• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.551-560
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• 2011

Recently, There has been increasing concern about WLAN-based indoor positioning system. Most of the existing WLAN-based positioning systems use a fingerprinting method as a main approach. In the fingerprinting approach, the accuracy of the location of a mobile objects is proportional to the number of reference points. However, depending on the increasing number of reference points in the training phase, it requires more time and effort to create fingerprint database. To solve these problems, we propose the new indoor positioning algorithm that calculate the distance between a mobile objects and an AP using the information of surrounding environment WLAN based APs and applied the particle filter to the proposed algorithm in order to improve the accuracy of the estimated location in this paper. To implement this algorithm, at first environmental information database such as wall, iron door, glass door, partition etc. existing in the periphery of the AP should be established. The positioning use attenuation model and path loss model. Our experimental results with proposed algorithm are verified that the positioning accuracy was low but solved the problems with fingerprinting, compared with other positioning algorithms.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.3
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• pp.251-258
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• 2010

In an indoor localization method taking the lateration-based approach, the location of a target is estimated with the location of anchor points (APs) and the approximated distances between the target and APs using received signal strength (RSS) measurements. The accuracy of distance estimation affects the localization accuracy of a lateration-based method. Since a radio propagation environment varies randomly in time and space, the highest RSSs do not necessarily give the best estimation of the distances between a target and APs. Thus, all APs hearing a target have been used for localization. However, the accuracy of a lateration-based method degrades if more APs beyond a certain threshold are used because the area of polygon with the APs increases. In this paper, we focus on reducing the size of the polygon to further increase the localization accuracy. We use the centroid of the polygon as a reference point to estimate the relative location of a target in the polygon. Once the relative location is estimated, only the APs which are closest to the target are used for localization to reduce the area of the polygon with the APs. We validate the proposed method by implementing an indoor localization system and evaluating the accuracy of the proposed method in the various experimental environments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.954-960
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• 2009

In this paper, Indoor Positioning System based on Wi-Fi system which is one of the key technology in LBS(Location Based Service) is proposed. The proposed system estimates distance between MS(Mobile Station) and AP(Access Point) using RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator). RSSI is affected by outlier that originate from indoor environment complexity and obstacle. In this paper, we introduce a Robust outlier Extended Kalman Filter that can ignore, real-time outlier in the observations. To demonstrate performance of proposed indoor positioning system, we used a PDA as the MS.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.564-573
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• 2015

GPS is the representative positioning technology for providing the location information. This technique has the disadvantage that does not operate in the shadow areas, such as urban or dense forest and the interior. This paper proposes a hybrid indoor positioning algorithm, which estimates a more accurate location of the terminal using strength of the Wi-Fi signal from the indoor AP. To determine the location of the user, we establish the most appropriate path loss model for the measurement environment. by using the RSSI value measured in a variety of environment such as building structure, person, distance, etc. The path loss exponent obtained by the path loss model is changed according to the environment. REKF, PF estimate the position of the terminal by using measured value from the AP with path loss exponent. For more accurate position estimation, we select positioning system by the value of threshold measured by experiments rather than a single positioning system. Experimental results using the proposed hybrid algorithm show that the performance is improved by about 17% than the conventional single positioning method.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.67-76
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to improve the accuracy of the Wi-Fi access point (AP) positioning technique. The proposed algorithm based on evaluating the trustworthiness of the signal strength quality of each measurement node is superior to other existing AP positioning algorithms, such as the centroid, weighted centroid, multilateration, and radio distance ratio methods, owing to advantages such as reduction of distance errors during positioning, reduction of complexity, and ease of implementation. To validate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we conducted experiments in a complex indoor environment with multiple walls and obstacles, multiple office rooms, corridors, and lobby, and measured the corresponding AP signal strength value at several specific points based on their coordinates. Using the proposed algorithm, we can obtain more accurate positioning results of the APs for use in research or industrial applications, such as finding rogue APs, creating radio maps, or estimating the radio frequency propagation properties in an area.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

