• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 Wi-Fi, 블루투스, CDMA등 라디오 비컨의 수신 신호세기와 GPS 위성 신호를 결합하여 개체의 위치를 측정하는 Place Lab 기반 실내외 연속측위 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 Place Lab은 복수의 측위매체를 이용하여 다양한 실내 환경에서 위치인식이 가능하였다. 하지만 각 측위매체를 통합하는 방법 및 실내외 환경을 연동하는 방법이 고려되지 않아 동작 효율이 낮고, 그 사용 범위가 제한되는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실내의 측위매체들을 유기적으로 연계하는 멀티센서 데이터 융합 모델을 정의하고, 각 계층에 적합하게 Place Lab을 재구성하여 이러한 단점을 해결하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 라디오 비컨 신호와 GPS 위성 신호를 결합하여 실내외 연속측위를 수행하며, OSGi 번들로 구현되어 다양한 모바일 디바이스에서 단절없는 PNS 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 구현된 시스템은 윈도우 모바일 기반의 삼성 T*OMNIA SCH-M490 스마트폰에서 그 성능을 평가하였으며, 그 결과 제안된 연속측위 시스템을 통해 PNS 서비스를 성공적으로 지원할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.684-690
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• 2015

This paper presents a modified residual-based EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) for performance improvement of indoor positioning using WiFi RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) measurement. Radio signal strength in indoor environments may have irregular attenuation characteristics due to obstacles such as walls, furniture, etc. Therefore, the performance of the RSSI-based positioning with the conventional trilateration method or Kalman filter is insufficient to provide location-based accurate information services. In order to enhance the performance of indoor positioning, in this paper, error analysis of the distance calculated by using the WiFi RSSI measurement is performed based on the radio propagation model. Then, an IARM (Irregularly Attenuated RSSI Measurement) error is defined. Also, it shows that the IARM error is included in the residual of the positioning filter. The IARM error is always positive. So, it is presented that the IARM error can be estimated by taking the absolute value of the residual. Consequently, accurate positioning can be achieved based on the IEM (IARM Error Mitigated) EKF with the residual modified by using the estimated IARM error. The performance of the presented IEM EKF is verified experimentally.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2017

In this paper, we introduce commercial indoor navigation systems being deployed and serviced in many fields of industry focusing on their indoor positioning technologies. Indoor positioning technology is a technology that locates people or targets in the interior of a building. To do that, it utilizes radio waves such as WiFi, and bluetooth, magnetic fields, or other sensory information from smart phones. We present indoor navigation systems categorizing them into their indoor positioning technologies. We define important performance issues for indoor positioning technologies and analyze them according to the performance issues. We believe that this paper provide wise view and necessary information for recent indoor navigation systems.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.837-845
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• 2016

Providing a customer with tailored location-based services (LBSs) is a fundamental problem. For location-estimation techniques with radio-based measurements, LBS applications are widely available for mobile devices (MDs), such as smartphones, enabling users to run multi-task applications. LBS information not only enables obtaining the current location of an MD but also provides real-time push-pull communication service. For indoor environments, localization technologies based on radio frequency (RF) pattern-matching approaches are accurate and commonly used. However, to survey radio information for pattern-matching approaches, a considerable amount of time and work is spent in indoor environments. Consequently, in order to reduce the system-deployment cost and computing complexity, this article proposes an indoor positioning approach, which involves using Asus Xtion to facilitate capturing RF signals during an offline site survey. The depth information obtained using Asus Xtion is utilized to estimate the locations and predict the received signal strength (RF information) at uncertain locations. The proposed approach effectively reduces not only the time and work costs but also the computing complexity involved in determining the orientation and RF during the online positioning phase by estimating the user's location by using a smartphone. The experimental results demonstrated that more than 78% of time was saved, and the number of samples acquired using the proposed method during the offline phase was twice as much as that acquired using the conventional method. For the online phase, the location estimates have error distances of less than 2.67 m. Therefore, the proposed approach is beneficial for use in various LBS applications.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2024

