• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.156-161
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• 2003

An overview of our approach to autonomous navigation is presented showing how motion information can be integrated into existing navigation schemes. Particular attention is given to our short range motion estimation scheme which utilises a number of unique assumptions regarding the nature of the visual environment allowing a direct fusion of visual and range information. Graduated non-convexity is used to solve the resulting non-convex minimisation problem. Experimental results show the advantages of our fusion technique.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.72-76
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• 2004

For successful route guidance, navigation systems should provide to users more realistic and actual information such as photographs than those in either 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional models. In this paper, we propose a method for servicing photographs for route guidance in navigation systems. The method includes how to acquire photographs with the most successful view for the guidance, how to construct link information among them and navigational map data, and how to provide the images to users efficiently.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.7B
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• pp.1073-1080
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• 2010

Realization of e-Navigation for maritime safety has become a hot research topic of these years. There has been lots of requirements of the convergence of VTS and new IT technology for prevent maritime accident caused huge mount of damage such as environmental damage of oil spill, human life and property. This paper aims to design of an intelligent VTS system based on context awareness and aids to navigation structure. The proposed system provides timely decision supporting mechanism using by situation awareness, reasoning, risk management technology and also provides information of aids to navigation for secure navigation.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.454-464
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• 2001

In this paper, a personal navigation system is developed using GPS and dead reckoning sensors. This personal navigation system can be used to track a person inside a building, on an urban street, and in the mountain area. GPS can provide accurate absolute position information, but it cant be used without receiving enough satellite signals. Although the inertial sensors such as gyro an accelerometer and be used without this diggiculty, the inertial sensors severely suffer from their drift errors and the magne-tometer can be easily distorted by surrounding electromagnetic field. GPS and DR sensors can be inte-grated together to overcome these problems. A new personal navigation system that can be carried wit person is developed. A pedometer. actually vertically mounted accelerometer, detects ones footstep and gyro detects heading angle. These DR sensors are integrated with GPS and the humans walking pattern provides additional navigation information for compensating the DR sensors. The field testes are performed to evaluated the proposed navigation algorithm.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.93-106
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• 2007

Web Applications are rapidly increasing and the structure becomes very complicated. However, when users explore such complex Web applications, they cannot often grasp the current location and get the information that they want. Therefore, a novel approach to model the navigation of Web application contents is required. In this study, a framework has been presented for modeling adaptive context-based contents navigation of Web applications. The framework performs activities including navigation analysis, navigation design, and navigation realization. first, in navigation analysis domain is analyzed by using use case, focusing on navigation. Next, in navigation design three models have been produced: a navigation information model, a profile, and a navigation interface model. Finally, in navigation realization a Webpage navigation model and a component navigation model have been produced. In this work, several formal definitions and rules for checking validity of navigation model have also been provided.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.22-28
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• 2013

This paper suggests a navigation information display system that is based on augmented reality technology. A navigator always has to confirm the information from marine electronic navigation devices and then compare it with the view of targets outside the windows. This "head down" posture causes discomfort and sometimes near accidents such as collisions or missing objects, because he or she cannot keep an eye on the front view of the windows. Augmented reality can display both virtual and real information in a single display. Therefore, we attempted to adapt AR technology to assist navigators. To analyze the outside view of the bridge window, various computer image processing techniques are required because the sea surface has many noises that disturb computer image processing for object detection, such as waves, wakes, light reflection, and so on. In this study, we investigated an analysis module to extract navigational information from images that are captured by a CCTV camera, and we validated our prototype.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.4
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• pp.327-334
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• 2010

The operated type of navigation is composed of hardware or software. The navigation based on software is stored and ran in the external storage(e.g. SD card). For the convenience of users, Many car navigation systems store user information such as frequently visited place, route, and so on. Those can be used to proving the alibi of users as well as their relationship between the actual owner of the vehicle through data and time information analysis. Therefore, if it is analyzed datas of navigation, we can get a lot of information such as user's movement, route of car. There are important implications in the digital forensics because it's available for investigating the various crimes. This paper demonstrates the necessary information in the digital investigation through the analysis of stored data in the navigation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.85-86
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• 2012

e-Navigation strategy IMO promotes is defined as it is necessary to network to provide various maritime safety information to in land and on board users, and it is expected to provide a large amount and diverse kinds of maritime spatial information services to them frequently. However, as there are some limits to transmit that by current mobile maritime communication technologies, it is required to simplify and optimize the information. In this study, tree node and convex hull method is applied to S-100 SD spatial information to generalize and we arranged the efficiency and effect of generalization by storing in XML form which can be used in general.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2013

Recently many researches have focused on indoor navigation system. An optimal indoor navigation method can help people to find a path in large and complex buildings easily. However, some indoor navigation algorithms only calculate approximate routes based on spatial topology analysis, while others only use indoor road networks. However, both of them use only one of the spatial topology or network information. In this paper, we present a navigation method based on topology analysis and room internal networks for indoor navigation path. FT-Indoornavi (Flexible Topology Analysis Indoornavi) calculate internal routes based on spatial topology and internal path networks to support length-dependent and running-time optimal routing, which adapt to complex indoor environment and can achieve a better performance in comparison of Elastic algorithm and iNav.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.189-200
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• 2007

This paper addresses the localization and navigation problem in the movement of service robots by using invisible two dimensional barcodes on the floor. Compared with other methods using natural or artificial landmarks, the proposed localization method has great advantages in cost and appearance since the location of the robot is perfectly known using the barcode information after mapping is finished. We also propose a navigation algorithm which uses a topological structure. For the topological information, we define nodes and edges which are suitable for indoor navigation, especially for large area having multiple rooms, many walls, and many static obstacles. The proposed algorithm also has the advantage that errors which occur in each node are mutually independent and can be compensated exactly after some navigation using barcodes. Simulation and experimental results were performed to verify the algorithm in the barcode environment, showing excellent performance results. After mapping, it is also possible to solve the kidnapped robot problem and to generate paths using topological information.