• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.106-109
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• 2003

Many diverse methods have been developing in the field of biometric identification as human-friendliness has been emphasized in the intelligent system's area. One of emerging method is to use human footprint. Automated footprint-based person recognition was started by Nakajima et al.'s research but they showed relatively low recognition result by low spatial resolution of pressure sensor and standing posture. In this paper, we proposed a modified Nakajima's method to use walking footprint which could give more stable toe information than standing posture. Finally, we prove the usefulness of proposed method as 91.4tt recognition rate in 11 volunteers' test.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.984-990
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• 2005

The aim of this paper is to investigate a control framework for mobile robots, operating in shared environment with humans. The Intelligent Space (iSpace) can sense the whole space and evaluate the situations in the space by distributing sensors. The mobile agents serve the inhabitants in the space utilizes the evaluated information by iSpace. The iSpace evaluates the situations in the space and learns the walking behavior of the inhabitants. The human intelligence manifests in the space as a behavior, as a response to the situation in the space. The iSpace learns the behavior and applies to mobile agent motion planning and control. This paper introduces the application of fuzzy-neural network to describe the obstacle avoidance behavior teamed from humans. Simulation results are introduced to demonstrate the efficiency of this method.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2007

In this paper, we discuss a service to give alarm in the case of emergency for the old and the weak by human behavior recognition in Intelligent Space. Our Intelligent Space consists of mobile robots, sensors and agents. And these components are connected to network framework. Agent analyzes data acquired from networked sensors and determines task of robots and a space to provide a service for humans. In our emergency alarm service, human behavior recognition service module analyzes accelerometer data obtained from body-attached human behavior sensing platform, and classifies into four basic human behavior such as walking, running, sitting and falling-down. For the old and the weak, falling-down behavior may bring about dangerous situations. On such an occasion, agent executes emergency alarm service immediately. And then a selected mobile robot approaches fallen person and sends images of the person to guardians. In this paper, we set up a scenario to verify the emergency alarm service in Intelligent Space, and show feasibility of the service from our simulation experiments.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.237-242
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• 2023

Research on high-performance walking robots is being actively conducted, and quadruped walking robots are receiving a lot of attention due to their excellent mobility and adaptability on uneven terrain, but they are difficult to introduce and utilize due to high cost. In this paper, to increase utilization by applying intelligent functions to a low-cost quadruped robot, we present a method of improving uneven terrain overcoming ability by mounting IMU and reinforcement learning on embedded board and automatically detecting objects using camera and deep learning. The robot consists of the legs of a quadruped mammal, and each leg has three degrees of freedom. We train complex terrain in simulation environments with designed 3D model and apply it to real robot. Through the application of this research method, it was confirmed that there was no significant difference in walking ability between flat and non-flat terrain, and the behavior of performing person detection in real time under limited experimental conditions was confirmed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.825-837
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• 2017

This paper describes a novel type of a walking rehabilitation robot that applies robot technologies to crutches used by patients with walking difficulties in the lower body. The primary features of the developed robot are divided into three parts. First, the developed robot is worn on the patient's chest, as opposed to the conventional elbow crutch that is attached to the forearm; hence, it can effectively disperse the patient's weight throughout the width of the chest, and eliminate the concentrated load at the elbow. Furthermore, it allows free arm motion during walking. Second, the developed robot can recognize the walking intention of the patient from the magnitude and direction of the ground reactive forces. This is done using three-axis force sensors attached to the feet of the robot. Third, the robot can perform a stair walking function, which can change vertical movement trajectories in order to step up and down a single stair according to the floor height. Consequently, we experimentally showed that the developed robot can effectively perform walking rehabilitation assistance by perceiving the walking intention of the patient. Moreover we quantitatively verified muscle power assistance by measuring the electromyography (EMG) signals of the muscles of the lower limb.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.1210-1216
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• 2004

This paper deals with a human-like gait generation of a biped robot with a balancing weight of an inverted pendulum type by using genetic algorithm. The ZMP (Zero Moment Point) is the most important index in a biped robot's dynamic walking stability. To perform a stable walking of a biped robot, a balancing motion is required according to legs' trajectories and a desired ZMP trajectory. A dynamic equation of the balancing motion is nonlinear due to an inverted pendulum type's balancing weight. To solve the nonlinear equation by the FDM (Finite Difference Method), a linearized model of equation is proposed. And GA (Genetic Algorithm) is applied to optimize a human-like balancing motion of a biped robot. By genetic algorithm, the index of the balancing motion is efficiently optimized, and a dynamic walking stability is verified by the ZMP verification equation. These balancing motion are simulated and experimented with a real biped robot IWR-IV. This human-like gait generation will be applied to a humanoid robot, at future work.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2012년도 전기공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.206-207
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• 2012

We need to develop intelligent smart card made unskilled general public's to the shelter on Passenger Ship. prior to development, we have to study passenger of characteristic. so we researched about domestic unskilled general public's of walking speed in refuge situation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1829_1830
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• 2009

본 논문은 로봇이 처한 환경의 실시간 상황 인식을 위한 지능형 센서 인터페이스를 연구 개발하여 다양한 환경에서의 안정되고 유연한 이족 보행 로봇의 동적 보행 제어를 수행하였다. 자이로 및 가속도 센서를 적용한 실험을 통하여 간단한 보상만으로도 로봇의 안정도가 확연히 개선되는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 미지의 외력이 가해져 로봇이 불안정한 상태가 계속될 때 상체의 기울기 보정이 무게중심을 보다 안정된 영역쪽으로 이동시켜 곧바로 균형을 잡아준다. 또한 압력센서를 이용한 ZMP 측정과 이를 통한 균형 제어 실험 결과 뛰어난 보행을 구현할 수 있었다. 불규칙적인 지면에서도 발바닥에 가해지는 압력 분포가 변화하는 것을 이용하여 ZMP가 항상 로봇의 발바닥 지지 영역 안으로 오도록 제어하였다. 이것을 통해 로봇은 경사면을 보행하거나 기울기가 변하는 바닥에서 쓰러지지 않고 안정한 상태를 유지하였다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 대한안전경영과학회 2001년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.37-42
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• 2001

Utilization rate for the restrictive gate and required time and walking distance to board are to be a measure for the gate management and passenger's convenience estimation. So, the main purpose of the gate management are maximization of utilization rate and increment of airport terminal user's convenience through the efficient gate management. This study intends to maximize the utilization rate on usable gates by concerning about layout, terminal configuration, local passenger of the airport and development of gate assignment algorithm and DSS which maximize the gate utilization and minimize the passenger's walking distance.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2003

Utilization rate for the gate and required time and walking distance to boarding flight are important measures for the gate management and passenger's convenience estimation. So, the main purpose of the gate management are the maximization of utilization rate and improvement of airport terminal user's convenience through the efficient gate management. This study intends to maximize the utilization rate of usable gates by considering layout, terminal configuration, local passenger of the airport and development of gate assignment algorithm and DSS which maximizes the gate utilization and minimizes the passengers' walking distance. And the decision support system can provide an efficient means of airport management of airport using an assignment algorithm.