• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.251-260
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• 2009

Hybrid locomotive UGV with actively articulated legs along with wheeled ends has high traversability to travel over rough terrain. The behavior control method was usually adapted for the controlling of the suspension configuration which determines the traversability of the UGV. In this study, we are proposing a method of configuration planning of the legs without any detail geometric data about the terrain. The terrain was estimated by the traces of each wheel and the leg configurations for the desired posture of the vehicle were set up against the constraints of the terrain. Also, an optimal leg configuration was calculated based on the quasi-static stability and power consumption, and plans for the leg behavior were made. Validity of the proposed method was checked by simulations using some off-the-shelf programs, and showed that the orientation control without geometric features of terrains and simplification of the behavior planning for obstacle negotiation were possible.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.543-544
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• 2018

가상 현실 네비게이션을 위한 전방향 트레드밀은 사용자가 걷거나 달리면서 물리적으로 고정된 공간 내에 사용자를 유지할 수 있도록 지면 모션을 시뮬레이션하는 장비이다. 이러한 트레드밀 시스템의 성능이나 안정성을 정량적으로 측정하거나 분석하기가 어렵기 때문에 이전의 연구에서는 주관적 설문 조사와 같은 정성적 분석 방법을 사용하였다. 본 연구에서는 인간의 보행 경로와 유사한 궤도를 따라 움직이는 무인 차량 시스템을 이용한 새로운 정량적 데이터 측정 방법을 제안한다. 무인 차량 시스템은 미리 정의 된 인간의 보행 동작을 시뮬레이션하고 트레드밀 시스템에 대한 제어 입력을 제공하며, 다축 가속 및 방향과 같은 차량의 동적 데이터를 측정 할 수 있다. 또한 이 데이터는 평상시의 정기 또는 다른 제어 알고리즘과의 비교를 수행할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 궤적 시뮬레이션 모듈, 데이터 수집 모듈, 성능 평가 모듈 등 전방향 트레드밀에 대한 정량 분석 방법의 설계 구조 및 초기구현 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.425-433
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• 2022

This paper studies the method of delivering munitions using both drones and UGVs that are developing along with the 4th Industrial Revolution. While drones are more mobile than UGVs, their loading capacity is small, and UGVs have relatively less mobility than drones, but their loading capacity is better. Therefore, by simultaneously operating these two delivery means, each other's shortcomings may be compensated. In addition, on actual battlefields, time constraints are an important factor in delivering munitions. Therefore, assuming an actual battlefield environment with a time limit, we establish delivery routes that minimize delivery time by operating both drones and UGVs with different capacities and speeds. If the delivery is not completed within the time limit, penalties are imposed. We devised the hybrid genetic algorithm to find solutions to the proposed model, and as results of the experiment, we showed the algorithm we presented solved the actual size problems in a short time.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.165-173
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• 2020

The emergence of unmanned agricultural machinery has brought new research content to the development of precision agriculture. In order to speed up the research on key technologies of unmanned agricultural machinery, classification of intelligence level of unmanned agricultural machinery has become a primary task. In this study, the researchers take the complex interactive system consisting of unmanned grain harvester, task and driving environment as the research object, and carry out a research on the grading and classification of intelligent level of unmanned grain harvester. The researchers of this study also establish an evaluation model of unmanned grain harvester vehicle, which consists of human intervention degree, environmental complexity, and task complexity. Besides, the grading and classification of intelligence level of the unmanned grain harvester is carried out according to the human intervention degree, environmental complexity and the task complexity of the unmanned grain harvester. It provides a direction for the future development of unmanned agricultural machinery.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.229-231
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• 2018

As autonomous vehicle technology has been gradually developed, robots that have introduced autonomous navigation systems have been actively involved in areas where there is a lot of livelihoods such as industrial sites and accident sites. For this reason, the unmanned transportation system equipped with the autonomous traveling system is widely used in harmful environments where human access is difficult. In addition, the introduction of the autonomous driving system reduces the collision and casualties that occur in a mobility environment like the industrial field, and it helps the efficient work process. In addition, autonomous driving vehicles can be handled more safely and quickly in a wider area by transmitting the surrounding environment of each vehicle to a server connected to each autonomous driving vehicle and passing it through the main server. In this paper, by utilizing V2X communication for autonomous unmanned forklift system, it can increase industrial workload, reduce loss of life and damage to property through wide area forklifts.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.251-256
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• 2019

