• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.1009-1018
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• 2003

In a park or street, we can see many people Jogging or walking with their dogs chasing their masters. In the previous study, an entertainment robot, CARTRI that imitates the dog's behavior was created. The robot's task was chasing a moving goal that was recognized as the master. The physical structure of the CARTRI robot was three-wheel type locomotion system. The sensor system which could detect the position of the master in the outdoor space, was consists of a signal transmitter which was held by the master and five ultrasonic receivers which were mounted on the robot. In the experiment, the robot could chase a human walking in outdoor space like a park. But it could not avoid obstacles and its behavior was only goal-chasing behavior because of the limit of the sensor system. In this study, an improved RF-ultrasonic sensor system which can detect both goal and obstacle is developed in order to enable the CARTRI robot to carry out various behavior. The sensor system has increased angle resolution by using eight ultrasonic receivers instead of five in the previous study. And it can detect obstacle by using reflective type ultrasonic sensors. The sensor system is designed so that detection of goal and obstacle could be conducted in one sampling period. The Performance of the developed sensor system is evaluated through experiments.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2005

In a park or street, we can see many people jogging or walking with their dogs that are chasing their masters. In this study, a pet robot that imitates dog's behavior is developed. The task of robot is to chase a person who is recognized as the master. The physical structure and the sensor system are designed for the task and environment. A three-wheel type locomotion system is designed as the robot's physical structure which can follow a person who is jogging in outdoor environment like a park. A sensor system, which can detect relative position of the master to the robot in highly dynamic and hazardous worlds, is developed. This sensor system consists of a signal transmitter which is held by the master and ultrasonic sensor array which are mounted on the robot. The transmitter emits RF (radio frequency) and ultrasonic signals simultaneously. The ultrasonic sensor array detects the signals and calculates direction and distance between the robot and the transmitter. The developed RF-ultrasonic sensor is evaluated through experiments. A purely reactive behavior-based control architecture is used for the robot. The behavior control performance of the robot is assessed in outdoor and indoor tests.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2006년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.430-433
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 헬스케어용 초음파와 RF 기술을 이용한 무선센서네트워크 기반의 실내 위치 추적 시스템을 구현하고 테스트하였다. 개발된 실내 위치인식 시스템은 헬스케어를 위한 홈네트워크 장치의 하나로서 노인이나 만성질환자의 이동성과 활동성을 측정하는데 주안점을 두어 개발되었다. 천장에 설치된 비컨들은 RF 신호를 사용하여 위치정보를 listener에게 전송하게 되며, listener는 삼각측량법을 사용하여 3개의 비컨들로부터 얻어진 좌표 값을 계산하여 실내에서의 사람이나 물체의 위치 측정 뿐만아니라 환자의 활동성측정이 가능하도록 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 위치에 대한 보안이 가능하도록 수동형식의 위치인식 시스템을 구현하고 비용절감을 위해 센서노드 사이의 연결이 무선으로 되도록 ad-hoc 알고리즘을 개발하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1119-1123
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• 2006

유비 쿼터스 헬스케어용 초음파와 RF 기술을 이용한 무선센서네트워크 기반의 실내 위치 추적 시스템을 구현하고 테스트하였다. 개발된 실내 위치인식 시스템은 헬스케어를 위한 홈네트워크 장치의 하나로서 노인이나 만성질환자의 이동성과 활동성을 측정하는데 주안점을 두어 개발되었다. 천장에 설치된 비컨들은 RF신호를 사용하여 위치 정보를 listener에게 전송하게 되며, listener는 삼각측량법을 사용하여 3개의 비컨들로부터 얻어진 좌표 값을 계산하여 실내에서의 사람이나 물체의 위치 측정뿐만 아니라 환자의 활동성측정이 가능하도록 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 위치에 대한 보안이 가능하도록 수동형식의 위치인식시스템을 구현하고 비용절감을 위해 센서노드 사이의 연결이 무선으로 되도록 ad-hoc 알고리즘을 사용하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.364-369
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• 2012

