• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.79-87
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• 2011

This paper presents the optimal design of an overlapped ultrasonic sensor ring for high resolution obstacle detection of an autonomous mobile robot. It is assumed that a set of low directivity ultrasonic sensors of the same type are arranged along a circle of nonzero radius at a regular spacing with their beams overlapped. First, taking into account the dead angle region, the entire range of obstacle detection is determined with reference to the center of an overlapped ultrasonic sensor ring. Second, the optimal design index of an overlapped ultrasonic sensor ring is defined as the area closeness of three sensing subzones resulting from beam overlap. Third, the lower and upper bounds on the number of ultrasonic sensors are derived, which can guarantee minimal beam overlap and also avoid excessive beam overlap among adjacent ultrasonic sensors. Fourth, employing a commercial low directivity ultrasonic sensor, an optimal design example of an overlapped ultrasonic sensor ring is given along with the ultrasonic sensor ring prototype mounted on top of a mobile robot. Finally, some experimental results using our prototype ultrasonic sensor ring are given to demonstrate the validity and performance of an optimally overlapped ultrasonic sensor ring for high resolution obstacle detection.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.824-832
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• 2011

An essential consideration to differentiate prosthetic hand from robot hand is its convenience and usefulness rather than high resolution or multi-function of the robot hand. Therefore, this study proposes a myoelectric hand with a 2 DOF auto wrist module which has 6 essential functions of the human hand such as open, grasp, pronation, supination, extension, flexion, which improves the convenience of the daily life. It consists of the 3 main parts, the myoelectric sensor for input signal without additional attachment to operate the prosthetic hand, hand mechanism with high-torqued auto-transmission mechanism and self-locking module which guarantee the safety under the abrupt emergency and minimum power consumption, and dual threshold based controller to make easy for adopting the multi-DOF myoelectric hand. We prove the validity of the proposed system with experimental results.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1092-1097
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• 2014

Unmanned flying robots have been used recently in many difficult situations. One of the major issues in this area is the problem of how long these unmanned flying robots can perform a given task successfully. For this, the development of a light body and high-efficiency power supply has been executed widely, but we do not as yet have the complete solution. In this paper, we propose a form of Multi-Copter X8, which can transform into other types to further improve these problems. The proposed robot has a 3-type modification capability, which can produce a more enhanced energy saving effect by reducing power consumption.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.304-309
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• 2004

This work proposes the wearable and intelligent system to control mobile vehicle instead of user. The system having the ability of assistance as well as portable can be applied to various controller. It is possible to observe the state of mobile vehicle and have a good command of robot instead of human. In this paper, the wearable system operating the mobile vehicle by deciding the velocity and rotation angle that are demanded for collision avoidance with the obtained driving information from mobile vehicle is implemented. To make the proposed wearable system have an intelligence, the hierarchical fuzzy logic and neural network are used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.41-44
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• 2006

산업용 로봇으로부터 시작된 로봇에 관한 연구는 서비스 로봇에 대한 개념이 확산되면서 최근 폭발적으로 그 영역을 넓혀가고 있다. 또한, 인간과 함께 생활하는 서비스 로봇의 경우 로봇 스스로가 인간 및 환경을 이해하고 조작할 수 있어야 하므로 매우 높은 수준의 지능이 요구되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 로봇의 지능이란 무엇인가라는 근본적인 문제에 대해 공학적인 측면에서 다루고자 한다. 구체적으로 기존의 개발된 로봇들을 통해 로봇의 지능을 구성하는 요소들을 분석해내고 이를 활용해 특정 로봇의 지능 수준을 측정하거나 또는 서로 다른 두 로봇 간의 지능들을 비교할 수 있는 척도에 대해 제시하고자 한다. 기존의 퍼지 적분 기반 기계 지능 측정법에서의 방법, 즉 Choquet 퍼지 적분과 Sugeno 퍼지 적분을 함께 사용함으로써 정량적/정성적인 판단을 동시에 진행하는 방법을 응용함으로써 인간의 IQ에 해당되는 로봇의 IQ 수치를 얻어낼 수 있게 된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.367-372
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• 2001

This paper proposes a hierachically structured navigation algorithm for multiple mobile robots under unknown dynamic environment. The proposed algorithm consists of three basic parts as follows. The first part based on the fuzzy rule generates the turning angle and moving distance of the robot for goal approach without obstacles. In the second part, using both fuzzy and neural network, the angle and distance of the robot to avoid collision with dynamic and static obstacles are obtained. The final adjustment of the weighting factor based on fuzzy rule for moving and avoiding distance of the robots is provided in the third stage. Some simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.228-233
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• 2004

Nowadays, the robot with various and complex functions is required. previous algorithms, however, cannot satisfy the requirement. In order to solve these problems, we introduce the 2-Layer Fuzzy Controller, which has a small number of fuzzy rules corresponding to various inputs and outputs. Also, it controls robustly and effectively an object. The main problem in the fuzzy controller is how to design the fuzzy rule. This paper designs the optimal 2-layer fuzzy controller using the Schema Co-Evolutionary Algorithm. The schema co-evolutionary algorithm can find more rapidly and excellently than simple genetic algorithm does.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.525-532
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• 2004

Telemanipulator is distingushed from industrial robot by iterating same specified work. Manipulator operator is included in control loop for controlling the telemanipulator because he decide directly during the work and order controllabily. We implement fuzzy controller for reducing the modelling error of telemanipulator which depend on the PID controller. But position-force control method of bidirectional control impose unsafety of vibiration and Analytic Hierchy method can stabilize for reducing nonlinear modelling error by expert operator because of transformation empirical control rule to linear model.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.52-57
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• 2007

This paper presents the design of intelligent moving machine control system using a real time speech recognition. The proposed moving machine control system is composed of four separated module, which are main control module, speech recognition module, servo motor driving module and sensor module. In main control module with microprocessor(80C196KC), one part of the artificial intelligences, fuzzy logic, was applied to the proposed intelligent control system. In order to improve the non-linear characteristic which depend on an user's weight and variable environment, encoder attached to the servo motors was used for feedback control. The proposed system is tested using 9 words lot control of the mobile robot, and the performance of a mobile robot using voice and joystick command is also evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.50-59
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• 1998

This paper presents stabilization and adaptive control of flexible single link robot manipulator system by self-recurrent neural networks that is one of the neural networks and is effective in nonlinear control. The architecture of neural networks is a modified model of self-recurrent structure which has a hidden layer. The self-recurrent neural networks can be used to approximate any continuous function to any desired degree of accuracy and the weights are updated by feedback-error learning algorithm. When a flexible manipulator is rotated by a motor through the fixed end, transverse vibration may occur. The motor toroque should be controlled in such a way that the motor rotates by a specified angle, while simultaneously stabilizing vibration of the flexible manipuators so that it is arresed as soon as possible at the end of rotation. Accurate vibration control of lightweight manipulator during the large changes in configuration common to robotic tasks requires dynamic models that describe both the rigid body motions, as well as the flexural vibrations. Therefore, a dynamic models for a flexible single link robot manipulator is derived, and then a comparative analysis was made with linear controller through an simulation and experiment. The results are proesented to illustrate thd advantages and imporved performance of the proposed adaptive control ove the conventional linear controller.