• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.379-383
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• 2015

This paper presents an approach to detect object distance with the use of the recently developed low-cost Kinect sensor. The technique is based on Kinect color depth-image processing and can be used to design various computer-vision applications, such as object recognition, video surveillance, and autonomous path finding. The proposed technique uses keypoint feature detection in the Kinect depth image and advantages of depth pixels to directly obtain the feature distance in the depth images. This highly reduces the computational overhead and obtains the pixel distance in the Kinect captured images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.130.4-130
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• 2001

In this paper, a measurement system of moving distance is developed. The error compensation method is also proposed using the characteristics of walking motion. As personal navigation systems and multimedia systems are emerging into the commericial market, men´s moving distance is considered as one of the important information. GPS offers the information easily but GPS can be used only when the satellites are visible. INS can calculate the moving distance anywhere but error is increased with time due to the sensor bias. In this paper, to detect the human walking distance a measurement system of moving distance only using low-cost accelerometer is developed. The sensor bias is estimated and compensated using the walking motion characteristics. The performanced of the proposed system is verified by experiment.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.58-63
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed a wearable respiration measurement system with textile capacitive pressure sensor. Belt typed textile capacitive pressure sensor approach of respiration measurement, from which respiration signatures and rates can be derived in real-time for long-term monitoring, are presented. Belt typed textile capacitive pressure sensor has been developed for this measurement system. the distance change of two plates by the pressure of motion has been used for the respiration measurement in chest area. Respiration rates measured with the textile capacitive pressure sensor was compared with standard techniques on 8 human subjects. Accurate measurement of respiration rate with developed sensor system is shown. The data from the method comparison study is used to confirm theoretical estimates of change in capacitance by the distance change. The current version of respiratory rate detection system using textile capacitive pressure sensor can successfully measure respiration rate. It showed upper limit agreement of $3.7997{\times}10^{-7}$ RPM, and lower limit of agreement of $-3.8428{\times}10^{-7}$ RPM in Bland-Altman plot. From all subject, high correlation were shown(p<0.0001). The proposed measurement method could be used to monitor unconscious persons, avoiding the need to apply electrodes to the directly skin or other sensors in the correct position and to wire the subject to the monitor. Monitoring respiration using textile capacitive pressure sensor offers a promising possibility of convenient measurement of respiration rates. Especially, this technology offers a potentially inexpensive implementation that could extend applications to consumer home-healthcare and mobile-healthcare products. Further advances in the sensor design, system design and signal processing can increase the range and quality of the rate-finding, broadening the potential application areas of this technology.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.907-915
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 저가형 적외선 거리 센서의 성능을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 적외선 거리 센서는 반사광의 강도를 측정하여 거리로 환산한다. 제안하는 방법은 센서의 감지 거리를 개선하고 다양한 조명환경에서도 강인하게 동작하도록 한다. 이는 센서의 특성곡선을 추출하고 이를 바탕으로 HDR(High Dynamic Range) 기법을 적용함으로써 가능해졌다. 적외선 입력의 세기와 노출 시간을 다양하게 변화시켜서 센서의 출력값을 획득하였고 이로부터 센서의 특성곡선을 추출하였다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2017

In this paper, we have extended the research on the infrared sensor which has been limited to the plane. The reflection mechanism of the light on the curved surface is analyzed according to the curvature change and the emitted angle of photodiode and verified through experiments. The difference in the curvature causes a difference in the measurement distance, and also changes the intensity of the light coming into the phototransistor, thereby causing a difference in the output voltage. However, the difference in the output voltage due to the curvature change can be solved by adjusting the emitted angle of the photodiode to minimize the spot area formed on the curved surface regardless of the curvature. Therefore, it is possible to measure the distance by using the infrared sensor regardless of the curvature by aligning the photodiode to the center of the curved surface and adjusting the angle of the photodiode.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.78-81
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• 2004

