• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.293-294
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• 2009

시스템 통합(System Integration) 패러다임의 변화와 MEMS, 네트워크 기술의 발달로 사람, 컴퓨터 그리고 사물이 유기적으로 연계되어 다양하고 편리한 서비스를 제공해 주는 컴퓨팅 기술에 대한 연구들이 진행 되고 있다. 이와 관련하여 지능형 로봇 시스템 환경은 중앙집중 환경에서 분산 환경과 웹이융합된 새로운 환경으로 변화하고 있다. 이를 적용하기 위해서 다양한 연구기관의 개발자 들은 이를 지원할 수 있는 미들웨어의 개발에 많은 노력을 기울이고 있다. 로봇 미들웨어는 다양한 통신 프로토콜, 하드웨어, 운영체제 그리고 프로그래밍 언어의 통합, 통신 오버헤드 그리고 소프트웨어 개발 방법론 등 많은 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 통합성, 통신 오버헤드, 유연성을 기준으로 기존 미들웨어의 단점을 제시하고 해당 문제점을 해결하기 위한 지능형 로봇을 위한 효율적 미들웨어를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.574-577
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• 2009

본 논문은 외판원 문제(TSP: Traveling Salesman Problem)를 이용하여 로봇중심의 FMC(Flexible Manufacturing Cell)에서 반송 로봇의 작업순서를 설계하는 방법을 제시하였다. 이를 위해, 먼저 다수의 설비와 반송 로봇으로 구성된 대표적인 로봇 중심의 FMC를 가상으로 설계한 후, 실험계획법을 이용하여 다양한 조건에서의 주요 반응변수들의 인과관계를 규명하였다. 실험결과, 처리량, 반송로봇의가동률, 그리고 Buffer의 평균 대기 작업물의 수가 주요 반응변수들로 선정되었으며, 이를 기반으로 순서기반 조합최적화 문제인 TSP로 로봇 작업순서를 설계하였다. 제안한 방법과 기존의 방법을 비교하기 위해서 시뮬레이션을 수행 한 결과 제안된 TSP 방법이 기존의 방법 보다 반송 로봇의 교착 (Deadlock) 상태를 방지하여 처리량 등 주요 반응변수들 모두를 향상 시키는 결과를 가져왔다. 더불어,이 방법은 본 연구에서 제시한 FMC 뿐 아니라 반도체나 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) 생산 공정과 같이 반송 로봇에 의해 구성되어 있는 장치 산업분야에 적용가능하다는 측면에서 큰 효과가 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.148-151
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• 2009

여성의 사회참여, 평균수명의 증가에 따른 노령인구의 증가로 가정은 비어 있거나 노인, 어린이만 남게 되는 경우가 증가하고 있다. 본 제품은 이런 추세에 대응하여 가정과 동떨어진 장소에서 인터넷으로 가정을 보안, 감시할 수 있고, 가정에 남겨진 사람과 대화도 할 수 있는 로봇을 구현하고자 한다. 즉, 무선 영상 전송 카메라가 부착된 로봇을 이동시키면서 집안의 환경을 관찰할 수 있도록 하고, 스피커 및 마이크를 로봇에 내장하여 인터넷을 통한 실시간 대화도 가능하도록 하려고 한다. 또한, 외부 침입자 발견 시 자동 촬영 기능이 있으며, 집주인에게 메시지 나 경보음을 보내 대응할 수 있도록 하였다. 이렇게 함으로써 가정을 가진 여성이 집안 걱정을 하지 않고 근무에 전념할 수 있어 생산성이 향상되고, 집에 물건을 놓아두고 외출을 하였을 때 간단한 방법으로 확인 가능한 이점도 있을 뿐 아니라 장기간 집을 비우게 되는 경우에도 항상 집을 감시할 수 있어, 도난 화재 등에 신속하게 대처할 수있다. 1년차 '보안 기능 탑재 애완용 로봇 개발'을 통한 2년차 과제로 로봇의 완성과 제품화 단계에 심혈을 기울였다. 본 연구는 2년차 연구의 결과를 보여주는 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1922-1927
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• 2005

