• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.72-78
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• 2007

Determination of the local vertical is not trivial for a moving vehicle and in general will require corrections for the Earth geophysical deflection. The vehicle's local vertical can be estimated by INS integration with initial alignment in SDINS(Strap Down INS) system. In general, the INS has drift error and it cause the performance degradation. In order to compensate the drift error, GPS/INS augmented system is widely used. And in the event that GPS is denied or unavailable, celestial navigation using star tracker can be a backup navigation system especially for the military purpose. In this celestial navigation system, the vehicle's position determination can be achieved using more than two star trackers, and the accuracy of position highly depends on accuracy of local vertical direction. Modern tilt sensors or accelerometers are sensitive to the direction of gravity to arc second(or better) precision. The local gravity provides the direction orthogonal to the geoid and, appropriately corrected, toward the center of the Earth. In this paper the relationship between direction of center of the Earth and actual gravity direction caused by geophysical deflection was analyzed by using precision orbit simulation program embedded the JGM-3 geoid model. And the result was verified and evaluated with mathematical gravity vector model derived from gravitational potential of the Earth. And also for application purpose, the performance variation of pure INS navigation system was analyzed by applying precise gravity model.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.239-244
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• 2022

R-Mode is terrestrial based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) backup radio navigation technology which used existing maritime information service infrastructure. It has advantages on reduce the cost and reutilize the frequency resource. In this paper, we propose a method to develop a medium-frequency (MF) band R-Mode transmitting station by utilizing the currently operating Differential GNSS (DGNSS) reference station infrastructure. To this end, the considerations for co-operating the DGNSS reference station and the MF R-Mode transmitting station are analyzed. In this process, we also analyze what is necessary to configure the communication system as a navigation system for range measurement. Based on the analysis result, MF R-Mode transmitting station system is designed and architecture is proposed. The developed system is installed in the field, and the performance evaluation results is presented.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.109-114
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• 2013

The vulnerability of GPS to interference signals was reported in the early 2000s, and an eLORAN system has been suggested as a backup navigation system for replacing the existing GPS. Thus, relevant studies have been carried out in the United States, Europe, Korea, etc., and especially, in Korea, the research and development is being conducted for the FOC of the eLORAN system by 2018. The required performance of the eLORAN system is to meet the HEA performance, and to achieve this, it is essential to perform ASF correction based on a dLORAN system. ASF can be divided into temporal ASF, nominal ASF, and spatial ASF. Spatial ASF is the variation due to spatial characteristics, and is stored in an eLORAN receiver in the form of a premeasured map. Temporal ASF is the variations due to temporal characteristics, and are transmitted from a dLORAN site to a receiver via LDC. Unlike nominal ASF that is obtained by long-term measurement (over 1 year), temporal ASF changes in a short period of time, and ideally, real-time correction needs to be performed. However, it is difficult to perform real-time correction due to the limit of the transmission rate of the LDC for transmitting correction values. In this paper, to determine temporal ASF correction frequency that shows satisfactory performance within the range of the limit of data transmission rates, relative variations of temporal ASF in summer and winter were measured, and the stability of correction values was analyzed using the average of temporal ASF for a certain period.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1867-1870
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• 2005

The celestial navigation is one of alternatives to GPS system and can be used as a backup of GPS. In the celestial navigation system using more than two star trackers, the vehicle's ground position can be solved based on the star trackers' attitude information if the vehicle's local vertical or horizontal angle is given. In order to determine accurate ground position of flight vehicle, the high accurate local vertical angle measurement is one of the most important factors for navigation performance. In this paper, the Earth geophysical deflection was analyzed in the assumption of using the modern electrolyte tilt sensor as a local vertical sensor for celestial navigation system. According to the tilt sensor principle, the sensor measures the tilt angle from gravity direction which depends on the Earth geoid surface at a given position. In order to determine the local vertical angle from tilt sensor measurement, the relationship between the direction of gravity and the direction of the Earth center should be analyzed. Using a precision orbit determination software which includes the JGM-3 Earth geoid model, the direction of the Earth center and the direction of gravity are extracted and analyzed. Appling vector inner product and cross product to the both extracted vectors, the magnitude and phase of deflection angle between the direction of gravity and the direction of the Earth center are achieved successfully. And the result shows that the angle differences vary as a function of latitude and altitude. The maximum 0.094$^{circ}$angle difference occurs at 45$^{circ}$latitude in case of 1000 Km altitude condition.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2013

This article presents the design of long range navigation (LORAN)-disciplined oscillator (LDO), employing the timing information of the LORAN system, which was developed as a backup system that corrects the vulnerability of the global positioning system (GPS)-based timing information utilization. The LDO designed on the basis of hardware generates a timing source synchronized with reference to the timing information of the LORAN-C receiver. As for the LDO-based timing information measurement, the Kalman filter was applied to estimate the measurement of which variance was minimized so that the stability performance could be improved. The oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) was employed as the local oscillator of the LDO. The controller was operated by digital proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controlling method. The LDO performance evaluation environment that takes into account the additional secondary factor (ASF) of the LORAN signals allows for the relative ASF observation and data collection using the coordinated universal time (UTC). The collected observation data are used to analyze the effect of ASF on propagation delay. The LDO stability performance was presented by the results of the LDO frequency measurements from which the ASF was excluded.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.165-176
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• 2009

