• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.557-565
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• 2015

In this paper, a method for estimating the location of a quadcopter is proposed by applying an EKF-SLAM algorithm to its flight control, to autonomously control the flight of an unmanned quadcopter. The usefulness of this method is validated through simulations. For autonomously flying the unmanned quadcopter, an algorithm is required to estimate its accurate location, and various approaches exist for this. Among them, SLAM, which has seldom been applied to the quadcopter flight control, was applied in this study to simulate a system that estimates flight trajectories of the quadcopter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.532-535
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• 2022

Path following algorithms have been intensively studied for various mobile platforms such as planetary exploration, unmanned delivery, and autonomous driving. However, ensuring high accuracy in practical applications is challenging due to enormous uncertainty inherent in real environment. In this paper, we aim to reveal the guideline for the design and implementation by investigating the path following performance of mobile robot controlled by the pure pursuit algorithm. To this end, we evaluate the accuracy of the pure pursuit algorithm when tuning the look ahead distance and deploying erroneous actuator.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.585-594
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• 2000

The exact path following of an autonomous mobile robot in a factory and an unreliable environment has many disadvantages in case of a classical control algorithm. In this paper, a neural network control approach based on an error back propagation algorithm is proposed for controlling a mobile robot to follow a line installed on the road. Since not only the three recognized informations from three sensors attached on a mobile robot but also the ten detailed informations in non recognition area are learned with input patterns, a mobile robot moves smoothly an installed line in spite of non perception space. The mobile robot has an effect of error minimization with a short time till a destination. To test an effectiveness of the proposed controller, the two motor velocity changes which is affected from a moving angle change of a mobile robot are simulated with computer.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.27-32
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• 2020

This paper presents steering system requirements to ensure the stabilized lateral control of autonomous driving vehicles. The two main objectives of a lateral controller in autonomous vehicles are maintenance of vehicle stability and tracking of the desired path. Even if the desired steering angle is immediately determined by the upper level controller, the overall controller performance is greatly influenced by the specification of steering system actuators. Since one of the major inescapable traits that affects controller performance is the time delay of the steering actuator, our work is mainly focused on finding adequate parameters of high level control algorithm to compensate these response characteristics and guarantee vehicle stability. Actual vehicle steering angle response was obtained with Electric Power Steering (EPS) actuator test subject to various longitudinal velocity. Steering input and output response analysis was performed via MATLAB system identification toolbox. The use of system identification is advantageous since the transfer function of the system is conveniently obtained compared with methods that require actual mathematical modeling of the system. Simulation results of full vehicle model suggest that the obtained tuning parameter yields reduced oscillation and lateral error compared with other cases, thus enhancing path tracking performance.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.22-29
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• 2019

This study presented a model predictive tracking control algorithm of autonomous truck based on object state estimation using extended Kalman filter. To design the model, the 1-layer laser scanner was used to estimate position and velocity of the object using extended Kalman filter. Based on these estimations, the desired linear path for object tracking was computed. The lateral and yaw angle errors were computed using the computed linear path and relative positions of the truck. The computed errors were used in the model predictive control algorithm to compute the optimal steering angle for object tracking. The performance evaluation was conducted on Matlab/Simulink environments using planar truck model and actual point data obtained from laser scanner. The evaluation results showed that the tracking control algorithm developed in this study can track the object reasonably based on the model predictive control algorithm based on the estimated states.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.30-36
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• 2019

This paper suggests a car-following algorithm for urban environment, with multiple target candidates. Until now, advanced driver assistant systems (ADASs) and self-driving technologies have been researched to cope with diverse possible scenarios. Among them, car-following driving has been formed the groundwork of autonomous vehicle for its integrity and flexibility to other modes such as smart cruise system (SCC) and platooning. Although the field has a rich history, most researches has been focused on the shape of target trajectory, such as the order of interpolated polynomial, in simple single-lane situation. However, to introduce the car-following mode in urban environment, realistic situation should be reflected: multi-lane road, target's unstable driving tendency, obstacles. Therefore, the suggested car-following system includes both in-lane preceding vehicle and other factors such as side-lane targets. The algorithm is comprised of three parts: path candidate generation and optimal trajectory selection. In the first part, initial guesses of desired paths are calculated as polynomial function connecting host vehicle's state and vicinal vehicle's predicted future states. In the second part, final target trajectory is selected using quadratic cost function reflecting safeness, control input efficiency, and initial objective such as velocity. Finally, adjusted path and control input are calculated using model predictive control (MPC). The suggested algorithm's performance is verified using off-line simulation using Matlab; the results shows reasonable car-following motion planning.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.17-22
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• 2019