This paper describes the mechanism of a new biped machine capable of doing human-robot cooperation work. The biped machine, WABIAN-2 is made of two seven degrees of freedom (DOF) legs, a two DOF waist and no DOF trunk. Its leg system consists of two three DOF ankles, two one DOF knees and two three DOF hips to deal with various walk motions. Its height is about 1.2[m], and its weight is 40[kg]. It is designed with large movable range as a human. Also, a knee stretch walk pattern generation for the biped machine to perform natural walk like a human is discussed in this paper. Its leg motion is compensated by using the motion of its waist. Basic knee stretch walk experiments using WABIAN-2 are conducted on the plane, and the validity of its mechanism and walk pattern generator is verified.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.46-51
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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, it is very important that the system knows the location information to offer the useful services. In order to achieve these goals, we present a method for representing, tracking and human following by fusing distributed multiple vision systems in ISpace, with application to pedestrian tracking in a crowd. And the article presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering. Particle filters provide a robust tracking framework under ambiguity conditions. We propose to track the moving objects by generating hypotheses not in the image plan but on the top-view reconstruction of the scene. Comparative results on real video sequences show the advantage of our method for multi-object tracking. Simulations are carried out to evaluate the proposed performance. Also, the method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.20-25
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• 2002

This paper presents a genetic programming based evolutionary strategy for on-line adaptive learnable evolvable hardware. Genetic programming can be useful control method for evolvable hardware for its unique tree structured chromosome. However it is difficult to represent tree structured chromosome on hardware, and it is difficult to use crossover operator on hardware. Therefore, genetic programming is not so popular as genetic algorithms in evolvable hardware community in spite of its possible strength. We propose a chromosome representation methods and a hardware implementation method that can be helpful to this situation. Our method uses context switchable identical block structure to implement genetic tree on evolvable hardware. We composed an evolutionary strategy for evolvable hardware by combining proposed method with other's striking research results. Proposed method is applied to the autonomous mobile robots cooperation problem to verify its usefulness.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.90-96
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• 2009

In the original model-based paradigm in the field of motion planning of robots, robots had to play the focal role of considering all situations under which they made decisions and operate. Such paradigm makes it difficult to respond efficiently to the dynamically shifting environment such as disaster area. In order to handle such a situation that may be changed dynamically, a technology that allows a dynamic execution of data transmission and physical/network connection between multiple robots based on scenarios is required. In this paper, we deal with evolutionary robots that adapt to any given environment and execute scenarios, specially focused on the development of a simulator to test the evolutionary process of cooperated multiple robots.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.89-96
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• 2017

Artificial intelligence and robot technology have been received attention as core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution. This paradigm change of science technology raises the importance of unmanned technology field. This paper categorizes unmanned technology as unmanned ground system, unmanned maritime system, and unmanned aircraft system, And it analyzes 557 cases of open patents and classifies each sort of specific technology elements. After then patent information, which were classified by technology, by patent assignees, and by IPC codes, covers unmanned technology maturity, development direction of research and core technology trends. This research provides directions of unmanned technology research and diverse field technology development through cooperation with various perspectives of quantitative analysis of patents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.140-141
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• 2016

Dynamic nature and diverse requirements on construction sites make the automation technology harder to be employed actively. In this study, we analyzed optimal type of automation system and importance of core technologies for developing efficient construction automation system on 11 construction operations. As a result, it showed that man-machine cooperation system may be the most suitable for most operations, while autonomous robot will be best suited in hard working environment such as maintenance of exterior wall. In elemental technology, ease and accuracy of control and operation showed higher priority than others regardless of automation system type. These findings will provide useful information for developing the construction automation system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.254-254
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• 2000

This paper presents a genetic programming based evolutionary strategy for on-line adaptive learnable evolvable hardware. genetic programming can be useful control method for evolvable hardware for its unique tree structured chromosome. However it is difficult to represent tree structured chromosome on hardware, and it is difficult to use crossover operator on hardware. Therefore, genetic programming is not so popular as genetic algorithms in evolvable hardware community in spite of its possible strength. We propose a chromosome representation methods and a hardware implementation method that can be helpful to this situation. Our method uses context switchable identical block structure to implement genetic tree on evolvable hardware. We composed an evolutionary strategy (or evolvable hardware by combining proposed method with other's striking research results. Proposed method is applied to the autonomous mobile robots cooperation problem to verify its usefulness.