• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2001

The Global Positioning System(GPS) and the Strapdown Inertial Navigation System(SDINS) techniques have been widely utilized in many applications. However each system has its own weak point when used in a stand-alone mode. SDINS suffers from fast error accumulation dependent on an operating time while GPS has problem of cycle slips and just provides low update rate. The best solution is to integrate the GPS and SDINS system and its integration allows compensation for each shortcomings. This paper, first, is to define and derive error equations of integrated SDINS/GPS system before it will be applied on a real hardware system with gyro, accelerometer and GPS receiver. Second, the accuracy, availability and performance of this mechanization are verified on the simulation study.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.123-129
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• 2014

The real-time kinematic (RTK) is one of precise positioning methods using Global Positioning System (GPS) data. In the long baseline GPS RTK, the ionospheric and tropospheric delays are critical factors for the positioning accuracy. In this paper we present RTK algorithms for long baselines more than 100 km with estimating tropospheric delays. The state vector is estimated by the extended Kalman filter. We show the experimental results of GPS RTK for various baselines (162.10, 393.37, 582.29, and 1283.57 km) by using the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute GPS data and one International GNSS Service (IGS) reference station located in Japan. As a result, we present that long baseline GPS RTK can provide the accurate positioning for users less than few centimeters.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.219-226
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• 2000

Ship's position data obtaining method is one of the very important factor in navigation. Nowadays, GPS(Global Positioning System) using the earth orbiting satellites are equipped and operated for the position finding. Because it provides more precise position information than other equipments and is very convenient for navigator. In this study, it is designed to develop the GPS simulator for everybody being able to practise the GPS operating skill like as navigation planning, navigation calculating etc. And also, it can be operated with personal computer without real GPS receiver. This simulation system is based on the real GPS receiver and built by the visual basic 5.0 program. And it displays the ship's position and navigating information and plots the ship's moving track on the screen in real time according as initial setup data-main engine's rpm, rudder angle, departure position and waypoint.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2012

본 연구는 RTK-GPS (Real Time Kinematic-Global Positioning System) 측위법을 이용한 변위 계측 결과, 가속도계를 이용한 변위계측 결과, 그리고 LVDT(Linear variable differential transformer)의 변위계측 결과를 비교하여 RTK-GPS와 가속도계 센서를 구조물에 적용할 때의 문제점들을 파악하였다. 또한, 관측빈도와 측위 정확도를 향상시킨 RTK-GPS와 가속도계를 이용한 변위계측 결과를 통합 계산하여 절대변위인 LVDT와 비교를 통해 생성된 통합 변위의 정확도와 타당성을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.6-9
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• 2015

The use of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is promising to bring better solutions for managing and handling the city traffic. This system combines many fields in advanced technology such as Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and so on. The basement of applications in ITS is the effective collections and data integration tools. The purpose of our research is to propose solutions which involve the use of GPS time series data collected from GPS devices in order to improve the quality of output traffic data. In this study, GPS data is collected from devices attached to vehicles travelling on routes in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Then, GPS data is stored in database system to serve in many transportation applications. The proposed method combines the data usage level and data coverage to improve the quality of traffic data.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.251-254
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• 2006

A precise real-time method of using the IGS ultra rapid products (IGU) and the GPS broadcast ephemeris to calculate the VRS orbit corrections was presented here which was suited for GPS/VRS reference station network based positioning. Test data acquired from both the SGRSN (Sichuan GPS Reference Station Network) and SCIGN (Southern California integrated GPS network) were used to evaluate the performance of the modeling techniques. The new method was proven to be more precise and reliable compared with the existing conventional network-based orbit error interpolation method. It was shown that 0.004ppm relative accuracy was reached, namely the influence from the orbit bias for the RTK positioning within 100km area can be of sub-millimeter level.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.357-366
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• 2020

