• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.141-149
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• 2012

This paper attempts to evaluate driving stability by the vibration of human body. The purpose of this research is to establish an evaluation methodology for controling the quality of road surface. The study was conducted to investigate the relationship between road surface profiles (IRI, International Roughness Index) and the fatigue caused by the vibration of human body. Furthermore, 3-axis acceleration in driving vehicles was examined based on sampling sections under various road conditions. The acceleration value of frequency bands were analyzed by the characteristics of road surface, and realized the range of human influence by conditions and type of road surface with ISO-2631 standards. In general, more human fatigue by vehicle vibration was appeared in concrete pavements with high IRIs based on the analysis from given test data. Whereas, The SMA asphalt pavement and the diamond grinded concrete pavement reduce the human fatigue.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.37-45
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• 2009

The minimum distance between tunnel and interchange has several steps to go through for road users; when road user comes out of tunnel, he/she reads information on road sign and tries to change the lane, and then reaches the destination (interchange). So that's why that minimum distance between tunnel and interchange has to be designed to reflect human factors sufficiently for road's users. This study aims to set for minimum distance between tunnel and interchange with involved human factors. People aged from their twenties to their seventies took part in this experiment by using driving simulator. As a result, the minimum distance between them was loom long. When it comes to this study for minimum distance between tunnel and interchange, this study will be significant in some ways reason why this method can be applied to all road facilities for road safety on scientific basis. In the near future, It will make a recommendation concerning the most suitable data for road safety by contributing better guideline.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.5D
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• pp.831-838
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• 2006

An experimental/analytic study has been conducted to understand the adverse effects of low vehicle speed, high axle load and high tire pressure on the performance of asphalt pavements. Of 33 asphalt sections at KHC test road, two sections having different base layer thickness (180 mm versus 280 mm) are adopted for rollover tests. During the test, a standard three-axle dump truck maintains a steady state condition as moving along the wheel path of a passing lane, and lateral offsets and real travel speed are measured with a laser-based wandering system. Test results suggest that vehicle speed affects both longitudinal and transverse strains at the bottom of asphalt layer (290 mm and 390 mm below the surface), and even slightly influences the measured vertical stresses at the top of subbase and subgrade due to the dynamic effect of rolling vehicle. Since the anisotropic nature of asphalt-aggregate mixtures, the difference between longitudinal and transverse strains appears prominent throughout the measurements. As the thickness of asphalt pavement increases, the measured lateral strains become larger than its corresponding longitudinal strains. Over the limited testing conditions, it is concluded that higher axle weight and higher tire pressures induce more strains and vertical stresses, leading to a premature deterioration of pavements. Finally, a layered elastic analysis overestimates the maximum strains measured under the 1st axle load, while underestimating the maximum vertical stress in both pavement sections.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.7 s.85
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• pp.17-33
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• 2005

Highway design speed is a very important design element which determines highway design level. When determining highway design speed, one would estimate it utilizing the most likelihood of design speed and vehicle operating speed relationship. Existing operating speed prediction models only include highway geometric characteristics and their impacts on speed, which usually can not consider the impact of highway design speed on surrounding roadway environment and land use pattern. If this happens, excessive highway construction cost and huge environmental impact can occur. In this research project, a new vehicle operating speed prediction model was developed which can reflect the effect of surrounding roadway environment into vehicle speed prediction. The followings are the research findings : Firstly, highway terrain types and land use pattern on national roads were classified and integrated into drivers' visual recognition pattern. This was performed using a data management software. Secondly, the developed highway terrain types and land use pattern were related to vehicle speeds and it was found that there were significant statistical differences among vehicle speed for each different terrain and land use pattern. Thirdly. the General Linear Model analysis was employed to analyze the effects of highway geometric features, terrain types, and land use patterns. For two-lane highway and four-lane highway tested in this research project, it was found that R squares were 0.67 and 0.85, respectively. Additionally an optimal highway design speed range table, based on this research project. was proposed for practical use. This table can be reliably used on South Korean national road design, but discretion is required for applying this table to other types of highways including provincial roads and municipal roads.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.17-18
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• 2013

이 논문에서는 저비용 고효율 청소 로봇을 구현하기 위한 효율적 주행 기법을 발굴하기 위하여 다양한 주행 기법들을 제안하고, 시뮬레이션 도구를 이용하여 실험한 후 그 결과를 비교, 분석하였다. 이 논문에서 저비용이라는 것은 전방에 하나의 근접 센서만을 갖는 단순한 구조의 청소 로봇을 의미하며, 이전 주행 경로나 장애물에 대한 영상 정보 등은 물론 좌우 상태에 대한 정보없이 진행 경로 상에 장애물의 존재 여부만으로 청소를 수행할 수 있는 청소 로봇을 의미한다. 이 논문에서 제안한 여러 주행기법들을 비교 분석한 결과, 바둑판식 주행 기법의 패턴에 주행 중 진행 방향을 0.05의 확률로 좌우 90도 방향으로 랜덤 변경하는 주행 기법이 가장 효율적인 주행 기법임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.46-54
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• 2021

