• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1164-1169
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• 2014

This paper proposes an angle estimation of Segway robot for the slop driving. Most of Segway robot was controlled by pose control of keeping robot's balance and motor control of driving. In motor control, we analyzed Segway robot kinetically and estimated an angle of inclination using the velocity that depends on input force. In pose control, also, we used PD controller and evaluated a stability of controller through MATLAB simulation. Assuming the robot keeps its balance stably using controller, we could linearize dynamics. We could obtain the result through the experiment which estimates an angle using the velocity of Segway robot that is derived from linearized dynamics.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.126-131
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• 2015

Studies on the control of inverted pendulum type systems have been widely reported. This is because this type of system is a typical complex nonlinear system and may be a good model to verify the performance of a proposed control system. In this paper, we propose the design of two fuzzy logic control systems for the control of a Segway mobile robot which is an inverted pendulum type system. We first introduce a dynamic model of the Segway mobile robot and then analyze the system. We then propose the design of the fuzzy logic control system, which shows good performance for the control of any nonlinear system. In this paper, we here design two fuzzy logic control systems for the position and balance control of the Segway mobile robot. We demonstrate their usefulness through simulation examples. We also note the possibility of simplifying the design process and reducing the computational complexity. This possibility is the result of the skew symmetric property of the fuzzy rule tables of the system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.656-663
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• 2007

A new dynamic balancing algorithm has been proposed to minimize the number of sensors necessary for the horizontal balancing of the mobile inverted pendulum while maintaining the same level of the commercial performance. The inverted pendulum technique is getting attention and there have been many researches on the Segway since the US inventor Dean Kamen commercialized. One of the major problems of the Segway is that many sensors are required for the control of the Segway, which results in the high price. In this research, a single gyro and a tilt sensor are fused to obtain the absolute tilt information, which is applied for the control of the mobile inverted pendulum. A dynamic balancing technique has been developed and applied for a robust control system against disturbances. The intelligent handling and stable curving of the Segway as a next generation mobile tool are verified with a human loading.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.232-239
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• 2015

Studies on the control of the inverted pendulum type system have been widely reported. This is because it is a typical complex nonlinear system and may be a good model for verifying the performance of a proposed control system. In this paper, we propose the design of some fuzzy logic control (FLC) systems for controlling a Segway-type mobile robot, which is an inverted pendulum type system. We first derive a dynamic model of the Segway-type mobile robot and then analyze it in detail. Next, we propose the design of some FLC systems that have good performance for the control of any nonlinear system. Then, we design two conventional FLC systems for the position and balance control of the Segway-type mobile robot, and we demonstrate their usefulness through simulations. Next, we point out the possibility of simplifying the design process and reducing the computational complexity,, which results from the skew symmetric property of the fuzzy control rule tables. Finally, we design two other FLC systems for position and balance control of the Segway-type mobile robot. These systems have only one input variable in the FLC systems. Furthermore, we observe that they offer similar control performance to that of the conventional two-input FLC systems.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2016

This paper proposes a control method of the Segway with unknown control coefficient and input saturation. To design a simple controller for the Segway with the model uncertainty, the prescribed performance function is used. Furthermore, an auxiliary variable is introduced to deal with unknown time-varying control coefficient and input saturation problem. Due to the auxiliary variable, function approximators are not used in this paper although all model uncertainties are unknown. Thus, the controller can be simple. From the Lyapunov stability theory, it is proved that all errors of the proposed control system remain within the prescribed performance bounds. Finally, the simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2020

In this paper, the slope of the footplate is adjusted to compensate for the centrifugal force with a series elastic actuator (SEA) attached to the Segway's body to improve the cornering characteristics during turning. To ensure Segway's driving safety in the curvature motion, it is necessary to compensate for the centripetal force by tilting the footplate to generate inward force from gravity. When the footplate is tilted under the control of SEA, the vertical load on both wheels has been changed accordingly. The frictional force of the wheel has been changed by the change of the vertical force, which requires adjustment of driving torque to keep the curvature trajectory. That is, the driving torque has been controlled to keep the curvature trajectory considering the frictional force caused by the turning motion. Four SEAs are attached to the footplate to control the slope of the footplate and the real curvature motion has been demonstrated to verify the effects of SEAs in the high- speed curvature motion.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.109-111
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• 2009

