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Study of Characteristics on Sight and Sensitivities of Driver Depend on Road Lighting Methods (도로조명방식에 따른 운전자 시선 및 감성 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Sick;Hwang, In-Tae;Lee, Mi-Ae;Kim, Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.8-16
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    • 2008
  • We studied drivers sight and physical status change by setup type of road lighting system. Influences on drivers emotional and motional change of lighting condition was investigated and function of road lighting setup position at night was analysed. Specially we analyzed influences of line type low hight lighting have influence on driver sight.

Walking Assistance System for Sight Impaired People Based on a Multimodal Information Transformation Technique (멀티모달 정보변환을 통한 시각장애우 보행 보조 시스템)

  • Yu, Jae-Hyoung;Han, Young-Joon;Hahn, Hern-Soo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.465-472
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    • 2009
  • This paper proposes a multimodal information transformation system that converts the image information to the voice information to provide the sight impaired people with walking area and obstacles, which are extracted by an acquired image from a single CCD camera. Using a chain-code line detection algorithm, the walking area is found from the vanishing point and boundary of a sidewalk on the edge image. And obstacles are detected by Gabor filter of extracting vertical lines on the walking area. The proposed system expresses the voice information of pre-defined sentences, consisting of template words which mean walking area and obstacles. The multi-modal information transformation system serves the useful voice information to the sight impaired that intend to reach their destination. The experiments of the proposed algorithm has been implemented on the indoor and outdoor environments, and verified its superiority to exactly provide walking parameters sentences.

Stabilization of Elevation for Gunner Primary Sight Using Variable Structure Control (가변구조제어에 의한 조준경 고각 안정화)

  • 허남수;이정규;김주상;김중완;이만형
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.1649-1656
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    • 1991
  • 본 연구에서는 가변구조제어에 의한 조준경 고각 안정화를 모색하였다. 이 를 위해 조준경 고각 안정화 시스템의 운동 방정식을 이용하여 가변구조제어기를 설계 하였으며 방정식을 이용하여 가변구조제어기를 설계하였으며 실제 주행시험결과 측정 된 차량의 각속도를 외란으로 사용하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션하여 가변구조제어에 의한 조준경 고각 안정화가 동적안정도를 충족시킴을 보였다.

Geometric Sensitivity Index for the GNSS Using Inner Products of Line of Sight Vectors

  • Won, Dae Hee;Ahn, Jongsun;Sung, Sangkyung;Lee, Chulsoo;Bu, Sungchun;Jang, Jeagyu;Lee, Young Jae
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.437-444
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    • 2015
  • Satellite selection and exclusion techniques have been applied to the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) with the aim of achieving a balance between navigational performance and computational efficiency. Conventional approaches to satellite selection based on the best dilution of precision (DOP) are excessively computational and complicated. This paper proposes a new method that applies a geometric sensitivity index of individual GNSS satellites. The sensitivity index is derived using the inner product of the line of sight (LOS) vector of each satellite. First, the LOS vector is computed, which accounts for the geometry between the satellite and user positions. Second, the inner product of each pair of LOS vectors is calculated, which indicates the proximities of the satellites to one another. The proximity can be determined according to the sensitivity of each satellite. A post-processing test was conducted to verify the reliability of the proposed method. The proposed index and the results of a conventional approach that measures the dilution of precision (DOP) were compared. The test results demonstrate that the proposed index produces results that are within 96% of those of the conventional approach and reduces the computational burden. This index can be utilized to estimate the sensitivity of individual satellites, obtaining a navigation solution. Therefore, the proposed index applies to satellite selection and exclusion as well as to the sensitivity analyses of multiple GNSS applications.

Placement Optimization of Airborne Line-Of-Sight Datalink Directional Antenna in UAV (무인항공기 탑재 가시선 데이터링크 방향성 안테나 위치 최적화)

  • Kim, Jihoon;Choi, Jaewon;Chung, Eulho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, the optimum placement of airborne line-of-sight (LOS) datalink directional antenna to minimize the datalink loss within the operation range of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is analyzed by using the electromagnetic (EM) simulation. In quick banking of UAV, the datalink loss is occurred due to the electromagnetic distortion and transmission loss by the fuselage blockage. In general, the banking angle of UAV is limited to prevent the datalink loss. However, in this case, there is the problem that the mission performance ability is largely limited by the banking radius increase. To solve this problem, the optimum placement to mount the airborne LOS datalink 1-axis directional antenna on both the top and bottom surfaces of fuselage is analyzed by using EM simulation. The 1-axis antenna with large vertical beamwidth is used because the banking angle of UAV is dependent on the vertical beamwidth of antenna. Also, there is the benefit to reduce largely the weight because the 1-axis antenna can be mounted instead of the 2-axis one.

