Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090099716 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING ARTIFICIAL MARK FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING, APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING POSITION OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEM USING ARTIFICAL MARK AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME - A method for constructing an artificial mark for autonomous driving of an intelligent system, an apparatus and method for determining the location of an intelligent system using the artificial mark, and an intelligent system employing the same. The apparatus and method for determining the location of an intelligent system includes a projective invariant calculator which calculates a projective invariant of an artificial mark detected from an image taken for a driving place; a search unit which stores a database of indices according to a combination of colors of polygons included in the artificial mark, projective invariants of the artificial marks, and global location information of the artificial marks in the driving place, and searches the database by the calculated projective invariant for obtaining the global location information of the detected artificial mark; and a position information analyzer which analyzes the position of the intelligent system by using the global location information of the detected artificial mark and location information between the intelligent system and the detected artificial mark. | 04-16-2009 |
20090276092 | Robot and method of building map therefor - Disclosed are a robot, which builds a map using a surface data of a three-dimensional image, from which a dynamic obstacle is removed, and a method of building a map for the robot. The method includes sequentially acquiring first and second surface data of a route on which the robot moves; matching the first and second surface data with each other to calculate a difference between the first and second surface data; detecting a dynamic obstacle from the first and second surface data according to the difference between the first and second surface data; generating a third surface data by removing the dynamic obstacle from at least one of the first and second surface data; and matching the third surface data and any one of the first and second surface data with each other to build the map. | 11-05-2009 |
20090292394 | Apparatus for locating moving robot and method for the same - An apparatus and a method of locating a moving robot are disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage unit storing information on straight lines of wall on a map, a state quantity detection unit detecting quantity of state of the robot running along the wall, and a control unit estimating an interior position of the robot by obtaining straight line information based on the detected state quantity and matching the obtained straight line information with the stored straight line information. | 11-26-2009 |
20090299523 | Walking robot and method of controlling the same - Disclosed are a biped walking robot, which carries out walking with a high energy efficiency through adjustment of the stiffnesses of joints of legs and improves walking stability through control of the pose of a torso, and a method of controlling the walking robot. The method includes generating a walking pattern of plural legs connected to a torso of the walking robot; adjusting stiffness of each of the plural legs interlocking with walking phases of the plural legs driven according to the walking pattern; and measuring a tilt of the torso, and compensating for the tilt of the torso such that the torso is parallel with the gravity direction. | 12-03-2009 |
20090306821 | Robot and method of controlling walking thereof - Disclosed are a robot, which generates a stable walking pattern similar to that of a human, and a method of controlling walking thereof. The method includes generating a walking pattern of a leg connected to a torso of the robot; detecting whether or not a singularity pose of the leg walking according to the walking pattern is generated; and changing the walking pattern by adjusting a yaw direction angle of the torso when the singularity pose is generated. | 12-10-2009 |
20090308668 | Walking robot and method of controlling the same - Disclosed are a walking robot and a method of controlling the same, in which impedance control and torso tilt control are achieved complementarily such that impedance can be adjusted according to the tilt of a torso or the tilt of the torso can be adjusted according to the impedance. The method includes measuring a moment of a foot; measuring a tilt of a torso; adjusting the scale of the measured moment based on the tilt of the torso, and controlling the foot based on the scale-adjusted moment; and adjusting the scale of the measured tilt based on a ZMP variation amount of the foot, and controlling the tilt of the torso based on the scale-adjusted ZMP variation amount. | 12-17-2009 |
20090319082 | ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WALKING THEREOF - A method of controlling walking a biped robot to generate a walking pattern maximally similar to that of a human includes generating a walking pattern, calculating a walking pattern similarity corresponding to the walking pattern, and comparing the walking pattern similarity with a predetermined reference pattern similarity, and changing the walking pattern based on a result of the comparison. When the robot walks, a knee is maximally stretched and a horizontal movement of a waist is minimized such that the walking pattern of the robot is maximally similar to that of a human, thus enhancing an affinity for a human being and increasing energy efficiency. | 12-24-2009 |
20090321150 | Walking robot and method of controlling the same - Disclosed are a walking robot and a method of controlling the same, in which one method is selected from a ZMP control method and a FSM control method. Based on characteristics of a motion to be performed, the current control mode of the walking robot is converted into a different control mode, and the motion is performed based on the converted control mode, to enhance the efficiency and performance of the walking robot. The method includes receiving an instruction to perform a motion; selecting any one mode, which is determined to be more proper to perform the instructed motion, out of a position-based first control mode and a torque-based second control mode; and performing the instructed motion according to the selected control mode. | 12-31-2009 |
