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Vehicle Platooning via Sensor Fusion of GPS Carrier Phase and Millimeter-Wave Radar

  • Woo, Myung-Jin;Park, Jae-Weon
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.23.5-23
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    • 2001
  • This paper is concerned with the vehicle platooning in the AHS (Automated Highway Systems). For this, a relative navigation system is developed for the vehicles operating as a platoon. The relative navigation system is based on two sensors including GPS and MMWR (Millimeter-Wave Radar) and the federated Kalman Iter processing measurements of them. The architecture of this system requires GPS measurements of a preceding vehicle via communication link. Even if GPS measurements are available, they contain errors which are unacceptably high in vehicle platooning. Therefore, GPS carrier phase is considered. Integer ambiguities of GPS carrier phase measurements are determined by using MMWR ...

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An Operating Software Architecture for PC-based (PC기반의 생산시스템을 위한 운용소프트웨어 구조)

  • Park, Nam-Jun;Kim, Hong-Seok;Park, Jong-Gu
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1196-1204
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, a new architecture of operating software associated with the component-based method is proposed. The proposed architecture comprises 문 execution module and a decision-making module. In order to make effective development and maintenance, the execution module is divided into three components. The components are referred to as Symbol, Gateway, and Control, respectively: The symbol component is for the GUI environments and the standard interfaces; the gateway component is for the network communication and the structure of asynchronous processes; the control component is for the asynchronous processing and machine setting or operations. In order to verify the proposed architecture, and off-line version of operating software is made, and its steps are as follows; I) Make virtual execution modules for the manufacturing devices such as dual-arm robot, handling robot, CNC, and sensor; ii) Make decision-making module; iii) Integrate the modules and GUI using a well-known development tools such as Microsofts Visual Basic; iv) Execute the overall operating software to validate the proposed architecture. The proposed software architecture in this paper has the advantages such as independent development of each module, easy development of network communication, and distributed processing of resources, and so on.

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Design and Analysis of Collision Alarm Using Infrared Distance Sensor (적외선 거리 센서를 사용한 충돌 경보기 설계 및 특성 분석)

  • Kim, Byoung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.634-639
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    • 2014
  • This paper specifies a collision alarm using an infrared distance sensor that can identify the dangerousness of collision of active mobile robotic systems to various objects, such as unknown objects or another robots. And we analyse the major operating signals and features of the collision alarm for effective industrial applications. For the purpose, we consider a typical parking situation of a mobile robotic system with the collision alarm designed. As a result, it is shown that the proposed collision alarm is applicable for effective collision avoidance and safe driving of various mobile robots or vehicles.

Neural Network-Based Sensor Fault Diagnosis in the Gas Monitoring System (가스모니터링 시스템에서의 신경회로망 기반 센서고장진단)

  • Lee, In-Soo;Cho, Jung-Hwan;Shim, Chang-Hyun;Lee, Duk-Dong;Jeon, Gi-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we propose neural network-based fault diagnosis method to diagnose of sensor in the gas monitoring system. In the proposed method, using thermal modulation of operating temperature of sensor, the signal patterns are extracted from the voltage of load resistance. Also, ART2 neural network is used for fault isolation. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed ART2 neural network based fault diagnosis method are shown by simulation results using real data obtained from the gas monitoring system.

A Methodology for Estimating Section Travel Times Using Individual Vehicle Features (개별차량의 고유특성을 이용한 구간통행시간 산출기법 개발)

  • O, Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2005
  • This study if the first trial toward realizing a new methodology for vehicle re-identification based on heterogeneous sensor systems. A major interest of the author is how to effectively utilize information obtained from different sensors to derive accurate and reliable section travel times. The 'blade' sensor that is a newly developed sensor for capturing vehicle wheel information and the existing square loop sensor are employed to extract the inputs of the proposed vehicle re-identification algorithm. The fundamental idea of the algorithm developed in this study, which is so called 'anonumous vehicle re-identification,' it to match vehicle features obtained from both sensors. The results of the algorithm evaluation reveal that the proposed methodology could be successfully implemented in the field. The proposed methodology would be an invaluable tool for operating agencies in support of traffic monitoring systems and traveler information systems.