This paper describes the tracking algorithm performance evaluation for autonomous vehicle using a safety envelope based path. As the level of autonomous vehicle technologies evolves along with the development of relevant supporting modules including sensors, more advanced methodologies for path generation and tracking are needed. A safety envelope zone, designated as the obstacle free regions between the roadway edges, would be introduced and refined for further application with more detailed specifications. In this paper, the performance of the path tracking algorithm based on the generated path would be evaluated under safety envelop environment. In this process, static obstacle map for safety envelope was created using Lidar based vehicle information such as current vehicle location, speed and yaw rate that were collected under various driving setups at Seoul National University roadways. A level of safety was evaluated through CarSim simulation based on paths generated with two different references: a safety envelope based path and a GPS data based one. A better performance was observed for tracking with the safety envelop based path than that with the GPS based one.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.283-284
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• 2023

자율주행 경진대회에서 학생들의 장애물 후에 경로를 생성 능력을 검정하는 라바콘 추종 종목은 중요한 항목 중의 하나이다. 라바콘의 위치를 알기 위해서는 라이다 센서가 필요하다. 실내의 경우 저가의 2D 라이다 센서를 사용하여 콘의 위치 검출이 가능하지만, 실외의 경우에는 고가의 3D 라이다 센서 또는 고가의 3차원 카메라가 필요하다. 이러한 고가의 기자재는 실습의 대중화에 걸림돌이 되고 있으므로, 1개의 카메라와 인공지능을 이용한 라이다 콘의 검출하는 방법을 개발하였고, 이를 활용하여 경로 생성 및 제어를 수행하였다. 그 결과 0.4m 이내의 정밀도로 콘의 위치 추정과 주행을 성공적으로 수행하였다.

• ICROS
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2015

운전자에게 편의성을 제공하는 차량의 주행관련 Advanced driver assist system (ADAS)에는 차량의 종방향과 횡방향 운동에 대한 제어기가 요구된다. 횡방향 제어를 위해서는 조향 시스템의 조향각 제어가 요구되는데 최근 구조적으로 간단하고 연비향상, 차량의 중량 감소, 빠른 응답성을 가지고 있는 전기적 파워 조향 (Electric power steering, EPS) 시스템이 자동차 산업에서 널리 사용되고 있다. 차량의 주행관련 ADAS를 사용하여 자율 주행 시 EPS 시스템은 상위 제어기에서 계산된 필요한 조향각을 추종 할 수 있도록 조향 핸들의 각 제어를 해야 한다. 그러나 일반적인 EPS 시스템은 운전자가 조향 핸들에 인가된 토크를 보조해 줄 수 있는 토크를 출력해 준다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하는 방법들을 설명한다. 먼저 EPS 시스템의 기본 기능에 대해서 설명을 하고, 자율 추행 차량을 위한 조항 핸들의 각 제어를 위한 proportional-integral 제어, 슬라이딩 모드 제어 (Sliding mode control), 관측기 기반 비선형 댐핑 제어(Observer based nonlinear damping control) 등과 같은 다양한 기법의 제어 알고리즘들에 대한 방법들이 고찰되었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2417-2419
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• 2003

이동성에 nonholonomic 제약을 받는 차륜 구동 이동 로봇의 불확실한 환경에서의 자율 주행 제어기를 제안하였다. 전체 시스템은 on-line으로 지역경로 계획을 하는 planner 부분과 차륜 구동 이동 로봇의 nonholonomic 제약을 극복하면서 계획된 지역 경로를 충실히 추종하기 위한 제어기 부분의 두 부분으로 구성하였다. Planner는 빠른 응답을 생성하고, 전역적인 정보를 사용하지 않기 위하여 반사적인 제어 방식에 의한 경로 생성 방식을 채택하였고, 제어기 부분은 비선형 posture feedback stabilizer로 설계하였다. 제안된 시스템은 단순한 형태의 제어 방식으로 완전한 자율적인 판단에 의한 장애물 회피와 목표 지점으로의 수렴 능력을 보여 준다. 본 시스템의 단순하면서도 효과적인 자율주행 능력은 반사제어 방식의 장점과 feedback 제어기의 증명된 안정성에서 기인한다. 시뮬레이션과 자체 구현한 차륜 구동 이동 로봇인 "MARI"로 실제 환경에서의 실험을 실시하여 제안된 제어기의 유효성을 검증하였다.