• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권7호
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• pp.1074-1080
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• 2015

In the last decades, the increasing interest in unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) for military, surveillance, and rescue applications made necessary the development of flight control theory and body structure more and more efficient and fast. In this paper, we describe the design and performance of a prototype hexarotor UAV platform featuring an inertial measurement unit(IMU) based autonomous-flying for use in bluetooth communication environments. The proposed system comprises the construction of the test hexarotor platform, the implementation of an IMU, dynamic modeling and simulation in the hexarotor helicopter. Furthermore, the hexarotor helicopter with implemented IMU is connected with a micro controller unit(ARM-cortex) board. The P-PD control algorithm was used to control the hexarotor. We used the Matlab software to help us to tune the P-PD control parameters for quick response and minimizing the fluctuation. The control simulation and experiment on the real system are implemented in the test platform, evaluated and compared against each other.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.398-404
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 관성측정장치를 기반으로 블루투스 환경에서의 자율비행을 위한 멀티 로터형 헬리콥터에 대한 설계 및 성능을 제시하였다. 멀티 로터관련 다양한 연구가 진행되어오고 있긴 하지만 최근에는 다양한 서비스를 목적으로 짐벌이 장착된 헥사로터형의 헬리콥터에 대한 관심이 모아지고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 지상의 원격조정 PC나 고성능의 원격제어장치나 영상시스템과 같은 외부보조 시스템 없이 연구와 구조활동, 모니터링 활동을 수행할 수 있는 컴팩트하고 자율비행을 위한 헥사로터(hexa rotor)형 헬리콥터에 대한 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어를 소개하고자 한다. 제안한 시스템은 헥사로터 헬리콥터의 구조와 관성측정장치 관련 하드웨어 구성과 수학적 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 결과를 각각 제시하였다. 또한, IMU 구현을 위하여 MCU(ARM-cortex) 보드를 장착하여 각 로터의 회전과 관성 측정장치의 입력신호에 대한 상태를 제어할 수 있도록 하였다. 그리고 시스템 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통한 시스템의 성능을 각각 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.489-497
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• 2010

This paper presents the design of hardware platform, which is a test bed for the navigation system and hovering type AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) under the OCP (Open Control Platform). The developed AUV test bed consists of two hulls, four thrusters, and the navigation system which uses a SBC2440II with IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). And the SMC (Sliding Mode Control) is chosen for the diving and steering control of the AUV. This paper uses ACE/TAO RTEC (Real-Time Event Channel) as a middleware platform in order to control and communicate in the developed AUV test bed. In this paper, two computers are used and each of them is dedicated for the specific purpose, the first computer is used as the SMC module and the middleware platform for the ACE/TAO RTEC and the second computer is used for the sensor controller. We analyze the performance of the AUV test bed under the OCP.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.355-372
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• 2021

Recently, high-performance HMDs (Head-Mounted Display) are becoming wireless due to the growth of virtual reality technology. Accordingly, environmental constraints on the hardware usage are reduced, enabling multiple users to experience virtual reality within a single space simultaneously. Existing multi-user virtual reality platforms use the user's location tracking and motion sensing technology based on vision sensors and active markers. However, there is a decrease in immersion due to the problem of overlapping markers or frequent matching errors due to the reflected light. Goal of this study is to develop a multi-user virtual reality moving platform in a single space that can resolve sensing errors and user immersion decrease. In order to achieve this goal hybrid sensing technology was developed, which is the convergence of vision sensor technology for position tracking, IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor motion capture technology and gesture recognition technology based on smart gloves. In addition, integrated safety operation system was developed which does not decrease the immersion but ensures the safety of the users and supports multimodal feedback. A 6 m×6 m×2.4 m test bed was configured to verify the effectiveness of the multi-user virtual reality moving platform for four users.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2014

This paper introduces a robot platform which can do weeding while traveling between rice seedlings stably against irregular land surface of a paddy field. Also, an autonomous navigation technique that can track on stable state without any damage of the seedlings in the working area is proposed. Detection of the rice seedlings and avoidance knocking down by the robot platform is achieved by the sensor fusion of a laser range finder (LRF) and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). These sensors are also used to control navigating direction of the robot to keep going along the column of rice seedling consistently. Deviation of the robot direction from the rice column that is sensed by the LRF is fed back to a proportional and derivative controller to obtain stable adjustment of navigating direction and get proper returning speed of the robot to the rice column.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2008