The process of berthing/deberthing operations for entering/leaving vessels in Busan northern harbor was analyzed and evaluated by using an integrated VTS(vessel traffic service) system installed in the ship training center of Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. The integrated VTS system used in this study was consisted of ARPA radar, ECDIS(electronic chart display and information system), backup(recording) system, CCTV(closed-circuit television) camera system, gyro-compass, differential GPS receiver, anemometer, AIS(automatic identification system), VHF(very high frequency) communication system, etc. The network of these systems was designed to communicate with each other automatically and to exchange the critical information about the course, speed, position and intended routes of other traffic vessels in the navigational channel and Busan northern harbor. To evaluate quantitatively the overall dynamic situation such as maneuvering motions for target vessel and its tugboats while in transit to and from the berth structure inside a harbor, all traffic information in Busan northern harbor was automatically acquired, displayed, evaluated and recorded. The results obtained in this study suggest that the real-time tracking information of traffic vessels acquired by using an integrated VTS system can be used as a useful reference data in evaluating and analyzing exactly the dynamic situation such as the collision between ship and berth structure, in the process of berthing/deberthing operations for entering/leaving vessels in the confined waters and harbor.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2017

국내에서 운용하고 있는 해양 DGPS는 다중 GNSS 수신기를 활용하여 사용자에게 의사거리 보정정보를 제공하고, 지속적으로 보정정보 의무결성을 감시하는 역할을 수행한다. 해양 DGPS 기준국 (RSIM; reference station and integrity monitor)은 서비스 단절 상황을 막기 위하여 상태 감시 요소에 대한 알람 수준을 설정하여 시스템을 정지시키고, 백업시스템으로 전환하거나, 문제 사항에 대해 파악하여 대응할 수 있도록 한다. 해양 DGPS 기준국 운용 시 이중화 시스템 적용되어 시스템 오작동에 의한 서비스 중단 등의 상황에 대비 할 수 있으나, 백업용 시스템까지 문제가 발생하거나, 외부 요인에 의해 발생하는 서비스 중단에 대해서는 대비할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 운영자가 사전에 문제 발생 가능성에 대해 확인하여 대응할 수 있도록, 기존의 알람과 정상 상태에 추가적으로 경고 기준값을 제시하였으며, 이를 위해 기준국에서 생성한 상태 감시 정보를 마코프 분석 방식을 통하여 분석하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.385-390
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• 2016

eLoran은 측위, 항법, 시각 분야에서 요구 정확도에 따라 GPS의 대체 또는 백업시스템으로 사용될 수 있다. eLoran 송신국들은 UTC에 동기 되어 있으므로 TOA를 근거로 한 all-in-view 수신이 가능하여 높은 정확도의 시각 동기와 항법이 가능하다. 또한 LDC를 통해 송신국 및 dLoran 보정 정보 등을 방송함으로써 향상된 PNT를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 eLoran을 이용한 정밀 시각비교 측정에 필수적인 eLoran 타이밍 수신기의 지연 시간에 관련된 것들을 측정하여 보정값으로 반영하는 기술을 제시하였다. 송신기 종단의 전류 결합기로부터 로란 신호를 추출하여 3 번째 사이클과 교차하는 지점에서 펄스를 생성하는 장치를 구성하고 그 펄스를 기준으로 지연 시간을 측정하는 장치를 구현하였다. 수신기 지연은 상용 eLoran 수신기와 능동형 자기장, 전기장 안테나와 수동형 루프 안테나를 사용하여 각각의 안테나를 연결하였을 때의 지연시간을 측정하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 교정된 eLoran 타이밍 수신기를 공통시계 비교법에 이용하면 GNSS 이용 시각비교의 백업 시스템으로서 정밀한 시각비교가 필요한 분야에 활용할 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권11A호
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• pp.882-890
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 Loran 신호를 이용하여 원거리통신망 및 전력 분배망과 같은 국가 기반 산업에 대한 망동기를 이루고자 할 때에 Loran 수신기에서 수신한 신호에 대한 위상 동기를 잃어 버렸을 때 이를 보상하기 위한 방안에 대해서 논한다. Loran 수신기에서 위상 동기를 잃었을 때에는 수신기 내에 있는 오실레이터가 자유구동을 하게되고, 따라서 이를 기준으로 출력되는 타이밍 동기신호의 성능이 크게 떨어지게 되며, 이때에 ITU G.811 표준에서 요구하는 PRC에 대한 1 us 이하의 요구 성능을 만족시킬 수 없게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Loran 수신기가 위상 동기를 잃었을 때 이를 보상하기 위해 보상 알고리즘을 사용하여 위상 점프를 보상하는 방법에 대해 제안했으며, 이에 대해 실측한 데이터에 대한 MTIE 성능을 분석하였다. 성능 분석 결과 제안된 방법을 사용하면 1시간 간격으로 동기를 잃었을 경우에 30 분 평균 이하의 스무딩 값을 사용할 경우 대략 0.6 us 이하의 MTIE 값을 보여서 산업체 표준에서 요구하는 1 us 이내의 PRC 성능을 충분히 만족시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.