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Location and Direction Tracking of Small UAVs on Occlusion Area in Moving Surveillance System (이동보안시스템에서 폐색영역에서의 소형무인비행체 위치 및 방향 추적)

  • Moon, Yong-Ho;Cheon, Seung-Hyeon;Ha, Seok-Wun
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.317-324
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    • 2015
  • In his paper, we propose the graphic-based direction tracking system that be able to detect the current location and direction of the flight object and virtually run the pointing to the flight direction when a small UAV is located in the occlusion area behind buildings or obstacles in the moving surveillance systems. Based on the experimental results about the simulation flight path extracted from the Mission Planner we found the proposed system operates the desired flight mission effectively in tracking.

Study on DEVS Based Development that GPS Location Tracking System (DEVS 기반의 GPS 위치추적 시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Hee Suk;Ju, Seung Hwan;Lee, Eun Jung;Lee, Seung Jae
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the missing due to the heinous crimes occurred in succession has been the focus of attention, so measures for these are urgently needed. So, it is necessary that we need to check and take care the weak like children, women, the elderly with dementia and insane person to prevent these social problems. This study is location-based service that suggests the tracking system and way to guard a family and property from the various risk factors which are possible in our life. To acquire the location of the user who is in motion, a communications network technologies were integrated and the system will be able to be monitoring in real time through the website. So, it is convenient and safe because it is possible to use anywhere. Concretely, it was described around location-based service, GPS system, tracking system, process of the service solution and composition for the system. Also, the way to activate the system will be suggested. The final suggested system was verified the possibility through the placement. With this, i will offer effective measures which is more convenient to use and reliable.

Passive and Cost Effective People Indoor Location Tracking System for Ubiquitous Healthcare (유비쿼터스 헬스케어를 위한 저비용, 수동형 실내 위치추적 시스템)

  • Chung Wan-Young;Singh Vinay Kumar;Lim Hyo-Taek
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.430-433
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    • 2006
  • Wireless sensor network plays a prominent role in tracking the location of the target outdoor and indoor. This paper describes the implementation of the passive indoor location tracking system using ultrasonic and RF technologies that provides accurate location in the form of user space and position in three dimensions. Our system used a combination of RF and ultrasonic technologies to provide a location-support service to users and applicants. Ceiling-mounted beacons were spread through the building, publishing location information on an RF signal. The person carried a listener and the listener determined the location by calculating the distance from three beacons using triangulation algorithm.

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Passive and Cost Effective People Indoor Location Tracking System for Ubiquitous Healthcare (유비쿼터스 헬스케어를 위한 저비용, 수동형 실내 위치추적 시스템)

  • Chung Wan-Young;Singh Vinay Kumar;Lim Hyo-Taek
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.1119-1123
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    • 2006
  • Wireless sensor network plays a prominent role in tracking the location of the target outdoor or indoor. This paper describes the implementation of the passive indoor location tracking system using ultrasonic and RF technologies that provides accurate location in the form of user space and position in three dimensions. Our system used a combination of RF and ultrasonic technologies to provide a location-support service to users and applicants. Ceiling-mounted beacons were spread through the building, publishing location information on an RF signal. The person carried a listener and the listener determined the location by calculating the distance from three beacons using triangulation algorithm.

The Individual Discrimination Location Tracking Technology for Multimodal Interaction at the Exhibition (전시 공간에서 다중 인터랙션을 위한 개인식별 위치 측위 기술 연구)

