• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.119-125
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• 2018

Various techniques for indoor positioning using a smart phone have been studied. Among them, the positioning technology using the acceleration sensor and the gyro sensor built in the smartphone is widely used in conjunction with the WiFi fingerprint technology. The location tracking technology using sensors has been used for a long time, but the performance environment of the smartphone is poor and the user is moving with the smartphone in a certain posture. Therefore, in order to improve the accuracy of location tracking in a smartphone environment, it is necessary to study and develop appropriate algorithms in a mobile environment. In this paper, we analyze the performances of frequency analysis method, maximum sum of minimum acceleration method and adaptive threshold method, which are the user's moving step count detection algorithms, and determine the most accurate method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Computer Game
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.61-70
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a synchronized playback method of 3D reference model and video by extracting golf swing information from learner's golf video to precisely compare and analyze each motion in each position and time in the golf swing, and present the implementation result. In order to synchronize the 3D model with the learner's swing video, the learner's golf swing movie is first photographed and relative time information is extracted from the photographed video according to the position of the golf club from the address posture to the finishing posture. Through applying time information from learners' swing video to a 3D reference model that rigs the motion information of a pro-golfer's captured swing motion at 120 frames per second through high-quality motion capture equipment into a 3D model and by synchronizing the 3D reference model with the learner's swing video, the learner can correct or learn his / her posture by precisely comparing his or her posture with the reference model at each position of the golf swing. Synchronized playback can be used to improve the functionality of manually adjusting system for comparing and analyzing the reference model and learner's golf swing. Except for the part where the image processing technology that detects each position of the golf posture is applied, It is expected that the method of automatically extracting the time information of each location from the video and of synchronized playback can be extended to general life sports field.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.625-633
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• 2004

In this paper, position control of a car-like mobile robot using a neural network is presented. positional information of the mobile robot is given by a laser range finder located remotely through wireless communication. The heading angle is measured by a gyro sensor. Considering these two sensor information as a reference, the robot posture is corrected by a cascaded controller. To improve the tracking performance, a neural network with a cascaded controller is used to compensate for any uncertainty in the robot. The neural network functions as a compensator to minimize the positional errors in on-line fashion. A car-like mobile robot is built as a test-bed and experimental studies of several controllers are conducted and compared. Experimental results show that the best position control performance can be achieved by a cascaded controller with a neural network.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.49 no.8
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• pp.473-480
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• 2000

A fuzzy PID controller is proposed for the posture control of a two DOF robot vehicle inspecting the defects of the inner wall of sewage pipes. The main difficulty in controlling these kinds of vehicles lies in that the center of two mobile shafts does not coincide with the weight center of the vehicle due to its long and wide shape. In this case the previous controller, based on the assumption that the gap between these centers are small, can not guarantee satisfactory transient response characteristics. In this paper, this gap is included in the mathematical modelling of the robot kinematics, and in order to compensate the unsatisfactory transient response characteristics, the fuzzy PID controller is proposed. This controller tunes the PID control gains with respect to the current state of the errors between the reference and the current postures. A series of simulations has been performed to investigate the tracking performance of the proposed controller for the lane changing path and the robustness to the external disturbance. The simulation results show that the proposed controller has a satisfactory tracking performance in the transient state as compared with that of the backstepping control given in reference.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.161-172
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• 2018

This paper proposed the robot vision control method to track a moving rigid body target using the vision system model that can actively control camera parameters even if the relative position between the camera and the robot and the focal length and posture of the camera change. The proposed robotic vision control scheme uses a batch method that uses all the vision data acquired from each moving point of the robot. To process all acquired data, this robot vision control scheme is divided into two cases. One is to give an equal weight for all acquired data, the other is to give weighting for the recent data acquired near the target. Finally, using the two proposed robot vision control schemes, experiments were performed to estimate the positions of a moving rigid body target whose spatial positions are unknown but only the vision data values are known. The efficiency of each control scheme is evaluated by comparing the accuracy through the experimental results of each control scheme.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.24-30
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• 2016