This paper addressed a relative navigation method for autonomous rendezvous and docking of cube-satellites using single frequency Differential GPS (DGPS) under the intermittent communication between satellites. Since the ionospheric error of GPS measurement is variable depending on the visible satellites, a few meters error of relative navigation is occurred in the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) environment. Therefore, it is essential to remove the ionospheric error to perform relative navigation. Besides, an intermittent communication period for receiving GPS measurements of the target satellite is limited for getting information every sampling time. To solve this problem, a method combining range domain DGPS and orbit propagation is proposed in this paper. The proposed method improves the performance of DGPS by using Hatch filter and solves an intermittent communication problem by estimating the relative position and velocity using Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire Equation. Through the simulation, it is verified that the suggested algorithm provides the relative position error within RMS 0.5 m and the relative velocity error within RMS 3 cm/s. Furthermore, it has the advantage that it is suitable for real-time implementation using single-frequency GPS measurements and is computationally efficient.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.534-543
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• 2008

To use the Global Positioning System (GPS) carrier phase measurement for precise positioning, the integer ambiguities at the early stage of most algorithms must be determined. Furthermore, if a precise positioning is to be applied to real time navigation, fast determination and validation methods for integer ambiguity are essential. In this paper, the Wald test that simultaneously determines and validates integer ambiguities is used with assistance of the Inertial Navigation System (INS) to improve its performance. As the Wald test proceeds, it assigns a higher probability to the candidate that is considered to be true at each time step. The INS information is added during the Wald test process. Large performance improvements were achieved in convergence time as well as in requiring fewer observable GPS satellites. To test the performance improvement of the Wald test with the INS information, experimental tests were conducted using a ground vehicle. The vehicle moved in a prescribed trajectory and observed seven GPS satellites. To verify the effect of the INS information on the Wald test, the convergence times were compared with cases that considered the INS information and cases that did not consider the INS information. The results show that the benefits of using the INS were emphasized as fewer GPS satellites were observable. The performance improvement obtained by the proposed algorithm was shown through the fast convergence to the true hypothesis when using the INS measurements.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.1315-1324
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• 2016

최근 드론에 대한 관심이 증가하면서, 드론을 활용한 다양한 기술들이 선보이고 있다. 특히, 다수의 드론을 통한 군집 비행의 기술은 협업을 통한 복잡한 임무 수행이 가능하여 빠른 시간안에 임무를 완수할 수 있어 다양한 분야에서 각광을 받고 있다. 하지만 실외의 경우 GPS의 정밀도가 낮아 정밀 비행이 어렵기 때문에 고정밀 위치 인식이 필요한 임무에는 적합하지 않다. 뿐만 아니라, 실외에서 다수의 비행체를 좁은 공간에서 동시 정밀 제어하다보니, 정밀 위치 예측이 어려운 경우 충돌이 발생하는 심각한 문제를 초래할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 RTK-GPS(Real-Time Kinematic-GPS)를 포함한 다수 센서를 활용하여 위치 정밀도를 증가시키고, 센서 오류로 인한 문제를 최소화하기 위해 제안한 모드 스위칭 기법에 대해 설명한다. 그리고 이를 기반으로 개발한 실외 군집 비행 시스템에 대해서도 소개한다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 소프트웨어로 검증된 GPS 신호생성 알고리즘을 FPGA 기반으로 구현함으로써 RF레벨에서 다중 위성신호를 실시간으로 생성 가능한 GPS 신호생성기에 대해 기술한다. 탑재된 신호생성 알고리즘은 궤도 및 환경 오차 모델을 반영하고 수신기 위치를 기반으로 위성 신호를 모의한다. GPS 신호생성기 하드웨어는 16개의 위성 신호를 실시간으로 생성할 수 있는 디지털보드와 IF Data를 RF 신호로 변환해주는 아날로그보드로 구성되어 있다. Windows 기반의 신호생성 시뮬레이터를 제어하는 소프트웨어를 통해 항법신호뿐만 아니라 기만신호, 재밍신호를 생성이 가능하며 GIS 화면위에서 수신기의 경로를 편집할 수 있는 시나리오 구성 기능이 제공된다. GPS 신호생성기는 성능은 상용수신기를 이용해 검증하였다. GPS 신호생성기를 이용한 응용 예로써 실내측위 시스템을 구성하고 시험하였으며 실내측위 시스템의 정확도를 개선하는 것은 추가적인 연구를 진행하고 있다.