• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2007

Recently, with the development of service robots and with the new concept of ubiquitous world, the position estimation of mobile objects has been raised to an important problem. As pre-liminary research results, some of the localization schemes are introduced, which provide the absolute location of the moving objects subjected to large errors. To implement a precise and convenient localization system, a new absolute position estimation method for a mobile robot in indoor environment is proposed in this paper. Design and implementation of the localization system comes from the usage of active beacon systems (based upon RFID technology). The active beacon system is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter: 1. The RFID receiver gets the synchronization signal from the mobile robot and 2. The ultra-sonic transmitter sends out the traveling signal to be used for measuring the distance. Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from three beacons and the absolute position information of the beacons themselves. Since it is not easy to install the beacons at a specific position precisely, there exists a large localization error and the installation time takes long. To overcome these problems, and provide a precise and convenient localization system, a new auto calibration algorithm is developed in this paper. Also the extended Kalman filter has been adopted for improving the localization accuracy during the mobile robot navigation. The localization accuracy improvement through the proposed auto calibration algorithm and the extended Kalman filter has been demonstrated by the real experiments.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권12호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2008

위치 기반 서비스는 위치 측위 기술을 통해 사용자의 위치를 파악하고 이에 따라 각종 정보나 서비스를 제공하는 서비스이다. 그러나 기존의 실외 측위 시스템은 보다 높은 측위 정확도를 요구하는 실내 환경에 적용하기에 적합하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.4 무선 PAN(personal area network) 환경에서 삼각법을 이용한 실내 측위 시스템에 초점을 맞추며 기준점과 단말기 사이의 거리 예측을 위하여 RSS(received signal strength)를 사용한다. 실내 위치 측위 시스템 구축을 위하여 본 논문에서는 위치 측위 정확도를 극대화할 수 있는 최적의 기준점을 선택하는 기법과 선택된 기준점과 단말기 사이의 거리 예측을 위하여 전파 환경 변화에 적응력있는 거리 예측 기법을 제안한다. 시스템 구현을 통하여 위치 정확도 측면에서 제안 기법의 성능을 검증하였다.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2024

As Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) technologies evolve, ensuring accurate navigation and localization in complex urban airspaces has become crucial. Because the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is prone to vulnerabilities in urban flight environment, an alternative localization technique is required. This paper examines vision-based localization technologies to enhance GNSS-free navigation. In addition, we explore various geo-referencing studies that utilize pre-existing spatial databases to improve the accuracy of vision-based localization under GNSS-denied conditions. This paper discusses the various types of onboard vision camera sensors, vision-based localization, spatial information databases, feature extraction methods, and matching techniques that contribute to the development of a vision-based localization and geo-referencing system for AAM, ensuring safety and reliability in urban operations.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.433-439
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• 2010

This paper proposes a beacon color code scheduling algorithm for the localization of multiple robots in a multi-block workspace. With the developments of intelligent robotics and ubiquitous technology, service robots are applicable for the wide area such as airports and train stations where multiple indoor GPS systems are required for the localization of the mobile robots. Indoor localization schemes using ultrasonic sensors have been widely studied due to its cheap price and high accuracy. However, ultrasonic sensors have some shortages of short transmission range and interferences with other ultrasonic signals. In order to use multiple robots in wide workspace concurrently, it is necessary to resolve the interference problem among the multiple robots in the localization process. This paper proposes an indoor localization system for concurrent multiple robots localization in a wide service area which is divided into multi-block for the reliable sensor operation. The beacon color code scheduling algorithm is developed to avoid the signal interferences and to achieve efficient localization with high accuracy and short sampling time. The performance of the proposed localization system is verified through the simulations and the real experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.80.2-80
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• 2002

The problem of sound source localization is to determine the position of sound sources using the measurement of the acoustic signals received by microphones. To develop a good sound source localization system which is applicable to a mobile platform such as robots, a time delay estimator with low computational complexity and robustness to background noise or reverberations is necessary. In this paper, an explicit adaptive time delay estimation method for a sound source localization system is proposed. Proposed explicit adaptive time estimation algorithm employs direct adaptation of the delay parameter using a transform-based optimization technique, rather than...

