• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2018

A trajectory control system plays an important role in controlling motions of marine vehicle when a series of way points or a path is given. In this paper, a sliding mode control (SMC)-based trajectory tracking controller for marine vehicles is presented. A small-sized unmanned ship is considered as a control object. Both speed and heading angle of a ship should be controlled for tracking control. The common point of related researches was to separate ship's speed and heading angle in control methods. In this research, a new control law from a general sliding mode theory that can be applied to MIMO (multi input multi output) system is derived and both speed and heading angle of a ship can be controlled simultaneously. The propulsion force and rudder force are also applied in modeling stage to achieve accurate simulation. Disturbance induced by wind is also tackled in the dynamics considering robustness of the proposed control scheme. In the simulation, we employed a way-point method to generate ship's trajectory and applied the proposed control scheme to ship's trajectory tracking control. Our results confirmed that the tracking error was converged to zero, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2015

For the tracking of the way-points of hovering AUV (HAUV), we suggest a simple PID controller. The way-points are designed to approach to a virtual underwater structure and the heading angles at each way-point are set to look at the structure in the face. The proposed controller consists of a vertical controller to maintain the depth and pitch angle, and a horizontal controller to move to the desired position as well as to adjust the heading angle of the HAUV. In the simulation using Matlab/Simulink, the HAUV with the proposed PID controller is shown to track all the way-points within 1 m range while maintaining proper heading angle at each way-point.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2016

An Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) can calculate attitude and heading information with long-term accuracy and stability by combining gyro, accelerometer, and magnetic compass signals. Motivated by this characteristic of the AHRS, this paper presents a Motion-Tracking and Localization (MTL) method for a person or walking robot using multi-AHRSs. Five AHRSs are attached to the two calves, two thighs, and waist of a person/walking robot. Joints, links, and coordinate frames are defined on the body. The outputs of the AHRSs are integrated with link data. In addition, a supporting foot is distinguished from a moving foot. With this information, the locations of the joints on the local coordinate frame are calculated. The experimental results show that the presented MTL method can track the motion of and localize a person/walking robot with long-term accuracy in an infra-less environment.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2019

유선통신의 사용이 제한되는 상황에서의 통신방법으로 널리 활용되는 위성통신(SATCOM)은 정지궤도위성을 사용하여 통신하기 때문에, 우주 공간의 크게 변하지 않는 한 지점으로 통신용 안테나를 지향시킴으로써 통신할 수 있다. 지상에 설치되어 움직이지 않는 안테나를 위성에 지향시키기 위해서는 안테나가 위치한 위도, 경도, 고도에서 앙각, 방위각과 같은 위성지향각도를 아는 것이 중요하다. 더욱이 비행기와 같이 움직이는 물체위에 탑재된 안테나를 이용하여 위성을 지향 할 경우 지향각도의 계산은 필수적이다. 본 연구는 정지궤도 위성을 지향하기 위해 필요한 안테나 앙각과 방위각의 계산방법을 제시하고 그 방법에 따라서 한반도 지표상의 위경도에 따라서 어떤 지향각도가 요구되는지 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 그리고 시뮬레이션 결과를 검증하기 위하여 모노펄스 신호(Monopulse Signal)를 이용하여 위성을 지향하는 위성통신 안테나를 비행기에 탑재하여 안테나의 위치에 따라서 지향각도가 어떻게 변하는지 실험적으로 확인하였다. 이 결과를 시뮬레이션과 비교해 봄으로써 위성통신 안테나의 지향에 필요한 앙각과 방위각의 시뮬레이션의 정확도를 확인하였고, 추가적으로 필요한 안테나 편파각의 계산에 대한 방향을 제시하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2019

Motion tracking and localization devices are an important building block of motion tracking systems in a virtual reality (VR) environment. This study is about improving the accuracy of motion and location for enhancing user immersion in experience type VR environment to position tracking technique. In this study, we propose and test a design of such a device. The module data test of the attitude and heading reference system shows that the implementation with the MPU-9250 sensor is successful and adequate to be used with short operation time. We consider various sensor hardware dependencies of VR, and compare various correction methods and filtering methods to lower the motion to photon (MTP) time that user movement is fully reflected on the display using sensor devices. The Kalman filter is used to combine the accelerometer with the gyroscope in the sensing unit.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2009

