• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2012

The UGV is one of the special field robot developed for mine detection, surveillance and transportation. To achieve successfully the missions of the UGV, the accurate and reliable navigation data should be provided. This paper presents design and implementation of multi-sensor-based open architecture integrated navigation for localization of UGV. The presented architecture hierarchically classifies the integrated system into four layers and data communications between layers are based on the distributed object oriented middleware. The navigation manager determines the navigation mode with the QoS information of each navigation sensor and the integrated filter performs the navigation mode-based data fusion in the filtering process. Also, all navigation variables including the filter parameters and QoS of navigation data can be modified in GUI and consequently, the user can operate the integrated navigation system more usefully. The conventional GPS/INS integrated system does not guarantee the long-term reliability of localization when GPS solution is not available by signal blockage and intentional jamming in outdoor environment. The presented integration algorithm, however, based on the adaptive federated filter structure with FDI algorithm can integrate effectively the output of multi-sensor such as 3D LADAR, vision, odometer, magnetic compass and zero velocity to enhance the accuracy of localization result in the case that GPS is unavailable. The field test was carried out with the UGV and the test results show that the presented integrated navigation system can provide more robust and accurate localization performance than the conventional GPS/INS integrated system in outdoor environments.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2013

In this study, positioning results that combined the code observation information of GPS and GLONASS navigation satellites were analyzed. Especially, the distribution of GLONASS satellites observed in Korea and the combined GPS/GLONASS positioning results were presented. The GNSS data received at two reference stations (GRAS in Europe and KOHG in Goheung, Korea) during a day were processed, and the mean value and root mean square (RMS) value of the position error were calculated. The analysis results indicated that the combined GPS/GLONASS positioning did not show significantly improved performance compared to the GPS-only positioning. This could be due to the inter-system hardware bias for GPS/GLONASS receivers, the selection of transformation parameters between reference coordinate systems, the selection of a confidence level for error analysis, or the number of visible satellites at a specific time.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2008

A navigation system is one of the important components of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). A GPS receiver collects data signals transmitted by (Earth orbiting) satellites. However, these data signals may contain many errors resulting misinformation and depending on one's position (environment), reception may be impossible. The proposed self-driven algorithm uses three low-cost GPS in order to minimize errors of existing inexpensive single GPS's driving algorithm. By using reliable final data, which is analyzed and combined from each of three GPS's received data signals, gathering a vehicle's steering performance information and its current pin-point position is improved even with error containing signals or from a place where signal gathering is impossible. The purpose of this thesis is to explain navigation system algorithm using multiple GPS and compass sensor and prove the algorithm through experiments.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2002

현재 범세계위치결정체계(GPS)와 추측항법(DR), 기타 장치를 결합한 육상차량항법시스템이 사용되고 있다. 그리고 GPS는 육상항법시스템으로 널리 이용되고 있지만, 도심지 등에서 가시위성의 부족으로 차량의 동적 위치결정에 적절하지 못하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 GPS의 단점을 보완하기 위해 GPS/GLONASS 결합항법시스템을 이용하여 차량의 동적위치를 결정하였다. 실험결과 도심지에서 많은 장애물과 가시위성에도 불구하고 GLONASS 위성의 부가로 높은 자료획득률을 보여 GPS/GLONASS의 결합항법시스템으로 차량의 동적 위치를 연속적으로 획득할 수 있었다. 그러므로 GPS/GLONASS 결합항법시스템은 도로의 교통흐름의 통제와 효율적 관리에 응용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.752-758
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• 2006

A GPS receiver provides much information such as calculated position, speed, heading, status of satellites, current time errors, etc. It is well-known that GPS signals from GPS receiver mounted on moving vehicle are often distorted, contaminated by various noises, and blocked by tunnel or tall buildings. The phenomenon often obstructs correct navigation especially when a vehicle keeps stopping or is moving in low speed. Therefore it is needed to pre-process the signals to adapt it to various applications. In this paper, an algorithm to pre-process the signals is proposed. For this, GPS data obtaining from uNAV GPS receiver are analyzed and classified based on dynamic characteristic. Then, the proposed algorithm is applied to the data and some test results are shown to verify the usefulness of the algorithm.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.258-266
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• 2014

