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Air-traffic dispatching scheduling in terminal airspace (공항접근영역 항공교통 Dispatching 스케줄링 연구)

  • Jeong, Sun-Jo;Cho, Doo-Hyun;Choi, Han-Lim
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.973-980
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    • 2016
  • An air traffic management (ATM) has been studied in a variety of fields to utilize an air traffic capacity efficiently and solve a congested air traffic situation due to an increment of an air traffic demand. In this paper, an air traffic management, which is related with controlling and determining the sequencing of an aircraft approaching to an airport, in terminal control area is studied. This paper focuses on scheduling algorithms with a given problem for the air traffic management with operational constraints, such as a space separation, an overtaking on the same air-route, and a route merge point (a scheduling point). For a real-time calculation, the presented algorithms focus on dispatching heuristic rules which are able to assign tasks in a fast time period with an adequate performance, which can be demonstrated as a proper and realistic scheduling algorithm. A simulation result is presented to illustrate the validity and applicability of the proposed algorithm. Each scheduling rule is analyzed on the same static and dynamic air traffic flow scenario with the ATM Monte-Carlo simulation.

UWB RADAR based Modified Adaptive CFAR Algorithm for improved safety of Personal Rapid Transit (무인 궤도 차량의 안전성 제고를 위한 UWB 레이더 기반 적응형 CFAR 알고리즘)

  • Hong, Seok-Gon;Kim, Baek-Hyun;Jeong, Rag-Gyo;Kwak, Kyung-Sup
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.28-42
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    • 2013
  • Personal Rapid Transit(PRT) is a new unmanned transportation system using electricity. The purpose of the PRT is relieving the congestion of city traffic and connecting between inner city and airport, high-speed railroad. PRT requires to develop devices for the guarantee of safety and reliability. PRT as the mean of rail transportation must be equipped with control system for front rail sensing. Ultra Wide Band(UWB) radar system is suitable for PRT's detection because it has the advantage of low power consumption, low interference and high resolution. In this paper, an improved adaptive Constant False Alarm Rate(CFAR) algorithm is proposed and studied in various noise environments. The proposed algorithm improves performance in various noise environments compared to the Mean Level CFAR algorithms and other adaptive CFAR algorithms.

X-ray Image Denoising Agorithm Using Bilateral Weight (양방향 가중치를 이용한 x선 영상 잡음 제거 알고리즘)

  • Shin, Soo-Yeon;Suh, Jae-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2017
  • X-ray image is a widely used to medical examination, airport security and cargo inspection. However, X-ray images contain many visual noise, which interrupt image analysis. Consequently, it is primary importance to reduce noises of X-ray image. In this paper, we present a improved denoise technique for x-ray image using pixel value and range weights. First, we denoise a x-ray image using bilateral filter. Next, we detect a edge region of the original x-ray image. If a denoised pixel belongs to the edge region, we calculate weighting values of original x-ray image and denoised x-ray image in $3{\times}3$ neighboring pixels and compute the cost value to determine the boundary pixel value. Finally, the pixel value having minimum cost is determined as the pixel value of the denoised x-ray image. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves good performance in terns of PSNR comparison and subjective visual quality.

Merge Control using Reserve Ahead Point in Baggage Handling System (수하물시스템의 사전할당지점을 이용한 병합제어)

  • Kim, Minhee;Shin, Hyunwoo;Chae, Junjae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 2017
  • A baggage handling system (BHS) in airport is an unified system for moving the passengers' baggage in designated time. Input baggage from the check-in counter travels to the baggage claim area or cargo handling terminal through this system. In particular, entryway BHS consists of conveyors, X-ray and sorters such as tilt-tray to send the baggage to departing airplane and it could have various problems for handling certain amount of baggage in restricted time such as baggage jamming at certain merge point. This causes systemic error such as delay of the time, omissions of the baggage and even breakdown of the equipment and inefficiency. Also the increasing maximum time of the baggage passing through the BHS could delay the flight schedule and finally decrease the service level. Thus, the algorithm for controlling the flow of the merge is essential to the system. The window reservation algorithm is the one of the most frequently used methods to control the merge configuration. Above all, the reserve location, so called reserve ahead point, that allocates the window is important for the performance of the algorithm. We propose the modified window reservation algorithm and the best reserve locations by changing the reserve ahead point in the induction conveyors. The effect of various reserve ahead points such as the capacity and utility of the system were analyzed and the most effective reserve ahead point combination was found. The total baggage processing time and the utilization of the tilt-tray are properly considered when choosing the optimal Reserve ahead point combination. In the layout of this study, the configuration of four conveyors merged into one tilt-tray is studied and simulation analysis is done by AutoMod(R), 3D simulation software. Through the simulation, the window reservation algorithm is effectively operated with the best combination of reserve ahead point which reduces the maximum baggage travel time.

A Study on Priority Allocation Algorithm According to Air Traffic in Aeronautical Communication Environment (항공이동통신환경에서 항공교통량에 따른 우선순위 할당 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • Jo, Yun-Hyun;Kim, Yong-Kyun;Kim, Sang-Uk;Park, Hyo-Dal
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2010
  • According to the recent increase in air traffic a more efficient air traffic flow control is required. This paper proposes the algorithm for efficient air traffic flow control. Aeronautical communication environment is different from the common communication environment since it needs a direct communication between stations (or airplanes) and requires a strict priority for safety message. Moreover, the wide area for basic service causes high propagation delay. In this paper, by using existing CSMA/CA Media Access Control (MAC) protocol, we set the message priorities according to air traffic condition (congestion airport area, approach control area, En route area, and ocean area). This prioritization scheme enables the data transmission with higher access probability. Simulation results confirm that our protocol shows better performance in terms of channel efficiency and success probability compared to exisiting CSMA/CA protocol.

