• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.57-70
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• 2006

Location Based Service (LBS) provides high-value added service to users and various works about IBS have been actively performed. The core technology or LBS is positioning of the users. In the field of positioning, outdoor positioning and indoor positioning are developed separately. We are proposing a design of an outdoor-indoor positioning system, implementing a prototype of the system, and verifying the usefulness of the system through experiments. Our experimental results shows that the average error of our system is 4.8 m in the case of out-door positioning and it is 3.3 m in the case of in-door positioning.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.1222-1230
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• 2006

위치기반 서비스는 사용자의 지리적인 현재 위치를 기반으로 사용자에게 제공되는 서비스를 일컫는다. 위치기반 서비스는 고부가가치를 제공하기 때문에 기업, 산업, 그리고 개인 생활에까지 널리 적용되고 있다. 사용자의 위치 판단(측위)은 위치기반 서비스 시스템 구축에 반드시 필요한 요소 기술이다. GPS로 인하여 건물 외부에서의 측위는 성공적으로 실용되고 있으나, 옥내 측위는 많은 전략이 발표되었음에도 불구하고 일반적인 해법이 아직도 존재하지 않는다. 성공적인 옥내 측위 해법이 존재하지 않는 이유 중 하나는 현존하는 대부분의 측위 전략이 전적으로 측위에만 사용되는 특수 장치를 사용하기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 부가적인 장비를 사용하지 않는 옥내 측위 전략을 소개한다. 또한, 제안하는 옥내 측위 전략과 GPS 기반의 옥외 측위 방법을 통합하여 옥내외 겸용 측위 시스템을 구축하고, 이 시스템의 실험 결과를 소개한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.139-142
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose a GNSS-UWB hybrid positioning system for indoor and outdoor seamless positioning. Fusion of GNSS and inertial sensors has been widely used as a method for estimating positions in places where GNSS reception sensitivity is low, and UWB technology, which started as a short-range wireless communication technology, is widely used indoors where GNSS is completely blocked. This paper proposes a method of mutual correction and fusion of the location information collected through GNSS and the location information collected from the UWB indoor positioning system when indoor and outdoor work occurs continuously and repeatedly, such as in an industrial site.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2013

In this paper, a high precision outdoor positioning system is newly proposed using multiple GPS receivers based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). Typically, the GPS signal has the instantaneous errors that degrade the positioning seriously. Using the multiple GPS receivers instead of an expensive DGPS receiver, the positioning reliability and accuracy are improved in this research as a low cost solution. To incorporate the small displacement, an INS data have been tightly coupled to the GPS data, which has the inherit disadvantage of the cumulative error occurring over time. To achieve a stabilized and accurate positioning system, the multiple GPS receiver data are fused with the INS data through the EKF process. Through real navigation experiments of an outdoor mobile robot, the performance of the proposed system has been verified to be accurate comparable to DGPS system with a lower cost.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.221-226
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• 2007

A robust position-sensing system is proposed in this paper for ubiquitous mobile robots which move indoor as well as outdoor. The Differential GPS (DGPS) which has position estimation error of less than 5 m is a general solution when the mobile robots are moving outdoor, while an active beacon system (ABS) with embedded ultrasonic sensors is selected as an indoor positioning system. The switching from the outdoor to indoor or vice versa causes unstable measurements on account of the reference and algorithm changes. To minimize the switching time in the position estimation and to stabilize the measurement, a robust position-sensing system is proposed. In the system, to minimize the switching delay, the door positions are stored and updated in a database. The reliability and accuracy of the robust positioning system based on DGPS and ABS are verified through the real experiments using a mobile robot prepared for this research and demonstrated.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1139-1145
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• 2008

