• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.301-309
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• 2023

Tilt is a key indicator of structural safety. Real-time monitoring of tilt responses helps to evaluate structural condition, enable cost-effective maintenance, and enhance lifetime resilience. This paper presents a prototype wireless sensing system for structural tilt measurement. Long range (LoRa) technology is adopted by the sensing system to offer long-range wireless communication with low power consumption. The sensor integrates a gyroscope and an accelerometer as the sensing module. Although tilt can be estimated from the gyroscope or the accelerometer measurements, these estimates suffer from either drift issue or high noise. To address this challenging issue and obtain more reliable tilt results, two sensor fusion algorithms, the complementary filter and the Kalman filter, are investigated to fully exploit the advantages of both gyroscope and accelerometer measurements. Numerical simulation is carried out to validate and compare the sensor fusion algorithms. Laboratory experiment is conducted on a simply supported beam under moving vehicle load to further investigate the performance of the proposed wireless tilt sensing system.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.142-149
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• 2015

단일 카메라 센서를 기반으로 한 차선검출 시스템은 급격한 조도 변화, 열악한 기상환경 등에 취약하다. 이러한 단일 센서 시스템의 한계를 극복하기 위한 방안으로 센서 융합을 통해 성능 안정화를 도모할 수 있다. 하지만, 기존 센서 융합의 연구는 대부분 물체 및 차량을 대상으로 한 융합 모델에 국한되어 차용하기 어렵거나, 차선 센서의 다양한 신호 주기 및 인식범위에 대한 상이성을 고려하지 않은 경우가 대부분이었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 다중센서의 상이성을 고려하여 차선 정보를 최적으로 융합하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 융합 프레임워크는 센서 별 가변적인 신호처리 주기와 인식 신뢰 범위를 고려하므로 다양한 차선 센서 조합으로도 정교한 융합이 가능하다. 또한, 새로운 차선 예측 모델의 제안을 통해 간헐적으로 들어오는 차선정보를 세밀한 차선정보로 정밀하게 예측하여 다중주기 신호를 동기화한다. 조도환경이 열악한 환경에서의 실험과 정량적 평가를 통해, 제안하는 융합 시스템이 기존 단일 센서 대비 인식 성능이 개선됨을 검증한다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.232-238
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• 2020

In this paper, we study on aerial objects detection and position estimation algorithm for the safety of UAV that flight in BVLOS. We use the vision sensor and LiDAR to detect objects. We use YOLOv2 architecture based on CNN to detect objects on a 2D image. Additionally we use a clustering method to detect objects on point cloud data acquired from LiDAR. When a single sensor used, detection rate can be degraded in a specific situation depending on the characteristics of sensor. If the result of the detection algorithm using a single sensor is absent or false, we need to complement the detection accuracy. In order to complement the accuracy of detection algorithm based on a single sensor, we use the Kalman filter. And we fused the results of a single sensor to improve detection accuracy. We estimate the 3D position of the object using the pixel position of the object and distance measured to LiDAR. We verified the performance of proposed fusion algorithm by performing the simulation using the Gazebo simulator.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.471-475
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• 2003

This paper proposes a sensor-fusion technique where the data sets for the previous moments are properly transformed and fused into the current data sets to enable accurate measurement, such as, distance to an obstacle and location of the service robot itself. In the conventional fusion schemes, the measurement is dependent on the current data sets. As the results, more of sensors are required to measure a certain physical parameter or to improve the accuracy of the measurement. However, in this approach, instead of adding more sensors to the system, the temporal sequence of the data sets are stored and utilized for the measurement improvement. Theoretical basis is illustrated by examples and the effectiveness is proved through the simulations. Finally, the new space and time sensor fusion (STSF) scheme is applied to the control of a mobile robot in an unstructured environment as well as structured environment.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.283-285
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• 2005

To account for the importance of variable in multi-sensor data fusion, random forests are applied to supervised land-cover classification. The random forests approach is a non-parametric ensemble classifier based on CART-like trees. Its distinguished feature is that the importance of variable can be estimated by randomly permuting the variable of interest in all the out-of-bag samples for each classifier. Supervised classification with a multi-sensor remote sensing data set including optical and polarimetric SAR data was carried out to illustrate the applicability of random forests. From the experimental result, the random forests approach could extract important variables or bands for land-cover discrimination and showed good performance, as compared with other non-parametric data fusion algorithms.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2010

