• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.1259-1268
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• 2019

Recently, Communication media have been developed for the underwater communication in underwater environments where the underwater communication failures occur frequently. Although the underwater communication by one medium is not stable due to the influence of the underwater environment, the use of various communication media can complement each other and so this makes the underwater communication more stable. For this reason, this paper proposes approaches to the design and implementation of integrated MAC for complementing individual unstable underwater communications. In addition this paper presents the comparison and analysis on each of the proposed approaches so to be able to provide guidelines to designers and implementers of integrated MAC.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.331-351
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• 2021

Underwater images are very much different from images taken on land, due to the presence of a higher disturbance ratio caused by the presence of water medium between the camera and the target object. These distortions and noises result in unclear details and reduced quality of the output image. An underwater image restoration method is proposed in this paper, which uses blurriness information, background light neutralization information, and red-light intensity to estimate depth. The transmission map is then estimated using the derived depth map, by considering separate attenuation coefficients for direct and backscattered signals. The estimated transmission map and estimated background light are then used to recover the scene radiance. Qualitative and quantitative analysis have been used to compare the performance of the proposed method against other state-of-the-art restoration methods. It has been shown that the proposed method can yield good quality restored underwater images. The proposed method has also been evaluated using different qualitative metrics, and results have shown that method is highly capable of restoring underwater images with different conditions. The results are significant and show the applicability of the proposed method for underwater image restoration work.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2018

Underwater vehicles use Inertial Navigation System (INS) with high-performance Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for high precision navigation. However, when underwater navigation is performed for a long time, the INS error gradually diverges, therefore, an integrated navigation method using auxiliary sensors is used to solve this problem. In terms of underwater vehicles, the vertical axis error is primarily compensated through Vertical Channel Damping (VCD) using a depth gauge, and an integrated navigation filter can be designed to perform horizontal axis error and sensor error correction using a speedometer such as Electromagnetic-Log (EM-Log). However, since EM-Log outputs the forward direction relative speed of the vehicle with respect to the sea and sea current, INS correction filter using this may cause a rather large error. Although it is possible to design proper filters if the exact model of the sea current is known, it is impossible to know the accurate model in reality. Therefore, this study proposes an INS/EM-Log integrated navigation filter with the function to estimate sea current using an Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) filters, and the performance of this filter is analyzed through a simulation performed in various environments.

• 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2005년도 후기학술대회논문집
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• pp.216-217
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• 2005

This paper presents an integrated navagation control concept for underwater vehicles under high speed navigation circumstance. First of all, in order to control an underwater vehicle with respect to automatic navigation, an integrated navigation control method is suggested in view of synchronous control for course keeping, diving and depth control. An exact nonlinear model equation with six-degree-of-freedom is derived for control algorithm. To identify various hydrodynamic coefficients of the equation, an experimental approach is introduced and results are demonstrated for MANTA type model.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.415-425
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• 2016

This paper presents the results of a study on the control system for an underwater manipulator controlled by a master arm through LED communication. The underwater manipulator was designed to be actuated by electric motors with six degrees of freedom for operation in various underwater environments. The master arm, which can remotely control the manipulator, was designed with a structure similar to the manipulator for convenient control. An underwater LED communication system was developed to communicate between the master arm and underwater manipulator. An integrated control program was developed that included data conversion, monitoring, datalogging, and filtering. Some experiments were performed to verify the performance of the developed control system of the master arm, manipulator, and LED communication system, and the results are presented.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 수중 드론이 받아들이는 데이터 정보의 통신 방식과 데이터 정보의 콘솔 디스플레이로의 구현 방식에 관해 기술하였으며, 통합 모니터링 시스템 인터페이스의 기능과 음파 탐지기 인터페이스 설계 및 구현에 대하여 설명하였다. 콘솔과 연결된 컨트롤러를 이용해 수중 드론의 운항 및 자세를 제어할 수 있도록 하였고, 수중 드론과 장애물 사이의 거리 정보를 음파 탐지기로부터 획득하여 카메라 영상과 함께 콘솔 화면에 시각적으로 표시할 수 있도록 제작하였다. 통합 모니터링 내비게이션 콘솔은 개선사항에 맞게 구현하여 작업자가 편리하고 쉽게 이용할 수 있다. 또한 통합 모니터링과 제어 소프트웨어 기능 고도화를 통해 사용자별 프로젝트 관리 기능과 선저 검사용 보고서 출력 기능을 추가하여 다른 수중 드론과는 차별성과 경쟁력 있게 제작하였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2017

This paper proposes an integrated positioning system to localize a moving object in the shadow-area that exists in the water tank. The new water tank for underwater robots is constructed to evaluate the navigation performance of underwater vehicles. Several sensors are integrated in the water tank to provide the position information of the underwater vehicles. However there are some areas where the vehicle localization becomes very poor since the very limited sensors such as sonar and depth sensors are effective in underwater environment. Also there are many disturbances at sonar data. To reduce these disturbances, an extended Kalman filter has been adopted in this research. To localize the underwater vehicles under the hostile situations, a SVR (Support Vector Regression) has been systematically applied for estimating the position stochastically. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm (an extended Kalman filter + SVR analysis), a new UI (User Interface) has been developed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.774-781
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to design a DVL-RPM based VKF (Velocity Kalman Filter) design for a performance improvement underwater integrated navigation system. The proposed approach relies on a VKF, augmented by a altitude from Echo-sounder based switching architecture to yield robust performance, even when DVL (Doppler Velocity Log) exceeds the measurement range and the measured value is unable to be valid. The proposed approach relies on two parts: 1) Indirect feedback navigation Kalman filter design, 2) VKF design. To evaluate proposed method, we compare the results of the VKF aided navigation system with simulation result from a PINS (Pure Inertial Navigation System) and conventional INS-DVL method. Simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the underwater navigation system assisted by the additional DVL-RPM based VKF in underwater environment.

• 실천공학교육논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2018

수중음향센서는 무인수중운동체에 장착되어 수중 정보를 탐지하고 처리하는 역할을 한다. 이러한 음향 센서 설계는 공학을 이해하고 적용하는데 매우 중요한 분야이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 음향 센서를 단계별로 설계 및 제작하고 그 성능을 평가한 후 이러한 일련의 설계 절차와 단계 등을 종합설계 학습에 적용하기 위한 그 적합성을 연구하였다. 설문조사를 통하여 학습 적용 적합성을 분석하였으며 설문조사 결과 제시된 센서설계의 단계 및 방법 등은 종합 설계 프로젝트 내용으로 적합하며, 기술습득이 용이한 구조이고, 매우 흥미를 유발하는 설계 주제로 나타났고, 학습자의 높은 긍정적 반응을 나타내었다. 향후 본 설계 프로젝트를 종합설계에 적용하였을 때 높은 교육적 성과를 낼 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.566-573
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• 2014

This paper presents the results of an integrated navigation performance analysis for selecting the sensor of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) using Monte Carlo numerical simulation. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) and Doppler velocity log (DVL) are considered to build the integrated navigation system. The position error and price of the sensor are selected as performance indices to evaluate the volunteer integrated navigation systems. Monte-Carlo simulation is introduced to analyze the circular error probability (CEP) and its variance. Simulation results provide the proper sensor combination for integrated navigation in relation to the performance and price.