In this paper, we discuss how to design 2-wheeled mobile robot hard wares as reasonable and practical as possible. A segway type mobile robot consists of 2 wheels only, placed in parallel rather than horizon. 2-wheeled mobile robots make you overcome high cost and time consuming maintenance procedures of the robot by reducing the number of robot hardwares. The most challenging thing in a 2-wheeled mobile robot that has many more valid virtues than the traditional mobile robots is to make it balance itself whenever it stands still or goes forward. But balancing itself is not an easy matter and there are many researches and experiments on this issue. When researchers test theories on 2-wheeled mobile robots to improve its self balancing performance, they should consider how to design hard wares of that mobile robot. No matter how great those new theories are, if a testbed for those theories is not suitable, performance output would be poor and meaningless. In this point of view, to design a proper 2-wheeled mobile robot as a testbed is a very important issue with development of new theories. So we define 4 guide lines to design segway type mobile robots reasonably; about motor, battery, and MCU selection and shock-proof design with robust motor setting.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.440-445
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• 2010

This paper proposes a single accelerometer sensor control algorithm to mobile inverted pendulum, generally called 'Segway', and evaluates the performance of this system comparing to the conventional ones. The commercialized 'Prototype Segway-PT' is initially considered as a next-generation transport vehicle. However, this robot is operated by three gyroscopes and two accelerometers to control the posture and speed, and it requires the complex signal processing for fusing the two sets of data. As the result of this, the growth rate of market size of 'Segway' is slow because of its high price mainly. In this paper, the mobile inverted pendulum is operated by a single accelerometer to simplify the control system to lower the price. Low pass filter is one of the good sensors to reducing the variation of an accelerometer, but it has time delay. This time delay disturbs real-time mobile inverted pendulum control. Like this, other various algorithms are used for this system, but each one has its own weak point. So this paper proposes a new filtering method, median filter and EKF. Median filter is used to image processing to reject impulse elements like salt and pepper noise. As the major performance evaluation parameter for the accelerometer, the high-frequency to low frequency ratio from FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) is used. Effectiveness of the proposed algorithms has been verified through the real experiments and the results are demonstrated.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.2975-2982
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 모델기반 설계를 이용한 이륜 도립진자 로봇의 설계방법에 대해 제시한다. 임베디드 시스템의 제어 프로그램 설계는 MATLAB/SIMULINK를 사용한 모델기반 설계에 의해 간편하고 손쉽게 구현되었으며, 로봇은 NXT 마인드스톰, 서보 직류전동기, 초음파센서, 자이로센서, 광센서로 구성되었다. 이 로봇은 불안정한 비선형시스템이며 몸체 경사각 제어문제를 가지고 있는데, 제어기 설계는 상태궤환 LQR 제어를 이용하였다. 타겟이 되는 프로세서에 종속적이지 않은 모델기반 설계는 문서기반 설계보다 프로그램 개발, 오류 발견 및 수정, 소프트웨어 구조 파악의 측면에서 장점을 가지고 있음을 제어기 설계와 실험을 통해서 확인할 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.285-290
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• 2013

최근 현대사회는 고도의 발전과 더불어 화석연료 사용으로 인한 환경문제가 대두되고 있다. 그래서 저공해 에너지 및 기술개발 등 지속적인 노력을 기울이고 있지만 기존의 화석연료와 자동차를 대체 할 수 있을 만한 수준의 성과를 거두지는 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 21세기 전기 오토모바일 분야에서 세그웨이(Segway) 기술을 토대로 단점을 보안하고 새로운 인터페이스의 방향을 제시하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 세그웨이는 자체의 기울어짐을 이용해서 제어를 하기 때문에 어느정도 경사가 있는 곳에서 기울기를 잘못 조절하면 그대로 넘어지는 문제가 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 단점을 해결해 보고자 2개의 압력센서(Load cell)를 사용하여 체중비율에 따른 제어방법을 도입해 보았다. 또, 경사로에서의 수월한 운행을 위해서 자이로센서와 가속도 센서를 사용해서 값을 보정해 경사에서도 자유로운 제어방법을 연구해 보았다. 탑승자의 체중과 경사각에 따른 압력센서의 압력 감지값을 실험으로 측정하여 산출해 본 결과 경사각에 비해서 체중에 대한 제어변수 변화량이 크다는 점을 알 수 있다. 결과적으로 압력센서를 사용해서 만든 세그웨이또한 제어가 간편하며 경사로 등에서의 안정성도 높은 것을 알 수 있다.