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Strategy of Object Search for Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

  • Kim Ho-Duck;Yoon Han-Ul;Sim Kwee-Bo
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.264-269
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents the strategy for searching a hidden object in an unknown area for using by multiple distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS). To search the target in Markovian space, DARS should recognize th ε ir surrounding at where they are located and generate some rules to act upon by themselves. First of all, DARS obtain 6-distances from itself to environment by infrared sensor which are hexagonally allocated around itself. Second, it calculates 6-areas with those distances then take an action, i.e., turn and move toward where the widest space will be guaranteed. After the action is taken, the value of Q will be updated by relative formula at the state. We set up an experimental environment with five small mobile robots, obstacles, and a target object, and tried to research for a target object while navigating in a un known hallway where some obstacles were placed. In the end of this paper, we present the results of three algorithms - a random search, an area-based action making process to determine the next action of the robot and hexagon-based Q-learning to enhance the area-based action making process.

A Stereo Camera Based Method of Plane Detection for Path Finding of Walking Robot (보행로봇의 이동경로 인식을 위한 스테레오카메라 기반의 평면영역 추출방법)

  • Kang, Dong-Joong
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.236-241
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a method to recognize the plane regions for movement of walking robots. When the autonomous agencies using stereo camera or laser scanning sensor is under unknown 3D environment, the mobile agency has to detect the plane regions to decide the moving direction and perform the given tasks. In this paper, we propose a very fast method for plane detection using normal vector of a triangle by 3 vertices defined on a small circular region. To reduce the effect of noises and outliers, the triangle rotates with respect to the center position of the circular region and generates a series of triangles with different normal vectors based on different three points on the boundary of the circular region. The vectors for several triangles are normalized and then median direction of the normal vectors is used to test the planarity of the circular region. The method is very fast and we prove the performance of algorithm for real range data obtained from a stereo camera system.

The development of radiation lifetime measuring module for KAEROT/m2 (KAEROT/m2용 방사선 수명 측정모듈 개발)

  • Lee, Nam-Ho;Kim, Seung-Ho;Kim, Yang-Mo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.793-796
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    • 2003
  • The electronics of a mobile robot ill nuclear facilities is required to satisfied the reliability to sustain survival in its radiation environment. To know how much radiation the robot has been encountered to replace sensitive electronic parts, a dosimeter to measure total accumulated dose is necessary. Among many radiation dosimeters or detectors, semiconductor radiation sensors have advantages in terms of power requirements and their sires over conventional detectors. This paper describes the use of the radiation-induced threshold voltage change of a commercial power pMOSFET as an accumulated radiation dose monitoring mean and that of the photo-current of a commercial PIN Diode as a dose-rate measurement mean. Commercial p-type power MOSFETs and PIN Diodes were tested in a Co-60 gamma irradiation facility to see their capabilities as radiation sensors. We found an inexpensive commercial power pMOSFET that shows good linearity in their threshold voltage shift with radiation dose and a PIN diode that shows good linearity in its photo-current change with dose-rate. According to these findings, a radiation hardened hybrid electronic radiation dosimeter for nuclear robots has been developed for the first time. This small hybrid dosimeter has also an advantage in the point of view of reliability improvement by using a diversity concept.

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Development of a Multi-Purpose Mobility Prototype based on Human Tracking System (사용자 추종 시스템 기반의 다목적 모빌리티 시제품 개발)

  • Donggun Kim;Bumsu Park;Yunsu Lee;Jeseong Jeon;Seongyeon Hwang;Hyoungwook Lee
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.19-22
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    • 2023
  • The rise of electrification and the advancement of autonomous driving technologies are leading to new forms of mobility, such as serving and delivery robots. However, due to factors such as the small-scale production of various products and the high cost of autonomous driving sensors, product prices have risen, limiting accessibility to consumers. To improve this, we developed a multi-purpose mobility platform that is mass-producible, based on inexpensive, reliable sensors and a configurable human tracking system. As a result, the unit price is approximately 50% of the launch prices of other mobility products, and additional cost savings are possible through component optimization in the future. In addition, more added value will be created through the distribution of integrated mobility platforms that can be combined with various usable modules to meet a variety of user needs, such as cargo transportation, wheelchair power kits, and mobile monitors.

