• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.76-84
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• 2008

This paper is mainly concerned with the vision-based attitude stabilization of a quad-rotor UAV. The methods for attitude control rely on computing the roll and pitch angles of the vehicle from a two-camera vision system. One camera is attached to the body-fixed x-axis and the other to the body-fixed y-axis. The attitude computation for the quad-rotor UAV is performed by image processing consisting of Canny edge and Hough line detection. A proportional and integral controller is employed for the attitude hold autopilot. In this paper, the quad-rotor UAV is modeled by 6-DOF nonlinear equations of motion that includes rotor aerodynamics with blade element theory. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated through 3D environmental numerical simulations.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.553-558
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• 2008

Advancement in information technology have enabled applying vision sensor to railway, such as CCTV. CCTV has been widely used in railway application, however the CCTV is a passive system that provide limited capability to maintain safety from boarding platform. The station employee should monitor continuously CCTV monitors. Therefore immediate recognition and response to the situation is difficultin emergency situation. Recently, urban transit operators are pursuing applying an unattended station operation system for their cost reduction. Therefore, an intelligent monitoring system is need for passenger's safety in railway. The paper proposes a vision based monitoring system and object detection algorithm for passenger's safety in railway platform. The proposed system automatically detects accident in platform and analyzes level of danger using image processing technology. The system uses stereo vision technology with multi-sensors for minimizing detection error in various railway platform conditions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2007

We designed and fabricated a vision chip for edge detection with a $160{\times}120$ pixel array by using 0.35 ${\mu}m$ standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The designed vision chip is based on a retinal structure with a resistive network to improve the speed of operation. To improve the quality of final edge images, we applied a saturating resistive circuit to the resistive network. The light-adaptation mechanism of the edge detection circuit was quantitatively analyzed using a simple model of the saturating resistive element. To verify improvement, we compared the simulation results of the proposed circuit to the results of previous circuits.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2007

This paper presents a new technique to implement the real-time recognition for shapes and model number of parts based on an active vision approach. The main focus of this paper is to apply a technique of 3D object recognition for non-contacting inspection of the shape and the external form state of precision parts based on the pattern recognition. In the field of computer vision, there have been many kinds of object recognition approaches. And most of these approaches focus on a method of recognition using a given input image (passive vision). It is, however, hard to recognize an object from model objects that have similar aspects each other. Recently, it has been perceived that an active vision is one of hopeful approaches to realize a robust object recognition system. The performance is illustrated by experiment for several parts and models.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.480-487
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• 2009

Autonomous Lane detection with vision is a difficult problem because of various road conditions, such as shadowy road surface, various light conditions, and the signs on the road. In this paper we propose a robust lane detection algorithm to overcome shadowy road problem using a statistical method. The algorithm is applied to the vision-based mobile robot system and the robot followed the lane with the lane following controller. In parallel with the lane following controller, the global position of the robot is estimated by the developed localization method to specify the locations where the lane is discontinued. The results of experiments, done in the region where the GPS measurement is unreliable, show good performance to detect and to follow the lane in complex conditions with shades, water marks, and so on.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.98-106
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• 2024

건설 기술과 해석 도구의 발전으로 인해 최근에는 점점 더 많은 사장교가 설계되고 건설되었다. 케이블은 사장교의 주요한 하중을 전달하는 부재이며 일반적으로 전체 교량 시스템의 상태를 반영하는 데 가장 중요한 역할을 한다. 이 연구에서는 원거리에 위치한 사장재 케이블의 장력을 추정하기 위하여 영상기반 방법을 적용하였다. 영상기반 방법을 이용하여 케이블의 응답을 측정하기 위해서는 케이블에 특이점 또는 타겟의 설치가 필요하다. 그러나 측정하고자 하는 지점의 위치에 따라 케이블에 특이점이 존재하지 않을 수 있으며 또한 케이블에 타겟의 설치가 어려울 수 있는 한계가 존재한다. 따라서 기존의 영상기반 방법의 한계를 극복하여 케이블 응답을 측정하는 방법이 필요하다. 이 연구에서는 케이블 형태의 특징을 이용하여 케이블 응답을 측정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 제시된 방법은 획득된 이미지에서 케이블 형태를 추출하였으며 추출된 케이블 형태의 중심을 산정하여 케이블 응답을 측정하였다. 측정된 응답을 이용하여 진동모드에 대한 고유진동수들을 추출하였으며 진동법에 적용하여 장력을 추정하였다. 영상기반 방법의 신뢰성을 확인하기 위해 공용 중인 화태대교에서 케이블 이미지를 상시진동 조건에서 획득하였다. 영상기반 방법을 이용하여 진동법에 적용하여 추정된 장력은 가속도 센서를 이용하여 추정된 장력과 1% 이내의 오차로 이 연구에서 제시된 방법의 신뢰성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(5)
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• pp.137-140
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• 2002

