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Unsupervised Real-time Obstacle Avoidance Technique based on a Hybrid Fuzzy Method for AUVs

  • Anwary, Arif Reza;Lee, Young-Il;Jung, Hee;Kim, Yong-Gi
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.82-86
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    • 2008
  • The article presents ARTMAP and Fuzzy BK-Product approach underwater obstacle avoidance for the Autonomous underwater Vehicles (AUV). The AUV moves an unstructured area of underwater and could be met with obstacles in its way. The AUVs are equipped with complex sensorial systems like camera, aquatic sonar system, and transducers. A Neural integrated Fuzzy BK-Product controller, which integrates Fuzzy logic representation of the human thinking procedure with the learning capabilities of neural-networks (ARTMAP), is developed for obstacle avoidance in the case of unstructured areas. In this paper, ARTMAP-Fuzzy BK-Product controller architecture comprises of two distinct elements, are 1) Fuzzy Logic Membership Function and 2) Feed-Forward ART component. Feed-Forward ART component is used to understanding the unstructured underwater environment and Fuzzy BK-Product interpolates the Fuzzy rule set and after the defuzzyfication, the output is used to take the decision for safety direction to go for avoiding the obstacle collision with the AUV. An on-line reinforcement learning method is introduced which adapts the performance of the fuzzy units continuously to any changes in the environment and make decision for the optimal path from source to destination.

Experimental and Computational Studies on Flow Behavior Around Counter Rotating Blades in a Double-Spindle Deck

  • Chon, Woo-Chong;Amano, Ryoichi S.
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.1401-1417
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    • 2004
  • Experimental and computational studies were performed to determine the effects of different blade designs on a flow pattern inside a double-spindle counter rotating mower deck. In the experimental study, two different blade models were tested by measuring air velocities using a forward-scatter LDV system. The velocity measurements were taken at several different azimuth and axial sections inside the deck. The measured velocity distributions clarified the air flow pattern caused by the rotating blades and demonstrated the effects of deck and blade designs. A high-speed video camera and a sound level meter were used for flow visualization and noise level measurement. In the computational works, two-dimensional blade shapes at several arbitrary radial sections have been selected for flow computations around the blade model. For three-dimensional computation applied a non-inertia coordinate system, a flow field around the entire three-dimensional blade shape is used to evaluate flow patterns in order to take radial flow interactions into account. The computational results were compared with the experimental results.

A Task Scheduling Strategy in a Multi-core Processor for Visual Object Tracking Systems (시각물체 추적 시스템을 위한 멀티코어 프로세서 기반 태스크 스케줄링 방법)

  • Lee, Minchae;Jang, Chulhoon;Sunwoo, Myoungho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.127-136
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    • 2016
  • The camera based object detection systems should satisfy the recognition performance as well as real-time constraints. Particularly, in safety-critical systems such as Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), the real-time constraints significantly affects the system performance. Recently, multi-core processors and system-on-chip technologies are widely used to accelerate the object detection algorithm by distributing computational loads. However, due to the advanced hardware, the complexity of system architecture is increased even though additional hardwares improve the real-time performance. The increased complexity also cause difficulty in migration of existing algorithms and development of new algorithms. In this paper, to improve real-time performance and design complexity, a task scheduling strategy is proposed for visual object tracking systems. The real-time performance of the vision algorithm is increased by applying pipelining to task scheduling in a multi-core processor. Finally, the proposed task scheduling algorithm is applied to crosswalk detection and tracking system to prove the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.

Study on Improvement of Measurement Precision in Digital Image Correlation Measurement Method by Using Subpixel Algorithms (이미지 상관법의 서브 픽셀 알고리즘을 이용한 측정 분해능 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seung Jong;Kang, Young Jun;Choi, In Young;Hong, Kyung Min;Ryu, Won Jea
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.1039-1047
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    • 2015
  • Contact type sensors (e.g., displacement sensor and strain gauge) were typically used to evaluate the safety and mechanical properties in machines and construction. However, those contact type sensors have been constrained because of measurement problems such as surface roughness, temperature, humidity, and shape. The Digital Image Correlation (DIC) measurement system is a vision measurement system. This measurement system uses the taken image using a CCD camera and calculates the image correlation between the reference image and the deformed image under external force to measure the displacement and strain rates. In this paper, we discuss methods to improve the measurement precision of the digital image correlation measurement system. A tensile test was conducted to compare the precision improvement effects, by using the universal test machine and the DIC measurement system, with the use of subpixel algorithms, i.e., the Coarse Fine Search (CFS) algorithm and the Peak Finding (PF) algorithm.

