• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.120-128
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• 2000

At the initial design stage of a new vehicle, the chassis layout has the most important influence on the overall vehicle performance. Most chassis designers have achieved the target performances by trial and error method as well as individual knowhow. Accordingly, a general procedure for determining the optimum location of suspension hard points with respect to the kinematic characteristics needs to be developed. In this paper, a method to optimize the toe angle in the double wishbone type front suspension of the four-wheel-drive vehicle is presented using the design of experiment, multibody dynamic simulation, and optimum design program. The handling performances of two full vehicle models having the initial and optimized toe angle are compared through the single lane change simulation. The sensitive design variables with respect to the kinematic characteristics are selected through the experimental design sensitivity analysis using the perturbation method. An object function is defined in terms of the toe angle among those kinematic characteristics. By the design of experiment and regression analysis, the regression model function of toe angle is obtained. The design variables which make the toe angle optimized ae extracted using the optimum design program DOT. The single lane change simulation and test of the full vehicle model are carried out to survey the handling performances of vehicle with toe angle optimized. The results of the single lane change simulation show that the optimized vehicle has the more improved understeer tendency than the initial vehicle.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.245-253
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• 2002

A driver model with nervous neuromuscular system was developed to steer a vehicle along the prescribed path during handling simulations. A 3-dimensional vehicle model with 10 DOF and 3 DOF steering handle are used to perform a computer simulation. PID and fuzzy controller are used to perform single and double lane change, and their tracking abilities were compared. The effects of time delay and preview distance are also investigated, and it is demonstrated that the driver model developed can be an aid far objective evaluation of vehicle handling simulation.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.47-61
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• 2000

차량추종모형은 차선변경모형과 함께 미시적 시뮬레이션 모형의 핵심 모형으로서 정확한 차량추종모형의 적용은 시뮬레이션 모형 분석결과의 신뢰성에 영향을 미친다. 기존의 차량추종모형은 대부분 가속상황과 감속상황에 동일한 모형을 적용하거나 자극부문과 민감도 부분은 거의 동일한 형태를 취하고 있으며, 가상자료를 토대로 모형이 개발되었다. 본 연구의 목적은 첫째, 모형을 추정하기 위한 연구체계를 구성하고, 둘째, 이러한 연구체계를 이용하여 신호교차로 미시적 시뮬레이션에 직접 적용이 가능한 차량추종모형을 정립하는 데 있다. 본연구에서는 이를 위해서 신호교차로에서 미시적 실측자료를 수집하였으며, 수집된 자료에서 통계적 기법을 통해서 모형 추정에 적합한 자료를 구축하였다. 현장에서 실측된 이산적인 원시자료는 차량추종모형 추정에 직접 이용할 수 없다. 따라서, 이산적 원시자료를 모형추정에 적합한 자료로 구성하기 위하여 비선형 곡선적합 알고리즘을 이용하여 연속적인 궤적함수를 구성하였고, 이를 통해서 모형추정에 필요한 선두차량과 후행차량의 현재시점과 반응시간 이후 시점에서의 위치, 순간 가속도와 순간속도 등을 도출하였다. 본 연구에서는 차량추종상황을 가속상황, 감속상황, 출발상황, 그리고 정지상황으로 구분하여 차량추종모형을 구축하였다. 가속상황과 감속상황에 대해서는 실측자료를 이용하여 모형을 추정하였으며, 출발상황과 정지상황에 대해서는 추정된 가/감속상황의 모형을 바탕으로 출발상황과 정지상황에서의 차량행태를 설명할 수 있는 모형을 구축하였다 또한, 민감도와 자극부분을 새롭게 정의하여 각 상황별로 미시적 실측자료를 이용하여 모형을 추정하였다. 이렇게 추정된 모형들 중에서 통계적 기법과 실측치와의 비교를 통해서 가장 적합한 모형을 선택하였다. 선택된 모형은 통계적 검정, 가상자료 그리고 실측치와의 비교를 통해서 분석하였으며, 분석결과 구축모형의 적용성은 우수한 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.57-66
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• 2017

