• 한국측량학회지
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• 제31권6_2호
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• pp.539-547
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• 2013

This research is suggesting the most effective positioning method for GPS based positioning when no GPS reference point is available in the neighborhood. For this purpose, we carried out positioning of the IGS realtime observatories in Australia in various conditions. According to the research, we were certainly assured the one reference point with a short baseline length is more effective for differential positioning than multiple reference points with a long baseline distance beyond 1,000km and suggested the precise point positioning based positioning method can be an excellent substitute when no reference point is available around an unknown point. The research result may be used as the basic data for accurate positioning in poor reference point environments, especially in Antarctica.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.277-280
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• 2008

Enhancing the positioning precision is the primary pursuit of GPS users. To achieve this goal, most studies have focused on the relationship between GPS receiver clock errors and GPS positioning precision. This study utilizes undifferentiated phase data to calculate GPS clock errors and to compare with the frequency of cesium clock directly, thus verifying estimated clock errors by the method used in this paper. The relative frequency offsets from this paper and from National Standard Time and Frequency Laboratory of Taiwan match to $1.5{\times}10^{12}$ in the frequency instability, suggesting that the proposed technique has reached a certain level of quality. The built-in quartz clocks in the GPS receivers yield relative frequency offsets that are 3 to 4 orders higher than those of rubidium clocks. The frequency instability of the quartz clocks is on average two orders worse than that of the rubidium clock. Using the rubidium clock instead of the quartz clock, the horizontal and vertical positioning accuracies were improved by 26-78% (0.6-3.6 mm) and 20-34% (1.3-3.0 mm), respectively, for a short baseline. These improvements are 7-25% (0.3-1.7 mm) and 11% (1.7 mm) for a long baseline. Our experiments show that the frequency instability of clock, rather than relative frequency offset, is the governing factor of positioning accuracy.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.157-166
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• 2023

Several experiments were carried out to analyze the impact of the modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) L2C signal on pseudorange-based point positioning. Three dual-frequency positioning algorithms, ionosphere-free linear combination, ionospheric error estimation, and simple integration, were used, and the results were compared with those of Standard Point Positioning (SPP). An analysis was conducted to determine the characteristics of each dual-frequency positioning method, the impact of the magnitude of ionospheric error, and receiver grade. Ionosphere-free and ionospheric error estimation methods can provide improved positioning accuracy relative to SPP because they are able to significantly reduce the ionospheric error. However, this result was possible only when the ionospheric error reduction effect was greater than the disadvantage of these dual-frequency positioning algorithms such as the increment of multipath and noise, impact of uncertainty of unknown parameter estimation. The RMSE of the simple integration algorithm was larger than that of SPP, because of the remaining ionospheric error. Even though the receiver grade was different, similar results were observed.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2016

This study developed an approach for improving Carrier-phase Differential Global Positioning System (CDGPS) based realtime satellite relative navigation by applying laser baseline measurement data. The robustness against the space operational environment was considered, and a Synthetic Wavelength Interferometer (SWI) algorithm based on a femtosecond laser measurement model was developed. The phase differences between two laser wavelengths were combined to measure precise distance. Generated laser data were used to improve estimation accuracy for the float ambiguity of CDGPS data. Relative navigation simulations in real-time were performed using the extended Kalman filter algorithm. The GPS and laser-combined relative navigation accuracy was compared with GPS-only relative navigation solutions to determine the impact of laser data on relative navigation. In numerical simulations, the success rate of integer ambiguity resolution increased when laser data was added to GPS data. The relative navigational errors also improved five-fold and two-fold, relative to the GPS-only error, for 250 m and 5 km initial relative distances, respectively. The methodology developed in this study is suitable for application to future satellite formation-flying missions.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2011

2011년 3월 11일 일본 동북부 해양에서 규모 9.0의 강진이 발생했다. 이 지진은 근대적인 지진관측이 시작된 이래 일본 최대 규모로 미야기 현 센다이 동쪽 179km 지점에서 발생했으며, 지진과 해일로 인해 2만 7천여 명에 이르는 사상자가 발생하였다. 본 연구에서는 일본 IGS 상시관측소의 GPS 관측자료를 기반으로 Mizusawa, Tsukuba 및 Usuda 상시관측소의 지진변위량을 산출하였다. 관측자료의 처리는 온라인 GPS 자료처리 서비스와 정밀과학기술용 소프트웨어를 이용하였으며 정밀절대측위 및 싱대측위 방법으로 처리하였다. 온라인 GPS 자료처리 서비스를 이용한 Kinematic 정밀절대측위를 통해 지진 전 후 IGS 상시관측소의 위치변화를 모니터링하고, 정밀과학 기술용 소프트웨어를 이용한 상대측위 방법으로 지진 전 후의 정밀한 지진변위량을 산출하였다. 연구결과 각 성분별로 최대 ${\pm}0.003m$의 RMSE를 가지는 정밀한 좌표성과를 산출할 수 있었으며, 지진으로 인해 Mizusawa 상시관측소가 남동쪽으로 약 2.6m 이동하였음을 알 수 있었다.