A Study on the Distinction of Landmine Detection Using 6 Step Creativity of the TRIZ (트리즈의 6단계 창의성을 이용한 지뢰탐지 판별에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Ho;Lee, Seung-Hoon;Hwang, Soon-Woong;Han, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.1163-1170
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    • 2010
  • Landmines are a humanitarian challenge because they indiscriminately kill and maim civilians. Landmines are weapons that cannot distinguish between a soldier and a civilian, and they remain active for decades. As a result, most of the victims of mines are innocent men, women and children. For this purpose, new technologies such as a methode of landmine detection and mobile robots are needed. Our effort is to develop a small mobile robot for landmine detection, to detect landmine and to explore the landmine distinguishable method. In this paper, Specifically we detected landmines using electromagnetic sensors and distinguished metals from M14 antipersonnel mines under the ground using 6 step creativity of the TRIZ. Therefore, we proposed new method of landmine detection using the TRIZ.

Experimental Study on Thermal Insulation and Cooling for Rotor/Bearing Area in 500W Class Micro Gas Turbine Generator (500W급 마이크로 가스터빈 발전기 회전체-베어링부의 단열 및 냉각 성능에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Park, Cheol Hoon;Choi, Sang Kyu;Ham, Sang Yong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2014
  • Development of long-term mobile energy sources for mobile robots or small-sized unmanned vehicles are actively increasing. The micro gas turbine generator (MTG) is a good candidate for this purpose because it has both of high energy density and high power density, and 500W class MTG is under development. The designed MTG can be divided into 2 main parts. One part consists of motor/ generator and compressor, and the other one consists of combustor, recuperator and turbine. 500W class MTG is designed to operate at ultra-high speed of 400,000 rpm in high turbine temperature over $700^{\circ}C$ to improve the efficiency. Because the magnetism of NdFeB permanent magnet for the motor/generator could be degraded if the temperature is over $150-200^{\circ}C$, MTG needs the thermal insulation to block the heat transfer from combustor/turbine side to motor/generator side. Moreover, the motor/generator is allocated to get the cooling effect from the rapid air flow by the compressor. This study presents the experimental results to verify whether the thermal insulator and air flow are effective enough to keep the motor/generator part in the low temperature less than $100^{\circ}C$. From the motoring test by using the high temperature test rig, it was confirmed that the motor/generator part could maintain the temperature less than $50^{\circ}C$ under the condition of 1.0 bar compressed air.

A Study on Implementation of Service Robot Platform for Mess-Cleanup (정리정돈용 서비스 로봇 플랫폼의 구현 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-Woo;Kim, Hi-Jun
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.487-495
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, a Smart Home Service Robot, McBot II, which performs mess-cleanup function etc. in house, is designed much more optimally than other service robots. It is newly developed in much more practical system than McBot I which we had developed two years ago. One characteristic attribute of mobile platforms equipped with a set of dependent wheels is their omni- directionality and the ability to realize complex translational and rotational trajectories for agile navigation in door. An accurate coordination of steering angle and spinning rate of each wheel is necessary for a consistent motion. This paper develops trajectory controller of 3-wheels omni-directional mobile robot using fuzzy azimuth estimator. A specialized anthropomorphic robot manipulator which can be attached to the housemaid robot McBot II, is developed in this paper. This built-in type manipulator consists of both arms with 4 DOF (Degree of Freedom) each and both hands with 3 DOF each. The robotic arm is optimally designed to satisfy both the minimum mechanical size and the maximum workspace. Minimum mass and length are required for the built-in cooperated-arms system. But that makes the workspace so small. This paper proposes optimal design method to overcome the problem by using neck joint to move the arms horizontally forward/backward and waist joint to move them vertically up/down. The robotic hand, which has two fingers and a thumb, is also optimally designed in task-based concept. Finally, the good performance of the developed McBot II is confirmed through live tests of the mess-cleanup task.

The Technique of Human tracking using ultrasonic sensor for Human Tracking of Cooperation robot based Mobile Platform (모바일 플랫폼 기반 협동로봇의 사용자 추종을 위한 초음파 센서 활용 기법)

  • Yum, Seung-Ho;Eom, Su-Hong;Lee, Eung-Hyuk
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.638-648
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    • 2020
  • Currently, the method of user-follwoing in intelligent cooperative robots usually based in vision system and using Lidar is common and have excellent performance. But in the closed space of Corona 19, which spread worldwide in 2020, robots for cooperation with medical staff were insignificant. This is because Medical staff are all wearing protective clothing to prevent virus infection, which is not easy to apply with existing research techniques. Therefore, in order to solve these problems in this paper, the ultrasonic sensor is separated from the transmitting and receiving parts, and based on this, this paper propose that estimating the user's position and can actively follow and cooperate with people. However, the ultrasonic sensors were partially applied by improving the Median filter in order to reduce the error caused by the short circuit in communication between hard reflection and the number of light reflections, and the operation technology was improved by applying the curvature trajectory for smooth operation in a small area. Median filter reduced the error of degree and distance by 70%, vehicle running stability was verified through the training course such as 'S' and '8' in the result.

