• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1036-1042
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• 2013

In this paper, an elderly assistance system is developed based on Xenomai, a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel. A Kinect sensor is used to recognize the behavior of the elderly and A-star search algorithm is implemented to find the shortest path to the person. The mobile robot also generates a trajectory using a digital convolution operator which is based on a Bezier curve for smooth driving. In order to follow the generated trajectory within the control period, we developed real-time tasks and compared the performance of the tracking trajectory with that of non real-time tasks. The real-time task has a better result on following the trajectory within the physical constraints which means that it is more appropriate to apply to an elderly assistant system.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2006년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.33 No.2 (B)
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• pp.319-323
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 동작 모델과 작업 목표에 따라 지능 로봇 시스템의 작업 순서를 결정하는 작업 계획기의 설계와 데모시스템에 대해 설명한다. 블랙보드 중심의 분산 제어 구조에서 하나의 독립적인 지식원으로 동작하는 작업 계획기는 작업 관리기의 요청이 있을 때마다 지식베이스로부터 동작 모델과 월드 상태 정보를 제공받아 작업 목표 달성을 위한 작업 계획을 생성한다. 그리고 이렇게 생성된 작업 계획은 오류로 인해 재 계획이 필요할 때까지 작업 관리기를 통해 실행된다. 본 연구의 작업 계획기는 효율적인 작업 계획 생성을 위해 지역 상태공간 탐색법의 하나인 EHC+ 탐색법과 계획그래프-기반의 휴우리스틱 계산법을 적용한다. 본 논문에서는 작업 계획기의 효율성과 블랙보드와의 연계성을 시험하기 위한 데모 시스템에 대해 자세히 설명한다. 이를 통해 지식베이스, 작업 관리기, 컴포넌트 서비스기 등 로봇 제어 구조내의 다른 지식원들과의 인터페이스를 위한 메시지 설계도 소개한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.631-632
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• 2006

The assembly of camera lens modules fur the mobile phone has not been automated so far. They are still assembled manually because of high precision of all parts and hard-to-recognize lens by vision camera. In addition, the very short life cycle of the camera phone lens requires flexible and intelligent automation. This study proposes a fast and accurate identification system of the parts by distributing the camera for 4 degree of freedom assembly robot system. Single or multi-cameras can be installed according to the part's image capture and processing mode. It has an agile structure which enables adaptation with the minimal job change. The framework is proposed and the experimental result is shown to prove the effectiveness.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.170-176
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an underwater localization scheme through the fusion of an inertial navigation system (INS) and the received signal strength (RSS) of electromagnetic (EM) wave sensors to guarantee precise localization performance with high sampling rates. In this localization scheme, the INS predicts the pose of the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) by dead reckoning at every step, and the RF sensors corrects the UUV position functions using the Earth-fixed reference when the UUV is located in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN). The localization scheme and state modeling were conducted in the extended Kalman filter framework, and UUV localization experiments were conducted in a basin environment. The scheme achieved reliable localization accuracy during long-term navigation, demonstrating the feasibility of exploiting EM wave attenuation as Earth-fixed reference sensors.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.2044-2059
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• 2022

Recent works have shown that the geometric constraint can be harnessed to boost the performance of CNN-based camera localization. However, the existing strategies are limited to imposing image-level constraint between pose pairs, which is weak and coarse-gained. In this paper, we introduce a pixel-level epipolar geometry constraint to vanilla localization framework without the ground-truth 3D information. Dubbed EpiLoc, our method establishes the geometric relationship between pixels in different images by utilizing the epipolar geometry thus forcing the network to regress more accurate poses. We also propose a variant called EpiSingle to cope with non-sequential training images, which can construct the epipolar geometry constraint based on a single image in a self-supervised manner. Extensive experiments on the public indoor 7Scenes and outdoor RobotCar datasets show that the proposed pixel-level constraint is valuable, and helps our EpiLoc achieve state-of-the-art results in the end-to-end camera localization task.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.179-188
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• 2021

