• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2020

최근 드론의 활용 분야가 다양해짐에 따라 측량뿐만 아니라 수색 및 구조 작업에서도 활발하게 사용되고 있다. 이러한 활용분야에서는 목표물의 위치나 UAV의 위치를 파악하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 논문은 드론에서 촬영한 이미지를 이용한 목표물 탐지 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 드론이 촬영한 이미지를 찾고자 하는 이미지와 비교하여 목표물의 위치를 찾아 해당 목표물의 위경도 정보를 계산한다. 목표물의 정확한 위경도 정보는 핀홀 카메라의 특성을 이용하여 이미지 영상의 거리에 상응하는 실제 거리를 계산하여 위경도를 계산한다. 실제 실험을 통해 제안하는 방법을 이용하여 목표물의 위경도 위치를 정확하게 파악할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2016

An integrated display software platform for small UAV is developed based on parallel processing technique in this paper. When the small UAV with high-performance camera and avionic modules is employed to various surveillance-related missions, it is important to reduce the operator's workload and increase the monitoring efficiency. For this purpose, it is needed to develop an efficient monitoring software enable to manipulate the image and flight data obtained during flight within the given processing time and display them simultaneously. In this paper, we set up requirements and suggest the architecture for the software platform. The integrated software platform is implemented with parallel processing scheme. Based on AR drone, we verified that the various data are concurrently displayed by the suggest software platform.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.321-328
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• 2018

This paper presents an automatic target tracking flight system using a PID controller based on velocity command of a multirotor UAV. The automatic flight system includes marker based onboard target detection and an automatic velocity command generation replacing manual controller. A quad-rotor UAV is equipped with a camera and an image processing computer to detect the marker in real time and to estimate the relative distance from the target. The marker tracking system consists of PID controller and generates velocity command based on the relative distance. The generated velocity command is used as the input of the UAV's original flight controller. The operation of the proposed system was verified through actual flight tests using a marker on top of a moving vehicle and tracks it to successfully demonstrate its capability using a quad-rotor UAV.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2019

전 세계적으로 지구온난화현상이 심화되고 있으며, 특히 우리나라의 경우 급격한 산업 발전 등으로 인해 도시화가 진행되면서 도시열섬현상까지 발생되고 있다. 이렇게 도시의 온도가 상승하게 되면 주거 생활의 쾌적성 및 냉방부하와 같은 문제 등을 야기한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제를 줄이기 위해 지붕 색상에 따른 쿨루프 성능 평가를 진행하였으며, 기존의 평지붕 축소 모형, 손잡이 형태의 열화상 카메라 또는 레이저 온도계를 이용하지 않고, 실제 건물과 UAV에 열적외선 카메라를 장착하여 원격탐사 기법으로 옥상 색상 (흰색, 회색, 초록색, 청색, 갈색, 검은색)에 따른 표면 온도를 취득하였다. 그 결과 흰색을 적용한 표면 온도가 다른 색상보다 11도에서 20도 낮게 나타났으며, 에어컨의 실내 온도와 디지털 온도계의 실내 온도 또한 흰색의 색상이 다른 색상보다 약 1.5도에서 4.4도, 약 1.5도에서 3.5도 낮게 측정되었다. 이를 통해 흰색이 쿨루프 성능이 가장 좋음을 확인할 수 있었으며, UAV와 열적외선 카메라를 통해 기존 다른 연구에서 사용했던 방법보다 신속하고, 편리하게 쿨루프 성능 평가가 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2015

Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are getting popular not only as a private usage for the aerial photograph but military usage for the surveillance, reconnaissance and supply missions. For an UAV to successfully achieve these kind of missions, geolocation (localization) must be implied to track an interested target or fly by reference. In this research, we adopted multi-sensor fusion (MSF) algorithm to increase the accuracy of the geolocation and verified the algorithm using two multicopter UAVs. One UAV is equipped with an optical camera, and another UAV is equipped with an optical camera and a laser range finder. Throughout the experiment, we have obtained measurements about a fixed ground target and estimated the target position by a series of coordinate transformations and sequential Kalman filter. The result showed that the MSF has better performance in estimating target location than the case of using single sensor. Moreover, the experimental result implied that multi-sensor geolocation algorithm is able to have further improvements in localization accuracy and feasibility of other complicated applications such as moving target tracking and multiple target tracking.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.450-456
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• 2013

