• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.180-187
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• 2010

In this paper, a GNSS-based AGV system was designed, and steering tested on a golf cart using electric wires in order to confirm the control efficiency of the low speed vehicle which used only position information of GNSS. After analyzed the existing AGVs system, we developed controller and steering algorithm using GNSS based position information. To analyze the performance of the developed controller and steering algorithm, straight-type and circle-type trajectory test are executed. The results show that steering performance of GNSS-based AGV system is ${\pm}\;0.2m$ for a reference trajectory.

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2017

The cycle time of construction equipment for earthwork operations has a significant impact on project productivity. Elements that directly impact a haul vehicle's cycle time must be identified in order to accurately quantify the haul cycle time and implement strategies to decrease it. The objective of this research is to scientifically identify and quantify variables that have a significant impact on the cycle time of a dump truck used for earthwork. Real-time location data collected by GPS devices deployed in an active earthwork moving construction site was analyzed using statistical regression. External data including environmental components and haul road conditions were also collected periodically throughout the study duration. Several statistical analyses including a variance analysis and regression analysis were completed on the dump truck location data. Collected data was categorized by stage of the dump truck cycle. Results indicate that a dump truck's enter idle time, exit idle time, moving speed and driver visibility can significantly impact the dump truck cycle time. The contribution of this research is the identification and analysis of statistically significant correlations of variables within the cycle time.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.10
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• pp.56-65
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• 1999

This paper presents an architecture and its instruction set for a graphic coprocessor(GCP) which can be used for a multimedia server. The proposed instruction set employs parallel architecture concepts, such as SIMD and Superscalar. GCP consists of a scheduler and four functional units. The scheduler solves an instruction bottleneck problem causing by sharing with four general processors(GPs). GCP can execute up to 4 instructions in parallel. It consists of about 56,000 gates and operates at 30 MHz clock frequency due to speed limitation of SOG technology. GCP meets the real-time DCT algorithm requirement of the CIF image format and can process up to 63 frames/sec for the DCT Algorithm and 21 frames/sec for the Full Block matching Algorithm of the CIF image format.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.440-448
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• 2015

A pedestrian collision warning system which makes a judgement of pedestrian's intention to help avoiding hitting accidents is proposed. This system uses the image sequences obtained from a car black box as well as vehicle's speed obtained from a GPS. It detects pedestrians, if any, based on the Histogram of Gradient method and extracts several information such as the pedestrian's relative positions, the direction of motion vectors, and distance between vehicle and pedestrian . A fuzzy logic based on these extracted information is applied to analyze the pedestrian's safety levels. When the safety level is determined to be danger, an alarm is triggered to the driver. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested under various driving scenarios, which shows it works successfully in real-time.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.79-84
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• 2011

In this paper, we analyzed performance of vehicle detection for ITS (Intelligent Transport System) applications. We simulated the vehicle detection at Hi-Pass System is based on DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication). DSRC is a wireless network using ITS, including GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites in conjunction with the national transportation system. The system performance is evaluated in terms of bit error probability. In the simulation, the vehicle speed is set at 60 km/h and carrier frequency is 5.8 GHz. Wireless channel is modeled as the Rician fading channel. In the transmitter, the ASK (amplitude shift keying) modulation scheme is applied. From simulation results, we confirmed that performance of applied Alamouti scheme is better than other systems.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.89-100
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• 1996

A new stage-sliced pipiline structure is presented to design a high speed real time Global Positional Systems(GPS) applications. The CORDIC algorothm was revised to generate a pipeline structure, which will be used to produce a large amount of trigonometric computations rapidly. A stage-sliced approach was introduced to adjust the number of interative processes, and thereby to control the precision of computation results. Both the computation and the control circuits of the proposed architecture are included in a pipeline stage, which are intergrated into a stage slice. The circuit was prototyped using six FPGA chips : one is used for glue logics and five of the chips are used for pipeline slice implementation. A single FPGA chip comprising 7 pipeline stages provides one pipeline slice. To compensate and inter-slice time delay, dummy cycles are introduced in inter-slice signal exchanges.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.387-400
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• 2015

