• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

Recently, with the ever-increasing complexity of industrial robot systems, it has been greatly attention to adopt a multi-core based motion controller with high cost-performance ratio. In this paper, we propose a software architecture that aims to utilize the computing power of multi-core processors. The key concept of our architecture is to use shared memory for the interplay between threads running on separate processor cores. And then, we have integrated our proposed architecture with an industrial standard compliant IDE for automatic code generation of motion runtime. For the performance evaluation, we constructed a test-bed consisting of a motion controller with Preempt-RT Linux based dual-core industrial PC and a 3-axis industrial robot platform. The experimental results show that the actuation time difference between axes is 10 ns in average and bounded up to 689 ns under $1000{\mu}s$ control period, which can come up with real-time performance for industrial robot.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.487-496
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• 2020

차세대 로봇 공연 기술을 개발하기 위하여 산업용 로봇 arm에 휴머노이드형의 로봇 액터를 부착한 RAoRA (Robot Actor on Robot Arm) 구조를 제안하고, 시스템 연동 제어를 위한 소프트웨어를 탑재하여 로봇 공연 플랫폼을 구축하였다. 로봇 액터와 산업용 로봇 arm의 연동 모션을 위하여 역학적 분석을 수행하고 기계적 메커니즘을 설계 및 제작하였다. 로봇 액터의 동작을 위하여 3D 모델의 기구학적인 분석, spline 위치 보간, 모션 제어 알고리즘 및 제어 장치를 개발하였다. 비전문가도 직관적이고 안전한 공연 콘텐츠를 제작할 수 있도록 사전 시각화, 시뮬레이션 도구 및 콘솔 통합 운영 도구를 개발하였다. 테스트를 위하여 지면에 거의 밀착하여 자연스럽게 걷거나 서서히 공중으로 올라가는 air walk 시연하였고 러닝 타임 5분의 공연에 적용하였다. 그 결과 제안된 로봇 공연 플랫폼은 기존의 로봇 공연에서는 구현이 불가능했던 입체적이고 생동감 있는 모션을 구현할 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.831-836
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• 2007

This paper proposes an optimal galloping trajectory which costs low energy and guarantees the stability of the quadruped robot. In the realization of the fast galloping, the trajectory design is important. As a galloping trajectory, we propose an elliptic leg trajectory, which provides simplified locomotion to complex galloping motions of animals. However, the elliptic trajectory, as an imitation of animal galloping motion, does not guarantee stability and minimal energy consumption. We propose optimization based on the energy and stability using a genetic algorithm, which provides the robust and global solution to a multi-body, highly nonlinear dynamic system. To evaluate and verify the effectiveness of the proposed trajectory, computer simulations were carried out.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1994년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 9th (KACC) ; Taejeon, Korea; 17-20 Oct. 1994
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• pp.328-333
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• 1994

This paper presents a real-time calculation method to generate the trajectory of robot manipulator for the purpose of avoiding collision. In order to model 3-D workspace, we use octree which has been used for fast collision detection. The levels of octree are used as the cost function to represent the distance between the manipulator and the obstacles. This criterion is not exact, but, due to this, we can obtain the approximate feasible trajectory extremely quickly. We will show the effectiveness of our method with some simulation examples. For example, the proposed method can solve a problem within 1 second on Intel 80486 processor running at 33 MHz. It has taken more than half an hour with one of the previously proposed methods.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2018

In this paper, we have developed a multi-attitude monitoring system for running farm robots for field farming. There are many agricultural robots that can select work modules for various tasks. In order to control the stable attitude of agricultural robots connected to each other, we developed a system for monitoring the roll angle and pitch angle difference by fusing the information of the attitude monitoring system mounted on the robot mainframe and the work module. The developed attitude monitoring system showed resolution below 1 degree. In this paper, roll angle difference of 20 degrees and 60 degrees is measured with a multi - attitude monitoring system.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.80-92
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• 2007

For the pervasive computing in ubiquitous environment, it is very important to manage the context model to provide pertinent context knowledge to context-aware applications. The context model should be able to support efficiently the context knowledge reusing and sharing as well as reasoning. Previous works focus mainly on the context knowledge representation scheme for reasoning. This paper proposes a context knowledge modeling scheme especially for reusing and sharing. This scheme provides well-established principles and guides for 1) context knowledge modularization and hierarchization, and for 2) context knowledge identification and organization. Once the context models are built according to the scheme, the structure of the context model and the meanings of the context knowledge elements become clear and consistent, so that context-aware applications can share and reuse the context knowledge in easy and error-reduced manner. This paper also discusses the implementation of a context model and an application for Presentation Helper scenario running on a software middleware system (CAMUS) for ubiquitous service robots which is being developed by ETRI Korea.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2022