Analysis on Information Use of Smartphone in the context of Tourists (관광객 대상 스마트폰 사용의 정보이용 분석)

  • Jee, Geun-Sung;Kim, Min-cheol;Ha, Tai-Hyun
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.1543-1550
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    • 2017
  • Previous research on smartphone has been focused on personal performance, accessibility, and information gaps in information system quality. In order to analyze the relationship between the use of smartphone information and personal characteristics, this study conducted a survey of 300 tourists at Jeju Airport, by using three variables of self-efficacy, 'impulsiveness and demographic variables (age, sex, education level, etc.) of smartphone use with personal characteristics. In conclusion, self-efficacy and impulsiveness seem to be positively related to the use of smartphone because it seems to be a living environment in which the desired information can be acquired within a desired time. In addition, there seems to be a difference between a mobile native environment in which online and offline boundaries are always connected and an environment in which 40 to 50 digital literacies are connected. This can be interpreted as a result of additional analysis.

Technical Study on Possibility of an Express Service Wide Area Railway (광역철도 노선의 급행화 가능성에 대한 기술적 검토)

  • Park, Jung Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.612-624
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    • 2017
  • As the existing metropolitan area metropolitan railway operates on a one-to-one basis, which leads to long travel times, its competitiveness with other means of transportation is deteriorating. Since there is a limit to attracting road traffic by rail, there is a continuing societal demand to expand express train service. Especially in the northern and the southwestern parts of the metropolitan area, a public transportation network system with express function, connecting to the city center of Seoul, is needed because of the social cost of the increase of traffic congestion and the increase of the travel time. The most efficient express service in Korea is Seoul Subway Line 9, which runs in 27 minutes from Gimpo Airport to the high speed terminal; this is a 40% shorter time compared to 44 minutes by car; the congestion in this area is up to 240%, so the preference for this train is quite high. The technical results of this study are expected to contribute to the implementation of an express service metropolitan railway.

Virtual Ground Based Augmentation System

  • Core, Giuseppe Del;Gaglione, Salvatore;Vultaggio, Mario;Pacifico, Armando
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 2006
  • Since 1993, the civil aviation community through RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) and the ICAO (International Civil Air Navigation Organization) have been working on the definition of GNSS augmentation systems that will provide improved levels of accuracy and integrity. These augmentation systems have been classified into three distinct groups: Aircraft Based Augmentation Systems (ABAS), Space Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS). The last one is an implemented system to support Air Navigation in CAT-I approaching operation. It consists of three primary subsystems: the GNSS Satellite subsystem that produces the ranging signals and navigation messages; the GBAS ground subsystem, which uses two or more GNSS receivers. It collects pseudo ranges for all GNSS satellites in view and computes and broadcasts differential corrections and integrity-related information; the Aircraft subsystem. Within the area of coverage of the ground station, aircraft subsystems may use the broadcast corrections to compute their own measurements in line with the differential principle. After selection of the desired FAS for the landing runway, the differentially corrected position is used to generate navigation guidance signals. Those are lateral and vertical deviations as well as distance to the threshold crossing point of the selected FAS and integrity flags. The Department of Applied Science in Naples has create for its study a virtual GBAS Ground station. Starting from three GPS double frequency receivers, we collect data of 24h measures session and in post processing we generate the GC (GBAS Correction). For this goal we use the software Pegasus V4.1 developed from EUROCONTROL. Generating the GC we have the possibility to study and monitor GBAS performance and integrity starting from a virtual functional architecture. The latter allows us to collect data without the necessity to found us authorization for the access to restricted area in airport where there is one GBAS installation.

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AP-Initiated Flow Redirection Mechanism for AP Load Balancing in WLAN Environments (무선랜 환경에서 AP 로드 밸런싱을 위한 AP-개시 플로우 리다이렉션 메커니즘)

  • Kim, Mi-Hui;Chae, Ki-Joon
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2009
  • IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN(WLAN) is being widely used in public space such as airport, and increases the networking boundary in campus and enterprise, and it has lastly attracted considerable attention for mesh network and converged network with other 3G mobile communication networks. In WLAN, load balancing among Access Points(AP) is an important issue for efficient resource management or supporting the Quality of Service(QoS) of traffic, but most researches focused on the AP selection in network entry or roaming of Stations(STA). In this paper, we propose an AP-Initiated Flow Redirection(FR) for AP load balancing by monitoring AP's availability in the true sense. When the AP's resource becomes almost saturated, that is used more than a specific threshold, the AP queries the roaming possible neighbor APs about their availability and calculates the distribution of traffic load with statistical methods such as entropy or chi-square. Finally, the AP decides flows and new APs for redirection and performs it. Our simulation results show that our FR mechanism increases the performance in the various views.

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Behavioral Factors Affecting Tourists' Smartphone Usage: Focus on Mobile Banking Service (관광객의 스마트폰 이용 행위 요인: 모바일 뱅킹 서비스 중심)

  • Qu, Xiaoqian;Kim, Mincheol
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the behavior intention of smartphone mobile banking service among tourists. Currently, due to the development of mobile Internet technology and the spread of smartphone all over the world, interest and spread of smart phone based mobile banking is popularized. Thus, we analyzed the relationship among performance expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, perceived financial cost, perceived habit, perceived security level, and user's behavioral intention as a dependent variable. In this study, 203 respondents were interviewed about Chinese tourists at Jeju International Airport, and the influence of independent variables was determined by Smartpls 3.0. The results showed that the perceived security level and habit had a positive effect on the behavior intention. Especially, perceived security is a major issue of smartphone-based mobile banking in recent years. This study is meaningful in that it is an analysis of behavior factors of smartphone-based mobile banking service for tourists.