• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.507-514
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• 2022

가정에서 사람을 보조하기 위해 이동과 작업이 모두 가능한 모바일 매니퓰레이터의 필요성이 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 크기가 작고 낮은 가격으로 구성할 수 있는 모바일 매니퓰레이터를 개발하기 위해 모바일 로봇에 탑재할 수 있는 소형 매니퓰레이터 시스템을 개발하였다. 개발한 매니퓰레이터는 4자유도를 가지며, 끝단에 그리퍼와 카메라를 부착하여 물체의 인식과 인식한 물체에 대한 작업 수행이 가능하다. 개발한 매니퓰레이터는 수직 방향의 선형 이동이 가능하여 상대적으로 높이 위치한 사람의 손에 물건을 전달하거나 협업을 수행하는 데 유리하다. 개발한 매니퓰레이터의 4자유도 동작을 위한 4개의 액츄에이터를 매니퓰레이터의 베이스에 가깝게 배치하고 매니퓰레이터의 회전 관성을 줄임으로써 매니퓰레이터의 작업 중 안정성을 높이고 모바일 매니퓰레이터의 전복 위험을 낮추었다. 개발한 매니퓰레이터의 끝단에 위치한 카메라에서 RGB 영상을 획득하고 영상처리를 통해 물체를 인식하여 목표한 위치로 옮기는 픽 앤 플레이스 동작을 시험하였으며 로봇의 작업영역(workspace) 내에서 성공적으로 동작함을 확인하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.29-39
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• 2019

실생활에서의 모바일 로봇 응용이 증가하면서 저비용의 자율 주행 기능이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문은 모바일 로봇의 실내 주행 여건을 고려한 제한된 트랙을 가정하고, 제한된 트랙에서 모바일 로봇의 자율 주행을 지원하는 비젼 기반 실시간 차선 검출 및 추적 시스템을 제안한다. 다양한 형태의 차선 처리와 동작 파리미터의 사전 조정 등을 고려하여 다중 동작 모드를 가진 시스템 구조와 상태 기계를 설계하였으며, 파라미터 조정 모드에서 차선 두께의 기하학적 특성을 바탕으로 컬러 필터의 임계값을 동적으로 조정하고, 곡선 트랙의 불안정 입력 모드와 직선 트랙의 안정 입력 모드에서 차선의 기하학적 그리고 시간적 특성을 바탕으로 차선 특징 픽셀을 적응적으로 추출하고 최소제곱법으로 차선 모형을 추정한다. 추정된 차선 모형으로 트랙 중앙선을 산출하고 움직임 모형을 단순화시켜 선형 칼만 필터를 통해 추적한다. 주행 실험에서 저성능의 로봇 구성에서도 실시간 처리를 통해 제한된 트랙에서 정상적으로 자율 주행이 이루어짐을 확인하였다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 2004년도 춘계공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.119-126
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• 2004

Location management is very important issue in wireless communication system to trace mobile users' exact location. In this study, we propose a dynamic location area management scheme which determines the size of dynamic location area considering each user's characteristic. In determining the optimal location area size, we consider the measurement data as well as the historical data, which contains call arrival rate and average speed of each mobile user. In this mixture of data, the weight of historical data is derived by linear searching method which guarantees the minimal cost of location management. We also introduce the regularity index which can be calculated by using the autocorrelation of historical data itself. Statistical validation shows that the regularity index is the same as the weight of measurement data. As a result, the regularity index is utilized to incorporate the historical data into the measurement data. By applying the proposed scheme, the location management cost is shown to decrease. Numerical examples illustrate such an aspect of the proposed scheme.

• 산업공학
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.382-389
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• 2005

Location management is very important issue in wireless communication system to trace mobile users' exact location. In this study, we propose a dynamic location area management scheme which determines the size of dynamic location area considering each user's characteristics. In determining the optimal location area size, we consider the measurement data as well as the historical data, which contains call arrival rate and average speed of each mobile user. In this mixture of data, the weight of historical data is derived by linear searching method which guarantees the minimal cost of location management. We also introduce the regularity index which can be calculated by using the autocorrelation of historical data itself. Statistical validation shows that the regularity index is the same as the weight of measurement data. As a result, the regularity index is utilized to incorporate the historical data into the measurement data. By applying the proposed scheme, the location management cost is shown to decrease. Numerical examples illustrate such an aspect of the proposed scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.795-800
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• 2014

In this paper, a vibrotactile pad system, T-mobile, is developed to provide vibrotactile cues for hand-held devices. A grooved and slim design is adapted to the back-side plane of the T-mobile, and the contact part consists of 12 vibrotactile panels which can operate independently and separately. To be isolated among vibrotactile actuators, the surface of the cover is divided into several pieces. Each vibrating module consists of a linear resonant actuator, a section of covering surface, and a vibration isolator. In order to provide spatial and directional information, sensory saltation and phantom sensation are applied to the T-mobile. To evaluate the developed device, two experiments were conducted to test whether directional information and spatial information can be successfully displayed by the device. Additionally, in order to find optimal stimulation by sensory saltation, an empirical test was conducted. As a result, spatial and directional information would be useful for displaying intuitive information for hand-held devices with vibrotactile feedback and reasonable near-optimal value for sensory saltation was obtained.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2009

