• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2003

An autonomous stair robot recognizing the stair, and climbing up and down the stair by utilizing a robot vision, photo sensors, and appropriate climbing algorithm is introduced. Four arms associated with four wheels make the robot climb up and down more safely and faster than a simple track typed robot. The robot can adjust wheel base according to the stair width, hence it can adopt to a variable width stair with different algorithms in climbing up and down. The command and image data acquired from the robot are transferred to the main computer through RF wireless modules, and the data are delivered to a remote computer via a network communication through a proper data compression, thus, the real time image monitoring is implemented effectively.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2017

This paper describes the development of a thigh wearable robot for power assistance during stair climbing. In the wearable robot developed in this study, high-power BLDC motors and high-capacity harmonic reduction gears are used to effectively assist the thigh muscle during stair climbing. In particular, normal ground and stair are distinguished accurately by using wireless smart shoes, and the stair climbing assistance is performed by activating the actuators at an appropriate time. Impedance of the hip joint was effectively reduced by performing friction compensation of the gears, and a wearing adjustment mechanism was designed to fit the robot to the thigh by conveniently modifying the width and tilting angle of the robot using set collars. Consequently, the performance of the developed thigh wearable robot was verified through stair climbing experiments with EMG measurement.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.654-661
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• 2015

Stairs are the most popular obstacles in buildings and factories. To enlarge the application areas of a field robotic platform, stair-climbing is very important mission. One important reason why a stair-climbing is difficult is that stairs are various in sizes. To achieve autonomous climbing of various-sized stairs, dynamic modeling is essential. In this research, an inverse dynamic modeling is performed to enable an autonomous stair climbing. Stair-climbing robotic platform with flip locomotion, named FilpBot, is analyzed. The FlipBot platform has advantages of robust stair-climbing of various sizes with constant speed, but the autonomous operation is not yet capable. Based on external constraints and the postures of the robot, inverse dynamic models are derived. The models are switched by the constraints and postures to analyze the continuous motion during stair-climbing. The constraints are changed according to the stair size, therefore the analysis results are different each other. The results of the inverse dynamic modeling are going to be used in motor design and autonomous control of the robotic platform.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.373-374
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• 2010

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.427-433
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• 2013

Stair climbing is one of critical issues for field robots to widen applicable areas. This paper presents optimal design on kinematic parameters of a new robotic platform for stair climbing. The robotic platform climbs various stairs by body-flip locomotion with caterpillar type main platform. Kinematic parameters such as platform length, platform height, and caterpillar rotation speed are optimized to maximize stair-climbing stability. Three types of stairs are used to simulate typical user conditions. The optimal design process is conducted based on Taguchi methodology, and resulting parameters with optimized objective function are presented. In near future, a prototype is assembled for real environment testing.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1996

In this paper, describe the automatic climbing wheelchair system use an articulated crawler mobile robot. This wheelchair system(call system) is composed of sensor detecting part and wireless communication part with PC. The sensor parts are consisted of sloping sensor and ultrasonic sensor part. The sloping sensor measures the sloping angle of system, and the ultrasonic sensor measures the distance of system's front wheel center from stair. PC will generate the operation data to climb up the stair using the measured data and make primitives for the system. At firsts This system transfer from sensor data to the PC. PC calculate the operation data to climb up the stair from the internal algorithm. We simulated the system in various stair angle slope($25^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$), and tested it on the real staircase with width 37cm, highlt 18cm, Angle $26^{\circ}$ . There were $0.350^{\circ}$ - $1.060^{\circ}$ Angle errors while climbing because adapted sensor has a precision $0.35^{\circ}$ in resolution. Finally, We implemented the sensor detecting part and the wireless communication park and practiced our system in 4cm/sec speed.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.395-402
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 곤충형 다리 구조를 갖는 4족 로봇의 정적 계단 보행 시 계단과의 충돌 제약이 없는 효율적인 걸음새 궤적 생성 방법을 제안한다. 우선 4족 로봇의 순기구학 및 역기구학 모델을 각기 대수학적 방법과 기하학적 방법으로 유도한다. 제안한 방법에서는 보행 시작 위치에서 수직 상승 후 사인 파형의 계단 보행 궤적을 생성하고, 계단과의 충돌을 피하기 위한 보행 궤적의 계수를 설정한다. 또한 안정적인 계단 보행을 위한 걸음새 순서를 결정한다. 마지막으로, 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 계단 보행 방법의 효용성 및 실제 적용 가능성을 검증한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.211-212
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• 2012

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.169-170
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• 2009

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.362-370
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 휠체어 사용자의 이동권 확보를 위한 계단 승강 로봇 개발에 있어 ToF센서 및 IMU의 데이터를 기반으로 자율 계단 승강 기법을 제시하였다. 자율 계단 계단 승강 기법은 랜딩기어 동작 시점을 위치로 구분하고 상태 머신을 활용하여 제어하였다. 본 연구에서 제시한 이론의 검증을 위해 표준 기준의 모형 계단을 제작하여 실험하였다. 진입각 확보 실험을 통해 랜딩기어의 동작 길이 평균 오차는 2.19%, Pitching 기준 진입각 평균 오차는 2.78%로 부드러운 진입을 확인하였고, 자율 계단 승강 기법의 단계 구분 및 상태 전이를 검증하였다. 제안된 기법의 실적용 시 교통약자들의 이동제약을 줄일 수 있을 것이고, 이동권 보장을 통한 자립심의 고취가 기대된다.