Moving Object Tracking System for Dock Safety Monitoring (선착장 안전 모니터링을 위한 이동 객체 추적 시스템)

  • Park, Mi-Jeong;Hong, Seong-Il;Yoo, Seung-Hyeok;Kim, Kyeong-Og;Song, Jong-Nam;Kim, Eung-Kon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.867-874
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    • 2015
  • Hoist have been installed at wharfs or seashore in the center of fishing village fraternities. A Hoist is used in harbor loading and unloading fishing gear or seafoods and is a device to refloat fishing boats into a breakwater or land in case of typhoon or bad weather. In this paper, we propose image perception and moving objects tracking system that detects boat's damage, theft and trespassing occurred at the wharf. This system detects objects' motion in real time by using the motion templet and tracks to concentrate on a moving object(person, boat, etc.) by using a PTZ camera.

An Abnormal Activity Monitoring System Using Sensors and Video (센서와 영상을 이용한 이상 행동 모니터링 시스템)

  • Kim, Sang-Soo;Kim, Sun-Woo;Choi, Yeon-Sung
    • Journal of KIISE
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    • v.41 no.12
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    • pp.1152-1159
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we presents a system to ensure the safety of residents through appropriate action or alarm in case the residents occurs an emergency situation and abnormal activity. We collect and analysis real-time data of living environment of the residents using video and sensor. The existing system have been determined by using only the sensor data it have several problems. Our system attach camera to solve the existing system problem. We use weighted difference image and motion vector. The existing system, it takes about 48 hours to determine that an abnormal activity occurs. However, our system takes less than 1 hour.

Development of Image Processing Technology for Interaction between Pantograph and Overhead Contact Wire (팬터그래프-전차선로 접촉부 영상처리 기술 개발)

  • Kim, Hyung-Jun;Park, Young;Cho, Yong-Hyeon;Cho, Chul-Jin;Kim, In-Chol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.1084-1088
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    • 2009
  • The measurement of dynamic stagger in electric railways is one of the key test parameters to increase speed and maintain safety in electric railways. This paper is introduces a non-contact optical-based measuring instrument of a catenary system in electric railways. The instrument is implemented by utilizing a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera installed on the roof of a vehicle for vision acquisition and image processing techniques including the Canny edge detector and the Hough transform to detect contact wires and calculate dynamic stagger. To check the validity of our approach for the intended application, we measured stagger of a overhead wire of a Korea Tilting Train (TTX). The non-contact optical-based measurement system proposed in this paper performs real-time stagger measurement of an activated high-voltage contact wire. By results of this paper, the instrument should be applied to assess performance and reliability of newly developed electric railway vehicles.

Photogrammetric Techniques for Safe Separation Flight Test (안전분리 비행시험을 위한 사진계측 기법)

  • Kim, Sang-Jin;You, Heung-Cheol;Reu, Taekyu;Park, Jeong Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.8
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    • pp.673-679
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    • 2013
  • Photogrammetric techniques were used to analyze separation characteristics of store in safe separation flight test. In this analysis, we used single camera method to analyze 6 degrees of freedom of separated store. We established instrumentation requirements based on theoretical background of photogrammetry and guidelines of MIL-HDBK-1763. We applied the photogrammetry to flight test and extracted separation trajectory. We empirically estimated the input variables uncertainties of photogrammetry and its effects on separation trajectory. Using this trajectory which includes the photogrammetric error, we analyzed the safety of separation.

The Faulty Detection of COG Using Image Subtraction (이미지 정합을 이용한 COG 불량 검출)

  • Joo, Ki-See
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.203-208
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    • 2005
  • The CGO (Chip on Glass) to be measured a few micro unit is captured by line scan camera for the accuracy of chip inspection. But it is very sensitive to scan speed and lighting conditions. In this paper, we propose the methods to increase the accuracy of faulty detection by image subtraction. Image subtraction is detected faultiness by subtracting the image of a ' perfect ' COG from trot of the sample under tests. For image subtraction to be successful, the two images must be pre챠sely registered The two images is registered by the area segmentation pattern matching, and the result image get by operating the gradient mask image and the image to practice subtraction. A series of experimentation showed that the proposed algorithm shows substantial improvement over the other image subtraction methods.

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New Vehicle Verification Scheme for Blind Spot Area Based on Imaging Sensor System

  • Hong, Gwang-Soo;Lee, Jong-Hyeok;Lee, Young-Woon;Kim, Byung-Gyu
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2017
  • Ubiquitous computing is a novel paradigm that is rapidly gaining in the scenario of wireless communications and telecommunications for realizing smart world. As rapid development of sensor technology, smart sensor system becomes more popular in automobile or vehicle. In this study, a new vehicle detection mechanism in real-time for blind spot area is proposed based on imaging sensors. To determine the position of other vehicles on the road is important for operation of driver assistance systems (DASs) to increase driving safety. As the result, blind spot detection of vehicles is addressed using an automobile detection algorithm for blind spots. The proposed vehicle verification utilizes the height and angle of a rear-looking vehicle mounted camera. Candidate vehicle information is extracted using adaptive shadow detection based on brightness values of an image of a vehicle area. The vehicle is verified using a training set with Haar-like features of candidate vehicles. Using these processes, moving vehicles can be detected in blind spots. The detection ratio of true vehicles was 91.1% in blind spots based on various experimental results.