• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.227-233
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• 2015

In this study, an indoor test environment was developed for studying the vision stabilizer of an unmanned vehicle, using a virtual environment and a 6-axis motion simulator. The real driving environment was replaced by a virtual environment based on the Aberdeen Proving Ground bump test course for military tank testing. The vehicle motion was reproduced by a 6-axis motion simulator. Virtual reality driving courses were displayed in front of the vision stabilizer, which was located on the top of the motion simulator. The performance of the stabilizer was investigated by checking the image of the camera, and the pitch and roll angles of the stabilizer captured by the IMU sensor of the camera.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.161-167
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• 2012

This research deals with generating via points for autonomous navigation on a roadway for unmanned vehicles. When a vehicle plans a path from a starting point to a goal point, it should be able to map out which lane on which road it passes by. For this purpose, we should organize positional information of roads and save it as a database. This paper presents methods to save the database and to plan a shortest path to the goal by generating via points in consideration of the moving direction and the lane directions. Then we prove that the proposed algorithm can find the optimal path on the road through simulations.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1831-1837
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• 2014

Unmanned combat vehicles is recognized as a key tool to utilize the military combat power in the area of science and technology. It can be expected to minimize the lose of human life and increase the military power. Unmanned combat systems are based on the complex operation concept and the unit system can be manufactured by combination on unmanned combat vehicles. For the unmanned combat systems, military power exists to sustain the acquisition establishment system and unmanned technology, which is considered to give the suitability such as application area.

• ICROS
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.21-29
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• 2012

최근 자동차 연구개발에 있어 내연기관을 대체하는 친환경 자동차기술과 더불어 무인자동차, 자율주행기술이 많은 부분에서 시도되고 실현되어가고 있다. 지능형 자동차라는 개념에서 적용되었던 운전자안전보조시스템, 편의지원과 사고경감 시스템 등이 하나로 통합되어 무인자동차 기술로 발전하고 있다. 또 차량에 고가의 센서를 장착하여 주변환경이나 운전자를 모니터링하는 방식에서 IT 융합기술을 이용한 네트워크기술 (V2I, V2V, V2N & V2X)을 접목시키는 방안을 통하여 개개의 차량은 물론 교통체계의 전체적인 변화를 추구하고 있다. 이러한 첨단차량기술은 새로운 교통문화(차량공유시스템, 군집주행)의 개발과 또다른 교통체계의 연구로 확장되어가고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.458-465
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• 2011

UAV-UGV teaming concept has been proposed that can compensate for weak points of each platform by providing carrying, launching, recovery and recharging capability for the VTOL-UAV through the host UGV. The teaming concept can expand the observation envelop of the UGV and extend the operational capability of the UAV through mechanical combination of each system. The spherical-shaped coaxial rotorcraft UAV is suggested to provide flexible and precise interface between two systems. Hybrid navigation solution that included vision-based target tracking method for precision landing is investigated and its experimental study is performed. Feasibility study on length-variable rotor to provide the compact configuration of the loaded rotorcraft platform is also described.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.57-65
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• 2009

Fire suppression tests are carried out for a train car using water mist systems. Three kinds of fire scenario applied to the real-scale train car are a surface fire representing car combustibles, a oil pool fire pretending an oil spill and a blocked fire for evaluation of space-cooling capacity. Five fixedpressure water mist systems and one self-contained water mist system with nitrogen gas are used for fire suppression experiments. Almost water mist systems can extinguish effectively train car fires, and fire-control capability of the system is seen due to the space cooling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.207-208
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• 2016

By according to increase the research for autonomous vehicle in automobile industries, the efficient of autonomous cargo truck instead of conventional driver cargo truck will be analyzed in logistics areas. The inland transportation has been serious problem such as traffic accident, traffic congestion in downtown, air pollution, noise and etc. even if it have a great effect to logistics industries. Especially there have to be improved its transportation schedule and sleepy driving in night which induced heavy accident in highway. In this study, the effectiveness of autonomous cargo truck will be analysed by considering the logistics cost including social effects.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.430-435
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• 2011

In this paper, a navigation technology of an unmanned vehicle using relative localization and magnetic guidance is proposed. Magnetic guidance system had been developed as a robust autonomous driving technology as long as magnetic fields on the path are detected. Otherwise, if magnetic fields were not detected due to some reasons, the vehicle could not drive. Therefore, in order to overcome the drawback, we propose that relative localization would be combined to magnetic guidance system. To validate the usefulness of the proposed method, a robotic vehicle was set up with the magnetic guidance system and the relative localization. In addition, the unmanned driving test was realized on the road without the magnetic fields so that the proposed method is verified by the experiment.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.324-331
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 무인자동차의 자율주행을 위한 알고리즘을 제시하고 3차원 그래픽 시뮬레이션을 통하여 안정성 기반 자율주행 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하고자 한다. 제안된 자율주행 알고리즘은 주변 인접 차량의 위치, 속도, 가속도, 주행 차로 정보를 바탕으로 자율주행 차량과의 충돌가능성 및 충돌예측시간을 계산하여 최적의 안정 주로를 선택하고 이러한 주행 차로에 대한 주행 궤적을 생성하여 추종토록 함으로써 자율주행이 이루어지도록 한다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 자율주행 알고리즘을 검증하기 위하여 3차원 그래픽 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하였으며 다차로, 다차량 주행 환경에서 몇 가지 가상 도로 환경을 구축하여 시뮬레이션 하였고 자율주행 차량의주행 궤적을 인접 주행차량의 주행 궤적과 비교 확인함으로써 알고리즘의 타당성을 검증하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 제시된 안정성 기반 자율주행 알고리즘은 다차로, 다차량 주행 환경에서 주변 차량과 충돌 없이 안정적인주행 성능을 보여주는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.121-123
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• 2004

차량 번호판 인식 시스템은 무인 카메라 등의 영상 장치로부터 입력된 차량 이미지로부터, 차량 번호판 정보를 읽어내는 시스템이다. 이러한 차량 번호판 인식 시스템의 응용 시스템 중 과속 차량 단속과 같은 일부 응용 시스템은 번호판의 글자나 숫자를 다른 글자나 숫자로 잘못 인식할 경우 심각한 문제를 발생시킬 수 있다. 이러한 시스템을 위해 우리는 인식 결과에 대한 신뢰도가 낮은 경우 인식을 포기 또는 위임하는 신중한 분류기(Cautious Classifier)를 이용 인식 시스템을 구성하였다. 또한 학습 예제의 가중치를 조절하는 방법을 사용 이러한 신중한 분류기의 성능을 향상 시켰다. 실제 번호판 인식 실험 결과 우리가 제안한 가중치 부여 방식이 차량 번호판 인식 문제에 좋은 결과를 보임을 확인하였다.