• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.357-374
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• 2008

Over the past few decades, a considerable number of studies have been conducted on the technologies to build an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) control system. Today, focus in research has moved from a standalone control system towards a network-centric control system for multiple UAV systems. Enabling the design of such complex systems in easily understandable forms that are amenable to rigorous analysis is a highly desirable goal. In this paper, we discuss our experimental evaluation of the Time-triggered Message-triggered Object (TMO) structuring scheme in the design of the UAV control system. The TMO scheme enables high-level structuring together with design-time guaranteeing of accurate timings of various critical control actions with significantly smaller efforts than those required when using lower-level structuring schemes based on direct programming of threads, UDP invocations, etc. Our system was validated by use of environment simulator developed based on an open source flight simulator named FlightGear. The TMO-structured UAV control software running on a small computing platform was easily connected to a simulator of the surroundings of the control system, i.e., the rest of the UAV and the flight environment. Positive experiences in both the TMO-structured design and the validation are discussed along with potentials for future expansion in this paper.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.562-569
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• 2016

This paper proposes a navigation system with a robust localization method for an underwater unmanned vehicle. For robust localization with IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), a DVL (Doppler Velocity Log), and depth sensors, the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) has been utilized to fuse multiple nonlinear data. Note that the GPS (Global Positioning System), which can obtain the absolute coordinates of the vehicle, cannot be used in the water. Additionally, the DVL has been used for measuring the relative velocity of the underwater vehicle. The DVL sensor measures the velocity of an object by using Doppler effects, which cause sound frequency changes from the relative velocity between a sound source and an observer. When the vehicle is moving, the motion trajectory to a target position can be recorded by the sensors attached to the vehicle. The performance of the proposed navigation system has been verified through real experiments in which an underwater unmanned vehicle reached a target position by using an IMU as a primary sensor and a DVL as the secondary sensor.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2013

This paper describes an algorithm for Advanced Emergency Braking(AEB) with tire-road friction coefficient estimation. The AEB is a system to avoid a collision or mitigate a collision impact by decelerating the car automatically when forward collision is imminent. Typical AEB system is operated by Time-to-collision(TTC), which considers only relative velocity and clearance from control vehicle to preceding vehicle. AEB operation by TTC has a limit that tire-road friction coefficient is not considered. In this paper, Tire-road friction coefficient is also considered to achieve more safe operation of AEB. Interacting Multiple Model method(IMM) is used for Tire-road friction coefficient estimation. The AEB algorithm consists of friction coefficient estimator and upper level controller and lower level controller. The numerical simulation has been conducted to demonstrate the control performance of the proposed AEB algorithm. The simulation study has been conducted with a closed-loop driver-controller-vehicle system using using MATLAB-Simulink software and CarSim Vehicle model.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.874-886
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• 2023

A joint resource-optimization scheme is investigated for nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enhanced scalable video coding (SVC) multicast in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted radio-access networks (RANs). This scheme allows a ground base station and UAVs to simultaneously multicast successive video layers in SVC with successive interference cancellation in NOMA. A video quality-maximization problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem to determine the UAV deployment and association, RAN spectrum allocation for multicast groups, and UAV transmit power. The optimization problem is decoupled into the UAV deployment-association, spectrum-partition, and UAV transmit-power-control subproblems. A heuristic strategy is designed to determine the UAV deployment and association patterns. An upgraded knapsack algorithm is developed to solve spectrum partition, followed by fast UAV power fine-tuning to further boost the performance. The simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme improves the average peak signal-to-noise ratio, aggregate videoreception rate, and spectrum utilization over various baselines.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.832-842
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• 2020

The coordination control of multiple Underactuated Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) moving in three dimensional space is investigated in this paper. The coordinated path following control task is decomposed into two sub tasks, that is, path following control and coordination control. In the spatial curve path following control task, path following error dynamics is build in the Serret-Frenet coordinate frame. The virtual reference object can be chosen freely on the desired spatial path. Considering the speed of the UUV, the line-of-sight navigation is introduced to help the path following errors quickly converge to zero. In the coordination control sub task, the communication topology of multiple UUVs is described by the graph theory. The speed of each UUV is adjusted to achieve the coordination. The path following system and the coordination control system are viewed as the feedback connection system. Input-to-state stable of the coordinated path following system can be proved by small gain theorem. The simulation experiments can further demonstrate the good performance of the control method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2014

