• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.993-1001
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• 2011

Unmanned ground vehicle for facility protection mostly uses model of territory for autonomous navigation. However, modeling of territory using several sensors is highly time consuming and sometimes inefficient for road application. Therefore, an estimation of drivable path based on features of road is required for high speed autonomous navigation on road. In this paper, an estimation method of drivable path using camera and 2D laser rangefinder is proposed. First, a vanishing point is estimated based on image data from CCD camera. Second, a road width is estimated based on range data from 2D laser rangefinder. Finally, the drivable path is estimated by fusing the vanishing point and the road width. The proposed method is tested on both well-structured road and unpaved road like cross-country situation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.733-734
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• 2016

무인 차량의 자율 주행을 위해 장애물 회피, 주행 가능 도로 판단 등의 기술이 연구되고 있다. 이러한 연구를 실제 환경에서의 자율 주행에 활용하기 위해서는 주변 환경에 동적으로 움직이는 장애물의 위치를 고려할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 차량에 탑재된 LIDAR로부터 획득한 포인트의 분포 변화를 이용하여 차량 주변에 동적 장애물이 존재하는 지역을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 해당 방법은 포인트에 대한 통계치를 활용하여 동적 객체가 존재하는 영역을 추정함으로써 동적 객체 영역을 고속으로 탐색할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.497-499
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• 1998

비젼 시스템을 바탕으로 한 무인 주행 시스템은 카메라로부터 입력된 영사에서 도로와 비 도로를 적절히 인식하여 그것을 바탕으로 주행을 위한 여러 장치들을 제어하는 시스템이라 할 수 있다. 한편 이와 같이 영상의 인식 결과가 핸들 제어나 속도 제어의 성능을 결정할 때 무엇보다 도로의 환경 변화에 강건한 비젼 시스템의 구현이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 비젼 시스템과 핸들 제어 시스템 두 부분을 구현하였는데, 비젼 시스템에서는 입력 영상에 대해 학습이 가능한 Multilayer Perceptron(MLP)을 이용하여 도로와 비 도로를 적절한 신뢰도로 나눈 후 피라미드 알고리즘을 거쳐 최종 도로 영역을 추출해 낸다. 핸들 제어를 위해 도로 영역의 외곽선을 모델링한 후 차량의 주행 방향 벡터를 구한다. 그 값이 핸들 제어 시스템에서의 MLP의 입력이 되어 차량의 핸들 각도를 결정하게 된다. 끝으로 옥외 차량 시뮬레이션을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘의 유용성을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 자율주행 로봇의 제어를 위한 온톨로지 설계 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 '감지', '획득', '인식', '(경로 ${\cdot}$ 행동)계획', '행동'의 다섯 단계로 구성된 '인지 사이클'에서 '감지', '행동계획', '행동' 단계를 온톨로지를 이용하여 구현함으로써 온토롤지에 의한 로봇의 제어가 가능하도록 한다. 즉, '감지' 단계에서는 자율주행 로봇이 센서를 통해 감지한 환경 정보를 온톨로지로 표현하고, '행동계획' 단계에서는 온톨로지를 이용하여 로봇 주변의 상황에 따른 국소 영역에서의 로봇의 행동을 계획하며, '행동' 단계에서는 온톨로지를 통해 로봇 구동부의 제어가 가능하도록 한다. 그리고 차동구동형 로봇을 제작하고, 실제 환경에서의 실험을 통해 그 타당성을 검증한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.575-583
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• 2017

