• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.15-18
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• 2014

This paper presents a sensor location decision making method respect to Container-Grown Seedlings in view of precision agriculture (PA) when sensors involved in tree container measure received signal strength (RSS) or time-of-arrival (TOA) between themselves and neighboring sensors. A small fraction of sensors in the container-grown seedlings system have a known location, whereas the remaining locations must be estimated. We derive Rao-Cramer bounds and maximum-likelihood estimators under Gaussian and log-normal models for the TOA and RSS measurements, respectively.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.308-311
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• 2008

WSN(Wireless Sensor Network)의 기술 요소 중의 하나는 센서노드의 위치에 관한 정보를 추적하고 관리하는 것으로 GPS, 초음파, RSSI 등을 이용하는 방법이 대표적이다. 본고에서는 RSSI에 기반의 무선 센서 노드 위치 측정 방법의 정확도를 향상시키기 위하여 사하기 위하여 무선센서노드의 위치를 판정하기 위하여 전파수신강도(RSSI)의 측정값의 정확도를 향상하기 위하여 을 회귀분석을 이용하는 방법에 대해 고찰하였다. 또한 Friis 공식을 이용 송신기와 수신기 사이에서의 전파의 경로 손실과 한 위치 측정하는 기존의 방식과 RSSI 값에 기반하여 회귀분석을 이용한 위치 측정 방식을 비교 분석한 결과 회귀분석을 이용한 방식이 RSSI를 이용하여 거리를 측정하는 측면에서 좀 더 향상된 정확도를 나타내었다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2019

The LBS(Location Based Service) technology plays an important role in reducing wastes of time, losses of human lives and economic losses by detecting the user's location in order by suggesting the optimal evacuation route of the users in case of safety accidents. We developed an algorithm to estimate indoor location, movement path and indoor location changes of smart phone users based on the built-in sensors of smartphones and the dead-reckoning algorithm for pedestrians without a connection with smart devices such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Furthermore, seven different indoor movement scenarios were selected to measure the performance of this algorithm and the accuracy of the indoor location estimation was measured by comparing the actual movement route and the algorithm results of the experimenter(pedestrian) who performed the indoor movement. The experimental result showed that this algorithm had an average accuracy of 95.0%.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.69-84
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• 2017

Delamination is the most common failure mode in layered composite materials. The author have found that the electrical potential change (EPC) technique using response surfaces method is very effective in assessment delamination in basalt fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) laminate composite pipe by using electrical capacitance sensor (ECS). In the present study, the effect of the electrodes number on the method is investigated using FEM analyses for delamination location/size detection by ANSYS and MATLAB, which are combined to simulate sensor characteristic. Three cases of electrodes number are analyzed here are eight, twelve and sixteen electrodes, afterwards, the delamination is introduced into between the three layers [$0^{\circ}/90^{\circ}/0^{\circ}$]s laminates pipe, split into eight, twelve and sixteen scenarios for cases of eight, twelve and sixteen electrodes respectively. Response surfaces are adopted as a tool for solving inverse problems to estimate delamination location/size from the measured EPC of all segments between electrodes. As a result, it was revealed that the estimation performances of delamination location/size depends on the electrodes number. For ECS, the high number of electrodes is required to obtain high estimation performances of delamination location/size. The illustrated results are in excellent agreement with solutions available in the literature, thus validating the accuracy and reliability of the proposed technique.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2020

This paper introduces a study to estimate the user altitude in need of rescue in an emergency. The altitude is estimated by using the barometric pressure sensor embedded in the smartphone. Compared to GPS, which is degraded in urban or indoor environments, it has the advantage of not having spatial restrictions. With the endless development of smartphone hardware, it is possible to estimate the absolute altitude using the measured value if only the bias of the embedded barometric pressure sensor is applied. The altitude information of the person in need of rescue in an emergency is a great help in reducing rescue time. Since time is tight, we propose online calibration that provides the barometric pressure sensor bias used for altitude estimation through database. Furthermore, experiments were conducted to understand the characteristics of the barometric pressure sensor, which is greatly affected by wind. At the end, the altitude estimation performance was confirmed through an actual field tests in various floors in the building.

