• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2007

This paper presents a camera calibration method using several images for three dimensional measurement applications such as stereo systems, mobile robots, and visual inspection systems in factories. Conventional calibration methods that use single image suffer from errors related to reference point extraction in image, lens distortion, and numerical analysis of nonlinear optimization. The camera parameter values obtained from images of same camera is not same even though we use same calibration method. The camera parameters that are obtained from several images of different view for a calibration target is usaully not same with large error values and we can not assume a special probabilistic distribution when we estimate the parameter values. In this paper, the median value of camera parameters from several images is used to improve estimation of the camera values in an iterative step with nonlinear optimization. The proposed method is proved by experiments using real images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.843-849
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• 2006

Intelligent Space defines an environment where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. As a result of the cooperation between smart devices, intelligence emerges from the environment. In such scheme, a crucial task is to obtain the global location of every device in order to of for the useful services. Some tracking systems often prepare the models of the objects in advance. It is difficult to adopt this model-based solution as the tracking system when many kinds of objects exist. In this paper the location is achieved with no prior model, using color properties as information source. Feature vectors of multiple objects using color histogram and tracking method are described. The proposed method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.74-79
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to decentralized motion planning and conflict-resolution for multiple mobile agents working in an environment with unexpected moving obstacles. Our proposed motion planner has two characteristics. One is a real-time collision prognosis based on modified collision map. Collision map is a famous centralized motion planner with low computation load, and the collision prognosis hands over these characteristics. And the collision prognosis is based on current robots status, maximum robot speeds, maximum robot accelerations, and path information produced from off-line path planning procedure, so it is applicable to motion planner for multiple agents in a dynamic environment. The other characteristic is that motion controller architecture is based on potential field method, which is capable of integrating robot guidance to the goals with collision avoidance. For the architecture, we define virtual obstacles making delay time for collision avoidance from the real-time collision prognosis. Finally the results obtained from realistic simulation of a multi-robot environment with unknown moving obstacles demonstrate safety and efficiency of the proposed method.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2022

Multiple AMRs have been proved to be effective in improving warehouse productivity by eliminating workers' wasteful walking time. Although Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF)-based solution is an optimal approach for this task, its deployment in practice is challenging mainly due to its imperfect plan-execution capabilities and insufficient computing resources for high-density environments. In this paper, we present a MAPF-based fleet management system architecture that robustly manages multiple robots by re-computing their paths whenever it is necessary. To achieve this, we defined four events that trigger our MAPF solver framework to generate new paths. These paths are then delivered to each AMR through ROS2 message topic. We also optimized a graph structure that effectively captures spatial information of the warehouse. By using this graph structure we can reduce computational burden while keeping its rescheduling functionality. With proposed MAPF-based fleet management system, we can control AMRs without collision or deadlock. We applied our fleet management system to the real logistics warehouse with 10 AMRs and observed that it works without a problem. We also present the usage statistic of adopting AMRs with proposed fleet management system to the warehouse. We show that it is useful over 25% of daily working time.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.643-653
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• 2014

High-capacity video, control and situation awareness data should be transmitted efficiently to control robots properly in the ground unmanned system, which requires the technology maximizing the communication range and the data transmission throughput. This technology is connected to the OFDMA(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access)-MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output) transmission technology under the limited bandwidth and transmission power. In this paper, we design MIMO communication system for ground unmanned systems, and investigate the data reception performance experimentally, comparing with SISO(Single Input Single Output) system. Experiment results show that the data reception performance of MIMO is significantly improved compared to that of SISO, e.g. 4dB gain of sensitivity and 5dB of SNR at the value MPR = 1, for the mobile stations with $2{\times}2$ STBC diversity.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2006

This paper presents the strategy for searching a hidden object in an unknown area for using by multiple distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS). To search the target in Markovian space, DARS should recognize th ε ir surrounding at where they are located and generate some rules to act upon by themselves. First of all, DARS obtain 6-distances from itself to environment by infrared sensor which are hexagonally allocated around itself. Second, it calculates 6-areas with those distances then take an action, i.e., turn and move toward where the widest space will be guaranteed. After the action is taken, the value of Q will be updated by relative formula at the state. We set up an experimental environment with five small mobile robots, obstacles, and a target object, and tried to research for a target object while navigating in a un known hallway where some obstacles were placed. In the end of this paper, we present the results of three algorithms - a random search, an area-based action making process to determine the next action of the robot and hexagon-based Q-learning to enhance the area-based action making process.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.60-69
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• 2010

