• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1-11
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• 2010

Since January 2009, Seoul Metro Government(SMG) is operating own Network RTK Systems connecting four(4) GNSS Reference Stations which are installed inside Seoul Metro City area. SMG is currently providing VRS data service via wireless internet for Network-RTK and RINEX data observed from GNSS Reference Stations. This paper will discuss utilization of data available from SMG Network-RTK System for various applications, and present the test results on practicalities of Virtual RINEX data. For the utilization of data available from SMG Network- RTK system, 1)NTRIP data delivery of GNSS realtime observables streaming and converting to RINEX at receiving side, 2) monitoring deformation of bulky structures using GNSS observation were discussed. In addition to those discussion, 3) broadcasting VRS correction data for job site via radio modem after acquiring such correction data on-line using NTRIP based GNSS Internet Radio from SMG Network-RTK System were introduced. For the test results on practicalities of Virtual RINEX data, 1) the post-processing results of the GNSS observation data on a certain point with GNSS Reference Station data have been compared to the post-processing results of Virtual RINEX data on the same point generated from SMG Network-RTK System, and 2) VRS RTK positioning results for a certain point and post-processing results of Virtual RINEX data for the point were compared. The results showed only a few mm difference, and the high possibility for using Virtual RINEX data for post-processing applications.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.197-204
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• 2003

We demonstrated positioning accuracy of iRTK system, which has been developed by Korea Astronomy Observatory, using a low-price GPS receiver. Each four different baseline positioning tests using the iRTK system, we certified 1-3 meters level positioning accuracy of the iRTK system. While the iRTK is similar to conventional RTK at coverage and accuracy, the iRTK positioning carried out from data processing center. And also, the iRTK system has no limit of data communication coverage because of using wire/wireless Internet. But the iRTK system has a weakness of short available coverage within 5km. Therefore we discussed a plan to adopt VRS (Virtual Reference System) as completion of the iRTK system preparing nation-wide iRTK service in near future.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2B
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• pp.287-295
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• 2010

RTLS used to track the location of object or person in real time. However, if there are a lot of tags and readers, the conventional single RTLS server may fail to estimate location of tags. And if the server cannot receive the tags signal due to pass-loss or NLOS from more than three readers, the server fail to estimate location of tags. In this paper, we propose a special reader which embeds RTLS location engine for distributed RTLS. And by using multi-directional antenna, alleviating multi-path effect and allowing estimate tag's location only using two readers. We also implement the system, we can reduce server packet 16times and get the all results of location estimate in single second. We achieved the location error within 1m.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.35-43
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• 2004

An arbitration method is proposed to resolve a collision and arbitrate beacon transmissions in an indoor Positioning system consisting of multiple beacons and listeners. Although two or more beacons may compete to transmit signals simultaneously, a single winner in the competition is determined autonomously through the arbitration process while they are transmitting. So, it can continue to send its data, but the others give up their transmissions during the arbitration process. As a consequence, update rate for location information and channel utilization can be improved by avoiding that all beacons fail due to a collision. Once a beacon succeeds in transmitting its signal, a low-level priority is assigned to it. And a high-level priority is allocated to a beacon which gave up its transmission during arbitration process. This will guarantee every beacon has fair transmission opportunity with the arbitration method. As no centralized control is required among beacons, a Positioning system can still be easily deployed and expanded with this arbitration method.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.14 no.3 s.37
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• pp.47-53
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• 2006

In this contribution, an integration of seamless navigation system for the pedestrian is introduced. To overcome the GPS outages in various situations, multi-sensor of GPS, INS, electronic barometer and compass are considered in one Extented Kalman filter. Especially, the integrated system is designed for low-cost for the practical applications. Therefore, a MEMS IMU is considered, and the low quality of the heading is compensated by the electronic compass. In addition, only the pseudoranges from GPS measurements are considered for possible real-time application so that the degraded height is also controlled by a barometer. The mathematical models for each sensor with systematic errors such as biases, scale factors are described in detail and the results are presented in terms of a covariance analysis as well as the position and attitude errors compared to the high-grade GPS/INS combined solutions. The real application scenario of GPS outage is also investigated to assess the feasible accuracy with respect to the outage period. The description on the current status of the development and future research directions are also stated.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.111-118
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• 2009