A New Wheel Design for Miniaturized Terrain Adaptive Robot (험지 주행용 소형 로봇을 위한 바퀴의 설계)

  • Kim, Yoo Seok;Kim, Haan;Jung, Gwang Pil;Kim, Seong Han;Cho, Kyu Jin;Chu, Chong Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2013
  • Small mobile robots which use round wheels are suitable for driving on a flat surface, but it cannot climb the obstacle whose height is greater than the radius of wheels. As an alternative, legged-wheels have been proposed by many researchers due to its better climbing performance. However, driving and climbing performances have a trade-off relationship so that their driving performance should be sacrificed. In this study, in order to achieve both driving and climbing performances, a new transformable wheel was developed. The developed transformable wheel can have a round shape on a flat surface and change its shape into legged-wheel when it makes a contact with an obstacle. For design of the transformable wheel, the performance of legged-wheel was analyzed with respect to the number and curvature of the leg, and then the new transformable wheel was designed based on the analysis. Contrary to the existing transformable wheels that contain additional actuators for the transformation, the developed transformable wheel can be unfolded without any additional actuator. In this study, in order to validate the transformable wheel, a simple robot platform was fabricated. Consequently, it climbed the obstacle whose height is 2.6 times greater than the wheel radius.

Edge to Edge Model and Delay Performance Evaluation for Autonomous Driving (자율 주행을 위한 Edge to Edge 모델 및 지연 성능 평가)

  • Cho, Moon Ki;Bae, Kyoung Yul
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.191-207
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    • 2021
  • Up to this day, mobile communications have evolved rapidly over the decades, mainly focusing on speed-up to meet the growing data demands of 2G to 5G. And with the start of the 5G era, efforts are being made to provide such various services to customers, as IoT, V2X, robots, artificial intelligence, augmented virtual reality, and smart cities, which are expected to change the environment of our lives and industries as a whole. In a bid to provide those services, on top of high speed data, reduced latency and reliability are critical for real-time services. Thus, 5G has paved the way for service delivery through maximum speed of 20Gbps, a delay of 1ms, and a connecting device of 106/㎢ In particular, in intelligent traffic control systems and services using various vehicle-based Vehicle to X (V2X), such as traffic control, in addition to high-speed data speed, reduction of delay and reliability for real-time services are very important. 5G communication uses high frequencies of 3.5Ghz and 28Ghz. These high-frequency waves can go with high-speed thanks to their straightness while their short wavelength and small diffraction angle limit their reach to distance and prevent them from penetrating walls, causing restrictions on their use indoors. Therefore, under existing networks it's difficult to overcome these constraints. The underlying centralized SDN also has a limited capability in offering delay-sensitive services because communication with many nodes creates overload in its processing. Basically, SDN, which means a structure that separates signals from the control plane from packets in the data plane, requires control of the delay-related tree structure available in the event of an emergency during autonomous driving. In these scenarios, the network architecture that handles in-vehicle information is a major variable of delay. Since SDNs in general centralized structures are difficult to meet the desired delay level, studies on the optimal size of SDNs for information processing should be conducted. Thus, SDNs need to be separated on a certain scale and construct a new type of network, which can efficiently respond to dynamically changing traffic and provide high-quality, flexible services. Moreover, the structure of these networks is closely related to ultra-low latency, high confidence, and hyper-connectivity and should be based on a new form of split SDN rather than an existing centralized SDN structure, even in the case of the worst condition. And in these SDN structural networks, where automobiles pass through small 5G cells very quickly, the information change cycle, round trip delay (RTD), and the data processing time of SDN are highly correlated with the delay. Of these, RDT is not a significant factor because it has sufficient speed and less than 1 ms of delay, but the information change cycle and data processing time of SDN are factors that greatly affect the delay. Especially, in an emergency of self-driving environment linked to an ITS(Intelligent Traffic System) that requires low latency and high reliability, information should be transmitted and processed very quickly. That is a case in point where delay plays a very sensitive role. In this paper, we study the SDN architecture in emergencies during autonomous driving and conduct analysis through simulation of the correlation with the cell layer in which the vehicle should request relevant information according to the information flow. For simulation: As the Data Rate of 5G is high enough, we can assume the information for neighbor vehicle support to the car without errors. Furthermore, we assumed 5G small cells within 50 ~ 250 m in cell radius, and the maximum speed of the vehicle was considered as a 30km ~ 200 km/hour in order to examine the network architecture to minimize the delay.