• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.25.6-25
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• 2001

A new monitoring system is proposed to give direct visual information of the remote site when working with a tele-operation system. In order to have a similar behavior of a human when he is inspecting an object, multiple cameras that have different view point are attached around the robot hand and are switched on and elf according to the operator´s motion such as joystick manipulation or operator´s head movement. The performance of the system is estimated by performing comparison experiments among single camera (SC) vision system, head mount display (HMD)system and proposed multiple camera (MC) vision system by applying a task to several examines. The reality, depth feeling and controllability are estimated for the examines ...

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.204-206
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 원자력발전소와 같은 극한환경에서 사용할 수 있는 로봇 원격제어를 위한 데이터 송수신용 통신 모듈 구현의 제약 조건을 기술하고 이를 해결할 수 있는 방안을 제시한다. 원격제어는 오퍼레이터가 원격지 로봇의 다양한 환경 정보를 인식하면서 로봇 제어 명령을 전송하는 특성을 갖는다. 오퍼레이터와 원격지 로봇 사이에 지속적인 데이터 통신에 의해 제어를 수행하므로, 통신 속도와 통신 프로토콜에 따른 현재의 통신 상태 보장 방안도 필요하다. 네트워크 기반 통신에서는 물리적 환경에 의한 영향을 포함하여 TCP/IP 프로토콜의 경우 핸드쉐이크와 혼잡회피 알고리즘 등에 의한 논리적 통신 속도의 지터가 발생하므로, 로봇 원격제어 시 이 문제를 충분히 검토해야한다. 로봇 원격제어를 위해서는 TCP/IP는 물론 UDP와 같은 통신 프로토콜과 시리얼 통신 기반의 다양한 프로토콜을 적용할 수 있는데, 송수신 데이터의 종류에 따라 적절한 프로토콜을 적용해야하며 통신 라인의 연결 상태도 확인할 수 있어야 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2476-2478
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• 2001

본 논문은 유연하고 탄력적인 네트워크 구조를 제공하는 Jini를 기반으로 하는 이동 로봇 제어 시스템의 설계와 구현 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 tele-operation 시스템의 단방향 제어을 개선하여, 제안한 시스템에서는 양방향 제어가 가능하고 클라이언트 시스템과 로봇이 상호 연동할 수 있는 구조를 가진다. 기존의 tele-operation 시스템에 Jini 기술을 도입하여 네트워크상에서 자원 이동이 간편하고 분산 컴퓨팅이 가능한 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 본 논문은 구체적으로 복수의 작업장 사이에서 자율 이동이 가능하고 새로운 작업장의 네트워크에 자동으로 적응할 수 있는 이동 로봇시스템과 이러한 로봇 시스템과 연결될 수 네트워크 시스템을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.171-177
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• 2015

A telerobot offers a more engaging and enjoyable interaction with people at a distance by communicating via audio, video, expressive gestures, body pose and proxemics. To provide its potential benefits at a reasonable cost, this paper presents a telepresence robot system for video communication which can deliver speaker's head motion through its display stanchion. Head gestures such as nodding and head-shaking can give crucial information during conversation. We also can assume a speaker's eye-gaze, which is known as one of the key non-verbal signals for interaction, from his/her head pose. In order to develop an efficient head tracking method, a 3D cylinder-like head model is employed and the Harris corner detector is combined with the Lucas-Kanade optical flow that is known to be suitable for extracting 3D motion information of the model. Especially, a skin color-based face detection algorithm is proposed to achieve robust performance upon variant directions while maintaining reasonable computational cost. The performance of the proposed head tracking algorithm is verified through the experiments using BU's standard data sets. A design of robot platform is also described as well as the design of supporting systems such as video transmission and robot control interfaces.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.188-191
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• 2002

This paper concerns 3-D graphical modeling and simulation techniques for design and control of automated equipment for construction and facility maintenance. A case study on the use of 3-D graphics techniques for developing a power plant maintenance robot is presented. By simulating equipment operation within the 3-D geometry models of the work environment the environment design was improved. The 3-D graphical models of the equipment and the work environment were further utilized for the control of the robot from a remote distance. By presenting the real-time updated equipment configuration and the work environment to the operator, the graphical model-based equipment control system helped the operator overcome the problems associated with spatial perception. The collision between the robot and the plant structures was also avoided based the real-time analysis of the dynamically updated graphical models.

• Transactions of The Korea Fluid Power Systems Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2009

Hydraulic excavators are the representative of field robot and have been used in various fields of construction. Since the excavator operates in the hazardous working environment, operators of excavator are exposed in harmful environment. Therefore, the hydraulic excavator automation and remote operation system has been investigated to protect from the hazardous working environment. In this paper, remote operation excavator system is developed using the mini hydraulic excavator and the tracking control system of each links of excavator is designed. To apply the tracking control system, the adaptive sliding mode control algorithm is proposed. It is found that the performance of the proposed control system is improved through experimental results of using the remote operation excavator system.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.186-195
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• 2008

In this paper, a prototype tele-operative system with a mobile base was developed in order to automate cultivation of house melon. A man-machine interactive hybrid decision-making system via tele-operative task interface was proposed to overcome limitations of computer image recognition. Identifying house melon including position data from the field image was critical to automate cultivation. And it was not simple especially when melon is covered partly by leaves and stems. The developed system was composed of 5 major modules: (a) main remote monitoring and task control module, (b) wireless remote image acquisition and data transmission module, (c) three-wheel mobile base mounted with a 4 dof articulated type robot manipulator (d) exchangeable modular type end tools, and (e) melon storage module. The system was operated through the graphic user interface using touch screen monitor and wireless data communication among operator, computer, and machine. Once task was selected from the task control and monitoring module, the analog signal of the color image of the field was captured and transmitted to the host computer using R.F. module by wireless. A sequence of algorithms to identify location and size of a melon was performed based on the local image processing. Laboratory experiment showed the developed prototype system showed the practical feasibility of automating various cultivating tasks of house melon.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.35-41
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• 2010

In this paper, an Android based ubiquitous interface for controlling service robots is presented. The robot server captures the images for the front view of the robot, makes a map of the environment and its position, produces a graphic image of its pose, and then transmits them to the Android client. The Android client displays them in the LCD panel and transfers control information obtained from touched buttons to the server. In the interface environment, we implement remote moving mode, autonomous moving mode, and remote operation mode for being used for versatile operability to the robot with limited screen of the smart phone. Experimental results show the implementation of the proposed interface in Android installed on Motoroi to control a service robot, and demonstrate its feasibility.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.260-264
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• 2001

This paper presents virtual reality using 6-DOF Haptic interface. It is proposed reappearance of force using 6-DOF Haptic device that was designed by previous studies and 3D image considered time delay. The performance of conventional control is excellent in the case of the exactly known dynamic model of the robot, but degrades seriously as the uncertainty of the model increases. The virtual reality using 6-DOF Haptic interface is presented here to overcome such that, and verified through the experiment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.43.6-43
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• 2002

$\textbullet$ KAEROT/m1 with an omni-directional planetary wheel mechanism for the narrow corridor. $\textbullet$ KAEROT/m2 can pass over the ditch with specially designed four wheel of a re-configurable crawler. $\textbullet$ Stereo imaging system with master manipulator enhancing the tele-presence. $\textbullet$ Small hybrid dosimeter detecting radiation dose and dose rate simultaneously.