Construction monitoring is one of the key modules in smart construction. Unlike structured urban environment, construction site mapping is challenging due to the characteristics of an unstructured environment. For example, irregular feature points and matching prohibit creating a map for management. To tackle this issue, we propose a system for data acquisition in unstructured environment and a framework for Intensity and Ambient Enhanced Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping, IA-LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate robot trajectories and mapping. IA-LIO-SAM utilizes a factor graph same as Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping (LIO-SAM). Enhancing the existing LIO-SAM, IA-LIO-SAM leverages point's intensity and ambient value to remove unnecessary feature points. These additional values also perform as a new factor of the K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm (KNN), allowing accurate comparisons between stored points and scanned points. The performance was verified in three different environments and compared with LIO-SAM.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2022

The Tactile Internet technology is considered as the evolution of the internet of things. It will enable real time applications in all fields like remote surgery. It requires extra low latency which must not exceed 1ms, high availability, reliability and strong security system. Since it appearance in 2014, tremendous efforts have been made to ensure authentication between sensors, actuators and servers to secure many applications such as remote surgery. This human to machine relationship is very critical due to its dependence of the human live, the communication between the surgeon who performs the remote surgery and the robot arms, as a tactile internet actor, should be fully and end to end protected during the surgery. Thus, a secure mutual user authentication framework has to be implemented in order to ensure security without influencing latency. The existing methods of authentication require server to stock and exchange data between the tactile internet entities, which does not only make the proposed systems vulnerables to the SPOF (Single Point of Failure), but also impact negatively on the latency time. To address these issues, we propose a lightweight authentication protocol for remote surgery in a Tactile Internet environment, which is composed of a decentralized blockchain and physically unclonable functions. Finally, performances evaluation illustrate that our proposed solution ensures security, latency and reliability.

• 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.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.157-167
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• 2004

건설 자동화 장비 개발의 성공여부를 판단하고 이를 실용화하기 위해서는 개발 장비의 성능평가 및 분석을 통해 재래식방식과 비교하여 자동화 방식을 도입함으로써 얻을 수 있는 기대효과에 대한 검증이 이루어져야 한다. 본 연구에서는 최근 국내에서 개발된 흄관매설 자동화 장비의 성능분석을 위한 평가모델 및 방법론을 구축하고 수차례의 현장실험(field trials)을 통해 수집된 실험 데이터를 바탕으로 재래식 흄관매설 방식과 자동화 방식의 성능을 종합적으로 비교$\cdot$분석함으로써 재래식 방식에 비해 자동화 방식의 도입을 통해 얻을 수 있는 정성적 $\cdot$정량적 기대효과를 제시하였다. 흄관매설 자동화 장비의 성능분석을 위해 본 연구에서 제시한 성능평가 모델 및 방법론은 향후 건설자동화 관련 기술개발 시 자동화 장비의 성능평가 및 분석 모델을 개발함에 있어 기본적 틀(framework)을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.999-1010
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• 2003

Uninterrupted power supply has become indispensable during the maintenance task of active electric power lines as a result of today's highly information-oriented society and increasing demand of electric utilities. This maintenance task has the risk of electric shock and the danger of falling from high place. Therefore it is necessary to realize an autonomous robot system using electro-hydraulic manipulators because hydraulic manipulators have the advantage of electric insulation and power/mass density. Meanwhile an electro-hydraulic manipulator using hydraulic actuators has many nonlinear elements, and its parameter fluctuations are greater than those of an electrically driven manipulator. So it is relatively difficult to realize not only stable contact work but also accurate force control for the autonomous assembly tasks using hydraulic manipulators. In this paper, the robust force control of a 6-link electro-hydraulic manipulator system used in the real maintenance task of active electric lines is examined in detail. A nominal model for the system is obtained from experimental frequency responses of the system, and the deviation of the manipulator system from the nominal model is derived by a multiplicative uncertainty. Robust disturbance observers for force control are designed using this information in an H$\_$$\infty$/ framework, and implemented on the two different setups. Experimental results show that highly robust force tracking by a 6-link electro-hydraulic manipulator could be achieved even if the stiffness of environment and the shape of wall change.