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 시대로 진입하면서 사물의 위치 정보가 더욱 중요시 되고 있다. 대표적인 실내 위치 인식 시스템인 크리켓은 노드 간의 거리를 인식하기 위해서 RF 신호와 초음파 신호를 주기적으로 전송한다. 하지만 배치되어 있는 센서 노드 수가 증가할수록 신호간의 간섭 및 충돌 횟수가 증가하여 위치 인식 시스템의 정확도를 떨어뜨린다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 위치인식 시스템을 구성하기 위해, 무선 센서 네트워크 표준인 IEEE 802.15.4 MAC 프로토콜을 사용하였다. 신호간의 간섭과 충돌 횟수를 감소시키기 위해, 노드 번호와 이동통신에서 사용하는 주파수 재사용 방식을 변형하여 오차율을 감소시키는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 성능평가 결과 제안한 알고리즘이 기존의 크리켓시스템보다 수율과 에너지 효율 면에서 더 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.711-717
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• 2007

Location information will become increasingly important for future Pervasive Computing applications. Location tracking system of a moving device can be classified into two types of architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, a mobile device actively transmits signals for estimating distances to listeners. In the latter, a mobile device listens signals from beacons passively. Although the passive architecture such as Cricket location system is inexpensive, easy to set up, and safe, it is less precise than the active one. In this paper, we present a passive location system using Cricket Mote sensors which use RF and ultrasonic signals to estimate distances. In order to improve accuracy of the passive system, the transmission speed of ultrasound was compensated according to air temperature at the moment. Upper and lower bounds of a distance estimation were set up through measuring minimum and maximum distances that ultrasonic signal can reach to. Distance estimations beyond the upper and the lower bounds were filtered off as errors in our scheme. With collecting distance estimation data at various locations and comparing each distance estimation with real distance respectively, we proposed an equation to compensate the deviation at each point. Equations for proposed algorithm were derived to calculate relative coordinates of a moving device. At indoor and outdoor tests, average location error and average location tracking period were 3.5 cm and 0.5 second, respectively, which outperformed Cricket location system of MIT.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.954-962
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• 2002

In a park or street, we can see many people jogging or walking with their dogs tracking their masters. In this study, an entertainment robot that imitates a dog's behavior is created. The robot's task is tracking a moving target that is recognized as the master. In order to design the robot, the ecological approach. in which the robot's goals and surroundings heavily influence its design, is used. A three-wheel type locomotion system is designed as the robot's physical structure which can follow a human jogging in outdoor space like a park. A sensor system which can detect the position of a master for the robot in the outdoor space, is developed. This sensor system consists of a signal transmitter which is at the hand of a master and some sensors which are mounted on the robot. The transmitter emits RF(radio frequency) and ultrasonic signals and the sensors detect the direction and distance from the robot to the transmitter by using the received signals. For the control architecture of the robot, a purely reactive behavior-based method is used in order to increase speed of response. The developed robot is evaluated through experiments conducted in indoor and outdoor environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.846-851
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a global ultrasonic system for the self-localization and autonomous navigation of indoor mobile robots. The ultrasonic sensor is regarded as the most cost-effective ranging system among the possible alternatives, and it is widely used for general purpose, since it requires simple electronic drivers and has relatively high accuracy. The global ultrasonic system presented in this paper consists of four or more ultrasonic generators fixed at reference positions in the global coordinates of an indoor environment and two receivers mounted on the mobile robots. By using the RF (Radio Frequency) modules added to the ultrasonic sensors, the robot is able to control the ultrasonic generation and to obtain the critical distances from the reference positions, which are required in order to localize is position in the global coordinates. A kalman filter algorithm designed for the self-localization using the global ultrasonic system and the experimental results of the autonomous navigation are presented in this paper.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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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.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.608-614
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• 2008

This paper describes a location tracking system to guide landing process of an Unmanned Helicopter(UMH) exploiting MIT Cricket nodes. For automatic landing of a UMH, a precise positioning system is indispensable. However, GPS(Global Positioning System) is inadequate for tracking the three dimensional position of a UMH because of large positioning errors. The Cricket systems use Time-Difference-of-Arrival(TDoA) method with ultrasonic and RF(Radio Frequency) signals to measure distances. They operate in passive mode in that a listener attached to a moving device receives distance signals from several beacons located at fixed points on ground. Inevitably, this passive type of implementation causes large disturbances in measuring distances between beacons and the listener due to wind blow from propeller and turbulence of UMH body. To cope with this problem, we proposed active type of implementation for positioning a UMH. In this implementation, a beacon is set up at UMH body and four listeners are located at ground area at least where the UMH will land. A pair of Ultrasonic and RF signals from the beacon arrives at several listeners to calculate the position of the UMH. The distance signals among listeners are synchronized with a counter value appended to each distance signals from the beacon.