The necessity for the precise time synchronization of measurement data from multiple sensors is widely recognized in the field of global positioning system/inertial navigation system (GPS/INS) integration. Having precise time synchronization is critical for achieving high data fusion performance. The limitations and advantages of various time synchronization scenarios and existing solutions are investigated in this paper. A criterion for evaluating synchronization accuracy requirements is derived on the basis of a comparison of the Kalman filter innovation series and the platform dynamics. An innovative time synchronization solution using a counter and two latching registers is proposed. The proposed solution has been implemented with off-the-shelf components and tested. The resolution and accuracy analysis shows that the proposed solution can achieve a time synchronization accuracy of 0.1 ms if INS can provide a hard-wired timing signal. A synchronization accuracy of 2 ms was achieved when the test system was used to synchronize a low-grade micro-electromechanical inertial measurement unit (IMU), which has only an RS-232 data output interface.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.757-770
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• 2020

We propose a hand gesture recognition method that is compatible with a head-up display (HUD) including small processing resource. For fast link adaptation with HUD, it is necessary to rapidly process gesture recognition and send the minimum amount of driver hand gesture data from the wearable device. Therefore, we use a method that recognizes each hand gesture with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor based on revised correlation matching. The method of gesture recognition is executed by calculating the correlation between every axis of the acquired data set. By classifying pre-defined gesture values and actions, the proposed method enables rapid recognition. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of the algorithm, which can be implanted within wearable bands, requiring a minimal process load. The experimental results evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of our decomposed correlation matching method. Furthermore, we tested the proposed algorithm to confirm the effectiveness of the system using pre-defined gestures of specific motions with a wearable platform device. The experimental results validated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed hand gesture recognition system. Despite being based on a very simple concept, the proposed algorithm showed good performance in recognition accuracy.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

This paper proposes a gradation image processing method for the development of a Road Sign Recognition Platform (RReP), which aims to facilitate the rapid and accurate management and surveying of approximately 160,000 road signs installed along the highways, national roadways, and local roads in the cities, districts (gun), and provinces (do) of Korea. RReP is based on GPS(Global Positioning System), IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), INS(Inertial Navigation System), DMI(Distance Measurement Instrument), and lasers, and uses an imagery information collection/classification module to allow the automatic recognition of signs, the collection of shapes, pole locations, and sign-type data, and the creation of road sign registers, by extracting basic data related to the shape and sign content, and automated database design. Image division and merging, which were applied in this study, produce superior results compared with local binarization method in terms of speed. At the results, larger texts area were found in images, the accuracy of text recognition was improved when images had been gradated. Multi-threshold values of natural scene images are used to improve the extraction rate of texts and figures based on pattern recognition.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2021

무기체계에 탑재되는 항법소프트웨어의 기능요소들은 다양한 무기체계에 공통적으로 활용될 수 있는 가능성이 높은 것으로 식별되었다. 무기체계 항법소프트웨어 SPL 프레임워크는 다양한 무기체계에 적용되는 항법소프트웨어가 갖는 공통의 기능들을 표준화된 플랫폼으로 개발 및 관리하고, 이를 이용하여 유도무기, 무인기, 잠수함 등의 체계별 항법소프트웨어를 개발하는 방법론을 말한다. 본 논문에서는 SPL 기반 항법소프트웨어 개발 프로세스와 통합개발환경을 제시하고, SPL 프레임워크의 운영개념에 대해 설명한다. 프로세스에 관여하게 되는 참여자의 역할을 정의하고 각 역할자별 활동 시나리오를 도출함으로써 SPL 프레임워크의 운영개념을 정의한다. 제시한 운영개념은 여타 도메인에 SPL을 실현하기 위한 구체적인 지침 마련에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2024

In this study, we developed control system for stable teleoperation of supermicrosurgical robot platform. The supermicrosurgical robot platform is designed to perform precise anastomosis with micro vessels ranging from 0.3 mm to 0.7 mm. The robotic assistance could help more precise manipulation then manual surgery with the help of motion scaling and tremor filtering. However, since the robotic system could cause several vulnerabilities, control system for stable teleoperation should be preceded. Therefore, we first designed control system including inverse kinematics solver, clutch error interpolator and finite state machine. The inverse kinematics solver was designed to minimized inertial motion of the manipulator and tested by applying orientational motion. To make robot slowly converges to the leader's orientation when orientational error was occurred during clutch, the SLERP was used to interpolate the error. Since synchronized behavior of two manipulators and independent behavior of manipulator both exist, two layered finite state machines were designed. Finally, the control system was evaluated by experiment and showed intended behavior, while maintaining low pose error.