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Space Physics Sensor on KOMPSAT-1

  • Min, Kyoung-Wook;Choi, Young-Wan;Shin, Young-Hoon;Lee, Jae-Jin;Lee, Dae-Hee;Kim, Jhoon
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.355-360
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    • 1998
  • A small package of plasma instruments, Space Physics Sensor, will monitor the space environment and its effects on microelectronics in the low altitude region as it operates on board the KOMPSAT-1 from 1999 over the maximum of the solar cycle 23. The Space Physics Sensor (SPS) consists of two parts: the Ionospheric Measurement Sensor (IMS) and the High Energy Particle Detector (HEPD). IMS will make in situ Measurements of the thermal electron density and temperature, and is expected to provide a global map of the thermal electron characteristics and the variability according to the solar and geomagnetic activity in the high altitude ionosphere of the KOMPSAT-t orbit. HEPD will measure the fluxes of high energy protons and electrons, monitor the single event upsets caused by these energetic charged particles, and give the information of the total radiation dose received by the spacecraft. The continuous operation of these sensors, along with the ground measurements such as incoherent scatter radars, digital ionosondes and other spacecraft measurements, will enhance our understanding of this important region of practical use for the low earth orbit satellites.

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A Metadata Design for Augmented Broadcasting and Testbed System Implementation

  • Choi, Bumsuk;Kim, Jeonghak;Kim, Soonchoul;Jeong, Youngho;Hong, Jin Woo;Lee, Won Don
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.292-300
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    • 2013
  • Augmented reality (AR) is a popular service in mobile devices, and many AR applications can be downloaded from app stores. As TV broadcasting has continued to integrate with the Internet, it has become an area in which the AR concept is able to reside, although in a simple form, such as an advertisement placed in the static region of a scene. There are some restrictions against TV broadcasting realizing AR since TVs are fixed devices and typically do not have GPS, geomagnetic, or acceleration sensors, which are standard equipment in mobile devices. However, the desire to experience AR on a large TV screen has triggered research and development for an ideal AR business model and service type. This paper introduces several use cases for augmented broadcasting services and also presents an augmented broadcasting metadata scheme designed for a broadcasting environment. We also verify some of the use cases and an augmented broadcasting metadata scheme in an implemented augmented broadcasting system based on a hybrid TV platform.

Posture control of buoyancy sculptures using drone technology (드론 기술을 이용한 부력 조형물의 자세 제어)

  • Kang, Jingu
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2018
  • The floating sculptures in the form of ad-ballon commonly used ropes in order to hold on. Relatively air flow is much less indoor than outdoor. Users of buoyancy sculptures hope to be able to maintain their desired posture without being fixed. This study applied drone technology to buoyancy sculptures. The drones can be moved vertically and horizontally, and the posture can be maintained, so buoyancy sculptures are easy to apply. Therefore, we have studied the control system of buoyancy sculpture using drone technology. Also, a control system that can maintain the desired posture at a constant height was studied. The overall shape was a light fiber material and helium gas for zero buoyancy to support the sculpture. The system configuration was STM32F103CB from ARM. In addition, the gyro and acceleration, geomagnetic sensors and motors are composed of small and medium size BLDC motors. The scheduling of the control system in the configuration of the control device was carefully considered. Because the role of the whole component becomes very important. The communication between the components is divided into the sensor fusion and the interface communication with the whole controller. Each communication technology is designed to expand. This study was implemented to actively respond from the viewpoint of posture control using the drone technology.

A Study on the Wireless Ship Motion Measurement System Using AHRS (AHRS를 이용한 무선 선체 운동 측정 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Hae;Lee, Sang-Min;Kong, Gil-Young
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.575-580
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    • 2013
  • The IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit) which is the expensive equipment has been used as a special limited area, usually in measurement of posture of applying to the areas of ship, submarine, aircraft and military equipment application. However, in the current situation, MEMS AHRS technology can replace the high-priced IMU in MEMS AHRS selected application field. In this paper, wireless hull motion measurement system was suggested for measuring key elements of ship's movement such as rolling, pitching and yawing using gyro, acceleration and magnetic sensors of AHRS. In order to reduce the error such as instantaneous acceleration, effects and vibration of geomagnetic, we have adopted the sensors equipped with Kalman filtering. The Wireless hull motion measurement system using AHRS sensors was tested in actual ship and it could easily be applied in limited installation circumstances of the ship. In the future, this system can be useful in the navigation safety and marine accident analysis by using with ship equipment such as INS or VDR in the maritime.

A study on indoor navigation system using localization based on wireless communication (무선통신기반 위치인식을 이용한 실내 내비게이션 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Ha;Lee, Sung-Geun;Kim, Jong-Su;Kim, Jeong-Woo;Seo, Dong-Hoan
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2013
  • Recently, navigation systems based on wireless communication have been applied to the internal structures such as building or ship. If a stable azimuth information is obtained, these systems can effectively guide the direction of the user's progress through the information and then can improve the performance of guidance. Since conventional method which has acquired an azimuth information using geomagnetic and acceleration sensor(azimuth sensor hereafter) is sensitive to the effects of the magnetic field, it has unstable error range according to the surrounding environment. In order to improve these problems, this paper presents a new relative azimuth estimation algorithm using the displacement of a mobile node and its rotation angle based on Wireless communication. For the performance assessment of the proposed algorithm, experiments using rotating arm are performed and the results are confirmed that the proposed system can estimate the relative azimuth without using additional sensors.

