• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1159-1168
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• 2006

In this paper, a new revolute mobile robot arm with five degree of freedom (d.o.f) was developed for autonomous moving robots. As a control system for the robot arm, a distributed control system composed of the main controller and five motor controllers for arm joints was developed. The main controller and the motor controllers w ε re developed using the ARM microprocessor and the TMS320c2407 microprocessor, respectively. A new trajectory tracking algorithm for the motor controllers was devised employing pre-generated off-line trajectory data. Also, a 3-D simulator based on the openGL software to simulate the motion of the robot arm was developed. To validate the performance of the robot system, experiments to track a specified trajectory were performed.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.523-530
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• 2022

다양한 임무에서 활용 가능한 무인기 다개체 시스템은 단일 무인기보다 복잡하므로 효율적인 대형 제어방식이 요구된다. 특히 광역 탐색임무에 있어 통신량 및 연산량 부담이 적으며, 무인기간 자율적인 대형 형성이 가능한 분산 제어형의 유동적인 대형 형성이 필요하다. 본 연구는 스캔 면적의 확장 및 탐색 성능향상을 위해 Swarm 대형과 뱅크 정렬 대형, 대형 전체 운동을 고려한 대형 형성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘은 상대거리에 대해서 2차 진동 특성을 가지며 parameter tuning을 통해 알고리즘을 설계할 수 있다. 또한 통상적인 무인기 시스템에 적합하도록 제어명령을 변환하였고, 시뮬레이션을 통해 알고리즘의 대형 형성 및 운동에 대한 성능을 입증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.789-797
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• 2003

An implementation scheme and some improvements are proposed to adopt public-licensed operating system, Linux and de-facto world-wide network standard, TCP/IP into the field of behavior-based autonomous mobile robots. To demonstrate the needs of scheme and the improvement, an analysis is performed on a server/client communication problem with real time Linux previously proposed, and another analysis is also performed on interactions among TCP/IP communications and the performance of Linux system using them. Implementation of behavior-based control architecture on real time Linux is proposed firstly. Revised task-scheduling schemes are proposed that can enhance the performance of server/client communication among local tasks on a Linux platform. A new method of TCP/IP packet flow handling is proposed that prioritizes TCP/IP software interrupts with aperiodic server mechanism as well. To evaluate the implementation scheme and the proposed improvements, performance enhancements are shown through some simulations.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.233-260
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• 2020

The main purpose to introduce model based controller in proposed control technique is to provide better and fast learning of the floating dynamics by means of fuzzy logic controller and also cancelling effect of nonlinear terms of the system. An iterative adaptive dynamic programming algorithm is proposed to deal with the optimal trajectory-tracking control problems for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The optimal tracking control problem is converted into an optimal regulation problem by system transformation. Then the optimal regulation problem is solved by the policy iteration adaptive dynamic programming algorithm. Finally, simulation example is given to show the performance of the iterative adaptive dynamic programming algorithm.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.226-234
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• 2022

자율주행체와 네트워크기반 제어 기술의 발달에 따라서, 하나의 에이전트를 제어하는 것을 넘어서 다수의 이동체를 분산 제어하는데 사용 가능한 다중 에이전트의 컨센서스 제어에 대한 관심과 연구가 증가하고 있다. 컨센서스 제어는 분산형 제어이기 때문에, 정보 교환은 실제 시스템에서 지연을 가지게 된다. 또한, 시스템에 대한 모델을 정확히 수식적으로 표현하는데 있어서 한계를 갖는다. 이런 한계를 극복하는 방법 중에 하나로서 강화 학습 기반 컨센서스 알고리즘이 개발되었지만, 불확실성이 큰 환경에서 느린 수렴을 갖는 경우가 자주 발생하는 특징을 보이고 있다. 따라서, 이 논문에서는 불확실성에 강인한 특성을 갖는 슬라이딩 모드제어를 강화학습과 결합한 슬라이딩 강화학습 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 기존의 강화학습 기반 컨센서스 알고리즘의 제어 신호에 슬라이딩 모드 제어 구조를 추가하고, 시스템의 상태 정보를 슬라이딩 변수를 추가하여 확장한다. 모의실험 결과 다양한 시변 지연과 왜란에 대한 정보가 주어지지 않았을 때에 슬라이딩 강화학습 알고리즘은 모델기반의 알고리즘과 유사한 성능을 보이면서, 기존의 강화학습에 비해서 안정적이면서 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1935-1944
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• 1994

FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System)는 로봇, 수치제어기기 등의 프로그램이 가능한 생산설비 하드웨어로 구성된 분산시스템이다. FMS의 효과적인 운용을 위해서는 생산설비 하드웨어를 통합 제어하기 위한 소프트웨어의 존재가 필수적이다. 그런데 FMS의 복잡성과 다양한 변화가능성은 통합제어 소프트웨어의 구축 및 유지, 보수를 어렵게 한다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 객체지향 FMS 통합제어 모델을 제안한다. 제안된 모델에서는 FMS에 실재하는 셀이 가상 셀 객체로 모델되어, 통합제어를 위하여 필요한 데이터와 연산들이 캡슐화되어 객체지향 데이타베이스에 관리된다. 또한 이 밖의 FMS운용을 위해 필수적인 데이타와 이들간의 관계성도 데이타베이스에 관리된다. 본 논문은 제안된 모델을 기반으로 구현한 통합제어 소프트웨어시스템인 FREE(Fms Run Time Executive Environment)를 바탕으로 통합제어 데이타베이스에 대하여 기술한다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.323-329
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• 2001

In this paper, we present a collaborative method for material delivery using a distributed vehicle agents system. Generally used AGV(Autonomous Guided Vehicle) systems in FA require extraordinary facilities like guidepaths and landmarks and have numerous limitations for application in different environments. Moreover in the case of controlling multi vehicles, the necessity for developing corporation abilities like loading and unloading materials between vehicles including different types is increasing nowadays for automation of material flow. Thus to compensate and improve the functions of AGV, it is important to endow vehicles with the intelligence to recognize environments and goods and to determine the goal point to approach. In this study we propose an interaction method between hetero-type vehicles and adaptive fuzzy logic controllers for sensor-based path planning methods and material identifying methods which recognizes color. For the purpose of carrying materials to the goal, simple color sensor is used instead vision system to search for material and recognize its color in order to determine the goal point to transfer it to. The proposed method reaveals a great deal of improvement on its performance.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.30-44
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• 2013

Traffic congestion has become a serious problem with the recent exponential increase in the number of vehicles. In urban areas, almost all traffic congestion occurs at intersections. One of the ways to solve this problem is road expansion, but it is difficult to realize in urban areas because of the high cost and long construction period. In such cases, traffic signal control is a reasonable method for reducing traffic jams. In an actual situation, the traffic flow changes randomly and its randomness makes the control of traffic signals difficult. A prediction of traffic jams is, therefore, necessary and effective for reducing traffic jams. In addition, an autonomous distributed (stand-alone) point control of each traffic light individually is better than the wide and/or line control of traffic lights from the perspective of real-time control. This paper describes a stochastic optimum control of crossroads and multi-way traffic signals. First, a stochastic model of traffic flows and traffic jams is constructed by using a Bayesian network. Secondly, the probabilistic distributions of the traffic flows are estimated by using a cellular automaton, and then the probabilistic distributions of traffic jams are predicted. Thirdly, optimum traffic signals of crossroads and multi-way intersection are searched by using a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm to realize real-time traffic control. Finally, simulations are carried out to confirm the effectiveness of the real-time stochastic optimum control of traffic signals.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.204-216
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• 2006

Latest advances in hardware technology and state of the art of mobile robot and artificial intelligence research can be employed to develop autonomous and distributed monitoring systems. And mobile service robot requires the perception of its present position to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in populated environments. To realize these abilities, robot needs to keep track of relevant changes in the environment. This paper proposes a localization of mobile robot using the images by distributed intelligent networked devices (DINDs) in intelligent space (ISpace) is used in order to achieve these goals. This scheme combines data from the observed position using dead-reckoning sensors and the estimated position using images of moving object, such as those of a walking human, used to determine the moving location of a mobile robot. The moving object is assumed to be a point-object and projected onto an image plane to form a geometrical constraint equation that provides position data of the object based on the kinematics of the intelligent space. Using the a priori known path of a moving object and a perspective camera model, the geometric constraint equations that represent the relation between image frame coordinates of a moving object and the estimated position of the robot are derived. The proposed method utilizes the error between the observed and estimated image coordinates to localize the mobile robot, and the Kalman filtering scheme is used to estimate the location of moving robot. The proposed approach is applied for a mobile robot in ISpace to show the reduction of uncertainty in the determining of the location of the mobile robot. Its performance is verified by computer simulation and experiment.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.687-696
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• 2014

An integrated ship area network has functionality of remote control and autonomous management of various sensors and instruments embedded or boarded in a ship. For such environment, an wireless bridge is essential to transmit control and/or managing information to sensors or instruments from a central integrated ship area network station. In this paper, one of reliable schemes of WiMedia based wireless bridge using relay cooperative transmission using WiMedia distributed MAC protocol is proposed to increase a communication reliability between cluster headers, irrespective of channel variation. Simulation results show that the proposed wireless bridge using relay cooperative transmission scheme increases communication reliability.