워터젯이 탑재된 RIB(Rigid Inflatable Boat)형태의 무인수상선을 인한 경유점 추적 제어 알고리즘을 설계하였고, 성능 검증을 위해 실해역 시험을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 RIB형 무인수상선의 경유점 추적제어를 위해서는 방향제어를 위해 버킷각을 제어하여야 한다. 우선, 육상 관제소에 미리 입력된 경유점들의 위경도 등의 위치정보들을 바탕으로, 목표 방향각을 실시간 계산한다. 그리고, 무인수상선에 탑재된 마그네틱 콤파스 등의 센서로부터 받은 선수각 및 선수각속도의 값과 PD 제어기법을 이용하여, 버킷각 명령을 실시간 계산한다. 본 연구에서는, 바람 등의 외력으로 인한 표류각을 보정하기 위해 일정속도 이상에서는 실침로(Course Of Ground, COG)를 사용하였다. 또한, 설계된 경유점 추적 제어 알고리즘을 검증하기 위해 부산 광안대교 근처 해역에서 육상관제소를 설치하고, 실선 시험을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는, 설계된 무인 경유점 추적 제어 알고리즘의 시험결과를, 유인으로 제어한 결과 및 상용추적제어기로 제어한 결과들과 비교 분석하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.495-500
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• 2013

This paper proposes a double sliding surfaces based on a sliding mode control for a tracking control of nonholonomic mobile robots in the Cartesian coordinates. In order to remove sliding surface constraints, we design the additional sliding surface for the heading angle with respect to the newly defined coordinates. Then, we define the switching law based on the posture error to combine the designed sliding surface with the previous one. By using the double sliding surfaces and the switching law, we obtain the control law for arbitrary trajectories. It is proved that the position tracking error and the heading direction error asymptotically converge to zero, respectively, with the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, through computer simulations, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control system.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권6호
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• pp.852-862
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• 2013

This paper proposes a target tracking control method for wheeled mobile robots with nonholonomic constraints by using a backstepping-like feedback linearization. For the target tracking, we apply a vision system to mobile robots to obtain the relative posture information between the mobile robot and the target. The robots do not use the sensors to obtain the velocity information in this paper and therefore assumed the unknown velocities of both mobile robot and target. Instead, the proposed method uses only the maximum velocity information of the mobile robot and target. First, the pseudo command for the forward linear velocity and the heading direction angle are designed based on the kinematics by using the obtained image information. Then, the actual control inputs are designed to make the actual forward linear velocity and the heading direction angle follow the pseudo commands. Through simulations and experiments for the mobile robot we have confirmed that the proposed control method is able to track target even when the velocity sensors are not used at all.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.170-179
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• 1997

This paper presents a hybrid navigation system for AUV to locate its position precisely in rough sea. The tracking system is composed of various sensors such as an inclinometer, a tri-axis magnetometer, a flow meter, and a super short baseline(SSBL) acoustic position tracking system. Due to the inaccuracy of the attitude sensors, the heading sensor and the flowmeter, the predicted position slowly drifts and the estimation error of position becomes larger. On the other hand, the measured position is liable to change abruptly due to the corrupted data of the SSBL system in the case of low signal to noise ratio or large ship motions. By introducing a sensor fusion technique with the position data of the SSBL system and those of the attitude heading flowmeter reference system (AHFRS), the hybrid navigation system updates the three-dimensional position robustly. A Kalman filter algorithm is derived on the basis of the error models for the flowmeter dynamics with the use of the external measurement from the SSBL. A failure detection algorithm decides the confidence degree of external measurement signals by using a fuzzy inference. Simulation is included to demonstrate the validity of the hybrid navigation system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.617-625
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• 2015

In this paper, a steering control system for the path tracking of autonomous vehicles is described. The steering control system consists of a path tracker and primitive driver. The path tracker generates the desired steering angle by using the look-ahead distance, vehicle heading, and a lateral offset. A method for applying an autonomous vehicle to path tracking is an advanced pure pursuit method that can reduce cutting corners, which is a weakness of the pure pursuit method. The steering controller controls the steering actuator to follow the desired steering angle. A servo motor is installed to control the steering handle, and it can transmit the steering force using a belt and pulley. We designed a steering controller that is applied to a proportional integral differential controller. However, because of a dead band, the path tracking performance and stability of autonomous vehicles are reduced. To overcome the dead band, a dead band compensator was developed. As a result of the compensator, the path tracking performance and stability are improved.