• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.95-102
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• 2016

Geomagnetic sensors are widely utilized for sensing heading direction of quadrotors. However, measurement from a geomagnetic sensor is easily corrupted by environmental magnetic field interference and roll/pitch directional motion. In this paper, a measurement method of a quadrotor heading direction is proposed for application to yaw attitude control. In order to eliminate roll/pitch directional motion effect, the geomagnetic sensor data is compensated using the roll/pitch angles measured for stabilization control. In addition, yaw-directional angular velocity data from a gyroscope sensor is fused with the geomagnetic sensor data using a complementary filter which is a simple and intuitive sensor fusion method. The proposed method is applied to experiments, and the results are presented to prove validity and effectiveness of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1003-1010
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• 2018

The geomagnetic sensor nodes are usually designed with wireless communication and battery for easy installation on the road without cable connection and wiring. To minimize operation cost of a system, it is important to prolong the battery lifetime of the geomagnetic sensors installed on the road. In this paper, we propose a low-power TDMA MAC protocol that reduces energy consumption while guaranteeing the real-time vehicle detection information in the vehicle detection system. The performance evaluations are conducted through a real testbed of a vehicle detection system, and it proves that the proposed low-power protocols provides 5 year lifetime by improving energy efficiency up to about 62%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.117-120
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• 2000

본 논문은 이동로봇이 주행 중 발생하는 heading 오차를 지자기센서를 이용하여 보정하고 주행을 정확히 제어하는 것에 관한 것이다. 일반적으로 이동로봇의 주행제어는 여러 원인에 의한 부정확성을 내포하고 있다. 예를 들어 바퀴의 부정확한 기계적 정렬, 기어의 헐거워짐, 센서 신호의 잡음과 오차, 바퀴의 미끄러짐, 평탄하지 않는 표면에 의한 제도변동 등이다. 따라서, 이동명령어 수행 시 이동로봇의 heading이 의도된 대로 유지되는지를 측정하는 오차 검출이 필요하며 이를 위한 센서 본 논문에서는 지자기센서를 이용하여 오차를 보정하였다. 실험은 무선 원격 제어되는 이동로봇에 지자기 센서를 부착하여 자계의 영향이 비교적 적은 평탄한 옥외에서 수행하였고, 실험 결과를 통해 지자기 센서를 이용한 이동로봇의 heading 오차 보정과 주행제어효과를 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07c
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• pp.1633-1634
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• 2006

3축 가속도 센서, 2축 지자기 센서, 구동 ASIC 및 마이크로 컨트롤 유니트(MCU, Micro Control Unit)를 집적시킨 복합센서 모듈을 개발하였다. 센서 모듈의 사이즈는 $8.3mm{\times}5.3mm{\times}1.5mm$ (0.066 cc)로서 스택(stack) 패키징 방식으로 제작하였다. 제작된 센서 모듈의 특성은 가속도 센서와 지자기 센서 모두 목표한 범위내의 값이 얻어졌으며, 특히 까다로운 규격의 신뢰성 테스트 모두 통과함으로서 우수한 성능을 보유하고 있음을 입증할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.136-141
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• 2010

차량 이동으로 인해 변화하는 지구 자기장을 감지하여 차량을 검지하고, 이를 기반으로 속도를 계산하는 지자기 센서노드가 활발히 연구됨으로 인해, 텔레매틱스 및 ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) 분야로서의 그 응용분야가 급속히 확대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 지자기 센서를 이용하여 차량 검지 및 속도 계산을 위한 센서 네트워크의 구성과 그에 따른 차량 검지 및 속도 계산 알고리즘을 설계 및 구현한다. 이를 위해, 센서 네트워크 및 각 알고리즘에서 고려해야 하는 것들을 정리하고, 이들을 고려한 방법을 구현하며, 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 평가함으로써 설계의 유용함을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.25-30
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• 2019

