• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.280-285
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• 2011

Recently, with the development of service robots and the concept of ubiquitous, the position estimation of mobile objects has received great interest. Some of the localization schemes are introduced, which provide the relative location of the moving objects subjected to accumulated errors. To implement a real time localization system, a new absolute position estimation method for a mobile robot in indoor environment is proposed. Design and implementation of the localization system comes from the usage of active beacon systems (based upon RFID technology). The active beacon system is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter. The RFID receiver gets the synchronization signal from the mobile robot and the ultra-sonic transmitter sends out the traveling signal to be used for measuring the distance. Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from three beacons and the absolute position information of the beacons themselves. In some case, the mobile robot can acquire the ultrasonic signals from only one or two beacons, due to the obstacles located along the moving path. In this paper, a position estimation scheme using fewer than three sensors is developed. Also, the extended Kalman filter algorithm is applied for the improvement of position estimation accuracy of the mobile robot.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권7B호
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• pp.886-891
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• 2011

본 논문은 수중 센서 네트워크에서 효율적인 하향링크 멀티캐스트 데이터 전송기법을 제시하였다. 기존에 센서 네트워크에서 많은 멀티캐스트 전송 기법이 제안되었지만, 배터리를 지속적으로 공급받거나 충전시키기 어려운 환경에 있는 수중 센서 네트워크에 특화된 멀티캐스트 기법은 없었다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위하여 수중 센서 네트워크에서의 멀티캐스트 두 가지 특성을 파악하여 이를 알고리즘에 적용하였다. 싱크 노드에서 목적지 노드들의 위치 정보를 가공하여서 각도 정보를 추출하였고, 이렇게 추출한 목적지 노드들의 각도 정보를 바탕으로 가상의 유클리디언 스테이너 포인트를 이용한 최적의 멀티캐스트 전송 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 본 알고리즘은 저 계산 능력과 제한된 전송파워를 가지는 수중 센서 네트워크에서 구동하기에 알맞음을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 확인하였다. 제안한 방식은 기존의 방식들에 비하여 감소된 전송 전력과 감소된 라우팅 계산량을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.341-348
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• 2013

A location estimation algorithm based on the sea-surface beacon is proposed in this paper. The beacon is utilized to provide ultrasonic signals to the underwater vehicles around the beacon to estimate precise position of underwater vehicles (ROV, AUV, Diver robot), which is named as USBL (Ultra Short Baseline) system. It utilizes GPS and INS data for estimating its position and adopts DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) de-noising filter and UKF (Unscented KALMAN Filter) elaborating the position estimation. The beacon system aims at estimating the precise position of underwater vehicle by using USBL to receive the tracking signals. The most important one for the precise position estimation of underwater vehicle is estimating the position of the beacon system precisely. Since the beacon is on the sea-waves, the received GPS signals are noisy and unstable most of times. Therefore, the INS data (gyroscope sensor, accelerometer, magnetic compass) are obtained at the beacon on the sea-surface to compensate for the inaccuracy of the GPS data. The noises in the acceleration data from INS data are reduced by using DWT de-noising filter in this research. Finally the UKF localization system is proposed in this paper and the system performance is verified by real experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1931-1935
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• 2004

A location estimate problem is critical issues for mobile robot. Because it is basic problem in practical use of the mobile robot which do what, or move where, or reach an aim. Already there are many technologies of robot localization (like GPS, vision, sonar sensor, etc) used on development. But the elevation of accurateness was brought the problem that must consider an increase of a hardware cost and addition electric power in each ways. There is the core in question to develop available and accurate sensing algorithm though it is economical. We used a ultrasonic sensor and was going to implement comparatively accurate localization though economical. Using a sensing data, we could make a grid map and estimate a position of a mobile robot. In this paper, to get a satisfactory answer about this problem using a ultrasonic sensor.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.197-203
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• 2010