A SMT mounter is a kind of equipment that mounts SMD parts quickly on the printed circuit board. By using linear motors, it is controlled with high speed and precision, which is similar to semi-conductor and display process equipment. It is necessarily used in an assembly process of an electronic device. Mobile devices such as a mobile phone and PDA are required to reduce mount areas due to the demands for high performance and small size. Hence, super small sized and complex mobile devices have been developed. To improve the productivity of the corresponding equipment, designs with large sized, high speed, and multidisciplinary functions have been consistently performed. Meanwhile, a design trend of large size and light-weight on SMT mounter causes a low natural frequency of systems and vibration problems at the high speed operation. In this paper, the dynamic characteristics of the SMD mounter system were investigated through a modal test and transmissibility test, and verified by finite element method. Also, various design improvement was performed to avoid the resonance phenomena.

• 센서학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.278-285
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• 2005

This paper describes techniques of camera calibration and artificial landmarks detection for the automatic charging of a mobile robot, equipped with a fish-eye camera in the direction of its operation for movement or surveillance purposes. For its identification from the surrounding environments, three landmarks employed with infrared LEDs, were installed at the charging station. When the robot reaches a certain point, a signal is sent to the LEDs for activation, which allows the robot to easily detect the landmarks using its vision camera. To eliminate the effects of the outside light interference during the process, a difference image was generated by comparing the two images taken when the LEDs are on and off respectively. A fish-eye lens was used for the vision camera of the robot but the wide-angle lens resulted in a significant image distortion. The radial lens distortion was corrected after linear perspective projection transformation based on the pin-hole model. In the experiment, the designed system showed sensing accuracy of ${\pm}10$ mm in position and ${\pm}1^{\circ}$ in orientation at the distance of 550 mm.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.228-241
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• 1997

In this paper, we present a design of modem and vocoder digital signal processor (DSP) chips for CDMA mobile station. The modem chip integrates CDMA reverse link modulator, CDMA forward link demodulator and Viterbi decoder. This chip contains 89,000 gates and 29 kbit RAMs, and the chip size is $10 mm{\times}10.1 mm$ which is fabricated using a $0.8{\mu}m$ 2 metal CMOs technology. To carry out the system-level simulation, models of the base station modulator, the fading channel, the automatic gain control loop, and the microcontroller were developed and interfaced with a gate-level description of the modem application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The Modem chip is now successfully working in the real CDMA mobile station on its first fab-out. A new DSP architecture was designed to implement the Qualcomm code exited linear prediction (QCELP) vocoder algorithm in an efficient way. The 16 bit vocoder DSP chip has an architecture which supports direct and immediate addressing modes in one instruction cycle, combined with a RISC-type instruction set. This turns out to be effective for the implementation of vocoder algorithm in terms of performance and power consumption. The implementation of QCELP algorithm in our DSP requires only 28 million instruction per second (MIPS) of computation and 290 mW of power consumption. The DSP chip contains 32,000 gates, 32K ($2k{\times}16\;bit$) RAM, and 240k ($10k{\times}24\;bit$) ROM. The die size is $8.7\;mm{\times}8.3\;mm$ and chip is fabricated using $0.8\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.

• 공학기술논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.349-353
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• 2012

Recently, Mobile multimedia equipments as smart phone and tablet pc requirement is increasing and this market is also being expanded. These mobile equipments require large multi-media function, so more power consumption is required. For these reasons, the needs of power management IC as switching type dc-dc converter and linear regulator have increased. DC-DC buck converter become more important in power management IC because the operating voltage of VLSI system is very low comparing to lithium-ion battery voltage. There are many people to be concerned about digital DC-DC converter without using external passive device recently. Digital controlled DC-DC converter is essential in mobile application to various external circumstance. This paper proposes the DC-DC Buck Converter using the AVR RISC 8-bit micro-processor control. The designed converter receives the input DC 18-30 [V] and the output voltage of DC-DC Converter changes by the feedback circuit using the A/D conversion function. Duty ratio is adjusted to maintain a constant output voltage 12 [V]. Proposed converter using the micro-processor control was compared to a typical boost converter. As a result, the current loss in the proposed converter was reduced about 10.7%. Input voltage and output voltage can be displayed on the LCD display to see the status of the operation.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.795-803
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• 2005

This paper studies the observability of calibration system with a measurement operator. The calibration system needs a simple digital indicator to measure the mobile table movements with respect to the MC coordinate. However, it yields the concern about the poor parameter observability due to measuring only a part of the movements. We uses the QR-decomposition to find the optimal calibration configurations maximizing the linear independence of rows of an observation matrix. The number of identifiable parameter is examined by the rank of the observation matrix, which represents the parameter observability. The method is applied to a 6-axis MC with parallel tilting table and the calibration results are presented. These results verify that all necessary kinematic parameters are observable and the calibration system has robustness to the noise using optimal calibration configurations.