• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.159-160
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• 2019

It would be very important to localize people at risk as soon as possible in order to minimize the damage. Generally the infrastructure should be deployed additionally for indoor positioning system. In this paper, we proposed an indoor localization system for people at risk using the existing fire alarm networks. The system detects the signal of smart devices of people in danger immediately and let the main alarm controller ring all alarms in vessel and display the position. Thus, the proposed system can make the burden much less to deploy additional network and infrastructure.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.89-95
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• 2009

In this paper, a navigation algorithm is proposed using RFID tags in indoor environments. Firstly, a stochastic sensor model of RFID is derived and the design factors including the maximum identifiable distance, the identification direction and the read success rate are obtained through experiments. The obstacle avoidance algorithm is developed with consideration of those factors for a variety of RFID antenna configurations and different indoor environments. The algorithm is tested by computer simulations and implemented on a mobile robot.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.724-728
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• 2005

This paper represents a development of a range finder sensor module for indoor 2-D mapping and modified Hough transformation for map building. A range finder sensor module has been developed by using optic PSD (Position Sensitive Detector) sensor array at a low price. While PSD sensor is cost effective and light weighting, it has switching noise and white noise. To remove these noises, we propose a heuristic filter. For line-based map building, also we proposed advanced Hough transformation and navigation algorithm. Some experiments were illustrated for the validity of the developed system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.34.5-34
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• 2002

In this paper we propose a new method for modeling indoor environment with stereo camera and suggest a localization method for mobile robot navigation on the basis of it. From the viewpoint of easiness in map building and exclusion of artificiality, the main idea of this paper is that environment is represented as global topological map and each node has omni-directional metric and color information by using stereo camera and pan/tilt mechanism. We use the depth and color information itself in image pixel as feature for environmental abstraction. In addition, we use only the depth and color information at horizontal centerline in image, where optical axis is passing. The usefulness of this m...

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.350-351
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• 2017

스마트폰과 같은 모바일 기기의 발달과 함께 사용자의 위치에 기반한 다양한 서비스가 출현하고 있다. 그중 사용자의 위치를 기준으로하는 길안내 서비스가 가장 대표적이다. GPS에 기반한 실외 중심의 길안내는 다양한 비콘과 WiFi 등의 기술과 함께 실내에서도 길안내 서비스가 가능하도록 해주고 있다. 하지만, 상기의 사용자 위치에 대한 길안내 서비스는 거리에 대한 인식 단계가 세밀하지 못하기에 해당거리별 상세 서비스가 어려운 것이 현실이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 기존 BLE 비콘의 Immediate, Near, Far의 3단계 거리인식을 6단계까지 확장하여 보다 상세한 안내가 가능한 실내 길안내 서비스를 제안한다. 또한 편의적 기능을 위해 목적지 입력 및 길안내가 음성에 기반하여 구동될 수 있도록 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.268-269
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• 2014

The purpose of this research is to investigate characteristics for way decision of indoor evacuation, when humans are faced on disaster such as fire, earthquake and explosion. As a research, it is found that majority of evacuation behavior characteristics was in a fire, disaster.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.868-875
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• 2006

The localization is one of the most important issues for mobile robot. This paper describes a novel localization system for the development of a location sensing network. The system comprises wirelessly controlled infrared landmarks and an image sensor which detects the pixel positions of infrared sources. The proposed localization system can operate irrespective of the illumination condition in the indoor environment. We describe the operating principles of the developed localization system and report the performance for mobile robot localization and navigation. The advantage of the developed system lies in its robustness and low cost to obtain location information as well as simplicity of deployment to build a robot location sensing network. Experimental results show that the developed system outperforms the state-of-the-art localization methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2019

본 기술의 발달에 따라 실내 공간이 점차 대형화되면서 실내공간은 복잡해졌으며, 이로 인해 원하는 장소를 찾기가 어려워졌다. 4차 산업혁명에 힘입어 앞서 언급한 문제들을 해결하기 위해 실내 내비게이션을 도입하려는 시도가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 실내 내비게이션의 기술들로는 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Beacon, RFID, UWB 등이 있지만, 실내 건물 구조 특성상 여러 장애물들에 의해 신호 정보의 오차가 심하여 사용하기에 어려움이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 스마트폰에 내장된 IMU 센서 및 카메라 센서를 이용하여 동시적 위치 인식 및 지도 작성을 하는 SLAM 알고리즘으로 실내 내비게이션을 구현하고, 사용자가 보다 쉽게 길을 찾을 수 있게 접근성이 높은 스마트폰과 AR을 이용하여 어플리케이션을 설계하였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.468-472
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• 2013

This paper deals with the indoor localization problem for a SSMR (Skid Steering Mobile Robot) subjected to wheel-ground friction and with one LRF (Laser Range Finder). In order to compensate for some friction effect, a friction related coefficient is estimated by the recursive least square algorithm and appended to the maneuvering command. Also to reduce odometric information based localization errors, the lines are extracted with scan points of LRF and matched with the ones of the corresponding map built in advance. The present friction compensation and scan map matching schemes have been applied to a laboratory SSMR, and experimental results are given to validate the localization performance along an indoor corridor.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.366-371
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• 2005

For an autonomous mobile robot localization, it is very important for the robot to be able to recognize indoor environment and match a detected object to an object defined within a map developed either online or of offline. Given the map defining the locations of geometric beacons like wall and corner existing in the robot operation environment, this paper presents a stereo ultrasonic sensor based method practically applicable in recognizing the geometric beacons in real-time. The stereo ultrasonic sensor used in the experiment consists of an ultrasonic transmitter and two ultrasonic receivers placed symmetrically about the transmitter Experimental results are provided to demonstrate that the proposed method is more efficient in recognizing wall and coner than the conventional method of using multiple number of transmitter-receiver pairs.