• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.462-469
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• 2019

In this study, a motion control problem for the vessels towed by tugboats or towing ships on the sea is considered. The towed vessels, such as barge ships, are used for several purposes. Generally, these vessels have no power propulsion system and are towed using ropes and towing vessel (tugboats). The basic mathematical model of the towed vessel in which three active rudders are attached was introduced from a previous study. Owing to the dependency of the motions of the towed vessel to the towing ship, a method is suggested to cope with the undesirable disturbance and improve the tracking performance. For the simulation study, a model of the towed vessel with a towing ship is made, and necessary physical parameters are identified from the experiment. For the defined and linearized model, a control system is designed, and the control performance is also evaluated. A simulation study is conducted and the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.635-638
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• 1998

This paper proposes a simple method to measure system's performance in target tracking problems. Essentially employing the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on trakcing accuracy, an algorithm of predicting system's performance under various scenarios is developed. The input data is a collection of measurements over time fromsensors embedded in gaussian noise. The target of interest may not maneuver over the processing time interval while the own ship observing platform may maneuver in an arbitrary fashion. Th eproposed approach is demonstrated and discussed through simulation results.

• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.32-40
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• 2003

Numerical simulation code is developed to study the formation of liquid drops from a nozzle into another quiescent liquid. The Navier-Stokes equations for two immiscible, incompressible, Newtonian fluids are solved on a fixed, staggered grid of cylindrical axisymmetric coordinates. Interfacial motion is captured using a Front-Tracking Method. The time variation of interfacial shape simulated by the code is in excellent agreement with experiments. Simulation results show that the viscosity ratio affects the size of the satellite drops.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.363-368
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• 2005

This paper proposes an LOS(line-of-sight) guidance system of a ship for path following. From the viewpoint of a control configuration, guidance is a special type of compensation algorithm that is placed in front of the controller to accomplish navigational objects. A guidance system generates a reference trajectory for trajectory tracking or path control and decides the desired velocity, position and heading angle. A control system executes commands based on a reliable guidance law during navigation. An LOS vector from the vessel to a point on the path between two way-points in straight-line navigation or a point among turning circle in turning navigation is selected, and then a heading angle is calculated to converge the desired path based on the LOS vector. The LOS guidance law is defined for the straight-line and the turning circle, respectively. The effectiveness of the suggested LOS guidance system is assured through computer simulation.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.18-20
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• 2021

최근 증가하고 있는 선박의 충돌 사고 예방을 위하여 인공지능 기반의 자율운항선박(Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship, MASS)에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만 대부분의 자율운항선박 관련 연구들은 자율운항시스템의 크기와 비용으로 인해 주로 중대형 선박을 그 대상으로 하고 있으며, 여기에 사용되는 센서들은 소형선박에 탑재하기 어렵다는 문제를 지닌다. 따라서 이 논문은 소형선박의 자율운항을 위하여 GPS와 IMU 센서를 탑재한 경로 추적 시스템을 제안한다. GPS와 IMU 센서는 선박의 정확한 위치 파악을 위하여 활용되며, 이를 통하여 제안 시스템은 소형선박 모형을 수동으로 제어하여 경로를 생성하고, 이후 소형선박이 동일한 경로를 이동할 시 Pure Pursuit 알고리즘을 이용하여 경로를 추적하도록 한다. 그 결과, 이 연구는 경량화된 저가의 센서들을 이용하여 소형 선박의 자율운항 시스템을 저비용으로 개발할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.53-54
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• 2015

