• 센서학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.278-284
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• 2010

Indoor localization for pedestrian is the key technology for caring the elderly, the visually impaired and the handicapped in health care districts. It also becomes essential for the emergency responders where the GPS signal is not available. This paper presents newly developed pedestrian localization system using the gyro sensors, the magnetic compass and pressure sensors. Instead of using the accelerometer, the pedestrian gait is estimated from the gyro sensor measurements and the travel distance is estimated based on the gait kinematics. Fusing the gyro information and the magnetic compass information for heading angle estimation is presented with the error covariance analysis. A pressure sensor is used to identify the floor the pedestrian is walking on. A complete ambulatory system is implemented which estimates the pedestrian's 3D position and the heading.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.188-197
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• 2021

In military operations, an accurate localization system is required to navigate soldiers to their destinations, even in non-GPS environments. The global positioning system is a commonly used localization method, but it is difficult to maintain the robustness of GPS-based localization against jamming of signals. In addition, GPS-based localization cannot provide important terrain information such as obstacles. With the widespread use of embedded sensors, sensor-based pedestrian tracking schemes have become an attractive option. However, because of noisy sensor readings, pedestrian tracking systems using motion sensors have a major drawback in that errors in the estimated displacement accumulate over time. We present a group-based standalone system that creates terrain maps automatically while also locating soldiers in mountainous terrain. The system estimates landmarks using inertial sensors and utilizes split group information to improve the robustness of map construction. The evaluation shows that our system successfully corrected and combined the drift error of the system localization without infrastructure.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2012

Due to the low localization accuracy and the requirement of special infrastructure, current LBS(Localization Based Service) is limited to show P.O.I.(Point of Interest) nearby. Improvement of IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit) based deadreckoning is presented in this paper. Additional sensors such as the magnetic compass and magnetic flux sensors are used as well as the accelerometer and the gyro for getting more information of movement. Based on the pedestrian movement, appropriate sensor information is selected and the complementary filter is used in order to enhance the accuracy of the localization.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.210-216
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• 2017

본 논문은 지구 자기장 기반의 지문인식과 추측 항법을 사용하여 실시간으로 실내 위치정보 서비스를 사용자에 제공할 수 있는 알고리즘 및 솔루션을 제안한다. 지자기장 값의 변화 추이와 사전에 입력된 지자기장 값의 유사도를 판별하여 초기 위치를 추정하였으며 초기 위치에서 지자기장 지문인식과 추측 항법 상호 보정을 통해 보다 연속적인 이동 위치 추정을 함으로서 일부 5m가 넘어가는 지구 자기장의 최대 오차와 추측 항법의 누적 오차를 개선하였다. 그 뿐만 아니라 본 기법은 기존 지문인식 방법과는 달리 무선랜 AP등 인프라 구축을 제거하여 보다 경제적인 서비스 제공을 가능하게 한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.866-871
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• 2010

Gait analysis is essential for leg diagnosis and rehabilitation for the patients, the handicapped and the elderly. The use of 3D motion capture device for gait analysis is very common for gait analysis. However, this device has several shortcomings including limited workspace, visibility and high price. Instead, we developed gait estimation system using gyroscopes. This system provides gait information including the number of gaits, stride and walking distance. With four gyroscope (one for each leg's thigh and calf) outputs, the proposed gait modeling estimates the movements of the hip, the knees and the feet. Complete pedestrian localization is implemented with gait information and the heading angle estimated from the rate gyro and the magnetic compass measurements. The developed system is very useful for diagnosis and the rehabilitation of the pedestrian at the hospital. It is also useful for indoor localization of the pedestrians.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.279-285
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• 2010

This paper presents the use of 3 axis accelerometer for getting the gait information including the number of gaits, stride and walking distance. Travel distance is usually calculated from the double integration of the accelerometer output with respect to time; however, the accumulated errors due to the drift are inevitable. The orientation change of the accelerometer also causes error because the gravity is added to the measured acceleration. Unless three axis orientations are completely identified, the accelerometer alone does not provide correct acceleration for estimating the travel distance. We proposed a way of minimizing the error due to the change of the orientation. Pedestrian localization is implemented with the heading angle and the travel distance. Heading angle is estimated from the rate gyro and the magnetic compass measurements. The performance of the localization is presented with experimental data.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2019

The self-driving cars identify appropriate navigation paths and obstacles to arrive at their destinations without human control. The autonomous cars are capable of sensing driving environments to improve driver and pedestrian safety by sharing with neighbor traffic infrastructure. In this paper, we have focused on pedestrian protection and have designed an improved localization algorithm to track mobile users on roads by interacting with smart traffic lights in vehicle environments. We developed smart traffic lights with the RSSI sensor and built the proposed method by improving the Kalman filter algorithm to localize mobile users accurately. We successfully evaluated the proposed algorithm to improve the mobile user localization with deployed five smart traffic lights.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.3657-3682
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• 2018

This paper presents a Bluetooth and pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR)-based indoor fusion localization approach (BtPDR) using smartphones. A Bluetooth and PDR-based indoor fusion localization approach can localize the initial position of a smartphone with the received signal strength (RSS) of Bluetooth. While a smartphone is moving, BtPDR can track its position by fusing the localization results of PDR and Bluetooth RSS. In addition, BtPDR can adaptively modify the parameters of PDR. The contributions of BtPDR include: a Bluetooth RSS-based Probabilistic Voting (BRPV) localization mechanism, a probabilistic voting-based Bluetooth RSS and PDR fusion method, and a heuristic search approach for reducing the complexity of BRPV. The experiment results in a real scene show that the average positioning error is < 2m, which is considered adequate for indoor location-based service applications. Moreover, compared to the traditional PDR method, BtPDR improves the location accuracy by 42.6%, on average. Compared to state-of-the-art Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) fingerprint + PDR-based fusion indoor localization approaches, BtPDR has better positioning accuracy and does not need the same offline workload as a fingerprint algorithm.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제19B권3호
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• pp.177-182
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 대규모 실내 환경에서 WiFi 모듈이 내장된 스마트폰 사용자의 위치를 추적하기 위한 효과적인 이동 모델과 관측 모델을 제시한다. 제안하는 세 가지 부속 이동 모델들은 보행자의 움직임에 대한 더 정확한 예상 확률 분포를 제공한다. 또, 가우시안 보간법 기반의 관측 모델은 훈련 데이터 의 수집이 이루어지지 않은 지역들에 대해서도 관측 우도 계산을 가능하게 한다. 파티클 필터 프레임워크 속에 이와 같은 이동 모델과 관측 모델을 결합함으로써, 본 연구의 위치 추적 알고리즘은 대규모 실내 환경들에서도 스마트폰 사용자의 위치를 정확하게 추적할 수 있다. 한 복층 건물에서 안드로이드 스마트폰으로 수행한 실험을 통해, 본 연구에서 제안한 WiFi 위치 추적 알고리즘의 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1011-1017
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• 2012

Augmented Reality is being widely used not only for Smartphone users but also in industries such as maintenance, construction area. With smartphone, due to the low localization accuracy and the requirement of special infrastructure, current LBS (Localization Based Service) is limited to show P.O.I. (Point of Interest) nearby. Improvement of IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) based deadreckoning is presented in this paper. Additional sensors such as the magnetic compass and magnetic flux sensors are used as well as the accelerometer and the gyro for getting more movement information. Based on the pedestrian movement, appropriate sensor information is selected and the complementary filter is used in order to enhance the accuracy of the localization. Additional sensors are used to measure the movements of the upper body and the head and to provide the user's line of sight.