20100040279 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO BUILD 3-DIMENSIONAL GRID MAP AND METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL AUTOMATIC TRAVELING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method and apparatus to build a 3-dimensional grid map and a method and apparatus to control an automatic traveling apparatus using the same. In building a 3-dimensional map to discern a current location and a peripheral environment of an unmanned vehicle or a mobile robot, 2-dimensional localization and 3-dimensional image restoration are appropriately used to accurately build the 3-dimensional grid map more rapidly. | 02-18-2010 |
20100161115 | Robot and method of controlling balance thereof - An finite state machine (FSM)-based biped walking robot, to which a limit cycle is applied to balance the robot right and left on a two-dimensional space, and a method of controlling balance of the robot. In order to balance an FSM-based biped walking robot right and left on a two-dimensional space, control angles to balance the robot according to states of the FSM-based biped walking robot are set, and the control angles are controlled using a sinusoidal function to allow relations between the control angles and control angular velocities to form a stable closed loop within a limit cycle, thereby allowing the biped walking robot to balance itself while changing its supporting foot and thus to safely walk without falling down. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161116 | Robot and method of controlling balance thereof - A finite state machine (FSM)-based biped robot, to which a limit cycle is applied to balance the robot right and left on a two-dimensional space, and a method of controlling balance of the robot. In order to balance an FSM-based biped robot right and left on a two-dimensional space, control angles to balance the robot according to states of the FSM-based biped robot are set. The range of the control angles is restricted to reduce the maximum right and left moving distance of the biped robot and thus to reduce the maximum right and left moving velocity of the biped robot, thereby reducing the sum total of the moments of the biped robot and thus allowing the ankles of the biped robot to balance the biped robot to be controlled, and causing the soles of the feet of the biped robot to parallel contact the ground. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161117 | Robot and method of controlling the same - Disclosed is a method of defining control angles to use a limit cycle in order to balance a biped walking robot on a three-dimensional space. In order to balance an FSM-based biped walking robot right and left on a three-dimensional space, limit cycle control angles to balance the robot according to states of the FSM-based robot are set on the three-dimensional space, and the limit cycle control angles on the three-dimensional space are controlled using a sinusoidal function to allow relations between the control angles and control angular velocities to form a stable closed loop within a limit cycle. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161118 | Robot and method of controlling the same - Disclosed is a method of generating a hip trajectory of a biped walking robot to allow the robot to stably walk on a two-dimensional space without falling down. An angular velocity of a hip of a swinging leg is obtained by measuring the angle/angular velocity of an ankle pitch joint part of a supporting leg in real time when the robot walks on the two-dimensional space, and desired trajectories of the ankle and the hip are generated based on the angular velocity of the ankle of the supporting leg and the angular velocity of the hip of the swinging leg. | 06-24-2010 |
20100172571 | Robot and control method thereof - Disclosed herein are a feature point used to localize an image-based robot and build a map of the robot and a method of extracting and matching an image patch of a three-dimensional (3D) image, which is used as the feature point. It is possible to extract the image patch converted into the reference image using the position information of the robot and the 3D position information of the feature point. Also, it is possible to obtain the 3D surface information with the brightness values of the image patches to obtain the match value with the minimum error by a 3D surface matching method of matching the 3D surface information of the image patches converted into the reference image through the ICP algorithm. | 07-08-2010 |
20100179688 | Robot and walking control apparatus and method thereof - Disclosed are a robot, in which a walking pattern of the robot is changed into a new walking pattern by stages when it is necessary to suddenly change the walking pattern to promote stabilization in walking, and a walking control apparatus and method thereof. When the walking pattern is changed, a preview time is decreased by stages and then is restored to its original state and thus it is possible to prevent the robot from losing its balance. | 07-15-2010 |
20100185330 | Robot walking control apparatus and method thereof - Disclosed are a robot walking control apparatus, which removes an ineffective motion, generated by a robot walking based on torque, by selecting a motion state of the robot based on torque and controlling torques of joints of the robot so that a ZMP of the robot is located in a safety area, when the walking of the robot is controlled, and a method thereof. | 07-22-2010 |
20110040410 | APPARATUS AND METHOD CONTROLLING LEGGED MOBILE ROBOT - Disclosed is an apparatus and method adjusting motion of each joint of a robot to compensate for friction force of each joint such that the sole of the foot of the robot clings to the ground. The motion of each joint is adjusted as if gravity acts on each joint of the robot in a direction opposite to gravity and the robot is held in an erect state. Therefore, the robot can stand while keeping its balance without falling. | 02-17-2011 |