• 정보화연구
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.441-448
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• 2014

최근 각 산업분야에서 공간정보의 구축은 물론 그 활용과 유통을 위한 다양한 노력들이 이루어지고 있다. 철도산업분야에서도 이러한 공간정보는 각 관련 주체간 협업 등을 원활하게 하고, 자산관리 및 철도운영 등의 효율성을 높일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 철도공간정보의 체계적인 활용을 위해 철도공간정보에 대한 참조체계 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 현재 철도는 상대위치 개념을 중심으로 모든 시설물 관리와 차량운행이 이루어지고 있다. 상대위치 기반의 관리체계는 많은 장점을 가지고 있으나, 선로 개량 등으로 선형 변화가 발생할 경우 변경된 지점을 중심으로 그 다음 위치들은 모두 상대위치를 변경하여야만 하는 어려움 또한 유발된다. 그리고 토목, 전기, 신호 등 철도의 각 분야에 속한 시설물들은 각각 다른 상대위치를 가지고 있기 때문에 협업의 어려움 또한 발생하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고, 철도산업 이외의 분야와 협업 및 정보 융복합 등을 위하여 절대위치 기반의 철도공간정보참조체계가 필수적이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 세계적으로 유일한 객체식별자를 가지는 OID표준을 기반으로 철도공간정보참조체계 식별자 ROID(Railway Object IDentifier)와 시스템 확장성 및 연계성이 높은 서비스 객체지향형 철도공간정보참조체계를 제안한다. ROID는 기존의 철도 시설물 관리체계를 유지하면서 절대위치와 함께 유일한 식별자 개념을 가질 수 있도록 구성된다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.576-582
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• 2022

In this paper, we discuss the relative positioning of Wh-related English prepositions in a Wh-interrogative construction within the Optimality Theory [1-2]. By employing the two key constraints such as ^*Prep-Str and Align which are developed for the positioning of Wh-related prepositions from Romance languages such as French and Italian [3] and for the positioning of Wh-related prepositions from the middle English prose from 1500 to 1900 [4-6], and by slightly modifying the constraint hierarchy of ^*Prep-STR >>Align into ^**PrepSTR <<>>Align, Choi argues that his new theory can properly explain the unique behaviors of English Whrelated prepositions being able to take two 'optional' operations such as pied-piping and stranding to find legitimate landing sites in a Wh-interrogative construction [7]. However, this new analysis again reveals the following critical problems: (1) Unlike the 'light' English Wh-related prepositions which can two optional operations for legitimate landing sites in a Wh-interrogative construction, 'heavy' Wh-related English prepositions are not allowed to have such two options: they take just one option of pied-piping only. Thus, (2) his argumentation based on the existing constraints and the modified constraint hierarchy is neither general enough nor proper to explain the issue of the relative positioning for all English Wh-related preposition cases. To include such exceptional syntactic property of the 'heavy' preposition cases within the Optimality Theory, we suggest a new constraint of ^*HPrep-STR ranked at the highest position of the constraint hierarchy to disallow a 'heavy' or multi-syllabic Wh-related English preposition to stay alone at the end of a sentence. The new final hierarchy of constraints we suggest to explain the exceptional positioning of 'heavy' Wh-related prepositions together with the other 'light' Wh-related prepositions in English Wh-interrogative construction will be as follows: ^*HPrep-STR>>Align<<>>^*Prep-STR.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.150-154
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• 2017

A novel high precision spatial positioning method utilizing the electromagnetic momentum, i.e., Electromagnetic Momentum Positioning (EMP), is proposed in this paper. By measuring the momentum of the electromagnetic field around the small current loop, the relative position between the sensor and the current loop is calculated. This method is particularly suitable for the application of close-range and high-precision positioning, e.g., data gloves and medical devices in personal healthcare, etc. The simulation results show that EMP method can give a high accuracy with the positioning error less than 1 mm, which is better than the traditional magnetic positioning devices with the error greater than 1 cm. This method lays the foundation for the application of data gloves to meet the accurate positioning requirement, such as the high precision interaction in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and personal wearable devices network.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.772-778
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• 2018

We have previously proposed a preliminary cut-off indoor positioning scheme considering the reference point with the same signal similarity. This scheme estimates the position using the relative rank of the peak of received signal strength from the beacons around user. However, this scheme has a weak point with lower accuracy when there are more than one nearest reference points having the same signal similarity. In order to tackle this, we propose a weighted preliminary cut-off indoor positioning scheme. Firstly, if the above problem occurs, the similarity to the peak of signal strength is considered as well as the relative rank. Next, weights are assigned to the nearest reference points using the similarity to the peak of the received signal strength. Finally, the user's position is estimated by applying the weights. As a result, the weighted preliminary cut-off scheme improves the positioning accuracy by about 7.9% compared to the previous scheme.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.357-366
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• 2020

This paper addressed a relative navigation method for autonomous rendezvous and docking of cube-satellites using single frequency Differential GPS (DGPS) under the intermittent communication between satellites. Since the ionospheric error of GPS measurement is variable depending on the visible satellites, a few meters error of relative navigation is occurred in the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) environment. Therefore, it is essential to remove the ionospheric error to perform relative navigation. Besides, an intermittent communication period for receiving GPS measurements of the target satellite is limited for getting information every sampling time. To solve this problem, a method combining range domain DGPS and orbit propagation is proposed in this paper. The proposed method improves the performance of DGPS by using Hatch filter and solves an intermittent communication problem by estimating the relative position and velocity using Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire Equation. Through the simulation, it is verified that the suggested algorithm provides the relative position error within RMS 0.5 m and the relative velocity error within RMS 3 cm/s. Furthermore, it has the advantage that it is suitable for real-time implementation using single-frequency GPS measurements and is computationally efficient.