For weapon cueing and Head-Mounted Display (HMD), it is essential to continuously estimate the motion of the helmet. The problem of estimating and predicting the position and orientation of the helmet is approached by fusing measurements from inertial sensors and stereo vision system. The sensor fusion approach in this paper is based on nonlinear filtering, especially expended Kalman filter(EKF). To reduce the computation time and improve the performance in vision processing, we separate the structure estimation and motion estimation. The structure estimation tracks the features which are the part of helmet model structure in the scene and the motion estimation filter estimates the position and orientation of the helmet. This algorithm is tested with using synthetic and real data. And the results show that the result of sensor fusion is successful.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.245-249
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a navigation algorithm for a mobile robot, which is intelligently searching the goal location in unknown dynamic environments using an ultrasonic sensor. Instead of using "sensor fusion" method which generates the trajectory of a robot based upon the environment model and sensory data, "command fusion" method is used to govern the robot motions. The navigation strategy is based on the combination of fuzzy rules tuned for both goal-approach and obstacle-avoidance. To identify the environments, a command fusion technique is introduced, where the sensory data of ultrasonic sensors and a vision sensor are fused into the identification process.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 비 가우시안 채널 환경에서, 결정 융합 검출 규칙에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 결정 융합에 대한 잡음 분포의 테일 특성이 갖는 영향을 고려하기 위하여 exponentially-tailed 분포를 사용하였다. 페이딩과 잡음 채널로 구성된 병렬 결정 융합 모델로부터 우도비율 기반 융합 규칙을 Neyman-Pearson 평가 하에서 최적화 규칙으로 고려하였으며, 이 최적화 규칙으로부터 높은 신호대 잡음비와 낮은 신호대 잡음비 근사를 통하여 몇 가지 준 최적화 규칙들을 구하였다. 또한 최소한의 사전 정보를 가지고 강인한 검파 성능을 제공하기 위하여 리미터 형태의 간략화 된 준 최적화 검출 규칙을 제안하였다. 모의실험을 통하여 결정 융합 규칙들의 성능을 비교 분석 하였으며 실험 결과들로부터 제안된 리미터 형태의 결정 융합 규칙의 강인성을 입증하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.274-282
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• 2009

기동물체 추적을 위해서 GPS, INS, 레이더 및 광학장비 등의 다양한 위치추적 센서가 이용되고 있으며, 기동물체의 강인한 추적성능을 유지하기 위해 이기종 센서의 효과적인 융합방법이 필요하다. 이기종 다중센서를 이용한 추적성능 향상을 위해 센서의 서로 다른 오차특성을 고려하여 각 센서의 측정치를 상이한 모델로 간주하여 융합하는 연구가 수행되었지만, 한 센서의 오차가 급격히 증가하는 구간에서 다른 센서의 추정치에 대한 오차가 증가하고 각 센서의 측정값이 참 값일 확률인 Sensor Probability 값에 대해 센서 측정치 변화를 실시간으로 반영하지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 각 센서 칼만필터의 갱신추정치와 측정치 간의 차이에 대한 RMSE(Root Mean Square Error)를 비교하여 Sensor Probability를 구하고, 결합추정치를 다시 각 센서 칼만필터 입력값으로 대입하는 과정을 제외하여 센서 측정치에 대한 실시간적인 반영과 센서 성능이 급격히 저하되는 구간에서의 추적성능을 개선한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 각 센서의 오차특성을 조건부 확률값으로 추가하여 각 센서의 Sensor Probability에 따라 가장 양호한 성능을 보이는 센서 위주로 트랙융합을 함으로써 강인성을 보장 한다. 실험을 통해 UAV의 기동 경로를 생성하고 제안 알고리즘을 적용하여 다른 융합 알고리즘과 성능분석을 실시한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2007

The mobile robots to rescue a life in a disaster area and to explore planets demand high mobility as well as recognition of the environment. To avoid unknown obstacles exactly in unknown environment, accurate sensing is required. This paper proposes a sensor fusion to recognize unknown obstacles accurately by using low-cost sensors. Ultrasonic sensors and infrared sensors are used in this paper to avoid obstacles. If only one of these sensors is used alone, it is not useful fer the mobile robots to complete their tasks in the real world since the surrounding environment in the real world is complex and composed of many kinds of materials. So infrared sensor may not recognize transparent or reflective obstacles and ultrasonic sensor may not recognize narrow obstacles, far example, columns of small diameter. Therefore, I selected six ultrasonic sensors and five infrared sensors to detect obstacles. Then, I fused ultrasonic sensors with infrared sensors in order that both advantages and disadvantages of each sensor are utilized together. In fusing sensors, fuzzy algorithm is used to cope with the uncertainties of each sensor. TAMRY which is terrain-adaptive mobile robot is used as the mobile robot for experiments.