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A Fusion Positioning System of Long Baseline and Pressure Sensor for Ship and Harbor Inspection ROV

  • Seo, Dong-Cheol;Lee, Yong-Hee;Jo, Gyung-Nam;Choi, Hang-Shoon
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.36-46
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    • 2007
  • The maintenance of a ship is essential for safe navigation and hence regular surveys are prescribed according to the rule of classification societies. A hull inspection is generally performed by professional divers, but it takes a long time and the efficiency is low in terms of time and cost. In this research, a ROV(Remotely Operated Vehicle) named as SNU-ROV(Seoul National University-ROV) is developed to replace the conventional inspection method. In this system, the ROV is intended to be used for inspecting ship and harbor because harbor inspection is merging as a safety measure against any possible terror actions. In order to increase the efficiency of inspection, the ROV must be able to measure the exact position of damages. SNU-ROV has a positioning system based on LBL(Long Base Line). In shallow water such as harbor, however, LBL has bad DOP(Dilution of Precision) in the depth direction due to the limited depth. Thus LBL only can not locate the exact depth position. To solve the DOP problem, a pressure sensor is introduced to LBL and a complementary filter is attached by using indirect feedback Kalman filter. Thus developed positioning system is verified by simulation and experiment in towing tank.

Design of OP-AMP using MOSFET of Sub-threshold Region (Sub-threshold 영역의 MOSFET 동작을 이용한 OP-AMP 설계)

  • Cho, Tae-Il;Yeo, Sung-Dae;Cho, Seung-Il;Kim, Seong-Kweon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.665-670
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we suggest the design of OP-AMP using MOSFET in the operation of sub-threshold condition as a basic unit of an IoT. The sub-threshold operation of MOSFET is useful for an ultra low power consumption of sensor network system in the IoT, because it cause the supply voltage to be reduced. From the simulation result using 0.35 um CMOS process, the supply voltage, VDD can be reduced with 0.6 V, open-loop gain of 43 dB and the power consumption was evaluated with about $1.3{\mu}W$ and the active size for an integration was measured with $64{\mu}m{\times}105{\mu}m$. It is expected that the proposed circuit is applied to the low power sensor network for IoT.

Pose Estimation Method Using Sensor Fusion based on Extended Kalman Filter (센서 결합을 이용한 확장 칼만 필터 기반 자세 추정 방법)

  • Yun, Inyong;Shim, Jaeryong;Kim, Joongkyu
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.54 no.2
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    • pp.106-114
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we propose the method of designing an extended kalman filter in order to accurately measure the position of the spatial-phase system using sensor fusion. We use the quaternion as a state variable in expressing the attitude of an object. Then, the attitude of rigid body can be calculated from the accelerometer and magnetometer by applying the Gauss-Newton method. We estimate the changes of state by using the measurements obtained from the gyroscope, the quaternion, and the vision informations by ARVR_SDK. To increase the accuracy of estimation, we designed and implemented the extended kalman filter, which showed excellent ability to adjust and compensate the sensor error. As a result, we could experimentally demonstrate that the reliability of the attitude estimation value can be significantly increased.

Fiber Interferometers Based on Low Loss Fusion Splicing of Photonic Crystal Fibers (저손실 융착접속을 이용한 광자결정 광섬유 간섭계)

  • Ahn, Jin-Soo;Kim, Gil-Hwan;Lee, Kwan-Il;Lee, Kyung-Shik;Lee, Sang-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.200-205
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    • 2010
  • We report temperature and strain sensing characteristics of two kinds of in-line fiber interferometers. One interferometer consists of a section of Hollow Optical Fiber(HOF) spliced between two Photonic Bandgap Fibers(PBGF) and the other is built by splicing a section of HOF between two Large Mode Area-Photonic Crystal Fibers(LMA-PCF). To minimize the splice losses, we carefully optimized the heating time and arc current of the splicer so as not to collapse the air holes of the fiber. It is found that the first interferometer has a temperature sensitivity of 15.4 pm/$^{\circ}C$ and a strain sensitivity of 0.24 pm/${\mu}\varepsilon$. The other interferometer exhibits a temperature sensitivity of 17.4 pm/$^{\circ}C$ and a strain sensitivity of 0.2 pm/${\mu}\varepsilon$.

Design of High Speed Data Acquisition and Fusion System with STM32 Processor (STM32 프로세서를 이용한 고속 데이터 수집 및 융합 시스템 설계)

  • Lim, Joong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we describe the design of a high speed data acquisition system(DAS) with STM32 processor based on Cortex-M4. The system is used for the sensor devices to collect raw data on production lines at factory and send them to the servo computer in real time. The system is designed for multi functions with universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter(UART), analog to digital converter(ADC), digital to analog converter(DAC), and general purpose input output(GPIO). those are well tested for various data acquisition and high speed motor control in real time.

A Study on the Photo-realistic 3D City Modeling Using the Omnidirectional Image and Digital Maps (전 방향 이미지와 디지털 맵을 활용한 3차원 실사 도시모델 생성 기법 연구)

  • Kim, Hyungki;Kang, Yuna;Han, Soonhung
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.253-262
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    • 2014
  • 3D city model, which consisted of the 3D building models and their geospatial position and orientation, is becoming a valuable resource in virtual reality, navigation systems, civil engineering, etc. The purpose of this research is to propose the new framework to generate the 3D city model that satisfies visual and physical requirements in ground oriented simulation system. At the same time, the framework should meet the demand of the automatic creation and cost-effectiveness, which facilitates the usability of the proposed approach. To do that, I suggest the framework that leverages the mobile mapping system which automatically gathers high resolution images and supplement sensor information like position and direction of the image. And to resolve the problem from the sensor noise and a large number of the occlusions, the fusion of digital map data will be used. This paper describes the overall framework with major process and the recommended or demanded techniques for each processing step.

