• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.165-171
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• 2004

Robots will be able to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in near future. One of the most important aspects in the development of human-friendly robots is to cooperation between humans and robots. In this paper, we proposed a method for multi-object identification in order to achieve such human-centered system and robot localization in intelligent space. The intelligent space is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. The Intelligent Space achieves the human centered services by accelerating the physical and psychological interaction between humans and intelligent devices. As an intelligent device of the Intelligent Space, a color CCD camera module, which includes processing and networking part, has been chosen. The Intelligent Space requires functions of identifying and tracking the multiple objects to realize appropriate services to users under the multi-camera environments. In order to achieve seamless tracking and location estimation many camera modules are distributed. They causes some errors about object identification among different camera modules. This paper describes appearance based object representation for the distributed vision system in Intelligent Space to achieve consistent labeling of all objects. Then, we discuss how to learn the object color appearance model and how to achieve the multi-object tracking under occlusions.

• 한국레이저가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국레이저가공학회 2003년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문개요집
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• pp.35-38
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• 2003

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 레이더와 원격측정시스템으로부터 수신되는 다중센서자료를 모사하는 시뮬레이터 설계와 이들 자료를 융합하기 위한 알고리듬 개발에 대하여 소개한다. 설계된 데이터 시뮬레이터는 실제 센서 시스템으로부터 얻게 되는 시간의 비동기, 통신지연, 다중 갱신주기들을 갖는 모의센서 자료를 생성하며 실제적인 센서 모델을 이용하여 측정 잡음을 생성한다. 융합알고리듬은 센서 바이어스 상태를 고려한 PVA모델을 기초로 21차 분산형 칼만 필터로 설계되었고, 센서의 이상이나 정상적이 아닌 측정치를 검출하기 위한 로직도 포함되었다. 설계된 알고리듬을 시뮬레이터에서 생성한 모의 자료 및 실제 자료를 적용하여 검증하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.357-365
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• 2019

In this paper, we suggest the tracking method of moving multi-objects in maritime environments. The image acquisition is conducted using IR(InfraRed) camera sensors on an airborne platform. Under the circumstance of maritime, the qualities of IR images can be significantly degraded due to the clutter influence, which directly gives rise to a tracking loss problem. In order to reduce the effects from the clutters, we introduce a technical approach under Man-In-The-Loop(MITL) system for enhancing the tracking performance. To demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach based on VTG(Valid Tracking Gate), the simulations are conducted utilizing the airborne IR video sequences: Then, the tracking performances are compared with the existing Kalman Filter tracking techniques.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.96-100
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 적외선 센서와 초음파 센서를 동시에 사용하여 이동하는 표적의 위치를 실시간으로 추적하는 위치추적 시스템을 설계하였다. 위치 추적 시스템은 2 개의 적외선 센서를 이용하여 표적이 감시영역에 침입하는 것을 확인하고, 4 개의 초음파 센서를 이용해서 각 센서에서 표적까지의 거리를 탐지하여 이동하는 표적의 위치좌표 (x,y)를 구하였다. 특히 초음파 센서가 가지고 있는 안테나의 빔폭 특성 때문에 4 개 센서 중 2개 센서에만 표적이 탐지될 경우에도 표적의 위치를 정확하게 결정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 또한 개발된 알고리즘을 설계된 시스템에 장착하여 시험한 결과 감시시스템이 실험실 내에서 실시간 정확하게 구동하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.175-179
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• 2022

The physical properties of biomaterials are important for their isolation and separation from body fluids. In particular, the precise evaluation of the multi-physical properties of single biomolecules is essential in that the correlation between physical and biological properties of specific biomolecule. However, the majority of scientific equipment, can only determine specific-physical properties of single nanoparticles, making the evaluation of the multi-physical properties difficult. The improvement of analytical techniques for the evaluation of multi-physical properties is therefore required in various research fields. In this study, we developed a motion-tracking algorithm to evaluate the multi-physical properties of single-nanoparticles by analyzing their behavior. We observed the Brownian motion and electric-field-induced drift of fluorescent nanoparticles injected in a microfluidic chip with two electrodes using confocal microscopy. The proposed algorithm is able to determine the size of the nanoparticles by i) removing the background noise from images, ii) tracking the motion of nanoparticles using the circular-Hough transform, iii) extracting the mean squared displacement (MSD) of the tracked nanoparticles, and iv) applying the MSD to the Stokes-Einstein equation. We compared the evaluated size of the nanoparticles with the size measured by SEM. We also determined the zeta-potential and surface-charge density of the nanoparticles using the extracted electrophoretic velocity and the Helmholtz-Smoluchowski equation. The proposed motion-tracking algorithm could be employed in various fields related to biomaterial analysis, such as exosome analysis.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.465-468
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• 2007

