• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.679-687
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• 2019

This paper presents the autonomous swimming technology developed for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) operating in the underwater jacket structure environment. To prevent the position divergence of the inertial navigation system constructed for the primary navigation solution for the vehicle, we've developed kinds of marker-recognition based underwater localization methods using both of optical and acoustic cameras. However, these two methods all require the artificial markers to be located near to the cameras mounted on the vehicle. Therefore, in the case of the vehicle far away from the structure where the markers are usually mounted on, we may need alternative position-aiding solution to guarantee the navigation accuracy. For this purpose, we develop a sonar image processing based underwater localization method using a Forward Looking Sonar (FLS) mounted in front of the vehicle. The primary purpose of this FLS is to detect the obstacles in front of the vehicle. According to the detected obstacle(s), we apply an Occupancy Grid Map (OGM) based path planning algorithm to derive an obstacle collision-free reference path. Experimental studies are carried out in the water tank and also in the Pohang Yeongilman port sea environment to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed autonomous swimming technology.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2016

Oculus Rift, HTC Vive 등의 PC기반 Virtual Reality Head Mount Display 뿐 아니라, Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR등과 같은 모바일 VR HMD들이 출시 되고 있다. 그런데 HMD는 착용 시 사용자의 외부시야를 가리게 되므로 VR을 체험하는 공간의 실제 환경에 존재하는 각종 가구에 걸려 넘어지거나 벽 등의 위험요소들에 의해 사용자가 부딪혀 다치고 또는 가구 등이 파손 되는 상황이 일어날 수 있지만 아직 이것에 대해서 확실한 방안이 연구되어 있지 않은 상태이다. 본 논문에서는 Microsoft Kinect V1를 이용하여 사용자가 움직일 공간을 미리 3d Scanning하고 Minimap 방식으로 Scanning한 장애물의 위치 및 정보를 몰입감을 덜 저하시키면서 시각화하여 사용자에게 알려줌으로써 부상위험을 줄이는 방법으로 VR의 대중화를 돕는 방안을 제시 한다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권12호
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• pp.2220-2227
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• 2008

The safety equipments of railway level crossing which are installed at intersections between roads and railway lines prevent level crossing accidents by informing all of the vehicles and pedestrians of approaching trains. The intelligent safety system for level crossing which employs information and communication technology has been developed in USA and Japan, etc. But, in Korea, the relevant research has not been performed. In this paper, we analyze the cause of railway level crossing accidents and the inherent problem of the existing safety equipments. Based on analyzed results, we design the intelligent safety system which prevent collision between a train and a vehicle. This system displays train approaching information in real-time at roadside warning devices, informs approaching train of the detected obstacle in crossing areas, and is interconnected with traffic signal to empty the crossing area before train comes. Especially, we present the video based obstacle detection algorithm and verify its performance with prototype H/W since the abrupt obstacles in crossing areas are the main cause of level crossing accidents. We identify that the presented scheme detects both pedestrian and vehicle with good performance.

• 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한안전경영과학회 1999년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.381-389
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• 1999

One of the objectives of any task design is to provide a safe and helpful workplace for the employees. The safety and health module may include means for confronting the design with safety and health regulations and standards as well as tools for obstacles and collisions detection (such as error models and simulators). Virtual Reality is a leading edge technology which has only very recently become available on platforms and at prices accessible to the majority of simulation engineers. The design of an automated manufacturing system is a complicated, multidisciplinary task that requires involvement of several specialists. In this paper, a design procedure that facilitates the safety and ergonomic considerations of an automated manufacturing system are described. The procedure consists of the following major steps: Data collection and analysis of the data, creation of a three-dimensional simulation model of the work environment, simulation for safety analysis and risk assessment, development of safety solutions, selection of the preferred solutions, implementation of the selected solutions, reporting, and training When improving the safety of an existing system the three-dimensional simulation model helps the designer to perceive the work from operators point of view objectively and safely without the exposure to hazards of the actual system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1998년도 제13차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.30-34
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• 1998

