• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.342-351
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• 2012

Purpose: Aerial spraying with an agricultural unmanned helicopter became a new paradigm in the agricultural practice. Laterally tilting behavior of a conventional agricultural helicopter, resulting in the biased down-wash and uneven spray deposit is a physically intrinsic phenomenon while hovering and cruise flights. Authors studied and developed a roll-balanced agricultural helicopter with a raised pylon tail rotor system. In this study, the attitude of the roll-balanced helicopter was determined using the Kalman filter algorithm, and the quality of roll balancing of a bare-airframe helicopter was evaluated. Methods: Instantaneous attitudes were estimated using the advantage of gyroscope, followed by the long term correction and prediction using accelerometer data for the advantage of convergence. The attitudes of the fuselage were calculated by applying the Kalman filter algorithm. The spraying maneuver of the helicopter was performed at a field of 50 m long, and the attitude data were acquired and evaluated. Results: The determination of attitude using the inertial measurement unit(IMU) and Kalman filter was reliable and practical. The intrinsic attitude of the developed helicopter was stable and roll-balanced. The deviation of roll angle was ${\pm}6.3^{\circ}$ with an average of $0^{\circ}$, referring to roll-balanced. Conclusions: Handling quality of the roll attitude determined to be steadily balanced. The balancing behavior of the developed helicopter would result in an even spray pattern during aerial application.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.291-298
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• 2020

수화는 청각 장애인이 다른 사람들과 의사소통할 수 있도록 설계된 것이다. 그러나 수화는 충분히 대중화되어 있지 않기 때문에 청각 장애인이 수화를 통해서 일반 사람들과 원활하게 의사소통하는 것은 쉽지 않은 문제이다. 이러한 문제점에 착안하여 본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨팅 및 딥러닝 기반 미국식 수화인식 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 이를 위해서 본 연구에서는 손등과 손가락에 장착되는 총 6개의 IMUs(Inertial Measurement Unit) 센서로 구성된 시스템을 구현하고 이를 이용한 실험을 수행하여 156개 특징이 수집된 데이터 추출을 통해서 총 28개 단어에 대한 미국식 수화 인식 방법을 제안하였다. 특히 LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) 알고리즘을 사용하여 최대 99.89%의 정확도를 달성할 수 있었고 향후 청각 장애인들의 의사소통에 큰 도움이 될 것으로 예상된다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.566-573
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• 2014

This paper presents the results of an integrated navigation performance analysis for selecting the sensor of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) using Monte Carlo numerical simulation. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) and Doppler velocity log (DVL) are considered to build the integrated navigation system. The position error and price of the sensor are selected as performance indices to evaluate the volunteer integrated navigation systems. Monte-Carlo simulation is introduced to analyze the circular error probability (CEP) and its variance. Simulation results provide the proper sensor combination for integrated navigation in relation to the performance and price.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2020

This paper describes a method for tracking attitude and position of underwater robots. Underwater work with underwater robots is subject to differences in work efficiency depending on the skill of the operator and the utilization of additional sensors. Therefore, this study developed an underwater robot that can operate autonomously and maintain a certain attitude when working underwater to reduce difference of work efficiency. The developed underwater robot uses 8 thrusters to control 6 degrees of freedom motion, IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), DVL (Doppler Velocity Log) and PS (Pressure Sensor) to measure attitude and position. In addition, the thruster allocation algorithm was designed to follow the control desired value using 8 thrusters, and the motion control experiments were performed in the engineering water basin using the thruster allocation method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2007

A coaxial rotor flying robot is developed for surveying and reconnoitering various circumstances under calamity environment. The robot has two contrarotating rotors on a common axis, an embedded microcontroller, an IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), an IR sensor for height control, a micro camera for surveillance, ultrasonic position sensors and wireless communication devices. A bell-bar mounted on the top of the upper rotor hub increases stability and improves flight performance. In this paper, we present a dynamic model of a coaxial rotor flying robot and design an embedded controller far the robot, and implement them to control the developed flying robot. Experimental results show that the proposed controller is valid for autonomous hovering and position control.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.351-358
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• 2006