• 센서학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.373-379
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 차량이 자동으로 도로를 추적하는 자율주행을 실현하기 위한 선행조건으로서 자기차선의 자장으로부터 차량의 위치와 방향을 추정하기 위한 시스템을 제안한다. 자기차선에 사용되는 원통형 영구자석인 단일자기원에 자기 쌍극자 모델이 적용될 수 있음을 검증하기 위해서 자기센서를 이용하여 위치에 따른 원형 영구자석 자장의 3축 성분을 측정하고 실험 데이터를 자기 쌍극자 모델과 비교하였다. 실험 데이터를 기반으로 한 모델을 이용하여 자장의 3축 성분에 의하여 센서의 위치를 추정할 수 있음을 보인다. 단일 자기원에 검증된 자기 쌍극자 모델을 자기차선으로 확장하고, 센서의 위치와 방향에 따른 자장의 3축 성분의 실험 데이터를 획득한다. 실험 데이터의 맵핑을 이용하여 자장의 3축 성분에 따른 센서의 위치와 방향을 추정한다. 자기차선 상에서 차량의 위치와 센서를 제안된 방법에 의해 추정하고 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 차선추적에 적용한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

The torque is an important measure that represents the performance of a particular engine. Furthermore the information of engine torque can be used as a primary feedback parameter in modem engine management system. In this paper, a methodology is proposed for torque estimation of SI-engine. Since the proposed method uses cylinder pressure sensor, the torque can be estimated in a simple manner. The indicated torque is estimated from the peak pressure and its location, and the load torque is observed by the state observer based on the estimated indicated torque. The proposed method is accurate and robust against the variations that affect the torque production such as spark timing, mass air flow and others. This torque estimation method may be an alternative solution to the use of engine torque maps in a modem torque-based engine management system.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.370-378
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• 2007

무선 센서 네트워크(WSNs)에서는 수많은 센서들이 사람이 접근하기 어려운 환경에 배치된다. 이러한 환경에서, 센서들의 절대적 또는 상대적인 위치정보를 이용함으로써 무선 센서 네트워크를 다양한 응용서비스에 이용할 수 있다. 지금까지는 센서 노드의 위치를 측정하는 방법으로 신호의 도착시간차(time-of-arrival, TOA)에 기반을 둔 방법이 가장 정확도가 높게 평가되었다. 그러나 TOA방법에서는 두 노드간에 clock skew나 clock drift가 생기면 거리오차가 발생하게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 주기적인 시간동기화 기법들이 제시되었는데, 이러한 방법에서는 거리오차를 줄일 수 있지만 시간동기화에 따른 overhead가 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 clock skew가 발생하는 상황에서도 거리와 위치 정확도를 높일 수 있는 신호의 다중 왕복시간차(multiple round-trip times of arrival, RTOA)에 기반한 위치 측정 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과, RTOA가 기존의 TOA방법보다 최대 93%의 위치 정확도 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.349-358
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• 2012

Over a wireless sensor network (WSN), accurate localization of sensor nodes is an important factor in enhancing the association between location information and sensory data. There are many research works on the development of a localization algorithm over three-dimensional (3D) space. Recently, the complexity-reduced 3D trilateration localization approach (COLA), simplifying the 3D computational overhead to 2D trilateration, was proposed. The method provides proper accuracy of location, but it has a high computational cost. Considering practical applications over resource constrained devices, it is necessary to strike a balance between accuracy and computational cost. In this paper, we present a novel 3D localization method based on the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values of four anchor nodes, which are deployed in the initial setup process. This method provides accurate location estimation results with a reduced computational cost and a smaller number of anchor nodes.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2018

With the increasing demand for the development of human pose estimation, such as human-computer interaction and human activity recognition, there have been numerous approaches to detect the 2D poses of people in images more efficiently. Despite many years of human pose estimation research, the estimation of human poses with images remains difficult to produce satisfactory results. In this study, we propose a robust 2D human body pose estimation method using an RGB camera sensor. Our pose estimation method is efficient and cost-effective since the use of RGB camera sensor is economically beneficial compared to more commonly used high-priced sensors. For the estimation of upper-body joint positions, semantic segmentation with a fully convolutional network was exploited. From acquired RGB images, joint heatmaps accurately estimate the coordinates of the location of each joint. The network architecture was designed to learn and detect the locations of joints via the sequential prediction processing method. Our proposed method was tested and validated for efficient estimation of the human upper-body pose. The obtained results reveal the potential of a simple RGB camera sensor for human pose estimation applications.