A robust position sensing system is proposed in this paper for a ubiquitous mobile robot which moves indoors as well as outdoors. The Differential GPS (DGPS) which has a position estimation error of less than 5 m is a general solution when the mobile robot is moving outdoor, while an active beacon system (ABS) with embedded ultrasonic sensors is reliable as an indoor positioning system. The switching from the outdoor to indoor or vice versa causes unstable measurements on account of the reference coordinates and algorithm changes. To minimize the switching time in the position estimation and to stabilize the measurement, a robust position sensing system is proposed. In the system, to minimize the switching delay, the door positions are stored and updated in a database. Using the database, the approaching status of the mobile robot from indoor to outdoor or vice versa has been checked and the switching conditions are prepared before the mobile robot actually moves out or moves into the door. The reliability and accuracy of the robust positioning system based on DGPS and ABS are verified and demonstrated through the real experiments using a mobile robot prepared for this research.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2583-2605
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• 2016

Fingerprint positioning is a main stream and key technique for seamless positioning systems. In this paper, we develop a performance evaluation testbed for fingerprint based Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) positioning system. The testbed consists of positioning server, positioning terminal, Access Point (AP) units, positioning accuracy analysis system and testing scenarios. Different from other testbeds tended to focus on testing in same situation, in the proposed testbed, a couple of scenarios are set to test the positioning system including indoor and outdoor environments. Handset-side positioning mode and network-side positioning mode are provided simultaneously. Variety of motion models, such as static model, low-speed model and high-speed model are considered as well as different positioning algorithms. Finally, some implementation cases are analyzed to verify the credibility of the testbed.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2013

최근 실내 공간 사용자들을 대상으로 한 서비스의 관심이 증가하고 있다. 실내 위치추적 시스템은 다양한 무선통신 인프라를 활용하여 측위 오차의 범위를 최소화 할 수 있고 이동통신망과 결합하여 실내 측위 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있다. 하지만 환경에 상관없이 유연하게 동작하는 위치추적 시스템의 기술은 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 체계화된 실내 위치추적 비즈니스 모델에 관한 연구가 더욱 필요한 시점이다. 본 논문의 목적은 실내 외 위치추적 시스템의 측위기술 차이점을 분류하고 실내 위치추적 시스템에 적용되는 무선통신 방식(Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, UWB, Fingerprint 등)의 기술방식과 다양한 국내 외 구축사례 및 활용사례를 연구하고 이를 통해 성공적인 실내 위치추적 시스템 모델 설정과 향후 시스템 발전방향을 제시한다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 Wi-Fi, 블루투스, CDMA등 라디오 비컨의 수신 신호세기와 GPS 위성 신호를 결합하여 개체의 위치를 측정하는 Place Lab 기반 실내외 연속측위 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 Place Lab은 복수의 측위매체를 이용하여 다양한 실내 환경에서 위치인식이 가능하였다. 하지만 각 측위매체를 통합하는 방법 및 실내외 환경을 연동하는 방법이 고려되지 않아 동작 효율이 낮고, 그 사용 범위가 제한되는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실내의 측위매체들을 유기적으로 연계하는 멀티센서 데이터 융합 모델을 정의하고, 각 계층에 적합하게 Place Lab을 재구성하여 이러한 단점을 해결하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 라디오 비컨 신호와 GPS 위성 신호를 결합하여 실내외 연속측위를 수행하며, OSGi 번들로 구현되어 다양한 모바일 디바이스에서 단절없는 PNS 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 구현된 시스템은 윈도우 모바일 기반의 삼성 T*OMNIA SCH-M490 스마트폰에서 그 성능을 평가하였으며, 그 결과 제안된 연속측위 시스템을 통해 PNS 서비스를 성공적으로 지원할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.975-981
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• 2006

This paper shows a feasibility analysis results on RFID for car positioning system. Usually, a car navigation is mainly based on GPS combined with map-matching. However, in the case of poor visibility of satellites, GPS can not supply accurate position information continuously. In recent years, RFID has been considered to be one of key technologies in positioning and localization area. But its application and research results in the area of vehicular positioning are not popular. RFID system consists of tag, reader, antenna and software such as drivers and middleware. The main function of RFID system in a vehicular positioning is to retrieve ID recorded position information from tags which set on the center of road. We propose a positioning method for vehicles using RFID and we present some indoor and outdoor experiment results to show that the proposed method is available in vehicle operational environments.