• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.244-250
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• 2003

In this paper, the relationship between a slave robot and the uncertain remote environment is modeled as the impedance to generate the virtual force to feed back to the operator. For the control of a tele-operated mobile robot equipped with camera, the tele-operated mobile robot take pictures of remote environment and sends the visual information back to the operator over the Internet. Because of the limitation of communication bandwidth and narrow view-angles of camera, it is not possible to watch the environment clearly, especially shadow and curved areas. To overcome this problem, the virtual force is generated according to both the distance between the obstacle and robot and the approaching velocity of the obstacle. This virtual force is transferred back to the master over the Internet and the master(two degrees of freedom joystick), which can generate force, enables a human operator to estimate the position of obstacle in the remote environment. By holding this master, in spite of limited visual information, the operator can feel the spatial sense against the remote environment. This force reflection improves the performance of a tele-operated mobile robot significantly.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.1864-1874
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• 2005

This paper describes a wearable multi-modal user interface design and its implementation for a teleoperated field robot system. Recently some teleoperated field robots are employed for hazard environment applications (e.g. rescue, explosive ordnance disposal, security). To complete these missions in outdoor environment, the robot system must have appropriate functions, accuracy and reliability. However, the more functions it has, the more difficulties occur in operation of the functions. To cope up with this problem, an effective user interface should be developed. Furthermore, the user interface is needed to be wearable for portability and prompt action. This research starts at the question: how to teleoperate the complicated slave robot easily. The main challenge is to make a simple and intuitive user interface with a wearable shape and size. This research provides multi-modalities such as visual, auditory and haptic sense. It enables an operator to control every functions of a field robot more intuitively. As a result, an EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) demonstration is conducted to verify the validity of the proposed wearable multi-modal user interface.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.133-134
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• 2004

DUPIC (Direct Use of spent PWR fuel In CANDU) fuel cycle technology is being developed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). All the DUPIC fuel fabrication processes are remotely conducted in the completely shielded M6 hot-cell located in the Irradiated Material Examination Facility (IMEF) at KAERI. Undesirable products such as spent nuclear fuel powder debris and contaminated wastes are inevitably created during the DUPIC nuclear fuel fabrication processes.(omitted)

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.13-16
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 인간의 생체 임피던스를 이용하여 인간의 팔 운동을 추정하고자 한다. 생체 신호를 이용하여 인간의 운동을 추정하기 위해서는 먼저 생체 신호와 인간의 운동 사이의 정량적인 관계를 구해야 하며 특히, 다자유도 운동의 추정에는 생체 신호간의 간섭등을 고려하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 일자유도 운동실험을 통해 생체 임피던스와 인간 팔 관절의 회전각 사이의 선형성을 고찰한다. 그리고, 다자유도 측정시에 발생하는 근육간의 결합성과 방향성의 문제에 대해 주파수 분할 측정법을 도입하여 팔의 다자유도 운동을 추정하였다. 마지막으로, 실제의 로봇을 제어하는데 응용하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1048-1053
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• 2011

Recently, robots have been used in surgical area. Robotic surgery in Minimally Invasive Surgery gives many advantages to surgeons and patients both. This study introduce a robotic assistant to improve the safety of telerobotic Minimally Invasive Surgical procedures. The master-slave system is applied to the telerobotic surgical system with the master arm, which control the system, and slave robot which operates the surgery on the patient body. By using a 3-DOF master arm, the surgeon can control the 6-DOF surgical robot under the constraint of fulcrum point. This paper explains the telerobotic surgical system and confirms the system with the precision of the robot control related to the fulcrum point to enhance the safety.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.7 s.91
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• pp.583-589
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• 2004

In robotics classes, various types of materials about robotics are still needed for helping students to understand concepts easily, and it is difficult for all students to perform actual experiments because of the lack of the real robots. In order to solve these problems, this paper develops a web-based distance learning system for robotics, which consists of multimedia content sand a 3-dimensional robot simulator. Students can easily get multimedia contents and understand concepts about robots. Also, they can use a 3-dimensional robot simulator to Perform virtual robot experiments and connection experiments with real robots.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.19-25
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• 2013

For safe remote control, information on remote environment has to be delivered to operator realistically, and there have been numerous research efforts on this respect. Among them, haptic technology can significantly enhance safety and overall effectiveness of remote operation by delivering various kinds of information on virtual or real environment to operator. In this study, remote control based on haptic feedback is applied to control of mobile robot moving according to the command from operator avoiding collision with environmental obstacles and maintaining safe distance from them using ultrasonic sensors. Specifically, a remote feedback control structure for mobile robot is proposed. The controller is based on the inner feedback loop that directly utilizes information on distance to obstacles, and the outer feedback loop that the operator directly commands using the haptic device on which the computed reaction force based on the distance information is acting. Effectiveness of the proposed remote control scheme using double feedback loops is verified through a series of experiments on mobile robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.1714-1717
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• 1997

A human operator is able to perform some tasks smoothly with force feedvack for the teleoperation or a virtual device in a the virtual environments. This paper describes a virtual force generation method with which operator can feel the interactive force between virtula robot and artificial environments. A virtual force generation algortihm is applied to generate the contact force at the arbitrary point of virtual robot, and the virtual force is displayed to the human operator via a tendon master arm consisted with 3 motors. Some experiments has beencarried out to verify the effectiveness of the force generation algorithm and usefulness of the developed backdrivable master arm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.241-245
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• 2004

This paper shows the development of remote control system for manipulators which consists of PHANToM Device as a master, Samsung FARA robot as a slave and TCP/IP based LAN for their Communication. This work includes the motion mapping between the master and the slave, Generation of virtual viscosity force preventing operator s unwilled action and 3D remote control simulators for the stable operation of the remote control system, etc. The remote control implementation has been performed and the results shows that the developed system can allow the operator to effectively control the manipulator.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.179-184
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• 2002

Recently, internet-based applications can be found easily in various felds. Internet-based telerobot system becomes one of important applications of internet. Among many important technological issues on the internet-based telerobot, time-delay is inherently critical problem to be solved. Time-delay is classified as micro time-delay and macro time-delay in this paper. Algorithms for compensation of path-error and time-error are proposed for the both types of time-delays using fuzzy logic since fuzzy logic is one of the best tools to represent expert's knowledge. Simulation results show the validity of the proposed algorithms.