Path Planning is one of the important fields in robot technologies. Local path planning may be done in on-line modes while recognizing an environment of robot by itself. In dynamic environments to obtain fluent information for environments vision system as a sensing equipment is a one of the most necessary devices for safe and effective guidance of robots. If there is a predictor that tells what future sensing outputs will be, robot can respond to anticipated environmental changes in advance. The tracking of obstacles has a deep relationship to the prediction for safe navigation. We tried to deal with active contours, that is snakes, to find out the possibilities of stable tracking of objects in image plane. Snakes are defined based on energy functions, and can be deformed to a certain contour form which would converge to the minimum energy states by the forces produced from energy differences. By using point algorithm we could have more speedy convergence time because the Brent's method gives the solution to find the local minima fast. The snake algorithm may be applied to sequential image frames to track objects in the images by these characteristics of speedy convergence and robust edge detection ability.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.787-793
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• 2012

This paper introduces the autonomous vehicle Pharos, which participated in the 2010 Autonomous Vehicle Competition organized by Hyundai-Kia motors. PHAROS was developed for high-speed on/off-road unmanned driving avoiding diverse patterns of obstacles. For the high speed traveling up to 60 km/h, long range terrain perception, real-time path planning and high speed vehicle motion control algorithms are developed. This paper describes the major hardware and software components of our vehicle.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2017

We propose a face recognition and notification system that can transform visual face information into tactile signals in order to help visually impaired people. The proposed system consists of a glasses type camera, a mobile computer and an electronic cane. The glasses type camera captures the frontal view of the user, and sends this image to mobile computer. The mobile computer starts to search for human's face in the image when obstacles are detected by ultrasonic sensors. In a case that human's face is detected, the mobile computer identifies detected face. At this time, Adaboost and compressive sensing are used as a detector and a classifier, respectively. After the identification procedures of the detected face, the identified face information is sent to controller attached to a cane using a Bluetooth communication. The controller generates motor control signals using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) according to the recognized face labels. The vibration motor generates vibration patterns to inform the visually impaired person of the face recognition result. The experimental results of face recognition and notification system show that proposed system is helpful for visually impaired people by providing person identification results in front of him/her.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2017

최근 물체를 인식하기 위해 많은 데이터를 기반으로 학습하여 인식하는 연구가 활성화 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 도로주행 영상에서 장애물이라고 생각되는 객체를 추출하여 자동차, 사람, 오토바이로 구분하여 인식하는 시스템을 제안한다. 이동한 방향과 크기를 고려한 상태에서 광류 추정 알고리즘을 이용하여 객체를 추출하였으며, 추출한 객체를 CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) 인식 모델 중 하나인 AlexNet을 이용하여 인식하였다. 실험을 위해 도로 위의 다양한 영상을 블랙박스로 수집하여 실험하였고, 실험 결과 객체 추출 정확도는 92%, 객체 인식 정확도는 96%의 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.415-420
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• 2000

It is very difficult to mechanize tomato harvesting because identifying a target tomato which is partly covered by leaves and stalks is not easy. This research was conducted to develop tomato harvesting robot which can identifying a target tomato, determining its dimensional position, and harvesting it in a limited time. Followings were major findings in this study. The first visual system of the robot was composed of two CCD cameras, however, which could not detect tomato not placed on the center of lens and partly covered by leaves or stalks. Secondary visual device, combined with two cameras and pan tilting was designed which could decreased the positioning errors within $\pm$10mm but still not enough for covered tomato by any obstacles. Finally, laser detector was added to the visual system that could reduce the position detecting errors within 10mm in X-Y direction and 5mm in Z direction for the covered tomatoes.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 유입변압기 진단을 목적으로 부분방전시 발생하는 여러 가지 물리적 화학적 현상중 초음파를 검출하기 위하여 광섬유 Mach-Zehnder 간섭계를 구성하였다. 구성된 광섬유 센서의 초음파 검출 평가 실험을 실시하고, 절연유 중에 배치한 침-평판전극에 교류 고전압을 인가하여 방전시 발생하는 초음파를 측정하고 퓨리에 변환 및 wavelet 변환을 이용한 데이터 분석 결과를 나타냈다.