A fuzzy logic based mobile robot navigation system was developed to improve the driving ability without trapping inside obstacles in complex terrains, which is one of the most concerns in robot navigation in unknown terrains. The navigation system utilizes the data from ultrasonic sensors to recognize the distances from obstacles and the position information from a GPS sensor. The fuzzy navigation system has two groups of behavior rules, and the robot chooses one of them based on the information from sensors while navigating for the targets. In plain terrains the robot with the proposed algorithm uses one rule group consisting of behavior rules for avoiding obstacle, target steering, and following edge of obstacle. Once trap is detected the robot uses the other rule group consisting of behavior rules strengthened for following edge of obstacle. The output signals from navigation system control the speed of two wheels of the robot through the fuzzy logic data process. The test was conducted in the Matlab based mobile robot simulator developed in this study, and the results show that escaping ability from obstacle is improved.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.24-30
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• 2017

This paper presents the development of laser scanner based static obstacle detection algorithm for vehicle localization on lane lost section. On urban autonomous driving, vehicle localization is based on lane information, GPS and digital map is required to ensure. However, in actual urban roads, the lane data may not come in due to traffic jams, intersections, weather conditions, faint lanes and so on. For lane lost section, lane based localization is limited or impossible. The proposed algorithm is designed to determine the lane existence by using reliability of front vision data and can be utilized on lane lost section. For the localization, the laser scanner is used to distinguish the static object through estimation and fusion process based on the speed information on radar data. Then, the laser scanner data are clustered to determine if the object is a static obstacle such as a fence, pole, curb and traffic light. The road boundary is extracted and localization is performed to determine the location of the ego vehicle by comparing with digital map by detection algorithm. It is shown that the localization using the proposed algorithm can contribute effectively to safe autonomous driving.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1136-1137
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• 2006

통합항해시스템이라 함은 자동화된 선박의 운용에 관한 것으로, 다양한 항해 센서(GPS, Gyro, Speed Log, echo sounder)를 이용하여 선박의 항해에 필요한 각종 정보를 입수하여 최적의 항로를 설정해주고, 운항의 안정성과 효율을 극대화시키는 시스템을 지칭한다. 즉, 선박의 운항에 필요한 다수의 모듈들을 독립적으로 운용하는 것이 아니라 이를 통합된 형태로 운용하여 효율을 극대화시키는 시스템이 통합항해시스템이라 할 수 있다. 통합항해시스템은 다양한 항해 센서들과 항해 시스템으로 구성되며, 다양한 항해 데이터들은 항해 센서로부터 수신하여 처리하는 동작을 수행한다. 즉, 통합항해시스템은 다수의 센서들로부터 수신된 정보를 평가하고 잠재적 위험과 무결성 저하에 대해서는 적절한 경고를 제공하여야한다. 따라서, 항해센서 데이터의 유효성(Validity) 및 모호성(Plausibility) 검사와 무결성 감시(Integrity Monitoring)는 통합항해시스템의 필수적 기능이라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 IEC 61924 규격에 의한 항해센서로부터 수신된 항해데이터가 정확하고 유효함을 가지는 지에 대한 가치평가의 척도와 독립적인 데이터 소스로부터 데이터를 비교하여 검증하는 무결성, 정확도 이내의 정보를 완전하고 명확한 방법으로 사용자에게 제공하는 무결성 감시의 방법을 제시하며, 항해센서들에 의해 취득되는 항해 데이터의 무결성 검사를 통한 유효성, 적용가능성, 무결성의 평가방법을 기술한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.242-247
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• 2008

As an absolute positioning system, iGS is designed based on ultrasonic signals whose speed can be formulated clearly in terms of time and room temperature, which is utilized for a mobile robot localization. The iGS is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter, where an RFID is designated to synchronize the transmitter and receiver of the ultrasonic signal. The traveling time of the ultrasonic signal has been used to calculate the distance between the iGS system and a beacon which is located at a pre-determined location. This paper suggests an effective operation method of iGS to estimate position of the mobile robot working in unstructured environment. To expand recognition range and to improve accuracy of the system, two strategies are proposed: utilization of beacons belonging to neighboring blocks and removal of the environment-reflected ultrasonic signals. As the results, the ubiquitous localization system based on iGS as a pseudo-satellite system has been developed successfully with a low cost, a high update rate, and relatively high precision.