• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.558-567
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• 2017

In this research, we developed an efficient real-time human exercise pose estimation system using multiple Kinects. The main objective of this system is to measure and recognize the user's posture (such as knee curl or lunge) more accurately by employing Kinects on the front and the sides. Especially it is designed as an extensible and modular method which enables to support various additional postures in the future. This system is configured as multiple clients and the Unity3D server. The client processes Kinect skeleton data and send to the server. The server performs the multiple-Kinect calibration process and then applies the pose estimation algorithm based on the Kinect-based posture recognition model using feature extractions and the weighted averaging of feature values for different Kinects. This paper presents the design and implementation of the human exercise pose estimation system using multiple Kinects and also describes how to build and execute an interactive Unity3D exergame.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.7
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• pp.659-666
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• 2016

Magnetic disturbance is one of the main factors that deteriorate the accuracy of orientation estimation methods based on inertial/magnetic sensor signals. This paper proposes a parallel Kalman filter(KF) that explicitly detects magnetic disturbances and thus can accurately estimate 3D orientation in magnetically disturbed environments. Due to the parallel nature of the proposed KF, even severe magnetic disturbances only affect yaw estimation, while roll and pitch values remain accurate. Consequently, the proposed KF can be effectively used in various applications that involve magnetically inhomogeneous environments, such as robots, ships, and planes.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.1797-1798
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• 2006

함상에서 발사되는 유도탄 등의 무기체제는 함정의 운동에 따라 초기 발사 자세 및 그 변화율이 변화하므로 함정의 운동을 고려하여 발사시점을 결정하여야 한다. 함상 발사대에 장착된 유도탄은 자체 센서에 의하여 함정의 자세 및 자세변화율을 측정하며 이렇게 측정된 함정 운동정보를 적절히 필터링하고 유도탄 발사 시퀀스 지연시간만큼 예측하여 발사시점을 결정한다. 본 논문에서는 함정운동을 모델링하고 이 모델에 근거하여 함상발사 유도탄의 초기 발사 시점 결정에 필요한 함운동을 추정 및 예측하는 필터를 제안하고 그 성능을 검토하였다. 시험결과 제안된 방법을 이용하여 우수한 성능으로 함운동을 예측할 수 있었다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.419-426
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method to improve the accuracy of 3D human pose estimation model in various move motions. Existing human pose estimation models have some problems of jitter, inversion, swap, miss that cause miss coordinates when estimating human poses. These problems cause low accuracy of pose estimation models to detect exact coordinates of human poses. We propose a method that consists of detection and correction methods to handle with these problems. Deep learning-based outlier detection method detects outlier of human pose coordinates in move motion effectively and rule-based correction method corrects the outlier according to a simple rule. We have shown that the proposed method is effective in various motions with the experiments using 2D golf swing motion data and have shown the possibility of expansion from 2D to 3D coordinates.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.1-1
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 3축이 연성되어 비선형 운동 방정식으로 표현되는 3축 안정화 인공위성 시스뎀에 입릭외란과 시스템의 불확실성이 존재할 경우에도 자제 정밀도를 유지하는 제어기를 설계한다. 비선헝 운동 방정식으로 표현되는 운동 방정식을 선형화하고 PID제어기를 구성하였다 선형화에 의한 시스템의 불확실성과 입력 외란을 신경회로망으로 추정하여 외란의 엉향을 제거하도록 구성된 PR제어기의 제어입력을 수정한다 수정된 제어입력은 외란을 상쇠시켜 시스템 출력에서 외란의 효과를 제거하게 된다. 신경회로망은 제어입력과 시스템 출력, 기준 운동 방정식간의 관계를 이용하여 외간과 시스템의 불확실성을 추정하며, 역전파 알고리즘을 사용한 학습 알고리즘으로 신경 회로망을 교육한다. 제안된 신경회로망을 이용한 외란 제거 제어기는 시뮬레이션을 통하여 자세 정밀도의 향상을 검증한다

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1131-1135
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• 2010

This paper presents a method to capture the posture of the human lower-limbs on the 3D space by using a single camera and a planar mirror. The system estimates the pose of the camera facing the mirror by using four coplanar IR markers attached on the planar mirror. After that, the training space is set up based on the relationship between the mirror and the camera. When a patient steps on the weight board, the system obtains relative position between patients' feet. The markers are attached on the sides of both legs, so that some markers are invisible from the camera due to the self-occlusion. The reflections of the markers on the mirror can partially resolve the above problem with a single camera system. The 3D positions of the markers are estimated by using the geometric information of the camera on the training space. Finally the system estimates and visualizes the posture and motion of the both legs based on the 3D marker positions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.243-248
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• 2010

This study addresses spacecraft moment of inertial estimation approach using Modified Rodrigues Parameters(MRP). The MRP offer advantage by avoiding singularity in Kalman Filter design for attitude determination caused by the norm constraint of quaternion parameters. Meanwhile, MRP may suffer singularity for large angular displacement, so that we designed appropriate reference attitude motion for accurate estimation. The proposed approach is expected to provide stable error covariance update with accurate spacecraft mass property estimation results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.179-185
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• 2015

Although an accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration, it cannot be used by itself to measure the acceleration when the orientation of the sensor changes. This paper introduces a Kalman filter for the estimation of a sensor acceleration based on a six-axis inertial sensor (i.e., a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope). The novelty of the proposed Kalman filter lies in the fact that its state vector includes not only the tilt angle variable but also the sensor acceleration. Thus, the filter can explicitly estimate the latter with a high accuracy. The accuracy of acceleration estimates were validated experimentally under three different dynamic conditions, using an optical motion capture system. It could be concluded that the performance of the proposed Kalman filter was comparable to that of the state-of-the-art estimation algorithm employed by the Xsens MTw. The proposed algorithm may be more suitable than inertial/magnetic sensor-based algorithms for various applications adopting six-axis inertial sensors.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.361-367
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• 2015

This paper presents the design concept of an intrinsic continuum robot for safe man-machine interface and characteristic behaviors of its end-effector based on real experiments. Since pneumatic artificial muscles having similar antagonistic actuation to human muscles are used for main backbones of the proposed robot as well as in the role of the actuating devices, variable stiffness of robotic joints can be available in the actual environment. In order to solve the inherent shortcoming of an intrinsic continuum robot due to bending motion of the backbone materials, a Kalman filter scheme based on a triaxial accelerometer and a triaxial gyroscope was proposed to conduct an attitude estimation of the end-effector of the robot. The experimental results verified that the proposed method was effective in estimating the attitude of the end-effector of the intrinsic continuum robot.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.520-522
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 동작 표본을 이용하여 내재하는 동작 특성을 추정하고, 이를 동작 변환에 적용하는 새로운 동작 변환 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 역 운동학에 기반한 동작 변환 알고리즘은 우선 앤드 이펙터 (end effector)의 궤적 차이를 줄이도록 한 후, 자세 공간에서 동작간의 거리를 최소화하는 방향으로 자세를 변환시켰다. 그러나 동작간의 거리에 대한 정의가 명확하지 않고, 이렇게 생성된 동작이 동작 주체가 취할 수 있는 자세라는 보장이 없기 때문에 실존 가능성이 낮은 부자연스러운 동작이 생성될 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 역 운동학 기반의 실존 가능성이 높은 자연스러운 동작 생성을 위해 동작 주체의 동작 표본을 고려한 확률분포를 이용한다. 제시된 알고리즘을 통한 동작 변환은 실존 가능성이 높은 자연스러운 동작을 생성할 수 있다.