Lookup-Table (LUT) based fuzzy controller for obstacle avoidance enhances operations faster in multiple obstacles environment. An LUT based fuzzy controller with Positive/Negative (P/N) fuzzy rule base consisting of 18 rules was introduced in our paper$^1$ and this paper shows a 50-rule P/N fuzzy controller for enhancing performance in obstacle avoidance. As a rule, the more rules are necessary, the more buffers are required. This paper suggests LUT sharing method in order to reduce LUT buffer size without significant degradation of performance. The LUT sharing method makes buffer size independent of the whole fuzzy system's complexity. Simulation using MSRDS(MicroSoft Robotics Developer Studio) evaluates the proposed method, and in order to investigate its performance, experiments are carried out to Pioneer P3-DX in the LabVIEW environment. The simulation and experiments show little difference between the fully valued LUT-based method and the LUT sharing method in operation times. On the other hand, LUT sharing method reduced its buffer size by about 95% of full valued LUT-based design.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.549-559
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 동적 움직임을 갖는 장애물이 위치한 주행환경에서 이동로봇의 충돌회피 기능을 포함하는 효율적인 반응경로계획 기법을 제안하고자 한다. 로봇의 동적 장애물과의 충돌회피 기능을 위해서 반응경로계획기법을 기반으로 키넥트센서를 이용한 센서융합기법의 보완을 통해서 자율주행의 강건성을 증대시키고자 하였다. 반응경로기법에서 사용된 접근방식은 동적장애물을 가상좌표평면에서 지역관측기개념을 이용하여 정적장애물로 좌표변환을 가능하게하며, 생성된 가상평면에서의 로봇과 장애물의 충돌 발생 가능한 속도와 경로의 운동학적 정보추출이 가능하게 된다. 또한 키넥트 센서 정보를 융합하여 장애물의 방향과 위치 정보를 추정하여 동적 환경에서의 주행성능의 정미도를 증대시키고자 하였다. 본 연구에서 제안 기술의 성능을 검증하기 위해서 임베디드 로봇플랫폼과 여러 개의 동적 장애물을 이용하여 시뮬레이션 해석 및 실험을 수행하였다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.452-459
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• 2018

기존의 화재 관련 소방로봇들은 원격조종기로 제어되어 화재현장에서 화재 상황을 감시하거나 화재를 진압하는데 사용되고 있다. 그러나 이러한 방식은 화재 발생 후 골든타임 안에 로봇을 준비하고 투입하는데 많은 시간이 소요되어 소방로봇으로서의 역할을 충분히 다하지 못한다는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 자율 주행 화재감시로봇을 활용하면 화재수신기와 연동하여 화재 신호 발생 시 출동한 로봇이 화재 현장의 동영상을 촬영하여 방재 담당자에게 영상을 전달함으로써 실제로 화재가 발생했는지 또는 오보인지를 확인 할 수 있도록 정확하고 빠른 판단 기회를 제공하고 동시에 화재를 초기 진압함으로써 대형 사고로 확산되는 것을 방지할 수가 있다. 본 논문에서는 자율이동 화재감시로봇의 구성과 이 로봇이 화재수신기와 연동하는데 필요한 통신 프로토콜을 제안한다. 실시간으로 다수의 화재감시로봇을 제어할 수 있는 통신 프로토콜을 설계하며 화재수신기와의 통신을 무선 Wi-Fi를 이용하여 이더넷 네트워크의 인터페이스 역할을 수행하도록 계층적 네트워크로 구성한다. 설계하는 화재감시로봇과 화재수신기간의 무선통신을 구현하고 필드시험을 통하여 동작의 유효성을 확인한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1537-1545
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• 2016

실시간영상에서 객체의 분할 및 추적은 침입자 감시와 로봇의 물체 추적, 증강현실의 객체 추적등 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 초기 입력 영상의 일부를 학습하여 배경모델로 제작한 후, 배경제거 방법을 이용하여 움직이는 객체의 분할을 통해 객체를 검출하였다. 검출된 객체의 영역을 기반으로 HSV 색상히스토그램과 파티클 필터를 이용하여 객체의 움직임을 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 분할 방법은 평균 배경모델을 이용한 방법보다 주변환경 변화의 영향을 적게 받으며, 움직이는 객체의 검출 성능이 더욱 우수하였다. 또한 단일 객체 및 다수의 객체가 존재하는 환경에서 추적 객체가 유사한 색상 객체와 겹치는 경우, 추적 객체의 영역 절반 이상이 가려지는 경우에도 지속적으로 추적하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 2개의 비디오 영상을 사용한 실험결과는 평균 중첩율 85.9%, 추적률 96.3%의 성능을 보여준다.