Recently, interest in the safety of Self-driving has been increasing. Self-driving have been studied and developed by many universities, research centers, car companies, and companies of other industries around the world since the middle 1980s. In this study, we propose the automatic extraction method of the threatening obstacle on the Road for the Self-driving. A threatening obstacle is defined in this study as a comparatively large object at center of the image. First of all, an input image and its decreased resolution images are segmented. Segmented areas are classified as the outer or the inner area. The outer area is adjacent to boundaries of the image and the other is not. Each area is merged with its neighbors when adjacent areas are included by a same area in the decreased resolution image. The Obstacle area and Non Obstacle area are selected from the inner area and outer area respectively. Obstacle areas are the representative areas for the obstacle and are selected by using the information about the area size and location. The Obstacle area and Non Obstacle area consist of the threatening obstacle on the road. Through experiments, we expect that the proposed method will be able to reduce accidents and casualties in Self-driving.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.87-88
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• 2019

최근 기계학습 기술의 급속한 발전에 힘입어 자율주행을 위한 객체 인식 및 처리 기술 역시 비약적으로 발전하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 기계학습의 성능은 모델의 구조와 학습용 데이터의 품질에 영향을 받는다. 특히 주행환경을 잘 표현하는 학습데이터가 중요한데 전혀 새로운 도로, 주행환경, 장애물, 정적 혹은 동적 객체 등을 마주하면 정확도와 안정성에서 부정적인 영향을 받을 수 있는 것이다. 해외의 주행 데이터들에 크게 의존하고 있는 우리나라의 현실에 비춰 볼 때 국내 환경에 맞는 학습데이터를 쉽고 효율적으로 확보/관리/분석할 수 있게 하는 환경의 구축이 시급하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 자율주행을 위한 기계학습 데이터를 효과적으로 관리하고 분석하기 위한 소프트웨어를 설계하고 개발하였다. 구체적으로는 수집된 영상들을 관리하는 기능, 영상에 존재하는 노이즈 제거 및 화질 개선 처리 기능, 학습 및 검증을 위한 메타 정보 태깅 기능, 태깅 정보의 통계적 분석 기능들을 포함한다. 개발한 소프트웨어는 우리나라에서 자체 촬영한 자율주행 학습 영상들에 대해 딥러닝 모델들을 학습하고 검증하는데 활용할 예정이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.924-926
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 좁고 곡률이 큰 도로에서의 자율 주행을 위한 AVM 시스템 기반의 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 전방을 주시하는 모노/스테레오 카메라를 이용한 차선 인식 방법을 이용한 자율주행 알고리즘은 모노/스테레오 카메라의 제한된 FOV (Field of View)로 인해 좁고 곡률이 큰 도로에서의 자율 주행에 한계가 있다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 AVM 시스템을 기반으로 하여 이 한계를 극복하고자 한다. AVM 시스템에서 얻은 영상을 차선의 색상 정보를 이용해 차선의 영역을 이진화 한다. 이진화 영상으로부터, 차량의 뒷바퀴 주변의 관심영역을 시작으로 재귀적 탐색법을 이용하여 좌, 우 차선을 검출한다. 검출된 좌, 우 차선의 중앙선을 차량의 경로로 삼고 조향각을 산출해 낸다. 제한하는 알고리즘을 실제 차량에 적용시킨 실험을 수행하였고, 운전면허 시험장의 코스를 차선의 이탈없이 주행 가능함을 실험적으로 확인하였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.14-28
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• 2018

Thanks to technical improvement on the vehicle to vehicle communication and the intelligent transportation system, gradual introduction of the autonomous vehicles is expected soon in the market. The study analyzes the autonomous vehicles' impacts on the network efficiencies. In order to measure the network efficiencies, the study applies the sequential procedures that combines the microscopic and macroscopic simulations. The microscopic simulation attends to the capacity changes due to the autonomous vehicles' proportions on the roadway while the macroscopic simulation utilizes the simulation results in order to identify the network-wide improvement. As expected, the autonomous vehicles efficiently utilizes the existing capacity of the roadway than the human driving does. Particularly, the maximum capacity improvements are expected by the 190.5% on the expressway. The significant capacity change is observed when the autonomous vehicles' proportions are about 80% or more. These improvements are translated into the macroscopic model, which also yields overall network efficiency improvement by the autonomous vehicles' penetration. However, the study identifies that the market debut of the autonomous vehicles does not promise the free flow condition, which implies the possible needs of the system optimal routing scheme for the era of the autonomous vehicles.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.106-117
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• 2021

In Korea, interest in truck platooning is increasing because most cargo transportation is done by road. Truck platooning is the operation of two or more trucks in a row to form one platoon, which can increase road capacity and improve fuel efficiency. In this study, to analyze the effect of truck platooning on traffic flow, scenarios were created according to traffic conditions and truck platooning operating conditions. In order to understand the effect of the truck platooning operating conditions, correlation analysis was conducted with the average travel speed, the number of lane change disturbance, and the number of disturbance in the entry/exit section. As a result, the number of trucks in the platoon, the spacing of trucks in the platoon, and the spacing between platoons were found to have an effect on the average speed and the number of lane change disturbance In addition, the truck platooning ratio was found to have a strong correlation with the average travel speed and the number of lane change disturbance regardless of the LOS.