An Implementation of Positioning System using Multiple Data in Smart Phone (스마트폰에서 다중데이터를 이용한 측위시스템 구현)

  • Lee, Hyoun-Sup;Kim, Jin-Deog
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.2195-2202
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    • 2011
  • Recently, navigation system is used to inform users of vehicle location and driving direction, moving distance and so on. This navigation uses GPS sensor for current location determination. The GPS sensor will determinate current coordinates by using triangulation algorithm. This characteristic bring about that the GPS signal is not available in the shadow region such as tunnel and urban canyon. Moreover, Even though the signal is available, inherent positional error rate of the GPS often results in the dislocation of vehicle. To solve, these problems, a new positioning system is proposed in the paper. The System utilizes geomagnetic sensors of smartphone, speed information of CAN of vehicle though bluetooth and WiFi APs for GPS shadow area. The experimental test shadows that the proposed system using multiple data is able to determine the position of vehicle in GPS shadow areas.

Positioning by using Speed and GeoMagnetic Sensor Data base on Vehicle Network (차량 네트워크 기반 속도 및 지자기센서 데이터를 이용한 측위 시스템)

  • Moon, Hye-Young;Kim, Jin-Deog;Yu, Yun-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.2730-2736
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    • 2010
  • Recently, various networks have been introduced in the car of the internal and external sides. These have been integrated by one HMI(Human Machine Interface) to control devices of each network and provide information service. The existing vehicle navigation system, providing GPS based vehicle positioning service, has been included to these integrated networks as a default option. The GPS has been used to the most universal device to provide position information by using satellites' signal. But It is impossible to provide the position information when the GPS can't receive the satellites' signal in the area of tunnel, urban canyon, or forest canopy. Thus, this paper propose and implement the method of measuring vehicle position by using the sensing data of internal CAN network and external Wi-Fi network of the integrated car navigation circumstances when the GPS doesn't work normally. The results obtained by implementation shows the proposed method works well by map matching.

Development of Ground-Based Search-Coil Magnetometer for Near-Earth Space Research

  • Shin, Jehyuck;Kim, Khan-Hyuk;Jin, Ho;Kim, Hyomin;Kwon, Jong-Woo;Lee, Seungah;Lee, Jung-Kyu;Lee, Seongwhan;Jee, Geonhwa;Lessard, Marc R.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.509-515
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    • 2016
  • We report on development of a ground-based bi-axial Search-Coil Magnetometer (SCM) designed to measure time-varying magnetic fields associated with magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling processes. The instrument provides two-axis magnetic field wave vector data in the Ultra Low Frequency or ULF (1 mHz to 5 Hz) range. ULF waves are well known to play an important role in energy transport and loss in geospace. The SCM will primarily be used to observe generation and propagation of the subclass of ULF waves. The analog signals produced by the search-coil magnetic sensors are amplified and filtered over a specified frequency range via electronics. Data acquisition system digitizes data at 10 samples/s rate with 16-bit resolution. Test results show that the resolution of the magnetometer reaches $0.1pT/{\sqrt{Hz}}$ at 1 Hz, and demonstrate its satisfactory performance, detecting geomagnetic pulsations. This instrument is scheduled to be installed at the Korean Antarctic station, Jang Bogo, in the austral summer 2016-2017.

Space Radiation Effect on Si Solar Cells (우주 방사능에 의한 실리콘 태양 전지의 특성 변화)

  • Lee, Jae-Jin;Kwak, Young-Sil;Hwang, Jung-A;Bong, Su-Chang;Cho, Kyung-Seok;Jeong, Seong-In;Kim, Kyung-Hee;Choi, Han-Woo;Han, Young-Hwan;Choi, Yong-Woon;Seong, Baek-Il
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.435-444
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    • 2008
  • High energy charged particles are trapped by geomagnetic field in the region named Van Allen Belt. These particles can move to low altitude along magnetic field and threaten even low altitude spacecraft. Space Radiation can cause equipment failures and on occasions can even destroy operations of satellites in orbit. Sun sensors aboard Science and Technology Satellite (STSAT-l) was designed to detect sun light with silicon solar cells which performance was degraded during satellite operation. In this study, we try to identify which particle contribute to the solar cell degradation with ground based radiation facilities. We measured the short circuit current after bombarding electrons and protons on the solar cells same as STSAT-1 sun sensors. Also we estimated particle flux on the STSAT-l orbit with analyzing NOAA POES particle data. Our result clearly shows STSAT-l solar cell degradation was caused by energetic protons which energy is about 700keV to 1.5MeV. Our result can be applied to estimate solar cell conditions of other satellites.

A Study of the Apply Proximity Sensor for Improved Reliability Axle Detection (열차 차축검지 신뢰성 향상을 위한 근접센서 방식 Axle Counter 적용 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Young;Choi, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.5534-5540
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    • 2015
  • This In the railway signaling system, applications of axle counter in addition to track circuit goes on increasing for detecting train position. Consequently, this paper compares sensor methods of axle counter with between geo-magnetism method and proximity sensor method. And it presents differences and results, to improve reliabilities of train detection and axle counting. Also, this article presents an applied result which is based on field experience, with regard to installation, considering attachment condition of sensor part for accurate axle counting. This study acquires expandability that is able to perform not only axle counting function but also various other functions (direction detection of train, speed detection of train, and so on). It was a result of a change of design in order to judge phase difference of sensors, to improve reliability of axle counting. Furthermore, it does not subordinate to characteristics (type, weight of train). And it is confirmed that the omission of axle counting was not occurred in 350km/h. This was the result of Lab test after the construction of transfer equipment of trial axle and Test Bed for axle counting. Both of them are self-productions. Through this, it prepares foundation which is able to apply not only to train detection but also to speed of passing trains, formation number of trains, detector locking condition - when the train passes the section of switch point, and level crossing devices. Furthermore, it would be judged to contribute safety train operation if proximity sensor method applies to the whole railway signaling system from now on.