• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.707-716
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• 2015

The purpose of a localization system is to estimate the coordinates of the geographic location of a mobile device. The accuracy of wireless localization is influenced by nonline-of-sight (NLOS) errors in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we present an improved time of arrival (TOA)-based localization method for wireless sensor networks. TOA-based localization estimates the geographic location of a mobile device using the distances between a mobile station (MS) and three or more base stations (BSs). However, each of the NLOS errors along a distance measured from an MS (device) to a BS (device) is different because of dissimilar obstacles in the direct signal path between the two devices. To accurately estimate the geographic location of a mobile device in TOA-based localization, we propose an optimized localization method with a BS selection scheme that selects three measured distances that contain a relatively small number of NLOS errors, in this paper. Performance evaluations are presented, and the experimental results are validated through comparisons of various localization methods with the proposed method.

• 월간산업보건
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• s.90
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• pp.2-8
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• 1995

원자 흡수 분광법과 용매 추출을 이용한 크롬의 정량분석 조건을 연구하였다. tertiary amine류 중 octy기를 갖는 trioctylamine(TOA)과 quaternary ammonium salt류 중 octy1 기를 갖는 trioctylmethylammonium chloride(TOMAC)가 음이온 교환기로 사용되었다. 또한 첨가되는 산의 종류와 산의 농도 변화에 따라서 원자흡수분광기를 이용하여 흡광도를 측정하였다. TOA사용시 염산의 농도가 0.1M-0.3M사이, TOMAC사용시 염산의 농도가 0.03M-0.1M사이에서 최대 흡광도를 나타내었다. 산이 첨가된 MIRK에 용해된 TOA나 TOMAC와 Cr과의 mole농도 비율이 1:1이상이 된 것이 최대 추출효율을 보았다. 추출과정을 검토한 결과, 본 실험에서 사용된 방법은 비슷한 다른 방법들과 비교하여 보면 크롬의 추출효율이 좋은 것으로 판명되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.757-766
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• 2013

This paper deals with the estimation of the time of arrival (TOA) of ultra-wideband signals under IEEE 802.15.4a channel models. The proposed approach is based on a randomness test and consists of determining whether an autoregressive (AR) process modeling an energy frame is random or not by using a distance to measure the randomness. The proposed method uses a threshold that is derived analytically according to a preset false alarm probability. To highlight the effectiveness of the developed approach, simulation setups as well as real data experiments are conducted to assess the performance of the new TOA estimation algorithm. Thereby, the proposed method is compared with the cell averaging constant false alarm rate technique, the threshold comparison algorithm, and the technique based on maximum energy selection with search back. The obtained results are promising, considering both simulations and collected real-life data.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.159-163
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new method to deinterleave multi-stage stagger PRI signals of pulse radars using the electronic intelligence systems. While former algorithms were based on hardware PRI tracker only using the first deviation of the TOA of radar signals, this paper uses the first and the second deviation of TOA of radar signals and uses the PRI histogram method to deinterleave multiple PRIs of pulse radars. This algorithm can be used for deinterleaving various PRI signals at electronic intelligence systems.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.152-156
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• 2010

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation is one of the challenges in radio positioning. Distinguishing the transmission status of the communication as line-of-sight (LOS) or NLOS is of great importance for the wireless communication systems. This paper focuses on the identification of NLOS based on time-of-arrival (TOA) distance estimates and the received signal strength (RSS) measurements. We set a path loss threshold based on the joint TOA and RSS based NLOS detection method to determine LOS or NLOS. Simulation results show that the proposed method ensures the correct of detection for the LOS condition and can improve the NLOS identification for the weak noise and long distance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.386-389
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• 2011

현재 실내 위치 인식 계산 알고리즘과 거리 측정 방법은 놀라울 정도로 다양하다. 그 중 거리를 측정하는 방법으로 마커를 이용한 방법과 RF(Radio Frequency)를 이용한 방법 등 여러 가지 방법들이 제안되었는데 본 논문에서는 사람이 이용하기 쉬운 RF를 이용한 위치 인식 성능 개선에 대해 다루고자 한다. RF 신호가 도달하는 시간을 이용하여 거리를 측정하는 TOA(Time of arrival) 방식을 사용하여 기준점과의 거리를 측정하고, 측정된 거리 값에 가중치를 이용해 장애물에 의한 오차를 보정하였다. 측정된 거리 값을 일정 개수를 모아 최빈값을 이용하여 정확도를 향상 시켰고 이를 통해 실내 좌표를 계산 하였다. 그리고 계산된 좌표 값에 칼만 필터를 적용하여 움직임을 보정하였다. 본 논문에서는 RF를 이용한 위치 인식 알고리즘을 제안하고 보정 전 데이터와 보정 후 데이터를 비교해 비컨 신호의 정확도를 확인하였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.962-967
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• 2006

Indoor positioning is highlighted recently, and various kinds of indoor positioning systems are under developments. Since positioning systems have their own characteristics, proper positioning scheme should be chosen according to the required specifications. Positioning methods are classified into time-based and angle-based one. This paper presents the error analysis of time-based and angle-based location methods. Because measurements of these methods are nonlinear, linearizations are needed in both cases to estimate the user position. In the linearization, Gauss-Newton method is used in both cases. To analyze the position error, we investigate the error ellipse parameters that include eccentricity, rotation angle, and the size of ellipse. Simulation results show that the major axes of TOA and AOA method lie in different quadrants at most region of workspace, especially where the geometry is poor. When the TOA/AOA hybrid is employed, it is found that the error ellipse is reduced to the intersection of ellipses of TOA and AOA.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.153-158
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• 2012

A new diversity combining scheme is proposed for time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation of chirp signal in dense multipath channel. In the multipath channel, the performance of TOA estimation using conventional correlation matrix-based diversity combining scheme is degraded due to the lack of de-correlation effect. To increase the de-correlation effect, the proposed diversity scheme employs interleaving method based on the property of de-chirped signal. As a result, the proposed scheme increases de-correlation effect and also reduces the noise of TOA estimation. Finally, the diversity achieved from the proposed scheme improves TOA estimation performance. The de-correlation effect is analyzed mathematically. The estimation accuracy of the proposed diversity scheme is superior to that of conventional diversity scheme in multipath channel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.273-273
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.269.1-269
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• 2001