• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.213-219
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• 2013

Recently, with the rapid advancement in information and communication technology, indoor location-based services(LBSs) that require precise position tracking have been actively studied with outdoor-LBS using GPS. However, in case of a ship which consists of steel structure, it is difficult to measure a precise localization due to significant ranging error by the diffraction and refraction of radio waves. In order to reduce location measurement errors that occur in these indoor environments, this paper presents distance compensation algorithms that are suitable for a narrow passage such as ship corridors without any additional sensors by using UWB(Ultra-wide-band), which is robust to multi-path and has an error in the range of a few centimeters in free space. These improvement methods are that Pythagorean theory and adjacent node technique are used to solve the distance error due to the node deployment and distance variation analysis technique is applied to reduce the ranging errors which are significantly fluctuated in the corner section. The experimental results show that the number of nodes and the distance error are reduced to 66% and 57.41%, respectively, compared with conventional CSS(Chirp spread spectrum) method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.12C
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• pp.971-982
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new digital duplexing scheme, called SDD(Synchronous Digital Duplexing), which can increase data efficiency and flexibility of resource by transmitting uplink signal and downlink signal simultaneously. In order to transmit uplink data and downlink data simultaneously, the proposed SDD obtains mutual informations between AP(access point) and each SSs(subscriber station), SS and other SSs by mutual ranging procedure. These informations are used for selection of transmission time, decision of CS insertion, setting of CS length, and FFT duration resetting, etc. It is shown that the proposed SDD is appropriate for duplexing scheme in indoor environments over the conventional TDD(Time Division Duplexing) and FDD(Frequency Division Duplexing).

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.914-919
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• 2010

It is confirmed that as the distance measurements accuracy of the SDS-TWR(Symmetric Double-Sided Two-Way Ranging) based on CSS(Chirp Spread Spectrum) is considerably degraded due to frequency interference and it causes to severe errors in the localization applications. In this paper, the compensation algorithm based on error rate offset of distance measurement ($CA_d$) is proposed for the purpose to reduce the ranging errors due to by the SDS-TWR ranging problems. The $CA_d$ measures the distance values between two nodes by means of 1m interval about 1~25m distances in the SDS-TWR, and compensates the distance values using the parameters related to the distance compensation. From the experiments, it is analyzed that the $CA_d$. have reduced the distance error to average 95cm and maximum 526cm, and the distance error by the $CA_d$ was below about 60cm in the 25m distances. In particular, the performance of the distance measurements accuracy by the $CA_d$ is very high in LOS(Line Of Sight) environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.623-629
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• 2020

In this paper, a multiple transmission communication system employing ranging based transmission timing adjustment capability is proposed. In addition, a decision feedback equalizer with the use of combinations of soft decision and hard decision adequate to the proposed multiple transmission communication system is also proposed. The proposed ranging based transmission timing adjustment capability makes the received signals from the multiple transmission points centered on the different symbol timing boundaries. The decision making method for the inputs to the proposed decision feedback equalizer is adaptively selected between soft decision and hard decision as per channel conditions like SNR. The performance of the proposed method had been analyzed through the simulation under the fading channel environments and compared with the previous methods. The simulation results showed performance improvement of the proposed method over the existing ones without noticeable increments in complexities.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.74-85
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• 2014

위성기반보정시스템(SBAS: Satellite Based Augmentation System)은 GPS(Global Positioning System) 항법위성 제공 신호에 각종 요인으로 인한 오차 등의 발생이 수반되므로 GPS 신호감시 및 제공 메시지 사용여부 등을 위한 무결성기능, 각종 오차 등을 차등적 보정에 의한 정확도 향상 기능, 항법신호 가용성 및 연속성을 위한 레인징 신호제공 기능 등을 통해 항공기 안전운항에 사용될 수 있도록 한 시스템이다. 본 시스템은 국제민간항공기구(ICAO: International Civilian Aviation Organization)가 국제표준으로 정해진 상태로 단계별로 정밀한 항법서비스를 제공한다. 현재 미국 WAAS(Wide Area Augmentation System), 유럽 EGNOS(European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System), 일본 MSAS (MTSAT Satellite Based Augmentation System)는 운용 중이고 우리나라도 한국형 SBAS 시스템을 개발키로 한 바, 본고에서 국내외 SBAS 시스템에 대해 개발동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.40-41
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• 2016

