국내 중소 서비스용 로봇 기업의 플랫폼을 이용한 시장 창출 전략: 로보프린트 사례연구

오수정 ( Soo Jung Oh ) 한국중소기업학회 2021 中小企業硏究 Vol.43 No.2

플랫폼(platform) 개념은 제품 플랫폼, 거래 플랫폼에서 산업 플랫폼에 이르기까지 다양한 형태로 기업의 경영활동에 활용되어 왔다. 모든 플랫폼은 공통적으로 자주 재사용 되는 핵심과 재사용이 적고 자주 변경되는 주변부로 구성된다. 기업은 플랫폼을 사용하여 제품군, 거래, 그리고 혁신을 보다 효율적으로 개발 및 창출할 수 있다. 이러한 플랫폼은 제품을 중심으로 한 전통적 산업구조에 변화를 가져옴으로써 많은 중소기업에게 새로운 기회를 제공한다. 한국의 서비스용 로봇 산업은 협소한 시장규모로 인해 주로 기술 중심의 중소기업으로 구성되어 있다. 이들 중소기업들은 기술개발에 성공하더라도 제품을 판매하기 위해 시장을 창출하고 확장하는데 어려움을 겪는다. 따라서 본 연구는 한국 서비스용 로봇 산업의 특성 및 문제점을 조명하고 중소기업인 로보프린트가 어떻게 서비스용 로봇 시장을 확장하고 지속적으로 성장하였는지를 플랫폼 이론을 적용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과, 로보프린트는 제품과 거래 플랫폼 개념을 적용한 것으로 나타났다. 첫째, 로보프린트는 초기에 개발한 아트봇의 핵심 기술을 기반으로 페인팅 로봇, 건물 외벽 청소 로봇 및 맞춤형 로봇을 개발하였다. 또한, 직접 로봇을 이용한 아파트 벽화 서비스를 제공하고 이를 방음벽, 지하통로, 옹벽 등 다양한 지역으로 확장하였다. 뿐만 아니라 가상현실 기술을 개발하는 등 새로운 서비스를 지속적으로 추가했다. 둘째, 로보프린트는 벽화 서비스 구매자와 벽화 디자이너를 매개하였다. 이는 벽화 서비스를 의뢰하는 구매자들이 디자이너를 탐색해야 하는 번거로움을 줄여주었고, 벽화 디자이너들에게는 벽화사업의 참여 기회를 열어주었다. 마지막으로 로보프린트는 플랫폼의 범위를 지속적으로 넓히고자 노력하였다. 내부에서만 재사용되던 로보프린트의 기술을 외부 기업과 공유하기 위해 대구광역시 ‘신기술 플랫폼 서비스’에 참여하였다. 뿐만 아니라 로봇을 외부 기업에 임대하여 서비스 플랫폼을 공유하고자 노력하고 있다. 본 연구는 중소기업이 다양한 플랫폼을 이용하여 시장을 창출하고 지속적으로 확장할 수 있음을 보여주어 기존 플랫폼 이론에 기여하며 실무자들에게도 유용한 시사점을 준다. The platform concept has been used for business operations in various forms: product platforms, transaction platforms and industry platforms. All these platforms have common characteristics of having ‘core’ that is reused frequently and ‘peripherals’ that are less reusable and changed often. Companies use platforms to enable efficient development and creation of product family, transactions and innovation. These platforms provide new opportunities for many small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) by bringing changes to traditional industrial structures focused on the products rather than platforms. The service robotics industry in South Korea is mainly composed of technology-intensive SMEs due to its small market size. Although these SMEs succeed in developing technologies, they have difficulties creating and expanding markets to sell products. Thus, this study addresses the characteristics and problems of the South Korean service robotics industry and analyses how ROBOPRINT, one of the SMEs in the service robotics industry, successfully creates and continuously expands the service robot market by adopting platform concept. The results indicate that ROBOPRINT has been applying two types of platforms: product and transaction platforms. First, ROBOPRINT created art robots that were apartment mural service robots. Rather than selling art robots, the company developed various robots such as painting robots, building exterior wall-cleaning robots by reusing the core technology of the robots. The company also developed various robots according to the buyers request. In addition, the company used the robots to directly provide apartment mural services for customers. This mural service has been extended into various areas, not only in apartments but also in soundproof walls, underground passages, and retaining walls. Besides, ROBOPRINT added new services continuously by developing technologies such as virtual reality. Second, ROBOPRINT mediated mural service buyers and mural designers. This platform reduced buyers’ workload, which necessitates requesting mural services to ROBOPRINT and searching for mural designers. For designers, this opened up new opportunities to participate in the mural business. The platform attracted both mural buyers and designers who were scattered before. Finally, ROBOPRINT seeks to expand the platform’s scope to outside company. To share internally reused ROBOPRINT’s technology with other companies, the company participated in Daegu city’s ‘New Technology Platform Industry’. Furthermore, ROBOPRINT is trying to share the service platform by leasing robots to other companies. This allows external agents to develop technologies and provide services by reusing resources from ROBOPRINT. This study contributes to existing theories by showing that SMEs continuously create and expand markets by building various platforms. Moreover, it provides useful implications for practitioners by describing the firm’s specific platform-building strategy.