  • Jung, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Nam-Jin;Choi, Lee-Kwon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2012
  • After the internet era, we are moving to the ubiquitous society. Nowadays the people are interested in the multimodal interaction technology, which enables audience to naturally interact with the computing environment at the exhibitions such as gallery, museum, and park. Also, there are other attempts to provide additional service based on the location information of the audience, or to improve and deploy interaction between subjects and audience by analyzing the using pattern of the people. In order to provide multimodal interaction service to the audience at the exhibition, it is important to distinguish the individuals and trace their location and route. For the location tracking on the outside, GPS is widely used nowadays. GPS is able to get the real time location of the subjects moving fast, so this is one of the important technologies in the field requiring location tracking service. However, as GPS uses the location tracking method using satellites, the service cannot be used on the inside, because it cannot catch the satellite signal. For this reason, the studies about inside location tracking are going on using very short range communication service such as ZigBee, UWB, RFID, as well as using mobile communication network and wireless lan service. However these technologies have shortcomings in that the audience needs to use additional sensor device and it becomes difficult and expensive as the density of the target area gets higher. In addition, the usual exhibition environment has many obstacles for the network, which makes the performance of the system to fall. Above all these things, the biggest problem is that the interaction method using the devices based on the old technologies cannot provide natural service to the users. Plus the system uses sensor recognition method, so multiple users should equip the devices. Therefore, there is the limitation in the number of the users that can use the system simultaneously. In order to make up for these shortcomings, in this study we suggest a technology that gets the exact location information of the users through the location mapping technology using Wi-Fi and 3d camera of the smartphones. We applied the signal amplitude of access point using wireless lan, to develop inside location tracking system with lower price. AP is cheaper than other devices used in other tracking techniques, and by installing the software to the user's mobile device it can be directly used as the tracking system device. We used the Microsoft Kinect sensor for the 3D Camera. Kinect is equippedwith the function discriminating the depth and human information inside the shooting area. Therefore it is appropriate to extract user's body, vector, and acceleration information with low price. We confirm the location of the audience using the cell ID obtained from the Wi-Fi signal. By using smartphones as the basic device for the location service, we solve the problems of additional tagging device and provide environment that multiple users can get the interaction service simultaneously. 3d cameras located at each cell areas get the exact location and status information of the users. The 3d cameras are connected to the Camera Client, calculate the mapping information aligned to each cells, get the exact information of the users, and get the status and pattern information of the audience. The location mapping technique of Camera Client decreases the error rate that occurs on the inside location service, increases accuracy of individual discrimination in the area through the individual discrimination based on body information, and establishes the foundation of the multimodal interaction technology at the exhibition. Calculated data and information enables the users to get the appropriate interaction service through the main server.

APPLICATION OF WIFI-BASED INDOOR LOCATION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR LABOR TRACKING IN CONSTRUCTION SITE - A CASE STUDY in Guangzhou MTR

  • Sunkyu Woo;Seongsu Jeong;Esmond Mok;Linyuan Xia;Muwook Pyeon;Joon Heo
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.869-875
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    • 2009
  • Safety is a big issue in the construction sites. For safe and secure management, tracking locations of construction resources such as labors, materials, machineries, vehicles and so on is important. The materials, machineries and vehicles could be controlled by computer, whereas the movement of labors does not have fixed pattern. So, the location and movement of labors need to be monitored continuously for safety. In general, Global Positioning System(GPS) is an opt solution to obtain the location information in outside environments. But it cannot be used for indoor locations as it requires a clear Line-Of-Sight(LOS) to satellites Therefore, indoor location monitoring system could be a convenient alternative for environments such as tunnel and indoor building construction sites. This paper presents a case study to investigate feasibility of Wi-Fi based indoor location monitoring system in construction site. The system is developed by using fingerprint map of gathering Received Signal Strength Indication(RSSI) from each Access Point(AP). The signal information is gathered by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, which are attached on a helmet of labors to track their locations, and is sent to server computer. Experiments were conducted in a shield tunnel construction site at Guangzhou, China. This study consists of three phases as follows: First, we have a tracking test in entrance area of tunnel construction site. This experiment was performed to find the effective geometry of APs installation. The geometry of APs installation was changed for finding effective locations, and the experiment was performed using one and more tags. Second, APs were separated into two groups, and they were connected with LAN cable in tunnel construction site. The purpose of this experiment was to check the validity of group separating strategy. One group was installed around the entrance and the other one was installed inside the tunnel. Finally, we installed the system inner area of tunnel, boring machine area, and checked the performance with varying conditions (the presence of obstacles such as train, worker, and so on). Accuracy of this study was calculated from the data, which was collected at some known points. Experimental results showed that WiFi-based indoor location system has a level of accuracy of a few meters in tunnel construction site. From the results, it is inferred that the location tracking system can track the approximate location of labors in the construction site. It is able to alert the labors when they are closer to dangerous zones like poisonous region or cave-in..