In decommissioning a nuclear power plant, numerous concrete structures need to be demolished and decontaminated. Although concrete decontamination technologies have been developed globally, concrete cutting remains problematic due to the secondary waste production and dispersion risk from concrete scabbling. To minimize workers' radiation exposure and secondary waste in dismantling and decontaminating concrete structures, the following conceptual designs were developed. A micro-blast type scabbling technology using explosive materials and a multi-dimensional contamination measurement and artificial intelligence (AI) mapping technology capable of identifying the contamination status of concrete surfaces. Trials revealed that this technology has several merits, including nuclide identification of more than 5 nuclides, radioactivity measurement capability of 0.1-10⁷ Bq·g^-1, 1.5 kg robot weight for easy handling, 10 cm robot self-running capability, 100% detonator performance, decontamination factor (DF) of 100 and 8,000 cm²·hr^-1 decontamination speed, better than that of TWI (7,500 cm²·hr^-1). Hence, the micro-blast type scabbling technology is a suitable method for concrete decontamination. As the Korean explosives industry is well developed and robot and mapping systems are supported by government research and development, this scabbling technology can efficiently aid the Korean decommissioning industry.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.2198-2203
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• 2022

As robotics become more sophisticated, there are a growing number of generic systems being used for routine tasks in nuclear environments to reduce risk to radiation workers. The nuclear sector has called for more commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) devices and components to be used in preference to nuclear specific hardware, enabling robotic operations to become more affordable, reliable, and abundant. To ensure reliable operation in nuclear environments, particularly in high-gamma facilities, it is important to quantify the tolerance of electronic systems to ionizing radiation. To deliver their full potential to end-users, mobile robots require sophisticated autonomous behaviors and sensing, which requires significant computational power. A popular choice of computing system, used in low-cost mobile robots for nuclear environments, is the UP Core single board computer. This work presents estimates of the total ionizing dose that the UP Core running the Robot Operating System (ROS) can withstand, through gamma irradiation testing using a Co-60 source. The units were found to fail on average after 111.1 ± 5.5 Gy, due to faults in the on-board power management circuitry. Its small size and reasonable radiation tolerance make it a suitable candidate for robots in nuclear environments, with scope to use shielding to enhance operational lifetime.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.227-235
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• 1993

In this paper, the development of a high performance flexible controller is described. The hardware of the controller, based on VME-bus, consists of four M68020 single-board computers (32-bit) with M68881 numerical coprocessors, two M68040 single board donputers, I/O devices (such as A/D and D/A converters, paraller I/O, encoder counters), and bus-to-bus adaptor. This software, written in C and based on X-window environment with Unix operating system, includes : text editor, compiler, downloader, and plotter running in a host computer for developing control program ; device drivers, scheduler, and mathemetical routines for the real time control purpose ; message passing, file server, source level debugger virtural terminal, etc. The hardware and software are structured so that the controller might have both flexibility and extensibility. In papallel to the controller, a three degrees of freedom kinematically redundant robot has been developed at the same time. The development of the same time. The development of the robot was undertaken in order to provide, on the one hand, a computationally intensive plant to which to apply the controller, and on the other hand a research tool in the field of kinematically redundant manipulator, which is, as such, an important area. By using the controller, dynamic control of the redundant manipulator was successfully experimented, showing the effectiveness and flexibility of the controller.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.1058-1068
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• 2013

본 연구는 R-러닝 대학 동아리 운영 프로그램 참여가 예비유아교사의 R-러닝 전문성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 지식, 기능, 태도의 측면에서 알아본 것이다. 연구 결과, 지식 부분에서는 '로봇기반교육 시 교사의 역할에 대하여 알고 있다', '로봇기반교육이 유아의 발달에 미치는 영향에 대하여 알고 있다', '로봇기반교육의 필요성에 대하여 알고 있다'가 높게 나타났고, 기능 부분은 '로봇과 컴퓨터를 연결하여 수업에 활용할 수 있다'가, 태도 부분에서는 '로봇을 활용하여 수업하는 것에 대해 긍정적으로 생각한다'가 높게 나타났다. 또한 예비유아교사의 R-러닝 전문성에서 동아리 참여 전보다 후가 높은 점수를 나타냈으며, 예비유아교사의 R-러닝 전문성 중 지식보다 기능과 태도 부분에서 더 많이 향상되었다. 즉, R-러닝 대학 동아리 운영 프로그램 참여는 예비유아교사들의 R-러닝에 대한 지식, 기능, 태도 측면에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타나 R-러닝 전문성을 위한 동아리 운영 프로그램은 효과적이라 하겠다.