20110172817 | WALKING ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BALANCE THEREOF - Disclosed herein are a walking robot which controls balance using an ankle when the robot walks, and a method of controlling balance thereof. In a method of determining an angle of an ankle joint without solving a complicated dynamic equation such that the robot stays balanced so as not to fall, an angle of the ground is fixed as a reference angle for balance control of the robot such that the robot stably walks while maintaining the same balance control performance even when the ground is inclined. When the robot moves slowly or quickly, the robot may maintain balance. Since the robot stays balanced using the ankle of a stance leg even when the ground is inclined, the method is simple and is applied to a robot having joints with 6 degrees of freedom. | 07-14-2011 |
20110172823 | ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A robot and a control method thereof may adjust a yaw moment generated from a foot contacting a ground to achieve stable walking of the robot. The robot, which may have an upper body and a lower body, may include a main controller starting walking of the robot through only motions of joints of the lower body and adjusting a motion of the upper body such that a yaw moment generated from a foot the lower body during walking of the robot is less than the maximum static frictional force of a ground to perform stable walking of the robot, and sub controllers driving actuators of the joints according to a control signal of the main controller. | 07-14-2011 |
20110172824 | WALKING ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for controlling stable walking of a robot based on torque. In a method of enabling stable walking by controlling torque of a hip joint portion using a Finite State Machine (FSM) without solving a complicated dynamic equation, torque of a stance leg is finally calculated using pose control torque of an upper body, pose control torque of a swing leg, and initial pose control torque of a stance leg supporting the upper body. Accordingly, the robot may stably walk with torque balance. Since gravity compensation torque is applied, a torso of the robot is not inclined and the pose of the robot is stably maintained. | 07-14-2011 |
20110172825 | WALKING CONTROL APPARATUS OF ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A walking control apparatus of a robot includes joint portions provided in each of a plurality of legs of the robot, a state database to store state data of each of the legs and state data of the joint portions corresponding to the state of each of the legs, when the robot walks, a position instruction unit to store desired positions corresponding to the state data of the joint portions, an inclination sensing unit to sense an inclination of an upper body of the robot, a torque calculator to calculate torques using the inclination of the upper body and the desired positions, and a servo controller to output the torques to the joint portions to control the walking of the robot. Since the robot walks by Finite State Machine (FSM) control and torque servo control, the rotation angles of the joint portions do not need to be accurately controlled. Thus, the robot walks with low servo gain and energy consumption is decreased. Since the robot walks with low servo gain, each of the joints has low rigidity and thus shock generated by collision with surroundings is decreased. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178636 | HUMANOID ROBOT AND WALKING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein are a humanoid robot that compensates for a zero moment point (ZMP) error during finite state machine (FSM)-based walking to achieve stable walking and a walking control method thereof. The humanoid robot compensates for a joint position trajectory command or a joint torque command using compensation values calculated based on situations divided according to the position of a calculated ZMP and the position of a measured ZMP in a stable region of the robot. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178637 | WALKING CONTROL APPARATUS OF ROBOT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A walking control apparatus of a robot includes a joint portion provided in each of a plurality of legs of the robot, a pose sensing unit to sense the pose of the robot, a walking state determination unit to determine a walking state from the pose of the robot, a knot point compensation value calculator to determine a Center Of Mass (COM) of the robot from the pose of the robot and to calculate a knot point compensation value, a desired angle trajectory generator to generate a reference knot point of the joint portion corresponding to the walking state, to compensate for the reference knot point using the knot point compensation value so as to generate a desired knot point, and to generate a desired angle trajectory of the joint portion using the desired knot point. The knot point which is the angle command of the joint portion of each of the legs to perform the next step is compensated for based on the COM, and the compensated desired knot point is smoothly connected using the spline curve such that the robot walks similar to a human. In addition, in order to maintain balance while walking, the angle of the joint portion of the intermediate point of the current step is fed back and the knot point of the next step is predicted and adjusted, such that the robot stably and smoothly walks. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178639 | HUMANOID ROBOT AND WALKING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A humanoid robot that achieves stable walking based on servo control of a joint torque and a walking control method thereof. The humanoid robot calculates a joint position trajectory compensation value and a joint torque compensation value using a measurement value of a sensor, compensates for a joint position trajectory and a joint torque using the calculated compensation value, and drives a motor mounted to each joint according to the compensated joint torque. | 07-21-2011 |
