• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.295-306
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• 2023

This paper presents a multi-frequency and multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal generator that simulates intermediate frequency level digital signal samples for testing GNSS receivers. GNSS signal generators are ideally suited for testing the performance of GNSS receivers and algorithms under development in the laboratory for specific user locations and environments. The proposed GNSS signal generator features a fully-reconfigurable structure with the ability to adjust signal parameters, which is beneficial to generate desired signal characteristics for multiple scenarios including multi-constellation and frequencies. Successful signal acquisition, tracking, and navigation are demonstrated on a verified Software Defined Radio (SDR) in this study. This work has implications for future studies and advances the research and development of new GNSS signals.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2021

해양에서 정보통신기술 기반의 4차 산업혁명 확산은 고정밀 및 안정적인 위치·항법·시각·정보(PNT&D)를 요구하고 있다. 국제해사기구(IMO)와 국제항로표지협회(IALA)에서는 범지구 위성 항법 시스템(GNSS) 의존도가 증가함에 따라 취약성 경감을 위해 백업시스템을 요구하고 있어 우리나라는 R-Mode 기술개발에 관한 연구를 진행하고 있다. 시설의 중복투자를 막기 위해 기존 해상 인프라인 중파를 이용하는 DGPS(Differential Global Positioning System) 보정국과 감시국 34개소 및 초단파를 이용하는 선박자동식별장치(AIS) 기지국을 활용하고자 하며, 일부 서해 지역에서 수신신호의 세기가 미약한 전파 음영지역이 있으므로, 이를 해결하기 위해 R-Mode 보정국과 감시국 신설을 통하여 전파 음영지역을 해소하고자 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 주파수가 낮은 대역에서(단파대 이하) 전파가 지표면(수면)을 따라 잘 전송되는 특징이 있어 시뮬레이션과 전파측정을 하였으며, 전파전파 특성 분석을 통하여 R-Mode 보정국과 감시국 신설 후보지를 제안하고자 한다. 본 논문을 활용하여 다른 지역의 전파 음영지역을 해소하기 위해 적절한 위치에 R-Mode 보정국과 감시국 후보지를 선정할 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.529-536
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• 2004

Autonomous navigation of an indoor mobile robot using the global ultrasonic system is presented in this paper. Since the trajectory error of the dead-reckoning navigation grows with time and distance, the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot requires to localize the current position of the robot, so that to compensate the trajectory error. The global ultrasonic system consisting of four ultrasonic generators fixed at a priori known positions in the work space and two receivers on the mobile robot has the similar structure with the well-known satellite GPS(Global Positioning System), and it is useful for the self-localization of an indoor mobile robot. The EKF(Extended Kalman Filter) algorithm for the self-localization is proposed and the autonomous navigation based on the self-localization is verified by experiments.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.91-102
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• 2021

In this paper, a fully reconfigurable Software Defined Radio (SDR) for multi-constellation and multi-frequency Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers is presented. The reconfigurability with respect to the data structure, variability of signal and receiver parameters, and receiver's internal functionality is presented. The configuration file, that is modified to lead to an entirely different operation of the SDR in response to specific target signal scenarios, directly determines the operating characteristics of the SDR. In this manner, receiver designers can effectively reduce the effort to develop many different combinations of multi-constellation and/or multi-frequency GNSS receivers. Finally, the implementation of the presented fully reconfigurable SDR is included with the experimental processing results such as acquisition, tracking, navigation for the received signals in the realistic fields.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2015

In this study, an algorithm that detects a spoofing signal for a GPS L1 signal was proposed, and the performance was verified through RF spoofing signal simulation. The proposed algorithm determines the reception of a spoofing signal by detecting a correlation distortion of GPS L1 C/A code caused by the spoofing signal. To detect the correlation distortion, a detection criterion of a spoofing signal was derived from the relationship among the Early, Prompt, and Late tap correlation values of a receiver correlator; and a detection threshold was calculated from the false alarm probability of spoofing signal detection. In this study, an RF spoofing environment was built using the GSS 8000 simulator (Spirent). For the RF spoofing signal generated from the simulator, the RF spoofing environment was verified using the commercial receiver DL-V3 (Novatel Inc.). To verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, the RF signal was stored as IF band data using a USRP signal collector (NI) so that the data could be processed by a CNU software receiver (software defined radio). For the performance of the proposed algorithm, results were obtained using the correlation value of the software receiver, and the performance was verified through the detection of a spoofing signal and the detection time of a spoofing signal.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.898-902
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• 2015

