• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.514-522
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• 2013

In this paper, we present signal processing procedure and carry out performance analysis of FMCW(Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave) radar for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle(AUV). In order to detect range profile and velocity of the unknown target, we must implement two step FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) procedure. And the DBF(Digital Beam Forming) algorithm has to be performed to obtain the angle information of the unknown target. To verify the performance of manufactured autonomous unmanned ground vehicle FMCW radar, we use the data of the real corner reflecter target.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2009

An AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) is an unmanned underwater vessel to investigate sea environments and deep sea resource. To be completely autonomous, AUV must have the ability to home and dock to the launcher. In this paper, we consider a class of homing trajectory planning problem for an AUV with kinematic and tactical constraints in horizontal plane. Since the AUV under consideration has underactuated characteristics, trajectory for this kind of AUV must be designed considering the underactuated characteristics. Otherwise, the AUV cannot follow the trajectory. Proposed homing trajectory panning method that called VGM (Virtual Goal Method) based on visibility graph takes the underactated characteristics into consideration. And it guarantees shortest collision free trajectory. For tracking control, we propose a PD controller by simple guidance law. Finally, we validate the trajectory planning algorithm and tracking controller by numerical simulation and ocean engineering basin experiment in KORDI.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned, underwater vessels that are used to investigate sea environments in the study of oceanography. Docking systems are required to increase the capability of the AUVs, to recharge the batteries, and to transmit data in real time for specific underwater works, such as repented jobs at sea bed. This paper presents a visual :em control system used to dock an AUV into an underwater station. A camera mounted at the now center of the AUV is used to guide the AUV into dock. To create the visual servo control system, this paper derives an optical flow model of a camera, where the projected motions of the image plane are described with the rotational and translational velocities of the AUV. This paper combines the optical flow equation of the camera with the AUVs equation of motion, and deriver a state equation for the visual servo AUV. Further, this paper proposes a discrete-time MIMO controller, minimizing a cost function. The control inputs of the AUV are automatically generated with the projected target position on the CCD plane of the camera and with the AUVs motion. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the modeling and the control law of the visual servo AUV simulations on docking the AUV to a target station are performed with the 6-dof nonlinear equations of REMUS AUV and a CCD camera.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1077-1085
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• 2020

부설된 기뢰를 소해하기 위해 기뢰매설 예상구역에 대한 탐색을 수행한다. 이 때 기뢰탐색은 기뢰의 위험성, 아군의 안정성 등을 고려하여 자율무인잠수정을 이용한다. 매설된 기뢰를 식별하기 위한 소나시스템은 측면주사소나, 합성개구소나 등을 탑재한다. 본 논문은 측면주사소나 특성에 따른 기뢰탐색효과도 분석에 대해 기술한다. 각 측면주사소나의 특성을 바탕으로 음향조사역 및 인식확률을 모델링 하였고, AUV의 주행패턴에 따라 분석을 수행하였다. AUV의 주행패턴은 측면주사소나 음영구역의 유무에 따라 3가지 탐색패턴을 정의하였다. 분석결과는 각 탐색패턴 마다 탐지시간, 탐지확률을 도출하고 최종적으로 측면주사소나 음영구역의 유무에 따른 탐색 향상도를 도출하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.74-81
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• 2005

A 3-D localization method of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has been developed, which can solve the limitations oj the conventional localization, such as LBL or SBL that reduces the flexibility and availability of the AUV. The system is composed of a mother ship (small unmanned marine prober) on the surface of the water and an unmanned underwater vehicle in the water. The mother ship is equipped with a digital compass and a GPS for position information, and an extended Kalman filter is used for position estimation. For the localization of the AUV, we used only non-inertial sensors, such as a digital compass, a pressure sensor, a clinometer, and ultrasonic sensors. From the orientation and velocity information, a priori position of the AUV is estimated by applying the dead reckoning method. Based on the extended Kalman filter algorithm, a posteriori position of the AUV is, then, updated by using the distance between the AUV and a mother ship on the surface of the water, together with the depth information from the pressure sensor.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.52-60
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• 2010

