• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.522-526
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• 2015

Generally, underwater unmanned vehicle have adopted an inertial navigation system (INS), dead reckoning (DR), acoustic navigation and geophysical navigation techniques as the navigation method because GPS does not work in deep underwater environment. Even if the tactical inertial sensor can provide very detail measurement during long operation time, it is not suitable to use the tactical inertial sensor for small size and low cost UUV because the tactical inertial sensor is expensive and large. One alternative to INS is attitude heading reference system (AHRS) with the micro-machined electro mechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensor because of MEMS inertial sensor's small size and low power requirement. A cost effective and small size attitude heading reference system (AHRS) which incorporates measurements from 3-axis micro-machined electro mechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes, accelerometers, and 3-axis magnetometers has been developed to provide a complete attitude solution for UUV. The AHRS based MEMS overcome many problems that have inhibited the adoption of inertial system for small UUV such as cost, size and power consumption. Several evaluation experiments were carried out for the validation of the developed AHRS's function and these experiments results are presented. Experiments results prove the fact that the developed MEMS AHRS satisfied the required specification.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 2024

An Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) provides the attitude of a vehicle with a constant velocity using an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and a magnetometer. In this case, in order to avoid the disadvantage of a gyroscope, an AHRS using a Gyro-Free IMU (GF-IMU) that is composed of only accelerometers may be considered instead of the gyroscopes. In this paper, a design method of an AHRS using a GF-IMU is proposed. The proposed AHRS consists of roll and pitch calculation, yaw calculation, angular acceleration and angular velocity calculation, attitude calculation, and a Kalman filter. In particular, since the angular velocity cannot be measured from a gyroscope, the angular acceleration is obtained from the accelerometer output, and the angular velocity is calculated by integrating it. In order to show the usefulness of the proposed method, a performance evaluation was carried out. The performance evaluation results show that the attitude estimation performance of the proposed AHRS is similar to that of the conventional AHRS.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 AHRS(Attitude and Heading Reference System) 센서를 이용하여 스튜어트 플랫폼으로 구성된 평면의 평형상태를 유지시키는 시스템을 소개한다. 움직이는 선박이나 차량에서 구조물이 지면의 기울기에 상관없이 항상 평형상태를 유지하도록 하기 위하여 자세 제어를 하는 역학적 기기로 스튜어트 플랫폼을 사용하였다. 그리고 현재의 기울어진 각도를 알아내고 보정하기 위하여 AHRS 센서를 이용하였다. AHRS센서와 스튜어트 플랫폼 제어 간의 피드백 시스템을 구성하여 자동으로 스튜어트 플랫폼의 위쪽 판넬이 평형을 이루는 시스템을 제작하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2399-2410
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• 2017

In this paper, a linear matrix inequality-based sampled-data fuzzy observer design method is proposed based on the exact discretization approach. In the proposed design technique, a numerically relaxed observer design condition is obtained by using the discrete-time fuzzy Lyapunov function. Unlike the existing studies, the designed observer is robust to the uncertain premise variable because the fuzzy observer is designed under the imperfect premise matching condition, in which the membership functions of the system and observer are mismatched. In addition, we apply the proposed method to the state estimation problem of the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS). To do this, we derive a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model for the AHRS system, and validate the proposed method through the hardware experiment.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1675-1682
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• 2017

This paper deals with three dimensional orientation estimation algorithm for an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) based on nine-axis inertial/magnetic sensor signals. In terms of the orientation estimation based on the use of a Kalman filter (KF), the quaternion is arguably the most popular orientation representation. However, one critical drawback in the quaternion representation is that undesirable magnetic disturbances affect not only yaw estimation but also roll and pitch estimations. In this paper, a sequential direction cosine matrix-based orientation KF for AHRS has been presented. The proposed algorithm uses two linear KFs, consisting of an attitude KF followed by a heading KF. In the latter, the direction of the local magnetic field vector is projected onto the heading axis of the inertial frame by considering the dip angle, which can be determined after the attitude KF. Owing to the sequential KF structure, the effects of even extreme magnetic disturbances are limited to the roll and pitch estimations, without any additional decoupling process. This overcomes an inherent issue in quaternion-based estimation algorithms. Validation test results show that the proposed method outperforms other comparison methods in terms of the yaw estimation accuracy during perturbations and in terms of the recovery speed.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.555-564
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• 2017

