• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.3
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• pp.251-258
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• 2010

In an indoor localization method taking the lateration-based approach, the location of a target is estimated with the location of anchor points (APs) and the approximated distances between the target and APs using received signal strength (RSS) measurements. The accuracy of distance estimation affects the localization accuracy of a lateration-based method. Since a radio propagation environment varies randomly in time and space, the highest RSSs do not necessarily give the best estimation of the distances between a target and APs. Thus, all APs hearing a target have been used for localization. However, the accuracy of a lateration-based method degrades if more APs beyond a certain threshold are used because the area of polygon with the APs increases. In this paper, we focus on reducing the size of the polygon to further increase the localization accuracy. We use the centroid of the polygon as a reference point to estimate the relative location of a target in the polygon. Once the relative location is estimated, only the APs which are closest to the target are used for localization to reduce the area of the polygon with the APs. We validate the proposed method by implementing an indoor localization system and evaluating the accuracy of the proposed method in the various experimental environments.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1653-1658
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• 2008

In this paper, it is analyzed propagation distribution characteristics of radio wave, which is radiated on all sides from Access Point device for estimating scheme of wireless AP without GPS receiver environment. To tracking AP device is traced from wireless terminals and wireless terminal is traced from fixed AP devices, above all it is important to analysis the characteristics of receiving power in according to distance. Therefore in this paper, radio propagation characteristics of 2.4GHz wave is analyzed effect extent and quality in according to distance in doors and out doors, and utilized to location estimation.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.564-573
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• 2015

GPS is the representative positioning technology for providing the location information. This technique has the disadvantage that does not operate in the shadow areas, such as urban or dense forest and the interior. This paper proposes a hybrid indoor positioning algorithm, which estimates a more accurate location of the terminal using strength of the Wi-Fi signal from the indoor AP. To determine the location of the user, we establish the most appropriate path loss model for the measurement environment. by using the RSSI value measured in a variety of environment such as building structure, person, distance, etc. The path loss exponent obtained by the path loss model is changed according to the environment. REKF, PF estimate the position of the terminal by using measured value from the AP with path loss exponent. For more accurate position estimation, we select positioning system by the value of threshold measured by experiments rather than a single positioning system. Experimental results using the proposed hybrid algorithm show that the performance is improved by about 17% than the conventional single positioning method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.851-853
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• 2013

Recently, location-based service as the developed continuously, interest in positioning technology is increasing. As the most famous indoor positioning technology, WPS is a positioning technology using WiFi, which can complement the limits of the indoor positioning to have a GPS. In this paper, to provide a system for monitoring the position of the inside of the user based on the position information that using the RSSI signal of the wireless AP based WPS technology, they grip the location information of the mobile nodes in the indoor. If using the method proposed, it is expected to be applied to various services it is possible to apply the WPS, this is because it is possible to estimate in real time the location distribution of mobile nodes in the indoor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.85-87
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• 2011

WPS_WS는 무선 AP의 정보를 통해 현재 이동 객체의 위치를 찾는 시스템이다. 실외 및 실내의 AP 신호 세기 특징을 활용하여 현재 위치를 판단하며 이를 위해 AP 정보를 저장하기 위한 Radio Map구축이 선행되어야 한다. 최초 서비스를 위하여 map을 구성하더라도 실외의 경우 AP신호의 가변성에 의해 구축된 DB의 map 정보를 100% 신뢰할 수 없다. 따라서 신호세기의 변동을 감지하여 능동적으로 map 정보를 변경해 줄 필요가 있다. 본 논문은 이동객체가 현재의 위치를 판단하기 위해 수집한 AP의 정보 중 오류 정보들을 저장하여 분석하고 이를 토대로 구축된 MAP을 실시간으로 변경 및 수정하여 AP의 신호 변경에 능동적으로 대처할 수 있는 Radio Map 최적화 모듈에 대하여 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.262-264
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• 2013

본 논문은 실내에서 사용자의 위치를 측위하기 위해 건물 실내에 설치되어 있는 Wireless AP(Access Point)에서 발신되는 RSSI(Received signal strength indication)를 수집한 후 Friis 공식을 통해 거리로 변환하여 위치를 측위한다. Friis 공식을 적용하는 과정에서 RSSI 신호가 약할수록 거리의 오차가 매우 심하게 변동되기 때문에 본 논문에서는 이러한 오차를 개선하기 위해 신호세기가 강한 2개의 AP좌표와 RSSI를 이용하여 두 원의 교점을 구하는 방정식과 좌표 사이의 거리를 구하는 방정식을 사용하는 위치측위 시스템을 구현하였고, 실험결과 제안한 방법이 기존의 삼각측량법보다 오차가 개선되었음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.1204-1208
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• 2014

As required performance of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) becomes more complex and complicated, required positioning accuracy is becoming more and more higher. GPS is a reliable world wide positioning providing system. Therefore, UAV generally acquires position information from GPS. But when GPS is not available such as too weak signal or too less GPS satellites environments, UAV needs alternative positioning system such as network positioning system. RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) based positioning, which is one method of network positioning technologies, determines its position using RSSI measurements containing distance information from AP (Access Point)s. In that method, a selected AP's configuration has strong and tight relationship with its positioning errors. In this paper, for, we additionally account AP's configuration information by adopting DOP (Dilution of Precision) into AP selection procedures and provide more accurate RSSI based positioning results.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2007

In this paper, we analyze the effect of access point (AP) deployment on the accuracy of indoor localization. Two representative geometrical arrangements of AP deployment are selected. One is that a Tag is centered at the regular triangle composed of 3 AP's, and the other is that a Tag is set apart from the straight line composed of 3 AP's. As a result of simulation, the first case has a probability of 93% with distance errors within 1m, while the second case has a 32% of probability.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.954-960
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• 2009

In this paper, Indoor Positioning System based on Wi-Fi system which is one of the key technology in LBS(Location Based Service) is proposed. The proposed system estimates distance between MS(Mobile Station) and AP(Access Point) using RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator). RSSI is affected by outlier that originate from indoor environment complexity and obstacle. In this paper, we introduce a Robust outlier Extended Kalman Filter that can ignore, real-time outlier in the observations. To demonstrate performance of proposed indoor positioning system, we used a PDA as the MS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2411-2418
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• 2011

The most typically utilized positioning method in the existing indoor WPS that is a positioning method utilizing distributed wireless network is the finger print. Its positioning is carried out by calculating the difference between the AP information map and WiFi AP signal collected. However, there are problems like low accuracy and high cost when the existing method and the radio map formation are applied to outdoors. In this paper, the characteristics of the existing WPS are surveyed and their problems are examined. In addition, we propose a new WPS using weak signal and a method to construct radio map in order to solve the above problems. And then, the results of experimental test will be analyzed.