• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.506-510
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• 2007

Digital Magnetic Compass(DMC) has a robust feature against interference in the indoor environment better than compass which is easily disturbed by electromagnetic sources or large ferromagnetic structures. Ultrasonic Sensors are cheap and can give relatively accurate range readings. So they ate used in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM). In this paper, we study the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) of mobile robot in the indoor environment with Digital Magnetic Compass and Ultrasonic Sensors. Autonomous mobile robot is aware of robot's moving direction and position by the restricted data. Also robot must localize as quickly as possible. And in the moving of the mobile robot, the mobile robot must acquire a map of its environment. As application for the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) on the autonomous mobile robot system, robot can find the localization and the mapping and can solve the Kid Napping situation for itself. Especially, in the Kid Napping situation, autonomous mobile robot use Ultrasonic sensors and Digital Magnetic Compass(DMC)'s data for moving. The robot is aware of accurate location By using Digital Magnetic Compass(DMC).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2010

In this study, the performances of a medium grade IMU which is aimed for Mobile Mapping System and a low grade IMU for pedestrian navigation are analyzed through simulations under GPS signal blockage. In addition, an analysis on the accuracy improvement of barometer, electronic compass, or multi-sensor(combination of barometer and electronic compass) to correct medium grade or low grade IMU errors in the situation of GPS signal blockage is performed. With the medium grade IMU, the three dimensional positioning error from INS exceeds the demanded accuracy of 5m when the block time is over 30 seconds. When we correct IMU with barometer, compass, or multi-sensor, however, the demanded accuracy is maintained up to 60 seconds. In addition, barometer is more effective than the electronic compass when they are combined. In case of low grade IMU like MEMS IMU, the three dimensional positioning error from INS exceeds the demanded accuracy of 20m when the block time is over 15 seconds. When we correct INS with barometer, compass, or multi-sensor, however, the demanded accuracy is maintained up to 15 seconds in simulation results. On the contrary to medium grade IMU, electronic compass is more effective than the barometer in case of low velocity such as pedestrian navigation. It is expected that the analysis suggested a method to decrease position or attitude error using aided sensor integration when MMS or pedestrian navigation is operated under 1he environment of GPS signal blockage.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.145-150
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• 2004

In this study for the prosthesis of the spatial and directional sensation for the blind, an ultrasonic scale system and an electronic compass system were developed. The ultrasonic scale utilizes 40 ㎑ sound for the detection of distance to the barrier and the spatial information is transferred to the blind by various sound interval, which is proportional to the distance. The electronic compass utilizes a magnetoresistor bridge for the detection of the magnetic field strength of earth in horizontal plane. The information for the direction of the earth's north is transferred by tactile stimuli by a vibrating motor band around upper head. Detection distance of the ultrasonic scale is ranged from 0.065 to 3.26 meters, and the detection angle resolution of the electronic compass is about 22.5 degrees. The integrated system of the ultrasonic scale and the electronic compass was developed. Distance information is converted to the location of the tactile stimulation along the clockwise direction by a vibrating motor according to the distance installed around upper head of the blind. The intent of this article is to provide an practical prosthetic tool of spatial and directional sensation for the blind. Daily practice of this system will improve the usefulness of this system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2006

최근 가정용 로봇 연구가 활발히 진행됨에 따라, 가정과 같은 다이내믹한 환경에서 로봇이 목소리를 포함한 음원에 반응하고 그 위치를 정확히 찾아가는 것이 매우 중요해지고 있다. 인간이 목표물에 도달하기 위해 경로를 선택할 때, 그 목표물이 소리인 경우는 현재 위치에서 음원의 방향을 추적한다. 또한 그 목표물의 위치가 지도로 주워질 경우에는 현재 위치와 목표불의 절대적 방위를 기준으로 추적한다. 본 논문에서는 이처럼 사람이 다른 사람의 목소리를 듣고 반응하거나 어떤 방향으로 가고자할 때 소리가 나는 방향이나 지도를 통해 대략 자신만의 방위를 만드는 것에 착안하여, 지능형 모바일 로봇에 음원추적 장치와 전자나침반을 장착함으로써 음원의 방향 또는 절대 방위를 기준으로 목표물을 찾아가는 알고리즘을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.208-213
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• 2007

As recent research on home service robot has been performed actively in these days. It becomes very important for the robot to react upon voice and sound source, and then tracks an object position in dynamic environment like a home. When people choose a path for finding a destination of objects, in case of sound, they track a direction of the sound source. Or in case as a position of the object be girded with a point on map, people track the position according to absolute orientation of the present position and the sound source position. In this paper, In this manner we had views on what people decide own direction when they react one's voice or go some directions. We suggest a algorithm that intelligent mobile robots on which we installed a sound source tracking board and a digital magnetic compass board go some object's positions by the direction of sound source and absolute orientation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.303-309
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• 2011

Situation awareness services which increasingly expand their influence in everyday life can be classified into location-based service and social network service. Their quality of service (QoS) can be differed based on the location accuracy of smart phones and accuracy of directional recognition technology. This study was conducted to analyze GPS, digital compass, radio communication, and geospatial web information which can provide a clue in using the situation aware services based on lab experiments and surveys. According to the result of lab experiment on accuracy of determining location / direction with smart phones, owing to inherent lack of indoor accuracy in determining position and direction, as well as errors in spatial data used as platform, it was found that devices were not provided with sufficiently accurate data when using the situation aware services indoors compared to outdoors. To enhance accuracy of determining indoor positions, there are several methods including location metering based on Wi-Fi, which had several problems compared with GPS used in outdoor environment. Thus, it was determined that more study would be necessary to solve these issues.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.1437-1443
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• 2009

