• 한국측량학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2019

Recently, with the emergence of autonomous vehicles and the increasing interest in safety, a variety of research has been being actively conducted to precisely estimate the position of a vehicle by fusing sensors. Previously, researches were conducted to determine the location of moving objects using GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) and/or IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). However, precise positioning of a moving vehicle has lately been performed by fusing data obtained from various sensors, such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), on-board vehicle sensors, and cameras. This study is designed to enhance kinematic vehicle positioning performance by using feature-based recognition. Therefore, an analysis of the required precision of the observations obtained from the images has carried out in this study. Velocity and attitude observations, which are assumed to be obtained from images, were generated by simulation. Various magnitudes of errors were added to the generated velocities and attitudes. By applying these observations to the positioning algorithm, the effects of the additional velocity and attitude information on positioning accuracy in GNSS signal blockages were analyzed based on Kalman filter. The results have shown that yaw information with a precision smaller than 0.5 degrees should be used to improve existing positioning algorithms by more than 10%.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.395-401
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• 2018

Recently, most of mobile devices are equipped with GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). When the GNSS signal is available, it is easy to obtain position information. However, GNSS is not suitable solution for indoor localization, since the signals are normally not reachable inside buildings. A wide varieties of technology have been developed as a solution for indoor localization such as Wi-Fi, beacons, and inertial sensor. With the increased sensor combinations in mobile devices, mobile devices also became feasible to provide a solution, which based on PDR (Pedestrian Dead Reckoning) method. In this study, we utilized the combination of three sensors equipped in mobile devices including accelerometer, digital compass, and gyroscope and applied three representative PDR methods. The proposed methods are done in three stages; step detection, step length estimation, and heading determination and the final indoor localization result was evaluated with terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data obtained in the same test site. By using terrestrial LiDAR data as reference ground truth for PDR in two differently designed experiments, the inaccuracy of PDR methods that could not be found by existing evaluation method could be revealed. The firstexperiment included extreme direction change and combined with similar pace size. Second experiment included smooth direction change and irregular step length. In using existing evaluation method which only checks traveled distance, The results of two experiments showed the mean percentage error of traveled distance estimation resulted from three different algorithms ranging from 0.028 % to 2.825% in the first experiment and 0.035% to 2.282% in second experiment, which makes it to be seen accurately estimated. However, by using the evaluation method utilizing terrestrial LiDAR data, the performance of PDR methods emerged to be inaccurate. In the firstexperiment, the RMSEs (Root Mean Square Errors) of x direction and y direction were 0.48 m and 0.41 m with combination of the best available algorithm. However, the RMSEs of x direction and y direction were 1.29 m and 3.13 m in the second experiment. The new evaluation result reveals that the PDR methods were not effective enough to find out exact pedestrian position information opposed to the result from existing evaluation method.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.300-309
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• 2003

차량항법장치는 1981년 일본 혼다자동차 관성항법장치에서 개발되었다. 요즈음에는 GPS 및 GIS를 기반으로 운전자에게 최단 경로탐색 및 예상도착시간을 인터넷 및 휴대폰으로 검색할 수 있다. 그러나 아무리 좋은 자동항법장치도 평균 차량 속도가 5~15km일 때에는 최단경로를 상실한다. 그러므로, 승용차 대기시간과 평균 차량 속도를 개선하기 위해서 다른 교차로 길이 및 교차로 차선수일 때에도 퍼지 적응규칙을 이용해서 평균주행속도를 향상한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 뿐만 아니라, 본 논문에서는 인터넷을 이용해서 위험한 도로 및 공사중인 도로에서도 안전도를 고려한 최적경로 및 현재의 교통상황을 예보하는 기능을 제공할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2012

GPS(Global Positioning System) is widely used for the position estimation of an aerial vehicle. However, GPS may not be available due to hostile jamming or strategic reasons. A vision-based position estimation method can be effective if GPS does not work properly. In mountainous areas without any man-made landmark, a horizon is a good feature for estimating the position of an aerial vehicle. In this paper, we present a new method to estimate the position of the aerial vehicle equipped with a forward-looking infrared camera. It is assumed that INS(Inertial Navigation System) provides the attitudes of an aerial vehicle and a camera. The horizon extracted from an infrared image is compared with horizon models generated from DEM(Digital Elevation Map). Because of a narrow field of view of the camera, two images with a different camera view are utilized to estimate a position. The algorithm is tested using real infrared images acquired on the ground. The experimental results show that the method can be used for estimating the position of an aerial vehicle.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.289-295
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• 2021

Recently, owing to the development of autonomous vehicles, research on precisely determining the position of a moving object has been actively conducted. Previous research mainly used the fusion of GNSS/IMU (Global Positioning System / Inertial Navigation System) and sensors attached to the vehicle through a Kalman filter. However, in recent years, new technologies have been used to determine the location of a moving object owing to the improvement in computing power and the advent of deep learning. Various techniques using RNN (Recurrent Neural Network), LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory), and NARX (Nonlinear Auto-Regressive eXogenous model) exist for such learning-based positioning methods. The purpose of this study is to compare the precision of existing filter-based sensor fusion technology and the NARX-based method in case of GNSS signal blockages using simulation data. When the filter-based sensor integration technology was used, an average horizontal position error of 112.8 m occurred during 60 seconds of GNSS signal outages. The same experiment was performed 100 times using the NARX. Among them, an improvement in precision was confirmed in approximately 20% of the experimental results. The horizontal position accuracy was 22.65 m, which was confirmed to be better than that of the filter-based fusion technique.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.342-351
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• 2010

