• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.120-126
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• 2010

This paper presents to study the path tracking method of AGV(autonomous guided vehicle) which has a laser guidance system. An existing automatic guided vehicles(AGVs) which were able to drive on wired line only had a automatic guidance system. However, the automatic guidance systems that those used had the high cost of installation and maintenance, and the difficulty of system change according to variation of working environment. To solve such problems, we make the laser guidance system which is consisted of a laser navigation and gyro, encoder. That is robust against noise, and flexible according to working environment through sensor fusion. The laser guidance system can do a perfect autonomous driving. However, the commercialization of perfect autonomous driving system is difficult, because the perfect autonomous driving system must recognize the whole environment of working space. Hence, this paper studied the path tracking of AGV using laser guidance system without wired line. The path tracking method is consisted of virtual path generation method and driving control method. To experiment, we use the fork-type AGV which is made by ourselves, and do a path tracking experiments repeatedly on same experimental environment. In result, we verified that proposed system is efficient and stable for actual fork-type AGV.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.104-110
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• 2009

In this driving simulation study, the impairing effects of various types of electronic devices usage(i. e., destination search by using in-vehicle navigation system, TV watching and dialing cellular phone) during driving on front-to-rear-end collision avoidance were investigated. Percentage of collisions, driving speeds when the drivers collided, and initial reaction time for collision avoidance were analyzed and compared as the dependent measures. The results indicated that (1) any types of electronic devices usage during driving induced more serious collision-related impairment than control condition where no additional task was required, and (2) in general, destination search task appeared to impair drivers collision avoidance performance more than the other task requirements in terms of percentage of collisions and initial reaction time for collision avoidance, but TV watching induced most serious collision impact. These results suggested that any types of electronic device usage could distract drivers attention from the primary task of driving, and be resulted in serious outcome in potentially risky situation of front-to-rear-end collision. In particular, mandatory use of eye-hand coordination and receiving feedback seemed to one of essential factor leading the drivers visual attentional distraction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.442-442
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• 2012

농업용저수지 수질측정 현황은 17,600여 개소 농업용저수지 중 농업용수 수질측정망 조사시설은 저수지 800개소이며, 농업용 호소로서 환경부 조사 시행 호소수질측정망시설 26개소(저수지 16개소, 담수호 10개소)를 포함한 826개소를 대상으로 농업용수 수질을 분석 평가하고 있다. 저수지 자율항법 자동수질측정을 위하여 개발한 운영시스템은 내용적측정 무인탐사선과의 연계운항 제어모듈 개발 및 저수지 수질측정을 위한 최적항로 운항모듈을 개발하였다. 자율항법 무인탐사선의 자동수질 측정을 위한 운항 제어 알고리즘 설계를 위하여 기존의 자율항법 탐사선의 운항 알고리즘과 수질자동 측정장치 제어 알고리즘을 분석하여 연계 제어모듈을 설계하고 프로그래밍 하였다. 운영과정은 선박운영 프로그램에서 수질모니터링 프로그램으로 Operation Start 명령을 전송하면 수질모니터링 프로그램에서 이 명령을 수신한 이후에 윈치제어 및 수질측정, 각 해당 수심에서 시료채수를 수행한 이후에 Opeartion End 신호를 선박운영 프로그램에 전송하면 다음 지점으로 이동할 수 있도록 하였다. 이를 통하여 효율적인 농업용저수지의 무인자동 수질측정 및 채수기술을 개발 제공하도록 하겠다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.832-842
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• 2020

The coordination control of multiple Underactuated Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) moving in three dimensional space is investigated in this paper. The coordinated path following control task is decomposed into two sub tasks, that is, path following control and coordination control. In the spatial curve path following control task, path following error dynamics is build in the Serret-Frenet coordinate frame. The virtual reference object can be chosen freely on the desired spatial path. Considering the speed of the UUV, the line-of-sight navigation is introduced to help the path following errors quickly converge to zero. In the coordination control sub task, the communication topology of multiple UUVs is described by the graph theory. The speed of each UUV is adjusted to achieve the coordination. The path following system and the coordination control system are viewed as the feedback connection system. Input-to-state stable of the coordinated path following system can be proved by small gain theorem. The simulation experiments can further demonstrate the good performance of the control method.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.72-81
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• 2023

We introduce tightly-coupled GNSS-LiDAR-Inertial state estimator, which is capable of SLAM (Simultaneously Localization and Mapping) and autonomous driving. Long term drift is one of the main sources of estimation error, and some LiDAR SLAM framework utilize loop closure to overcome this error. However, when loop closing event happens, one's current state could change abruptly and pose some safety issues on drivers. Directly utilizing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning information could help alleviating this problem, but accurate information is not always available and inaccurate vertical positioning issues still exist. We thus propose our method which tightly couples raw GNSS measurements into LiDAR-Inertial SLAM framework which can handle satellite positioning information regardless of its uncertainty. Also, with NLOS (Non-light-of-sight) satellite signal handling, we can estimate our states more smoothly and accurately. With several autonomous driving tests on AGV (Autonomous Ground Vehicle), we verified that our method can be applied to real-world problem.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.521-523
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• 2021

