• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.105-106
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• 2015

무인 자율 자동차는 사람이 차량 제어에 개입할 수 있는 일반적인 '무인 자동차'와는 달리 센서, 메라와 같은 '장애물 인식장치'와 GPS모듈 과 같은 '자동 항법 장치'를 기반으로 조향, 변속, 가속, 브레이크를 도로환경에 맞춰 스스로 제어해 목적지까지 주행할 수 있는 차량을 의미한다. 따라서 무인 자율 주행 자동차에는 차량제어기술, 차선인식기술, 충돌 회피 기술 등이 필요 하며 이를 위해 각종 센서뿐만 아니라 센서 네트워크, 컴퓨터비전, 인공지능 등의 다양한 기술들이 접목되어야 한다. 본 논문은 소형 무인자동차의 제작을 통한 알고리즘과 그 평가에 대해서 나타낼 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.114-119
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 자율 이동 로봇의 장애물에 대한 실시간 충돌 회피 동작의 문제에 대하여, 로봇이 장애물과 충돌하지 않는 안정적인 회피 동작과 유연한 궤적 생성, 그리고 효과적인 최적의 조향 동작을 계획할 수 있게 하기 위하여 레이저 스케닝 센서를 이용한 지역 장애물 회피 방법을 제안한다. 레이저 센서를 이용한 로봇의 안전한 방향 탐색은 자율 이동 로봇이 검출할 수 있는 최대의 검출 영역에서부터 로봇의 중심점을 향해 순차적으로 임계치를 줄여가는 동안 나타나는 무충돌 안전 구간과 충돌 구간을 정의함으로서 구성된다. 제안한 안전 방향 구간 탐색에 의한 로봇의 장애물 회피 동작의 성능 실험은 최적 방향의 탐색 성능을 평가하며, 실제의 이동 로봇을 이용하여 실험한 결과에 대하여 고찰하고 결론을 내린다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.1171-1172
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• 2023

자율주행 기술에서 스테레오 비전과 End-to-End Driving은 많이 사용되는 기술이며 본 연구에서는 이를 신호등 인식과 주행에 적용하였다. 신호등 인식은 좌우 카메라로부터 적색 원을 인식한 후 스테레오 비전을 통해 신호등과의 거리를 추정한다. 주행 시스템은 End-to-End Learning 기반으로 이루어지며, 출력값인 가변저항을 조향각으로 변환하여 제어할 수 있다. 또한 감마 보정을 통한 데이터 증강을 통해 빛에 대해 민감하지 않게 모델을 학습하였다. 추후 신호등 인식 시 HSV 필터가 빛에 민감한 점과 주행 시 가변저항 값이 일정하지 않은 점이 해결된다면 더욱 안정적인 시스템을 구축할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2003

This paper introduces a vision based autonomous mini mobile robot that is an approach to produce real autonomous vehicle. Previous autonomous vehicles are dependent on PC, because of complexity of designing hardware, difficulty of installation and abundant calculations. In this paper, we present an autonomous motile robot system that has abilities of accurate steering, quick movement in high speed and intelligent recognition as a stand-alone system using a mono camera. The proposed system has been implemented on mini track of which width is 25~30cm, and length is about 200cm. Test robot can run at average 32.9km/h speed on straight lane and average 22.3km/h speed on curved lane with 30~40m radius. This system provides a model of autonomous mobile robot adapted a lane recognition algorithm in odor to make real autonomous vehicle easily.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.58-66
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• 2008

In the development of intelligent vehicles, path tracking of unmanned vehicle is a basis of autonomous driving and automatic navigation. It is very important to find the exact position of a vehicle for the path tracking, and it is possible to get the position information from GPS. However the information of GPS is not the current position but the past position because a vehicle is moving and GPS has a time delay. In this paper, therefore, the moving distance of a vehicle is estimated using a direction sensor and a velocity sensor to compensate the position error of GPS. In the steering control, optimal fuzzy rules for the path tracking can be found through the simulation of Simulink. Real driving experiments show the fuzzy rules are good for the steering control and the position error of GPS is well compensated by the proposed estimation method.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.76-86
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• 2020

In this study, a small autonomous driving robot was developed for underground mines using the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor. The developed robot measures the distances to the left and right wall surfaces using the LiDAR sensor, and automatically controls its steering to drive along the centerline of mine tunnel. A field experiment was conducted in an underground amethyst mine to test the driving performance of developed robot. During five repeated driving tests, the robot showed stable driving performance overall. There were no collision accidents with the wall of mine tunnel.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.226-231
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• 2016

Researching and developing mobile robot are quite important. Autonomous driving of mobile robot is important in various working environment. For its autonomous driving, mobile robot detects obstacles and avoids them. Purpose of this thesis is to analyze kinematics model of the mobile robot and show the efficiency of type-2 fuzzy self-tuning PID controller used for controling steering angle. Type-2 fuzzy is more flexible in verbal expression than type-1 fuzzy because it has multiple values unlike previous one. To compare these two controllers, this paper conduct a simulation by using MATLAB Simulink. The result shows the capability of type-2 fuzzy self-tuning PID is effective.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.9
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• pp.369-374
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• 2014

Path generation methods are required for safe and efficient driving in unmanned autonomous vehicles. There are two kinds of paths: global and local. A global path consists of all the way points including the source and the destination. A local path is the trajectory that a vehicle needs to follow from a way point to the next in the global path. In this paper, we propose a novel method for local path generation through machine learning, with an effective curve function used for initializing the trajectory. First, reinforcement learning is applied to a set of candidate paths to produce the best trajectory with maximal reward. Then the optimal steering angle with respect to the trajectory is determined by training an artificial neural network. Our method outperformed existing approaches and successfully found quality paths in various experimental settings, including the cases with obstacles.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.68-80
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• 2016

This study proposes the traffic prediction and optimal traffic control system based on cell transmission model and genetic algorithm in cloud environment. The proposed prediction and control system consists of four parts. 1) Data preprocessing module detects and imputes the corrupted data and missing data points. 2) Data-driven traffic prediction module predicts the future traffic state using Multi-level K-Nearest Neighbor (MK-NN) Algorithm with stored historical data in SQL database. 3) Online traffic simulation module simulates the future traffic state in various situations including accident, road work, and extreme weather condition with predicted traffic data by MK-NN. 4) Optimal road control module produces the control strategy for large road network with cell transmission model and genetic algorithm. The results show that proposed system can effectively reduce the Vehicle Hours Traveled upto 60%.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.86-92
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• 2009

A driver-vehicle model means the integrated dynamic model that is able to estimate the steering wheel angle from the driver's desired path based on the dynamic characteristics of the driver and vehicle. Autonomous driving robot for factory automation has individual four-wheels which are driven by electronic motors. In this paper, the dynamic characteristics of several four-wheel steering systems with the simultaneously steerable front and rear wheels are investigated and compared by means of the driver-vehicle model. A diver-vehicle model is proposed by using the PID control to velocity and trajectory of control autonomous driving robot. To determine the optimum speed of a autonomous driving robot, steady-state circle simulation is carried out with the ADAMS program and MATLAB control model.