Magnetic sensors have the disadvantage that their vector values differ depending on the direction. In this paper, we propose a magnetic vector calibration method for geomagnetic-based indoor localization estimates. The fingerprinting technique used in geomagnetic-based indoor localization the position by matching the magnetic field map and the magnetic sensor value. However, since the moving direction of the current user may be different from the moving direction of the person who creates the magnetic field map at the collection time, the sampled magnetic vector may have different values from the vector values recorded in the field map. This may substantially lower the positioning accuracy. To avoid this problem, the existing studies use only the magnitude of magnetic vector, but this reduces the uniqueness of the fingerprint, which may also degrade the positioning accuracy. In this paper we propose a vector calibration algorithm which can adjust the sampled magnetic vector values to the vector direction of the magnetic field map by using the parametric equation of a circle. This can minimize the inaccuracy caused by the direction mismatch.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.97-105
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• 2017

An air-burst munition is limited in space, so there is a limit on the size of the fuze and the amount of ammunition. In order to increase a firepower to a target with limited ammunition, it is necessary to concentrate the firepower on the ground instead of the omnidirectional explosion after flying to the target. This paper explores the design and verification of a ground-detection sensor that detects the direction of the ground and determines the flight-distance of an air-burst munition using a single axis geomagnetic sensor. Prior to the design of the ground detection sensor, a geomagnetic sensor model mounted on the spinning air-burst munition is analyzed and a ground-detection algorithm by simplifying this model is designed. A high speed rotating device to simulate a rotation environment is designed and a geomagnetic sensor and a remote-recording system are fabricated to obtain geomagnetic data. The ground detection algorithm is verified by post-processing the acquired geomagnetic data. Taking miniaturization and low-power into consideration, the ground detection sensor is implemented with analog devices and the processor. The output signal of the ground detection sensor rotating at an arbitrary rotation speed of 200 Hz is connected to the LED (Light Emitting Diode) in the high speed rotating device and the ground detection sensor is verified using a high-speed camera.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1057-1064
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• 2017

High sensitivity magnetic sensor having foreign metal detection capability is proposed utilizing giant magneto-impedance effect. Strip sensor showed the increasing output voltage when the external magnetic field was applied along with strip from strip grounding point, although the initial DC voltage varied depending on the pointing direction of strip sensor. Proposed sensor was able to eliminate more than half of background noise using active noise filter to achive high sensitivity, and it showed the capability to detect magnetized foreign metal object independent of ambient electro-magnetic noise and earth magnet. In case of ferrous sphere, the metal detection up to 0.8mm diameter was experimentally demonstrated at 5mm distance from strip sensor.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 2014

Most of light duty AGVs(AGCs) using tape of magnetic for the guide path have digital guidance magnetic sensor. Digital guidance magnetic sensor using magnet-tape is on/off type and has positioning error of magnet-tape as 10~50 mm. AGC using this sensor doesn't induce accurate position of magnet-line which is magnet-tape because of magnetic field which motor in AGC creates, outer magnetic field, earth's magnetic field, etc. AGC when driving wobbles due to this error and this error can cause path deviation. In this paper, we propose fuzzy inference system for improvement of bipolar analog magnetic guidance sensor performance. Fuzzy is suitable in term of fault tolerance, uncertainty tolerance, real-time operation, and Nonlinearity as compared with other algorithms. In previous research, we produced bipolar magnetic guidance sensor and we set the threshold in order to calculate digital values of magnet position. Fuzzy inference system is designed using outputs of Analog hall sensors. Magnet position calculated by digital method is improved by outputs of this system. In result, proposed method was verified by improving performance of magnetic guidance sensor.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.26-32
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• 2020

Recently, as various wearable devices and IoT technologies have emerged and been applied to real applications, various sensors have been developed to satisfy their purposes and applied. In even In medical applications, IoT technologies have been applied gradually, and particularly, magnets and magnetic sensors have already been playing an important role in the medical industry. In wrist rehabilitation, this kind of sensor technology has enabled us to easily and conveniently measure wrist movement and gestures because there are no tangled lines required between the magnet and sensor. However, one of the drawbacks is that nonlinear output is generated because of the characteristics of a magnetic field. Also, the movement of the wrist joint involves small bones, and so it is not easy to simply model the movement. In order to resolve these issues and accurately measure sensor data, a calibration procedure is inevitable in the measurement. Thus, this paper proposes a practical model and simple calibration methods for measuring the distance between a magnet and a magnetic sensor.