Cloud Robotics Platform 환경에서 Node간 안전한 통신 기법

김형주 ( Hyungjoo Kim ) 한국정보처리학회 2021 정보처리학회논문지. 소프트웨어 및 데이터 공학 Vol.10 No.12

로봇은 주변 상황을 인지하고 Task를 부여받는 software oriented 형상으로 발전하고 있다. Cloud Robotics Platform은 로봇에 Service Oriented Architecture 형상을 지원하기 위한 방법으로, 상황에 따라 필요한 Task와 Motion Controller를 클라우드 기반으로 제공할 수 있는 방안이다. 휴머노이드 로봇으로 진화할수록 로봇은 로봇 3대 원칙에 따라 보편화된 일상생활 속에서 인간에게 도움을 주기 위해 사용될 것이다. 따라서 특정개인만을 위한 로봇 이외에도, 상황에 따라 모든 인간에게 도움을 줄 수 있는 공공재로써의 로봇이 보편화될 것이다. 따라서, 생성하는 정보는 사람, 로봇, 로봇에 지능을 부여하는 클라우드 상의 서비스 애플리케이션, 로봇과 클라우드를 이어주는 클라우드 브릿지로 구성될 것으로 분석되는 Cloud Robotics Computing 환경에서 정보보안의 중요성은 인간의 생명 및 안전을 위해 필수불가결한 요소로 자리잡게 될 것이다. 본 논문에서는 지능화된 로봇을 위한 Cloud Robotics Computing 환경에서 사람, 로봇, 클라우드 브릿지, 클라우드 시스템간 통신 시 보안을 제공하여 해킹으로부터 안전하고 개인의 정보가 보호되는 로봇 서비스가 가능할 수 있는 Security Scheme을 제안한다. The robot is developing into a software-oriented shape that recognizes the surrounding situation and is given a task. Cloud Robotics Platform is a method to support Service Oriented Architecture shape for robots, and it is a cloud-based method to provide necessary tasks and motion controllers depending on the situation. As it evolves into a humanoid robot, the robot will be used to help humans in generalized daily life according to the three robot principles. Therefore, in addition to robots for specific individuals, robots as public goods that can help all humans depending on the situation will be universal. Therefore, the importance of information security in the Cloud Robotics Computing environment is analyzed to be composed of people, robots, service applications on the cloud that give intelligence to robots, and a cloud bridge that connects robots and clouds. It will become an indispensable element for In this paper, we propose a Security Scheme that can provide security for communication between people, robots, cloud bridges, and cloud systems in the Cloud Robotics Computing environment for intelligent robots, enabling robot services that are safe from hacking and protect personal information.

Bridge for Exchange of Data/Service between Robot Software Platforms

Ki-Won Lee,Hong-Seong Park 제어로봇시스템학회 2015 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2015 No.10

Those robot software platforms built on component-based software engineering have the dependency problem that they are operated only on certain platform components. Such problem causes unproductive situation due to duplicate production of robot software platform resulting from dependency. On that account, the proposed bridge aims to address unproductive situation caused by duplicate production by solving component dependency problem between robot software platforms. Moreover, it has some additional benefits. First, an operating robot maintains realtime system. Second, it can leverage the features of other platform components. Third, it does not modify or reproduce robot software platforms. This thesis aims to realize the proposed bridge and demonstrate the interoperation as to the exchange of data and service between the following heterogeneous robot software platforms: OPRoS and ROS.

임베디드 보드 기반의 교육용 차동 구동 로봇 플랫폼 개발

최현주,이동현,Choi, Hyeon-Ju,Lee, Dong-Hyun 대한임베디드공학회 2022 대한임베디드공학회논문지 Vol.17 No.2

This paper proposes a mobile robot platform for education that can experiment with various autonomous driving algorithms such as obstacle avoidance and path planning. The platform consists of a robot module and a remote controller module, both of which are based on the Arduino Nano 33 IoT embedded board. The robot module is designed as a differential drive type using two encoder motors, and the speed of the motor is controlled using PID control. In the case of the remote controller module, a command to control the robot platform is received with a 2-axis joystick input, and an elliptical grid mapping technique is used to convert the joystick input into a linear and angular velocity command of the robot. WiFi and Zigbee are used for communication between the robot module and the remote controller module. The proposed robot platform was tested by measuring and comparing the linear velocity and angular velocity of the actual robot according to the linear velocity and angular velocity commands of the robot generated by the input of the joystick.