This paper is presented an simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm using ultrasonic for robot and electric compass, encoder, and gyro. Generally, localization based upon electric compass, encoder, and gyro can be measured just local position in workspace. However, actual robot must need an information of the absolute position in workspace to perform its mission, Absolute position in workspace could be calculated using SLAM algorithm. To implement SLAM in this paper, a map is built using ultrasonic sensor and hierarchical map building method. And then, we the map will be transformed into a feature map. The absolute position could be calculated using the feature map and map mapping method. As a test bed, we designed and construct an autonomous robot and showed the experimental performance of the proposed SLAM algorithm based on feature map. Experimental result, we verified that robot can found all absolute position on experiments using proposed SLAM algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.219-228
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• 2013

The surveillance imaging equipments are functioning to observe the shape of the target in real time or to measure its location precisely. The roles of such equipments are becoming more important in today's weapon systems.The aforementioned imaging equipments can be classified based on the modes of operations such as fixed, installed on cars, or composite of those. Also, according to different concepts of sensor operation, a separate type uses independent housing for each sensor whereas in a composite type a set of multiple sensors are housed into a unit altogether. The sensors in general have magnetism, thereby introducing the possible negative effects, particularly in the composite types, in locating the reference position, which is carried out by the digital compass. The use of shielding material/housing could be an option but results in increased weight and reduced portability, restricting its use in composite type equipments. As such, the objective of this paper is to study on how to reduce such magnetic effects on the position location. To do so, in the absence of magnetic shielding, a variety of sensor positions were first modeled. By combing the result with the fact that the functions of PAN & Tilt are used in the equipments, a new position location algorithm is proposed. The use of the new algorithm can automate the position location process as compared to the manual process of the existing approach. In the algorithm developed, twelve locations are measured in connection with both the azimuth and elevation angles in comparison to the six locations alone around the azimuth angle. As a result, it turns out that the measurement range has been widened but the measurement time reduced. Also, note that the effect of errors the operators may make during measurement could be reduced.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.433-434
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• 2008

이 논문은 실내에서 로봇의 주행 시 생기는 오차를 수정하는 것이다. 실내에 있는 장애물(문턱)을 넘을 경우 슬립에 의하여 주행거리와 실제거리의 오차가 생기고 또한 헤드 앵글 값이 변화함에 따라서 차후 엄청난 주행 오차를 발생시키게 된다. 그에 따라 PSD 센서를 이용하여 장애물을 감지하고 감지 후 장애물을 넘을 수 있도록 모터를 제어한다. 또한 PSD를 이용하여 장애물의 크기를 계산한 후 로봇이 장애물을 넘는 동안에 엔코더 값을 받아 들여서 장애물을 넘는 동안에 로봇이 실제 이동한 거리를 측정한다. 그리고 장애물을 넘은 후에 PSD로 계산한 장애물의 크기 값과 엔코더에서 받아들인 값을 비교하여 거리오차를 수정한다. 또한 전자컴퍼스를 이용하여 장애물을 넘기 전에 로봇의 헤드 앵글 값을 구하고, 장애물을 넘은 후에 로봇의 헤드 앵글 값을 구하여 두 개의 값을 비교한다. 두 개의 값의 차이를 측정하여 수정함으로써 헤드 앵글을 오차를 수정할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.335-359
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• 2000

◆ 기술 중심의 지식집약형 중소ㆍ벤처기업이 경제발전을 주도 ◆ 기업지원 기능의 부처, 기관별 분산 및 서비스 일관성 부족 →기업활동에 필요한 정보획득 및 애로사항 해소의 어려움 ◆ 창업, 자금 등 기업활동에 필요한 정보의 적시공급 및 기업애로사항을 신속히 해결 할 수 있는 종합기업서비스정보망 구축ㆍ운영 필요 : '97. 3월 대통령 주재 경제장관회의 보고 ◆ 종합기업서비스센터(산자부 중소기업정책반) 설치ㆍ운영 Inno-NET 구축사업 착수('97년 8월 1일 시범서비스 개시) - 1차 1998. 7. 1 - 1999. 6. 30, - 2차 1999. 7. 1 - 2000. 6. 30 ◆ 기업의 애로를 효율적으로 해소할 수 있도록 정부 및 관련 공공기관들을 상호 연계한 현장밀착형 양방향서비스정보망 구축(기업정보제공＋종합안내정보＋민원 및 애로상담 기능＋지역기술정보) ◆ 체계화된 범국가적ㆍ지역별 종합기업지원 정보 서비스 체제 구축 ◆ 지방업체의 기술경쟁력 제고를 위한 지역별 산업기술정보 DB 및 기업지원 전문정보 DB 구축 ◆ EIP(Enterprise Information Portal) 정보제공 및 애로해소를 위한 종합적이고 전문적인 기업지원 포탈시스템 구축(중소벤처기업지원 나침반-HUB 기능)(중략)