IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
UP-0593592
(2006-11-07)
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등록번호 |
US-7826926
(2010-11-22)
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우선권정보 |
KR-10-2005-0106088(2005-11-07) |
발명자
/ 주소 |
- Myeong, Hyeon
- Lee, Yong-beom
- Lee, Hyoung-ki
- Choi, Ki-wan
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출원인 / 주소 |
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
21 인용 특허 :
2 |
초록
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A mobile robot and a method of localizing the robot are disclosed. The robot includes a gyroscope module providing information regarding a rotational angle of a gyroscope; an encoder module providing information regarding velocity and information regarding a rotational angle of a wheel of the robot
A mobile robot and a method of localizing the robot are disclosed. The robot includes a gyroscope module providing information regarding a rotational angle of a gyroscope; an encoder module providing information regarding velocity and information regarding a rotational angle of a wheel of the robot by sensing motion of the wheel; and a control module estimating a current pose of the robot according to a method based on information provided by the encoder module and the gyroscope module, the control module incorporating information regarding rotational angle provided by the gyroscope module when estimating the current pose.
대표청구항
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What is claimed is: 1. A robot comprising: a gyroscope module providing information regarding a rotational angle of a gyroscope; an encoder module providing information regarding velocity and information regarding rotational angle of a wheel of the robot by sensing motion of the wheel; and a contro
What is claimed is: 1. A robot comprising: a gyroscope module providing information regarding a rotational angle of a gyroscope; an encoder module providing information regarding velocity and information regarding rotational angle of a wheel of the robot by sensing motion of the wheel; and a control module estimating a current pose of the robot based on information provided by the encoder module and the gyroscope module by applying a Kalman filter with physical constraints, the control module incorporating the information regarding the rotational angle provided by the gyroscope module when estimating the current pose, wherein the control module is adapted to localize the robot by using the estimated pose of the robot and a pose error of the robot estimated by the gyroscope module as state variables. 2. The robot of claim 1, wherein the Kalman filter satisfies Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions and penalty function theorem. 3. The robot of claim 1, wherein the physical constraints are expressed as penalty functions. 4. A method of localizing a robot having an encoder module and a gyroscope module, comprising: providing information regarding a rotational angle of a gyroscope from the gyroscope module; providing information regarding velocity and information regarding a rotational angle of a wheel of the robot, based on motion of the wheel, from the encoder module; and localizing the robot based on the information provided from the encoder module and the gyroscope module by incorporating information regarding the rotational angle provided by the gyroscope module by applying a Kalman filter with physical constraints, wherein the localizing the robot is performed by using an estimated pose of the robot and a pose error of the robot estimated by the gyroscope module as state variables. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the localizing the robot comprises: predicting a state variable by a process model of localizing the robot; observing an observation model by a measurement equation; and updating the predicted state variable. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the process model is expressed by a state equation: [ δ X ( k + 1 ) δ Y ( k + 1 ) δ X G ( k + 1 ) δ Y G ( k + 1 ) δ ψ ( k + 1 ) S R ( k + 1 ) S L ( k + 1 ) δ D ( k + 1 ) δϕ ( k + 1 ) δ B S ( k + 1 ) δ B rb ( k + 1 ) ] = [ 1 0 0 0 - sin ψ ( k ) U R + U L 2 cos ψ ( k ) U R 2 cos ψ ( k ) U L 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 cos ψ ( k ) U R + U L 2 sin ψ ( k ) U R 2 sin ψ ( k ) U L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - sin ϕ ( k ) U R + U L 2 cos ϕ ( k ) U R 2 cos ϕ ( k ) U L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 cos ϕ ( k ) U R + U L 2 sin ϕ ( k ) U R 2 sin ϕ ( k ) U L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 U R D U L D U L - U R D 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Ω 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ] [ δ X ( k ) δ Y ( k ) δ X G ( k ) δ Y G ( k ) δ ψ ( k ) S R ( k ) S L ( k ) δ D ( k ) δϕ ( k ) δ B S ( k ) δ B rb ( k ) ] + w , where δXG(k) and δYG(k) indicate position error of the robot estimated by the gyroscope module, and φ indicates a rotational angle provided by the gyroscope module, SR(k) and SL(k) refer to scale factor errors of the encoder module, D(k) refers to a tread error, δBs is an error in scale factor of the gyroscope, U is a velocity of the wheel, w is process noise and ψ is a rotational angle of the wheel. 7. The method of claim 5, wherein the measurement equation=the estimated pose of the robot−the pose of the robot estimated by the gyroscope+noise. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the measurement equation is defined by: Z = [ X ^ ( k ) - X ^ G ( k ) Y ^ ( k ) - Y ^ G ( k ) ψ ^ ( k ) - ϕ ^ ( k ) ] + v = [ δ X ^ ( k ) - δX ^ G ( k ) δ Y ^ ( k ) - δ Y ^ G ( k ) δ ψ ^ ( k ) - δ ϕ ^ ( k ) ] + v = [ 1 0 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 1 0 0 ] [ δ X ( k ) δ Y ( k ) δ X G ( k ) δ Y G ( k ) δ ψ ( k ) S R ( k ) S L ( k ) δ D ( k ) δϕ ( k ) δ B S ( k ) δ B rb ( k ) ] + v wherein {circumflex over (X)}G(k) and ŶG(k) indicate a position of the robot estimated by using rotational angle provided by the gyroscope module and v is measurement noise. 9. The method of claim 5, wherein, the updating comprises updating the predicted state variable by Kk=Pk−HkT(HkPk−HkT+Rk)−1 {circumflex over (x)}k={circumflex over (x)}k−+Kk(zk−h({circumflex over (x)}k−,0)) Pk=(I−KkHk)Pk− where Kk is Kalman gain, Hk is an observation matrix, T is a transpose of the matrix, I is an identity matrix, Pk is a covariance matrix, Rk is variance regarding noise, {circumflex over (x)}k−is a state variable before update, {circumflex over (x)}k is a state variable after update, zk is a measurement equation, h refers to inequality constraints, and Hk=∂h/∂x(xk,uk,0). 10. The method of claim 4, wherein the Kalman filter satisfies Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions and penalty function theorem. 11. The method of claim 4, wherein the physical constraints are expressed as penalty functions. 12. The method of claim 4, wherein, based on the Kalman filter having physical constraints, a state equation of the robot is defined by: x . k = - 2 W T ( x k - x ^ k ) - [ ∑ i ∇ g i ( s k g i + + λ i ′ ) + ∑ j ∇ h j ( s k h j + μ j ) ] where xk is a state variable for localizing the robot, T is a transpose of the matrix, W is a positive definite matrix, {circumflex over (x)} is a Kalman-filtered state variable, gi,(x) indicates inequality constraints, hj(x) indicates equality constraints, “s” is a penalty parameter, λ and μ are Lagrange multipliers, and {dot over (λ)}iεskgi+, {dot over (μ)}j=εskhj, sk=(1+α)sk−1, α≧0, ε≧0. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein initially ε=0, α=positive constant the method further comprising modifying ε into a small positive constant after a predetermined time so that s, λ, and μ are updated. 14. The method of claim 13, the method further comprising modifying α into a different positive constant after a predetermined time. 15. The method of claim 6, wherein a rank of an observability matrix is 4 for a time invariant system.
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