• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.262-272
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• 2015

In particular, for a practical mobile robot team to perform such a task as that of carrying out a search and rescue mission in a disaster area, the network connectivity and localization have to be guaranteed even in an environment where the network infrastructure is destroyed or a Global Positioning System is unavailable. This paper proposes the new collective intelligence network management architecture of multiple mobile robots supporting seamless network connectivity and cooperative localization. The proposed architecture includes a resource manager that makes the robots move around and not disconnect from the network link by considering the strength of the network signal and link quality. The location manager in the architecture supports localizing robots seamlessly by finding the relative locations of the robots as they move from a global outdoor environment to a local indoor position. The proposed schemes assuring network connectivity and localization were validated through numerical simulations and applied to a search and rescue robot team.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 동기 구동형 이동 로봇의 제어를 위한 운동 방정식, 주어진 지도 내의 목표 지점으로의 최적 경로 생성과 경로 추적을 위한 경로 계획, 그리고 이동 로봇의 위치를 측정하기 위한 균등 군집 몬테카를로 위치 측정 기법을 제안하였다. 이동 로봇의 위치 측정 실험을 통해 총 73회 반복된 위치 측정에서 기존의 몬테카를로 위치 측정의 평균 수행 속도가 12.8ms로 측정된 반면, 균등 군집 관리 몬테카를로 위치 측정의 평균 수행 속도는 9.3ms로 측정되었다. 또한 기존의 몬테카를로 위치 측정 기법이 위치 측정에 실패하는 동일 환경에서 균등 군집 몬테카를로 기법은 올바른 일치 측정의 결과를 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.434-442
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• 2003

전파정수가 불규칙하게 존재하는 선로를 설정하고, 선로 상의 파동함수의 해가 국재성을 나타내는 원인과 그 조건에 대하여 확률함수를 이용하여 해석하였다. 랜덤한 매질로는 특성 임피던스가 불규칙하게 변동하는 전송선로를 설정하고, 이 선로 상에서의 전압파나 전류파의 국재현상에 대하여 살펴보았다. 수치해석을 실시한 결과, 랜덤 선로 중에 국재하는 해가 존재하는 것이 확인되었으며, 전류원을 삽입하여 선로를 강제 여진시킨 경우에도 선로 상에 전압파가 국재하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 선로 전체에 손실을 설정한 경우에 대한 해석 결과에서는 국재가 존재하는 위치의 파가 가장 큰 영향을 받는다는 사실에서, 광의 국재는 파동이 반사를 반복하는 것에 의해 나타난다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2006

Localization of mobile agent within a sensing network is a fundamental requirement for many applications, using networked navigating systems such as the sonar-sensing system or the visual-sensing system. To fully utilize the strengths of both the sonar and visual sensing systems, This paper describes a networked sensor-based navigation method in an indoor environment for an autonomous mobile robot which can navigate and avoid obstacle. In this method, the self-localization of the robot is done with a model-based vision system using networked sensors, and nonstop navigation is realized by a Kalman filter-based STSF(Space and Time Sensor Fusion) method. Stationary obstacles and moving obstacles are avoided with networked sensor data such as CCD camera and sonar ring. We will report on experiments in a hallway using the Pioneer-DX robot. In addition to that, the localization has inevitable uncertainties in the features and in the robot position estimation. Kalman filter scheme is used for the estimation of the mobile robot localization. And Extensive experiments with a robot and a sensor network confirm the validity of the approach.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.101-105
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• 2014

For a localization system, the TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) measurement and AOA (Angle of Arrival) measurement are often used for estimating target's positions. Although it is known that the accuracy of TDOA based localization is superior to that of AOA based one, it may have a poor vertical accuracy in bad geometrical conditions. This paper, therefore, proposes a localization algorithm in which the vertical position is estimated by AOA measurements and the horizontal one is estimated by TDOA measurement in order to achieve high 3D-location accuracy. And this algorithm is applied to a GPS jammer localization systems because it has a large value of the DOP (Dilution of Precision) when the jammer is located far away from the system. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed hybrid TDOA/AOA location algorithm gives much higher location accuracy than TDOA or AOA only location.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.318-320
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• 2006

