• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.545-557
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• 2018

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become popular and widely used in many fields from military to civilian applications. However, GPS signals are suffered from interference due to its weak signal over wireless channel. There are many types of interference, such as jamming, blocking multipath, and spoofing, which can mislead the operation of GPS receiver. In this paper, vector-based tracking loop model with integrity check is proposed to detect and mitigate the harmful effect of interference on GPS receiver operation. The suggested methods are implemented in the tracking loop of GPS receiver. As a first method, integrity check with carrier-to-noise ratio (C/No) monitoring technique is applied to detect the presence of interference and prevent contaminated channels out of tracking channels to calculate position. As a second method, a vector-based tracking loop using Extended Kalman Filter with adaptive noise covariance according to C/No monitoring results. The proposed methods have been implemented on simulated dataset. The results demonstrates that the suggested methods significantly mitigate interference of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and improve position calculation by 44%.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.188-197
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• 2021

In military operations, an accurate localization system is required to navigate soldiers to their destinations, even in non-GPS environments. The global positioning system is a commonly used localization method, but it is difficult to maintain the robustness of GPS-based localization against jamming of signals. In addition, GPS-based localization cannot provide important terrain information such as obstacles. With the widespread use of embedded sensors, sensor-based pedestrian tracking schemes have become an attractive option. However, because of noisy sensor readings, pedestrian tracking systems using motion sensors have a major drawback in that errors in the estimated displacement accumulate over time. We present a group-based standalone system that creates terrain maps automatically while also locating soldiers in mountainous terrain. The system estimates landmarks using inertial sensors and utilizes split group information to improve the robustness of map construction. The evaluation shows that our system successfully corrected and combined the drift error of the system localization without infrastructure.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.260-267
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• 2007

GPS adapter kit (GAK) is a GPS/INS guided range extension system to improve the accuracy and availability of existing dumb bombs. In this paper, a van test result of GPS/INS navigation module (NM) for guided bomb with GAK has been presented. The NM consists of a commercial MEMS IMU, embedded GPS receiver and navigation computer unit (NCU). The GPS receiver of NM was designed to use multiple antennas for satellite visibility and GPS attitude determination. The real-time navigation software was designed by modularized structure to guarantee the maintainability and extensibility. In order to evaluate the performance of the NM, a van test was preformed by using a high performance INS - Honeywell H-726 MAPS(Modular Azimuth Position System).The van test results show that the GAK NM with GPS attitude measurement gives better navigation performance than a conventional GPS/INS integration and good coasting capabilities under jamming environment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.63-64
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• 2008

GPS의 활용 분야는 군용 항법 시스템에서 항공, 선박 등의 개인 항법 시스템으로 확장되었다. GPS가 넓은 범위에서 응용됨에 따라 Jamming과 같은 고의적인 간섭 신호의 제거에 대하여 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 그러나 기만 신호의 특성이나 기만 기법에 대한 연구는 미비하다. 본 논문에서는 기만 신호의 구조와 기만 개념을 연구하였으며 기만신호의 생성 기법으로 항법 메시지를 이용한 기법과 GPS PRN 코드를 이용하여 TOA(Time of Arrival)에 오차를 인가하는 기법을 정리하고 이중 TOA에 오차를 인가하는 방식을 GPS 소프트웨어 플랫폼에 구현하여 기만신호를 생성하였다. 또한 기만 신호 대응 기법의 개발 텐 성능 분석을 위하여 소프트웨어 GPS 수신기를 이용하여 생성한 기만 신호가 GPS 수신기에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.138-144
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• 2017

A method for improving the integrated navigation performance in the INS/GPS navigation system by the considering that the condition that the geometric arrangement of the satellite is degraded due to limitation of the line of sight of the satellite such as geographic feature and GPS signal jamming is proposed. A variable covariance extended Kalman filter (VCEKF) that correlated to the measured covariance to the DOP of GPS is suggested. The navigation performance of integrated navigation system using EKF and VCEKF is analyzed by Monte-Carlo simulations. The result is verified that VCEKF has better estimation performance than EKF using fixed covariance on condition that DOP value is larger than the smaller value.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.291-296
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• 2021

