• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.70-76
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• 2013

Recently, the performance and function of electrical and electronic system in automotive vehicles is developing at a rapid rate with the advancement of IT technologies. Combined together with micro-controller and sensor technologies, the Vehicle Smart System (VSS) being developed to improve driver's convenience and comfort has been employed to a variety of applications. In addition to the convenience system, the Auto-parking Assistance System (AAS) that is now attracting a new attention has been already applied to some vehicles, but it is currently limited to luxury car models only. In this paper, we present a fuzzy controller that enables autonomous parking assistance without the AAS. The controller can perform the assistance with information provided from moving status, current position and steering angle as one is able to park a car based on his/her experience and knowledge for driving and parking. We have evaluated its performance of the proposed controller by simulation and tested the excellence of the controller by building a model vehicle embedded with the micro-controllers.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2012

본 논문은 시각적 랜드마크를 제안하고, 이를 이용한 주차 보조 시스템을 보인다. 시각적 랜드마크는 주차 박스에 해당하는 특징으로 주차장의 환경을 고려하여 선택한다. 주차장은 두드러진 특징이 없는 단순한 모양이 반복되는 패턴을 가지는 환경으로, 기존 랜드마크는 주차장 환경에 사용하기 적당하지 못하다. 본 논문에서는 이런 주차장 환경에 맞는 랜드마크를 제안한다. 우리는 제안한 랜드마크를 사용하여 자동차의 위치를 추정하고, 현재 자동차 상태에 따른 자동차의 궤적을 예측한다. 시스템의 입력은 자동차에 장착된 카메라 한 대에서 촬영한 영상이다. 이 영상으로 자동차의 위치를 추정하고, 현재 바퀴 상태를 사용해 자동차가 주차장의 어디로 움직일 지를 보여주는 방식으로 운전자를 보조한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 시각적 랜드마크의 성능과 이를 사용한 주차 보조 시스템의 성능을 보였다.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.127-140
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• 2014

This work presents an IR-based system for parking assistance and obstacle detection in the automotive field that employs the Microsoft Kinect camera for fast 3D point cloud reconstruction. In contrast to previous research that attempts to explicitly identify obstacles, the proposed system aims to detect "reachable regions" of the environment, i.e., those regions where the vehicle can drive to from its current position. A user-friendly 2D traversability grid of cells is generated and used as a visual aid for parking assistance. Given a raw 3D point cloud, first each point is mapped into individual cells, then, the elevation information is used within a graph-based algorithm to label a given cell as traversable or non-traversable. Following this rationale, positive and negative obstacles, as well as unknown regions can be implicitly detected. Additionally, no flat-world assumption is required. Experimental results, obtained from the system in typical parking scenarios, are presented showing its effectiveness for scene interpretation and detection of several types of obstacle.

• 한국인공지능학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2021

In this paper, for efficient parking control, in an Arduino environment, an intelligent parking control prototype was implemented to provide parking control and parking guidance information using HC-SR2O4 and RC522. The main elements of intelligent parking control are vehicle recognition sensors, parking control facilities, and integrated operating software. Whether the vehicle is parked on the parking surface may be confirmed through sensor or intelligent camera image analysis. Parking control equipment products include parking guidance and parking available display devices, vehicle number recognition cameras, and intelligent parking assistance systems. This paper applies and implements ultrasonic sensors and RFID concepts based on Arduino, recognizes registered vehicles, and displays empty spaces. When a vehicle enters a parking space to handle this function, the automatic parking management system distinguishes the registered vehicle from the external vehicle through the RC522 sensor. In addition, after checking whether the parking slot is empty, the HC-SR204 sensor is displayed through the LED so that the driver can visually check it. RFID is designed to check the parking status of the server in real time and provide the driver with optimal route service to the parking slot.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.591-598
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• 2016

자동차 운행에 있어서 최종적인 단계는 주차로 마무리 되는데, 특히 운전을 처음 배우는 사람들이 가장 어려워하며, 협소한 주차공간에서의 주차는 초보자뿐만 아니라 일반 운전자도 편하지는 않다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 주차 조향 보조 시스템, 자동 항속 제어 시스템 등이 개발되어 운전자의 편의성을 향상시키고 있고, 초음파, 카메라, 열화상 카메라 또는 레이더 등을 이용하여 운전자에게 주변 환경을 보다 정확하게 인지할 수 있도록 주차 보조 시스템이 개발되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 카메라 위치가 차량 후면 어느 곳에 위치하든 중앙부에 위치했을 때와 동일하게 영상을 처리할 수 있도록 후진 회전 반경 식을 제안하고, 실차 검증을 통해 주차 가이드라인을 생성하고자 한다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2015

