• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.75-88
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• 2009

이 연구의 목적은 선형화 과정이 필요 없는 Unscented 변환(Unscented Transformation)을 사용한 후처리 배치 알고리즘을 소개하고, 기존 최소자승법을 이용한 후처리 배치 필터와 반복 UKF 스무더(Iterative Unscented Kalman Filter Smoother)들과 비교하여 추정 방법 간의 성능비교와 장단점을 분석하는 것이다. 연구에 사용된 위성 궤도 결정시스템의 동역학 방정식은 지구의 비대칭 중력장의 영향, 대기항력, 태양복사압 및 달과 태양의 중력으로 구성되었다. 관측 데이터로는 지상국으로부터 측정한 위성의 거리, 방위각과 고도각이 사용되었다. 특히, 비선형성의 영향에 대한 추정 방법 간의 성능과 장단점의 비교를 위해 위성의 포기 궤도오차별, 관측데이터의 관측 잡음의 크기별 테스트를 수행하였다. 이 연구를 통해 소개된, 선형화 과정이 필요 없는 Unscented 변환 기반의 후처리 배치 필터는, 비선형성의 특징이 증대된 상황에서 기존의 후처리 배치 알고리즘들에 비해 초기 궤도오차별, 관측데이터 잡음의 크기별 테스트 시 평균적으로 각각 약 5%와 12%정도의 정밀도 향상결과를 보였다. 또한, 기존 최소자승법을 이용한 후처리 배치필터가 발산한 상황에서도, 수렴성을 확보하는 안정적인 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 그러므로 Unscented 변환 기반의 후처리 배치필터가 인공위성 궤도 결정 시스템에 효율적으로 사용할 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2010

영상 기반의 모션 캡처에 대한 연구는 인체의 특징 영역 검출, 정확한 자세 추정 및 실시간 성능 등의 문제를 풀기 위해 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히, 인체의 많은 관절 정보를 복원하기 위해 다양한 방법이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 수치적인 역운동학 방법의 단점을 개선한 실시간 모션 캡처 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 수치적인 역운동학 방법은 많은 반복 연산이 필요하며, 국부최소치 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 기존의 수치적인 역운동학 해법과 UKF를 결합하여 중간관절을 복원하는 방법을 제안한다. 수치적인 역운동학의 해와 UKF를 결합함으로써, 중간 관절 추정 시 최적값에 보다 안정적이고 빠른 수렴이 가능하다. 모션 캡처를 위해 먼저, 배경 차분과 피부색 검출 방법을 이용하여 인체의 특징 영역을 추출한다. 다수의 카메라로부터 추출된 2차원 인체 영역 정보로부터 3차원 정보를 복원하고, UKF와 결합된 수치적인 역운동학 해법을 통해 동작자의 중간 관절 정보를 추정한다. 수치적인 역운동학의 해는 UKF의 상태 추정 시 안정적인 방향을 제시하고, UKF는 다수의 샘플을 기반으로 최적 상태를 찾음으로써, 전역해에 보다 빠르게 수렴한다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.495-516
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• 2020

Nonlinear state estimation is a desirable and required technique for many situations in engineering (e.g., aircraft/spacecraft tracking, space situational awareness, collision warning, radar tracking, etc.). Due to high standards on performance in these applications, in the last few decades, there was an increasing demand for methods that are able to provide more accurate results. However, because of the mathematical complexity introduced by the nonlinearities of the models, the nonlinear state estimation uses techniques that, in practice, are not so well-established which, leads to sub-optimal results. It is important to take into account that each method will have advantages and limitations when facing specific environments. The main objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the most well-known methods for nonlinear state estimation with Gaussian priors. In particular, the Kalman filtering methods: EKF (Extended Kalman Filter), UKF (Unscented Kalman Filter), CKF (Cubature Kalman Filter) and EnKF (Ensemble Kalman Filter) with an aerospace perspective.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2013

This paper suggests a hybrid path planning method of multi-robots, where a path deviation prevention for maintaining a specific formation is implemented by using repulsive function, $A^*$ algorithm and UKF (Unscented Kalman Filter). The repulsive function in potential field method is used to avoid collision among robots and obstacles. $A^*$ algorithm helps the robots to find optimal path. In addition, error estimation based on UKF guarantees small path deviation of each robot during navigation. The simulation results show that the swarm robots with designated formation successfully avoid obstacles and return to the assigned formation effectively.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.58-68
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• 2009

