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DESIGN OF CAMERA CONTROLLER FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SPACE-BORN CAMERA SYSTEM

  • Heo, Haeng-Pal;Kong, Jong-Pil;Kim, Young-Sun;Park, Jong-Euk;Yong, Sang-Soon
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.130-133
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    • 2007
  • In order to get high quality and high resolution image data from the space-borne camera system, the image chain from the sensor to the user in the ground-station need to be designed and controlled with extreme care. The behavior of the camera system needs to be controlled by ground commands to support on-orbit calibration and to adjust imaging parameters and to perform early stage on-orbit image correction, like gain and offset control, non-uniformity correction, etc. The operation status including the temperature of the sensor needs to be transferred to the ground-station. The preparation time of the camera system for imaging with specific parameters should be minimized. The camera controller needs to synchronize the operation of cameras for every channel and for every spectral band. Detail timing information of the image data needs to be provided for image data correction at ground-station. In this paper, the design of the camera controller for the AEISS on KOMPSAT-3 will be introduced. It will be described how the image chain is controlled and which imaging parameters are to be adjusted The camera controller will have software for the flexible operation of the camera by the ground-station operators and it can be reconfigured by ground commands. A simple concept of the camera operations and the design of the camera controller, not only with hardware but also with controller software are to be introduced in this paper.

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Design of High-Speed Image Processing System for Line-Scan Camera (라인 스캔 카메라를 위한 고속 영상 처리 시스템 설계)

  • 이운근;백광렬;조석빈
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.178-184
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we designed an image processing system for the high speed line-scan camera which adopts the new memory model we proposed. As a resolution and a data rate of the line-scan camera are becoming higher, the faster image processing systems are needed. But many conventional systems are not sufficient to process the image data from the line-scan camera during a very short time. We designed the memory controller which eliminates the time for transferring image data from the line-scan camera to the main memory with high-speed SRAM and has a dual-port configuration therefore the DSP can access the main memory even though the memory controller are writing the image data. The memory controller is implemented by VHDL and Xilinx SPARTAN-IIE FPGA.

Design of a Low-Vibration Micro-Stepping Controller for Pan-Tilt Camera (팬.틸트 카메라의 저 진동 마이크로스텝핑 제어기 설계)

  • Yoo, Jong-won;Kim, Jung-han
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2010
  • Speed, accuracy and smoothness are the important properties of pan-tilt camera. In the case of a high ratio zoom lens system, low vibration characteristic is a crucial point in driving pan-tilt mechanism. In this paper, a novel micro-stepping controller with a function of reducing vibration was designed using field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) technology for high zoom ratio pan-tilt camera. The proposed variable reference current (VRC) control scheme reduces vibration decently and optimizing coil current in order to prevent the step motor from occurring missing steps. By employing VRC control scheme, the vibration in low speed could be significantly minimized. The proposed controller can also make very high speed of 378kpps micro-step driving, and increase maximum acceleration in motion profiles.

Vision Based Mobile Robot Control (이동 로봇의 비젼 기반 제어)

  • Kim, Jin-Hwan
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.63-67
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents the mobile robot control based on vision system. The proposed vision based controller consist of the camera tracking controller and the formation controller. Th e camera controller has the adaptive gain based on IBVS. The formation controller which is designed in the sense of the Lyapunov stability follows the leader. Simluation results show that the proposed vision based mobile robot control is validated for indoor mobile robot applications.

Development of Fuzzy Controller for Camera Autotracking System (원격 감시카메라 자동추적시스템의 퍼지제어기 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 윤지섭;박영수
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.2062-2072
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    • 1994
  • This paper presents the development of a fuzzy controller for driving camera pan/tilt device so that the camera's viewing direction can automatically track a moving object. To achieve computational efficiency a non-contact type displacement follower is used as a feedback sensor instead of a vision camera. The displacement follower, however, is extremely sensitive to object's lighting condition and results in unstable response at high speed. To this end, a fuzzy controller is developed in such a way to provide stable tracking performance at high speed where the sensory signal is subjected to intermittant disturbances of large magnitude. The test result shows stable tracking response even for high speed and non-uniform lighting condition. The resulting camera autotracking system can be adopted as an effective tool for visual transfer in the context of teleoperation and autonomous robotics.

