• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.464-474
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• 2004

This paper proposes a middleware structure for the module-based personal robot, which can run on heterogeneous network interfaces and provides users easy interface-method regardless of underlying heterogeneous interfaces and convenient exchange of modules. The proposed middleware is divided into three layers of a streaming layer (SL), a network adaptation layer (NAL) and a network interface layer (NIL). The streaming layer manages application transactions using middleware services and provides user a uniform interfaces to the proposed middleware. The network adaptation layer manages a message-routing and provides naming service and it is a core of the proposed middleware. And the network interfaces layer manages dependent parts of heterogeneous network interfaces such as IEEE1394, USB, Ethernet, and CAN (Control Area Network). This paper implements the proposed middleware structure, where 3 types of interfaces of IEEE 1394, USB and Ethernet are used, and measures response times among those interfaces.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.71-79
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• 2007

We propose and develop Home Security robot system based on Sensor Network (HSSN) configured by sensor nodes including radio frequency (RF), ultrasonic, temperature, light and sound sensors. Our system can acknowledge security alarm events that are acquired by sensor nodes and relayed in the hop-by-hop transmission way. There are sensor network, Home Security Mobile Robot (HSMR) and Home Server(HS) in this system. In the experimental results of this system, we presented that our system has more enhanced performance of response to emergency context and more speedy and accurate path planning to target position for arriving an alarm zone with obstacle avoidance and acquiring the context-aware information.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2771-2773
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• 2005

In network human-robot interaction, human can access services of a robot system through the network The communication is done by interacting with the distributed sensors via voice, gestures or by using user network access device such as computer, PDA. The service organization and exploration is very important for this distributed system. In this paper we propose a new agent-based framework to integrate partners of this distributed system together and help users to explore the service effectively without complicated configuration. Our system consists of several robots. users and distributed sensors. These partners are connected in a decentralized but centralized control system using agent-based technology. Several experiments are conducted successfully using our framework The experiments show that this framework is good in term of increasing the availability of the system, reducing the time users and robots needs to connect to the network at the same time. The framework also provides some coordination methods for the human robot interaction system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.1860-1861
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• 2006

In this paper, we design a robust controller of biped robot system with uncertainties, using recurrent neural network. In our proposed control system, we use the self-recurrent wavelet neural network (SRWNN). The SRWNN makes up for the weak points in wavelet neural network(WNN). While the WNN has fast convergence ability, it dose not have a memory. So the WNN cannot confront unexpected change of the system. However, the SRWNN, having advantage of WNN such as fast convergence, can easily encounter the unexpected change of the system. For stable walking control of biped robot, we use sliding mode control (SMC). Here, uncertainties are predicted by SRWNN. The weights of SRWNN are trained by adaptive laws based on Lyapunov stability theorem. Finally, we carry out computer simulations with a biped robot model to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control system,.

• KIEE International Transaction on Systems and Control
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• v.12D no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2002

In the recent years neural networks have fulfilled the promise of providing model-free learning controllers for nonlinear systems; however, it is very difficult to guarantee the stability and robustness of neural network control systems. This paper proposes an adaptive neural network control for robot manipulators based on the radial basis function netwo.k (RBFN). The RBFN is a branch of the neural networks and is mathematically tractable. So we adopt the RBFN to approximate nonlinear robot dynamics. The RBFN generates control input signals based on the Lyapunov stability that is often used in the conventional control schemes. The saturation function is also chosen as an auxiliary controller to guarantee the stability and robustness of the control system under the external disturbances and modeling uncertainties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.235-240
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• 2002

This paper presents a new approach to the design of cruise control system of a mobile robot with two drive wheel. The proposed control scheme uses a Gaussian function as a unit function in the fuzzy neural network, and back propagation algorithm to train the fuzzy neural network controller in the framework of the specialized learning architecture. It is proposed a learning controller consisting of two neural network-fuzzy based on independent reasoning and a connection net with fixed weights to simply the neural networks-fuzzy. The performance of the proposed controller is shown by performing the computer simulation for trajectory tracking of the speed and azimuth of a mobile robot driven by two independent wheels.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.625-633
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• 2004

In this paper, position control of a car-like mobile robot using a neural network is presented. positional information of the mobile robot is given by a laser range finder located remotely through wireless communication. The heading angle is measured by a gyro sensor. Considering these two sensor information as a reference, the robot posture is corrected by a cascaded controller. To improve the tracking performance, a neural network with a cascaded controller is used to compensate for any uncertainty in the robot. The neural network functions as a compensator to minimize the positional errors in on-line fashion. A car-like mobile robot is built as a test-bed and experimental studies of several controllers are conducted and compared. Experimental results show that the best position control performance can be achieved by a cascaded controller with a neural network.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.1099-1104
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• 2003

In this paper, the position control of a car-like mobile robot using neural network is proposed. The positional information of the mobile robot is given by a laser range finder located remotely through wireless communication. The heading angle is measured by a gyro sensor. Considering these two sensor information as references, the robot posture by localization is corrected by a cascaded controller. In order to improve the tracking performance, a neural network with a cascaded controller is used to compensate for any uncertainty in the robot. The remotely located neural network filter modifies the reference trajectories to minimize the positional errors by wireless communication. A car-like mobile robot is built as a test-bed and experimental studies of proposed several control algorithms are performed. It turns out that the best position control can be achieved by a cascaded controller with neural network.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.195-196
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• 2009

서비스 로봇의 활용에 있어, 보다 고품질의 다양한 서비스를 제공하기 위해 로봇이 사용자의 위치를 추적하고 필요에 따라 사용자 주위로 이동할 수 있는 추종 기능이 요구된다. 현실적으로 사용자 위치 추종 기능을 독립적인 단일 로봇만으로 구현하기는 어려우며 다수 로봇과 환경 내에 설치된 장치들을 복합적으로 활용하여 구현하는 것이 효과적이다. 한국전자통신연구원에서는 네트워크 기반으로 다수의 이종 로봇과 환경 내 장치간의 협업에 대한 연구를 진행해 왔으며, 이러한 연구의 일환으로 이종 다수 로봇 협업 기반 사용자 추종 및 사용자 위치 기반 로봇 서비스 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 기 개발된 사용자 위치 추적 시스템을 실제 로봇에 적용하여 사용자를 추종하고, 이를 바탕으로 로봇이 사용자에게 다양한 서비스를 제공하는 로봇 응용 시스템에 대해 설명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.542-545
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 Home Network System에서 가전기기들을 제어하고 집안의 상황을 원격지에 있는 사용자에게 전달해 줄 수 있는 Home Network Mobile Robot을 제작하여 보다 더 지능적이고 사용자에게 편리한 Home Network System을 구축한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 실제 Home Network 시스템 하에서의 자율이동 로봇을 고안하였으며 이의 구동을 위해 OS로는 Linux Kernel 2.4를 Porting 하였고, Vision 및 Ethernet 통신이 용이하도록 회로를 설계, 제작하였다.