• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.172-177
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• 2023

In this paper, 2-dimensional backtracking method for ultrasonic signals. Ultrasonic sensors are a common technology used in industrial fields as many studies have been conducted on distance measurement and indoor location tracking using transmission and reception devices in pairs. A method for tracking a signal of an arbitrary ultrasonic transmission device on a 2D plane using only a receiver of an ultrasonic signal is proposed. In order to track the ultrasonic signal, the receiver receives the signal by making at least three. The three receivers may calculate a direction and a distance using a time difference in which the ultrasound reception sound is reached. The existing method of tracking signal sources using ultrasonic waves has a problem of time synchronization of devices because the transceivers must be paired or installed independently for each sensor. In order to solve this problem, the distance of the ultrasonic receiver is minimized, and it is configured as one device. The sensor installed as one device may be processed by one operator, thereby solving the time synchronization problem. To increase time difference accuracy, high-speed 32-bit timers with high time resolution can be used to quickly calculate and track distances and directions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.479-483
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• 2006

Indoor positioning is recently highlighted and various kinds of indoor positioning systems are under developments. Since positioning systems have their own characteristics, proper positioning scheme should be chosen according to the required specifications. Positioning methods are often classified into time-based and angle-based one, and this paper presents the error analysis of these location methods. Because measurement equations of these methods are nonlinear, linearization is usually needed to get the position estimate. In this paper, Gauss-Newton method is used in the linearization. To analyze the position error, we investigate the error ellipse parameters that include eccentricity, rotation angle, and the size of ellipse. Simulation results show that the major axes of error ellipses of TOA and AOA method lie in different quadrants at most region of workspace, especially where the geometry is poor. When the TOA/AOA hybrid scheme is employed, it is found that the error ellipse is reduced to the intersection of ellipses of TOA and AOA method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.27-30
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• 1999

A spatio-temporal vector channel model is introduced for the position location (PL) estimation problem for CDMA cellular system environment. Two common ways for the PL make use of the AOA (Angle Of Arrival) and TDOA (Time Difference Of Arrival) from a subscriber to the multiple sensors (base stations). In this paper, we applied the derived vector channel to simulate the multipath channel for the angle of the signal arrival in CDMA systems. Cross-correlation method is a good candidate among other direction finding algorithms available in literature, especially in wideband modulation as in the CDMA system. The PL estimation errors are evaluated for different channels, which are obtained as a parameter of scattering radius of the suggested model. We noted that the number of sensors (base-stations) are related to the PL errors in favor of the available data.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.694-699
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• 2011

A closed-form technique is presented for estimating a single source location from a set of noisy time delay measurements between distributed sensors. The localization formula is derived from nonlinear least squares minimization over the unknowns of target range and bearing in polar coordinates. Computer simulation results are provided for the purpose of performance analysis. Constrained least squares minimization method with prior source location information is also discussed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.97-97
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• 2000

In this paper, a signal processing algorithm for software GPS receiver is proposed. The signal processor takes snapshot of the sampled If signal from the RF section of the GPS receiver. All the processing for code and carrier tracking and correlation are implemented using the digital signal processing techniques. In order to achieve fast code acquisition, correlation of the incoming GPS signal is performed using the FFT method, After code acquisition, to reduce the Doppler shift effect and increase the accuracy, the interpolation or the tracking are performed. The performance of the proposed processing algorithm is first evaluated using matlab/simulink. A signal acquisition board for sampling and logging GPS IF signal form the Mitel GPS RF chip set is constructed. In order to analyze the performance of the designed algorithm the experiments are performed and the results are analyzed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.7A
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• pp.1144-1151
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 AOA(Angle of Arrival)와 TOA(Time of Arrival) 그리고 TDOA(Time Difference of Arrival)의 추정값을 이용한 위치 추정 기법들이 설명되고 분석된다. 이들 기법들을 다중경로 페이딩 (mutipath fading)과 shadowing을 갖는 마이크로셀 환경에 적용한다면, 빠르고 예측할 수 없는 신호 레벨의 변화로 인하여 이동체의 위치를 정확히 추정하는 것은 어렵다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수신 신호 세기(RSS: Received Signal Strength) 이외에 이동체와 기지국간의 거리, 이동체의 이동방향, 이동체의 이전위치와 같은 부정확한 다수의 파라미터를 동시에 고려하는 퍼지 다기준 (multi-criteria) 의사 결정 방법을 이용하여 이동체의 위치를 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여, 이동체의 방향과 속도의 영향을 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.91-92
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• 2016

무선 센서 네트워크에서 무선통신기술을 활용한 저비용의 정밀 측위 기술은 교통상황, 의료, 생활정보 등의 다방면에서 활용되고 있다. RSSI를 기반으로 한 측위기법은 TOA, AOA, TDOA에 비해 추가적인 전력 또는 하드웨어가 필요하지 않아 비용 면에서 효율적이다. 하지만 RSSI 값의 패턴은 실제 환경에서 전파방해 요소가 존재하여 작은 움직임에도 크게 변하게 되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 RSSI와 IEEE 802.15.4 표준에서 제공되는 정보인 LQI를 이용하여 타겟 노드의 실내 위치를 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법을 통해 실제 환경에서 보다 정확한 위치추정을 할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.499-500
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• 2017

This study is about a sound source direction detection system and method using intelligent source collection and analysis. The sound source direction detecting apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with four microphone sensors and calculates a time difference using TDOA (Time Delay of Arrival) technique for a plurality of acoustic signals generated from a sound source, And a sound source detection and analysis algorithm for estimating the direction of the sound source.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.375-383
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• 2012

Together with the GPS-based approach, geolocation through mobile communication networks is a key technology for location-based service. Since the Mobile WiMAX system is considered as a candidate for fourth-generation mobile systems, it is important to investigate its location capability. The geolocation of Mobile WiMAX can be realized when the preamble symbols in the down-link channel are appropriately used for a TDOA (Time-Difference-of-Arrival) approach. However, the cellular structure of Mobile WiMAX inevitably generates co-channel interference, and it is difficult for the mobile terminal to acquire distance measurements from multiple base stations. Therefore, for geolocation via multilateration using the Mobile WiMAX network, it is very important to increase hearability. This paper proposes a geolocation method for Mobile WiMAX which employs interference cancellation and preamble signal overlapping for the enhancement of hearability. A novel interference cancellation strategy for complex-valued Mobile WiMAX signals is presented which has an iterative structure. Simulation results show that the proposed geolocation method provides the user's position with an accuracy of less than 20 m through the Mobile WiMAX cellular network if there is no multi-path or NLOS (None-Line-of-Sight).

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.411-418
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• 2016

In this paper, we developed a new method estimating the location of ballistic missile launching using infrasound signals. Infrasound signal generated from the North Korea's ballistic missile launch was used as source data and its signal was recorded at KMA (Korea Meteorological Administration) infrasound stations located at Cheorwon and Yanggu. Time-frequency analysis, TDOA (Time Delay of Arrival) method and spherical trigonometry were applied for data processing of signal recorded and occurrence location detection. We could confirm the outstanding performance of the algorithm estimating source location which was only 3 km apart from the actual launching site.