It is generally important to get a precise position information for autonomous unmanned vehicle(AUV) to run safely. For getting the position of AUV, the GPS has been using to navigation in a vehicle. Though it is useful to finding a position, it is difficult to precisely control a trajectory of the AUV due to large measuring error which may reach over 10 meters. Therefore to apply AUV it needs to compensate for the error. This paper proposes a method to more precisely localize AUV using three low-cost differential global positioning systems (DGPS). The distance errors between each DGPS are minimized as using the least square method (LSM) and the Kalman filter to eliminate a Gaussian white noise. The selected DGPS is cheaper and easier to set up than the RTK-GPS. It is also more precise than the general GPS. The proposed method can compensate the relatively position error according to stationary and moving distance of the AUV. For evaluating the algorithm by simulation, the DGPS signal with the Gaussian white noise to any points is generated by the AR model and compared with the measurement signal. It is confirmed that the proposed method can effectively compensate the position error as comparing with the measurement signal. The compensated position signal can be used to localize and control the AUV in the road.

• 전자공학회지
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• 제38권7호
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• pp.20-29
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• 2011

무인잠수정(Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, UUV)은 하드웨어 구성과 관련하여 ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle), SAUV (Semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle), AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) 등으로 구분할 수 있으며, 그 중에서 자율무인잠수정(AUV)은 주어진 임무의 난이도, 작업 환경의 정보, 그리고 운용자의 간섭 정도에 따라 다양한 수준으로 자율 정도를 분류한다. 무인잠수정은 미국을 중심으로 1952년부터 개발되기 시작하였으며 최초는 전적으로 운용자에 의해서 직접 운용되는 ROV가 주를 이루었다. 자율무인잠수정은 1980년대부터 다양한 수중관련 기술 및 컴퓨터 발전과, 민군의 사용분야가 증가되면서 급속한 발전을 이루어 왔으며 이에 따라 AUV 자율수준 정의와 기술개발도 급속한 진전이 이루어져 왔다. 본 기고에서는 무인잠수정의 개발현황, 자율개념 및 자율수준(Autonomy Levels for Underwater Vehicle, ALFUV)의 정의, 자율을 정립함에 필요한 방법 또는 기술 등을 알아보고 마지막으로 자율 알고리즘으로 개발된 구조의 표준화를 중심으로 현황을 파악하였으며 또한 미래의 자율수준 개발 동향을 살펴보았다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.109.5-109
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• 2002

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned underwater vessels to investigate sea environments, oceanography and deep-sea resources autonomously. Docking systems are required to increase the capability of the AUVs to recharge the batteries and to transmit data in real time in underwater. This paper presents a visual servo control system for an AUV to dock into an underwater station with a camera. To make the visual servo control system , this paper derives an optical flow model of a camera mounted on an AUV, where a CCD camera is installed at the nose center of the AUV to monitor the docking condition. This paper combines the optical flow equation of the camera with the AUV's equation o...

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.194-200
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• 2016

Recently, UUVs (unmanned underwater vehicles) have increasingly been applied in various science and engineering applications. In-water inspection, which used to be performed by human divers, is a potential application for UUVs. In particular, the operational safety and performance of in-water inspection missions can be greatly improved by using an underwater robotic vehicle. The capabilities of hovering maneuvers and automatic image mosaicking are essential for autonomous underwater visual inspection. This paper presents the development of a hover-capable autonomous underwater vehicle system for autonomous in-water inspection, which includes both a hardware platform and operational software algorithms. Some results from an experiment in a model basin are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the developed system and algorithms.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.1973-1977
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 IMU(Inertial Motion Unit), DVL(Doppler Velocity Log), USBL(Ultra Short Base Line) DGPS(Differential Global Positioning System) 등의 센서로부터 취득된 데이터를'융합하여 ROV(Remotely Operated Vehicle)와 AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)와 같은 수중체의 위치를 지구 전체영역에서 추정하기 위한 기본적인 알고리즘을 다루고 있다. 본 논문에 소개된 알고리즘은 6,000m급 과학 조사용 심해무인잠수정인 해미래[1]의 수중 위치추적에 사용될 예정이다.