Generation of Land Surface Temperature Orthophoto and Temperature Accuracy Analysis by Land Covers Based on Thermal Infrared Sensor Mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (무인항공기에 탑재된 열적외선 센서 기반의 지표면 온도 정사영상 제작 및 피복별 온도 정확도 분석)

  • Park, Jin Hwan;Lee, Ki Rim;Lee, Won Hee;Han, You Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.263-270
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    • 2018
  • Land surface temperature is known to be an important factor in understanding the interactions of the ground-atmosphere. However, because of the large spatio-temporal variability, regular observation is rarely made. The existing land surface temperature is observed using satellite images, but due to the nature of satellite, it has the limit of long revisit period and low accuracy. In this study, in order to confirm the possibility of replacing land surface temperature observation using satellite imagery, images acquired by TIR (Thermal Infrared) sensor mounted on UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) are used. The acquired images were transformed from JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) to TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) format and orthophoto was then generated. The DN (Digital Number) value of orthophoto was used to calculate the actual land surface temperature. In order to evaluate the accuracy of the calculated land surface temperature, the land surface temperature was compared with the land surface temperature directly observed with an infrared thermometer at the same time. When comparing the observed land surface temperatures in two ways, the accuracy of all the land covers was below the measure accuracy of the TIR sensor. Therefore, the possibility of replacing the satellite image, which is a conventional land surface temperature observation method, is confirmed by using the TIR sensor mounted on UAV.

Aircraft Velocity and Altitude Estimation through Time Offset Calculation of KOMPSAT-3 Satellite (KOMPSAT-3 위성의 Time Offset 계산을 통한 항공기 속력 및 고도 추정)

  • Jung, Sejung;Shin, Hyeongil;Kim, Dohoon;Song, Ahram;Lee, Won Hee
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.38 no.6_4
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    • pp.1879-1887
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    • 2022
  • In this study, a method of estimating the velocity and altitude of aircrafts photographed in a KOMPSAT-3 satellite was proposed. In the proposed method, parallax effect, which is a time offset between bands due to the photographing method of the KOMPSAT-3 satellite, the structure of the sensor, and the movement of the satellite's orbit, was calculated, and in this process, trucks running on the highway were used. In addition, the actual direction and the direction by parallax effect of the aircraft were calculated using the coordinates of the aircraft in the image, and the attitude information of the KOMPSAT-3 satellite was calculated using metadata to estimate the velocity and altitude of the aircraft. The estimated value through the proposed method was compared with the actual value, automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), and the error rate was calculated here. As a result, it was confirmed that the velocity and altitude error rate of large aircraft (I1, I3, S2) were lower than that of light aircraft (I2, S2), and the estimated velocity and altitude were relatively high in large aircraft using the proposed method.

The Control System Modeling and Experiment for the Tele-operated Unmanned Vehicle

  • Duk sun Yun;Lee, Woon-Sung;Kim, Jung-Ha
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.1253-1263
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    • 2002
  • The control system design and modeling of an unmanned vehicle by means of a new concept for better performance through a tole-operation system is suggested by sensor fusion. But, the control of a real vehicle is very difficult, because the system identification of the vehicle is hard to find the unknown factors and the disturbances of the experimental environment. For the longitudinal and lateral controls, the traction system and steering system models are set up and a tuning method to find the gain of the controller by experiments is presented. In this research, mechanical and electronic parts are implemented to operate the unmanned vehicle and data reconstruction method of information about the environment data coming from several sensors is presented by data plot for the vehicle navigation. This paper focuses on the integration of tole-operated unmanned vehicle. This vehicle mainly controlled lateral and longitudinal directions with actuators for controlling vehicle movement and sensors for the closed-loop controlled system.

Sensor technology to detect a distance for intelligent vehicle (지능형 차량을 위한 거리검지 센서 기술)

  • 이수영;김병우
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 1996
  • 차량의 자동제어는 컴퓨터, 통신, 기계, 계측등의 하드웨어와 자동제어 기술, 통신망 운영, 컴퓨터 운영등의 소프트웨어 기술의 응용을 바탕으로 하는 지능형 차량은 단순히 차량 상호간, 차량과 도로에 설치된 컴퓨터와의 통신으 통한 정보교환 기능과 더불어 운전기능 자체를 스스로 행하는 기능을 포함하고 있다. 지능형 차량 개발은 운전자 인식증진 기술, 사고회피 기술, 피해확산 방지기술, ITS(Intelligent Transport System) 연계 및 관련 Infrastructure 기술, Human-Machine Interface 기술, Sensor Fusion 기술, 레이더 기술 등을 꼽을 수 있다. 이중에서 차량의 지능화를 구현하는 가장 핵심적인 세부 기술은 CCD 카메라, 레이저 레이더, 밀리파 레이더, 생체 센서등을 들 수 있다. 본 원고에서는 위와 같이 차량의 지능화, 특히 차량 거리검지 장치를 구현코자 사용되고 있는 센서의 종류와 응용에 대하여 고찰하고자 한다.

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