can locate extremely small-sized face regions of $12{\times}12$ pixels. We solve a tiny face detection problem by organizing a system that consists of multiple detectors including a mean-shift color tracker, short- and long-rage face detectors, and an omega shape detector. The proposed method adopts the long-range face detector that is well trained enough to detect tiny faces at a long range, and limiting its operation to only within a search region that is automatically determined by the mean-shift color tracker and the omega shape detector. By focusing on limiting the face search region as much as possible, the proposed method can accurately detect tiny faces at a long distance even with a low-resolution image, and decrease false positives sharply. According to the experimental results on realistic databases, the performance of the proposed approach is at a sufficiently practical level for various robot applications such as face recognition of non-cooperative users, human-following, and gesture recognition for long-range interaction.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.1028-1036
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• 2004

Ultrasonic sensors are widely used in mobile robot applications to recognize external environments by virtue that they are cheap, easy to use, and robust under varying lighting conditions. In most cases, a single ultrasonic sensor is used to measure the distance to an object based on time-of-flight (TOF) information, whereas multiple sensors are used to recognize the shape of an object, such as a comer, plane, or edge. However, the conventional sequential driving technique involves a long measurement time. This problem can be resolved by pulse coding of ultrasonic signals, which allows multi-sensors to be emitted simultaneously and adjacent objects to be distinguished. Accordingly, this paper presents a new simultaneous coded driving system for an ultrasonic sensor array for object recognition in autonomous mobile robots. The proposed system is designed and implemented. A micro-controller unit is implemented using a DSP, Polaroid 6500 ranging modules are modified for firing the coded signals, and a 5-channel coded signal generating board is made using a FPGA. To verify the proposed method, experiments were conducted in an environment with overlapping signals, and the flight distances fur each sensor were obtained from the received overlapping signals using correlations and conversion to a bipolar PCM-NRZ signal.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.526-532
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• 2014

In this paper, we present and analyze a LQ (Linear Quadratic) inverse optimal state-consensus protocol for continuous-time multi-agent systems with undirected graph topology. By Lyapunov analysis of the state-consensus error dynamics, we show the sufficient conditions on the algebraic connectivity of the graph to guarantee LQ inverse optimality and closed-loop stability. A more relaxed stability condition is also provided in terms of the algebraic connectivity. Finally, a formation control protocol for multiple mobile robots is proposed based on the target LQ inverse optimal consensus protocol, and the simulation results are provided to verify the performance of the proposed LQ inverse formation control method.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1780-1781
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• 2011

There have been numerous studies on application of robots to in-pipe inspection system. In this thesis, a mobile robot that can move through elbows and vertical pipes having diameter 100mm is developed. Defect detection technology for locating wall-thinnings, corrosions and foreign materials is developed for high temperature and pressure pipings in thermal power plants, utilizing laser sensors installed on the robot. Actual defect detection performance is evaluated with application of the developed robot system to a mock-up pipings.