• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.198-205
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 환경에 있는 사용자는 현재 자신의 위치, 시간 그리고 주변의 상태에 기반한 상황 인식 서비스를 받을 수 있다. 이러한 상황 인식 컴퓨팅에서 위치 기반서비스는 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 위치를 측정하기 위하여 전용 장비를 설치하고 운영하는 데 많은 비용이 소요되기 때문에 기존의 WLAN(Wirless Local Area Netowork) 인프라스트럭처가 구축된 환경에서 무선 장비만을 이용하여 위치를 측정하는 방법들이 연구되고 있다. 이미 위치가 알려지고 고정된 AP(Access Point)와 노드간의 RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator)만을 이용하는 비콘 기반의 위치 측정 시스템 보다 무선 장비들 간의 RSSI 까지도 이용하는 상호 협력 위치 측정 시스템(Cooperative Positioning System)은 정확성이 높기 때문에 많은 관심을 끌고 있다. 본 논문에서는 상호 협력 위치 측정 시스템 중의 하나인 기존의 WiPS(wireless LAM based indoor Positioning System)의 문제점을 분석하고, 이웃하는 노드간의 영향 관계를 밝히고, 노드의 밀도에 따라 위치 수렴 조정 계수를 결정하여 성능을 개선한 WiCOPS-d(Wireless Cooperative Positioning System using node density)를 제안한다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.99-115
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• 2020

Since GNSS is easily affected by jamming and/or spoofing, alternative navigation systems can be operated as backup system to prepare for outage of GNSS. Alternative navigation systems are being researched over the world, and a multi-radio integrated navigation system using alternative navigation systems such as KNSS, eLoran, Loran-C, DME, VOR has been researched in Korea. Least Square or Kalman filter can be used to estimate navigation parameters in the navigation system. A large number of measurements of the Kalman filter may lead to heavy computational load. The decentralized Kalman filter and the federated Kalman filter were proposed to handle this problem. In this paper, the decentralized Kalman filter and the federated Kalman filter are designed for the multi-radio integrated navigation system and the performance evaluation result are presented. The decentralized Kalman filter and the federated Kalman filter consists of local filters and a master filter. The navigation parameter is estimated by local filters and master filter compensates navigation parameter from the local filters. Characteristics of three Kalman filters for a linear system and nonlinear system are investigated, and the performance evaluation results of the three Kalman filters for multi-radio integrated navigation system are compared.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2016

Visible light communication (VLC) using LED lamps is suitable for implementing an indoor positioning system in an indoor environment where the global positioning system (GPS) signal does not reach. In this paper, we present an indoor positioning system for mobile robots using a VLC beacon and fuzzy rules. This system consists of an autonomous mobile robot, VLC modules, and device application software. Fuzzy rules are applied to plan the global and local paths along which the mobile robot navigates indoors. The VLC transmitter modules are attached to the wall or the ceiling as beacons to transmit their own location information. The variable pulse position modulation (VPPM) algorithm is used to transmit data, which is a new modulation scheme for VLC providing a dimming control mechanism for flicker-free optical communication. The mobile robot has a receiver module to receive the location information while performing its mission in the environment where VLC transmitters are deployed.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.609-618
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• 2006

This paper presents the lateral control of an autonomous vehicle by using a look-ahead sensing system. In look-ahead sensing by an absolute positioning system, a reference lane, constructed by straight lanes or circular lanes, was switched by a segment switching algorithm. To cope with sensor noise and modeling uncertainty, a robust LMI-based $H_{\infty}$ lateral controller was designed by the feedback of lateral offset and yaw angle error at the vehicle look-ahead. In order to verify the safety and the performance of lateral control, a scaled-down vehicle was developed and the location of the vehicle was detected by using an ultrasonic local positioning system. In the mechatronic scaled-down vehicle, the lateral model and parameters are verified and estimated by a J-turn test. For the lane change and reference lane tracking, the lateral controllers are used experimentally. The experimental results show that the $H_{\infty}$ controller is robust and has better performance compared with look-down sensing.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.333-339
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• 2022

The satellite navigation system was developed for the purpose of calculating the location of local users, starting with the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the 1980s. Advanced countries in the space industry are operating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that covers the entire earth, such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou, by establishing satellite navigation systems for each country. Regional Navigation Satellite Systems (RNSS) such as QZSS and NavIC are also in operation. In the early 2010s, only GPS and GLONASS could calculate location using a single system for location determination. After 2016, the EU and China also completed the establishment of GNSS such as Galileo and BeiDou. As a result, satellite navigation users can benefit from improved availability of GNSS. In addition, before Galileo and BeiDou's Full Operational Capability (FOC) declaration, they used combined navigation algorithms to calculate the user's location by adding another satellite navigation system to the GPS satellites. Recently, it may be possible to calculate a user's location for each navigation system using the resources of a single system. In this paper, we evaluated the performance of single system navigation and combined navigation solutions of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS individual navigation systems using high-performance GNSS receivers.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.647-655
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• 2008