This paper addresses an algorithm of path planning for autonomous driving of a ground vehicle in waypoint navigation. The proposed algorithm is flexible in utilization under a large GPS positioning error and generates collision-free multiple paths while pursuing minimum traveling time. An optimal path reduces inefficient steering by minimizing lateral changes in generated waypoints along a path. Simulation results compare the proposed algorithm with the A* algorithm by manipulation of the steering wheel and traveling time, and show that the proposed algorithm realizes real-time obstacle avoidance by quick processing of path generation, and minimum time traveling by producing paths with small lateral changes while overcoming the very irregular positioning error from the GPS.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.47-56
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• 2000

In this study, as the preliminary step for developing an unmanned vehicle to deliver a container-box, we designed and implemented Automatic Guided Vehicle(AGV) Simulator for the purpose of Port Facilities Automation. It is preferable to research the intelligent AGV for delivery all day long. For complementing AGV simulator driving, we used multiple-sensor systems with vision, ultrasonic, IR and adapted the high-speed wireless LAN that satisfies the IEEE 802.11 Standard for bi-directional communication between main processor in AGV and Host computer. Here, we mounted on bottom frame in AGV Pentium-III processor, which combine and compute the information from each sensor system and control the AGV driving, and used the 80C196KC micro-controller to control the actuating and steering motors.

• 한국항만학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2000

In this study, as the preliminary step for developing an unmanned vehicle to deliver a container-box, we designed and implemented Automatic Guided Vehicle(AGV) Simulator for the purpose of Port Facilities Automation. It is preferable to research the intelligent AGV for delivery all day long. For complementing AGV simulator driving, we used multiple-sensor systems with vision, ultrasonic, IR and adapted the high-speed wireless LAN that satisfies the IEEE 802.11 Standard for bi-directional communication between main processor in AGV and Host computer. Here, we mounted on bottom frame in AGV Pentium-III processor, which combine and compute the information from each sensor system and control the AGV driving, and used the 80C196KC micro-controller to control the actuating and steering motors.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.343-352
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• 2016

멀티로터 비행체는 여러 개의 로터로 이루어진 무인 비행로봇으로서, 로터의 개수에 따라서 트라이로터, 쿼드로터, 헥사로터, 옥토로터 등으로 나누어 진다. 멀티로터는 수직이착륙 및 정지비행과 같은 높은 기동성으로 인하여 다른 무인 비행로봇에 비하여 험준한 산학지역 및 건물이 밀집되어 있는 도심과 같은 지역의 정찰 및 감시 등 여러 응용분야에 유용하게 활용될 수 있다. 하지만, 멀티로터는 불확실한 외부 환경 및 외란의 영향에 쉽게 노출될 수 있어 강건한 자세 및 비행제어 기법의 적용을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 강인제어기법 중 하나인 슬라이딩 모드제어기를 설계 및 임베디드 알고리듬을 구현을 통하여 실시간 실내 비행실험을 위한 시스템을 구성하고, 실시간 위치제어 및 자세 안정화에 대한 실내 비행실험을 수행하였다. 특히, 불확실한 외부환경에 대한 강건한 비행특성을 검증하기 위하여 외란을 삽입하여 비행시험을 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.444-450
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• 2013

지능형 차량의 안전 주행을 위해서 주변 차량의 상태를 파악하고, 충돌 위험도를 판단하는 일은 매우 중요하다. 특히 중앙선을 침범하여 주행하는 차량과의 충돌은 치명적일 수 있다. 맞은편에서 다가오는 차량의 중앙선 침범을 지능형 차량의 주요 센서 가운데 하나인 레이더 센서만을 이용하여 예측하면 센서의 특성상 발생하는 노이즈로 인해 오인식의 가능성이 높다. 오인식은 중앙선 침범보다 더 위험한 결과를 초래하기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 레이더 신호에 IMM을 사용한 추적 알고리즘과 퍼지 논리를 적용하여 중앙선 침범 예측의 정확도를 높이고 오인식을 감소시킬 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 퍼지 로직은 레이더 신호와 IMM알고리즘의 결합을 적절히 조절하는 기능을 한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통해 오인식의 감소가 효과적으로 이루어짐이 검증되었다.