• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.742-747
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• 2004

Outdoors we can easily acquire our accurate location by GPS. However, the GPS signal can't be acquired indoors because of its weak signal power level. Adequate positioning method is demanded for many indoor positioning applications. At present, wireless local area network (WLAN) is widely installed in various areas such as airport, campus, and park. This paper proposes a positioning algorithm using WLAN signal strength to provide the position of the WLAN user indoors. There are two methods for WLAN based positioning, the signal propagation method uses signal strength model over space and the empirical method uses RF power propagation database. The proposed method uses the probability distribution of the power propagation and the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) algorithm based on power strength DB. Test results show that the proposed method can provide reasonably accurate position information.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.147-155
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• 2011

위치기반서비스 시스템의 주요 컴포넌트에는 도면출력, 측위, 데이터베이스 관리 등이 포함된다. 도면출력은 일반적으로 구글 지도를 사용하며 측위는 GPS(Global Positioning System)를 사용한다. 그러나 위치기반서비스를 옥내에서 구현하려면 이러한 일반적인 솔루션을 사용할 수가 없다. 즉, 구글 지도로 건물 내부 도면을 출력할 수도 없고, GPS로 건물 내부의 이동객체의 위치를 측정할 수도 없다. 본 연구는 도면출력 기능, 옥내측위 기능 그리고 데이터베이스에 콘텐츠 업로드 및 출력 기능들을 웹서비스로 구현한 사례를 소개하여, 프로그램 개발자가 누구나 쉽게 호출하여 사용할 수 있게 한다. 구현한 웹서비스들의 효용성을 실험적으로 보이기 위하여 이러한 웹서비스들을 이용하여 박물관 관람객의 위치를 고려한 콘텐츠 출력 시스템 프로토타입을 구현한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2016

Visible light communication (VLC) using LED lamps is suitable for implementing an indoor positioning system in an indoor environment where the global positioning system (GPS) signal does not reach. In this paper, we present an indoor positioning system for mobile robots using a VLC beacon and fuzzy rules. This system consists of an autonomous mobile robot, VLC modules, and device application software. Fuzzy rules are applied to plan the global and local paths along which the mobile robot navigates indoors. The VLC transmitter modules are attached to the wall or the ceiling as beacons to transmit their own location information. The variable pulse position modulation (VPPM) algorithm is used to transmit data, which is a new modulation scheme for VLC providing a dimming control mechanism for flicker-free optical communication. The mobile robot has a receiver module to receive the location information while performing its mission in the environment where VLC transmitters are deployed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.583-591
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• 2018

With the development of ICT(Information and Communication Technology), the number of smart devices is rapidly increasing. LBS(Location Based Service) applications that provide user's location based service are used in various fields. There is also a growing demand for indoor precision positioning technology to provide seamless services. In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning system that estimates the location of a smartphone user. The proposed algorithm determines whether the received signal is LOS(Line-of-Sight) or NLOS(Non-Line of-Sight) in order to decrease multipath effect by the indoor environment. The proposed positioning algorithm is very simple and requires only the AP(Access Point) coordinates. In addition, it requires only two APs for estimating the location of a smartphone user. The proposed algorithm is a practically applicable technology without any additional hardware and kernel modification in the smartphone. In the experiment results, the reliability of the positioning system was found to be within 0.83 m.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.51-65
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is introducing WiFi based EKF(Extended Kalman Filter) method for indoor positioning. The advantages of our EKF method include: 1) Any special equipment dedicated for positioning is not required. 2) implementation of EKF does not require off-line phase of fingerprinting methods. 3) The EKF effectively minimizes squared deviation of the trilateration method. In order to experimentally prove the advantages of our method, we implemented indoor positioning systems making use of the K-NN(K Nearest Neighbors), Bayesian, decision tree, trilateration, and our EKF methods. Our experimental results show that the average-errors of K-NN, Bayesian and decision tree methods are all close to 2.4 meters whereas the average errors of trilateration and EKF are 4.07 meters and 3.528 meters, respectively. That is, the accuracy of our EKF is a bit inferior to those of fingerprinting methods. Even so, our EKF is accurate enough to be used for practical indoor LBS systems. Moreover, our EKF is easier to implement than fingerprinting methods because it does not require off-line phase.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.97-106
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• 2009

무선 근거리 통신망 환경의 측위 전략은 정확도는 떨어지지만 측위를 위한 특수 장비가 필요 없다는 점에서 매력이 있다. 본 논문은 무선 근거리 통신망 환경에서 옥내 이동 물체의 제적을 의사 결정 트리기법을 이용한 측위 방법으로 측정하고, 측정치가 실제 궤적과 다르지 않음을 통계적으로 검정함으로써 이렇게 얻은 궤적을 실제 응용 시스템 개발에 사용하여도 좋다는 이론적 근거를 제공한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.789-797
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• 2006

A new method for the GPS repeater based indoor positioning is proposed and its feasibility is verified by experiments in previous paper. But the problems how can identify switching GPS repeater's ID and when switching will be occurred are remained. To solve the problem faced with, we propose the time synchronized switching GPS repeater and the methods of the detection of switching time and the estimation of TDOA. First, switching GPS repeater retransmits the signals synchronized on GPS time, sequentially. Always, first switching time is synchronized with 1 PPS. Second, we formulate the detection of switching time and the estimation of TDOA and propose the various methods. No method is existed absolutely superior to others in any conditions but the method is existed superior to others in specific condition. Finally, feasibility of indoor positioning using time-synchronized switching GPS repeater is evaluated through experiments in anechoic chamber and general environment with multipath.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.952-959
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• 2016

This paper proposes a novel indoor positioning system (IPS) that uses a calibrated camera sensor network and dense 3D map information. The proposed IPS information is obtained by generating a bird's-eye image from multiple camera images; thus, our proposed IPS can provide accurate position information when objects (e.g., the mobile robot or pedestrians) are detected from multiple camera views. We evaluate the proposed IPS in a real environment with moving objects in a wireless camera sensor network. The results demonstrate that the proposed IPS can provide accurate position information for moving objects. This can improve the localization performance for mobile robot operation.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.2062-2064
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 LED 패널의 신호를 받아 모바일 단말기에 장착된 이미지 센서를 통하여 임의의 위치에 있는 모바일 단말기의 위치를 추정하는 실내 측위 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 측위 성능평가를 위하여 실내에 존재하는 잡음 환경을 고려하였고, 제안한 알고리즘은 잡음환경에 무관하게 높은 측위 성능을 보임을 입증하였다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.302-306
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• 2021

Indoor localization is one of the basic elements of Location-Based Service, such as indoor navigation, location-based precision marketing, spatial recognition of robotics, augmented reality, and mixed reality. We propose a Voxel Labeling-based visual positioning system using object simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Our method is a method of determining a location through single image 3D cuboid object detection and object SLAM for indoor navigation, then mapping to create an indoor map, addressing it with voxels, and matching with a defined space. First, high-quality cuboids are created from sampling 2D bounding boxes and vanishing points for single image object detection. And after jointly optimizing the poses of cameras, objects, and points, it is a Visual Positioning System (VPS) through matching with the pose information of the object in the voxel database. Our method provided the spatial information needed to the user with improved location accuracy and direction estimation.