Alternative radio-navigation technologies aim at providing continuous navigation solution even if one cannot use GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). In shadowing region such as indoor environment, GNSS signal is no longer available and the alternative navigation system should be used together with GNSS to provide seamless positioning. For soldiers in battlefield where GNSS signal is jammed or in street battle, the alternative navigation system should work without positioning infrastructure. Moreover, the radio-navigation system should have scalability as well as high accuracy performance. This paper presents a TWR (Two-Way-Ranging)-based cooperative positioning system (CPS) that does not require location infrastructure. It is assumed that some members of CPS can obtain GNSS-based position and they are called mobile anchors. Other members unable to receive GNSS signal compute their position using TWR measurements with mobile anchors and neighboring members. Error propagation in CPS is analytically studied in this paper. Error budget for TWR measurements is modeled first. Next, location error propagation in CPS is derived in terms of range errors. To represent the location error propagation in the CPS, Location Error Propagation Indicator (LEPI) is proposed in this paper. Simulation results show that location error of tags in CPS is mainly influenced by the number of hops from anchors to the tag to be positioned as well as the network geometry of CPS.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.508-510
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• 2021

5G버티컬들뿐만 아니라 자율운항서비스에서도 요구되는 5G요소기술들(예: 5G버티컬 위성, 5G NR(New Radio) 기반 기기 간 직접통신 기능 등)에 대한 국제표준화가 현재 진행 중임으로 자율운항선박 관련 해양통신서비스에 대한 3GPP 국제표준화를 통해 국제표준 기반 솔루션이 갖는 규모의 경제 크기 이점을 활용하면서 자율운항서비스에 활용 가능할 것으로 기대된다. 제 4차 해양산업혁명시대에 출현할 자율운항선박 관련 ICT융합시장 생태계 구축 및 국제표준 기반 핵심통신기술을 선점하기 위해 (1) 글로벌 호환성을 갖는 디지털 통신시스템 및 게이트웨이 개발, (2) 차세대통신 기반 핵심요소기술 확보, (3) 연관기술의 국제화를 위한 국제표준화 추진이 필요하다고 판단된다. 이를 위해 거리별 통신별 서비스 분석을 통한 데이터 분석 및 표준기술이 개발되어야 할 것이다. 현재 자율운항 선박 운영을 위한 요구 조건들은 주로 3가지 항목으로 분류할 수 있다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2002

Inertial Navigation System(INS) has been used in the field of air navigation for a long time but is not popular in general aviation due to high price. Recently low-price GPS is available but vulnerable to radio interference. As an alternative on these problems, GPS/INS integrated navigation system has been considered. GPS/INS is capable of implementing navigation with low-price inertial sensors but its accuracy is dependent upon how much drift of INS may be calibrated by using GPS. In order to apply GPS/INS to air navigation, it must be investigated how long drift of INS in case of no GPS aiding will be bounded within requirements for safe flight. From the above motivation, the flight test for GPS/INS navigation system was conducted in order to make sense its performance in air navigation and its result was shown.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.273-284
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• 2020

The performance of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chipset and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors embedded in smartphones for location-based services (LBS) is limited due to the economic reasons for their mass production. Therefore, it is necessary to efficiently process the output data of the smartphone's embedded sensors in order to derive the optimum navigation values and, as a previous step, output performance of smartphone embedded sensors needs to be verified. This paper analyzes the navigation performance of such devices by processing the raw measurements data output from smartphones. For this, up-to-dated versions of smartphones provided by Samsung (Galaxy s10e) and Xiaomi (Mi 8) are used in the test experiment to compare their performances and characteristics. The GNSS and IMU data are extracted and saved by using an open market application software (Geo++ RINEX Logger & Mobile MATLAB), and then analyzed in post-processing manner. For GNSS chipset, data is extracted from static environments and verified the position, Carrier-to-Noise (C/N₀), Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) performance. For IMU sensor, the validity of navigation and various location-based-services is predicted by extracting, storing and analyzing data in static and dynamic environments.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.279-286
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• 2022

In this paper, we designed a software library that produces integrated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS) navigation information using the raw measurements provided by the GNSS chipset, gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer embedded in android smartphone. Loosely coupled integration method was used to derive information of GNSS /INS integrated navigation. An application built in the designed library was developed and installed on the android smartphone. And we conducted field experiments. GNSS navigation messages were collected in the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Service (RTCM 3.0) format by the Network Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol (NTRIP). As a result of experiments, it was confirmed that design requirements were satisfied by deriving navigation such as three-dimensional position and speed, course over ground (COG), speed over ground (SOG), heading and protection level (PL) using the designed library. In addition, the results of this experiment are expected to be applicable to maritime navigation applications using smart device.