• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.273-286
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• 2022

An HD map is essential in the automated driving of level 4 and above to generate the vehicle's global path since it contains road information and each road's lane information. Therefore, all the road elements in the HD map must be correctly defined to construct the correct road network necessary to generate the global path. But unfortunately, it is not difficult to find various errors even in the most recent HD maps. Hence, a preprocessing algorithm has been developed to detect and correct errors in the HD map. This error detection and correction result in constructing the correct road network for use in global path planning. Furthermore, the algorithm was tested on real roads' HD maps, demonstrating its validity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.84-85
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• 2023

자율운항선박은 인공지능, 센서 및 통신 기술을 활용하여 스스로 운항하는 선박으로, IMO 자율화등급 3단계 이상의 자율운항선박을 개발하여 선원의 개입을 최소화하기 위해 많은 연구가 진행 중이다. 항만에서는 스마트항만을 위한 연구와 함께 자율운항선박과 스마트항만간 연계를 통한 운항 효율성 향상이 주목받고 있다. 운항 효율성 향상을 위해 과거 항적 데이터 및 항만 Port-mis 데이터를 활용한 입출항 지원 연구가 진행되면서 자율운항선박이 통항량이 적은 시간에 항만에 도착할 수 있도록 스케쥴링 계획 및 이에 따른 전역경로 생성 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 입출항 스케쥴링을 통해 자율운항선박 전역경로가 생성되어 운항 중 급작스런 통향량 증가나 다른 외부요인으로 인해 정박지에서의 대기가 필요한 경우 정박지 대기를 고려한 자율운항선박의 전역경로를 생성에 대한 고려사항을 연구하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.9
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• pp.369-374
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• 2014

Path generation methods are required for safe and efficient driving in unmanned autonomous vehicles. There are two kinds of paths: global and local. A global path consists of all the way points including the source and the destination. A local path is the trajectory that a vehicle needs to follow from a way point to the next in the global path. In this paper, we propose a novel method for local path generation through machine learning, with an effective curve function used for initializing the trajectory. First, reinforcement learning is applied to a set of candidate paths to produce the best trajectory with maximal reward. Then the optimal steering angle with respect to the trajectory is determined by training an artificial neural network. Our method outperformed existing approaches and successfully found quality paths in various experimental settings, including the cases with obstacles.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1896-1897
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 동적환경의 잠재적 위험 정의와 안전한 전역경로 계획 알고리즘을 제안 하였다. 대부분의 전역경로계획 연구는 시간과 거리의 비용을 최적화 시키는데 집중하고 있다. 하지만 동적환경으로 우리 주변에 많은 위험요소가 작용하고 있다. 본 논문에서 안전한 자율주행을 위한 경로계획방법으로 위험지역에 의해 정의 된 반발력과 S*알고리즘을 이용하여 안전하고 빠른 최적의 경로계획을 이루었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.687-693
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a optimal deployment method for cooperative exploration of swarm robots. The proposed method consists of two parts such as optimal deployment and path planning. The optimal area deployment is proposed by the K-mean Algorithm and Voronoi tessellation. The path planning is proposed by the potential field method and A* Algorithm. Finally, the numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2013

For an autonomous multi-mobile robot system, path planning and collision avoidance are important functions used to perform a given task collaboratively and cooperatively. This study considers these important and challenging problems. The proposed approach is based on a potential field method and fuzzy logic system. First, a global path planner selects the paths of the robots that minimize the cost function from each robot to its own target using a potential field. Then, a local path planner modifies the path and orientation from the global planner to avoid collisions with static and dynamic obstacles using a fuzzy logic system. In this paper, each robot independently selects its destination and considers other robots as dynamic obstacles, and there is no need to predict the motion of obstacles. This process continues until the corresponding target of each robot is found. To test this method, an autonomous multi-mobile robot simulator (AMMRS) is developed, and both simulation-based and experimental results are given. The results show that the path planning and collision avoidance strategies are effective and useful for multi-mobile robot systems.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.203-210
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• 2011

Ant Colony System is a new meta heuristics algorithms to solve hard combinatorial optimization problems. It is a population based approach that uses exploitation of positive feedback as well as greedy search. It was first proposed for tackling the well known Traveling Salesman Problem. In this paper, we propose the searching method to consider the overlapping edge of the global best path of the previous and the current. This method is that we first determine the overlapping edge of the global best path of the previous and the current will be configured likely the optimal path. And, to enhance the pheromone for the overlapping edges increases the probability that the optimal path is configured. Finally, the performance of Best and Average-Best of proposed algorithm outperforms ACS-3-opt, ACS-Subpath and ACS-Iter algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 자율운항선박이 복잡한 항계 내에서 다양한 해상 객체와의 충돌을 회피하기 위하여 계층적 경로 생성 기법을 연계하는 프레임워크를 제안한다. 항계 내에는 항로를 항행하는 선박 외에도 정박 영역 내 정박 또는 묘박 중인 선박뿐만 아니라 항로 표지나 부표와 같은 정적 객체들이 다양하게 분포되어 있다. 자율운항선박의 효율적 운항을 위해서는 운항 중에 조우하게 되는 객체의 정적/동적 속성에 따라 경로 생성 기법이 달리 적용되어야 한다. 본 연구에서 제안한 경로 생성 프레임워크는 항계 내의 정적 객체나 항행 가항 영역 및 항행 불가항 영역 등에 대한 위치 정보들은 사전적 정보로 활용 가능하므로, 샘플링 기반의 전역 경로 생성 기법을 적용하여, 초기 출발지에서 최종 목적지까지의 예상 경로를 생성한다. 그리고 생성된 전역 경로를 추종하며 운항하는 과정에서 조우하게 되는 동적 객체들과의 조우 상황별 국제해상 충돌예방규칙(COLREGs)을 고려한 지역 경로를 생성한다. 샘플링 기반의 전역 경로와 국소 영역에서의 충돌 회피를 위한 지역 경로를 연계하기 위한 계층적 경로 생성 프레임워크를 설계하고, 수치 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 프레임워크의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2009

Ant Colony System is new meta heuristic for hard combinatorial optimization problem. The original ant colony system accomplishes a pheromone updating about only the global optimal path using global updating rule. But, If the global optimal path is not searched until the end condition is satisfied, only pheromone evaporation happens to no matter how a lot of iteration accomplishment. In this paper, the length of the global optimal path does not improved within the limited iterations, we evaluates this state that fall into the local optimum and selects the next node using changed parameters in the state transition rule. This method has effectiveness of the search for a path through diversifications is enhanced by decreasing the value of parameter of the state transition rules for the select of next node, and escape from the local optima is possible. Finally, the performance of Best and Average_Best of proposed algorithm outperforms original ACS.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.27-35
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• 1998

Navigation is a method to direct a mobile robot without collision when traversing the environment. This is to reach a destination without getting lost. In this paper, global and local path planning in fixed obstacle and moving obstacle using genetic algorithm are presented. First, mobile robot searches optimal global path using genetic algorithm without falling into local minima. Then if it finds a unknown obstacle, it searches new path without crashing obstacle. Also if there is a moving obstacle, mobile robot searches new optimal path without colliding with the obstacles. Various simulation results show the proposed algorithm can search a shortest path effectively.