• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.183-192
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• 2003

Obstacle detection and avoidance are considered as one of the key technologies on an unmanned vehicle system. In this paper, we propose a method of obstacle detection and avoidance and it is composed of vehicle control, modeling, and sensor experiments. Obstacle detection and avoidance consist of two parts: one is longitudinal control system for acceleration and deceleration and the other is lateral control system for steering control. Each system is used for unmanned vehicle control, which notes its location, recognizes obstacles surrounding it, and makes a decision how fast to proceed according to circumstances. During the operation, the control system of the vehicle can detect obstacles and perform obstacle avoidance on the road, which involves vehicle velocity. In this paper, we propose a method for vehicle control, modeling, and obstacle avoidance, which are evaluated through road tests.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.21-43
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• 2016

A conditional probability based approach known as Particle Filter Method (PFM) is a powerful tool for system parameter identification. In this paper, PFM has been applied to identify the vehicle parameters based on response statistics of the bridge. The flexibility of vehicle model has been considered in the formulation of bridge-vehicle interaction dynamics. The random unevenness of bridge has been idealized as non homogeneous random process in space. The simulated response has been contaminated with artificial noise to reflect the field condition. The performance of the identification system has been examined for various measurement location, vehicle velocity, bridge surface roughness factor, noise level and assumption of prior probability density. Identified vehicle parameters are found reasonably accurate and reconstructed interactive force time history with identified parameters closely matches with the simulated results. The study also reveals that crude assumption of prior probability density function does not end up with an incorrect estimate of parameters except requiring longer time for the iterative process to converge.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2010

본 연구는 LBS(Location Based Service) 기반에 5.8-5.9Ghz RSU를 이용한 실시간 교통 시스템(RTS)에 관한 연구이다. 제안된 LBI(Location based Broadcast system on ITS)는 방송국 T-DMB 시스템과 ITS 기반 실시간 교통 시스템을 융합하고, 노변기지국(RSU:Road Side Unit)을 중심으로 제공되는 운전자를 위한 지역정보 기반 서비스이다. 본 방송국과 ITS의 융합은 IP기반 양방향 통신은 IP 기반으로 이루어지며, RSU를 이용하여 차량 위치의 파악을 통한 LBS(Location Based Service)를 제공한다. 지역 매크로 관리자(LMM)과 지역 방송국과 상호 정보 교환으로 정보 전달의 실시간성과 서비스의 다양성을 제공할 수 있었다. 기존 실시간 교통시스템에서 전송 범위(transmission area)의 한계와 기존 T-DMB의 단방향 서비스 문제를 상호 보완하였다. 이를 통해 개별 운전자의 실시간 양방향 서비스를 제공할 수 있었다. 또한 운전자들에게 실시간 교통 및 지역정보를 제공함으로써 분산효과와 서비스 확대를 제시하였다. 마지막으로 연구소 주변에 테스트 베드 구축과 구현으로 검증하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2014

Location awareness is one of the key functions to build an U-city. Recently, many of works for the location-aware systems are emerging to be applied to on-going large-scale apartment complex. For example, when dwellers or cars with active tags are move in the apartment complex, the active tags broadcast their own identifiers periodically and receivers such that routers use this information to calculate the location of the active tags. Since the active tags can actually move between routers and coordinators, it requires a hand-off mechanism. In this paper, we investigate the hand-off problem occurred in location awareness system based on ZigBee active tags. We propose and analyze a new approach for handling the hand-off problem. Through a mathematical analysis, we show that our approach diminishes the quantity of packet transfer than ZigBee's approach.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.391-407
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• 2019

Tracking the location (position) of a surface or underwater marine vehicle is important as part of guidance and navigation. While the Global Positioning System (GPS) works well in an open sea environment but its use is limited whenever testing scaled-down models of such vehicles in the laboratory environment. This paper presents the design, development and implementation of a low energy ultrasonic augmented single beacon-based localization technique suitable for such requirements. The strategy consists of applying Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) to achieve location tracking from basic dynamic distance measurements of the moving model from a fixed beacon, while on-board motion sensor measures heading angle and velocity. Iterative application of the Extended Kalman Filter yields x and y co-ordinate positions of the moving model. Tests performed on a free-running ship model in a wave basin facility of dimension 30 m by 30 m by 3 m water depth validate the proposed model. The test results show quick convergence with an error of few centimeters in the estimated position of the ship model. The proposed technique has application in the real field scenario by replacing the ultrasonic sensor with industrial grade long range acoustic modem. As compared with the existing systems such as LBL, SBL, USBL and others localization techniques, the proposed technique can save deployment cost and also cut the cost on number of acoustic modems involved.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.218-219
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• 2006

