• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.933-938
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• 2001

In this paper, we describe a method for the mobile robot using images of a moving object. This method combines the observed position from dead-reckoning sensors and the estimated position from the images captured by a fixed camera to localize a mobile robot. Using the a priori known path of a moving object in the world coordinates and a perspective camera model, we derive the geometric constraint equations which represent the relation between image frame coordinates for a moving object and the estimated robot`s position. Since the equations are based on the estimated position, the measurement error may exist all the time. The proposed method utilizes the error between the observed and estimated image coordinates to localize the mobile robot. The Kalman filter scheme is applied to this method. Effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the simulation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.785-798
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• 2004

This paper introduces the development of a range sensor based integrated navigation system for a multi-functional indoor service robot, called PSR (Public Service Robot System). The proposed navigation system includes hardware integration for sensors and actuators, the development of crucial navigation algorithms like mapping, localization, and path planning, and planning scheme such as error/fault handling. Major advantages of the proposed system are as follows: 1) A range sensor based generalized navigation system. 2) No need for the modification of environments. 3) Intelligent navigation-related components. 4) Framework supporting the selection of multiple behaviors and error/fault handling schemes. Experimental results are presented in order to show the feasibility of the proposed navigation system. The result of this research has been successfully applied to our three service robots in a variety of task domains including a delivery, a patrol, a guide, and a floor cleaning task.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1117-1124
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• 2010

This paper presents a foot movement tracking system using ultrasonic sensors and inertial sensors, where the position and velocity of foot are computed using inertial sensors and ultrasonic sensors mounted on a shoe. A foot movement can be estimated using an inertial navigation algorithm only; however, the error tends to increase due to biases of gyroscopes and accelerometers. To reduce the error, a localization system using ultrasonic sensors is additionally used. In the localization system using ultrasonic sensors, the position is continuously calculated in the absolute coordinate. An indirect Kalman filter is used to combine inertial sensors and ultrasonic sensors. Through experiments, it is shown that the proposed system can track a foot movement.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권4E호
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• pp.52-60
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• 2001

This paper describes real time implementation of subband sound localization system on a floating-point DSP TI TMS320C31. The system determines two dimensional location of an active speaker in a closed room environment with real noise presents. The system consists of an two microphone array connected to TI DSP hosted by PC. The implemented sound localization algorithm is Subband CPSP which is an improved version of traditional CPSP (Cross-Power Spectrum Phase) method. The algorithm first split the input speech signal into arbitrary number of subband using subband filter banks and calculate the CPSP in each subband. It then averages out the CPSP results on each subband and compute a source location estimate. The proposed algorithm has an advantage over CPSP such that it minimize the overall estimation error in source location by limiting the specific band dominant noise to that subband. As a result, it makes possible to set up a robust real time sound localization system. For real time simulation, the input speech is captured using two microphone and digitized by the DSP at sampling rate 8192 hz, 16 bit/sample. The source location is then estimated at once per second to satisfy real-time computational constraints. The performance of the proposed system is confirmed by several real time simulation of the speech at a distance of 1m, 2m, 3m with various speech source locations and it shows over 5% accuracy improvement for the source location estimation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.931-938
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• 2008

In this paper, a novel localization algorithm robust to the unmodeled systematic odometry errors is proposed for low-cost non-holonomic mobile robots. It is well known that the most pose estimators using odometry measurements cannot avoid the performance degradation due to the dead-reckoning of systematic odometry errors. As a remedy for this problem, we tty to reflect the wheelbase error in the robot motion model as a parametric uncertainty. Applying the Krein space estimation theory for the discrete-time uncertain nonlinear motion model results in the extended robust Kalman filter. This idea comes from the fact that systematic odometry errors might be regarded as the parametric uncertainties satisfying the sum quadratic constrains (SQCs). The advantage of the proposed methodology is that it has the same recursive structure as the conventional extended Kalman filter, which makes our scheme suitable for real-time applications. Moreover, it guarantees the satisfactoty localization performance even in the presence of wheelbase uncertainty which is hard to model or estimate but often arises from real driving environments. The computer simulations will be given to demonstrate the robustness of the suggested localization algorithm.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.1199-1209
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• 2021

