• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.488-495
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• 2012

The real-time indoor location technology using radio waves has been studied in a variety of environments. One of them, a ship which consists of steel structure has high reception rate but causes significant ranging error due to the reflection of radio waves. In order to reduce location measurement errors that occurs in such a environment, this paper, based on CSS of IEEE 802.15.4a, presents compensation algorithm for localization using modified bilateration and pyroelectric sensor in a ship. The proposed system reduces the number of fixed nodes by estimating the appropriate reception distance between mobile node and fixed node through the analysis of CSS characteristic in a narrow passage such as ship corridors. Also, in the corner section which the ranging errors are significantly fluctuated due to the reflection and diffraction of radio waves, we recognize the location by tracking the a moving section using modified bilateration technique and pyroelectric sensor. The experimental results show that the location accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm are improved 86.2 % compared to general method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.135-135
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• 2012

USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)을 이용한 실내 위치 인식 기술은 주요한 연구 분야이며 산업에 미치는 영향이 매우 크다. 좁은 복도 환경에서는 삼변측위를 이용하지 않고 이변측위만 이용하더라도 Mobile Node의 위치 측정이 가능하다. 하지만 이변측위를 이용할 경우 Reference Node 사이의 간격이 멀어 질수록 Mobile Node의 위치 정보 수신율이 떨어져 Mobile Node의 위치를 표시할 수 없게 된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 관성센서 및 초음파 센서를 이용하여 위치 정보의 수신이 이루어지지 않는 상황에서도 Mobile Node의 위치를 표시할 수 있게 구성하고 실험을 통하여 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.804-806
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• 2009

최근 실내 위치 인식을 위하여 IEEE 802.15.4a에 기반한 거리측정 및 이 값들을 이용한 다양한 위치 인식 기법이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 실내에서 간단한 초음파 모듈과 적은 수의 IEEE 802.15.4a 노드를 이용하여 고정밀 위치정보를 제공하는 기법을 제시한다. 제안된 기법이 기존의 삼변측량기법에 비해서 실내환경에 존재하는 다양한 전파 방해에 덜 민감하여 보다 높은 정밀도를 제공한다는 것을 실제적인 구현과 실험을 통하여 검증한다. 또한, 제안된 기법은 삼변측량을 이용할 때보다 상대적으로 적은 수의 노드를 이용하기 때문에 경제적인 측면에서도 이점이 존재한다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.850-856
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• 2012

Bilateration using two fixed nodes has been used in the field of the real time indoor location system in the narrow space such as building or ship passage. However, as the distance between the fixed nodes increases or any obstructions exist in their zone, it is difficult to detect the location of mobile node(user) due to the degradation of its reception ratio. In order to compensate for these problems, this paper presents, based on IEEE 802.15.4a chirp signal, a new real time indoor location system using stride measurement algorithm which can calculate the location through sensors attached to user. The proposed system consists of an ultrasonic sensor to measure the leg length, a geomagnetic sensor to recognize the user's orientation, and an inertial sensor to obtain the angle between the legs. The experimental results are shown that the proposed system has twice or more accurate output compared with conventional indoor location method in the section which is partially out of communication reachability.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.213-219
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• 2013

Recently, with the rapid advancement in information and communication technology, indoor location-based services(LBSs) that require precise position tracking have been actively studied with outdoor-LBS using GPS. However, in case of a ship which consists of steel structure, it is difficult to measure a precise localization due to significant ranging error by the diffraction and refraction of radio waves. In order to reduce location measurement errors that occur in these indoor environments, this paper presents distance compensation algorithms that are suitable for a narrow passage such as ship corridors without any additional sensors by using UWB(Ultra-wide-band), which is robust to multi-path and has an error in the range of a few centimeters in free space. These improvement methods are that Pythagorean theory and adjacent node technique are used to solve the distance error due to the node deployment and distance variation analysis technique is applied to reduce the ranging errors which are significantly fluctuated in the corner section. The experimental results show that the number of nodes and the distance error are reduced to 66% and 57.41%, respectively, compared with conventional CSS(Chirp spread spectrum) method.