The accuracy of small and low-cost CCD cameras is insufficient to provide data for precisely tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This study shows how a quad rotor UAV can hover on a human targeted tracking object by using data from a CCD camera rather than imprecise GPS data. To realize this, quadcopter UAVs need to recognize their position and posture in known environments as well as unknown environments. Moreover, it is necessary for their localization to occur naturally. It is desirable for UAVs to estimate their position by solving uncertainty for quadcopter UAV hovering, as this is one of the most important problems. In this paper, we describe a method for determining the altitude of a quadcopter UAV using image information of a moving object like a walking human. This method combines the observed position from GPS sensors and the estimated position from images captured by a fixed camera to localize a UAV. Using the a priori known path of a quadcopter UAV in the world coordinates and a perspective camera model, we derive the geometric constraint equations that represent the relation between image frame coordinates for a moving object and the estimated quadcopter UAV's altitude. Since the equations are based on the geometric constraint equation, measurement error may exist all the time. The proposed method utilizes the error between the observed and estimated image coordinates to localize the quadcopter UAV. The Kalman filter scheme is applied for this method. Its performance is verified by a computer simulation and experiments.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.1331-1334
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• 2006

동영상에서의 움직임 추적은 이전 프레임에서 얻어낸 정보를 이용할 수 있다는 점에서 프레임간의 연결 관계에 기반한 움직임 추적이 가능하다. 그러나 사람의 신체는 고정된 형태를 가지고 있지 않기 때문에 프레임 간의 단순한 연결 관계만으로 사람의 자세를 추정하고 움직임을 추적하는 것은 매우 어려운 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 구성요소에 기반한 인체 모델을 이용하여 이전 프레임에서 찾은 블랍들을 연속된 프레임에서 찾은 블랍들로 연결함으로써, 동영상에서 사람의 자세를 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 주어진 모델에 따라 이전 블랍은 대응되거나, 여러 블랍으로 나뉘거나, 다른 블랍들과 결합되어 사라지거나, 새로 생성되는 등의 4 가지 경우로 나뉘어 질 수 있는데, 각 경우에 대한 처리 방안을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 인체들과 블랍들의 리스트 처리를 간단하게 할 뿐만 아니라, 추적의 전처리 과정으로 블랍화를 옳게 수행해야 하는 부담을 덜어주어 과도한 블랍화와 부족한 블랍화 등의 문제를 해결할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.71-75
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• 2000

국내 동적 환경에 대한 감성 연구는 아직 미흡한 상태다. 본 연구는 자동차의 운전자세에 관해 연구하였다. 왼발을 사용하지 않는 A/T(Automatic Transmission) 차량과 두 발을 모두 사용하는 M/T(Manual Transmission) 차량의 운전자세 차이를 Position tracking sensor를 통해 측정하였으며, 각 차량에 따른 운전자들의 감성을 비교 및 분석하였다. 본 연구에 참여한 피험자들은 운전면허 소지자로 운전 경험이 있는 남자 대학생 및 대학원생이 참여하였으며, 운전자세를 분석해 본 결과 A/T 차량이 M/T 차량의 경우보다 Seat가 더 뒤로 위치하였고, 두 차량의 운전자세에서 무릎관절의 각도에 많은 차이가 났다. 또, 신체 각 부위 관절의 위치나 모양도 조금씩 다르게 측정되었다. A/T 차량과 M/T 차량의 운전자세에 따른 감성 평가는 동적 환경의 감성 연구에 도움이 될 것이다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.181-190
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• 2017

The movements of the human body are difficult to capture owing to the complexity of the three-dimensional skeleton model and occlusion problems. In this paper, we propose a motion capture system that tracks dynamic human motions in real time. Without using external markers, the proposed system adopts multiple depth sensors (Microsoft Kinect) to overcome the occlusion and body rotation problems. To combine the joint data retrieved from the multiple sensors, our calibration process samples a point cloud from depth images and unifies the coordinate systems in point clouds into a single coordinate system via the iterative closest point method. Using noisy skeletal data from sensors, a posture reconstruction method is introduced to estimate the optimal joint positions for consistent motion generation. Based on the high tracking accuracy of the proposed system, we demonstrate that our system is applicable to various motion-based training programs in dance and Taekwondo.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1743-1746
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• 2003

C. elegans often used to study of function of gene, but it is difficult for human observation to distinguish the mutants of C. elegans. To solve this problem, the system, which can be classified automatically using the computer vision, is studying now. In the previous works , they described the auto-tracking system and the egg-laying timing modeling, which are used to automated-classily system. In this paper, we use three kinds of features, which are related to movement , size and posture of the worm, and each feature is described mathematically and normalized. In experimental result, we validated the features for the hierarchical clustering, And we used the Calinski and Harabasz's method to find the appropriate cluster number.