The proposed inertial measurement unit (IMU) is composed of accelerometers only. It can determine a vehicle's position and attitude, which is the Gyro-free INS. The Gyro-free INS error is deeply affected by the sensor bias, scale factor and misalignment. However, these parameters can be obtained in the laboratory. After these misalignments are corrected, the Gyro-free strap-down INS could be more accurate. This paper presents a compensator design for the strap-down six-accelerometer INS to correct misalignment. A calibration experiment is taken to get the error parameters. A simulation results show that it will decrease the INS error to enhance the performance after compensation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.617-624
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• 2010

This article describes the system architecture of KUVE (KIST Unmanned Vehicle Electric) and unmanned autonomous navigation of it in KIST. KUVE, which is an electric light-duty vehicle, is equipped with two laser range finders, a vision camera, a differential GPS system, an inertial measurement unit, odometers, and control computers for autonomous navigation. KUVE estimates and tracks the boundary of road such as curb and line using a laser range finder and a vision camera. It follows predetermined trajectory if there is no detectable boundary of road using the DGPS, IMU, and odometers. KUVE has over 80% of success rate of autonomous navigation in KIST.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제33권9호
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• pp.603-608
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• 2009

In this paper, a 3m-class free running model ship will be introduced with its manoeuvring performance experiments. The results of turning circle test and zig-zag test will be explained. The developed system are equipped with GPS, main control computer, wireless LAN, IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), self-propulsion propeller and driving rudder. Its motion can be controlled by RC (Radio Control) and wireless LAN from land based center. Automatic navigation is also available by pre-programmed algorithm. The trajectory of navigation can be acquired by GPS and it provides us with important data for ship's motion control experiments. The results of manoeuvring performance experiment have shown that the developed free running model ship can be used to verify the test of turning circle and zig-zag. For next step, other experimental researches such as ship collision avoidance system and automatic berthing can be considered in the future.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2010

This study shows the path generation algorithm for an UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle). The developed UGV frame which has a 4-wheel driven mechanism and diesel source is applied. Proposed vehicle system in this research is aimed to military purpose. To achieve the unmanned autonomous driving, following two main issues are considered. First, behavior module for positioning and posture of vehicle system and second, cognition module to receive the information from environment are proposed and verified. To do this, rover which can acquire the positioning information from earth coordinate and IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) which can measure the posture are combined to design the path planning algorithm.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.663-670
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 건물이 혼재한 준 도심 지역에서 발생할 수 있는 재난/재해를 가정하여 네트워크 RTK (Real Time Kinematic) 측위가 가능한 무인기를 이용한 항공삼각측량의 정확도를 평가하였다. 검사점 측위의 신뢰성을 확보하기 위해 검사점을 건물의 옥상에 설치하여 네 시간 이상의 GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) 정적 측위를 수행하였다. 객관적인 정확도 평가를 위해 소프트웨어에서 자동으로 인식 가능한 코드화된 대공 타겟을 사용하였다. 무인기에서는 네트워크 RTK 측위의 일종인 VRS (Virtual Reference Station) 방식을 이용하여 영상 취득 당시 카메라의 3차원 좌표를 측정하였고, IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit)와 짐벌 회전각 측정을 통해 카메라의 3축 회전각을 측정하였다. Agisoft Metashape를 이용하여 내·외부 표정요소를 추정·갱신한 결과, 항공삼각측량의 3차원 RMSE (Root Mean Square Error)는 영상의 중복도와 촬영 각도의 조합에 따라 크게는 0.153 m에서 작게는 0.102 m로 나타났다. 더욱 높은 수준의 항공삼각측량 정확도를 확보하기 위해서는 연직 영상의 중복도를 높이는 것이 일반적이나 경사 영상을 추가하는 것이 효과적인 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 대응 단계의 재난/재해 현장에서 긴급하게 무인기 매핑을 수행할 경우 중복도를 높이기 보다는 경사 영상도 함께 취득할 필요가 있다.