• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.553-561
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• 2009

This paper presents development of ROV-type underwater robot capable of cleaning ship hull in automatic mode. The purpose of developing this robot is for underwater cleaning to secure the safety of divers who inspect and clean the ship hull. The robot consists of the cleaning system with rotating brush mechanism, a car-like driving mechanism, inspection system using video, and overall control system for underwater communication and operation. In this paper, we present overall design process of the cleaning system and operating system and technical contents of the overall control system for the underwater cleaning robot.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.335-352
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• 2012

An underwater hull cleaning robot can be a desirable choice for the cleaning of large ships. It can make the cleaning process safe and economical. This paper presents a hydrodynamic design of an underwater cleaning robot and its evaluation for an underwater ship hull cleaning robot. The hydrodynamic design process of the robot body is described in detail. Optimal body design process with compromises among conflicting design requirements is given. Experimental results on the hydrodynamic performance of the robot are given.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2017

This paper presents the development of the underwater cleaning robot platform for a higher efficiency in manufacturing industry. Human operators directly go into the cistern and clean sludge after drainage of the water so far. It is sometimes dangerous because of the harmful chemical materials from the product making process. In addition, it takes long time for water drainage and supplying it back. However, the robot cleaning operation does not need to drain water so that it could be applied to the sludge cleaning work at any time without the plant pause. Moreover, it can prevent the safety accidents because human operators are not necessary to enter directly the sludge cisterns. This paper shows the performance of cleaning work that can be applied in the industrial field through the design and development of underwater cleaning robot platform. And these results demonstrate that the developed underwater cleaning robot has great possibilities to clean other industrial water cisterns.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2017

In this paper, we developed a control algorithm to maximize the cleaning performance and the cleaning efficiency of the underwater cleaning robot platform which has been developed for various cistern environment in the industrial field. Through these research and development, we have presented the operation and application of underwater cleaning robots that have been developed, and contributed to commercialization. Finally, this results were verified the effectiveness through actual field experiments.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.343-347
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 수중에서의 물체위치추적 소프트웨어와 수중선저 입체지도 생성 소프트웨어를 개발하였다. 선저청소로봇을 위한 소프트웨어로써 선저 청소로봇의 위치를 추적하고 음파통신의 음영지역을 발견함으로써 센서의 정위 구현을 목표로 하였다. 수중에서 로봇의 위치를 추적하기 위하여 개발된 소프트웨어는 수중의 초음파통신에 변수로 작용하는 파도의 고저와 세기를 적용하였다. 선(lines)들을 이용하여 그려진 선박의 도면을 스캔하여 OpenGL을 이용하여 입체지도를 형성하는 소프트웨어를 개발하였다. 이는 청소로봇이 비가시적인 수중 선저에서의 위치파악이 용이하며, 선저의 굴곡으로 인한 초음파통신 음영지역을 쉽게 발견함으로써 그에 따른 센서의 정위를 구현하여 원활한 통신 상태를 유지하는데 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.923-930
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• 2016

상 하수도, 해양플랜트 등 다양한 배관이 산업현장에 이용되고 있으며, 이러한 배관의 유지보수 작업은 필수적이다. 특히 산업현장에서 배관 유지보수 작업은 전문 인력이 배관 내 투입되어 작업이 진행되거나, 인력 투입이 불가능한 경우 와이어에 연결된 스크래퍼를 배관에 삽입하는 방식을 이용한다. 그러나 이 방식은 교통체증, 막대한 예산의 투입 등의 문제를 야기한다. 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위한 배관 청소 로봇의 연구, 개발이 진행되고 있다. 현재 배관청소 로봇은 작업 및 운용 상태를 실시간으로 확인할 수 없는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 배관 청소로봇의 운용, 배관 내부 및 청소 상태를 확인할 수 있도록 카메라로부터 촬영된 영상을 수집하며, 수집된 데이터는 RS-485 통신을 이용하여 모니터링 시스템에 전송하여 사용자가 실시간으로 상태를 확인할 수 있게 구성하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.387-393
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 수중청소로봇의 추종 성능과 통합 제어시스템 성능을 가시적으로 예측할 수 있는 3차원 시뮬레이터를 개발하였다. 수중청소로봇의 동역학적 해석을 기반으로, 시뮬레이터에는 실제 개발 중인 3차원형상의 수중청소로봇을 적용하고 로봇의 위치와 속도 등을 나타내는 창을 표시하였다. 또한 조이스틱을 사용하는 입력 및 제어 장치를 직접 제작하여 시리얼 통신을 통하여 시뮬레이터의 입력 및 제어에 사용하였다. 그리고 통합 항법 제어시스템을 설계하고, PI 기반의 퍼지 제어기를 포함하는 way-point tracking 시뮬레이션을 통하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.1030-1035
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• 2011

The remote control of mobile robot is widely used to perform dangerous and complex tasks such as underwater exploration and cleaning of nuclear reactor. For this purpose, the obstacle avoidance process will proceed to ensure a safe drive. In this paper, we tested that mobile robot drive in which replaced a pipe with a box. After we measured the distance around the obstacle through a sensor of robot, we got the information that changed haptic force from the distance of the obstacle.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권10호
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• pp.1029-1037
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• 2009

Recently, the technologies of mobile robots have been growing rapidly in the fields such as cleaning robot, explosive ordnance disposal robot, patrol robot, etc. However, the researches about the autonomous underwater robots have not been done so much, and they still remain at the low level of technology. This paper describes a model of 3-joint (4 links) fish robot type. Then we calculate the dynamic motion equation of this fish robot and use Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method to reduce the divergence of fish robot's motion when it operates in the underwater environment. And also, we analysis response characteristic of fish robot according to the parameters of input torque function and compare characteristic of fish robot with 3 joint and fish robot with 2 joint. Next, fish robot's maximum velocity is optimized by using the combination of Hill Climbing Algorithm (HCA) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). HCA is used to generate the good initial population for GA and then use GA is used to find the optimal parameters set that give maximum propulsion power in order to make fish robot swim at the fastest velocity.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.300-306
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• 2023

A hull-cleaning robot sticks to the surface of a vessel and moves for efficient cleaning. Precise path planning and tracking using the current position is crucial. Many robots rely on the INS algorithm, but errors accumulate. To fix this, GPS, sonar, and USBL are used, though with limitations. Selecting suitable sensors for the surface operation and accurate positioning algorithm are vital. In this study, we developed a robot position estimation algorithm using the structure of a ship. Problems that arise when expanding the 2D position estimation algorithm used in existing wall structures to 3D were evaluated and methods for solving them were proposed. In addition, we aimed to improve performance by deriving singularities that exist in the robot path and proposing an error correction algorithm based on the singularities.