The detection of unexpected loose parts in the primary coolant system in a nuclear power plant remains an extremely important issue. It is essential to develop a methodology for the localization and mass estimation of loose parts owing to the high prediction error of conventional methods. An effective approach is presented for the localization and mass estimation of a loose part using machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms. First, a methodology was developed to estimate both the impact location and the mass of a loose part at the same times in a real structure in which geometric changes exist. Second, an impact database was constructed through a series of impact finite-element analyses (FEAs). Then, impact parameter prediction modes were generated for localization and mass estimation of a simulated metallic loose part using machine-learning algorithms (artificial neural network, Gaussian process, and support vector machine) and a deep-learning algorithm (convolutional neural network). The usefulness of the methodology was validated through blind tests, and the noise effect of the training data was also investigated. The high performance obtained in this study shows that the proposed methodology using an FEA-based database and deep learning is useful for localization and mass estimation of loose parts on site.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.65-67
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• 2006

To make the autonomous mobile robot move in the unknown space, we have to know the information of current location of the robot. So far, the location information that was obtained using Encoder always includes Dead Reckoning Error, which is accumulated continuously and gets bigger as the distance of movement increases. In this paper, we analyse the effect of the size of the two wheels of the mobile robot and the wheel track of them among the factors of Dead Reckoning Error. And after this, we compensate this Dead Reckoning Error by Kalman filter using Gyro Sensors. To accomplish this, we develop the controller to analyse the error components of Gyro Sensor and to minimize the error values. We employ the numerical approach to analyse the error components by linearizing them because each error component is nonlinear. And we compare the improved result through simulation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.541-546
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• 1999

자유 공간에서 음원으로부터 사람의 귀로 음향적인 전단 과정을 표현하는 머리전달함수는 사람이 음원의 위치를 판단할 수 있는 중요한 정보를 포함하고 있으며, 이를 이용하여 실질적으로는 존재하지 않는 음원을 근사적으로 생성할 수 있는 입체 음향 시스템을 구현할 수 있다 그러나 개인의 것이 아닌 일반적인 머리전달함수를 사용함으로 인해 앞뒤 판정 오차, 고도 판정 오차와 같은 음상 정위 능력이 저하된다. 이 논문에서는 머리전달함수의 스펙트럼 놋치(notch) 레벌을 증가시켜 수직면상에서의 앞뒤 판정 오차와 고도 판정 오차를 줄였다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 정지된 음원과 움직이는 음원에 대하여 주관 평가를 통해 증명하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.109-117
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• 2010

HSDPA, WiBro, 모바일 디바이스 등의 정보통신 기술의 발전으로 사용자가 컴퓨터나 네트워크를 의식하지 않고 언제 어디서나 네트워크에 접속할 수 있는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경의 구현이 가능해졌다. 이러한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 사용자의 위치에 따른 특정 정보를 제공하는 위치 기반 서비스(Location Based Service, LBS)의 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 관성 측정 장치(Inertial Measurement Unit, IMU)의 오차 보정을 위한 필터 및 알고리즘을 소개하고 실내 측위 보정을 위한 매핑 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 매핑 알고리즘은 지도를 자동으로 인식하여 교차로, 복도, 목적지로 분류하고 현재 위치를 인식하여 잘못된 매핑이 일어나지 않게 하고 사용자의 움직임 이벤트 발생 시 위치 검색의 효율을 높인다. 또한 유동적인 매핑계수를 두어 이동거리와 방향에 대한 오차 보정을 지속적으로 수행한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.18-27
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 평면 형상에 대해 자연스러운 근사화와 효과적인 지역화를 제공하는 새로운 계층적 표현 방법인 MBO-tree를 제안하였다. 곡선 근사화 방법으로 알려진 Douglas-Peucker 알고리즘을 기반으로 곡선 분할점의 근사화 오차를 분할점과 함께 계층적 트리 노드에 저장함으로써 근사화 척도로 활용하였으며, 보다 자연스러운 형상 표현을 위해 오차 조정 알고리즘도 제안하였다. MBO-tree의 오타 조정은 자식 노드의 오차가 부모 노드의 오차보다 크지 않도록 제한하는 것으로 구현하였다. 지역화를 위해서는 MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle)을 단순 확장한 MBO(Minimum Bounding Octangle)를 경계 영역으로 사용하였다. MBO는 다른 계층적 표현 체계의 경계 영역들에 비해 대상 객체에 밀착하여 효과적으로 포함할 뿐만 아니라, 계층간 경계 영역 포함 관계도 만족하기 때문에 점 포함 테스트나 형상간 교차 테스트 등과 같은 계층적인 기하학 연산에 매우 유용하다. 실험을 통해서 본 논문에서 제안한 방법이 strip tree, arc tree, HAL tree등과 같은 다른 계층적 표현 체계에 비해 보다 자연스러운 근사화와 효과적인 지역화가 가능함을 확인하였다.