실내 로비 환경에서 다중 경로에서 6, 10, 17 GHz 주파수 대역의 전파 특성을 분석하였다. 가시선(Line-of-sight, LOS) 및 비가시선(Non-line-of-sight, NLOS) 경로는 송신 안테나 위치에서 수신 안테나 위치까지 2-16 m (0.5 m 간격) 거리에서 측정되었다. 기본 전송 손실은 경로에 해당하는 FI(Floating intercept) 경로 손실 모델을 사용하여 세 가지 매개변수를 비교하였다. RMS(Root mean square) 지연 확산은 측정 결과를 누적 확률 10, 50, 90%로 비교하였다. 기둥의 존재와 특이한 로비 구조로 인해 측정된 모든 주파수에서 전파 손실과 전파 지연이 발생하였다. 이에 실내 로비 환경에 대한 측정 시나리오와 표준 측정 데이터 제공을 제안하였다. 이를 통해 다양한 구조의 실내 로비 환경에서 5G 및 밀리미터파 대역의 전파 특성에 대한 연구에 기여할 것이다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2009

This paper aims at designing an impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transceiver, especially targeting the IEEE 802.15.4a indoor ranging and communication systems. We first investigate the IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB signals and suggest the full-digital transceiver architecture accordingly. Since the wireless systems equipped with the impulse signal have the property of low-duty cycle, i.e., discontinuity in time, while the conventional systems takes the continuous signals, it is required to reconfigure the system design, including link budget. Following brief introduction to our IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB system hardware, we finally examine the ranging performance in indoor environments to verify our system design.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.760-766
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• 2008

This paper proposes an efficient location technique to find an indoor location under the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks. The proposed method is based on the range measurements obtained from a simple radio frequency propagation model. Thus, unlike the radio frequency fingerprint correlation method, it does not suffer from the computational burden during the real-time location service period and can quickly reply the location requests of many users at the same time. To increase the location accuracy in spite of the frequent non-line-of-sight error occurrences, the proposed method calibrates the distortion of the non-line-of-sight error by a simple measurement surveying procedure that does not require the surveyor's manual interaction. Experimental results show the capability of the proposed method.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to improve the accuracy of the Wi-Fi access point (AP) positioning technique. The proposed algorithm based on evaluating the trustworthiness of the signal strength quality of each measurement node is superior to other existing AP positioning algorithms, such as the centroid, weighted centroid, multilateration, and radio distance ratio methods, owing to advantages such as reduction of distance errors during positioning, reduction of complexity, and ease of implementation. To validate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we conducted experiments in a complex indoor environment with multiple walls and obstacles, multiple office rooms, corridors, and lobby, and measured the corresponding AP signal strength value at several specific points based on their coordinates. Using the proposed algorithm, we can obtain more accurate positioning results of the APs for use in research or industrial applications, such as finding rogue APs, creating radio maps, or estimating the radio frequency propagation properties in an area.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2017

Recently, indoor LBS has been attracting much attention because of its promising prospect. One of key technologies for its success is indoor location estimation. A popular one for indoor positioning is to find the location based on the strength of received Wi-Fi signals. Since the Wi-Fi services are currently prevalent, it can perform indoor positioning without any further infrastructure. However, it is found that its accuracy depends heavily on the surrounding radio environment. To alleviate this difficulty, we present a novel indoor position technique employing the geomagnetic characteristics as well as Wi-Fi signals. The geomagnetic characteristic is known to vary according to the location. Therefore, employing the geomagnetic signal in addition to Wi-Fi signals is expected to improve the location estimation accuracy.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.62-68
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• 2016

실내 위치인식 기술 중 하나인 WiFi Fingerprint는 기존의 WiFi access point(AP)의 거리에 따른 신호 세기를 활용하여 위치를 추정하는 편리함 때문에 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 하지만 이 방식은 Radio map에 저장된 Reference point에 의존하기 때문에 다른 방식에 비해 위치의 분해능이 떨어지고 연산량이 많다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 WiFi와 BLE를 융합한 Log-Distance Path Loss Model 기반의 Radio map 설계 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 Log-Distance Path Loss Model이 적용된 변수 값을 추출하여 Radio map을 설계하는 방식이며 Median Filter를 적용하여 오차를 개선하였다. 기존 Fingerprint와 비교하여 실험한 결과, 위치의 정확도는 평균 2.747m에서 2.112m로 0.635m 감소되는 것을 확인하였으며 연산량은 AP 환경에 따라 33%이상 감소하는 것을 확인하였다.