The maritime industry is expanding at an alarming rate and as such there is a perpetual need to improve situation awareness in the maritime environment using new and emerging technology. Tracking is one of the numerous ways of enhancing situation awareness by providing information that may be useful to the operator. The tracking system described herein comprises determining existing states of own ship, state prediction and state compensation caused by random noise. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the process of tracking and develop a tracking algorithm by using ${\alpha}-{\beta}-{\gamma}$ tracking filter under a random noise or irregular motion for use in a warship. The algorithm involves initializing the input parameters of position, velocity and course. The actual positions are then computed for each time interval. In addition, a weighted difference of the observed and predicted position at the nth observation is added to the predicted position to obtain the smoothed position. This estimation is subsequently employed to determine the predicted position at (n+1). The smoothed values, predicted values and the observed values are used to compute the twice distance root mean square (2drms) error as a measure of accuracy of the tracking module.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.423-429
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• 2020

A ship's automatic steering system is the basis for addressing control difficulties related to course-changing and course-keeping during navigation through heading angle control, and is a link in realizing unmanned and autonomous ships. This study proposes a robust RCGA-based linear active disturbance rejection controller (LADRC) design method considering environmental disturbances, measurement noise, and model uncertainties in designing a ship heading controller for use when the ship is sailing. The LADRC consisted of a transient profile, a linear extended state observer, and a PD controller. The control gains in the LADRC with the linear extended state observer were adjusted by RCGAs to minimize the integral of the time-weighted absolute error (ITAE), which is an evaluation function of the control system. The proposed method was applied to ship heading control, and its effectiveness was validated by comparing the propulsive energy loss between the proposed method and a conventional linear PD controller. The simulation results showed that the proposed method had the advantages of lower propulsive energy loss, more robustness, and higher tracking precision than the conventional linear PD controller.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.38-52
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• 2016

This paper describes the nonlinear dynamic motion behavior of a ship equipped with a portable dynamic positioning (DP) control system, under external forces. The waves, current, wind, and drifting forces were considered in the calculations. A self-tuning controller based on a neuro-fuzzy algorithm was used to control the rotation speed of the outboard thrusters for the optimal adjustment of the ship position and heading and for path tracking. Time-domain simulations for ship motion with six degrees of freedom with the DP system were performed using the fourth-order RungeeKutta method. The results showed that the path and heading deviations were within acceptable ranges for the control method used. The portable DP system is a practical alternative for ships lacking professional DP facilities.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.572-580
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• 2015

저고도 비행체는 다중 경로 간섭의 영향으로 인해 계측 레이더의 RF 스킨 추적 시 고각 방향의 오차 신호 증가로 안정적인 추적 데이터를 획득할 수 없다. 이 한계를 극복하고자 본 논문에서는 레이저 추적기를 이용한 저고도 비행체 추적 기법을 제안하였다. 짧은 펄스폭과 좁은 빔 폭을 갖는 레이저의 특성을 이용하여 각도 해상도를 높이는 방법으로 다중 경로 간섭의 영향을 줄일 수 있다. 지면에 설치된 통합형 교정기와 해수면의 표적선을 대상으로 RF 스킨 추적, 비콘 추적, 레이저 추적 결과의 불확도 및 오차 신호 분석을 통해 다중경로 간섭 조건에서 레이저 추적이 RF 스킨 추적에 비해 추적 성능이 뛰어남을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.627-633
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• 2007

이 논문은 선적 및 하역 작업을 위해 겐추리 크레인으로 들어오는 컨테이너 트레일러의 위치 추적 시스템에 대하여 기술한다. 위치 추적 시스템은 트레일러가 겐추리 크레인에 접근하였을 때 트레일러의 정지 지점을 운전자에게 알려준다. 위치 측정 센서는 RF 신호와 초음파 방식을 채택한 크리켓 mote 모듈을 사용하였다. 실시간 전송을 위해 위치 측정 주기를 단축하였으며 삼각측량 방법에 따른 3 차원 위치 계산식과 환경적 요인에 의한 거리 측정 오류 감소 방법을 제시하였다. 측정된 위치는 블루투스 통신을 통해 주기적으로 운전자 앞의 PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)에 전송된다. 실내외 테스트 결과 위치 오류는 3 cm 이내로 개선되었으며 위치 측정 표시 주기는 평균 0.5초였다.