• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.481-487
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• 2013

In GPS(Global Positioning System)/INS(Inertial Navigation System) integrated navigation systems, GPS antennas and an inertial measurement units are usually installed outside and inside of the vehicle, respectively. By the difference of installed locations, performance of GPS/INS integrated navigation systems is affected by lever arm errors. For more accurate navigation, lever arm errors need to be compensated correctly since it directly affects the accuracy of navigation states. This paper proposes an effective lever arm error compensation method that utilizes velocity measurements of GPS and INS. By an experiment, feasibility of the proposed algorithm is verified. It is also shown that lever arm compensation is especially important when vehicles are experiencing rotational movements.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.91-100
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• 2015

We developed a micro UAV based rapid mapping system that provides geospatial information of target areas in a rapid and automatic way. Users can operate the system easily although they are inexperienced in UAV operation and photogrammetric processes. For the aerial data acquisition, we constructed a micro UAV system mounted with a digital camera, a GPS/IMU, and a control board for the sensor integration and synchronization. We also developed a flight planning software and data processing software for the generation of geo-spatial information. The processing software operates automatically with a high speed to perform data quality control, image matching, georeferencing, and orthoimage generation. With the system, we have generated individual ortho-images within 30 minutes from 57 images of 3cm resolution acquired from a target area of $400m{\times}300m$.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.93-102
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• 2024

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) integrated navigation systems provide highly accurate and reliable navigation solutions and are widely used as civil and military navigation systems. In order to facilitate the GNSS/INS integrated navigation system development task, a simulator can be used to provide inputs for the GNSS/INS integrated navigation system. In this paper, a simulator design using general-purpose Personal Computer (PC) and Off-The-Shelf (OTS) interface boards for a GNSS/INS integrated navigation system is proposed and implementation results are presented. Requirements of the GNSS/INS integrated navigation system simulator are presented and a design method that satisfies the requirements is described. In order to show the usefulness of the proposed design method, a simulator using a general-purpose PC and OTS interface boards for the GPS/INS integrated navigation system are implemented and verified. The implementation results show that the simulator designed by the proposed method generates the GPS L1 C/A signal and IMU data without any problems.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.318-323
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• 2007

모바일매핑시스템은 차량에 CCD카메라, GPS IMU등의 장비를 탑재하고 도로 및 주변지역의 영상을 획득하여 지도제작 및 도로 도로시설물의 유지관리를 위한 시스템이다. 그러나 모바일매핑시스템의 자료는 자료의 양이 방대하여 지도제작 및 시설물 관리에 사용되기 위해서는 일차적인 가공이나 편집이 필요하다. 모바일매핑시스템은 대상물의 위치 및 영상정보를 획득할 수 있는 효율적인 시스템으로 도로 시설물의 유지 관리, 수치지도의 갱신 등 여러 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 이러한 모바일매핑시스템은 CCD 카메라 영상과 차량의 위치 및 자세정보를 제공하게 되고 이는 영상안의 객체에 대한 위치정보를 제공하는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 그러므로 본 연구에서는 모바일매핑시스템을 이용하여 영상내부에 나타난 거리표의 3차원 위치를 결정하고자 한다. 또 도로관리통합시스템의 핵심 키가 되는 거리표의 3차원 정보를 자동으로 추출함으로써 모바일매핑시스템의 방대한 정보를 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 방법을 알아볼 것이다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.43-55
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• 2012

Bicycle is an environment-friendly transport mode contributing to a more sustainable transportation systems. To innovatively increase the use of bicycle as a significant transport mode, bicycle-friendly roadway environment should be provided. This study proposes a method to evaluate cycling environment based on the analysis of data collected from an specially equipped probe bicycle. The inertial measurement unit(IMU) consisting of a gyro sensor, accelerometer, and a global positioning systems(GPS) receiver was installed on the probe bicycle. Cycling stability index(CSI) and bicycle speed data were used as inputs of the proposed evaluation framework adopting the Fault Tree Analysis, which is a well-known technique for the risk analysis. The outcomes of this study will serve as an intelligent assesment tool for cycling environment.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.21-31
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• 2011

As large scaled natural or man-made disasters being increased, the demand for rapid responses for such emergent situations also has been ever-increasing. These responses need to acquire spatial information of each individual site rapidly for more effective management of the situations. Therefore, we are developing a close-range real-time aerial monitoring system based on a low altitude unmanned helicopter. This system can acquire airborne sensory data in real-time and generate rapidly geospatial information. The system consists of two main parts: aerial and ground parts. The aerial part includes an aerial platform equipped with multi-sensor(cameras, a laser scanner, a GPS receiver, an IMU) and sensor supporting modules. The ground part includes a ground vehicle, a receiving system to receive sensory data in real-time and a processing system to generate the geospatial information rapidly. Development and testing of the individual modules and subsystems have been almost completed. Integration of the modules and subsystems is now in progress. In this paper, we w ill introduce our system, explain intermediate results, and discuss expected outcome.