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A Study of a Dual-Electromagnetic Sensor for Automatic Weld Seam Tracking (용접선 자동추적을 위한 이중 전자기센서의 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 신준호;김재응
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.70-75
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    • 2000
  • The weld seam tracking system for arc welding process uses various kinds of sensors such as arc sensor, vision sensor, laser displacement and so on. Among the variety of sensors available, electro-magnetic sensor is one of the most useful methods especially in sheet metal butt-joint arc welding, primarily because it is hardly affected by the intense arc light and fume generated during the welding process, and also by the surface condition of weldments. In this study, a dual-electromagnetic sensor, which utilizes the induced current variation in the sensing coil due to the eddy current variation of the metal near the sensor, was developed for arc welding of sheet metal butt-joints. The dual-electromagnetic sensor thus detects the offset displacement of weld line from the center of sensor head even though there's no clearance in the joint. A set of design variables of the sensor were determined for the maximum sensing capability through the repeated experiments. Seam tracking is performed by correcting the position of sensor to the amount of offset displacement every sampling period. From the experimental results, the developed sensor showed the excellent capability of weld seam detection when the sensor to workpiece distance is near less than 5 mm, and it was revealed that the system has excellent seam tracking ability for the butt-joint of sheet metal.

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Intelligent System based on Command Fusion and Fuzzy Logic Approaches - Application to mobile robot navigation (명령융합과 퍼지기반의 지능형 시스템-이동로봇주행적용)

  • Jin, Taeseok;Kim, Hyun-Deok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.1034-1041
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    • 2014
  • This paper propose a fuzzy inference model for obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot with an active camera, which is intelligently searching the goal location in unknown environments using command fusion, based on situational command using an vision sensor. Instead of using "physical sensor fusion" method which generates the trajectory of a robot based upon the environment model and sensory data. In this paper, "command fusion" method is used to govern the robot motions. The navigation strategy is based on the combination of fuzzy rules tuned for both goal-approach and obstacle-avoidance. We describe experimental results obtained with the proposed method that demonstrate successful navigation using real vision data.

Unmanned Vehicle System Configuration using All Terrain Vehicle

  • Moon, Hee-Chang;Park, Eun-Young;Kim, Jung-Ha
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1550-1554
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    • 2004
  • This paper deals with an unmanned vehicle system configuration using all terrain vehicle. Many research institutes and university study and develop unmanned vehicle system and control algorithm. Now a day, they try to apply unmanned vehicle to use military device and explore space and deep sea. These unmanned vehicles can help us to work is difficult task and approach. In the previous research of unmanned vehicle in our lab, we used 1/10 scale radio control vehicle and composed the unmanned vehicle system using ultrasonic sensors, CCD camera and kinds of sensor for vehicle's motion control. We designed lane detecting algorithm using vision system and obstacle detecting and avoidance algorithm using ultrasonic sensor and infrared ray sensor. As the system is increased, it is hard to compose the system on the 1/10 scale RC car. So we have to choose a new vehicle is bigger than 1/10 scale RC car but it is smaller than real size vehicle. ATV(all terrain vehicle) and real size vehicle have similar structure and its size is smaller. In this research, we make unmanned vehicle using ATV and explain control theory of each component

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A Study on Development of PC Based In-Line Inspection System with Structure Light Laser (구조화 레이저를 이용한 PC 기반 인-라인 검사 시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Shin Chan-Bai;Kim Jin-Dae;Lim Hak-Kyu;Lee Jeh-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.22 no.11 s.176
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2005
  • Recently, the in-line vision inspection has become the subject of growing research area in the visual control systems and robotic intelligent fields that are required exact three-dimensional pose. The objective of this article is to study the pc based in line visual inspection with the hand-eye structure. This paper suggests three dimensional structured light measuring principle and design method of laser sensor header. The hand-eye laser sensor have been studied for a long time. However, it is very difficult to perform kinematical analysis between laser sensor and robot because the complicated mathematical process are needed for the real environments. In this problem, this paper will propose auto-calibration concept. The detail process of this methodology will be described. A new thinning algorithm and constrained hough transform method is also explained in this paper. Consequently, the developed in-line inspection module demonstrate the successful operation with hole, gap, width or V edge.