As the invention of automobiles and construction of roads for vehicles began, the occurrence of traffic accidents began to increase. Accordingly, efforts were made to prevent traffic accidents by changing the road construction method and using signal systems such as traffic lights, but even today, numerous human and property damages have occurred due to traffic accidents caused by freezing of the road due to bad weather. In this paper, in order to reduce traffic accidents due to road freezing, we propose a method of transferring the ice detection information obtained by deep learning of infrared wavelength data obtained using an infrared camera to the vehicle's navigation.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.112-119
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• 2023

In urban environments, signals of Global Positioning System (GPS) can be blocked and reflected by tall buildings, large vehicles, and complex components of road network. Therefore, the performance of the positioning system using the GPS module in urban areas can be degraded due to the loss of GPS signals necessary for the position estimation. To deal with this issue, various localization schemes using inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, such as gyroscope and accelerometer, and Bayesian filters, such as Kalman filter (KF) and particle filter (PF), have been designed to enhance the performance of the GPS-based positioning system. Among Bayesian filters, the PF has been widely used for the target tracking and vehicle navigation, since it can provide superior performance in estimating the state of a dynamic system under nonlinear/non-Gaussian circumstance. This paper presents a positioning system that uses the double-stacked particle filter (DSPF) as well as the accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS receiver on the smartphone to provide higher pedestrian positioning accuracy in urban environments. The DSPF employs a nonparametric technique (Parzen-window) to create the multimodal target distribution that approximates the posterior distribution. Experimental results show that the DSPF-based positioning system can provide the significant improvement of the pedestrian position estimation in urban environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.279-280
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• 2022

도로를 주행 중인 운전자들은 비상용 차량이 접근할 때 경광등 혹은 백미러를 통해 확인하고, 도로의 상황을 파악한 후에서야 길을 양보한다. 그러나 비상 차량이 접근하는 걸 뒤늦게 인지하거나, 도로의 상황이 복잡하여 차선을 변경하다 접촉사고가 발생할 수도 있고, 또한 진행할 수 있는 도로를 미리 확보하지 못하여 비상 차량이 정해진 시간 내에 도착하지 못하는 경우가 자주 발생하고 있다. 이러한 일을 개선하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 안드로이드, GPS 기술을 이용한 앱을 통해 비상 차량이 일반 차량에 일정 거리 이내에 접근할 경우에 미리 알람을 보내고 이를 사전에 방지, 및 예방할 수 있는 앱을 개발한다. 안드로이드 스튜디오를 사용하였고, Firebase를 이용해 DB및 서버를 구축하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.939-944
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• 2014

Traffic accidents caused by the attention dispersion are increasing and the behavior of the attention dispersion affects the front-observing rate, road keeping ability, and reaction time for a dangerous situation. Many drivers listen to a radio broadcast and they have to change the frequency for continuously listening a radio broadcast of the specific broadcasting station in case of crossing a boundary of the particular area. In this situation, the possibility of a car accident increases, because the attention dispersion of a driver might be occurred. Especially, the risk of a car accident caused by changing the frequency of a radio is more serious in the highway, due to the high speed of a vehicle. In order to reduce the risk of a car accident caused by handling a radio during driving car, in this paper, we propose an automatic frequency conversion algorithm for vehicle radio, which saves normal system frequencies of primary broadcasting stations in a database and determines new frequency of the changed area using the location information obtained from a navigation system in a boundary of the specific area. After determining new frequency, the proposed algorithm selects a frequency with better receiving rate comparing signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of two signals corresponding previous and new frequencies.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.403-408
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the secondary tasks such as sending text message(STM) and searching navigation(SN) on vehicle speed and distance during driving and brake response time during unexpected situation using a driving simulator. The participants included 19 college students; 9 males aged $25.2{\pm}1.0$ with $2.4{\pm}2.0years$ of driving experiences and 10 females aged $21.4{\pm}0.5$ with $1.3{\pm}0.5years$ of driving experiences. All subjects were instructed to keep a certain distance(30m) from the car ahead and a constant speed(100km/h). Average speed and average following distance were measured during 10 seconds before unexpected situation. Also, brake response time after unexpected situation was measured. Average speed was more decreased and average following distance was more increased during the driving with secondary tasks than driving only. Male maintained the assigned speed and distance better than female. The brake response time was faster during driving only than the driving with secondary tasks. And the brake response time of male was shorter than that of female.