Inaccurate localization exposes a robot to many dangerous conditions. It could make a robot be moved to wrong direction or damaged by collision with surrounding obstacles. There are numerous approaches to self-localization, and there are different modalities as well (vision, laser range finders, ultrasonic sonars). Since sensor information is generally uncertain and contains noise, there are many researches to reduce the noise. But, the correctness is limited because most researches are based on statistical approach. The goal of our research is to measure more exact robot location by matching between built VRML 3D model and real vision image. To determine the position of mobile robot, landmark-localitzation technique has been applied. Landmarks are any detectable structure in the physical environment. Some use vertical lines, others use specially designed markers, In this paper, specially designed markers are used as landmarks. Given known focal length and a single image of three landmarks it is possible to compute the angular separation between the lines of sight of the landmarks. The image-processing and neural network pattern matching techniques are employed to recognize landmarks placed in a robot working environment. After self-localization, the 2D scene of the vision is overlaid with the VRML scene.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.205-216
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• 2016

The localization of the robot is one of the most important factors of navigating mobile robots. The use of featured information of landmarks is one approach to estimate the location of the robot. This approach can be classified into two categories: the natural-landmark-based and artificial-landmark-based approach. Natural landmarks are suitable for any environment, but they may not be sufficient for localization in the less featured or dynamic environment. On the other hand, artificial landmarks may generate shaded areas due to space constraints. In order to improve these disadvantages, this paper presents a novel development of the localization system by using artificial and natural-landmarks-based approach on a topological map. The proposed localization system can recognize far or near landmarks without any distortion by using landmark tracking system based on top-view image transform. The camera is rotated by distance of landmark. The experiment shows a result of performing position recognition without shading section by applying the proposed system with a small number of artificial landmarks in the mobile robot.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1611-1629
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• 2016

Recently, deploying WiFi access points (APs) for facilitating indoor localization has attracted increasing attention. However, most existing mechanisms in this aspect are typically simulation based and further they did not consider how to jointly utilize pre-existing APs in target environment and newly deployed APs for achieving high localization performance. In this paper, we propose a measurement-based AP deployment mechanism (MAPD) for placing APs in target indoor environment for assisting fingerprint based indoor localization. In the mechanism design, MAPD takes full consideration of pre-existing APs to assist the selection of good candidate positions for deploying new APs. For this purpose, we first choose a number of candidate positions with low location accuracy on a radio map calibrated using the pre-existing APs and then use over-deployment and on-site measurement to determine the actual positions for AP deployment. MAPD uses minimal mean location error and progressive greedy search for actual AP position selection. Experimental results demonstrate that MAPD can largely reduce the localization error as compared with existing work.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.995-1005
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• 2011

An efficient outdoor local localization method is suggested using multi-sensor fusion with MU-EKF (Multi-Update Extended Kalman Filter) for car-like mobile robots. In outdoor environments, where mobile robots are used for explorations or military services, accurate localization with multiple sensors is indispensable. In this paper, multi-sensor fusion outdoor local localization algorithm is proposed, which fuses sensor data from LRF (Laser Range Finder), Encoder, and GPS. First, encoder data is used for the prediction stage of MU-EKF. Then the LRF data obtained by scanning the environment is used to extract objects, and estimates the robot position and orientation by mapping with map objects, as the first update stage of MU-EKF. This estimation is finally fused with GPS as the second update stage of MU-EKF. This MU-EKF algorithm can also fuse more than three sensor data efficiently even with different sensor data sampling periods, and ensures high accuracy in localization. The validity of the proposed algorithm is revealed via experiments.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.128-136
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• 2013

최근 자율 비행에 대한 관심이 증가하면서 다양한 센서를 통한 자기 위치 인식 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 GPS와 같은 자기 위치를 확보할 수 없는 실내 환경의 경우, 다른 방법을 통해 자기 위치를 파악해야 한다. 실내 환경에서 자기 위치 파악에는 여러 가지 방법이 있지만 영상을 통한 위치 인식 기술이 각광을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 마크를 통한 영상 기반의 위치 인식 연구에 대해 설명하고, 실제 비행체에 적용하여 자율 비행하는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 그리고 마크가 없는 실제 환경에서도 위치를 인식할 수 있도록 실시간 3차원 지도 생성을 통한 위치 인식 방법에 대해서도 논의한다.