Against Anomaly of GPS, there are several projects of independent satellite navigation systems like Galileo of Europe and QZSS of Japan and modernization of terrestrial navigation system like Loran. In domestic, the need of independent navigation system was proposed and DGPS signal was nominated as the possible substitute. The DGPS signal uses medium frequency, which travels through the surface and cause the additional delay rather than the speed of light according to Conductivities and elevations of the irregular terrain. The similar approach is Locan-C. Loran-C has been widely used as the maritime location system. Loran-C uses the ASF estimation method and provides more precise positioning. However there was rarely research on this area in Korea Therefore, we introduce the legacy guaranteed model of additional delay(ASF) and present the results of implementation. With the comparison of the original Monteath results and BALOR results respectively, we guarantee that the implementation is absolutely perfect. For further works, we're going to apply the ASF estimation model to Korean DGPS system with the Korean terrain data.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.A
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• pp.97-104
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• 2008

Recently, interests on positioning system for location-based services have been significantly increased. Many indoor environment systems using fingerprint scheme have been designed to take more accuracy of positioning, but they are inefficient in adapting to change of environments. In this paper, we focus on a client-based positioning system over WLAN for decreasing installation cost and adapting to change of environments. In the proposed system, APs with stable RSSI are selected as base APs independently for each reference point. Experimental results show that proposed system expands service area approximately 20% much than traditional systems using K-NN algorithm and needs only 20% modification process to fingerprint data compare with traditional systems whenever environment conditions are changed.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1339-1342
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• 2005

사용자의 위치를 파악하는 것은 위치기반서비스 시스템 개발에 필수 요소이다. 본 논문은 액세스 포인트의 신호의 세기를 참조하여 사용자의 위치를 파악하는 방법을 소개한다. 기존의 위치 파악 시스템은 옥외용과 옥내용으로 분류되고, 옥내용은 실내의 일정 영역에 적외선 센서를 부착하거나, 천정에 초음파와 RF 신호 발생기를 부착하는 등 특수한 환경을 꾸며주는 것이 필수적이다. 옥외용으로는 GPS가 대표적으로 사용되는데 옥내에서는 GPS 데이터를 수신할 수 없다는 단점이 있다. 근래에 들어 무선 랜이 흔히 설치됨에 따라 본 논문은 무선 랜에 이미 설치된 액세스 포인트의 신호 세기를 이용한 측위 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 무선 랜이 설치된 곳이라면 옥내나 옥외에서도 적용이 가능한 장점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.487-488
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• 2016

최근, 블루투스 통신이 가능한 스마트폰이 널리 사용되면서, 블루투스 기반의 비콘이 마케팅이나 실내위치기반서비스 등에서 많이 이용되고 있다. 하지만, 비콘의 특성상 정확한 측위가 어려워 응용 분야가 다소 제한적이다. 이 논문에서는 승객의 비콘을 이용하여 대중교통 승하차를 비 접촉식으로 인식하고 과금으로 연결하는 시스템을 제안한다. 이 논문에서는 기존 RSSI를 이용하는 비콘 기반 측위 방법이 신호간섭에 따라 신뢰성이 떨어지는 문제를 해결하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2018

한국 서해에서는 중국에서 운영하는 Loran-C 체인 GRI7430, GRI8390과 한국과 러시아에서 공동으로 운영하는 GRI9930 체인 등 다수의 체인에 속한 여러 Loran-C 송신국 신호를 수신할 수 있다. 그러나 Loran-C 시스템은 여러 체인의 신호 중 하나의 체인을 선택하고 선택된 체인에 속한 3~5개 송신국 신호만 이용해서 위치를 측정하도록 표준화 되었다. 본 논문에서는 수신 가능한 모든 Loran-C 신호를 이용하여 위치를 측정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 다음으로 실측 실험을 통해 제시한 방법의 유효성을 확인하였다. 연구 결과는 Loran-C 시스템의 가용성과 정확성을 향상시키기 위해서 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.