• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.434-443
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• 2007

Presently, the exploration of an unknown environment is an important task for thee new generation of mobile service robots and mobile robots are navigated by means of a number of methods, using navigating systems such as the sonar-sensing system or the visual-sensing system. To fully utilize the strengths of both the sonar and visual sensing systems. This paper presents a technique for localization of a mobile robot using fusion data of multi-ultrasonic sensors and vision system. The mobile robot is designed for operating in a well-structured environment that can be represented by planes, edges, comers and cylinders in the view of structural features. In the case of ultrasonic sensors, these features have the range information in the form of the arc of a circle that is generally named as RCD(Region of Constant Depth). Localization is the continual provision of a knowledge of position which is deduced from it's a priori position estimation. The environment of a robot is modeled into a two dimensional grid map. we defines a vision-based environment recognition, phisically-based sonar sensor model and employs an extended Kalman filter to estimate position of the robot. The performance and simplicity of the approach is demonstrated with the results produced by sets of experiments using a mobile robot.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.123-128
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• 2006

This paper presents the design of a surveillance night vision system for marine ships. Both a hardware system and software modules for tracking control are developed. In order to control each control axis with compensation for ship motion, the two-degree of freedom(TDF) PID controller is designed and its parameters are tuned using a real-coded genetic algorithm(RCGA). Simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2310-2312
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• 2003

This paper describes a navigation system for an autonomous vehicle in outdoor environments. The vehicle uses vision system to detect coordinates and DGPS information to determine the vehicles initial position and orientation. The vision system detects coordinates in the environment by referring to an environment model. As the vehicle moves, it estimates its position by conventional DGPS data, and matches up the coordinates with the environment model in order to reduce the error in the vehicles position estimate. The vehicles initial position and orientation are calculated from the coordinate values of the first and second locations, which are acquired by DGPS. Subsequent orientations and positions are derived. Experimental results in real environments have showed the effectiveness of our proposed navigation methods and real-time methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2126-2131
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• 2006

This paper proposes an international trend and its implementation for an E-Navigation that can utilize of existing and new navigation tools, in particular electronic tools, in a holistic and systematic manner. IMO develops a broad strategy for incorporating the use of new technologies in a structured way to ensure that their use is compliant with the various electronic navigational and communication technologies and services that are already available. Implementation of this new strategic vision might require modifications to working methods and navigational tools, such as chats, bridge display equipment, electronic aids to navigation, communications and shore infrastructure. E-Navigation will reduce navigational accidents errors and failures by developing standards an accurate and cost effective system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.1-3
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• 2010

수중 무인항체(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, AUV)를 고정밀, 고위험 임무수행 분야에 이용하기 위해서는 연속적이고 정확한 항법정보를 제공하는 기술이 반드시 필요하다. 특히, 최근에는 항공분야에서 국내외적으로 연속적이고 정확한 항법정보를 제공하기 위하여 여러 가지 센서를 결합한 통합 항법시스템에 관한 연구가 활발하며, GPS나 음향장치를 관성센서와 통합하는 방법이 대표적이다. 하지만 수중 무인항체에 경우는 해수면 노출로 인한 탐사시간 장기화와 음향장치 설치 및 회수의 한계로 인하여 GPS나 음향장치 이외에 센서를 이용한 통합 항법시스템의 필요성이 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 자율성이 높으면서, 적은 비용으로 설치가 가능한 영상센서를 이용하여 항법성능을 효과적으로 증대시키는 Vision/INS 통합 항법을 제안한다. 제안한 통합 항법알고리즘은 외부표정요소 직접결정기법을 이용하여 영상 데이터로부터 항체의 위치와 자세를 추정하고, 추정된 결과를 INS의 추정치와 비교한다. 그리고 추정한 위치와 자세오차를 입력으로 칼만필터를 구동하도록 설계하였다. 모의실험을 통해 제안한 방법의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.51-60
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• 2007

This paper describes a visual tracking control law of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) for monitoring of structures and maintenance of bridges. It presents a control law based on computer vision for quasi-stationary flights above a planar target. The first part of the UAV's mission is the navigation from an initial position to a final position to define a desired trajectory in an unknown 3D environment. The proposed method uses the homography matrix computed from the visual information and derives, using backstepping techniques, an adaptive nonlinear tracking control law allowing the effective tracking and depth estimation. The depth represents the desired distance separating the camera from the target.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.187-193
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed the GPS position data correction method for autonomous land navigation using vanishing point property and a monocular vision system. Simulations are carried out over driving distances of approximately 60 km on the basis of realistic road data. On a straight road, the proposed method reduces GPS position error by at least 63% within 0.5 m. However, the average accuracy of the method is not presented, because it is difficult to estimate it on other than a straight road in variable conditions.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.971-982
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• 1989

An integrating position estimation algorithm has been developed for the navigation system of a free-ranging AGV system. The navigation system focused in this research work consists of redundant wheel encoders for the relative position measurement and a vision sensor for the absolute position measurement. A maximum likelihood method and an extended Kalman filter are implemented for enhancing the performance of the position estimator. The maximum likelihood estimator processes noisy, redundant wheel encoder measurements and yields efficient estimates for the AGV motion between each sampling interval. The extended Kalman filter fuses inharmonious positional data from the deadreckoner and the vision sensor and computes the optimal position estimate. The simulation results show that the proposed position estimator solves a generalized estimation problem for locating the vehicle accurately in space.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.33-40
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• 2005

This paper represents the stable path recognition by the ultrasonic sensor which gathers navigation environments and the monocular image sensor which generates the self localization information of mobile robot. The proposed ultrasonic sensor and vision camera system recognizes the target and extracts parameters for generating the world map and self localization. Therefore, this paper has developed an indoor mobile robot and has stably demonstrated in a corridor environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.30-39
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• 2008

An artificial vision aided NDGPS/INS system has been developed and tested in the dynamic environment of ground and flight vehicles to evaluate the overall system performance. The results show the significant advantages in position accuracy and situation awareness. Accuracy meets the CAT-I precision approach and landing using NDGPS/INS integration. Also we confirm the proposed system is effective enough to improve flight safety by using artificial vision. The system design, software algorithm, and flight test results are presented in details.