• Korean Journal of Geomatics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2002

The Global Positioning System technology has been widely used in positioning and attitude determination. It is well known that the accuracy, availability and reliability of the positioning results are heavily dependent on the number and geometric distribution of tracked GPS satellites. Because of this limitation, in some situations, such as in urban canyons, underground or inside of buildings, it is difficult to navigate with GPS receiver. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of satellite-based positioning, the integration of GPS with the pseudolite technology has been proposed. With this pseudolite technology, it is expected that seamless positioning service can be provided in a wider area without replacing existing GPS receivers. On the other hand, to adopt pseudolites on a larger scale, it is necessary to verify how the pseudolites may complement the existing GPS-based positioning. In this paper the authors present the details of the experiments and the results of the fundamental verification for seamless positioning using integration of GPS and pseudolite. This paper shows that the accuracy and efficiency of integrating GPS and pseudolite through the dynamic and static positioning experiment. The influence of pseudolite signal on GPS receiver is also discussed. The experimental results indicate that the accuracy of the height component can indeed be significantly improved, to approximately the same level as the horizontal component.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2002년도 창립 20주년기념 국제학술대회
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• pp.77-84
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• 2002

The Global Positioning System, GPS technology has been widely used in positioning and attitude determination. It is well known that the accuracy, availability and reliability of the positioning results are heavily dependent on the number and geometric distribution of tracked GPS satellites. Because of this limitation, in some situations, such as in urban canyons, underground space or inside of buildings, it is really hard to navigate with GPS receiver. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of satellite-based positioning, the integration of GPS with the pseudolite technology has been proposed. With this pseudolite technology, it is expected that seamless positioning service can be provided in wider area without replacing existing GPS receivers. On the other hand, to adopt pseudolites at larger scale, it is necessary to verify how the pseudolites can complement the existing GPS-based positioning. In this paper the authors present the detail of experimental investigations and the results of the fundamental verification for seamless positioning using integration of GPS and pseudolite. This paper shows that the accuracy and efficiency of integrating GPS and pseudolite through the dynamic and static positioning experiment and discuss about the influence on GPS receiver by pseudolite signal. The experimental results indicate that the accuracy of the height component can indeed be significantly improved, to approximately the same level as the horizontal component.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2583-2605
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• 2016

Fingerprint positioning is a main stream and key technique for seamless positioning systems. In this paper, we develop a performance evaluation testbed for fingerprint based Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) positioning system. The testbed consists of positioning server, positioning terminal, Access Point (AP) units, positioning accuracy analysis system and testing scenarios. Different from other testbeds tended to focus on testing in same situation, in the proposed testbed, a couple of scenarios are set to test the positioning system including indoor and outdoor environments. Handset-side positioning mode and network-side positioning mode are provided simultaneously. Variety of motion models, such as static model, low-speed model and high-speed model are considered as well as different positioning algorithms. Finally, some implementation cases are analyzed to verify the credibility of the testbed.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.139-142
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose a GNSS-UWB hybrid positioning system for indoor and outdoor seamless positioning. Fusion of GNSS and inertial sensors has been widely used as a method for estimating positions in places where GNSS reception sensitivity is low, and UWB technology, which started as a short-range wireless communication technology, is widely used indoors where GNSS is completely blocked. This paper proposes a method of mutual correction and fusion of the location information collected through GNSS and the location information collected from the UWB indoor positioning system when indoor and outdoor work occurs continuously and repeatedly, such as in an industrial site.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 Wi-Fi, 블루투스, CDMA등 라디오 비컨의 수신 신호세기와 GPS 위성 신호를 결합하여 개체의 위치를 측정하는 Place Lab 기반 실내외 연속측위 시스템을 제안한다. 기존의 Place Lab은 복수의 측위매체를 이용하여 다양한 실내 환경에서 위치인식이 가능하였다. 하지만 각 측위매체를 통합하는 방법 및 실내외 환경을 연동하는 방법이 고려되지 않아 동작 효율이 낮고, 그 사용 범위가 제한되는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실내의 측위매체들을 유기적으로 연계하는 멀티센서 데이터 융합 모델을 정의하고, 각 계층에 적합하게 Place Lab을 재구성하여 이러한 단점을 해결하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 라디오 비컨 신호와 GPS 위성 신호를 결합하여 실내외 연속측위를 수행하며, OSGi 번들로 구현되어 다양한 모바일 디바이스에서 단절없는 PNS 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 구현된 시스템은 윈도우 모바일 기반의 삼성 T*OMNIA SCH-M490 스마트폰에서 그 성능을 평가하였으며, 그 결과 제안된 연속측위 시스템을 통해 PNS 서비스를 성공적으로 지원할 수 있음을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.262-272
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• 2015

