• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.139-144
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• 2004

The flight control system designed for an unmanned airship, which is under development by KARI, is in reduced. First, the dynamic characteristics of the airship are addressed, which are fairly different from those of the nominal aircraft. In order to implement autonomous flight for the unmanned airship, flight control logic is designed including autopilot and guidance law. The autopilot is designed under consideration of the velocity region of the unmanned airship. The guidance laws are implemented in main operational modes such as point navigation, station keeping and spiral up/down for emergency return. Their simulation results are also presented in order to validate performances of the flight control system.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2004

This paper proposes a sensor-fusion technique where the data sets for the previous moments are properly transformed and fused into the current data sets to enable accurate measurement, such as, distance to an obstacle and location of the service robot itself. In the conventional fusion schemes, the measurement is dependent on the current data sets. As the results, more of sensors are required to measure a certain physical parameter or to improve the accuracy of the measurement. However, in this approach, instead of adding more sensors to the system, the temporal sequence of the data sets are stored and utilized for the measurement improvement. Theoretical basis is illustrated by examples and the effectiveness is proved through the simulations. Finally, the new space and time sensor fusion(STSF) scheme is applied to the control of a mobile robot in an unstructured environment as well as structured environment.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.49-53
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• 2011

Path following of the mobile robot is one research hot for the mobile robot navigation. For the control system of the wheeled mobile robot(WMR) being in nonhonolomic system and the complex relations among the control parameters, it is difficult to solve the problem based on traditional mathematics model. In this paper, we presents a simple and effective way of implementing an adaptive following controller based on the PID for mobile robot path following. The method uses a non-linear model of mobile robot kinematics and thus allows an accurate prediction of the future trajectories. The proposed controller has a parallel structure that consists of PID controller with a fixed gain. The control law is constructed on the basis of Lyapunov stability theory. Computer simulation for a differentially driven nonholonomic mobile robot is carried out in the velocity and orientation tracking control of the nonholonomic WMR. The simulation results of wheel type mobile robot platform are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.86-93
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• 2012

This paper presents a new approach to solve the pursuit problem based on a univector field method. In our proposed method, a set of eight agents works together instantaneously to find suitable moving directions and follow the univector field to pursue and capture a prey agent by surrounding it from eight directions in an infinite grid-world. In addition, a set of strategies is proposed to make the pursuit problem more realistic in the real world environment. This is a general approach, and it can be extended for an environment that contains static or moving obstacles. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm is effective for the pursuit problem.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.35-42
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• 1998

이동로봇이 주위환경에 대해서 전혀 알지 못하고 목표점으로 주행할때, 로봇은 긴 장애물이나 오목한 장애물에 대해서 존재할 수 있는 국부최소점에 빠져 더 이상 진행을 못하는 발생할수 있다. 본 논문에서는, 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 퍼지 이론을 사용하여 효율적인 장애물회피와 안정된 목표점 도달을 달성할수 있도록하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. 제시된 알고리즘은 상하 2층 구조로 되어 있으며, 하위층은 장애물 회피 알고리즘 및 목표점 접근 알고리즘으로, 그리고 상위층은 로봇이 이동하면서 변화하는 환경에 맞게 앞의 두 알고리즘에 적절한 가중치를 부여하는 가중치 부여 알고리즘으로 구성되어 있다. 본 논문에서 제시된 알고리즘의 타당성을 보이기 위하여 'ㄹ', 'ㅊ' 형태의 장애물 및 여러 가지 형태의 장애물이 복합적으로 존재하는 환경에서 모의실험을 행한결과, 만족할 만한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.133-139
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• 2013

This paper proposes a vision-based indoor localization method for autonomous vehicles. A single upward-facing digital camera was mounted on an autonomous vehicle and used as a vision sensor to identify artificial landmarks and any natural corner features. An interest point detector was used to find the natural features. Using an optical flow detection algorithm, information related to the direction and vehicle translation was defined. This information was used to track the vehicle movements. Random noise related to uneven light disrupted the calculation of the vehicle translation. Thus, to estimate the vehicle translation, a Kalman filter was used to calculate the vehicle position. These algorithms were tested on a vehicle in a real environment. The image processing method could recognize the landmarks precisely, while the Kalman filter algorithm could estimate the vehicle's position accurately. The experimental results confirmed that the proposed approaches can be implemented in practical situations.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2007

Latest advances in network sensor technology and state of the art of mobile robot, and artificial intelligence research can be employed to develop autonomous and distributed monitoring systems. In this study, as the preliminary step for developing a multi-purpose "Intelligent Space" platform to implement advanced technologies easily to realize smart services to human. We will give an explanation for the ISpace system architecture designed and implemented in this study and a short review of existing techniques, since there exist several recent thorough books and review paper on this paper. Instead we will focus on the main results with relevance to the DIND data fusion with CI of Intelligent Space. We will conclude by discussing some possible future extensions of ISpace. It is first dealt with the general principle of the navigation and guidance architecture, then the detailed functions tracking multiple objects, human detection and motion assessment, with the results from the simulations run.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.381-381
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• 2000

This paper describes the path planning method in an unknown environment for an autonomous mobile robot equipped with CCD(Charge-Coupled Device) camera. The mobile robot moves along the guideline. The CCD camera is useful to detect the existence of a guideline. The wavelet transform is used to find the edge of guideline. Using wavelet transform, we can make an image processing more easily and rapidly. We make a fuzzy control rule using image data then make a decision the position and the navigation of the mobile robot. The center value that indicates the center of guideline is the input of fuzzy logic controller and the steering angle of the mobile robot is the fuzzy output. Some actual experiments for the mobile robot applied fuzzy control show that the mobile robot effectively moves to target position.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.315-320
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• 2009

The popularity of autonomous mobile robots have been rapidly increasing due to their new emerging application areas, from room cleaning, tourist guidance to space explorations. However, the development of a satisfactory control algorithm that will enable the autonomous mobile robots to navigate safely especially in dynamic environments is still an open research problem. In this paper, a newly proposed potential field based control method is implemented, analyzed, and improvements are suggested based on experimental results obtained from simulations. The experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the behavior-based control using the proposed potential field generation technique.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.19-26
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• 1995

In this paper, a fuzzy-neural hybrid control approach is proposed for controlling a mobile robot that can avoid an unexpected obstacle in a navigational space. First, to describe the global structure of a known environment, a heuristic collision-free space band is introduced. Based on the band, the moving information in the known environment is trained to a neural controller. Then, during the execution of a mobile robot navigation moving information at each position is given the neural controller. If the mobile robot encounters an unexpected obstacle, a fuzzy controller activates to avoid the unexpected obstacle. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the control algorithm.