• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.83-89
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• 2021

To improve the performance of self-driving cars, the introduction of V2X, a communication technology that connects vehicles, infrastructure, and vehicles, is essential. Even if traffic information of the other vehicle is known, the structure of the intersection and a distance calculation algorithm are required for accurate calculations at roundabouts. This paper proposes a design algorithm for a rotating intersection and implemented in Matlab that complies with the national design rules and enables accurate calculations. Assuming the roundabout and the entrance/exit path to be a circle, a method for measuring the distance between vehicles at an arbitrary point was proposed using the horizontal shift of the entrance circle to the main circle. The algorithm could be used in fully autonomous vehicles by designing a roundabout suitable for the terrain by arbitrarily varying the angle between branches and the radius of curvature of the entrance and exit roads, and transmitting a warning signal when a collision between two driving vehicles is expected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.98-101
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• 2002

기존의 이동로봇 시스템은 완전한 자율주행이 주된 목표였으며 이때 영상정보는 단지 모니터링을 하는 보조적인 수단으로 사용되었다. 이에 따라 이동로봇의 자체 기능이 점차 고도화되는 방향으로 연구가 진행되었고, 제작비 또한 함께 상승하게 되었다. 그러나 구동만이 목적인 저렴한 이동로봇 시스템을 조작자가 원격 제어하는 것 또한 중요한 분야 중 하나이다. 이때 원격제어에 사용되는 신호로는 카메라에 의한 영상정보와 초음파 센서 등에 의한 거리정보를 주로 사용하게 된다. 그러나 영상정보는 3차원의 입체적 정보를 제공하는 데에는 부적절하기 때문에 초음파 센서를 이용한 거리정보가 매우 유용하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 센서의 정보를 이용한 원격제어용 힘 반향 조이스틱을 개발하였다. 힘 반향 알고리즘은 하나의 식으로 표현하기 곤란하므로 전문가 시스템의 구현이 매우 필요한 분야이다. 따라서 퍼지 논리를 사용하여 생성한 힘 반향 알고리즘을 이동로봇 원격제어에 사용함으로써 조작자가 이동로봇 주변환경을 쉽게 인식하여 이동로봇을 안전하게 주행할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Legislation Research
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• no.53
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• pp.269-310
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• 2017

This article aims at the study on Improvement of legal System which is related to automated vehicles in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. Legal aspects of driving automation have two view points. One is to permit a automated vehicle, the other is to regulate the behavior of driver on the road. Signifying elements of the 4th industrial revolution are IoT, AI, big data, cloud computing etc. Automated vehicles are the imbodiment of those new ICT technologies. The vehicle management act(VMA) rules about vehicle registration and approval of vehicle types. VMA defines a automated vehicle as a vehicle which can be self driven without handling of driver or passenger. Vehicle makers can take temporary driving permission for testing and research the driving automation. Current definition of automated vehicle of VMA is not enough for including all levels of SAE driving automation. In the VMA must be made also a new vehicle safty standard for automated vehicle. In the national assembly is curruntly pending three draft bills about legislation of artificial intelligence. Driving automation and AI technologies must be parallel developed. It is highly expected that more proceeding research of driving automation can be realized as soon as possible.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.11-19
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• 2017

V2X(Vehicle to Everything)는 차량 간 통신(Vehicle-to-Vehicle), 차량과 인프라 간 통신(Vehicle-to-Infrastructure), 차량과 보행자 간의 통신(Vehicle-to-Pedestrians) 등 운전 중 도로 인프라 및 다른 차량과 통신하면서 교통상황 등의 정보를 교환하거나 공유하는 기술을 말한다. V2X는 IT 기술의 발달과 여러 연구기관들의 연구개발 강화로 인해 'Connected/Smart car' 나아가 완전한 자율주행차를 구현하기 위해 빠르게 진화하고 있다. 이러한 V2X 시장이 향후 10년 간 급속한 확대가 전망되면서, 국내외 통신업체와 제조업 및 산학연은 자동차와 정보통신, 에너지, 서비스 산업을 융합한 스마트자동차 산업을 신성장 동력으로 하여 기술개발에 노력을 가속화하고 있다. 이에 본고에서는 V2X 차량 통신 기술의 주요선진국 기술개발 동향과 현 수준을 알아본다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

Air ducts installed for ventilation inside buildings accumulate contaminants during their service life. Robots are installed to clean the air duct at low cost, but they are still not fully automated and depend on manpower. In this study, an intersection detection algorithm for autonomous driving was applied to an air duct cleaning robot. Autonomous driving of the robot was achieved by calculating the distance and angle between the extracted point and the center point through the intersection detection algorithm from the camera image mounted on the robot. The training data consisted of CAD images of the duct interior as well as the cross-point coordinates and angles between the two boundary lines. The deep learning-based CNN model was applied as a detection algorithm. For training, the cross-point coordinates were obtained from CAD images. The accuracy was determined based on the differences in the actual and predicted areas and distances. A cleaning robot prototype was designed, consisting of a frame, a Raspberry Pi computer, a control unit and a drive unit. The algorithm was validated by video imagery of the robot in operation. The algorithm can be applied to vehicles operating in similar environments.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.190-211
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• 2022

