• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2013

This paper surveyed & analyzed the career path of the 586 female cadets who graduated from the Korea Maritime University. According to the analysis, 154 graduates have the seafaring experience onboard, while 432 have no chance to work onboard. The figure indicated that one of the challenge is the number of female maritime officers who can engage in the boarding works was relatively limited. However, it is significant implication that about 80% of the graduate have been employed in a maritime industry including shipping, shipbuilding, public sectors and etc.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.557-565
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• 2021

Path-following control is considered as one of the most fundamental skills to realize autonomous navigation of marine vessels in the ocean. This study addresses with the path-following control for a ship in which there are environmental disturbances in the directions of the surge, sway, and yaw motions. The guiding principle and back-stepping method was utilized to solve the ship's tracking problem on the reference path generated by a virtual ship. For path-following control, error dynamics is one of the most important skills, and it extends to the research fields of automatic collision avoidance and automatic berthing control. The algorithms for the guiding principles and error variables have been verified by numerical simulation. As a result, most error variables converged to zero values with the controller except for the yaw angle error. One of the most interesting results is that the tracking errors of path-following control between two ships are smaller than the existing safe passing distances considering interaction forces from near passing ships. Moreover, a trade-off between tracking performance and the ship's safety should be considered for determining the proper control parameters to prevent the destructive failure of actuators such as propellers, fins, and rudders during the path-following of marine vessels.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.554-561
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• 2022

Technology development related to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) is actively progressing around the world. However, since there are still many technically unresolved problems such as communication, cybersecurity, and emergency response capabilities, it is expected that it will take a lot of time for MASS to be commercialized. In this study, we proposed a ship group navigation system in which one leader ship and several follower ship are grouped into one group. In this system, when the leader ship begins to navigate, the follower ship autonomously follows the path of the leader ship. For path following, PD (proportional-derivative) control is applied. In addition, each ship navigates in a straight line shape while maintaining a safe distance to prevent collisions. Speed control was implemented to maintain a safe distance between ships. Simulations were performed to verify the ship group navigation system. The ship used in the simulation is the L-7 model of KVLCC2, which has related data disclosed. And the MMG (Maneuvering Modeling Group) standard method proposed by the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineering (JASNAOE) was used as a model of ship maneuvering motion. As a result of the simulation, the leader ship navigated along a predetermined route, and the follower ship navigated along the leader ship's path. During the simulation, it was found that the three ships maintained a straight line shape and a safe distance between them. The ship group navigation system is expected to be used as a navigation system to solve the problems of MASS.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1057-1058
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• 2008

In this paper, the algorithm and the computer simulation of a effective homing navigation system are presented. it is a combination of Path integration by using population coding and neural network and simple avoidance obstacle algorithm. Also, through the computer simulation, we demonstrated the feasibility of the suggested method.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1441-1448
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• 2016

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.401-407
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• 2016

This paper introduces 3-dimensional path planning and guidance including power model for high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAV using solar energy. Dubins curve used in this paper has advantage of being directly available to apply path planning. However, most of the path planning problems using Dubins curve are defined in a two-dimensional plan. So, we used 3-dimensional Dubins path generation algorithm which was studied by Randal W. Beard. The aircraft model which used in this paper does not have an aileron. So we designed lateral controller by using a rudder. And then, we were conducted path tracking simulations by using a nonlinear path tracking algorithm. We generate examples according to altitude conditions. From the path tracking simulation results, we confirm that the path tracking is well on the flight path. Finally, we were modeling the power system of HALE UAVs and conducting path tracking simulation during 48hours. Modeling the amount of power generated by the solar cell through the calculation of the solar energy yield. And, we show the 48hours path tracking simulation results.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.224-233
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• 2000

An important feature of virtual reality is the facility for the user to move around a virtual environment in a natural and easily controlled manner, Navigation. Navigation involves changing the perspective of the user in the virtual environment (VE). Natural locomotion methods are able to contribute to a sense of presence and reality. This paper focuses on the navigation method in the virtual environment, one of the major interfaces for the interactivity between human and virtual environments in virtual reality circumstances and worlds. It proposes a new navigation method: Intelligent Cruise-Control Navigation (ICCN), which provides a natural and user-centered navigation method in virtual environment and can improve the reality and the presence. Intelligent Cruise-Control Navigation is composed of three major phases: Constant Velocity Navigation, Collision Detection and Avoidance, and Path Adjustment. The ICCN can reduce the user's fatigue and improve the user's presence and reality in the virtual environment. Through the experimental study it has been determined that the ICCN will be a natural, straightforward, and useful interface in VE.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.454-461
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• 2005

Car navigation system which is killer application fuses map management techniques into CPS techniques. Even if the existing navigation systems are designed for the shortest path, they are not able to cope efficiently with the change of the traffic flow and the bottleneck point of road. Therefore, it is necessary to find out shortest path algorithm based on time instead of distance which takes traffic information into consideration. In this paper, we propose a optimal path search algorithm based on the traffic information. More precisely. we introduce the system architecture for finding out optimal paths, and the limitations of the existing shortest path search algorithm are also analyzed. And then, we propose a new algorithm for finding out optimal path to make good use of the orientation of the collected traffic information.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.35-48
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Heuristic to reduce the number of node accesses and improve quality of path in the client-based navigation service. The Dynamic Heuristic is to use heuristic data from server that is calculated with traffic data. The server-based navigation service provides a path searched on server and transmits it to client, but we propose that server only provide heuristic data to client. The proposed client searches a path with heuristic transmitted data from server. We present a new algorithm for using Dynamic Heuristic in the path-finding. The algorithm bases Grid Based Path-Finding, and has minimum speed data of edges in grid. It removes several grids whose minimum speed is less than limited speed.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.11-15
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• 2015

Purpose - Robot path planning, a constrained optimization problem, has been an active research area with many methods developed to tackle it. This study proposes the use of a Rapidly-exploring Random Tree and Particle Swarm Optimizer algorithm for path planning. Research design, data, and methodology - The grid method is built to describe the working space of the mobile robot, then the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree algorithm is applied to obtain the global navigation path and the Particle Swarm Optimizer algorithm is adopted to obtain the best path. Results - Computer experiment results demonstrate that this novel algorithm can rapidly plan an optimal path in a cluttered environment. Successful obstacle avoidance is achieved, the model is robust, and performs reliably. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through simulation studies. Conclusions - The findings could provide insights to the validity and practicability of the method. This method makes it is easy to build a model and meet real-time demand for mobile robot navigation with a simple algorithm, which results in a certain practical value for distribution environments.