This paper is about modeling on 1500V DC electric railroad system. Electric railroad systems have peculiar characteristics against other electric system. The characteristics arc that the railroad systems have electric vehicle loads which are power-varying and location-varying with time. Because of this load characteristic, the electric railroad system modeling which reflects its own characteristics on EMTDC simulation could not be achieved. However, to reflect load characteristic on EMTDC, this paper suggests electric railroad system modeling by using TPS (Train Performance Simulator) that was developed in Korea Railroad Research Institute. A TPS program has various kinds of input data, such as operation condition, vehicle condition, and power system condition. By these data, TPS calculates mechanical power consumption and location, especially it decide electric power consumption on the basis of the fact that consumed electric and mechanical power are equal. Moreover, on this paper, movement of vehicle is reflected on EMTDC simulation as variation of feeder impedance. Also, an electric vehicle load is modeled as time-varying constant power load model.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.97-103
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• 2005

Most car navigation systems(CNS) estimate the vehicle's location using global positioning system(GPS) or dead reckoning(DR) system. However, the estimated location has undesirable errors because of various noise sources such as unpredictable GPS noises. As a result, the measured position is not lying on the road, although the vehicle is known to be restricted on the road network. The purpose of map matching is to locate the vehicle's position on the road network where the vehicle is most likely to be positioned. In this paper, we analyze some general map matching algorithms first. Then, we propose a map matching method using compensation vectors to improve the performance of map matching. The proposed method calculates a compensation vector from the discrepancy between a measured position and an estimated position. The compensation vector and a newly measured position are to be used to determine the next estimation. To show the performance improvement of the map matching using compensation vectors, the real time map matching experiments are performed. The real road experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed map matching.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제11D권6호
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• pp.1239-1246
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• 2004

인터넷 기반의 광역화 물류환경인 e-Logistics에서 요구하는 가시성을 충족하기 위해서는 지역별 전자지도 및 차량 위치정보에 대한 공유와 통합이 필수적이다. 기존의 대부분의 차량관제시스템들은 독자적인 체계를 중심으로 구축되었기 때문에 정보의 공유와 통합을 위해서는 막대한 비용이 필요하다. 이를 효과적으로 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 XML 엔코딩 표준인 GML을 이용하여 이동체 위치정보와 지도정보의 프리젠테이션을 위한 컴포넌트 기반의 개방형 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 아울러 e-Logistics 환경의 배송 시나리오를 통한 실험을 통해 확장성 및 상호 운용성에 대한 우수성을 확인하였다.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2021

The number of big traffic accident cases of pedestrian death appeared to be minor, however compared to death rate in car to car accidents is very high and quite a few of the pedestrian death rates among all traffic accidents are counted to be almost 40%. Previous pedestrian safety studies were mostly aimed at reducing the degree of pedestrian injuries from a vehicle to pedestrian collision, and less at preventing a collision itself. This research was conducted with a method of using road facilities to prevent vehicles from rushing into the sidewalk. This research used one of the collision analyzing programs, called PC-Crash to simulate the vehicle rushing into the sidewalk. Based on the program, it could derive an optimal safe zone location where the pedestrian can wait for the pedestrian light safely. Also, changing road facilities such as pedestrian light pillars or signal controllers can widen 440% compared to the present safe zone. Accordingly, researchers have to consider a method to analyze and apply pedestrian safe zones along with road facilities location when designing a road.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 2000년도 춘계공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.5-8
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• 2000

Vehicle travel time (empty travel time pius loaded travel time) is a key parameter for designing AGV-based material handling systems. Especially, the determination of empty vehicle travel time is difficult because of the stochastic nature of the empty vehicle locations. This paper presents a method to estimate vehicle travel times for AGV-based material transport systems. The model considers probabilistic aspects for the travel time and vehicle location under random vehicle selection rule and nearest vehicle selection rule. The estimation of empty travel time is of major effort. Simulation experiments are used to verify the proposed travel time model, and the simulation results show that the presented model provides reasonable travel time estimations.