• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2179-2182
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• 2005

Recently, optical 3D scanners are frequently used for inspection of parts, assembly and manufacturing tooling. One of the advantages is being able to measure a large area fast and accurately. Owing to recent advances in high-resolution image sensing technology, high power illumination technology, and high speed microprocessors, the accuracy and resolution of optical 3D scanners are being improved rapidly. In order to measure the entire geometry of objects, multiple scans have to be performed in various setups by moving either the objects or the scanner. This paper introduces novel methods to measure the entire geometry of objects by automatically changing the setups and then aligning the scanned data in a single coordinate system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1427-1430
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• 2005

In this paper, the range finder system using a PSD sensor suitable for low-cost localization sensor of a mobile robot. Because the distance-voltage output of a PSD sensor has a non-linear property, the linearizing function is proposed through the experimental characteristics of the sensor. And the characteristics are tested and the distance-voltage data are measured in various colors and materials of object. For a known environment, a mobile robot scans the surroundings using a PSD sensor that can rotate $360^{\circ}$. Finally, the performance and accuracy of the developed system are verified according to the comparison the distance by proposed function with real distance

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1814-1819
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• 2005

This paper describes the development of a Stewart platform-based robot force sensor with distinctive structure of ball joints. The number of ball joints is only a half of the similar style sensors, so it is possible to reduce size and weight of the sensor. The structure of ball joint is described and discussed. Furthermore, we use strain gauges, but not liner voltage differential transformers, as sensing elements, in order to reduce size and weight of the sensor. It is also proposed that beams are replaced with pipes as sensing elements of the sensor. The ball joints and sensing elements with pipes can effectively reduce the error of the sensor. A geometric analysis model is also proposed. The external force and its moment can be measured with this model. Moreover, the performance of this sensor was tested. The test results conducted to evaluate the sensing capability of the sensor is reported and discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2356-2361
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a complete isotropy analysis of a caster wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot(COMR) with nonredundant/redundant actuation. The motivation of this work is that the omnidirectional mobility loses significance in motion control unless the isotropy characteristics is maintained well. First, with the characteristic length introduced, the kinematic model of a COMR is obtained based on the orthogonal decomposition of the wheel velocities. Second, a general form of the isotropy conditions of a COMR is given in terms of physically meaningful vector quantities which describe the wheel configurations. Third, for all possible nonredundant and redundant actuation sets, the algebraic expressions of the isotropy conditions are derived to completely identify the isotropic configurations of a COMR. Fourth, the number of the isotropic configurations and the characteristic length required for the isotropy are discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2379-2384
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• 2005

We propose a novel method for object recognition using the smart tag system with a stereo vision on a pan-tilt mechanism. We developed a smart tag which included IRED device. The smart tag is attached onto the object. We also developed a stereo vision system which pans and tilts for the object image to be the centered on each whole image view. A Stereo vision system on the pan-tilt mechanism can map the position of IRED to the robot coordinate system by using pan-tilt angles. And then, to map the size and pose of the object for the robot to coordinate the system, we used a simple model-based vision algorithm. To increase the possibility of tag-based object recognition, we implemented our approach by using as easy and simple techniques as possible.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.714-719
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• 2004

The Controller Area Network (CAN) is being widely used in real-time control applications such as automobiles, aircraft, and automated factories. Unfortunately, CAN, in its current form, is not able to either share out the system bandwidth among the different devices fairly or to grant an upper bound on the transmission times experienced by the nodes connected to the communication medium as it happens, for instance, in the token-based networks. In this paper. we present the message scheduling for CAN, based on the distributed control scheme to integrate actuators and sensors in a humanoid robot. Besides introducing the new algorism, this paper also presents some performance figures obtained using a specially developed software simulator, while the behavior of the new algorism is compared with the traditional CAN systems, in order to see how effective they are.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.246-248
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• 2005

The Controller Area Network (CAN) is being widely used for real-time control application and small-scale distributed computer controller systems. However, CAN may exhibit unfair behavior under heavy traffic conditions. When there are both high and low priority messages ready for transmission, the proposed precedence priority filtering method allows one low priority message to be exchanged between any two adjacent higher priority messages. In this way, the length of each transmission delays is upper bounded. These procedures are implemented as local controllers for the ISHURO (Inha Semyung Humanoid RObot).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2400-2402
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• 2004

The Controller Area Network (CAN) is being widely used in real-time control applications such as automobiles, aircraft, and automated factories. Unfortunately, CAN, in its current form, is not able to either share out the system bandwidth among the different devices fairly or to grant an upper bound on the transmission times experienced by the nodes connected to the communication medium as it happens, for instance, in the token-based networks. In this paper, we present the message scheduling for CAN, based on the distributed control scheme to integrate actuators and sensors in a humanoid robot. Besides introducing the new algorithm, this paper also presents some performance figures obtained using a specially developed software simulator, while the behavior of the new algorithm is compared with the traditional CAN systems, in order to see how effective they are.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.11a
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• pp.299-303
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• 1993

There can be two methods in control systems: one is to use a linear controller, the other is to use a nonlinear controller. The PID controller and the fuzzy controller can be said to belong the linear and the nonlinear controller respectively. In this paper, a new hybrid controller which is consist of the linear PID controller of which the gain is tuned and the nonlinear self tuning fuzzy controller is proposed. In the PID controller, an algorithm which parameterizes the proportional, the intergral, and the derivative gain as a single parameter is used to improve the performance of the PID controller. In the self tuning fuzzy controller, an algorithm which changes the shape of the triangle membership function and changes the scaling factor which is multiplied to the error and the error change. The evaluation of the performance of the suggested algorithm is carried on by the simulation for the Rhino XH-2 robot manipulator with 5 links revolute joints.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.32.6-32
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• 2001

This paper describes the steering control and geomagnetism cancellation for an autonomous mobile robotusing MR sensors. The magnetic-resistive (MR) sensor obtains the vector summation of the magnetic fields from embedded magnets and the Earth. The robot is controlled by the magnetic fields from embedded magnets. So, geomagnetism is the disturbance in the steering control system. In this paper, we propose a new method of the sensor arrangement in order to remove the geomagnetism and robotbody interference. The proposed method uses two MR sensors located in a level plane and the steering controller has been developed. The controller has three input variables (dBx, dBy, dBz) using the measured magnetic field difference, and an output variable (the steering angle) ...