• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.106-112
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• 2006

A new model for the continuous-magnetic interferences has been proposed in this paper to remove external interferes of magnetic field to the dual electric compass. By this removal, the dual electric compass can be used for proving the azimuth angle in an automobile navigation system instead of the rate gyroscope. In the navigation system with a GPS receiver, a DR sensor such as a rate gyroscope is needed to overcome the shielded areas, which is relatively expensive and requires frequent calibrations. However the dual electric compass designed by this research is cheap and provides absolute azimuth angle precisely, which is beneficiary to be used as a DR sensor. The main contribution of this paper is that the long-lasting magnetic interferences have been removed out by using the proposed model, which never be studied before. With a hybrid navigation system using a DR sensor, we demonstrated that dual electric compass is better than a rate gyroscope in terms of both economics and performances.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.118-124
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• 2008

Recently fishing industry is interested in efficiency and automation to acquire the international competitive power of national fishing industry. As an automation device of fishing boat, there are electric compasses using GPS and terrestrial magnetic sensor. Electric compass can be minimum size, high effectiveness with keeping the characteristic of a magnetic compass. This can be used a heading angle sensor to construct auto-navigation system in a small size ship. This paper develop electronic compass system that has serial output signal in NMEA 0183 and demonstrates the possibility of the electronics compass in navigation system for a small sized ship.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.381-382
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• 2007

Recently fishing industry is interested in efficient and automated fishing implementations to reach the level of the international leading technology. One of the important device used in fishing boat is an automated electric compass that harnesses the GPS and terrestrial magnetic sensor. The electric compass is desired to be minimized in size while keeping a high effectiveness in the characteristic of a magnetic compass. This device also can be used as a heading angle sensor to construct auto-navigation system in a small size of ships. However, there exists measurement errors induced from the slope of terrestrial magnetic sensor caused by the motion of boat. In this paper, a method has been proposed removing the measurement error arising from the slope of terrestrial magnetic sensor when the ship is in motion. We have designed a sensor with two DOF(degree of freedom) and a weight to maintain the horizontality of the sensor. Through this research, the hardware has been designed and also a test has been performed. The test shows a promissory result.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.767-773
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• 2008

This paper presents a localization system based on the use of electric compass and tracking IR light source. Digital RGB(Red, Green, Blue)signal of digital CMOS Camera is sent to CPLD which converts the color image to binary image at 30 frames per second. CMOS camera has IR filter and UV filter in front of CMOS cell. The filters cut off above 720nm light source. Binary output data of CPLD is sent to DSP that rapidly tracks the IR light source by moving Camera tilt DC motor. At a robot toward north, electric compass signals and IR light source angles which are used for calculating the data of the location system. Because geomagnetic field is linear in local position, this location system is possible. Finally, it is shown that position error is within ${\pm}1.3cm$ in this system.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.126-135
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• 2008

The development of an unmanned vehicle basically requires the robust and reliable performance of major functions which include global localization, lane detection, obstacle avoidance, path planning, etc. The implementation of major functional subsystems are possible by integrating and fusing data acquired from various sensory systems such as GPS, vision, ultrasonic sensor, encoder, and electric compass. This paper focuses on implementing the functional subsystems, which are designed and developed by a graphical programming tool, NI LabVIEW, and also verifying the autonomous navigation and remote control of the unmanned vehicle.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.1437-1443
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 초음파와 전자나침반, 엔코더, 자이로센서를 복합적으로 구성하여 로봇의 SLAM 방법을 제시하였다. 일반적으로 전자 나침반과 엔코더, 자이로를 이용한 로봇의 위치측정은 작업공간에서의 상대위치만을 알 수 있다. 실제 로봇이 작업공간에서 작업을 하기 위해서는 로봇의 절대위치 정보를 알아야만 하며, 이는 SLAM으로 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는SLAM 구현을 위하여 로봇의 작업공간을 초음파 센서를 이용하여 구조적 맵 생성 기법을 통해 맵을 생성한 후, 이를 특정 맵으로 변환하였다. 생성된 특정 맵과 맵 매핑을 활용하여 맵 상의 절대위치를 구한다. 실험은 직접 설계 및 제작한 로봇을 이용하였고, 실험 방법은 초기 좌표를 모르는 로봇을 임의의 장소에 위치 시키고 제안한 SLAM 알고리즘을 이용하여 로봇의 전역 좌표를 찾도록 하였다. 실험 결과, 제안한 SLAM 알고리즘을 이용하여 맵 상의 절대위치를 모두 찾음을 확인하였다.