In this paper, we suggest a novel physics-based real-time animation technique for vehicles, and introduce an easy and intuitive animation authoring tool which uses our proposed technique. After a user specifies a trajectory of a virtual car as input, our system produces a more accurate simulation faster than a previous research result. This is achieved by a trajectory splitting method based on directional features and a trajectory library. As a result, the user can create not only a car animation including lane changing and passing, but also a crash animation which is a rarely researched topic. Also, we propose a virtual car structure that approximates a real car's structure for real-time simulation, the resulting animation shows high plausibility such as a small vibration which occurs when the virtual car breaks and a deformation of when a car accident happens.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.79-89
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• 2015

This study aims to design and implement a traffic model that can simulate the traffic behavior on the microscopic level by using the GIS. In the design of the model, the vehicle in the simulation environment recognizes the GIS road centerline data as road network data reflecting number of lanes, speed limit and so on. In addition, the behavior model was designed by dividing functions into the environmental perception model, time headway distribution model, car following model, and lane changing model. The implemented model was applied to Jahamun-road of Jongno-gu district to verify the accuracy of the model. As a result, the simulation results on the Jahamun-road had no great error compared with the actual observation data. In the aspect of usability of model, it is judged that this model will be able to effectively contribute to analysis of amount of carbon emission by traffic, evaluation of traffic flow, plans for location of urban infrastructure and so on.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1070-1077
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• 2011

This paper introduces a radar signal processing technique for intelligent rear view monitoring of an automobile. The linear frequency modulation-frequency shift keying(LFM-FSK) waveform, which is the combination of frequency modulation continuous wave(FMCW) and frequency shift keying(FSK) waveform, is employed to simultaneously estimate the range, relative aspect angle, and velocity of an automobile. Hence, it can be applied to monitor the rear view of an automobile. FMCW waveform has high range resolution capability, but it produces ghost targets under a multiple target environment. In contrast, FSK waveform can provide high velocity resolution and avoids the problem of ghost targets. However, it fails to identify multiple targets along the radar's line of sight. With LFM-FSK waveform, we can estimate the ranges and velocities of multiple targets with very high resolution, which avoids the ghost target problem of an FMCW waveform. Simulation result shows that LFM-FSK wavefrom is suitable for use in the lane change assistance system for an automobile.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.1D
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• pp.25-32
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• 2009

Currently, various types of TDM (Transportation Demand Management) policies are being studied and implemented in an attempt to overcome the limitations of supply oriented policies. In this context, this paper addressed issues of effectiveness and possible domestic implementation of the HOT lane. The possible site of implementation selected for this simulation study is part of the Kyung-bu freeway, where a dedicated bus lane is currently being operated. Minimum length of distance required in between interchanges and access points of the HOT lane for vehicles to safely enter and exit the lane, and traffic management policies for effectively managing the weaving traffic trying to enter and exit the HOT lane were presented. A 5.2km section of freeway from Ki-heuing IC to Suwon IC and a 8.3km section from Hak-uei JC to Pan-gyo JC have been selected as possible sites of implementation for the HOT lane, in which congestion occurs regularly due to the high level of travel demand. VISSIM simulation program has been used to analyze the effects of the HOT lane under the assumption that one-lane HOT lane has been put into operation in these sections and that the lane change rate were in between 5% to 30%. The results of each possible scenario have proven that overall travel speed on the general lanes have increased as well by 1.57~2.62km/h after the implementation of the HOT lane. It is meaningful that this study could serve as a basic reference data for possible follow-up studies on the HOT lane as one effective method of TDM policies. Considering that the bus travel rate would continue increase and assuming the improvement in travel speed on general lanes, similar case study can be implemented where gaps between buses on bus lane are available, as a possible alternative of efficient bus lane management policies.