• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.687-696
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• 2003

This article presents a new family of the estimating functions related with minimum distance estimations, and discusses its relationship to the family of the minimum density power divergence estimating equations. Two representative minimum distance estimations; the minimum $L_2$ distance estimation and the minimum Hellinger distance estimation are studied in the light of the theory of estimating equations. Despite of the desirable properties of minimum distance estimations, they are not widely used by general researchers, because theories related with them are complex and are hard to be computationally implemented in real problems. Hopefully, this article would be a help for understanding the minimum distance estimations better.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2011

This paper reveals a distance estimation algorithm based on multi-code ultrasonic and wireless sensor network. For measuring the distances among the sensor nodes, each ultrasonic transmitter transmits multi-code ultrasonic signal simultaneously. Receivers use cross correlation method to separate the coded signals. The information of measured distances is broadcasted to each sensor node by wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network measures the distance among the sensor nodes using the received signal strength of the broadcasting. The multi-code ultrasonic have a limitation of measurable distance. And the received signal strength is affected from an environment. This paper measures a distance using ultrasonic and a received signal strength in short range. These measured data are applied to the least square estimation algorithm. By the expansion of the fitting curve, a distance measurement in long range using the received signal strength is compensated. The coupled system reduce the error to an acceptable level.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.316-321
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• 2005

We designed and implemented fish robots for various purposes such as autonomous navigation, maneuverability control, posture balancing and improvement of quick turns in a tank of 120 X 120 X 180cm size. Typically, fish robots have 30-50 X 15-25 X 10-20cm dimensions; length, width and height, respectively. It is essential to have the ability of quick and smooth turning to avoid collision with obstacles or walls of the water pool at a close distance. Infrared distance sensors are used to detect obstacles, magneto-resistive sensors are used to read direction information, and a two-axis accelerometer is mounted to compensate output of direction sensors. Because of the swing action of its head due to the tail fin movement, the outputs of an infrared distance sensor contain a huge amount of noise around true distances. With the information from accelerometers and e-compass, much improved distance data can be obtained by fuzzy logic based estimation. Successful swimming and smooth turns without collision demonstrated the effectiveness of the distance estimation.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.357-362
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• 2019

This paper proposes a model and train method that can real-time detect objects and distances estimation based on a monocular camera by applying deep learning. It used YOLOv2 model which is applied to autonomous or robot due to the fast image processing speed. We have changed and learned the loss function so that the YOLOv2 model can detect objects and distances at the same time. The YOLOv2 loss function added a term for learning bounding box values x, y, w, h, and distance values z as 클래스ification losses. In addition, the learning was carried out by multiplying the distance term with parameters for the balance of learning. we trained the model location, recognition by camera and distance data measured by lidar so that we enable the model to estimate distance and objects from a monocular camera, even when the vehicle is going up or down hill. To evaluate the performance of object detection and distance estimation, MAP (Mean Average Precision) and Adjust R square were used and performance was compared with previous research papers. In addition, we compared the original YOLOv2 model FPS (Frame Per Second) for speed measurement with FPS of our model.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.213-220
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• 2006

Since Beran (1977) developed the minimum Hellinger distance estimation, this method has been a popular topic in the field of robust estimation. In the process of defining a distance, a kernel density estimator has been widely used as a density estimator. In this article, however, we show that a combination of a kernel density estimator and an empirical density could result a smaller bias of the minimum Hellinger distance estimator than using just a kernel density estimator for a location parameter.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 모바일 디바이스에 기본적으로 제공되는 모노 카메라와 모노 마이크의 멀티 모달 입력을 통하여 사용자와 모바일 디바이스간의 거리를 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 영상을 이용한 거리 추정은 모노 카메라로 입력되는 영상에서 피부색 영역을 추출하고, 노이즈를 제거한 후에 얼굴 영역 및 눈 영역을 검출하여 사용자의 거리를 추정한다. 음성을 이용한 거리 추정은 모노 마이크로 입력되는 음성으로부터 가장 큰 피크(Peak)를 선정하고, ROI(Region of Interest)를 지정한 후에 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)을 수행하여 주파수 축에서의 크기(Magnitude)를 계산한다. 계산된 크기 값과 거리별 크기 값의 모델을 비교하여 거리 별 우도(Likelihood)를 계산하고, 정렬한 후 가중치를 주어 더함으로써 사용자의 거리를 추정한다. 실험결과 영상 및 음성을 멀티 모달 입력으로 이용하여 거리를 추정한 결과 단일 모달로 거리를 추정한 결과 보다 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2014

General location aware systems are only applied to indoor and outdoor environments using more than three transmitters to estimate a fixed object location. Those kinds of systems have environmental restrictions that require an already established infrastructure. To solve this problem, an Object Location Estimation (OLE) algorithm based on PTP (Point To Point) communication has been proposed. However, the problem with this method is that deduction of performance parameters is not enough and location estimation is very difficult because of unknown restriction conditions. From experimental tests in this research, we determined that the performance parameters for restriction conditions are a maximum transmission distance of CSS communication and an optimum moving distance interval between personal locations. In this paper, a system applied OLE algorithm based on PTP communication is implemented using a CSS (Chirp Spread Spectrum) communication module. A maximum transmission distance for CSS communication and an optimum moving distance interval between personal locations are then deducted and studied to estimate a fixed object location for generalization.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권6C호
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• pp.453-461
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 진폭 변조 거리 측정 시스템에 적용 가능한 개선된 위상 추정 기법을 제안한다. 기존 위상 측정 방법은 이동 목표물의 도플러 천이에 의해 위상 측정 오차가 발생한다. 제안된 위상 추정 기법은 도플러 천이에 대해 적응 도플러 보정(Adaptive Doppler Correction)을 사용하여 위상 추정 오차를 보정하므로 거리 측정 정확도를 향상 시킬 수 있다. 모의실험 결과 도플러 주파수 천이 보정은 기존 방식보다 94.7% 향상된 성능을 보이며, 거리 측정 정확도는 50%로 향상되었다. 음향 수조에서는 오차가 7.7cm로 추정되어 해양 환경에서 음파를 이용하여 거리 추정에도 적용 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2015

To accurately extract absolute distance information from a self-mixing interferometry (SMI) signal, in this paper we propose an approach based on a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm instead of frequency estimation for absolute distance. The algorithm is utilized to search for the global minimum of the fitness function that is established from the self-mixing signal to find out the actual distance. A resolution superior to $25{\mu}m$ in the range from 3 to 20 cm is obtained by experimental measurement, and the results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach in comparison with interpolated FFT. The influence of different external feedback strength parameters and different inertia weights in the algorithm is discussed as well.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.499-504
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• 2011

In this paper, we suggest a method for discretized frequency modulations of ultrasonic signals. A continuous sweep of frequency modulation signals can be modelled with fine levels of discretization. If the ultrasound signals are modulated with monotonically decreasing frequencies, then the cross-correlation between an emitted signal and received signal can be used to identify the distance of multiple target objects. For the discretized frequency synthesis, CF ultrasounds with different frequencies are serially ordered. The auto-correlation test with the signal shows effective results for distance estimation. The discretized frequency syntheses have better distance resolution than CF ultrasound signals and the resolution depends on the number of the combined ultrasound frequencies.