A Robot Platform for Children and Its Action Control

Sangseung Kang,Jaehong Kim,Joochan Sohn 제어로봇시스템학회 2008 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2008 No.10

As endowing a robot with emotion, it facilitates human-robot interaction. Such a robot system employs a technical method of creating an emotion or selecting a behavior using various sensors such as image, voice and tactile sensors mounted inside and outside a robot. In this paper, we introduce a robot platform which is named RABIE. The robot is a networked robot platform for providing various robotic services for to take care of children with the functions of interactive communication, proactive monitoring, and creative play. We also present a method of action control for the robot applying emotions. The robot is the thing which induces the intimate sense to children and contributes to the emotional stability of children. It will be able to be used for childcare services based on the action interpretation and artificial emotion.

SVM과 역전파 신경망 알고리즘을 이용한 보행 로봇의 지형인식 알고리즘

김기성(Ki Sung Kim),한창수(Chang Soo Han),고광진(Kwang Jin Ko),김완수(Wan Soo Kim),김동수(Dong Soo Kim) 대한기계학회 2010 대한기계학회 춘추학술대회 Vol.2010 No.6

족형 로봇이 보행할 때 수많은 종류의 지형과 지면에 접촉하기 때문에 지형인식은 로봇의 성능을 평가할 수 있는 가장 중요한 인자 중 하나이다. 평지의 경우, 로봇은 빠르고 부드럽게 안정적인 보행을 할 수 있지만 거친 지형에서는 안정성을 유지하면서 빠르게 이동 하기 힘들다. 로봇이 지형에 대한 정보를 모른다면 불안정한 보행을 하거나 넘어지거나 미끄러지는 경우가 생길 수 있기 때문에 로봇은 스스로 보행하고 있는 지형에 대한 정보를 습득하고 인식할 줄 알아야 한다. 본 논문에서는 지형인식 실험을 위해서 1-Leg Platform 과 4 가지 지면 환경(평지, 모래, 자갈 그리고 잔디)을 제안하였다. 1-Leg Platform 에는 지면 반력을 측정하기 위한 로드셀과 각 조인트의 토크를 측정하기 위한 3 개의 토크셀이 위치해 있다. 그리고 이러한 데이터를 주성분 분석법(PCA)을 이용해 특징을 검출하였고 이 특징 값들을 입력 데이터로 하여 지지벡터머신(Support Vector machine)과 역전파 신경망(Backpropagation Neural Network) 알고리즘을 이용해 학습하고 분류하였다. Terrain classification of the legged robot is one of the most important objects which can determine robot's performance because surface of the fields is often extremely diverse. In the flat surface case, robot can move fast and smoothly. However, it cannot move fast in the rough terrain. Unless robot knows which terrain, robot will be falling down and slippery. Therefore, robot must know their terrain when they are walking. In this paper, we composed a 1-legged robot and terrain environment (flat, sand, gravel and Grass) for terrain classification experiment. A load cell mounted on the 1-legged robot measures the ground reaction force and torque sensors located each of the 3-joints measure torque. Then we present a method for feature extraction using PCA method. After that we present two algorithms for terrain classification such as Backpropagation Neural Network and SVM (Support Vector Machine).

Software Interface for Hardware-independent Robot Platforms

Ji-Woo Park,Yun-Sik Son,jin-Woo Jung,Se-Man Oh 한국과학기술원 인간친화 복지 로봇 시스템 연구센터 2008 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Me Vol.9 No.4

In most research, robots have been regarded as having a complete set of functions. Such robots can fulfill only specialized roles. Accordingly, it is not possible to use these robot systems for a variety of purposes. However, if robot tools are defined as each of functional elements, robots can be repurposed for a variety of tasks. By connecting various robot tools, robots can be enabled to perform a multitude of functions. This type of robot is referred to here as a tool-based evolution robot. Tool-based evolution robots must support interfaces allowing interactive functions between robots. In this paper, a software interface for a hardware-independent robot platform is proposed. This interface offers a method to allow hardware-dependent functions between robots. The Proposed software interface is designed to consider dynamic loading/removing. The interface can support the use of hardware-dependent functions between robots. Finally, a foundation allowing dynamic addition and removal of robot components is established.