20120059518 | WALKING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A walking robot and a control method thereof. The robot includes at least one joint unit on each leg, a sensing unit to sense angle and angular velocity of the at least one joint unit, a memory unit to store data of the angle and angular velocity during stable walking, a target trajectory generation unit to generate a target trajectory, a control torque calculation unit to check stability of the at least one joint unit by comparing the sensed angle and angular velocity with the target trajectory, and, if an unstable joint unit is present, to calculate a control torque of the unstable joint unit to trace the target trajectory, and a servo control unit to transmit the calculated control torque to the unstable joint unit, thereby controlling torques of joint units using an FSM without solving the complicated dynamic equation, thus achieving stable walking. | 03-08-2012 |
20120065778 | ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A robot, which performs natural walking similar to a human with high energy efficiency through optimization of actuated dynamic walking, and a control method thereof. The robot includes an input unit to which a walking command of the robot is input, and a control unit to control walking of the robot by calculating torque input values through control variables, obtaining a resultant motion of the robot through calculation of forward dynamics using the torque input values, and minimizing a value of an objective function set to consist of the sum total of a plurality of performance indices through adjustment of the control variables. | 03-15-2012 |
20120083922 | WALKING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A walking robot and a control method in which conversion between walking servo control methods is stably carried out. The walking robot includes a sensor unit to measure angles and torques of joints, and a control unit to calculate voltages applied in a Finite State Machine (FSM) control mode and a Zero Moment Point (ZMP) control mode according to the angles and torques of the joints to drive respective joint motors, to store last target joint angles in the FSM control mode during conversion from the FSM control mode to the ZMP control mode, and to perform a motion based on the FSM control mode by substituting the last target joint angles in the FSM control mode for target joint angles in the FSM control mode during conversion from the ZMP control mode to the FSM control mode, thereby performing stable conversion between walking servo control modes without joint sagging. | 04-05-2012 |
20120158175 | WALKING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A walking robot and a control method thereof. The control method includes storing angle change data according to time corresponding to at least one joint unit of the robot using human walking data, extracting reference knot points from the angle change data according to time, and generating a reference walking trajectory using the extracted reference knot points, calculating a walking change factor to perform change between walking patterns of the robot, generating a target walking trajectory through an arithmetic operation between the reference walking trajectory and the calculated walking change factor, calculating a control torque to track the generated target walking trajectory, and transmitting the calculated control torque to the at least one joint unit so as to control walking of the robot, thereby achieving various walking patterns through a comparatively simple arithmetic operation process. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158182 | WALKING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ROBOT - A walking control apparatus and method of a robot. The walking control method include confirming a swing leg and a support leg by judging a walking state of the robot when a walking velocity of the robot and a walking command are received by the robot, generating reference pitch knot points of a hip joint unit of the swing leg based on the walking state and the walking velocity of the robot, generating a target pitch angle trajectory of the hip joint unit of the swing leg using the reference pitch knot points, calculating torques tracking the target pitch angle trajectory, and outputting the torques to the hip joint unit of the swing leg to control the walking velocity of the robot. The walking velocity of the robot is rapidly and easily changed by adjusting at least one of a step length and a step time. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158183 | WALKING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A robot which naturally walks with high energy efficiency similar to a human through optimization of actuated dynamic walking, and a control method thereof. The control method includes defining a plurality of unit walking motions, in which stride, velocity, rotating angle and direction of the robot are designated, through combination of parameters to generate target joint paths, and constructing a database in which the plurality of unit walking motions is stored, setting an objective path up to an objective position, performing interpretation of the objective path as unit walking motions, generating walking patterns consisting of at least one unit walking motion to cause the robot to walk along the objective path based on the interpretation of the objective path, and allowing the robot to walk based on the walking patterns. | 06-21-2012 |
20120165983 | WALKING ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A walking robot and a control method thereof. The control method includes performing transition of a second leg to a toe-off state, when ground reaction force applied to a first leg exceeds a first set value under the condition that the first leg is in a swing state and the second leg is in a support state, performing transition of the second leg to the swing state and transition of the first leg to the support state, when ground reaction force applied to the second leg is below a second set value under the condition that the second leg is in the toe-off state, and achieving walking of the walking robot by repeating the transitions among the swing state, the support state and the toe-off state. Thereby, the control method allows the robot to more stably and naturally walk. | 06-28-2012 |