The problem of location awareness in wireless sensor networks where nodes use GPS (Global Positioning System), remains challenging problem, when considering the required large energy consumption during the localization phase. In this paper we designed hardware for GPS based localization and propose a framework, called ELS, to consume low cost energy. In the ELS framework, sensor nodes are equipped with GPS. Because GPS spends large energy for position awareness, conventional localization algorithms cannot use GPS-device. We try to find a solution for efficient energy expenditure of GPS. Finally, we derive optimal transmission power of GPS data and a scheme of localization through experiment and simulation.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2015

To deal with the emergency of the solitary aged people, we have developed a collapse-sensing phone, in which a collapse sensor, a GPS receiving chipset and a CDMA sending chipset are included. The general cellular phone is somewhat expensive communication device using sound and characters, but the collapse-sensing phone is a cheaper and popular version. If the collapse sensor recognizes a certain of collapse of the aged people, CDMA sending chipset will send the location of the phone which is received from satellite by GPS receiving chipset. In this paper, a collapse recognition algorithm which is developed by using much experimental data, will be introduced to explain how to recognize the real collapse from fast sitting or immediate standing after collapse. Once a true collapse is ecognized, the phone-ID and the coordinate will be sent to the server of administrative office via CDMA network. And the position of emergency will be displayed on the GIS with the rescue center.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.69-78
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• 2009

Localization is a very important technique for the mobile robot to navigate in outdoor environment. In this paper, the development of the sensor fusion algorithm for controlling mobile robots in outdoor environments is presented. The multi-sensorial dead-reckoning subsystem is established based on the optimal filtering by first fusing a heading angle reading data from a magnetic compass, a rate-gyro, and two encoders mounted on the robot wheels, thereby computing the dead-reckoned location. These data and the position data provided by a global sensing system are fused together by means of an extended Kalman filter. The proposed algorithm is proved by simulation studies of controlling a mobile robot controlled by a backstepping controller and a cascaded controller. Performances of each controller are compared.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2019

Motion tracking and localization devices are an important building block of motion tracking systems in a virtual reality (VR) environment. This study is about improving the accuracy of motion and location for enhancing user immersion in experience type VR environment to position tracking technique. In this study, we propose and test a design of such a device. The module data test of the attitude and heading reference system shows that the implementation with the MPU-9250 sensor is successful and adequate to be used with short operation time. We consider various sensor hardware dependencies of VR, and compare various correction methods and filtering methods to lower the motion to photon (MTP) time that user movement is fully reflected on the display using sensor devices. The Kalman filter is used to combine the accelerometer with the gyroscope in the sensing unit.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권12호
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• pp.2184-2188
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• 2007

We developed a novel method of partial discharge(PD) location based on the fact that the waveform of PD signal propagate along the GIB (Gas Insulated Bus) is composed of several modes of electromagnetic wave with different group velocities and cut-off frequencies. From the PD waveform, measured at a broadband PD sensor attached on the GIB, we could derive arrival time and frequency components of different modes using the short term Fourier transform or etc. After the group velocities of different modes are calculated, the location of the PD source could be estimated. To show the effectiveness of this new locating method in a real on site application, we used this method to locate the position of a PD source at a 76 m long 345 kV GIB substation. The estimated location of the PD source using the method proposed above was in good agreement with the actual location found from the inspection result of internal component in the GIB with 2.4% of the estimation error.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2002

To obtain visual information of a target object, a camera should be placed within the visibility region. As the visibility region is dependent on the relative position of the target object and the surrounding object, the position change of the surrounding object during a task requires recalculation of the visibility region. For a fast computation of the visibility region so as to modify the camera position to be located within the visibility region, we propose a spherical projection method. After being projected onto the sphere the visibility region is represented in $\theta$-$\psi$ spaces of the spherical coordinates. The reduction of calculation space enables a fast modification of the camera location according to the motion of the surrounding objects so that the continuous observation of the target object during the task is possible.