• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.822-825
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• 1999

This paper compares two methods of GPS/INS integration ; tightly-coupled integration ana loosely-coupled integration. In the tightly -coupled method an integrated Kalman filter is designed to process raw GPS measurement data for state update and INS data for propagation. The loosely-coupled integration method uses the solution outputs from a stand-alone GPS receiver for update. The loosely-coupled method is simpler and can readily be applied to off-the-self receivers and sensors while the tightly-coupled integration requires access to raw measurement mechanism of the receiver. Simulation result show that the tightly-coupled integration system exhibits better performance and robustness than loosely-coupled integration method.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.688-695
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• 2005

The aim of this study is to develop a procedure to estimate the wind loads from the accelerations of a tall building structure. The wind loads may be directly calculated using the inverse analysis or simply integrating the wind pressures of the overall structure. But, these methods are too expensive and impossible to implement in some cases. In this study, a simple method is proposed to estimate the wind loads using the Kalman filter. This method is very stable compared to the direct integration of the acceleration to get the velocity or displacement. The proposed method is verified thorough numerical analysis, and results show that the proposed method is robust and estimates the wind loads accurately.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.302-309
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• 2002

This paper presents a technique for localization of a mobile robot using sonar sensors. Localization is the continual provision of knowledges of position that are deduced from its a priori position estimation. The environment of a robot is modeled by a two-dimensional grid map. We define a physically based sonar sensor model and employ an extended Kalman filter to estimate positions of the robot. Since the approach does not rely on an exact geometric model of an object, it is very simple and offers sufficient generality such that integration with concurrent mapping and localizing can be achieved without major modifications. The performance and simplicity of the approach are demonstrated with the results produced by sets of experiments using a mobile robot equipped with sonar sensors.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.67-77
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• 2001

In recent navigation system, the profitable solution is to integrate the GPS and Stapdwon INS (SDINS) system and its integration allows compensation for shortcomings of each system. This paper describes the hardware preparation and presents the test results obtained from the automobile test of the developed system. The automobile tests was conducted with two kinds of inertial sensors and GPS receivers : short range and middle range test, to verify and evaluate the performance of the integrated navigation system. The reference of position is given by the Differential GPS(DGPS) which has cm-level accuracy to compare the accuracy of system. Kalman filtering is used for integrating GPS and SDINS and this filter effectively allows the long-term stability of GPS to correct and decrease the time deviation error of SDINS.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2001

The Global Positioning System(GPS) and the Strapdown Inertial Navigation System(SDINS) techniques have been widely utilized in many applications. However each system has its own weak point when used in a stand-alone mode. SDINS suffers from fast error accumulation dependent on an operating time while GPS has problem of cycle slips and just provides low update rate. The best solution is to integrate the GPS and SDINS system and its integration allows compensation for each shortcomings. This paper, first, is to define and derive error equations of integrated SDINS/GPS system before it will be applied on a real hardware system with gyro, accelerometer and GPS receiver. Second, the accuracy, availability and performance of this mechanization are verified on the simulation study.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.75-75
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• 2000

Recently, number of navigation system using GPS and other complementary sensors has been developed to offer high-position accuracy. In this paper, an integration of GPS and Dead-Reckoning, which consists of a fiber optical gyroscope and two high-precision wheel-motor encoders for a unmanned navigation system, is presented. The main objective of this integrated GPS/DR unmanned navigation system is to provide accurate position and heading navigation data continuously for autonomous mobile robot. We propose a method for increasing the accuracy of the estimated position of the mobile robot by its DR sensors, high-precision wheel-motor encoders and a fiber optical gyroscope. We used Kalman filter theory to combine GPS and DR measurements. The performance of GPS/DR navigation system is evaluated.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2002

In this paper, the system model for the compensation of the low-cost personal navigation system is derived and the error compensation method using GPS is also proposed. WNS(Walking Navigation System) is a kind of personal navigation system using the number of a walk, stride and azimuth. Because the accuracy of these variables determines the navigation performance, computational methods have been investigated. The step is detected using the walking patterns, stride is determined by neural network and azimuth is calculated with gyro output. The neural network filters off unnecessary motions. However, the error compensation method is needed, because the error of navigation information increases with time. In this paper, the accumulated error due to the step detection error, stride error and gyro bias is compensated by the integrating with GPS. Loosely coupled Kalman filter is used for the integration of WNS and GPS. It is shown by simulation that the error is bounded even though GPS signal is blocked.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.163-171
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• 2014