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a driving mode decision algorithm for automated driving for merge situations on highways. For the development of a highly automated driving control algorithm for merge situations, the driving mode decision is crucial for merging appropriately. There are two driving modes: lane keeping and lane changing (merging). The merge mode decision is determined based on the state of the surrounding vehicles and the remaining length of the merge lane. In the merge mode decision algorithm, merge possibility and the desired merge position are decided to change the lane safely and quickly. A safety driving envelope is defined based on the desired driving mode using the information on the surrounding vehicles' behaviors. To obtain the desired steering angle and longitudinal acceleration for maintaining the subject vehicle in the safe driving envelope, a motion planning controller is designed using model predictive control (MPC), with constraints that are decided considering the vehicle dynamics, safe driving envelope, and actuator limit. The proposed control algorithm has been evaluated via computer simulation studies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.924-926
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 좁고 곡률이 큰 도로에서의 자율 주행을 위한 AVM 시스템 기반의 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 전방을 주시하는 모노/스테레오 카메라를 이용한 차선 인식 방법을 이용한 자율주행 알고리즘은 모노/스테레오 카메라의 제한된 FOV (Field of View)로 인해 좁고 곡률이 큰 도로에서의 자율 주행에 한계가 있다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 AVM 시스템을 기반으로 하여 이 한계를 극복하고자 한다. AVM 시스템에서 얻은 영상을 차선의 색상 정보를 이용해 차선의 영역을 이진화 한다. 이진화 영상으로부터, 차량의 뒷바퀴 주변의 관심영역을 시작으로 재귀적 탐색법을 이용하여 좌, 우 차선을 검출한다. 검출된 좌, 우 차선의 중앙선을 차량의 경로로 삼고 조향각을 산출해 낸다. 제한하는 알고리즘을 실제 차량에 적용시킨 실험을 수행하였고, 운전면허 시험장의 코스를 차선의 이탈없이 주행 가능함을 실험적으로 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.85-90
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• 2021

A ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance System) for the safe driving is an important area in autonumous car. Specially, a ADAS software using an image sensors attached in previous car is low in building cost, and utilizes for various purpose. A algorithm for detecting the break-lamp from the tail-lamp of preceding vehicle is proposed in this paper. This method can perceive the driving condition of preceding vehicle. Proposed method uses the YOLO techinicque that has a excellent performance in object tracing from real scene, and extracts the intensity variable region of break-lamp from HSV image of detected vehicle ROI(Region Of Interest). After detecting the candidate region of break-lamp, each isolated region is labeled. The break-lamp region is detected finally by using the proposed selective-attention model that percieves the shape-similarity of labeled candidate region. In order to evaluate the performance of the preceding vehicle break-lamp detection system implemented in this paper, we applied our system to the various driving images. As a results, implemented system showed successful results.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.207-214
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• 2009

This study proposed an advanced warning information system based on real-time traffic conflict analysis. An algorithm to detect and analyze unsafe traffic events associated with car-following and lane-changes using individual vehicle trajectories was developed. A positive guidance procedure was adopted to provide warning information to alert drivers to hazardous traffic conditions derived from the outcomes of the algorithm. In addition, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) analyses were conducted to investigate the predictability of warning information for the enhancement of information reliability.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.195-211
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• 2023

For the commercialization For the commercialization of autonomous vehicles (AV), the operational design domain (ODD) of automated driving systems (ADS) is to be clearly defined. A common language and consistent format must be prepared so that AV-related stakeholders can understand ODD at the same level. Therefore, overseas countries are presenting a standardized ODD framework and developing scenarios that can evaluate ADS-specific functions based on ODD. However, ODD includes conditions reflecting the characteristics of each country, such as road environment, weather environment, and traffic environment. Thus, it is necessary to clearly understand the meaning of the items defined overseas and to harmonize them to reflect the specific domestic conditions. Therefore, in this study, domestic optimization of the ODD classification system was performed by analyzing the domestic driving environment based on international standards. The driving environment of currently operating self-driving car test districts (Sangam, Seoul, and Gwangju) was investigated using the developed domestic ODD items. Then, based on the results obtained, the ranges of the ODDs in each test district were determined and compared.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.493-501
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• 2014

An automated lifting vehicle(ALV) used in an automated container terminal is a type of unmanned vehicle that can self-lift a container as well as self-transport it to a destination. To operate a fleet of ALVs efficiently, one needs to be able to determine a minimum-time route to a given destination whenever an ALV is to start its transport job. To find a route free from any collision or deadlock, the occupation time of the ALV on each segment of the route should be carefully scheduled to avoid any such hazard. However, it is not easy because not only the travel times of ALVs are uncertain due to traffic condition but also the operation times of cranes en route are not predicted precisely. In this paper, we propose a routing method based on an ant colony optimization algorithm that takes into account these uncertainties. The result of simulation experiment shows that the proposed method can effectively find good routes under uncertainty.