• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.1279-1280
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• 1997

The proportion of the aged people is rapidly increasing toward the 21st century. This change will cause serious problems in the area of daily activities, preservation of health, medical care and physical rehabilitatiion for the aged. for the solution of these problems this paper suggest a new type of robot for the aged man, called a silver robot. This paper presents a concept of silver robot and it's feasibility study.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.24-25
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• 2005

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.388-396
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects on cognitive function, depression, and activities of daily living of Silver- Care-Robot Program for institutionalized elders. Methods: This study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 42 institutionalized elders (17 in the experimental group and 25 in the control group). The Silver-Care-Robot Program was provided as an intervention which was conducted twice a week for 5 weeks. The Silver-Care-Robot Program is an integrated entertainment program to help the mental, emotional, and physical health of elderly people. Pre-test was conducted on the two groups, and, in order to examine the effects of intervention, a post-test was conducted after 5 weeks. Results: There were significant differences in cognitive function and ADL (activities of daily living) between two groups after the program. But the difference in depression in the institutionalized elders was not statistically significant between the two groups. Conclusion: The Silver-Care-Robot Program should be considered as a regular program for cognitive function and activities of daily living for institutionalized elders.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.20-21
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• 2005

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.720-725
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• 2008

This paper proposes a system architecture for USN with a service robot to provide more active assisted living services for elderly persons by monitoring their mental and physical well-being with USN environments at home, hospital, or silver town. Sensors embedded in USN are used to detect preventive measures for chronic disease. Logged data are transferred to main controller of a service robot via wireless channel in which the analysis of data is performed. For the purpose of handling emergency situations, it needs real-time processing on gathering variety sensor data, routing algorithms for sensor nodes to a moving sink node and processing of logged data. This paper realized multi-hop sensor network to detect user movements with biometric data transmission and performed algorithms on Xenomai, a real-time embedded Linux. To leverage active sensing, a mobile robot is used of which task was implemented with a priority to process urgent data came from the sink-node. This software architecture is anticipated to integrate sensing, communication and computing with real-time manner. In order to verify the usefulness of a proposed system, the performance of data transferring and processing on a real-time OS with non real-time OS is also evaluated.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.407-422
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• 2014

Objective: The purpose of the study is to develop quantitative usability evaluation criteria for senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot. Background: The Republic of Korea has become the most rapidly aging society, and is anticipated to enter the post-aged society in 2026. To raise the quality of life of a senior with limited mobility and to reduce the burden of caregivers, many high-tech assistive products with information technologies are developed nowadays. The senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot is one person robot vehicle to move a senior to the destination for hospitals, nursing homes or silver town complex. With built-in navigation system and environmental monitoring censors, it automatically seeks the path to the destination and avoids collision to obstacles and pedestrians on the way. Due to the early stage of the product, few usability studies in this field have been done, mostly on general service robots to assist seniors, power wheelchairs and delivery robots. ISO and KS standards for the service robots are focused on safety. Method: Based on the reference usability index, the early draft of the usability evaluation questionnaires was developed. After small group tests and interviews, the experts modified the initial draft to the Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot (UEC-SFATR). Result: UEC-SFATR consisted of 4 subscales - Safety, Controllability, Efficiency and Satisfaction. All of the 4 subscales of UEC-SFATR were passed the reliability criteria by 4 groups of seniors, divided by gender and familiarity of smart-devices. Conclusion: UEC-SFATR covers wider area of user experiences of the SFATR and is a good measurement tool to help both the users and developers of the robot. Application: This study provides guide to the future product development and product competitiveness evaluation by quantifying user experiences for the SFATR.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.240-247
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• 2020

This paper presents a novel knitted data glove system for pattern classification of hand posture. Several experiments were conducted to confirm the performance of the knitted data glove. To find better sensor materials, the knitted data glove was fabricated with stainless-steel yarn and silver-plated yarn as representative conductive yarns, respectively. The result showed that the signal of the knitted data glove made of silver-plated yarn was more stable than that of stainless-steel yarn according as the measurement distance becomes longer. Also, the pattern classification was conducted for the performance verification of the data glove knitted using the silver-plated yarn. The average classification reached at 100% except for the pointing finger posture, and the overall classification accuracy of the knitted data glove was 98.3%. With these results, we expect that the knitted data glove is applied to various robot fields including the human-machine interface.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1153-1157
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• 2004

The report of the Korean National Statistics Office shows that Korea has been emerging as an elderly society rapidly, and it will burden the Korean society with excessive social welfare cost for the aged in the near future. If we can help the aged to live healthy in some ways, the social burden for the health care of the aged will be lessened. In order to help physical and mental health of the elderly person, we have developed an exercise apparatus called intelligent arm wrestling machine system. This paper presents the mechanism and scenario of the proposed intelligent arm wrestling machine system. The proposed mechanism and scenario are peculiar. In particular, the proposed scenario determines randomly who will win between the man and the robot and generates a game process that the arm-wrestler cannot predict in advance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.325-328
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• 2009

최근 자율 로봇을 지원하는 로봇의 지식 체계를 확립하기 위해 온톨로지 기술이 많이 사용되고 있다. 즉, 온톨로지를 통한 로봇의 지식 체계에 대한 데이터베이스 스키마를 설계하고 이에 따른 추론 시스템을 개발하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 시점이다. 이러한 관점에서, 본 논문은 독거 노인을 보조하는 실용적인 SilverMate 로봇분야와 같은 로봇의 지능적인 서비스를 요구하는 분야에서 로봇의 지식 체계 프레임워크를 제공하는데 초점을 두고 있다. 제안하는 지식 체계는 로봇의 자전적 기억을 중심으로 자전적 기억을 기술하기 위한 5W1H 모델을 제안하고 의미적 상관관계를 기술하기 위해 의미기억 모델로서 SCOT-SN 모델, 절차적 기억 모델로서 TES 모델을 정의한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.278-278
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• 2004

실버용 로봇은 종래의 일반적인 로봇하고는 달리 매우 다양하고 복잡한 기능이 요구된다. 실버용 로봇이 주어진 작업을 성공적으로 수행하기 위해서는 인간의 두뇌작용에 해당하는 지능제어시스템과 이를 바탕으로 한 자율기능, 높은 수준의 인간과 로봇과의 통신을 위한 적절한 인터페이스, 고기능 센서를 이용한 감각기능, 로봇의 활동범위를 넓혀주는 이동기능, 조작을 위한 매니퓰레이션기능, 그리고 임무수행을 위한 처리기능 등이 필요하다. 이러한 다양하고 복잡한 작업을 수행하기 위해서는 지능적인 제어가 요구된다.(중략)