This paper suggests the target tracking method improved for the collaboration of the quad rotor type UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and omnidirectional Unmanned Ground Vehicle. If UAV shakes or UGV moves rapidly, the existing method generates a phenomenon that the tracking object loses the tracking target. To solve the problems, we propose an algorithm that can track continually when they lose the target. The proposed algorithm stores the vector of the landmark. And if the target was lost, the control signal was inputted so that the landmark could move continuously to the direction running out. Prior to the experiment, Proportional and integral control were used in 4 motors in order to calibrate the Heading value of the omnidirectional mobile robot. The landmark of UGV was recognized as the camera adhered to UAV and the target was traced through the proportional-integral-derivative control. Finally, the performance of the target tracking controller and proposed algorithm was evaluated through the experiment.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2017년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.42-42
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• 2017

Prediction of rice yield during a growing season would be very helpful to magnify rice yield as it also allows better farm practices to maximize yield with greater profit and lesser costs. UAV imagery based automatic detection of rice can be a relevant solution for early prediction of yield. So, we propose an image processing technique to predict rice yield using low altitude UAV images. We proposed $L^*a^*b^*$ color space based image segmentation algorithm. All images were captured using UAV mounted RGB camera. The proposed algorithm was developed to find out rice grain area from the image background. We took RGB image and applied filter to remove noise and converted RGB image to $L^*a^*b^*$ color space. All color information contain in both $a^*$ and $b^*$ layers and by using k-mean clustering classification of these colors were executed. Variation between two colors can be measured and labelling of pixels was completed by cluster index. Image was finally segmented using color. The proposed method showed that rice grain could be segmented and we can recognize rice grains from the UAV images. We can analyze grain areas and by estimating area and volume we could predict rice yield.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.409-421
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• 2017

Recently Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology offers new opportunities for assessing crop growth condition using UAV imagery. The objective of this study was to select optimal vegetation indices and regression model for estimating of rice growth using UAV images. This study was conducted using a fixed-wing UAV (Model : Ebee) with Cannon S110 and Cannon IXUS camera during farming season in 2016 on the experiment field of National Institute of Crop Science. Before heading stage of rice, there were strong relationships between rice growth parameters (plant height, dry weight and LAI (Leaf Area Index)) and NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) using natural exponential function ($R{\geq}0.97$). After heading stage, there were strong relationships between rice dry weight and NDVI, gNDVI (green NDVI), RVI (Ratio Vegetation Index), CI-G (Chlorophyll Index-Green) using quadratic function ($R{\leq}-0.98$). There were no apparent relationships between rice growth parameters and vegetation indices using only Red-Green-Blue band images.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2015

최근 무인항공기(UAV : Unmaned Aerial Vehicle)는 신속하고 정확하게 3차원 공간정보를 구축하는 새로운 기술로 다양한 분야에서 연구와 활용이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 무인항공기는 위성측량이나 기존 항공측량에 비해 경제적이며 5cm급 이하의 고해상도 영상을 편리하게 취득할 수 있다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 무인항공기와 비측량용 디지털 카메라를 이용하여 3차원 공간정보의 제작 가능성과 기존 수치사진측량 시스템과의 호환성 분석을 위하여 무인항공기 전용 S/W 및 DPW(Digital Photogrammetry Workstation)를 이용해 성과품인 수치표고모델과 정사영상을 제작하고 정확도 분석을 수행하였다. UAV 전용 S/W와 DPW로 제작된 수치표고모델과 정사영상의 정확도 분석 결과 UAV 자료와 기존 수치사진측량 시스템과의 호환성은 낮은 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2013

In this paper, we present a framework for collision avoidance of UGVs by vision-based control. On the image plane which is created by perspective camera rigidly attached to UAV hovering stationarily, image features of UGVs are to be controlled by our control framework so that they proceed to desired locations while avoiding collision. UGVs are assumed as unicycle wheeled mobile robots with nonholonomic constraint and they follow the image feature's movement on the ground plane with low-level controller. We used potential function method to guarantee collision prevention, and showed its stability. Simulation results are presented to validate capability and stability of the proposed framework.