In particular, for a practical mobile robot team to perform such a task as that of carrying out a search and rescue mission in a disaster area, the network connectivity and localization have to be guaranteed even in an environment where the network infrastructure is destroyed or a Global Positioning System is unavailable. This paper proposes the new collective intelligence network management architecture of multiple mobile robots supporting seamless network connectivity and cooperative localization. The proposed architecture includes a resource manager that makes the robots move around and not disconnect from the network link by considering the strength of the network signal and link quality. The location manager in the architecture supports localizing robots seamlessly by finding the relative locations of the robots as they move from a global outdoor environment to a local indoor position. The proposed schemes assuring network connectivity and localization were validated through numerical simulations and applied to a search and rescue robot team.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.544-550
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• 2008

In this paper, an efficient positioning algorithm is proposed for a local positioning system using ultrasound and RF in WSN. The proposed positioning algorithm is the modified Savarese method where measurement noise characteristics are included as a weighting. Furthermore the ill-conditioned and the singularity problem occurred when all beacons are installed at the same height are removed. And the method is applicable to 2D positioning with 2 beacons only. The experiments with implemented system show the accurate seamless positioning less than 2cm error both static and dynamic experiments while the original Savarese method can not provide positions.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2006

본 연구에서는, 보행자의 연속적이고 정확한 위치결정을 위한 보행자 측위시스템의 알고리즘을 소개하고 그 정확도를 분석하였다. 다양한 환경에서의 GPS 신호의 두절에 따른 위치의 불연속성을 해결하기 위하여, GPS, INS, 기압계와 방위계를 강결합의 형태인 중앙 집중형 칼만필터에서 융합하였다. 특히, 저가의 실질적인 시스템을 구성하기 위하여, MEMS IMU를 사용하였고, 실시간 계산의 용이성을 위하여 의사거리를 처리하였다. 이때 저가기기의 선택에 따른 높이와 방위값의 정확도를 보완하기 위하여 압력계와 방위계로부터 측정된 값을 이용한다. 편이, 스케일 오차 등의 상세한 수학적 모델과 융합방법을 소개하였고, 그 결과를 고성능의 GPS/INS 로부터 나온 결과와 비교 검토하였다. 특히 GPS 신호가 단절되었을 경우에 대한 위치 및 자세의 결과 비교를 통하여 위치 획득 정확도 및 가능성을 분석하였고, 향후 연구 방향을 소개하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.583-591
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• 2018

With the development of ICT(Information and Communication Technology), the number of smart devices is rapidly increasing. LBS(Location Based Service) applications that provide user's location based service are used in various fields. There is also a growing demand for indoor precision positioning technology to provide seamless services. In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning system that estimates the location of a smartphone user. The proposed algorithm determines whether the received signal is LOS(Line-of-Sight) or NLOS(Non-Line of-Sight) in order to decrease multipath effect by the indoor environment. The proposed positioning algorithm is very simple and requires only the AP(Access Point) coordinates. In addition, it requires only two APs for estimating the location of a smartphone user. The proposed algorithm is a practically applicable technology without any additional hardware and kernel modification in the smartphone. In the experiment results, the reliability of the positioning system was found to be within 0.83 m.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.87-90
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• 2004

Telematics is an emerging industrial field made up of the convergence of technologies. The key technologies for Telematics are server-side technology, terminal-side technology, communication-related technology, and positioning technology. Standardization in Telematics is now getting more notice these days. Domestic situation is explained for several related facilities such as ETRI, TTA, and Telematics Standardization Forum. In this paper, we will focus especially on the standard reference model that is the most fundamental framework of Telematics technology standardization. In the reference model, the Telematics system is composed of Telematics client part, communication part, and Telematics server part. The Telematics client part consists of terminal, positioning device, and car electronic devices. Communication part can be composed of various telecommunication channels such as CDMA, WLAN, DMB, WiBro, etc. which can guarantee the seamless two-way communication. Telematics server part is composed of TSP(Telematics Service Provider) server and CP(Contents Provider) servers gathering and managing the various Telematics services. This Telematics reference model is expected to be utilized as the base architecture in developing the technology and standards from now on.