• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.19A no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Network-based intelligent robot is connected with network system, provides interactions with humans, and carries out its own roles on ubiquitous computing environments. URC (Ubiquitous Robot Companion) robot has been proposed to develop network-based robot by applying distributed computing techniques. On URC robot, it is possible to save the computing power of robot client by environments, has been proposed to develop robot software using service-oriented architecture on server-client computing environments. The SOMAR client robot consists of two layers - device service layer and robot service layer. The device service controls physical devices, and the robot service abstracts robot's services, which are newly defined and generated by combining many device services. RSEL (Robot Service Executing Language) is defined in this paper to represent relations and connections between device services and robot services. A RESL document, including robot services by combining several device services, is translated to a programming language for robot client system using RSEL translator, then the translated source program is compiled and uploaded to robot client system with RPC (Remote Procedure Call) command. A SOMAR client system is easy to be applied to embedded systems of host/target architecture. Moreover it is possible to produce a light-weight URC client robot by reducing workload of RSEL processing engine.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.353-364
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• 2011

In ubiquitous computing environments, users want to receive the robot services regardless of various physical status or devices such as time, place, various sensors, and high-performance servers. Thus, the ubiquitous service robots have to provide users with automated services according to situational information that they properly recognize. Beyond these problems, robot software has to establish a foundation to support the functions with the network infrastructure that are not able to be solved by a single independent resource. On the basis of a robot middleware that is capable of minimizing dependencies among hierarchy structures, the robot software also has to provide execution environment to control the flow of robot application services. In this paper, we propose a layered architecture to provide users with automated services through ubiquitous robots. The proposed architecture is based on CAWL (Context-Aware Workflow Language) and RSEL (Robot Services Execution Language). CAWL easily represents the flow of robot services from user application service levels, and RSEL is able to support the composition and reusability of robot services through abstraction of robot device services. In our experiments, we applied the proposed architecture to an example of "booth guide robot service".

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2011

최근 로봇의 통합적인 개발과 관리 및 응용을 위한 로봇 미들웨어가 많이 연구되고 있다. 이러한 로봇 미들웨어의 로봇 서비스는 클라이언트 측에서의 로봇 서비스와 서버 측의 로봇 서비스로 구별될 수 있다. 제안하는 로봇 미들웨어 구조에서는 클라이언트 측의 로봇 서비스와 서버 측의 로봇 서비스를 구별한다. 특히 서버 측에서 클라이언트 측에서 만들어진 로봇 서비스를 응용하기 위해 로봇 서비스 실행 언어인 RSEL 을 사용하며 이를 통해 새로운 로봇 서비스를 조합하여 새로운 로봇 서비스를 만들어내고 제공한다. 제안하는 구성요소의 구현을 보이기 위해 시나리오를 이용한 시뮬레이션을 수행한다. 이 시뮬레이션을 통해 RSEL 의 문서의 작성과 그 사용을 봄으로써 제안하는 로봇 미들웨어 구조를 확인한다.