UAV는 임무 수행을 위한 INS 장비와 광학 장비를 갖추고 있다. 이 논문에서는 UAV를 위한 알고리즘으로 칼만 필터와 광류를 이용하는 영상기반 자세추정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 광류는 UAV에 장착된 카메라의 영상으로부터 획득하며 UAV의 자세는 광류를 통해 측정된다. 이 논문에서 UAV 자세의 추정과 낮은 신뢰성을 보완하기위해 칼만 필터를 사용한다. 그리고 실험을 통해 알고리즘을 검증하였다. Rate table과 실제 비행영상을 이용하여 실험 하였으며, 본 논문에서 UAV의 자세 추정 알고리즘 검증 결과를 보였다. Rate table 실험에서 오차는 2도 이내였으며, AHRS를 통해 측정한 결과와 비슷한 경향을 보인다. 그러나 실제 비행 영상 실험에서 최대 Yaw 오차는 21도였으며, 최대 Pitch 오차는 7.8도로 나타났다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.114-129
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• 1996

This paper describes the whole development phase for the underwater vehicle actuating system with high hydroload torque disturbance. This includes requirement analysis, system modeling, control algorithm design, real time implementation, test and performance evaluations. As for driving control algorithms, fuzzy logic, variable structure and PD(Proportional-Differential) algorithm were designed and implemented on board controller using a single chip microprocessor. Intel 8797. And test and performance evaluation is carried out both single test and wystem integration test. We could confirm the basic performance of actuating system through the single test and gereral developing work of any actuating systems was finished with a single performance test of actuating system without system integration test. But, we suggested that system integration test be needed. System integration test is carried out using G/C HILS(Guidance and Control Hardware-In-the -Loop Simulation) which is constituted flight motion simulator, load simulator, real time host computer and the related subsystems such as inertial navigation system, power supply system and Guidance and Control Computer etc.. The most important practical contribution of this paper is that full system characteristics such as minimal control effort, enhancement of guidance and autopilot performance by the actuating system using G/C HILS technique are investigated. Through full running G/C HILS, in spite of the passing to single tests, some control algorithm resulted in failure as to stability of full system and system time frame.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.534-543
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• 2008

To use the Global Positioning System (GPS) carrier phase measurement for precise positioning, the integer ambiguities at the early stage of most algorithms must be determined. Furthermore, if a precise positioning is to be applied to real time navigation, fast determination and validation methods for integer ambiguity are essential. In this paper, the Wald test that simultaneously determines and validates integer ambiguities is used with assistance of the Inertial Navigation System (INS) to improve its performance. As the Wald test proceeds, it assigns a higher probability to the candidate that is considered to be true at each time step. The INS information is added during the Wald test process. Large performance improvements were achieved in convergence time as well as in requiring fewer observable GPS satellites. To test the performance improvement of the Wald test with the INS information, experimental tests were conducted using a ground vehicle. The vehicle moved in a prescribed trajectory and observed seven GPS satellites. To verify the effect of the INS information on the Wald test, the convergence times were compared with cases that considered the INS information and cases that did not consider the INS information. The results show that the benefits of using the INS were emphasized as fewer GPS satellites were observable. The performance improvement obtained by the proposed algorithm was shown through the fast convergence to the true hypothesis when using the INS measurements.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권5_3호
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• pp.1349-1359
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• 2021

SAR SLC 영상을 취득하기 위해 원시 자료로부터 BPA 기반 영상복원을 수행할 때 정확한 GNSS-INS 센서의 위치 및 속도 정보를 획득하는 것은 중요하다. BPA 기반 영상복원을 수행한 연구에서 기기 오차 보정을 위해 Kalman Filter를 적용하였으나, 대부분 1회 적용하여 효과적으로 오차를 제거하였는지 판단하기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 GNSS-INS 센서의 위치 및 속도 정보에 Kalman Filter를 복수회 적용한 뒤 BPA를 이용하여 영상복원을 수행하여 기기 오차 보정에 효과적인 필터링 횟수를 평가하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 2회의 항공기 실험을 진행하여 SAR 원시 자료를 취득하였고, 이들에 해당하는 GNSS-INS 센서 정보에 대해 실질적이고 연속적으로 Kalman Filter를 적용하였다. 본 연구를 통해 상이한 이동 경로를 가지는 GNSS-INS 정보가 상응하는 FMCW-SAR 영상의 BPA 기반 최적 영상복원에 필요한 Kalman Filter 적용 횟수에 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.441-449
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• 2021

지능형 이동체 시스템 발달에 따라서, 보다 정확한 위치 정보 추정 기술에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 특히, 실내에서 사용되는 이동 로봇에게 주어진 일을 정해진 위치에서 수행할 때에는 보다 정확한 위치 추정에 대한 성능을 필요로 한다. 따라서, 이 논문에서는 고정형 또는 이동형 사물에 적용 가능한 진보된 위치 추정 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 미리 설치된 블루투스 비콘 신호로부터 위치 추정 결과를 칼만 필터의 관찰 신호로 사용한다. 또한, 센서의 위치와 각도에 따라서 결정되는 각 방향의 중력 가속도를 추정하기 위해서, 롤(roll)과 피치(pitch) 각도를 먼저 계산하고, 이 결과를 자기장 센서 출력과 결합하여 요(Yaw) 각도를 추정함으로써,이동체의 진행 방향을 정확히 추정한다. 이를 기반으로 이동체의 제어 입력이 되는 가속도 신호를 정확히 계산함으로써, 칼만 필터의 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법의 성능은 고정 상태와 이동 상태로 나누어 평균 위치 오차를 계산하여 기존의 칼만 필터와 비교시 위치 오차를 크게 향상시킴을 확인하였다.