• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose robot control interface using gaze recognition which is not limited by head motion. Most of the existing gaze recognition methods are working well only if the head is fixed. Furthermore the methods require a correction process per each person. The interface in this paper uses a camera with built-in infrared filter and 2 LED light sources to see what direction the pupils turn to and can send command codes to control the system, thus it doesn't need any correction process per each person. The experimental results showed that the proposed interface can control the system exactly by recognizing user's gaze direction.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.373-379
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• 2015

A hybrid navigation system is implemented to apply for a mobile robot. The hybrid navigation system consists of an inertial navigation system and a global positioning system. The inertial navigation system quickly calculates the position and the attitude of the robot by integrating directional accelerations, angular speed, and heading angle from a strap-down inertial measurement unit, but the results are available for a short time since it tends to diverge quickly. Global positioning system delivers position, heading angle, and traveling speed stably, but it has large deviation with slow update. Therefore, a hybrid navigation system uses the result from an inertial navigation system and corrects the result with the help of the global positioning system where an indirect feedback Kalman filter is used. We implement and confirm the performance of the hybrid navigation system through driving a car attaching it.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2008

보안이 중요시 되는 공간에서 지능형 감시 시스템의 필요성이 점차 중요시 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 embedded Linux 기반의 Mobile Robot에 Network Camera를 탑재 하여 침입자를 추적할 수 있는 시스템 구현에 목적을 두고 있다. Network Camera부터 Wireless Lan을 이용하여 서버로 영상을 전송하고, 서버에서 블록매칭 알고리즘을 이용하여 침입자의 이동경로를 파악하며 침입자에 대한 방향 정보를 전송하여 침입자를 추적한다. 로봇이 침입자를 추적함에 따라 침입자의 유효 영상을 얻는다. 본 논문에 의해서 구현된 시스템은 다른 감시 시스템과 연동하여 지능형 감시 시스템으로서 신뢰성을 더할 수 있다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.53-63
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• 2018

A novel real-time path planning algorithm suitable for implementation on a small mobile robot is introduced. The algorithm can be used as the basis for mapping unknown or partially known environments and is tested in a specially developed simulation environment in Matlab(R). Simulations results are presented demonstrating that the algorithm can readily be implemented to allow a small robot to navigate in various unknown and partially known environments. The main characteristics of the algorithm include simplicity, ease of implementation, speed, and efficiency, thereby being especially suitable for small robots. Furthermore, for partially known environments, another algorithm is proposed to predefine an optimal path taking into account information provided regarding the environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.975-978
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• 2010

This paper presents a Kalman filter based modeling algorithm for autonomous robots. State of the robot systems is measured by using embedded sensors and then carried to a host computer via ubiquitous sensor network (USN). We settle a linear state space motion equation for unknown system dynamics and modify a popular Kalman filter algorithm in deriving suitable parameter estimation mechanism. We conduct real-time experiment to test our proposed modeling algorithm where velocity state of the constructed robot is used as system observation.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.293-300
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• 2019

In this paper, an Embedded solution for fast navigation and precise positioning of mobile robots by floor features is introduced. Most of navigation systems tend to require high-performance computing unit and high quality sensor data. They can produce high accuracy navigation systems but have limited application due to their high cost. The introduced navigation system is designed to be a low cost solution for a wide range of applications such as toys, mobile service robots and education. The key design idea of the system is a simple localization approach using line features of the floor and delayed localization strategy using topological map. It differs from typical navigation approaches which usually use Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique with high latency localization. This navigation system is implemented on single board Raspberry Pi B+ computer which has 1.4 GHz processor and Redone mobile robot which has maximum speed of 1.1 m/s.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.293-297
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• 2021

This paper presents how to create a 3D map and solve problems related to generating a global path planning for navigation. Map creation and localization were performed using the RTAB-Map package to create a 3D map of the environment. In addition, when the target point is within the obstacle space, the problem of not generating a global path was solved using the asr_navfn package. The performance of the proposed system is validated through experiments with a wheelchair-type robot.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.617-629
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• 2021

Although the actual visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms provide highly accurate tracking and mapping, most algorithms are too heavy to run live on embedded devices. In addition, the maps they produce are often unsuitable for path planning. To mitigate these issues, we propose a completely closed-loop online dense RGB-D SLAM algorithm targeting autonomous indoor mobile robot navigation tasks. The proposed algorithm runs live on an NVIDIA Jetson board embedded on a two-wheel differential-drive robot. It exhibits lightweight three-dimensional mapping, room-scale consistency, accurate pose tracking, and robustness to moving objects. Further, we introduce a navigation strategy based on the proposed algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed SLAM algorithm, its computational efficiency, and its benefits for on-the-fly navigation while mapping.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2024

In the industrial field, robots are used to increase productivity by replacing labors with dangerous, difficult, and hard tasks. However, failures of individual industrial robots in the entire production process may cause product defects or malfunctions, and may cause dangerous disasters in the case of manufacturing parts used in automobiles and aircrafts. Although requirements for early diagnosis of industrial robot failures are steadily increasing, there are many limitations in early detection. This paper introduces methods for diagnosing robot failures using sound-based data and deep learning. This paper also analyzes, compares, and evaluates the performance of failure diagnosis using various deep learning technologies. Furthermore, in order to improve the performance of the fault diagnosis system using deep learning technology, we propose a method to increase the accuracy of fault diagnosis based on an inference window. When adopting the inference window of deep learning, the accuracy of the failure diagnosis was increased up to 94%.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1125-1131
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• 2012

According to abrupt decrese in number of farmer and ageing society, there has been a need for development of low cost agricultural robot. In this paper, a H/W and S/W platform of caterpillar type agricultural chemical dusting robot based on XP embedded system were described. The developed agricultural robot has 2 d.o.f caterpillar type driving wheel and 2 d.o.f chemical dusting spray mechanical system. The H/W platform of the agricultural robot consists of robot controller, remote controller and sensor controller. In S/W platform, 5 processes work concurrently, which are task manager, TCP-IP communication process, localization process, wheel control, and sensor control process. This robot platform has been developed for chemical dusting robot. We proved this system's validity through field test.