We introduce a personal identification method which can find user's ID without any help of the user. To do this, there has been two approaches, vision-based and pressure-based. Pressure-based approach has some advantages compared than vision-based one in the aspects of illumination, occlusion, and the amount of data. In the previous study about pressure-based personal identification, there are some restrictions about human body posture for extracting normalized footprints. Since this approach cannot be extended unconscious and continuos identification, we suppose more natural method and verified it by experiments.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.63-72
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• 2024

Vision is a process in which the brain and eyes collaborate to enable sight by analyzing light reflected from objects. Vision is also the most crucial among the five basic human senses for recognizing environments. The eyes contain 70% of the sensory receptors in the body, and 90% of the information processed by the brain is visual. Currently, approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide have vision impairments. A recent study estimated that the global economic productivity losses due to vision impairment and blindness amount to approximately $410 billion. Additionally, as people age, their ability to control their vision declines, leading to presbyopia, which typically starts in their 40s. Since people heavily rely on vision in their daily lives, vision problems can significantly reduce the quality of life. Approaches to solving vision problems can be broadly categorized into visual prostheses requiring surgery, sensory substitution based on neuroplasticity, and smart glasses for presbyopia. We present the trends and future development prospects for three key areas of research: visual prostheses, visual substitution technologies, and smart glasses technologies. These areas are being explored with the aim of addressing visual impairments and blindness.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 로봇 매니퓰레이터가 기준 궤적을 추종할 수 있도록 영상기반 강인제어기를 제안하였다. 카메라로부터 획득된 목표물의 특징점을 원하는 특징점 좌표로 로봇이 이동할 수 있도록 기준 궤적을 생성하고, 제어 입력에 포함되는 로봇 동역학부의 파라미터 불확실성을 보상하기 위한 강인제어기를 설계하였다. 또한 자코비안에 불확실성이 존재하는 경우 이를 보상하기 위한 제어 입력을 갖는 영상기반 강인제어기를 제안하였다. 시스템의 안정도는 Lyapunov 안정도 판별법을 이용하여 검증하였다. 5-링크 2 자유도의 로봇 매니퓰레이터를 대상으로 제안된 제어기를 적용한 모의실험과 실험을 통하여 제어 성능을 입증하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.373-384
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• 2007

For structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructures, displacement is a good descriptor of the structural behavior under all the potential disturbances. However, it is not easy to measure displacement of civil infrastructures, since the conventional sensors need a reference point, and inaccessibility to the reference point is sometimes caused by the geographic conditions, such as a highway or river under a bridge, which makes installation of measuring devices time-consuming and costly, if not impossible. To resolve this issue, a visionbased real-time displacement measurement system using digital image processing techniques is developed. The effectiveness of the proposed system was verified by comparing the load carrying capacities of a steel-plate girder bridge obtained from the conventional sensor and the present system. Further, to simultaneously measure multiple points, a synchronized vision-based system is developed using master/slave system with wireless data communication. For the purpose of verification, the measured displacement by a synchronized vision-based system was compared with the data measured by conventional contact-type sensors, linear variable differential transformers (LVDT) from a laboratory test.