• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.200-205
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• 2010

We report temperature and strain sensing characteristics of two kinds of in-line fiber interferometers. One interferometer consists of a section of Hollow Optical Fiber(HOF) spliced between two Photonic Bandgap Fibers(PBGF) and the other is built by splicing a section of HOF between two Large Mode Area-Photonic Crystal Fibers(LMA-PCF). To minimize the splice losses, we carefully optimized the heating time and arc current of the splicer so as not to collapse the air holes of the fiber. It is found that the first interferometer has a temperature sensitivity of 15.4 pm/$^{\circ}C$ and a strain sensitivity of 0.24 pm/${\mu}\varepsilon$. The other interferometer exhibits a temperature sensitivity of 17.4 pm/$^{\circ}C$ and a strain sensitivity of 0.2 pm/${\mu}\varepsilon$.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.21 no.3 s.76
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• pp.46-51
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• 2007

A multi-purpose environmental monitoring system has been developed as a commercially available standard using the technique of hetero-core spliced fiber optic sensors, for the purposes of monitoring large-scale structures and preserving natural environments. The monitoring system has been tested and evaluated in a possible outdoor condition, in view of the full-scale operation at actual sites to be monitored. Additionally, the developed system in this work conveniently provides us with various options of sensor modules intended for monitoring such physical quantities as displacement, distortion, pressure, binary states, and liquid adhesion. Two channels of optical fiber line were monitored in each channel, three displacement sensor modules were connected in series, in order to examine the performance to a pseudo-cracking experiment in the outdoor situation and to clarify temperature influences an the system, in terms of the coupling of optical connectors and the OTDR stability. The results from the pseudo-cracking experiment agreed with the actual cracks, by means of calculation, based an the detected displacement values and their geometrical arrangement of the used sensor modules. The temperature change, ranging from 10 to $20^{\circ}C$ resulting from the 10-days free running operation, was found to influence the system stability of ${\pm}10{\mu}m$, primarily due to the coupling instability of the used optical connectors. It was found that fusion splicing, rather than the use of connectors, reduced the fluctuation dawn to ${\pm}2{\mu}m$. The specification and performance of various option modules have been demonstrated to show the capability of inspecting various physical quantities by use of the single system, which would be suitable for multi-purpose environmental monitoring.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.574-579
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• 2016

Unlike general unmanned aerial vehicles, the quad-rotor is attracting the attention of many people because of simple structure and very useful value. However, as the interest in drones increases, the safety and location of vehicles are becoming more important provide against aviation safety accidents or lost accidents. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a tracking system that stabilizes the model with a simple controller by linearized modeling and grasp tilt angle data from various sensor through the filter. The developed tracking system transmits the position of the quad-rotor in flight to the computer and shows it through the route, so it can check the flight path and various information such as flight speed and altitude at the same time. Then the sensor used in the actual quad-rotor can not measure exact sensor data for disturbance and vibration. So we use sensor fusion of Kalman filter and Complementary filter to overcome this problem and the stability of the quad-rotor hovering is realized by PID control. Through simulation, various information such as the speed, position, and altitude of the quad-rotor were confirmed in real time.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.224-232
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• 2003

In this paper, efficient deployment method of sensors and target positioning performance with respect to measurement error are dealt with. Active sonar can be categorized into Monostatic, Bistatic, Multistatic sonar, and characteristics of respective sonar are different. Assuming that each sensor can receive range and angular information, we compare the performance of Monostatic, Bistatic, and Multistatic systems. And we suggest Weighted least square (WLS) which gives the weight to former case, LS. In particular. adopting suggested method we investigate the target positioning performance according to number of sensor, distance from transmitter to receiver, and propose efficient arrangement rule for Multistatic sonar configurations. According to the experimental results, RMSE of Multistatic sonar is found to be superior to Monostatic and Bistatic by 35.98%. 37.45% respectively, and WLS is superior to LS approximately by 7.4% in average. Furthermore, as the difference of respective sensor's variance is large, it is observed that the improvement ratio of target positioning performance is increased.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.186-186
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• 2010