We present a system for the real-time visual relative navigation of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle in a GPS-denied environment. An extended Kalman filter is used to construct a vision-aided navigation system by fusing the image processing results with barometer and inertial sensor measurements. Using a mean-shift object tracking algorithm, an onboard vision system provides pixel measurements to the navigation filter. The filter is slightly modified to deal with delayed measurements from the vision system. The image processing algorithm and the navigation filter are verified by flight tests. The results show that the proposed aerial system is able to maintain circling around a target without using GPS data.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.285-289
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• 2006

In this paper, a design and implementation of GPS/Galileo software receiver is given. As a GPS receiver, it is able to perform every function of receiver such as acquisition, code and carrier tracking, navigation bit extraction, navigation data decoding, pseudorange calculations, and position calculations. A method to acquire and track the Galileo BOC(1,1) signal is also required because the correlation of BOC(1,1) signal has multiple peaks different from that of GPS signal. Therefore, a method to detect the main-peak in correlation function of BOC signal is required to avoid false acquisition. In this paper, very-early, very late correlation is implemented to track the correct main peak. The performance of implemented GPS/Galileo software receiver with BOC(1,1) signal tracking feature is evaluated with GPS/Galileo IF signal generator.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제39권8호
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• pp.774-787
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• 2011

본 논문은 다중경로신호를 포함한 위성항법신호의 특성에 관한 정량적 분석을 수행하고, 나로우주센터의 발사대에 나로호가 발사대기중일 때에 저장된 데이터를 바탕으로 발사장 주변환경으로부터 발생한 다중경로신호로 인하여 GPS 수신기에서 계산된 항법해 및 신호대잡음비에서 나타난 일반복 특성에 대하여 다룬다. 발사대에 설치된 나로호에서는 GPS 안테나와 주위환경 및 GPS 위성궤도가 거의 변하지 않으므로 계산된 항법해와 신호대잡음비의 변화율과 크기가 그대로 일반복 되고 있음을 확인하였다. 다중경로의 영향에 관한 분석과 발사대에서 관찰된 항법해와 신호대잡음비의 일반복 특성은 위성발사체가 발사대기하고 있을 때에 GPS 수신기의 성능을 안정화시키기 위한 방법을 찾는데 크게 도움이 될 것이다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 무한원점의 특성과 단일 비젼 시스템을 이용하여 자율 주행을 위한 GPS 위치 데이터 보정법을 제안한다. 실제 도로를 약 60 km의 거리를 주행하며 제안한 방법에 적용한 주행실험 결과를 제시하였다. 제안하는 방법은 직선도로의 환경에서 GPS 위치 오차론 최소 약 53% 이상 감소시켰고, 거리로는 0.5m 이내로 추정되었다. 그러나 곡선도로와 직선이 아닌 산악도로 등의 도로환경에서 정확도를 판별하기 어려운 관계로 직선도로에서의 오차만을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.305-317
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• 2020

The navigation message is composed of the information contained in the message and the structure for transmitting this information. In order to design a navigation message, considerations in terms of message content and message structure must be elicited. For designing a Korea Positioning System (KPS) navigation message, this paper explains performance indicators in terms of message structure and message content. Most of the performance analysis of GNSS navigation messages already in operation was performed only for Time-to-first-fix-Data (TTFFD). However, in the navigation message, the message content is composed of Clock-Ephemeris Data (CED) and additional information. So, this paper proposes a new performance indicator R_(Non-CED) that can be analyzed from the viewpoint of receiving additional information along with an explanation of TTFFD focusing on the CED reception time. This paper analyze the performance in terms of message structure using these two performance indicators. The message structures used for analysis are the packetized message protocol like GPS CNAV and the packetized and fixed pattern message protocol like GPS CNAV-2. From the results, it is possible to proffer how KPS navigation messages can have better performance than GPS navigation messages. And, these two performance indicators, TTFFD and R_Non-CED, can help to design the minimum TTFF required performance of KPS navigation messages.