This paper presents real-time algorithm for an ultrasonic Local Positioning System(LPS). An ultrasonic LPS consists of 4 transmitters and n receivers. Each transmitter transmits an sequential ultrasonic signal to avoid interference of ultrasonic signal. This method is a noneffective application for a fast object. Because receiver detects four sequential transmissive ultrasonic signal and calculates a position. This paper proposes the method which 4 transmitters transmit simultaneous ultrasonic signal and each transmitter distinguished by frequencies and codes. And Auto-Correlation Function(ACF) method separates codes from an ultrasonic echo signal which is interference of each transmitter's code. If the receiver uses only ACF method, it is difficult to implement real time application for increased computation. This paper implements LPS using dual frequencies and ACF method. Using dual frequencies reduces codes length. The reduced codes length save computation in ACF. To prove this algorithm by experiment, high performance DSP(digital signal processor) used. The result shows the performance of the designed system is good enough positioning.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.119-127
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• 2019

COsmicheskaya Sisteyama Poiska Avariynich Sudov Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (COSPAS-SARSAT) is an international communication support program to perform search and rescue (SAR) operations in emergency situations by using satellite signals relayed from a beacon. The legacy COSPAS-SARSAT was originally composed of low altitude and geostationary Earth orbit satellites; thus, a limited number of directional dish antennas was sufficient to cover the limited number of visible satellites at the local user terminal. However, the second generation COSPAS-SARSAT newly added the medium Earth orbit satellites, e.g., Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to the existing system, so that the number of visible satellites increase dramatically, and the system upgrade to cover all the visible satellites is foreseen. The additional use of planned Korea Positioning System (KPS) to existing GNSS is envisaged to provide a better performance of their SAR service. This paper presents the benefits of the additional use of KPS together with the phased array antennas at the local user terminal of the COSPAS-SARSAT. This is to effectively response to the increase of the number of visible satellites. Numerical simulation is included to evaluate the performance improvement of COSPAS-SARSAT in terms of the number of visible satellites, geometry between satellites and user, and position estimation accuracy.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2016

In this paper, performance on receivers of multilateration (MLAT) system that uses ADS-B signal, which is recently becoming popular, was analyzed to overcome shortcomings of existing aircraft flight control systems or reinforce the capabilities. A link budget was analyzed using a channel model in the airport environment with regard to Local Area Multilateration (LAM) for ground-controlled landing around the airport. In order to detect signals that arrived at the receiver successfully, sensitivity of receiver was analyzed using a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) worksheet, and a method that improves accuracy of the distance measurement was proposed by adopting a peak estimation using sampling signals. Through simulations, optimum specifications of receivers were analyzed to have high precision positioning of LAM, and accuracy of LAM distance measurements was presented.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.789-796
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• 2012

Fingerprinting is a widely used positioning technology for received signal strength (RSS) based wireless local area network (WLAN) positioning system. Though spatial RSS variation is the key factor of the positioning technology, temporal RSS variation needs to be considered for more accuracy. To deal with the spatial and temporal RSS characteristics within a unified framework, this paper proposes an extended signal propagation mode (ESPM) and a fingerprint generation method. The proposed spatiotemporal fingerprint generation method consists of two algorithms running in parallel; Kalman filtering at several measurement-sampling locations and Kriging to generate location fingerprints at dense reference locations. The two different algorithms are connected by the extended signal propagation model which describes the spatial and temporal measurement characteristics in one frame. An experiment demonstrates that the proposed method provides an improved positioning accuracy.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

유비쿼터스(Ubiquitous) 라는 시대적 흐름에 따라 상황(Context)을 고려한 응용 서비스들에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 서비스들은 대부분 사용자의 현재 위치 정보를 기반으로 하는 위치 기반 서비스(LBS : Location Based Service)의 형태를 띠고 있다. 현재 GPS(Global Positioning System)나 지상파를 이용한 위치 측정 방법이 널리 사용되고 있으며 보다 효율적이고 정확한 위치 측정을 위한 많은 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 최근에는 실외를 대상으로 하는 서비스뿐만 아니라 홈 서비스, 대형 건물 안내 서비스와 같은 실내를 중심으로 하는 서비스가 각광을 받고 있다. 실외 위치 측정 분야의 경우 이미 많은 상용 제품들이 출시되어 사용되고 있지만 상대적으로 실내의 위치를 알아내는 방법에 있어서는 이렇다 할 성과를 내지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 현재 널리 쓰이고 있는 무선 통신 방법 중 하나인 무선랜을 이용한 실내 위치 측위 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 지금까지 연구되어져 온 대표적인 두 가지 실내 위치 측위 방법론과 이들에 대한 장단점을 분석하고 실제 구축된 시스템을 사례로 구체적인 시스템 구축 방법 및 실험 결과를 제시하였다 또한 기존 시스템의 위치 정확도를 향상시키고 연산 속도를 개선시키기 위한 몇 가지 새로운 방안을 제시하였다.