최근 들어, 2차원/3차원의 랩 또는 항공/위성 영상의 공간정보를 웹 상에서 서비스 하고 이러한 공간정보에 다양한 정보들을 융 복합하여 사용자들에게 보다 높은 수준의 정보를 제공하기 위한 기술개발에 대한 관심이 급증하고 있다. 예를들어, Microsoft사의 경우는 사용자 참여형(Participatory) 센서 웹 환경을 구축하기 위하여 SenseWeb 관련 기술 개발 및 시범 프로젝트를 수행하고 있는데, SenseWeb 시스템에서는 전 세계에 존재하는 모든 센서들을 연계하여 웹 상에서 사용자들에게 제공할 수 있도록 하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 최근에는, 이러한 SenseWeb 시스템을 이용하여 센싱정보와 Bing Map의 공간정보를 융합하여 사용자에게 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 SensorMap 시스템이 개발되었는데, 이러한 SensorWeb/SensorMap 시스템을 기반으로 다양한 시범 프로젝트들이 진행되어 오고 있다. Google사의 경우는 기존에 서비스 되고 Google Eearth/Map을 기반으로 실시간 센싱정보를 연계하여 제공하는 서비스와 다양한 사용자들의 정보들을 테이블 형태로 연계 및 융합하여 제공하기 위한 Google Fusion Tables 서비스를 제공하고 있다. Oracle사의 경우는 센싱정보를 포함하여 실시간으로 끊임없이 변화하는 정보들에 대하여 이벤트 처리, 패턴 분석, 그리고 상황인식 등의 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 CEP(Complex Event Processing) 제품을 선보이고 있다. Nokia사의 경우는 기존의 고정 센서노드들 이외에 모든 모바일 폰을 이동이 가능한 센서노드로 가정하고 이러한 모바일 센서노드들로부터 교통정보를 포함하는 다양한 센싱정보를 수집하고 분석하여 공간정보 기반으로 서비스하기 위한 기술 개발을 꾸준히 추진해 오고 있다. 본 발표에서는 이러한 공간정보와 센싱정보 또는 기타 사용자 정보와의 융 복합서비스를 가능하게 하는 핵심기술들에 대하여 소개하고자 한다. 첫째로 다양한 공간정보와 센싱정보의 융 복합 및 분석 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 u-GIS 융합 엔진에 대하여 설명하고자 한다. u-GIS 융합 엔진에서는 구체적으로 최근 이슈가 되고 있는 다양한 센싱정보의 효율적 수집, 분석, 관리를 위한 GeoSensor 데이터 저장/관리 기술과 센싱정보-공간정보의 실시간 융합 분석 기술에 대해서 소개를 하고자 한다. 둘째로, 이러한 공간정보, 센싱정보 그리고 기타 사용자 정보들을 웹 상에서 효율적으로 매쉬업하여 2차원 및 3차원으로 사용자에게 제공하기 위한 맞춤형 국토정보 제공 기술에 대하여 설명하고자 한다. 여기서는 공간정보 센싱정보 그리고 기타 사용자 정보와의 연계를 위한 매쉬업 엔진 기술 그리고 실시간 3차원 공간정보 제공 기술 등에 대하여 소개를 하고자 한다. 끝으로, 영상 기반의 효율적인 공간정보 구축을 위한 멀티센서 데이터 처리 기술에 대하여 간략히 소개를 하고, 앞에서 설명된 핵심기술들 이외에도 향후 추가로 요구되는 기술개발 내용에 대하여 간략히 설명을 하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.9
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• pp.811-819
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• 2014

Activity recognition is a key component in identifying the context of a user for providing services based on the application such as medical, entertainment and tactical scenarios. Instead of applying numerous sensor devices, as observed in many previous investigations, we are proposing the use of smartphone with its built-in multimodal sensors as an unobtrusive sensor device for recognition of six physical daily activities. As an improvement to previous works, accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer data are fused to recognize activities more reliably. The evaluation indicates that the IBK classifier using window size of 2s with 50% overlapping yields the highest accuracy (i.e., up to 99.33%). To achieve this peak accuracy, simple time-domain and frequency-domain features were extracted from raw sensor data of the smartphone.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.232-238
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• 1999

Single mode fiber optic interferometers using the Fabry-Perot configuration were embedded in a reinforced concrete structure. These interferometers investigated the character of phase shift and strain for internal loads. The 10 mm length of FFPI in the continuous length of single mode fiber (SMF) were produced with two pieces of SMF coated were $TiO_2$ dielectric film utilizing the fusion splicing technique. The fabricated fiber optic Fabry-Perot interferometer(FFPI) and the 6 mm length of steel bar were buried with specimen ($100{\times}100{\times}50\;mm^3$) which was made of concrete structure. The resin protects FFPI and fiber leads from squeezed concrete. Sensors at different point in the structure were multiplexed by TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) method and the deformation to the external loads at each point could be monitored simultaneously. The output signals were proportional to the external loads applied to the structure and the sensitivity of the sensors were $1.03^{\circ}/kg$ and $0.76^{\circ}/kg$ respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.463-468
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• 2010

The mobile robot which accomplishes a work in explored region does not know location information of surroundings. Traditionally, simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) algorithms solve the localization and mapping problem in explored regions. Among the several SLAM algorithms, the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) based SLAM is the scheme most widely used. The EKF is the optimal sensor fusion method which has been used for a long time. The odometeric error caused by an encoder can be compensated by an EKF, which fuses different types of sensor data with weights proportional to the uncertainty of each sensor. In many cases the EKF based SLAM requires artificially installed features, which causes difficulty in actual implementation. Moreover, the computational complexity involved in an EKF increases as the number of features increases. And SLAM is a weak point of long operation time. Therefore, this paper presents a symmetrical model based SLAM algorithm(called M-SLAM).

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.31-37
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose an outlier detection algorithm called C-SCGP to prevent the degradation of localization performance based on RSS (Received Signal Strength) and AOA (Angle of Arrival) in the presence of outliers in wireless sensor networks. Since the accuracy of target estimation can significantly deteriorate due to various cause of outliers such as malfunction of sensor, jamming, and severe noise, it is important to detect and filter out all outliers. The single cluster graph partitioning (SCGP) algorithm has been widely used to remove such outliers. The proposed continuous-SCGP (C-SCGP) algorithm overcomes the weakness of the SCGP that requires the threshold and computing probability of outliers, which are impratical in many applications. The results of numerical simulations show that the performance of C-SCGP without setting threshold and probability computation is the same performance of SCGP.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.247-253
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• 2019

In this paper, we present a new method for real-time tracking of human walking around a laser sensor system. The method converts range data with $r-{\theta}$ coordinates to a 2D image with x-y coordinates. Then human tracking is performed using human's features, i.e. appearances of human walking pattern, and the input range data. The laser sensor based human tracking method has the advantage of simplicity over conventional methods which extract human face in the vision data. In our method, the problem of estimating 2D positions and orientations of two walking human's ankle level is formulated based on a moving trajectory algorithm. In addition, the proposed tracking system employs a HMM to robustly track human in case of occlusions. Experimental results using a real system demonstrate usefulness of the proposed method.