Over the past few years, Wi-Fi signal based indoor positioning system (IPS) has been researched extensively because of its low expenses of infrastructure deployment. There are two major aspects of location-related information contained in Wi-Fi signals. One is channel state information (CSI), and one is received signal strength indicator (RSSI). Compared to the RSSI, the CSI has been widely utilized because it is able to reveal fine-grained information related to locations. However, the conventional IPS that employs a single access point (AP) does not exhibit decent performance especially in the environment of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) situations due to the reliability degeneration of signals caused by multipath fading effect. In order to address this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel method that utilizes multiple APs instead of a single AP to enhance the robustness of the IPS. In our proposed method, a hybrid neural network is applied to the CSIs collected from multiple APs. By relying more on the fingerprint constructed by the CSI collected from an AP that is less affected by the NLOS, we find that the performance of the IPS is significantly improved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.851-853
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• 2013

Recently, location-based service as the developed continuously, interest in positioning technology is increasing. As the most famous indoor positioning technology, WPS is a positioning technology using WiFi, which can complement the limits of the indoor positioning to have a GPS. In this paper, to provide a system for monitoring the position of the inside of the user based on the position information that using the RSSI signal of the wireless AP based WPS technology, they grip the location information of the mobile nodes in the indoor. If using the method proposed, it is expected to be applied to various services it is possible to apply the WPS, this is because it is possible to estimate in real time the location distribution of mobile nodes in the indoor.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.435-436
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• 2012

실내에서는 GPS 신호를 수신할 수 없으므로 자신의 위치를 알 수 없다. 최근에 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 와이파이 엑세스 포인트(AP)를 이용한 실내 위치 정보 수집 방법들이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 AP를 이용한 이동체의 이동경로를 저장하는 시공간 데이터 모델 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.71-80
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• 2012

LBS (Location Based Service) services are very useful to our daily life and it should be available inside a building: a huge building, a shopping mall, a large scale underground shopping center, and so on where GPS (Global Positioning System) signal is not available. An LBS which is provided inside a building is called an ILBS (Indoor Location Based Service). One of the most important techniques for ILBS development is indoor positioning. Among the indoor positioning techniques, APs (access points) of WLAN based ones are most economical because WLAN is available almost everywhere. Meanwhile, the web service has been proved to be an excellent practice of software reuse. Therefore, if indoor positioning is provided in the form of web service to programmers then development of ILBS would be greatly accelerated. This paper introduces the AP based trilateration and K-NN indoor positioning and RFID based indoor positioning web services we have developed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.341-343
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• 2014

실내 무선 측위 시스템(IPS : Indoor Positioning System) 중 Wifi 신호를 활용하는 방식의 대부분은 측위를 수행하기 이전에 AP의 mac 정보와 수신세기를 수집 하여 radio map을 구축하고 이후 측위 과정에서 수집되는 AP의 정보와 비교하여 위치를 판단한다. 이 방식은 신호 세기의 변화가 없을 경우 실내에서 매우 높은 정확도로 측위를 수행할 수 있다. 그러나 현실세계에서는 구축된 radio map의 신호에 심각한 영향을 줄 수 있는 여러 가지 상황이 존재한다. 대표적으로 채널 간섭 현상을 둘 수 있다. radio map으로 구축되어 있는 AP의 신호 영역 내에 동일 채널 및 인접 채널을 가지는 AP 및 테더링 기기 등이 신규로 설치될 경우 기존 radio map 신호에 영향을 주어 측위 과정에서 정확도가 떨어지는 문제점이 발생하다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 언급한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 AP의 특성 정보를 다중 그리드 Radio map으로 구성하는 방안을 연구하였다. 이 다중 그리드 Radio map을 통해 측위 단계에서 수집된 AP 신호를 더욱 정확하게 분석하고 신호 변동에 능동적으로 대처할 수 있도록 구성하여 기존의 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 제안한다.