A technical performance of the coating depends greatly on the thickness of painting film or coating film. Therefore the confirmed report of the technique to measure accurately is essential to the coating film thickness for the assessment about a coating quality performance. In this paper, two gap sensors - eddy current gap sensor and capacitance gap sensor - which has a different operating principle were used to measure the thickness of a nonmagnetic substance coating film such as paint, enamel or ceramic that was coated on the metallic material. A capacitance gap sensor was used to measure the distance between the sensor head and a coating film and an eddy current gap sensor to measure the distance between the sensor head and a base metal. Then the thickness of a coating film was obtained by the difference of two measurement value. At this result, the suggested dual sensor can measure an arbitrary film thickness to be coated on a base metal as the measurement value of coating thickness exists accurately within the 2％ error.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2009

IT기술의 발전과 함께 유비쿼터스 (Ubiquitous)환경이 도래하여, 무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless Sensor Networks)기반 연구가 다방면에서 활발히 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크에서 센서간 거리를 전방위로 측정할 수 있는 간단한 방안에 대해 제안한다. 그리고 이를 직접 설계하고 구현하여 실험을 통해 검증해 본다. 전방향성 장치를 이용하면 거리 측정 최대 거리는 줄어드는 단점이 있지만 $360^{\circ}$ 방향을 측정 할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 실제 환경에서 실험을 통하여 전방향성 장치가 존재할 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우에 대하여 초음파를 통한 거리측정 방식의 누락율 및 정확도를 분석해 본다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.53.2-53
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• 2001

The Non-Contact Optical Sensor using the Hologram Laser for CD Pickup was developed to measure a shape of transparent objects and shown a good performance. Therefore the problems caused by the contact sensor are solved by using the Non-Contact Sensor. The Non-Contact Sensor has to move toward the objects and obtain the Focus Error Signal to measure a position of transparent objects. However, if the distance between the sensor and the object is shorter than the working distance of the objective lens, the sensor will be collided against the objects. In this paper we proposed a new algorithm to estimate the start position of the Focus Error Signal to solve the problems of collision between the sensor and the objects. In addition, we verified that the algorithm is free from the collision in the real time measurement.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.1237-1242
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• 2017

컴퓨터 비전은 인공 지능 기술을 통해 인간의 시각 시스템을 모방해 주변 환경을 보다 정확하게 인식하는 새로운 이미지 센서 기능으로 각광받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사물감지 및 거리측정 기능이 있는 새로운 깊이 센서인 키넥트(Kinect) 카메라를 통해, 무인 또는 유인 차량, 로봇 및 드론 등을 위한 컴퓨터 비전의 가장 중요한 기능들을 대상으로 시험을 진행하였다. 키넥트 카메라를 통해 시야 내에 있는 사물의 자리 또는 위치를 예측하고, 실제 사물이 아닌 픽셀을 무시해 처리 시간을 줄일 수 있도록 감지한 사물이 실제 사물인지 확인하여 깊이 센터를 통해 정확하게 거리를 측정한다. 실험 결과, 해당 거리센서는 좋은 결과를 나타냈으며, 추가 프로세싱을 위한 컴퓨터 비전 어플리케이션의 핵심 기능인 사물감지와 거리측정에 키넥트 카메라를 사용한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2011

This paper reveals a distance estimation algorithm based on multi-code ultrasonic and wireless sensor network. For measuring the distances among the sensor nodes, each ultrasonic transmitter transmits multi-code ultrasonic signal simultaneously. Receivers use cross correlation method to separate the coded signals. The information of measured distances is broadcasted to each sensor node by wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network measures the distance among the sensor nodes using the received signal strength of the broadcasting. The multi-code ultrasonic have a limitation of measurable distance. And the received signal strength is affected from an environment. This paper measures a distance using ultrasonic and a received signal strength in short range. These measured data are applied to the least square estimation algorithm. By the expansion of the fitting curve, a distance measurement in long range using the received signal strength is compensated. The coupled system reduce the error to an acceptable level.