In this paper, a new technique for attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) using low-cost MEMS sensors of the gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer is addressed particularly in vibration environments. The motion of MEMS sensors interact with the scale factor and cross-coupling errors to produce random errors by the harsh environment. A new adaptive attitude estimation algorithm based on the Kalman filter is developed to overcome these undesirable side effects by analyzing windowed measurement error covariance. The key idea is that performance degradation of accelerometers, for example, due to linear vibrations can be reduced by the proposed measurement error covariance analysis. The computed error covariance is utilized to the measurement covariance of Kalman filters adaptively. Finally, the proposed approach is verified by using numerical simulations and experiments in an acceleration phase and/or vibrating environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2016

An Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) can calculate attitude and heading information with long-term accuracy and stability by combining gyro, accelerometer, and magnetic compass signals. Motivated by this characteristic of the AHRS, this paper presents a Motion-Tracking and Localization (MTL) method for a person or walking robot using multi-AHRSs. Five AHRSs are attached to the two calves, two thighs, and waist of a person/walking robot. Joints, links, and coordinate frames are defined on the body. The outputs of the AHRSs are integrated with link data. In addition, a supporting foot is distinguished from a moving foot. With this information, the locations of the joints on the local coordinate frame are calculated. The experimental results show that the presented MTL method can track the motion of and localize a person/walking robot with long-term accuracy in an infra-less environment.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.666-673
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• 2013

본 연구는 빠른 운항 속도와 짧은 운용 시간을 요구하는 임무에 활용될 저가 소형 자율 무인잠수정에 고가 대형 관성 측정 장치를 대신하여 사용할 수 있는 저가 소형 자세 측정 장치 개발 및 성능 검증을 수행하였다. 저가 소형 자세 측정 장치 개발을 위해서 MEMS 기술을 적용한 gyro, accelerometer 및 magnetometer 채택하여 MEMS 기반 하드웨어를 제작하였으며, 좌표 변환 공식과 칼만 필터를 적용하여 자세 계산 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 또한 개발된 MEMS 기반 자세 측정 장치에 대한 기본 성능 검증을 위한 지자기센서 검증 시험, 정적 자세 시험, 차량 시험, 운동 모사 장치 시험을 수행하였으며, 각각 시험 결과를 제시하였다. 지자기센서 검증 시험 결과 외부 자기장 보정을 통하면 개발된 MEMS 기반 자세 측정 장치의 측정 결과가 외부 자기장에 강인함을 확인하였으며, 정적 자세 시험 및 차량 시험을 통하여 자세 변화가 크지 않는 환경에서 자세 측정 오차가 $0.5^{\circ}/hr$ 임을 확인하였다. 운동 모사 장치 시험을 통하여 5분 내외 자세 변화가 큰 운동 중에도 자세 측정 오차가 발산하지 않고 $1^{\circ}/hr$ 이내임을 확인하였다. 상기 시험 결과로부터 개발된 MEMS 기반 자세 측정 장치가 목표 성능인 $1^{\circ}/hr$이내 roll, pitch, yaw 오차를 보여주고 있음 확인하였으며, 이로부터 20분 내외 운용 시간 동안 정확한 자세 정보 제공 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.308-315
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• 2016

본 논문은 관성 항법 시스템(Inertial Navigation System)을 활용한 자세 및 방향 결정시스템(Attitude & Heading Reference System)의 성능을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 기법인, 순차적 측정 오차 공분산(Sequential Measurement Noise Covariance) 기법을 제시하였다. 관성 센서는 시간이 지남에 따라 발생하는 적분오차와 진동이나 가속구간과 같은 외란이 가해 졌을 때 성능이 저하된다는 단점이 있다. 특히, 저가의 관성 센서의 경우 이러한 현상이 더욱 두드러지게 나타난다. 이를 극복하기 위한 알고리즘들은 많이 존재한다. 하지만 가장 일반적으로 사용되는 확장 칼만 필터의 경우 가속도계를 사용할 때 측정값(Measurement)이 일정 범위를 넘어가면 센서값을 배제하는 방법을 사용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법은 범위를 설정하지 않고 과거의 데이터를 순차적으로 활용하여 측정값의 가중치를 변화하는 기법이다. 최종적으로 제안된 기법을 수치 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증하였다.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표회논문집
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• pp.59-64
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• 2004

In this paper, the error compensation method of the low-cost IMU is proposed. In general, the position and attitude error calculated by accelerometers and gyros grows with time. Therefore the additional information is required to compensate the drift. The attitude angles can be bound accelerometer mixing algorithm and the heading angle can be aided by single antenna GPS velocity. The Kalman filter is used for error compensation. The result is verified by comparing with the attitude calculated by Attitude Heading Reference System with Micro Electro Mechanical System for a basis