센서 네트워크 시스템 기반의 저 전력, 저 비용의 지능형 홈 네트워크 시스템을 설계 및 구현 하였다. RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator)기반의 사용자 실내 위치 추적 시스템과 Dynamic multi-hop routing 시스템, 학습형 통합 리모컨을 활용한 능동적 가전기기 제어 시스템을 각각 설계하여 지능형 홈 네트워크 시스템을 구현 하였다. 지능형 서비스를 위해 반드시 팔요한 사용자 위치 정보는 RSSI기반의 삼각측량을 통해 계산하고 측정된 위치 정보값의 오차를 줄이기 위해 Smoothing Algorithm을 적용하였다. 또한 지능형 홈네트워크 서비스 제공을 위해 사용자가 휴대하는 무선 센서노드를 Layout 하여 설계, 제작하였으며 수집된 사용자의 실시간 위치 정보와 환경 센서 데이타는 Dynamic multi-hop routing을 통해 서버 프로그램으로 전달되며 각종 계산을 통해 사용자 위치정보와 환경 정보가 디스플레이 된다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.635-640
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• 2004

In this paper, a tracking algorithm for autonomous navigation of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) operating in container terminals is presented. The developed navigation algorithm takes the form of a federated information filter used to detect other AGVs and avoid obstacles using fused information from multiple sensors. Being equivalent to the Kalman filter (KF) algebraically, the information filter is extended to N-sensor distributed dynamic systems. In multi-sensor environments, the information-based filter is easier to decentralize, initialize, and fuse than a KF-based filter. It is proved that the information state and the information matrix of the suggested filter, which are weighted in terms of an information sharing factor, are equal to those of a centralized information filter under the regular conditions. Numerical examples using Monte Carlo simulation are provided to compare the centralized information filter and the proposed one.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2007

The Intelligent Space(ISpace) provides challenging research fields for surveillance, human-computer interfacing, networked camera conferencing, industrial monitoring or service and training applications. ISpace is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. According to the cooperation of many intelligent devices, the environment, it is very important that the system knows the location information to offer the useful services. In order to achieve these goals, we present a method for representing, tracking and human following by fusing distributed multiple vision systems in ISpace, with application to pedestrian tracking in a crowd. And the article presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering. Particle filters provide a robust tracking framework under ambiguity conditions. We propose to track the moving objects by generating hypotheses not in the image plan but on the top-view reconstruction of the scene. Comparative results on real video sequences show the advantage of our method for multi-object tracking. Also, the method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.198-204
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• 2007

In mobile robotics, ultrasonic sensors became standard devices for collision avoiding. Moreover, their applicability for map building and navigation has exploited in recent years. In this paper, as the preliminary step for developing a multi-purpose autonomous carrier mobile robot to transport trolleys or heavy goods and serve as robotic nursing assistant in hospital wards. The aim of this paper is to present the use of multi-sensor data fusion such as ultrasonic sensor, IR sensor for mobile robot to navigate, and presents an experimental mobile robot designed to operate autonomously within both indoor and outdoor environments. The global map building based on multi-sensor data fusion is applied for recognition an obstacle free path from a starting position to a known goal region, and simultaneously build a map of straight line segment geometric primitives based on the application of the Hough transform from the actual and noisy sonar data. We will give an explanation for the robot system architecture designed and implemented in this study and a short review of existing techniques, Hough transform, since there exist several recent thorough books and review paper on this paper. Experimental results with a real Pioneer DX2 mobile robot will demonstrate the effectiveness of the discussed methods.