Recent developments in robotics and intelligent vehicle area, bring interests of people in an autonomous driving ability and advanced driving assistance system. Especially fully automatic parking ability is one of the key issues of intelligent vehicles, and accurate parked vehicles detection is essential for this issue. In previous researches, many types of sensors are used for detecting vehicles, 2D LiDAR is popular since it offers accurate range information without preprocessing. The L shape feature is most popular 2D feature for vehicle detection, however it has an ambiguity on different objects such as building, bushes and this occurs misdetection problem. Therefore we propose the accurate vehicle detection method by using a 3D complete vehicle model in 3D point clouds acquired from front inclined 2D LiDAR. The proposed method is decomposed into two steps: vehicle candidate extraction, vehicle detection. By combination of L shape feature and point clouds segmentation, we extract the objects which are highly related to vehicles and apply 3D model to detect vehicles accurately. The method guarantees high detection performance and gives plentiful information for autonomous parking. To evaluate the method, we use various parking situation in complex urban scene data. Experimental results shows the qualitative and quantitative performance efficiently.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2011

FMCW Radar sensor is commonly used for an automobile collision avoidance system for rider's safe. Systems using FMCW radar, however, would be one of expensive solutions for just simple rear obstacle detection purpose due to its high cost. In this letter, a short range rear obstacle detector using novel 24GHz AM radar sensor is presented. It can be implemented at significantly lower cost than FMCW radar for practical commercialization. The proposed AM radar sensor module is fabricated in a single aluminum housing to reduce the overall size while using single power supply voltage of 12V with 1200mA current for automotive applications. The measured detection range is up to 210cm with 10cm of distance resolution, which is suitable for a parking assistance system for automobiles.

• Advances in Automotive Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2018

In this study an economical image stitching algorithm for use in automotive industry is developed for retrofittable panoramic image assistance applications. The aim of this project is to develop a driving assistance system known as Panoramic Parking Assistance (PPA) which is cheap, retrofittable and compatible for every type of automobiles. PPA generates bird's eye view image using cameras installed on the automobiles. Image stitching requires to get bird's eye view position of the vehicle. Panoramic images are wide area images that cannot be available by taking one shot, attained by stitching the overlapping areas. To achieve correct stitching many algorithms are used. This study includes some type of these algorithms and presents a simple one that is economical and practical. Firstly, the mathematical model of a wide view of angle camera is provided. Then distorted image correction is performed. Stitching is implemented by using the SIFT and SURF algorithms. It has been seen that using such algorithms requires complex image processing knowledge and implementation of high quality digital processors, which would be impracticle and costly for automobile use. Thus a simpler algorithm has been developed to decrase the complexity. The proposed algorithm uses one matching point for every couple of images and has ease of use and does not need high power processors. To show the efficiency, images coming from four distinct cameras are stitched by using the algorithm developed for the study and usability for automotive application is analyzed.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.537-544
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• 2022

전기차 보급률이 높아지며 신규 모델 개발이 증가하면서, 전기차의 인포테인먼트 서비스를 위한 커넥티비티 시스템 설계에서 사용자 경험 요인이 더 중요해지고 있다. 이 연구의 목적은 한국과 미국 전기자동차 시장에서 커넥티비티 시스템의 사용자 경험 요인들을 비교하여 공통점과 차이점을 밝혀내는 것이다. 각 국가에서 시판중인 차량 소개자료를 텍스트 마이닝하여 커넥티비티 관련 키워드를 도출하고, 의미연결망 분석 방법을 활용하여 중앙도, 군집 분석, 시각화 매핑을 시행하였다. 분석 결과, 한국 브랜드의 신규 전기차 커넥티비티 서비스는 주로 주행, 주차 보조, 충전과 같은 운전 행위 관련된 기능 위주의 키위드가 핵심 요인으로 도출되었고, 미국은 디바이스 연결, 편의 기능 조절, 앱 사용, 엔터테인먼트 감상 등 부가 행위에 대한 경험 위주의 키워드가 부각되었다. 분석 결과를 기반으로 마케팅, 시스템 설계, HMI 디자인 부분에서의 실무적 함의를 제시하였다.