Implementation of Auto Surgical Illumination Robotic System Using Ultrasonic Sensor-Based Tracking Algorithm (초음파 센서기반 추적 알고리즘을 이용한 자동 수술 조명 로봇 시스템)

  • Choi, Dong-Gul;Yi, Byung-Ju;Kim, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.363-368
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    • 2007
  • Most surgery illumination systems have been developed as passive systems. However, sometimes it is inconvenient to relocate the position of the illumination system whenever the surgeon changes his pose. To cope with such a problem, this study develops an auto-illumination system that is autonomously tracking the surgeon's movement. A 5-DOF serial type manipulator system that can control (X, Y, Z, Yaw, Pitch) position and secure enough workspace is developed. Using 3 ultrasonic sensors, the surgeon's position and orientation could be located. The measured data aresent to the main control system so that the robot can be auto-tracking the target. Finally, performance of the developed auto-illuminating system was verified through a preliminary experiment in the operating room environment.

Robot software component interface abstractions for distributed sensor and actuator

  • Yang, Kwang-Woong;Won, Dae-Heui;Choi, Moo-Sung;Kim, Hong-Seok;Lee, Tae-Geun;Kwon, Sang-Joo;Park, Joon-Woo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.2285-2289
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    • 2005
  • Robot is composed of various devices but, those are incompatible with each other and hardly developing reusable control software. This study suggests standard abstract interface for robot software component to make portable device and reusable control software of robot, based on familiar techniques to abstract device in operating systems. This assures uniform abstracted interface to the device driver software like sensor and actuator and, control program can be transparent operation over device. This study can separately and independently develop devices and control software with this idea. This makes it possible to replace existing devices with new devices which have an improved performance.

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Implementation of u-Safety System for Preventing Industrial Disaster in Manufacturing Industries : The Case Study of 'H' Cooperation (제조업의 산업재해 예방을 위한 u-Safety 시스템 구축: 'H'기업 적용사례)

  • Jang, Gil-San;Lee, Jong-Sub
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.145-157
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    • 2009
  • If industrial disasters happen at workplace, work's desires of workers and business activities may be dispirited. Especially, industrial disasters frequently happen in the field of heavy and chemical industry companies. According to report of the korea occupational safety and health agency(KOSHA), damage due to industrial disasters is more 5 times than losses due to industrial strifes. Thus, in these manufacturing companies, a safety management field for preventing industrial disasters is emerging as an important factor of business activities. This paper proposes an industrial disaster prediction model for safety management and also implements industrial safety management system(after this, is called as u-Safety system) based on the proposed model using ubiquitous computing technologies like USN(ubiquitous sensor networks) which are given much attention among recent information technologies. The implemented system is successfully operating in the shipbuilding division of 'H' companies.

Maximum Likelihood (ML)-Based Quantizer Design for Distributed Systems

  • Kim, Yoon Hak
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.152-158
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    • 2015
  • We consider the problem of designing independently operating local quantizers at nodes in distributed estimation systems, where many spatially distributed sensor nodes measure a parameter of interest, quantize these measurements, and send the quantized data to a fusion node, which conducts the parameter estimation. Motivated by the discussion that the estimation accuracy can be improved by using the quantized data with a high probability of occurrence, we propose an iterative algorithm with a simple design rule that produces quantizers by searching boundary values with an increased likelihood. We prove that this design rule generates a considerably reduced interval for finding the next boundary values, yielding a low design complexity. We demonstrate through extensive simulations that the proposed algorithm achieves a significant performance gain with respect to traditional quantizer designs. A comparison with the recently published novel algorithms further illustrates the benefit of the proposed technique in terms of performance and design complexity.

Advanced Brushless DC Motor Drive without Position Sensor for Home Appliances

  • Kim, Dae-Kyong;So, Ji-Young;Jung, Dong-Hwa
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes advanced brushless DC motor drive without position sensor for home appliances with compressor to reduce the pulsating currents and vibration. The proposed method limits the motor currents during starting period and reduces commutation torque ripple during sensorless operating period. Experimental results show that the proposed method implemented in an inverter for a BLDC motor driven compressor considerably reduces not only the pulsating currents but also vibration of the home appliances.