• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.4 s.247
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• pp.357-363
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• 2006

According to the study of grasping of the human hand, it is noted that the metacarpal link of the thumb plays the key role in power grasping. Also the face of fingertip can be discriminated into five parts depending on the grasping modalities such as pinch grasp, fingertip grasp and power grasp. In this paper, the design of the anthropomorphic robot hand which has a thumb and three fingers is proposed. A difference of SKKU hand II from the previous gripperlike robot hand is that the metacarpal bone is connected between the thumb and the palm. This thumb mechanism is specially designed to get the degree of freedom which can realize flexible motions relative to objects. Based on the analysis, the hand mechanism is developed. Since the driving circuits for the hand are embedded in the hand, only the communication lines supporting CAN protocol with DC power cable are necessary as the input. A new robot is manufactured and feasibility of the hand is validated through preliminary experiments.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.247-255
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• 2013

This paper shows the development of a snake robot (KAEROT-snake V) which consists of 16 1-DOF actuator modules and head module. The modules are connected serially and the joint axis of each module is rotated by $90^{\circ}$ with respect to the previous joint so that the snake robot can move in the 3D space. A tail actuator module includes slip-ring and metal connector. KAEROT-snake IV developed in prior research could move in the 3D space and climb up in a narrow pipe. But its design was not appropriate to the unstructured tough environment and its speed was somewhat slow. A new actuator module is designed to enclose all parts of the module so that any wire is not exposed. The size and weight of the new module was slightly reduced. And the rotation speed and torque of the joint was increased by about twice when compared with pre-module. An embedded controller was developed so small that it can be mounted inside the module. The performance of the developed robot was demonstrated through various locomotion experiments.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.13-23
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• 2010

In recent creativity becomes a new request in the knowledge and information age. Robot programming education is an effective teaching method for improvement of creativity. Existing robot programming tools includes text-based or GUI-based development environment. Most of programming tools provide a simple tutorial system without interactive activity for beginners. In this paper, we propose an online robot programming education system based on web2.0, which embedded collaborative code creating tool, interactive tutorial chat and video conference tool to support collaborative code creating via web 2.0. Knowledge sharing tool allows users to share their collaborative source code. Besides, it makes users gained the experience and knowledge of program designing efficiently.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.1434-1441
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• 2003

Recent technological advances in utilization and generalization of Internet have overcome some of the limitations of remote robot control range and real-time monitoring system. However, It needs Embedded system with control protocol or hardware which has avility to port the micro realtime operating system in robot control system communicate with remote controlled robot, because those system use the wireless LAM or Bluetooth as a network media. In this paper, we design and implement the wireless MODEM protocol and install it to the server system. Also, we implement a client system could control the remote robot through the server and we assure that this protocol and client/server system ate suitable for small size remote control system based on Internet.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.87-88
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• 2007

URC(Uniform Resource Identifier) 로봇은 기존의 로봇 자체에서 처리하던 기능을 네트워크를 통하여 외부로 분산시켜 외부의 센싱기능과 프로세싱 기능을 활용하여 효율적으로 구동하기 위한 것이다. 즉 많은 파워가 요구되는 센싱 기능이나 프로세싱 기능을 외부에 있는 서버를 활용하여 서비스를 제공함으로써 간단한 로봇으로도 고도의 서비를 제공이 가능토록하여 가격 경쟁력을 갖도록 하기 위함이다. 본 논문에서는 URC 로봇을 원격에서 모니터링 및 제어가 가능하도록 웹 서비스 기술을 임베디드 시스템 환경에 맞게 최적화하였다. 서비스는 인터넷 기반의 SOAP 프로토콜을 통하여 교환되는 XML 기반 메시지를 통하여 다른 응용 에이전트들과 직접적인 상호작용을 지원함으로서 이기종간 호환 및 표준 플랫폼을 지원할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 URC 시범서비스 참가 로봇인 네토로(한울로보틱스)에 본 연구결과를 적용하여 기능 및 안정성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.56-62
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• 2004

Recently, necessity and usage of the teleoperation have been increased in various fields from industrial automation to home application. Also, the internet is considered as a strong candidate far the transmission media of signals. However, it has an irregular transmission time delay and causes critical problems such as instability and poor performance. This paper presents a practical internet teleoperation system with a streaming buffer system which makes a variable time delay fixed. Validity of the proposed system is demonstrated by implementing the embedded system on a HILS(hardware in the loop system) which models a two-wheel mobile robot.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.557-559
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• 2006

In this paper we analyze whether recent Radio Frequence Identification technology can be used to improve the localization of mobile robot and persons in their environment. In particular we study the problem of localizing RFID tags with a mobile platform that is equipped with a pair of RFID antennas. This system make use of power control because Tag with Reader distance measurement. We are accurately the low at former time than the environment. A distance measurement is rather correct. This system uses 900MHz Frequencies.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.98-100
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• 2005

This paper, proposes concept of personal robot middleware core also called streaming layer. Based on openness and portability, the streaming layer is proposed in order to meet requirements of different kinds of applications. The streaming layer architecture provides effective management of data flows and allows integration of different systems with ease regardless software of hardware platform. With extensibility support additional features can be build in without affect to performance. Therefore, heterogeneous network support, real-time communications, embedded boards support can be easily achieved. In order to achieve high performance together with portability into different platforms, the most functions has to be implemented in C language, while critical parts, such as scheduling, priority assignment has to be made using native functions of tested platforms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2008

By using Ez-RoboMaster which is developed in EASYTECH, we implement an intelligent robot system. The Ez-RoboMaster is developed based on AVR Atmega128, and the emdedded system contains 5 ports for several sensors and actuators. And we develop integrated development environment(IDE), Ez-CPU3.0 for easy application of Ez-RoboMaster. In this paper, we introduce the effectiveness of Ez-RoboMaster for educational platforms of intelligent robot systems at college and university.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.191-194
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 Atmel사의 AVR 마이크로프로세서에 적합하게 개발된 Java 바이트코드 인터프리터인 NanoVM을 자체 개발한 마이크로로봇에 이식하여 Java 언어 전용 로봇을 구현하였다. 따라서 마이크로프로세서의 구조와 회로를 모르는 학생들도 로봇을 프로그래밍하면서 Java 언어를 효율적으로 학습할 수 있다. 더욱이 최근 학생들의 프로그래밍언어 학습 능력이 떨어지면서 컴퓨터 관련학과의 프로그래밍언어 교육이 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 따라서 학생들의 프로그래밍언어 학습 동기를 부여하고 창의 공학적 프로그래밍언어 교육프로그램의 도입이 필요한 시점에서 본 연구에서 개발한 Java 로봇은 많은 기여를 할 것으로 기대된다.