This paper presents an algorithm for recognizing and tracking a vehicle at a distance using a monocular camera installed at the center of the windshield of a vehicle to operate an autonomous vehicle in a racing. The vehicle is detected using the Haar feature, and the size and position of the vehicle are determined by detecting the shadows at the bottom of the vehicle. The region around the recognized vehicle is determined as ROI (Region Of Interest) and the vehicle shadow within the ROI is found and tracked in the next frame. Then the position, relative speed and direction of the vehicle are predicted. Experimental results show that the vehicle is recognized with a recognition rate of over 90% at a distance of more than 100 meters.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.10
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• pp.427-436
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• 2013

In this paper, a method of moving path control of an automatic guided vehicle in an indoor environment through recognition of marker images using vision sensors is presented. The existing AGV moving control system using infrared-ray sensors and landmarks have faced at two critical problems. Since there are many windows in a crematorium, they are going to let in too much sunlight in the main hall which is the moving area of AGVs. Sunlight affects the correct recognition of landmarks due to refraction and/or reflection of sunlight. The second one is that a crematorium has a narrow indoor environment compared to typical industrial fields. Particularly when an AVG changes its direction to enter the designated furnace the information provided by guided sensors cannot be utilized to estimate its location because the rotating space is too narrow to get them. To resolve the occurrences of such circumstances that cannot access sensing data in a WSN environment, a relative distance from marker to an AGV will be used as fingerprinting used for location estimation. Compared to the existing fingerprinting method which uses RSS, our proposed method may result in a higher reliable estimation of location. Our experimental results show that the proposed method proves the correctness and applicability. In addition, our proposed approach will be applied to the AGV system in the crematorium so that it can transport a dead body safely from the loading place to its rightful destination.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.369-380
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• 1996

Inductive Loop Detector(ILD) has been commonly used in collecting traffic data such as occupancy time and non-occupancy time. From the data, the traffic volume and type of passing vehicle is calculated. To provide reliable data for traffic control and plan, accuracy is required in type recognition which can be utilized to determine split of traffic signal and to provide forecasting data of queue-length for over-saturation control. In this research, a new recognition model issuggested for recognizing typeof vehicle from thecollected data obtained through ILD systems. Two clustering methods, based on statistical algorithms, and one neural network clustering method were employed to test the reliability and occuracy for the methods. In a series of experiments, it was found that the new model can greatly enhance the reliability and accuracy of type recongition rate, much higher than conventional approa-ches. The model modifies the neural network clustering method and enhances the recongition accuracy by iteratively applying the algorithm until no more unclustered data remains.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.255-261
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to analyze transport ability of Automated Guided Vehicle(AGV) and Double Stack Vehicle(DSV) at Automated Container Terminal(ACT). Usually, the main difference of AGV and DSV is capacity of container that they can transport between apron and yard block at once. AGV can carry out two 20 feet or one 40 feet maritime containers, but DSV can carry out four 20 feet or two 40 feet maritime containers. Therefore, DSV may improve more efficiency of stevedoring system of container terminal. In this paper, a simulation model using a graphics simulation system is developed to compare the proposed DSV with the current AGV at automated container terminal. The paper includes examples, performance tests and a discussion of simulation results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.05a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2020

최근, 국내 자동차 보유율은 매년 증가하고 있으며, 자동차 증가율에 따라 자동차로 인한 사건, 사고 발생률 또한 증가하고 있다. 국가에서도 지능형교통시스템(ITS) 중 차량 변호판을 인식하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 차량 번호판 인식은 사건·사고 발생차량을 추적하거나 주차 무인시스템 등의 분야에 적용된다. 본 논문에서는 차량 번호판 영역을 추출하기 위한 여러 가지 방법들을 비교 분석하여 각 상황에 맞는 알고리즘을 적용하고자 한다.