• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.375-384
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• 2020

Today's robots consist of many hardware and software subsystems, depending on the functions needed for specific tasks. Integration of subsystems can require a great deal of effort, as both the communication method and protocol of the subsystem can vary. This paper proposes an expandable robotic system in which all subsystems are integrated under Robot Operation System (ROS) framework. To achieve this, the paper presents a software library, ROS_M, developed to implement the TCP/IP-based ROS communication protocol in different control environments such as MCU and RT kernel based embedded system. Then, all the subsystem including hardware can use ROS protocol consistently for communication, which makes adding new software or hardware subsystems to the robotic system easier. A latency measurement experiment reveals that the system built for loop control can be used in a soft real-time environment. Finally, an expandable mobile manipulator robot is introduced as an application of the proposed system. This robot consists of four subsystems that operate in different control environments.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.130-140
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• 2011

This paper proposes an optimal posture for the task-oriented movement of dual arm manipulator. A stability criterion function which consists of three kinds of feature-representative parameters has been utilized to define the optimal posture. The first parameter is the force which is applied to the object. The torque of each joint and position of arm are attained from the current sensor and encoder, respectively. From these two data, the applied force to an object is estimated using sum of vectors of the joint torques estimated from the measured current. In order to investigate the robustness of each posture, the variation of the end-effector from the encoder information has been utilized as the second parameter. And for the last parameter for the optimality, the total energy consumption has been used. The total consuming energy of each posture can be computed from the current information and the battery voltage. The proposed robot structure consists of a mobile inverted pendulum and dual manipulators. In order to define the optimal posture for the each object, external disturbances are applied to the mobile inverted pendulum robot and the first and second parameters are investigated to find the optimal posture among the pre-selected most representative postures. Finally, the proposed optimal posture has been verified by the proposed stability criterion function which consists of total force to the object, the fluctuation of the end-effector position, and total energy consumption. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms has been verified and demonstrated through the practical simulations and real experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2011

현 시대는 로봇의 시대라 할 만큼 다채로운 로봇들이 개발되고 있으며, 인간의 기능들을 본 떠 만든 로봇 암(Robot arm: manipulator)과 워킹로봇(Walking robot: biped robot, quadruped robot, popping robot, etc.)물체인식 및 물체 추적 로봇(Tracking robot with image processing -. Domo robot, MIT.)이나 곤충과 동물 등의 생체 로봇에 대한 개발 또한 진행하고 있다. 지능형 이동로봇에서 가장중요하고 기본이 되는 기술인 무선통신망을 이용한 통신 기술과 지표면을 걷는 워킹로봇이 아닌 개활지나 밀폐된 공간에서 주행이 자유롭고 속도 및 주변 반응에 대해서 즉시 반응할 수 있는 장점을 가져 개발이용이한 바퀴를 이용한 2축 이동로봇에 관하여 연구하였다. 본 연구는 무선통신망을 이용하여 인터넷이 되는 곧 이면 어디서든 원격제어를 통하여 이동로봇을 전진, 후진, 좌회전. 우회전 및 속도제어 위치제어를 할 수 있고 GPS로 로봇의 위치와, 카메라를 이용하여 영상자료를 수집하고 센서를 이용하여 장애물 감지 및 자율주행 하는 등 여러 분야에 응용 할 수 있는 로봇을 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.853-860
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• 2014

This paper introduces a Korean rescue robot and presents a whole body kinematic control strategy. The mission of the rescue robot is to move and lift patients or soldiers with impaired mobility in the battlefields, hospitals and hazardous environments. In order for a robot to rescue and assist humans, reliable mobility in various environments, large load carrying capacity, and dextrous manipulability are required. For these objects the robot has variable configuration mobile platform with tracks, dual arm manipulator, and two types of grippers. The electric actuators provide the strength to lift a wounded soldier up to 120 kg using whole body joints. To control the robot with multi degree of freedom, we need to synthesize complex whole-body behaviors, and to manage multiple task primitives systematically. We are to present a whole body kinematic control methodology, and demonstrate its effectiveness through numerical simulations.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.35-41
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• 2017

With the advances in Internet over Things, the demand in diverse electronic devices such as mobile phones and sensors has been rapidly increasing and boosting up the researches on those products. Semiconductor materials, devices, and fabrication processes are becoming more diverse and complicated, which accompanies finding parameters for an optimal fabrication process. In order to find the parameters, a process simulation before fabrication or a real-time process control system during fabrication can be used, but they lack incorporating the feedback from post-fabrication data and compatibility with older equipment. In this research, we have developed an artificial intelligence based simulator, which finds parameters for an optimal process and controls process equipment. In order to apply the control concept to all the equipment in a fabrication sequence, we have developed a prototype for a manipulator which can be installed over an existing buttons and knobs in the equipment and controls the equipment communicating with the AI over the Internet. The AI is based on the deep learning to find process parameters that will produce a device having target electrical characteristics. The proposed simulator can control existing equipment via the Internet to fabricate devices with desired performance and, therefore, it will help engineers to develop new devices efficiently and effectively.