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.493-508
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• 2006

Vibration mode localization and frequency loci veering in disordered coupled beam system are studied in this paper using finite element analysis. Two beams coupled with transverse and rotational springs are examined. Small disorders in the physical parameters such as Young's modulus, mass density or span length of the substructure are introduced in the investigation of the mode localization and frequency loci veering phenomena. The effect of disorder in the elastic support on the mode localization phenomenon is also discussed. It is found that an asymmetric disorder in the weakly coupled system will lead to the occurrence of mode localization and frequency loci phenomena.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 AAM(Active Appearance Model)과 가버 특징 벡터를 이용한 얼굴 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 가버 특징 벡터를 사용하는 대표적인 얼굴 인식 알고리즘인 EBGM(Elastic Bunch Graph Matching)은 가버 특징 벡터를 추출하기 위해 얼굴 특징점들의 검출을 필요로 한다. 그런데, EBGM에서 사용되는 얼굴 특징점 검출 방법은 가버젯 유사도에 기반하는데 이는 초기점에 민감하다. 잘못된 특징점 검출은 얼굴 인식에 영향을 미친다. AAM은 얼굴 특징점 검출에 효과적인 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 AAM으로 얼굴 특징점들을 대략적으로 추정하고 추정된 특징점들을 초기점으로 하여 가버젯 유사도 기반 특징점 검출방법으로 특징점 검출을 정교화하는 얼굴 특징점 검출 방법과 이에 기반한 얼굴 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안된 특징점 검출 방법을 사용한 얼굴 인식 시스템이 EBGM과 같이 기존 가버젯 유사도만의 얼굴 특징점 검출을 이용한 얼굴 인식 시스템보다 더 나은 성능 개선을 보임을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.768-775
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• 2009

In this paper, the sound source localization system in real time which uses the time delay of arrival signal is proposed. This system uses minimum microphones and surveillance camera for estimation of the sound source localization and sound direction. To apply this system to the military field, four models(model1~model4) are derived. Model 1 can be used to evaluate the sound source localization at the long distance. Model2 and model3 can be applied to estimate the sound direction. Model4 is useful for the special purpose and potable device. It is possible for this system to be used for the military guard and surveillance. As a result of experiments, It is shown that this system can estimate the sound source localization and the sound direction using minimum microphones.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

Range-based wireless localization system must measure accurate range between a mobile node (MN) and reference nodes. However, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) error caused by the spatial structures disturbs the localization system obtaining the accurate range measurements. Localization methods using the range measurements including NLOS error yield large localization error. But filter-based localization methods can provide comparatively accurate location solution. Motivated by the accuracy of the filter-based localization method, a filter residual-based NLOS error estimation method is presented in this paper. Range measurement-based residual contains NLOS error. By considering this factor with NLOS error properties, NLOS error is mitigated. Also a process noise covariance matrix tuning method is presented to reduce the time-delay estimation error caused by the single dynamic model-based filter when the speed or moving direction of a MN changes, that is the used dynamic model is not fit the current dynamic of a MN. The presented methods are evaluated by simulation allowing direct comparison between different localization methods. The simulation results show that the presented filter is more accurate than the iterative least squares- and extended Kalman filter-based localization methods.

• 대기
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.529-541
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• 2015

Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction System (KIAPS) has been developing a global numerial prediction model and data assimilation system. We has implemented LETKF (Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter, Hunt et al., 2007) data assimilation system to NCAR CAM-SE (National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model with Spectral Element dynamical core, Dennis et al., 2012) that has cubed-sphere grid, known as the same grid system of KIAPS Integrated Model (KIM) now developing. In this study, we have assimilated Global Positioning System Radio Occultation (GPS-RO) bending angle measurements in addition to conventional data within ensemble-based data assimilation system. Before assimilating bending angle data, we performed a vertical unit conversion. The information of vertical localization for GPS-RO data is given by the unit of meter, but the vertical localization method in the LETKF system is based on pressure unit. Therefore, with a clever conversion of the vertical information, we have conducted experiments to search for the best vertical localization scale on GPS-RO data under the Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs). As a result, we found the optimal setting of vertical localization for the GPS-RO bending angle data assimilation. We plan to apply the selected localization strategy to the LETKF system implemented to KIM which is expected to give better analysis of GPS-RO data assimilation due to much higher model top.