Recently, the dual-polarized antenna array has drawn attention due to the dependency of its signal processing gain on the signal polarization. Even though this polarization dependency makes it possible to mitigate a non-right-hand circularly polarized (non-RHCP) jamming signal from the same direction as a GPS signal, the dual-polarized antennas are not yet widely used for various applications. This study suggests a method that can acquire the polarization dependency of the signal-processing gain by intentionally misaligning antenna elements in a single-polarized antenna array. The simulation results show that the proposed method can successfully mitigate a non-RHCP jammer from the same direction as a GPS signal as if a dual-polarized antenna array does and provide comparable signal-to-jammer-plus-noise ratio (SJNR) performance with a completely aligned single-polarized antenna array and a dual-polarized antenna array.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2019

GPS 항법 시스템은 재밍(jamming)에 취약한 것으로 알려져 있다. 실제로 2010년부터 북한은 서해상과 수도권에 GPS 전파교란 공격을 감행, 운행 중이던 선박과 항공기의 네비게이션 등에 다수의 장애현상을 유발시켰다. 이것에 대한 대안으로 eLoran(enhanced Long Range Navigation)이 GPS 항법 시스템을 보완할 수 있다고 알려져 있다. 이에 따라 해양수산부(MOF)는 기존 포항·광주 로란-C 송신국에 UTC(Coordinated Universal Time) 기반의 시각동기시스템 구축하여 지상파 eLoran 시스템으로 활용하기 위한 eLoran 사업을 진행하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 포항·광주 로란-C 송신국에 UTC(Coordinated Universal Time) 기반의 시각동기시스템을 구축하기 위한 요구 사항을 살펴보고, 이 요구 사항에 따른 포항·광주 로란-C 시각동기시스템의 구축 결과에 대해 기술하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.499-506
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• 2015

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) is operating widely in civil and military area. GNSS signals, however, can be easily interfered because its signal is vulnerable to jamming. Thus, a sort of backup or alternative system is needed in order that the navigation performance is assured to a certain degree in case of GNSS jamming. In order to suggest a series of backup or alternative system of regional navigation, in this paper, we introduced a high altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (HALE UAV) with pseudolites using inverted GPS and transceiver system. We simulated the positioning error of the regional navigation system using HALE UAV with inverted GPS or transceivers concepts. We estimated the position error of HALE UAV calculate user position errors based on the position error of HALE UAV and general pseudorange error.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.616-624
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• 2013

When jamming signal is received, there would be malfunctions in GPS-based precise location systems. Especially, in aviation fields, these malfunctions may lead to more serious damages. Naturally, there are some research results about the prevention or location method for one jammer, but it is hard to identify and obtain measurements when multiple and various type signals are received. Therefore, we propose a method of identification and measurements acquisition algorithm in order to localize the multiple jammers which transmit CW, DSSS and SCW type signals. Also, a computer simulation is carried out so as to validate the feasibility of the proposed method by using MATLAB. From the simulation results, it is confirmed that the proposed method successfully identified the signal type and acquired the measurements of CW, DSSS and SCW type signals.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2020

As a countermeasure against the threat of jamming which can disrupt operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, various kinds of technique to estimate the Direction-Of-Arrivals (DOAs) of incoming jamming signals have been widely studied, and among them, the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm is known to provide very high resolution. However, since the previous studies regarding the MUSIC algorithm does not consider the orientation of each antenna element of antenna arrays, there is a possibility that DOA estimation performance degrades in the case of a misaligned antenna array whose antenna elements are not oriented along the same direction. As an effort to solve this problem, there exists a previous work which presents an MUSIC-based method for DOA estimation. However, the error between the real and measured values of each antenna orientation is not taken into consideration. Therefore, in this paper, the effect of the aforementioned error on the DOA estimation performance in the case of a misaligned antenna array is analyzed by simulations.