Dynamic Characteristic Analysis and LMI-based H_ Controller Design for a Line of Sight Stabilization System

  • Lee, Won-Gu;Kim, In-Soo;Keh, Joong-Eup;Lee, Man-Hyung
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.1187-1200
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    • 2002
  • This paper is concerned with the design or an LMI (Linear Matrix Inequality) -based H$\infty$ controller for a line of sight (LOS) stabilization system and with its robustness performance. The linearization of the system is necessary to analyze various nonlinear characteristics, but the linearization entails modeling uncertainties which reduce its performance. In addition, the stability of the LOS can be adversely affected by angular velocity disturbances while the vehicle is moving. As the vehicle accelerates, all the factors that are Ignored and simplified for the linearization tend to Inhibit the performance of the system. The robustness in the face of these uncertainties needs to be assured. This paper employs H$\infty$ control theory to address these problems and the LMI method to provide a suitable controller with minimal constraints for the system. Even though the system matrix does not have a full rank, the proposed method makes it possible to design a H$\infty$ controller and to deal with R and S matrices for reducing the system order. It can be also shown that the proposed robust controller has a better disturbance attenuation and tracking performance. The LMI method is also used to enhance the applicability of the proposed reduced-order H$\infty$ controller for the system given. The LMI-based H$\infty$ controller has superior disturbance attenuation and reference input tracking performance, compared with that of the conventional controller under real disturbances.

Radar Target Recognition Using a Fusion of Monostatic/Bistatic ISAR Images (모노스태틱/바이스태틱 ISAR 영상 융합을 통한 표적식별 연구)

  • Cha, Sang-Bin;Yoon, Se-Won;Hwang, Seok-Hyun;Kim, Min;Jung, Joo-Ho;Lim, Jin-Hwan;Park, Sang-Hong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2018
  • Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar(ISAR) image is 2-dimensional radar cross section distributions of a target. For target approaching along radar's line of sight(LOS), the bistatic ISAR can compensate for the weakness of the monostatic ISAR which can not obtain the vertical resolution of the image. However, bistatic ISAR have longer processing times and variability in scattering mechanisms than monostatic ISAR, so target identification using only bistatic ISAR images can be inefficient. Therefore, this paper analyzes target identification performance using monostatic and bistatic ISAR images of targets approaching along radar's LOS and proposes a method of target identification through fusion of two radars. Simulation results demonstrate that identification performance through fusion is more efficient than identification performance using only monostatic, bistatic ISAR images.

Radio Propagation Characteristics of Different Frequency Bands in Multiple Paths According to Antenna Position in an Indoor Lobby Environment (실내 로비 환경에서 안테나 위치에 따른 다중 경로의 서로 다른 주파수 대역의 전파 특성)

  • Seong-Hun Lee;Byung-Lok Cho
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2024
  • The radio propagation characteristics of the 6, 10, and 17 GHz frequency bands in multiple paths in an indoor lobby environment were analyzed. The line-of-sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) paths were measured from a distance of 2-16 m (0.5 m intervals) from the transmitting to the receiving antenna positions. For basic transmission losses, three parameters were compared using the floating intercept path loss model corresponding to the path. For a root mean square delay spread, the measurement results were compared for cumulative probabilities of 10, 50, and 90%. Propagation loss and propagation delay occurred in all measured frequencies owing to the existence of pillars and an unusual lobby structure. Thus, a measurement scenario for an indoor lobby environment and the provision of standard measurement data was proposed. The results may facilitate research on the radio propagation characteristics of 5G and millimeter-wave bands in indoor lobby environments with various structures.

Ku-Band RF Transceiver System Design for UAV Line-Of-Sight Datalink (무인항공기 가시선 데이터링크 Ku 대역 RF 송수신 시스템 설계)

  • Choi, Jaewon;Kim, Jihoon
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.9
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, ku-band RF transceiver system is designed for the unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) line-of-sight(LOS) datalink. The RF transceiver system is consisted of the transmitting and receiving unit, RF front-end unit, and high power amplification unit. The transmitting and receiving unit has the functions of frequency up/down converting and channel changing. The RF front-end unit has the functions of transmitting and receiving signal duplexing, antenna selection, small signal amplification, and frequency filtering excluding the receiving signal. The high power amplification unit has the functions of ku-band power amplification and transmitting power variation(High/Middle/Low/Mute). The frequency up/down converting of transmitting and receiving unit is designed by using the superheterodyne method. The RF transceiver system is designed to obtain the broadband and high linearity properties for the reliable transmission and reception of high data-rate and high speed data. Also, the channel changing function is designed to use selectively the frequency as the operation environment of UAV.