Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University

Chang Eun Lee

Sung Hoon Kim

Kyeong Deok Moon

Jun Hee Park

Sang Joon Park

Jong Hyun Park

Jae Hong Kim

Young Jo Cho

Min Su Jang

Hyun Kyu Cho

Dae Ha Lee

Eun Young Cho

Kwangil Lee

Seo Hyun Jeon

Hyun Ja Im

Sung Woo Jun

So Yeon Lee

Jin Hee Son

Blagovest Iordanov Vladimirov

Gi Mun Um

Kyeong Ho Lee

Byoung Youl Song

Young-Jo Cho

Joong Bae Kim

Seung-Woog Jung

Kwang Yong Kim

Choul Soo Jang

Myung Chan Roh

Tae-Kyung Sung

Joong-Ki Park

Beom-Su Seo

Hyun-Ja Im

An active data collection mode control system to reduce crowd sourcing signal data collection required for fingerprint database (FPDB) maintenance is provided. The system includes a mobile device that supports a survey mode, a localization mode, and a crowd-sourcing mode, and a server that receives data from the mobile device, generates and updates an FPDB, and controls a data collection mode.

System and method for active data collection mode control for reducing crowd-sourcing signal data collection required for fingerprint database maintenance

Provided is an atypical environment-based location recognition apparatus. The apparatus includes a sensing information acquisition unit configured to, from sensing data collected by sensor modules, detect object location information and semantic label information of a video image and detect an event in the video image; a walk navigation information provision unit configured to acquire user movement information; a metric map generation module configured to generate a video odometric map using sensing data collected through a sensing information acquisition unit and reflect the semantic label information; and a topology map generation module configured to generate a topology node using sensing data acquired through the sensing information acquisition unit and update the topology node through the collected user movement information.

Location recognition method and apparatus in atypical environment

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing object segmentation in an image. More particularly, the present invention divides a screen of an input image into at least two sub-images, and generates one image by combining the at least two sub-images to which an image segmentation algorithm is respectively applied.

Method and apparatus for performing segmentation of small objects within moving pictures in real-time

Provided are a method and a control apparatus for cooperative cleaning using multiple cleaning robots, including monitoring an overall cleaning condition of an extensive space and automatically assigning multiple cleaning robots to a space required to be cleaned, and when a cleaning area is fixed based on a cooperative cleaning method, data on an amount of garbage generated from the cleaning area or a cleaning condition of the cleaning area may be accumulated to facilitate easier management of the cleaning.

Method and control apparatus for cooperative cleaning using multiple robots

Disclosed are an apparatus for measuring position of other apparatus and a method for the same. The apparatus may comprise at least one light emitting part transmitting a photo signal, at least one light receiving part receiving a photo signal transmitted from other apparatus, and a signal processing part controlling the at least one light emitting part to transmit the photo signal including identification information of itself, acquiring identification information of the other apparatus based on the photo signal received from the other apparatus, and acquiring a positional information of the other apparatus based on the acquired identification information of the other apparatus. Thus, the apparatus located in an arbitrary space may accurately acquire relative positional information of counterpart apparatuses.

Apparatus for measuring positions of other apparatus and method therefor

Disclosed is a snake robot for exploration and disclosed is a separable module type snake robot that configures an ad-hoc mesh network by separating a body part into multiple mobile relay modules according to a propagation situation to seamlessly transmit image information to a remote control center.

Separable module type snake robot for providing seamless communication and operation method of the same

An unmanned surveillance device includes a robot control terminal configured to be loaded within a remote control robot under a surveillance environment, collect state information and surrounding circumstance information, operate the remote control robot in driving mode or surveillance mode according to a remote control command corresponding to the state information and surrounding circumstance information. Further, the unmanned surveillance device includes a remote control system configured to receive the state information and the surrounding circumstance information of the remote control robot from the robot control terminal, output the received state information and surrounding circumstance information of the remote control robot, and provide the remote control command to the robot control terminal.

Apparatus and method for unmanned surveillance, and robot control device for unmanned surveillance

A system achieves seamless localization for a plurality of robots when first some robots moves to a shadow area where GPS signals are not received while remaining second robots receives the GPS signals, by performing an absolute localization for the second robots using the GPS signals; and performing an absolute localization for the second robots using the GPS signals; performing a relative localization for the first robots based on the second robots, thereby determining an absolute location of the first robots. Further, when the second robots move to the shadow area where the first robots have been moved, the system performs the seamless localization by determining a relative location of the second robots based on the first robots on which the relative localization has been performed, thereby determining an absolute location of the second robots based on the relative location of the second robots.

Method and system for performing seamless localization

An apparatus for performing fault tolerance against a failure occurring during driving robot software components includes: a component executor for executing the robot software components, which are assigned with one thread from an operating system and have a same priority and cycle, by using the assigned thread; and an executor monitor for periodically monitoring the operation of the component executor and determining whether or not there is a failure in the robot software components executed by the component executor. The apparatus further includes: an executor manager for generating the component executor which is assigned with the robot software components having the same priority and cycle and, when the executor monitor determines that there is a failure in the execution of the robot software components, generating a new component executor.

Fault tolerance method and apparatus for robot software component

An apparatus for integrally managing a ship includes a device manager for integrally managing different types of local ship devices in the ship by using a standardized protocol message; a local device manager for managing local ship devices in a legacy environment on the basis of an independent local protocol; and an inter-working framework (IWF) for performing translation of a protocol for compatibility between the standardized protocol and the independent local protocol to manage the different types of local ship devices between the device manager and the local device manager. The device manager receives a remote control instruction for remotely maintaining and repairing the local ship device from a remote server connected through a wired/wireless communication network.

Apparatus for integrally managing ship device and method thereof

A system for fault prediction in a home network includes: a context generator for generating context information based on status data collected in real time about components of the home network; a specification interpreter for generating knowledge rules for fault detection by using specifications of the components of the home network; a context analyzer for analyzing if the context information meet the knowledge rules to classify the context information into normal situation contexts and abnormal situation contexts; a context pattern learner for generating new knowledge rules based on the abnormal situation contexts and fault rules corresponding to the abnormal situation contexts; a knowledge rule database for storing and managing the knowledge rules and the new knowledge rules; and a fault predictor for analyzing a correlation between the knowledge rules or the new knowledge rules and the generated context information, thereby predicting faults to be generated.

System and method for fault prediction in home network

An integrated gateway apparatus includes a policy storage for storing therein a first information on message filtering and switching policies for messages received from heterogeneous devices in lower networks via network interfaces; a device management unit for extracting a second information on the messages, the devices and the network interfaces; a layer-basis filter unit for performing, based on the first and the second information, the message filtering and switching on the messages on a layer basis; and an integrated switch management unit for providing the first information to the layer-basis filter unit and controlling the layer-basis filtering unit. The layer-basis filter unit includes a switch filter unit, a route filter unit and a gateway filter unit for performing the message filtering and switching in a MAC layer, in a network layer and a transport layer and in an application layer, respectively.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Chang Eun Lee