• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.162-170
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• 2012

It is very important for the robot to recognize its position to accomplish numerous tasks and to go to the goal. In this paper, we suggest Location Recognition System to distinguish robot's locations using land-mark and the odometer in the environment of sensor network. All in all, we created a basic intelligent robot, Location Recognition System, and Environment Sensor Modules; we verified the proposed algorithm through computer simulation.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.177-184
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• 2009

This paper presents an active assisted-living system in wireless sensor and actor network (WSAN) in which the mobile robot roles an actor. In order to provide assisted-living service to the elderly people, position recognition of the sensor node attached on the user and localization of the mobile robot should be performed at the same time. For the purpose, we use received signal strength indication (RSSI) to find the position of the person and ubiquitous sensor nodes including ultrasonic sensor which performs both transmission of sensor information and localization like global positioning system. Active services are moving to the elderly people by detecting activity sensor and visual tracking and voice chatting with remote monitoring system.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.280-285
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• 2011

Recently, with the development of service robots and the concept of ubiquitous, the position estimation of mobile objects has received great interest. Some of the localization schemes are introduced, which provide the relative location of the moving objects subjected to accumulated errors. To implement a real time localization system, a new absolute position estimation method for a mobile robot in indoor environment is proposed. Design and implementation of the localization system comes from the usage of active beacon systems (based upon RFID technology). The active beacon system is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter. The RFID receiver gets the synchronization signal from the mobile robot and the ultra-sonic transmitter sends out the traveling signal to be used for measuring the distance. Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from three beacons and the absolute position information of the beacons themselves. In some case, the mobile robot can acquire the ultrasonic signals from only one or two beacons, due to the obstacles located along the moving path. In this paper, a position estimation scheme using fewer than three sensors is developed. Also, the extended Kalman filter algorithm is applied for the improvement of position estimation accuracy of the mobile robot.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.14D no.6
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• pp.657-664
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• 2007

URC robot offers necessary service anytime and anywhere by using a network to the robot, expanding the applicable service, keeping all the functions in itself, it undertakes functions for the causing problems through the network. URC software components are composed of HRI(Human Robot Interaction), robot action technology and others. We analyze the quality models based on ISO/IEC 9126, define URC components evaluation specification consists of 4 parts such as generic rule, instance rule, evaluation value and test method. And we define the quality process and test case design for URC, and show a testing and evaluation process for URC components.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.46 no.5 s.306
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• pp.61-69
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• 2006

이 글에서는 최근 국민소득 2만불 시대의 견인차가 될 것으로 인식되어 10대 차세대 신성 장동력의 하나로 추진 중인 지능형 서비스 로봇의 산업 및 기술 동향을 분석하고 신성장동력으로서의 URC(Ubiquitous Robot Companion)의 개념과 관련 기술을 소개해 보고자한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2009

G-Sensor is being used for controlling motion of smart-phone and robot. G-Sensor can control motion to several direction, because it is composed of X, Y, and Z axis and also can be used on many mobile-phone by using Wi-Fi communication and RS-232C communication on the Bluetooth module. In this research, we suggest the application that realize and develop visual-vehicle-remote-control-system by using mobile-phone with G-Sensor so that drivers can more easily remote control and manage their vehicle with mobile-phone in real-time visual.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.339-346
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• 2006

최근 들어 유치원과 초등학교에 로봇을 이용한 교육적 활용 연구가 시도되고 있다. 유비퀴터스 로봇 활용이 교사와 아동의 흥미 유발에 있어 매우 효과가 높은 것으로 나타나, 향후 유비쿼터스 로봇이 u-Learning 의 또 다른 매체로서의 가능성이 강조되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 초등학교 수업에서 교사 보조 역할을 통한 유비퀴터스 로봇의 활용 가능성을 보기 위해, 초등 학생 6 학년의 기대 역할을 갖는 프로토 타입의 로봇과 컨텐츠를 개발하여 활용하는 실험을 실시하였다. 프로토 타입 로봇은 국어, 영어, 음악 교과를 대상으로 주기적으로 컨텐츠를 다운로드 할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 아동의 얼굴과 이름을 저장하여 수업 운영 컨텐츠와 연동할 수 있다. 현장 실험을 통하여 아동이 유비쿼터스 로봇을 경험한 수업 시간의 횟수에 따라 로봇 외형과 수업 보조 서비스에 대한 선호도 차이를 알아봄으로써, 초등학교에서 유비퀴터스 로봇을 이용한 r-Learning에 있어서 일시적 신기효과가 아닌 지속적인 영향을 줄 수 있는 요인을 찾아보았다. 실험 결과, 지속적인 HRI 유지에 영향을 끼칠 수 있는 외형적 요인으로 로봇 얼굴과 로봇과 아동간 관계성을 지향하는 컨텐츠 개발이 필요함을 보였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.1039-1044
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• 2005

This paper presents a robotic agent design and application in the ubiquitous intelligent space. We set up an experimental environment with Bluetooth host, Bluetooth client, furniture and home appliance, and robotic agents. First, the agents basically performed patrol guard to detect unexpected penetration, and to keep home safely from gas-leakage, electric leakage, and so on. They were out to patrol fur a robbery while navigating in a living room and a private room. In this task, we used an area-based action making and a hexagon-based Q-learning to control the agents. Second, the agents communicate with Bluetooth host device to access and control a home appliance. The Bluetooth host offers a manual control to person by inquiring a client robot when one would like to check some place especially. In this exercise, we organize asynchronous connection less (ACL) between the host and the client robots and control the robot maneuver by Bluetooth host controller interface (HCI).

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.288-298
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• 2008

We introduce new type of networked robot, Ubiquitous Robotic Companion (URC), embedded with ATLAS Service-oriented architecture for enhancing the space sensing capability. URC is a network-based robotic system developed by ETRI. For years of experience in deploying service with ATLAS sensor platform for elder and people with special needs in smart houses, we need networked robots to assist elder people in their successful daily living. Recently, pervasive computing technologies reveals possibilities of networked robots in smart spaces, consist of sensors, actuators and smart devices can collaborate with the other networked robot as a mobile sensing platform, a complex and sophisticated actuator and a human interface. This paper provides our experience in designing and implementing system architecture to integrate URC robots in pervasive computing environments using the University of Florida's ATLAS service-oriented architecture. In this paper, we focus on the integrated framework architecture of URC embedded with ATLAS platform. We show how the integrated URC system is enabled to provide better services which enhance the space sensing of URC in the smart space by applying service-oriented architecture characterized as flexibility in adding or deleting service components of Ubiquitous Robotic Companion.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.96-101
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• 2007

Neural networks are known as kinds of intelligent strategies since they have learning capability. There are various their applications from intelligent control fields; however, their applications have limits from the point that the stability of the intelligent control systems is not usually guaranteed. In this paper we propose an adaptive tracking control for robot manipulators using the radial basis function network (RBFN) that is e. kind of neural networks. Adaptation laws for parameters of the RBFN are developed based on the Lyapunov stability theory to guarantee the stability of the overall control scheme. Filtered tracking errors between actual outputs and desired outputs are discussed in the sense of the uniformly ultimately boundedness(UUB). Additionally, it is also shown that parameters of the RBFN are bounded. Experimental results for a SCARA-type robot manipulator show that the proposed adaptive tracking controller is adaptable to the environment changes and is more robust than the conventional PID controller and the neuro-controller based on the multilayer perceptron.