• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.3104-3109
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• 2009

The technology of direction finding is very important to find the direction of emitters for ELINT(electronic intelligence) system. The principle of TDOA(time difference of arrival) is to receive an emitter signal with two antennas, measure the time difference between two antennas, and converse the time difference to direction difference. This technology can be used in broadband frequency system and make the system very simple because a phase-discriminator and a voltage comparator are not needed. For fine DF accuracy, high time resolution receiver and long basis line antennas are needed. The DF accuracy of noise added signals is simulated with different time

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.15-21
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• 2020

This paper presents the outlier detection algorithm in the estimation method of a source location and velocity based on two-step weighted least-squares method using time difference of arrival(TDOA) and frequency difference of arrival(FDOA) data. Since the accuracy of the estimated location and velocity of a moving source can be reduced by the outliers of TDOA and FDOA data, it is important to detect and remove the outliers. In this paper, the method to find the minimum inlier data and the method to determine whether TDOA and FDOA data are included in inliers or outliers are presented. The results of numerical simulations show that the accuracy of the estimated location and velocity is improved by removing the outliers of TDOA and FDOA data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.559-559
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• 2006

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.1B
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• pp.86-97
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• 2009

RTLS is a system for automatically locating and tracking people and objects. The TDOA-based RTLS determines the location of the tag by calculating the time differences of a signal received from the tag. In TDOA-based RTLS, time synchronization is essential to calculate the time difference between readers. This paper presents a precision time synchronization method for TDOA-based RTLS over IEEE 802.15.4. In order to achieve precision time synchronization in IEEE 802.15.4 radio, we analyzed the error factors of delay and jitter. We also deal with the implementation of hardware assisted time stamping and the Kalman filtering method to minimize the error factors. In addition, this paper described the experiments and performance evaluation of the proposed precision time synchronization method in IEEE 802.15.4 radio. The results show that the nodes in a network can maintain their clocks to within 10 nanoseconds offset from the reference clock.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.863-865
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• 2015

A method for estimating position is AOA, TOA, TDOA, Wi-Fi, Beacon etc. A method for estimating the location in indoor environment is used mainly Wi-Fi, Beacon. The reason is that AOA, TOA and TDOA are unfit to estimate position in indoor environment. To address this problem, this paper presents a AOA algorithm based on AP having a four directional antenna. The algorithm uses only the angle received from the four antennas. This can draw linear equations for signal. And calculate the intersections of the lines. Intersections means the position of user.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.286-292
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• 2008

RTLS 시스템은 이동 객체에 RTLS 태그를 부착한 후 태그에서 발산되는 신호를 이용하여 실시간으로 위치를 파악하는 시스템으로 최근 항만 물류 및 자산 관리 분야에서 객체의 실시간 위치를 파악하기 위해 활용되고 있다. RTLS 시스템은 태그의 위치를 측정하기 위해 삼각 측량 법이나, Proximity matching법을 사용한다. 삼각 측량법은 3개 이상의 리더에서 수신된 신호 세기나 신호의 도달 시간을 이용하여 삼각측량 방식으로 위치를 결정하는 알고리즘으로, 전파의 난반사나 장애물등에 민감하며, Proximity matching법은 위치 샘플링 값에 대한 근접성을 이용한 통계 정보를 바탕으로 하여 위치를 결정하는 알고리즘으로 위치 정확도를 높일 수 있으나, 샘플링 데이터 개수에 따라 정확도가 크게 변화하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 위치 정보의 오차를 줄이기 위하여, Fingerprint 방식의 확률 모델에 TDOA 방식에서 사용되는 요소들을 혼합하여 확률에 의한 불확실성을 줄이고 더 높은 정확도의 위치 정보를 전달하는 위치 보정 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 2단계 위치 보정 기법은 먼저, Fingerprint 데이터 셋으로부터 현재 측정된 위치의 신호정보를 이용한 확률 모델을 적용하여 단 하나의 후보자를 결정한다. 둘째, 측정된 정보와 후보자 위치 정보를 기반으로 TDOA에서 사용하는 기하학적 위치 결정 방법을 변형한 알고리즘을 이용해 측정된 위치를 보정함으로써, TDOA 방식이나, Fingerprint 방식 둘 중 하나만 사용하는 것보다 향상된 위치의 정확도를 제공한다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 제안한 위치 보정 기법을 위한 위치 보정 모듈을 설계하였으며, RTLS 미들웨어에 이를 반영하여 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.7
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• pp.76-84
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• 2013

In the passive emitter localization using instantaneous TDOA (time difference of arrival) and FDOA (frequency difference of arrival) measurements, the estimation accuracy can be improved by collecting additional measurements. To achieve this goal, it is required to increase the number of the sensors. However, in electronic warfare environment, a large number of sensors cause the loss of military strength due to high probability of intercept. Also, the additional processes should be considered such as the data link and the clock synchronization between the sensors. Hence, in this paper, the passive localization of a stationary emitter is presented by using the successive TDOA and FDOA measurements from two moving sensors. In this case, since an independent pair of sensors is added in the data set at every instant of measurement, each pair of sensors does not share the common reference sensor. Therefore, the QCLS (quadratic correction least squares) methods cannot be applied, in which all pairs of sensor should include the common reference sensor. For this reason, a Gauss-Newton algorithm is adopted to solve the non-linear least square problem. In addition, to show the performance of the proposed method, we compare the RMSE (root mean square error) of the estimates with CRLB (Cramer-Rao lower bound) and derived the CEP (circular error probable) planes to analyze the expected estimation performance on the 2-dimensional space.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.95-102
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• 2006

In this paper, we model a traffic of multiple tags operated in 2.45GHz band RTLS environment and analyze the multi-tag interference. Also, we propose a high precision location estimation algorithm of RTLS and then analyze its performance. From the results, the BER performance of RTLS degrades as the number of multi-tags increase in Gaussian noise and fading(m=15) environment. To meet the BER specification of RTLS, $10^{-5}$, we have to limit the multi-tag number to below 40. We also estimate the tag's location in $250m{\times}250m$ searching-area with enhanced TDOA scheme. It is confirmed that the 3m radius within accuracy of RTLS specification is satisfied, if the number of sub-blink receives more than 2 when available reader is 3 to 8.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.459-462
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• 2005

In this paper, we investigate the high precision location estimation algorithm in 2.45GHz band RTLS with multiple tags. The location is estimated in LOS environments, 300m ${\times}$ 300m area, and 2D coordinates adopting a TDOA scheme which is not necessitate the transmission time of tags. We evaluate the average estimation error in distance assuming that tags are randomly distributed and the readers(3${\sim}$8) are uniformly(equal space) placed in test area. In results, average estimation error is 3.12m and 1.47m at reader numbers of 4 and 8, respectively. Minimum estimation error is obtained when the accumulated receiving signal from a tag is 3 or 4 regardless of available reader numbers. The error is less than 3m, satisfies the specification of RTLS.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.231-236
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• 2011

In recent years, LBS(Location Based Service) is applied in many different fields. Therefore, various location-aware schemes have been studied. In the location awareness system using time dependent algorithm, TOA(Time of Arrival) or TDOA(Time Difference of Arrival) algorithm, distortion of a signal by AWGN(Additive White Gaussian Noise) and multi-path effects cause the degradation of location awareness performance. In this paper, the unexpected noise is eliminated by averaging multiple pulses in order to overcome the degradation of performance. Also, we research the technique for improving the performance of the location awareness by detecting direct-path signal with adjusting threshold.