The increased use of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) has led to the development of alternative navigational methods that do not employ acoustic beacons and dead reckoning sensors. This paper describes a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) scheme that uses range sonars mounted on a small UUV. A SLAM scheme is an alternative navigation method for measuring the environment through which the vehicle is passing and providing the relative position of the UUV. A technique for a SLAM algorithm that uses several ranging sonars is presented. This technique utilizes an unscented Kalman filter to estimate the locations of the UUV and surrounding objects. In order to work efficiently, the nearest neighbor standard filter is introduced as the data association algorithm in the SLAM for associating the stored targets returned by the sonar at each time step. The proposed SLAM algorithm was tested by experiments under various three degrees of freedom motion conditions. The results of these experiments showed that the proposed SLAM algorithm was capable of estimating the position of the UUV and the surrounding objects and demonstrated that the algorithm will perform well in various environments.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2006년 창립20주년기념 정기학술대회 및 국제워크샵
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• pp.339-346
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• 2006

Increased usage of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has led to the development of alternative navigational methods that do not employ the acoustic beacons and dead reckoning sensors. This paper describes a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) scheme that uses range sonars mounted on a small AUV. The SLAM is one of such alternative navigation methods for measuring the environment that the vehicle is passing through and providing relative position of AUV by processing the data from sonar measurements. A technique for SLAM algorithm which uses several ranging sonars is presented. This technique utilizes an unscented Kalman filter to estimate the locations of the AUV and objects. In order for the algorithm to work efficiently, the nearest neighbor standard filter is introduced as the algorithm of data association in the SLAM for associating the stored targets the sonar returns at each time step. The proposed SLAM algorithm is tested by simulations under various conditions. The results of the simulation show that the proposed SLAM algorithm is capable of estimating the position of the AUV and the object and demonstrates that the algorithm will perform well in various environments.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.285-291
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 간섭계 레이더 고도계를 활용한 지형참조항법의 성능을 분석하고자 한다. 간섭계 레이더 고도계는 항체의 주변 지형의 고도 중 가장 높은 값을 측정값으로 취함으로써 항법의 정확성을 향상시키고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 간섭계 레이더 고도계의 적용에 따른 새로운 측정 모델을 제시하고 이에 따른 지형참조항법 시스템을 구축하려 한다. 또한 필터에 따른 지형참조항법의 성능 분석을 위하여 확장형 칼만 필터, 무향 칼만 필터, 파티클 필터를 적용하며 여러 환경의 변화에 따른 지형참조항법의 성능을 도출고자 한다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.347-353
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• 2019

Electric-hydraulic sever cylinders are used in many offshore applications such as wind energy farms, solar farms and plants. Jack-up barges are often used for these offshore system operations. Jack-up barge control is up/down by hydraulic cylinder position control. Working in harsh environments can lead to changes in internal parameters. This nonlinearity makes precise control difficult. In order to overcome the problems, we proposed a method of unknown-parameter estimation algorithm based on measurements obtained by system. In this paper, we employee Unscented Kalman filter (UKF) to estimate states and unknown-parameter from augmented nonlinear equation. Performance of estimation results is verified in simulation on an environments of Matlab. The estimation results of the state and unknown-parameter show that the estimation error of unknown-parameter is reduced according to decreasing the state estimation error.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.579-588
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• 2016

To improve the ability to determine a vehicle's movement information even in a challenging environment, a hybrid approach called non-Gaussian square rootunscented particle filtering (nGSR-UPF) is presented. This approach combines a square root-unscented Kalman filter (SR-UKF) and a particle filter (PF) to determinate the vehicle state where measurement noises are taken as a finite Gaussian kernel mixture and are approximated using a sparse Gaussian kernel density estimation method. During an outage-free GPS period, the updated mean and covariance, computed using SR-UKF, are estimated based on a GPS observation update. During a complete GPS outage, nGSR-UPF operates in prediction mode. Indeed, because the inertial sensors used suffer from a large drift in this case, SR-UKF-based importance density is then responsible for shifting the weighted particles toward the high-likelihood regions to improve the accuracy of the vehicle state. The proposed method is compared with some existing estimation methods and the experiment results prove that nGSR-UPF is the most accurate during both outage-free and complete-outage GPS periods.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.108-117
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• 2020

This study proposes a robust range-only beacon mapping method for registering the locations of range-only beacons automatically. The proposed method deals with the multipath propagation of signals from range-only beacons using the range-only measurement association (RoMA) and an unscented Kalman filter (UKF). The RoMA initially predicts the candidate positions of a range-only beacon. The location of the range-only beacon is then updated using the UKF. With the proposed method, the locations of range-only beacons are accurately estimated in a multipath environment. The proposed method also provides the location uncertainty of each range-only beacon. Simulation results using the model for multipath propagation and experimental results in a real indoor environment verify the performance of the proposed method.