Path Design Method of Mobile Robot for Obstacle Avoidance Using Ceiling- mounted Camera System and Its Implementation (천장설치형 카메라 시스템을 사용한 장애물 회피용 이동 로봇의 경로설계법과 그 구현)

  • 트란안킴;김광주;중탄람;김학경;김상봉
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, implementation of obstacle avoidance of a nonholonomic mobile robot in unstructured environment is introduced. To avoid obstacles, first, a reference collision-free path for the MR is generated off-line using HJB-based optimal path planning method. A controller is designed using integrator backstepping method for tracking the generated reference path. To implement the designed controller, a control system are needed and composed of camera system and PIC-based controller. The workspace is observed by a ceiling-mounted USB camera as part of an un-calibrated camera system. Thus the positional information of the MR is updated frequently and the MR can get the useful inputs for its tracking controller. The whole control system is realized by integrating a computer with PIC-based microprocessor using wireless communication: the image processing control module and path planning module serve as high level computer control while the device control serves as low level PIC microprocessor control. The simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of the designed control system.

Mobile Robot Destination Generation by Tracking a Remote Controller Using a Vision-aided Inertial Navigation Algorithm

  • Dang, Quoc Khanh;Suh, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.613-620
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    • 2013
  • A new remote control algorithm for a mobile robot is proposed, where a remote controller consists of a camera and inertial sensors. Initially the relative position and orientation of a robot is estimated by capturing four circle landmarks on the plate of the robot. When the remote controller moves to point to the destination, the camera pointing trajectory is estimated using an inertial navigation algorithm. The destination is transmitted wirelessly to the robot and then the robot is controlled to move to the destination. A quick movement of the remote controller is possible since the destination is estimated using inertial sensors. Also unlike the vision only control, the robot can be out of camera's range of view.

Auto-parking Controller of Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Using Image Localization Sensor and Ultrasonic Sensors (영상위치센서와 초음파센서를 사용한 전 방향 이동로봇의 자동주차 제어기)

  • Yun, Him Chan;Park, Tae Hyoung
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.571-576
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes an auto-parking controller for omnidirectional mobile robots. The controller uses the multi-sensor system including ultrasonic sensor and camera. The several ultrasonic sensors of robot detect the distance between robot and each wall of the parking lot. The camera detects the global position of robot by capturing the image of artificial landmarks. To improve the accuracy of position estimation, we applied the extended Kalman filter with adaptive fuzzy controller. Also we developed the fuzzy control system to reduce the settling time of parking. The experimental results are presented to verify the usefulness of the proposed controller.

Development of Road-Following Controller for Autonomous Vehicle using Relative Similarity Modular Network (상대분할 신경회로망에 의한 자율주행차량 도로추적 제어기의 개발)

  • Ryoo, Young-Jae;Lim, Young-Cheol
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.550-557
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes a road-following controller using the proposed neural network for autonomous vehicle. Road-following with visual sensor like camera requires intelligent control algorithm because analysis of relation from road image to steering control is complex. The proposed neural network, relative similarity modular network(RSMN), is composed of some learning networks and a partitioniing network. The partitioning network divides input space into multiple sections by similarity of input data. Because divided section has simlar input patterns, RSMN can learn nonlinear relation such as road-following with visual control easily. Visual control uses two criteria on road image from camera; one is position of vanishing point of road, the other is slope of vanishing line of road. The controller using neural network has input of two criteria and output of steering angle. To confirm performance of the proposed neural network controller, a software is developed to simulate vehicle dynamics, camera image generation, visual control, and road-following. Also, prototype autonomous electric vehicle is developed, and usefulness of the controller is verified by physical driving test.

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Fuzzy control of camera pan tilt device for remote surveillance system (원격 감시용 카메라의 자동 조향을 위한 Fuzzy 제어)

  • 정우태;박영수;윤지섭
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.811-814
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    • 1993
  • The development of fuzzy pan/tilt controller for remote handling in hostile environment is presented in this paper. In remote handling, control of the camera system is somewhat tedious and time consuming. Operators should do the two tasks of manipulating teleoperator and camera pan/tilt at the same time. By automating pan/tilt control, we expect operators could concentrate only on remote operation. When operators control camera pan/tilt they use simple linguistic rules such as "If the position of end effector on TV monitor is at the edge of the screen, control pan/tilt to display the end effector near the center of the screen." Such a rule is similar to fuzzy logic, so we used fuzzy logic controller to control camera pan/tilt. pan/tilt.

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