위성전파항법시스템은 이용의 편리성으로 인해 다양한 분야에서 측위, 항법 및 시각동기 정보를 획득하기 위한 목적으로 널리 활용되고 있다. 그러나 위성전파항법시스템은 낮은 신호전력특성 때문에 전파간섭에 매우 취약하다. 전파간섭으로 인한 위성전파항법시스템의 가용성 저하 사례가 빈번해짐에 따라 백업 시스템에 대한 필요성과 국제적 공조를 통한 백업 시스템 마련에 대한 기술 협력의 공감대가 높아지고 있다. R-Mode는 현재 해상에서 활용되고 있는 전파신호를 이용하여 거리측정을 하는 방법으로써 신규 전파항법 인프라 구축에 따른 큰 투자 없이 적은 비용으로 위성전파항법시스템의 백업 시스템을 구현한다는 장점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 R-Mode의 기술 현황과 국제 표준화 동향에 대해 살펴본다. 그리고 R-Mode를 국내에 적용하기 위해 고려해야 할 사항들을 설명한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.92-99
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• 2008

KOMSAT-5 will attach an laser retroreflector array for precise orbit determination. Laser retroreflector array was developed by DFZ in Germany and have pyramid type composed of four corner cube prisms. In this paper, the performance analyses as effective area of retroreflector and photons measured by link budget and position of ground station were performed.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.43-43
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 정지궤도 위성을 이용한 표준시각 동기 서비스에 실시간 궤도결정 기술을 적용하는 방안을 고려하였다. 정지궤도 위성을 이용하여 표준시각 동기신호를 전파하는 연구는 여러 나라에서 진행되고 있는데 3지역에서의 측정(Trilateration)과 미분 보정(Differential Correction) 방식이 일반적인 방법으로 채택되고 있다. 본 논고에서는 한국 항공우주연구원에서 진행 중인 표준시각 동기 서비스 연구와 이를 위해 제작중인 실시간 궤도결정 기술을 적용한 실험 소프트웨어에 대해 소개하고자 한다. 실시간 궤도결정 방법을 적용하게 되면 동기신호 전파에 있어서 가장 큰 오차의 원인이 되는 위성궤도 예측 오차를 크게 줄일 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 기존에 궤도 결정을 위해 사용하는 톤 레인징에 의한 위상차 신호와 안테나 각도 대신에 동기신호 자체만을 사용하고 있으며 1개의 수신 데이터만으로 궤도 결정을 수행하는 방안을 강구하였다. 본 논고에서는 실시간 궤도 결정에 의한 시뮬레이션 결과와 한국항공우주연구원에서 준비 중인 실험에 대해서 간략히 소개한다. 그리고 본 연구에서 개발된 기술은 2004년 4월에 무궁화위성 2호를 이용하여 실험을 수행할 예정이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.488-495
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• 2012

The real-time indoor location technology using radio waves has been studied in a variety of environments. One of them, a ship which consists of steel structure has high reception rate but causes significant ranging error due to the reflection of radio waves. In order to reduce location measurement errors that occurs in such a environment, this paper, based on CSS of IEEE 802.15.4a, presents compensation algorithm for localization using modified bilateration and pyroelectric sensor in a ship. The proposed system reduces the number of fixed nodes by estimating the appropriate reception distance between mobile node and fixed node through the analysis of CSS characteristic in a narrow passage such as ship corridors. Also, in the corner section which the ranging errors are significantly fluctuated due to the reflection and diffraction of radio waves, we recognize the location by tracking the a moving section using modified bilateration technique and pyroelectric sensor. The experimental results show that the location accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm are improved 86.2 % compared to general method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.587-594
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous IR-UWB ranging system based on the two-way ranging protocol. The periodic pulse sequence is used to measure a distance between two devices. At the receiver, a received signal is first transformed into a frequency-domain signal using an analog correlator bank and digital signal processing is followed in the frequency-domain. This make it possible for the system to use an ADC with a conversion speed of pulse rate. The proposed algorithm at the receiver side includes a peak detection procedure using mutipath channel compensation and matched filtering, and retransmits a pulse sequence synchronized with the detected peak. The validity of the proposed algorithm is verified from simulation results where the CM1 channel is assumed.