기술 플랫폼을 통한 글로벌 혁신 네트워크 구축

오수정 한국국제경영관리학회 2023 국제경영리뷰 Vol.27 No.1

In recent years, companies have been expanding their innovation networks by creating ecosystems based on platforms. However, most research on innovation in value chains has focused on the aggregation externality within or between innovation clusters, or the transfer and utilization of knowledge within multinational companies' value chain boundaries. This study aims to investigate how small and medium-sized technology-based companies can effectively establish a global innovation network using a technological platform. To achieve this, I conducted a case study of Rainbow Robotics, a well-known domestic humanoid robotics company. Due to the need for diverse technologies such as hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, external knowledge and resources are essential for building an innovation network in the humanoid robotics industry. Rainbow Robotics has established a humanoid robot platform and attracted external participants to facilitate innovation in humanoid robotics technology. The platform's short-term and indirect relationships allow for a flexible network that can promote complementary innovation. Rainbow Robotics has encouraged a wide range of external innovations through this platform, leading to the development of humanoid robot technology centered on their humanoid robot platform, Hubo. Based on these findings, this study contributes to existing research by combining the innovation platform perspective with value chain-oriented innovation network research. 최근 기업들은 플랫폼을 기반으로 한 혁신 생태계 구축을 통해 혁신 네트워크의 범위를 확장하고 있다. 하지만 가치사슬에서의 혁신에 관한 기존의 연구들은 혁신 클러스터 내 또는 클러스터 간의 연결을 통한 집적 외부성에 대해 강조하거나, 다국적기업의 가치사슬 경계 내에서의 지식 이전과 활용에 초점을 맞추어왔다. 본 연구는 기술 플랫폼 중에서도 혁신 플랫폼 개념을 통해 기술 기반 벤처기업이 글로벌 혁신 네트워크를 어떻게 효율적으로 구축할 수 있는지를 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 국내 휴머노이드 로봇 기업으로 널리 알려진 레인보우로보틱스를 사례연구 대상으로 선정하였다. 휴머노이드 로봇은 하드웨어, 소프트웨어, 인공지능 (AI) 등 다양한 기술을 필요로 하기 때문에 혁신 네트워크의 구축을 통한 외부 지식 및 자원의 활용이 매우 중요하다. 레인보우로보틱스는 휴머노이드 로봇 기술의 혁신을 촉진시키기 위해 휴머노이드 로봇 플랫폼을 구축하고 외부 참여자들에게 플랫폼을 개방하였다. 플랫폼 참여자들과의 단기적이고 간접적인 관계는 매우 유연한 네트워크를 형성할 수 있게 하며, 보완적 혁신의 창조에 유용하였다. 레인보우로보틱스는 이러한 혁신 플랫폼을 통해 광범위한 외부 조직의 혁신을 이끌어내며 휴보를 중심으로 한 휴머노이드 로봇 기술 발전을 주도하였다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 본 연구는 기존의 가치사슬 중심의 혁신 네트워크 연구에 혁신 플랫폼의 관점을 결합하여 기존 연구를 확장하였다는데 의의를 가진다.

밭 노지 환경 주행을 위한 모듈형 농업 로봇 플랫폼에 대한 연구

조용준,우성용,송수환,홍형길,윤혜룡,오장석,김준성,김동우,서갑호,김대희 한국로봇학회 2020 로봇학회 논문지 Vol.15 No.2

This paper designed modular agricultural robotic platform capable of a variety of agricultural tasks to address the problems caused by a decline in agricultural populations and an increase in average age. We propose a modular robotic platform that can perform many tasks required in field farming by replacing only work modules with common robotic platforms. This platform is capable of steering while driving on four wheels in an upland environment where farm work is performed, and an attitude control module is attached to each drive module to control the attitude of the platform. In addition, the width of the platform is designed to be variable in order to operate in various ridges according to the crop cultivation method. Finally, we evaluated five items: variable width, gradient, attitude control angle, step and road speed in order to carry out the farming industry while maintaining a stable posture.

도심지형 최적주행을 위한 휠·무한궤도 하이브리드형 모바일 로봇 플랫폼 및 메커니즘

김윤구,김진욱,곽정환,홍대한,이기동,안진웅 한국로봇학회 2010 로봇학회 논문지 Vol.5 No.3

Various robot platforms have been designed and developed to perform given tasks in a hazardous environment for the purpose of surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and etc. We have considered a terrain adaptive hybrid robot platform which is equipped with rapid navigation on flat floors and good performance on overcoming stairs or obstacles. Since our special consideration is posed to its flexibility for real application, we devised a design of a transformable robot structure which consists of an ordinary wheeled structure to navigate fast on flat floor and a variable tracked structure to climb stairs effectively. Especially, track arms installed in front side, rear side, and mid side are used for navigation mode transition between flatland navigation and stairs climbing. The mode transition is determined and implemented by adaptive driving mode control of mobile robot. The wheel and track hybrid mobile platform apparatus applied off-road driving mechanism for various professional service robots is verified through experiments for navigation performance in real and test-bed environment.