20130116706 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A method for controlling a surgical robot includes calculating an external force acting on a robot arm mounted with a surgical instrument, filtering the external force acting on the robot arm when a central point of an incision is set, calculating a virtual force to enable the surgical instrument which is positioned away from the central point of the incision to return to the central point of the incision, and applying the calculated virtual force to the filtered external force, to control movement of the robot arm. As a result, it is possible to compactly design the surgical robot and thereby reduce the volume of the surgical robot. | 05-09-2013 |
20130150865 | MEDICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A medical robot system and a method for controlling the same. The medical robot system includes a trocar, inserted into an incision of a patient, to guide a surgical apparatus and transmit at least one of position information of the surgical apparatus and pressure information of the surgical apparatus, and a console to display a screen including at least one of the position information and the pressure information. | 06-13-2013 |
20130172908 | MEDICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A medical robot system and a method to control the medical robot system are used to detect position information of a surgical instrument in an incised region, thereby improving the safety of robotic surgery. A surgical instrument may be inserted in a through-hole of a trocar inserted into an incised region of a patient. The medical robotic system includes a surgical instrument position detection apparatus to detect position information of the surgical instrument in the through-hole of the trocar, when the surgical instrument is inserted into the through-hole. The medical robotic system further includes a console to control an operation of a surgical robot having the surgical instrument, based on the detected position information of the surgical instrument. | 07-04-2013 |
20140241577 | METHOD OF TRACKING MOVING OBJECT, METHOD OF DETERMINING DISPLAY STATE OF MOVING OBJECT, AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR TRACKING MOVING OBJECT - A method of tracking a moving object includes measuring displacement of an object to be tracked, obtaining a particle of the object to be tracked using the measured displacement, and tracking the object using pose information of the object in an image thereof and the obtained particle. A control apparatus includes an imaging module to perform imaging of an object and generates an image, and a tracking unit to acquire displacement and pose information of the object using the generated image of the object, to set a particle of the object using the acquired displacement of the object, and to track the object using the pose information of the object and the particle. | 08-28-2014 |
20140277741 | ROBOTS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A robot may include: a multi-tool module having redundancy, the multi-tool module including a guide tube and a plurality of tools configured to operate while interacting with the guide tube and extended from the guide tube; and/or a controller configured to generate a control signal regarding motion of the multi-tool module in a joint space based on motion instruction information regarding distal ends of the plurality of tools in a task space. The redundancy may reflect that a number of degrees of freedom of the multi-tool module in the joint space is greater than a number of degrees of freedom of the task space. The control signal may be generated using the redundancy. | 09-18-2014 |
20140309659 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A surgical robot including a slave arm and an instrument provided at the slave arm to be introduced into a single port to perform surgery. The instrument includes a plurality of surgical instrument members to perform surgery while coming into contact with a surgical object, and a plurality of arm members. The arm members include surgical position regulators to move the surgical instrument members from the single port to a first surgical region where the surgical object is located, and surgical workers connecting the surgical position regulators and the surgical instrument members to each other, the surgical workers serving to move the surgical instrument members to a position close to surgical object within the first surgical region. The single-port surgical robot may effectively perform simultaneous surgery upon various surgical regions like multi-port surgery. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316252 | MARKER AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING SURGICAL INSTRUMENT POSE USING THE SAME - A marker includes a basal surface, and a plurality of reference lines provided at the basal surface in a longitudinal direction of the basal surface. The reference lines may have different gradients. The marker may be attached to an instrument and a camera may capture an image of the marker. Pose information of the instrument may be estimated based on the captured image. | 10-23-2014 |
20140343730 | ROBOT CONTROL METHODS - A robot control method of controlling a robot that has a flexible module including ‘n’ first nodes participating in pan motion and ‘n’ second nodes participating in tilt motion may include: measuring a translational motion distance, a pan motion angle, and a tilt motion angle of the flexible module; calculating state vectors of the ‘n’ first nodes and the ‘n’ second nodes using the measured translational motion distance; calculating operating angle distribution rates of the ‘n’ first nodes and operating angle distribution rates of the ‘n’ second nodes using the calculated state vectors of the ‘n’ first nodes and the calculated state vectors of the ‘n’ second nodes; and/or calculating operating angles of the ‘n’ first nodes and operating angles of the ‘n’ second nodes using the calculated operating angle distribution rates and the measured pan motion angle and tilt motion angle. | 11-20-2014 |