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An Active Location-Detecting System for an Emergency Rescue Service (응급 구조 서비스를 위한 능동형 위치 검출시스템)

  • Oh, Kyoung-Hwan;Park, Jae-Hwa;Lee, Doo-Soo
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.08a
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    • pp.181-185
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    • 2008
  • Recently, location based service(LBS) expended based on personal specialized service, however since commercialized GPS based emergency rescue service comes with shadow zone for GPS signal such as inside building, the accuracy and reliability are not guaranteed. Therefore to improve such problem, we propose an active location detecting algorithm using RFID-TAG and Yagiantenna. To track the location of RFID-TAG where signal is generated, location tracking device in which Yagi-Antenna is installed moves around. Since directed wave and reflected wave co-exist during signal reception, final signal generated location is searched by setting up multiple of locations where signal can be generated on the map and moving location tracking device along minimum length of path. The algorithm proposed in this paper was verified of its technical validity through simulator.

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Asset Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Jo, Jung-Hee;Kim, Kwang-Soo;Kim, Sun-Joong
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.465-471
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    • 2007
  • Many hospitals have been considering new technology such as wireless sensor network(WSN). The technology can be used to track the location of medical devices needed for inspections or repairs, and it can also be used to detect of a theft of an asset. In an asset-tracking system using WSN, acquiring the location of moving sensor nodes inherently introduces uncertainty in location determination. In fact, the sensor nodes attached to an asset are prone to failure from lack of energy or from physical destruction. Therefore, even if the asset is located within the predetermined area, the asset-tracking application could "misunderstand" that an asset has escaped from the area. This paper classifies the causes of such unexpected situations into the following five cases: 1) an asset has actually escaped from a predetermined area; 2) a sensor node was broken; 3) the battery for the sensor node was totally discharged; 4) an asset went into a shadow area; 5) a sensor node was stolen. We implemented and installed our asset-tracking system in a hospital and continuously monitored the status of assets such as ventilators, syringe pumps, wheel chairs and IV poles. Based on this real experience, we suggest how to differentiate each case of location uncertainty and propose possible solutions to prevent them.

Real-Time Port Logistics Location Tracking System using IP-RFID (IP-RFID를 이용한 실시간 항만물류 위치 추적 시스템)

  • Park, Byung-Kwon;Park, Min-Sun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1531-1537
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    • 2018
  • In maritime logistics, a large number of containers are transported to the destination through a port in the form of composite transportation such as ships, trucks, and railways. Logistics parties such as shipping companies and consignors prefer having the real-time information on the entry and exit of the logistics hubs of the freight. Particularly, a port is an important space that connects the maritime and inland areas. Hence, the interest about freight of the logistics party in port is high. This study describes tracking the location of freight by using GPS dynamically based on area type rather than point type. This presents dynamic information of location tracking when the freight enters, exits from, and passes through a certain port area. I suggest a real-time location of the container cargos tracking algorithm in port-entry, port-exit, and port inside using Active IP-RFID technology based on the location tracking algorithm of previous research.

Development of Tracking Algorithm to Improve Accuracy of Altitude and Azimuth (태양 고도각 및 방위각 제어의 정확도 향상을 위한 추적 알고리즘 개발)

  • Back, Jung-Woo;Ko, Jae-Sub;Choi, Jung-Sik;Jang, Mi-Geum;Kang, Sung-Jun;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.04b
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    • pp.219-221
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    • 2009
  • This paper analyzes efficiency of photovoltaic(PV) tracking system using solar location algorithm(SLA). Solar location tracking system is needed for efficiently and intensively using PV system independent of environmental condition. PV tracking system of program method is presented a high tracking accuracy without the wrong operating in rapidly changed insolation by the clouds and atmospheric condition. Therefore, this paper analyzes efficiency of PV system using SLA for more correct position tracking of solar. Also, controlled altitude angle and azimuth angle by applied algorithm is compared with data of korea astronomy observatory. And this paper analyzes the tracking error and proves the validity of applied algorithm.

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