현재 GPS/IMU 기반의 차량항법기술은 GPS 신호 불량지역에서 위치 정밀도가 급격하게 저하된다. 근래에는 많은 차량에 주행 상태를 기록하기 위한 카메라를 탑재하고 있음에 따라 만약 도로시설물을 위치를 알 수 있을 경우 단사진 후방교차법(SPR)을 통해 카메라의 위치 및 자세를 산출할 수 있다. SPR로 추정된 외부표정요소는 GPS/IMU 항법해의 오차를 보정할 수 있음에 따라 GPS 신호 수신환경에 영향을 받지 않고 안정적으로 차량의 위치 및 자세를 결정할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 GPS, IMU, 사진측량 기술인 SPR을 결합하여 GPS 수신환경에 구애받지 않고 안정적으로 위치 및 자세를 결정하는 GPS/IMU/SPR 통합 알고리즘을 개발하였다. GPS/IMU/SPR 통합 알고리즘은 확장형 칼만필터를 이용하여 약결합 방식으로 구현하였다. 또한 개발된 GPS/IMU/SPR 통합 알고리즘의 성능을 분석하기 위하여, GPS 수신환경 및 영상에 획득되는 기준점의 배치에 따른 시뮬레이션 테스트를 수행하였다. 시뮬레이션 테스트 결과, GPS/IMU/SPR 결합을 통해 산출되는 위치 및 자세가 GPS/IMU 결합 결과보다 안정적으로 산출되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 영상의 기준점이 영상 중앙에 집중되어 배치되어 있을 경우에는 광축 방향으로 위치 오차가 증가되는 것으로 분석되었다. 향후 GPS/IMU/SPR 통합 알고리즘 성능을 면밀히 분석하기 위해서는 SPR 수행결과에 영향을 미치는 영상점 및 지상점의 측정오차, 초기 외부표정요소에 따른 성능 분석이 추가적으로 수행되어야 할 것이다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.251-256
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• 2006

In the work package 'Integrated Positioning' of the research project NAVIO (Pedestrian Navigation Systems in Combined Indoor/Outdoor Environements) we are dealing with the navigation and guidance of visitors of our University. Thereby start points are public transport stops in the surroundings of the Vienna University of Technology and the user of the system should be guided to certain office rooms or persons. For the position determination of the user different location sensors are employed, i.e., for outdoor positioning GPS and dead reckoning sensors such as a digital compass and gyro for heading determination and accelerometers for the determination of the travelled distance as well as a barometric pressure sensor for altitude determination and for indoor areas location determination using WiFi fingerprinting. All sensors and positioning methods are combined and integrated using a Kalman filter approach. Then an optimal estimate of the current location of the user is obtained using the filter. To perform an adequate weighting of the sensors in the stochastic filter model, the sensor characteristics and their performance was investigated in several tests. The tests were performed in different environments either with free satellite visibility or in urban canyons as well as inside of buildings. The tests have shown that it is possible to determine the user's location continuously with the required precision and that the selected sensors provide a good performance and high reliability. Selected tests results and our approach will be presented in the paper.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.351-366
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 저가의 INS와 GPS 정보를 합성하여 고기동 환경에서 항체의 위치와 자세정보를 연속적으로 제공할 수 있는 약결합 방식의 통합 알고리즘을 구현하였고, 4S-Van에 장착된 이미지 센서의 위치와 자세결정 방법에 사용하였다. (D)GPS/INS 통합을 실시하기 전 IMU의 초기 정렬과정에서 방위각은 두 대의 GPS를 통해 결정하였으며 칼만 필터를 이용한 정밀정렬을 수행하였다. 통합 알고리즘의 성능평가를 위해 차량 테스트와 시뮬레이션 테스트를 병행하였다. 통합 결과 차량 시험을 기준으로 나타난 위치 오차는 직선도로에서 l0cm 내외의 정확도를 보이며 자세오차의 경우 시뮬레이션을 기준으로 롤각은 $0^{\circ}.01$, 피치각은 $0^{\circ}.03$, 요각은 $0^{\circ}.1$ 내외의 정확도를 보였다. 구현된 (D)GPS/INS 알고리즘은 기하보정 방법을 통해 이미지센서의 위치와 자세정보 제공자로서 활용될 수 있다. 따라서 4S-Van에 장착된 이미지 센서의 영상획득 시각에 대한 기하학적인 정보를 통해 지상의 건물이나 도로 시설물 등에 대한 3차원 공간 자료 구축이 가능하다고 보며, 구축된 정보를 통해 기존의 수치지도 갱신, 도로 시설물 관리, 비디오 GIS 데이터 베이스 구축 등에 대한 공간 자료 연계 및 응용에 활용할 계획이다.