• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.69-77
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• 2011

In a large scale robot system, one of important problems is software integration, which involves three elements: modularity, reusability and stability. By these issues, the degree of convenience of system integration, its required time and the performance of the system stability can be determined. In addition, the convenience of system management can be determined by the degree of completion of service components. This paper explains the template based service component (TBSC) for the integration of service components in networked robot. The important characteristics of TBSC are automatical execution and recovery process by a PnP supporting robot framework, which helps a system operator to manage a robot system comfortably. For easy implementation and system stability, we provide a service component creator and a verification tool to developers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.385-389
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 재난 구조 로봇의 목적을 수행하기 위한 Situation-aware Middleware 에 대해서 설명한다. 재난 구조 로봇은 정확한 정황인지와 빠른 정보 처리 능력이 필요하다. 하지만 실시간으로 수집되는 센서의 정보들은 재난 구조 로봇과 같은 인명 구조나 재해 수습을 위한 특정 목적을 수행하기 위해 설계된 지능형 로봇은 센서 정보의 시간과 무분별한 정보는 선별하여 수집해야 긴급 상황에서 효율적으로 대처 할 수 있다. 따라서 이 논문에서는 Q-MAR(QoS-Mission-Action-Resource)모델을 참조 하여, 특정 목적에 맞는 정황 정보들을 선별 수집 융합 하는 새로운 Goal-driven Situation-Aware Middleware(GDSAM)를 제안하여 이 문제를 해결 하고자 한다.

• 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".

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.5
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• pp.249-258
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• 2010

The utilization of robot application is growing up in recent years, but there is a constraint to execute various application on the robot because of difference of robot resource. This paper presents the framework in order to solve the resource constraint by sharing resources with other devices near by robot. The framework defines common factors that are needed to collaboration work and provides APIs in order to implement robot application easily. Furthermore, We show the working flow of framework with physical training application using robot by example. The application shows how to collaborated work between robot and other devices through network.

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.22-29
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• 2008

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.425-431
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• 2012

In the case of outdoor moving of robot, it is differ to indoor moving case due to it cannot prepare map early for entire outdoor environments, there is nearly no research based on map because most outdoor robots use GPS. In this paper, we implement outdoor robot localization that using precision GPS and then GPS data applying MCL algorithm in outdoor environments of plane of 2 dimensional without incline section. We also perform a simple mission scenario by using applied robot localization in outdoor robot. We applying OpenRTM based on middleware, we can be controlled and grasped situation of the outdoor robot by remote through server by manager.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.894-900
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose the structure of system integration on the global ethernet networks using OpenRTM which was developed in Japan among the integration software framework based on middleware. In order to verify for propose model, we implement of environment monitoring system of mobile robot applied OpenRTM structure and we also verify that proposed validity of the structure of integration through experiment in the implemented system.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.211-218
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• 2017

Recent robot software platform research focuses on providing intelligent service via abstraction of robot devices. Context-aware techniques are necessary for intelligent robot services, which are based on the perception of environmental information obtained from heterogeneous sensors in IoT environment. Robot Operating System (ROS) provides protocols to operate robot devices. ROS includes functions for abstracting heterogeneous sensors themselves in order to control the robot, however, it lacks the ability to provide context information that the robot can perceive based on environmental information through consistent collection methods. In this paper, we propose a relay system for ROS to provide context-aware robot service. The proposed system makes it possible for ROS to control and provide context-aware robot services with relay of an external context-aware system and ROS. In experiments, we demonstrate procedures that robot services abstracted from ROS and an external context-aware system works together based on the proposed system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.75-82
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• 2012

In order to enable network robots to effectively collaborate with smart environments, it is crucial that various types of heterogeneous device platforms can communicate each other in flexible and efficient manners. Most of existing software platforms for network robots adopted general-purpose middlewares such as CORBA, which are not suitable to the communication between robots and smart environments due to their heavy size and complexity. Moreover, they do not provide network robot-specific features. Therefore, we propose a new TCP-based Remote Method Invocation framework. We devide the middleware into two layers i. e. transport layers and rmi layers and provide key features to each layer so that network robots can effectively communicate with various devices in smart environments.

• 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.