• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.90-96
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to compare the joint position sense at the knee joint at 3 different surface conditions by using the active knee joint angle reproduction test in the standing position. Twenty healthy volunteers (10 males and 10 females) age 20~29 years were recruited for this study. The knee joint position senses were assessed at three different surface conditions: on the floor (stable condition), TOGU (soft condition), and seat fit (unstable condition) in a closed kinetic chain. Testing orders were selected randomly. The absolute angle error was defined as the absolute difference between target angles ($30^{\circ}{\sim}45^{\circ}$ knee flexion) and subject perceived angle of the knee flexion. One way ANOVA was used to compare the absolute angle of error among 3 different conditions. The Independent t-test was used to compare the absolute angle of error between male and female. The error angles were significantly different among surface conditions ($1.3^{\circ}{\pm}1.2^{\circ}$ for the floor, $2.1^{\circ}{\pm}0.9^{\circ}$ for the TOGU, and $4.4^{\circ}{\pm}1.8^{\circ}$ for the seat fit, p<.05). There was no significant difference in error angle between male and female. In conclusion, the joint position sense of the knee joint in the closed kinetic chain decreased at unstable surface conditions. The result of this study indicates that surface conditions should be considered when assessing and training the joint position sense of the knee joint in clinical setting.

• Journal of Space Technology and Applications
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.232-243
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• 2024

In order to perform various missions in space, including planetary exploration, estimating the position of a satellite in orbit is a very important factor because it is directly related to the success rate of mission performance. As a study for autonomous satellite navigation, this study estimated the satellite's attitude and real time orbital position using a star sensor algorithm with two star trackers and earth sensor. To implement the star sensor algorithm, a simulator was constructed and the position error of the satellite estimated through the technique presented in the paper was analyzed. Due to lens distortion and errors in the center point finding algorithm, the average attitude estimation error was at the level of 2.6 rad in the roll direction. And the position error was confirmed by attitude error, so average error in altitude direction was 516 m. It is expected that the proposed satellite attitude and position estimation technique will contribute to analyzing star sensor performance and improving position estimation accuracy.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.625-632
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• 1992

This paper presents a new dc-motor position control approached by Variable Structure System. In order to eliminate a steady-state position error, we propose a switching function composed of position error, velocity, and current ripple. The switching function has an advantage compared to other ones. To determine the control signal voltage, we use a fuzzy logic method. The simulation results show expected performances.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.60-67
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• 2011

This paper presents an in-situ correction method to compensate for the position error of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) near the sea floor. AUVs generally have an inertial navigation system assisted with auxiliary navigational sensors. Since the inertial navigation system shows drift in position without the bottom reflection of a Doppler velocity log, external acoustic positioning systems, such as an ultra short baseline (USBL), are needed to set the position without surfacing the AUV. The main concept of the correction method is as follows: when the AUV arrives near the sea floor, the vehicle moves around horizontally in a circular mode, while the USBL transceiver installed on a surface vessel measures the AUV's position. After acquiring one data set, a least-square curve fitting method is adopted to find the center of the AUV's circular motion, which is transferred to the AUV via an acoustic telemetry modem (ATM). The proposed method is robust for the outlier of USBL, and it is independent of the time delay for the data transfer of the USBL position with the ATM. The proposed method also reduces the intrinsic position error of the USBL, and is applicable to the in-situ calibration as well as the initialization of the AUVs' position. Monte Carlo simulation was conducted to verify the effectiveness of the method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.672-675
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• 2000

There are many sources of errors in the parallel device. This study investigates the effect of a clearance error at a U-joint on the position and orientation errors of the platform of a new parallel device, cubic parallel manipulator. In this study, the limits of errors can be estimated for given conditions.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.82-82
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• 2000

The way which estimates a position from Navigation is Dead-reckoning Navigation and Radio Navigation. Generally dead-reckoning navigation uses Gyro and odometer as sensor, but these have problems which are an integrating noise and a noise-sensitivity. Gps which is used by radio-navigation has a Troposthetic error and MultiPath ewer and so on. For minimizing a Troposthetic error and a Multipath error, this paper suggests to an algorithm which use vanishing point on CCD camera.

• Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.15-23
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• 1996

The purpose of this study to evaluate and compare the proprioception of the dominant knee joint at different conditions in normal 20 years of age. The pripriocption was measured at sitting, supine, prone position with the eyes opened and the eyes closed. All were assessed with and without a knee brace around the knee by reproduction the position to which a joint has previously been placed. In this study, 24 rehabilitation therapy major students were assessed at Hansoe University. In this study applied the paired t-test and 1-way ANOVA to determine the statistical significance of results at 0.05 level of significance. The error average of proprioception was $4.65{\pm}2.95^{\circ}$ with the eyes closed and $4.08{\pm}1.14^{\circ}$ with the eyes opened in sitting position, $5.56{\pm}3.18^{\circ}$ with the eyes closed and $4.98{\pm}2.99^{\circ}$ with the eyes opened in supine position and $5.60{\pm}1.64^{\circ}$ with the eyes closed and $4.87{\pm}2.16^{\circ}$ with the eyes opened in prone position. There was no significantly difference the error average between the eyes opened group and the eyes closed group. There was no significantly difference the error average among the three positions. The error average decreased significantly in knee brace group at all conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.9-16
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• 1998

Loran C is a low frequently , pulsed. hyperbolic radio aid to navigation system, which operates in the 90 to 110 kHz frequency band. The position accuracy is not excellent but the repeatable and relative accuracy is very good, and it is very useful for fishing vessel in coastal waters. The operation of China north sea chain9GRI 7430) was begun on January, 1996, and in order to evaluate the accuracy of this chain, it was observed with Loran C receiver (LC-90, Furuno) in July 9 and December 30, 1997 at the fixed position of Kunsan national university. The obtained results were as follows : The time difference error of M-X, M-Y pair were $0.5{\mu}s$, $4.4{ \mu}s$ respectively and the mean time difference of M-X, M-Y pair were $15120.4{,\mu}s$ $32085.4{\mu}s$ respectively. The Loran C signals were received steadily and the daily fluctuation of time difference was very small. The longitudinal position error was very much than latitudinal position error, and the mean position error was about 1091.8m.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.82-88
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• 2009

Low costed position sensor or sensorless control method is generally used in the motor control for home appliance because of the material cost and manufacture standard restriction. In conventional sensorless method, the stator resistance and back-EMF coefficient are varied by the motor speed and load torque variation. Therefore, position error occurred when the motor is operated by sensorless control method because of these variations. In this paper, the compensation method is proposed for sensorless position error using 2 hall sensors.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2014

A study on the indoor positioning system has been active recently for the location based service indoors. In the 3 dimensional positioning system based on the acoustic signal and TDOA technology, the error characteristics of the estimated source position would be changed depending on the number of microphones and the pattern of the microphone array. In this paper, the estimated position error according to the measured distance error between the microphones and the signal source is analyzed, and the optimum microphone array is decided considering the estimated position error patterns and the total amount of the estimated position error.