• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.641-647
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• 2003

The use of infrared range-finder sensor as the environment recognition system for mobile robot have the advantage of low sensing cost compared with the use of other vision sensor such as laser finder CCD camera. However, it is not easy to find the previous works on the use of infrared range-finder sensor for a mobile robot because of the non-linear characteristic of that. This paper describes the error due to non-linearity of a sensor and the correction of it using neural network. The neural network consists of multi-layer perception and Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is applied to learning it. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified from experiment.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.560-570
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• 2005

In this paper, we discuss the tracking system for a wheelchair which can follow the path of a human target such as a nurse in hospital. The problem of human tracking is that it requires recognition of feature as well as the tracking of human positions. For this purpose the use of a high cost visual sensor such as laser finder or streo camera makes the tracking a high cost additional expense. This paper proposes the tracking system uses a low cost infrared range-finder and CCD camera, The Infrared range-finder and CCD camera can create a target candidate through each target recognition algorithm. and this information is fused in order to reduce the uncertainties of a target decision and correct the positional error of the human. The effectiveness of the proposed system is verified through experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.922-931
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• 2011

An efficient calibration algorithm for mobile robot localization using infrared range finder is proposed. A calibration is important to guarantee the performance of other algorithms which use sensor data because it is pre-process. We experimentally found that the infrared range finder PBS-03JN has error characteristics depending on both distance and scan angle. After obtaining 2-D grid error characteristic data on distance and scan angle, we proposed a simple and efficient calibration algorithm with a 2-D piecewise linear function set. The performance of our proposed calibration algorithm is verified by experiments and simulation.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.36-54
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• 2017

본 논문은 환경변화에 강인한 센서 융합 교통정보 수집 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 각 센서의 특징을 융합하여 영상 검지기에 비해 환경에 강인하고, 주 야간 등 시간에 영향을 받지 않으며 루프 검지기에 비해 유지보수에 드는 비용이 적다. 이는 레이더의 물체 추적 기법과 영상검지기의 차량분류, 적외선거리계의 신뢰성 높은 객체검지 정보를 융합하고 각 센서의 문제점을 보완하여 개선을 이루었다. 구현된 시스템을 보행자의 통행이 가능한 도로에서 주 야간 5일에 걸쳐 6시간 동안 실험한 결과 88.7%의 분류정확도와 95.5%의 차량 검지율을 나타내었다. 본 시스템의 파라미터 최적화 작업을 실험환경에 따라 적응되는 방식으로 보완한다면 교통정보 수집 체계의 고도화에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.