This study investigated the effect of the shape and height of road signs on detection performance when detecting road signs with LiDAR, which is recognized as an essential sensor for autonomous vehicles. For the study, four types of road signs with the same area and material and different shapes were produced, and a road driving test was performed by installing a 32Ch rotating LiDAR on the upper part of the vehicle. As a result of comparing the shape of the point cloud and the NPC according to the shape of the road sign, It is expected that a distance of less than 40m is required to recognize the overall shape of a road sign using 32Ch LiDAR, and shapes such as triangles and rectangles are more advantageous than squares in securing the maximum point cloud from a long distance. As a result of the study according to the height of the road sign, At short distances (within 20m), if the height of the sign is raised to more than 2m, it deviates from the vertical viewing angle of the LiDAR and cannot express the complete point cloud shape. However, it showed a negligible effect compared to the near-field height change. These research results are expected to be utilized in the development of road facilities dedicated to LiDAR for the commercialization of autonomous cooperative driving technology.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.233-248
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• 2023

In the process of building the future of smart cities, innovation in mobility and road infrastructure is one of the most important topics. In particular, with the proliferation of autonomous vehicles and various types of mobility on the road, such as electric bicycles, electric kickboards, and electric wheels, roads have a variety of actors to accommodate, including traditional cars and pedestrians, and conflicts between them need to be resolved. Complete streets, a term coined in the United States in 2003, refers to the design and operation of roads that consider the equitable safety and convenience of all road users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, personal mobility (PM) users, and automobile drivers. Currently, many cities overseas are implementing complete streets, and research is being actively conducted to institutionalize them. However, there is a lack of research and discussion on complete streets in Korea. Therefore, this study aims to formalize the main factors to be considered in the design of complete streets by collecting and analyzing the opinions of academic and practitioner experts through the Delphi method. A total of three Delphi surveys were conducted, collecting free responses from experts through the first open-ended survey and organizing them into keywords to create the second and third closed-ended surveys. The second and third rounds of the survey consisted of a total of 52 questions, and 34 items out of 52 were selected as the final factors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09b
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• pp.87-90
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• 2003

과거의 이동로봇 시스템은 완전한 자율주행이 주된 목표였으며 그때의 영상정보는 단지 모니터링을 하는 보조적인 수단으로 사용되었다. 그러나 지금은 이동 물체의 추적, 대상 물체의 인식과 판별, 특징 추출과 같은 다양한 응용분야에서 영상정보를 이용하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다 또한 제어 측면에서는 전통적인 제어기법으로는 해결하기 힘들었던 여러 가지 비선형적인 제어를 지능제어 방법을 통하여 많이 해결하곤 하였다. 그러한 지능제어에서 신경망을 많이 사용하기도 한다. 최근에는 신경망의 학습에 많이 사용하는 방법 중 강화학습이 많이 사용되고 있다. 강화학습이란 동적인 제어평면에서 시행착오를 통해, 목적을 이루기 위해 각 상황에서 행동을 학습하는 방법이다. 그러므로 이러한 강화학습은 수많은 시행착오를 거쳐 그 대응 관계를 학습하게 된다. 제어에 사용되는 제어 파라메타는 어떠한 상태에 처할 수 있는 상태와 행동들, 그리고 상태의 변화, 또한 최적의 해를 구할 수 있는 포상알고리즘에 대해 다양하게 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서 연구한 시스템은 비젼시스템과 Strong Arm 보드를 이용하여 대상물체의 색상과 형태를 파악한 후 실시간으로 물체를 추적할 수 있게 구성하였으며, 또한 물체 이동의 비선형적인 경향성을 강화학습을 통하여 물체이동의 비선형성을 보다 유연하게 대처하여 보다 안정하고 빠르며 정확하게 물체를 추적하는 방법을 실험을 통하여 제안하였다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.1-12
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• 2022

In recent years, technological competition in the automobile sector is accelerating. This study analyzes the status of patents from a global perspective of three promising future items that Korea has selected as core technologies in the field of autonomous driving,. And the technological cooperation ecosystem was identified through network analysis centered on scientific metrology. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that the growth of individual technologies has been strengthened in recent years, and although key source technologies have been largely preempted in major global countries, a close cooperative ecosystem between institutions, companies, and universities in major countries has not yet been formed. Specifically, the US and Japan have the technological leadership, while China is rapidly rising, and Korea is chasing after it as a latecomer. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously strengthen technological cooperation such as R&D of core technology to overcome technological limitations and strengthening of infrastructure construction, attracting excellent foreign talents and international exchanges. This analysis is meaningful in that it explores the global status of Korea's technology and the possibility of technological cooperation from various perspectives in the future from the viewpoint of preoccupation of future technology, rather than grasping the trend of a specific technology.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2003

The main goal of existing mobile robot system was a complete autonomous navigation and the vision information was just used as an assistant way such as monitoring For this reason, the researches have been going towards sophistication of autonomousness gradually and the production costs also has been risen. However, it is also important to control remotely an inexpensive mobile robot system which has no intelligence at all. Such systems may be much more effective than fully autonomous systems in practice. Visual information from a simple camera and distance information from ultrasonic sensors are used for this system. Collision avoidance becomes the most important problem for this system. In this paper, we developed a force feedback joystick to control the robot system remotely with collision avoiding capability. Fuzzy logic is used for the algorithm in order to implement the expert s knowledge intelligently. Some experimental results show the force feedback joystick werks very well.