• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.213-216
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• 2007

본 논문은 수중에서 여러 대의 자율무인잠수정(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, AUV)간의 통신을 위한 수중음향 통신 네트워크 기법중에서 효율적인 전력 사용으로 에너지 소비를 줄이고 수중의 긴 전파 지연에서도 원활한 통신이 가능한 수중 접속제어 프로토콜(Medium Access Control, MAC)을 제시하고자 한다. 제안된 접속제어 프로토콜은 스타 토폴로지를 채택하여 네트워크를 구성하는 한 노드가 마스터가 되어 멤버 노드들의 오버헤드를 최소화하고자 했으며 수중의 긴 전파 지연을 고려하여 지역 동기화(localized synchronization)방식을 사용하여 동기화를 용이하게 하였다. 또한, 멤버 노드들은 슬립 모드를 이용하여 노드들의 전력수명을 최대화하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.179-189
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• 2000

최근 들어 심해개발에 대한 관심이 고조됨에 따라 AUV 또는 수중 로봇과 같은 수중 무인작업선의 개발을 위하여 많은 노력을 하였다. 본 논문은 초음파의 전송지연을 고려하지 않고 최대 처리량의 일정수준을 확보하고 다중 초음파 통신 채널을 통하여 고속의 데이터 전송이 가능한 새로운 고효율의 음향 기반 수중 영상 통신시스템을 제시한다. 제시된 시스템은 중심주파수가 136khz이고 10khz의 밴드 폭에서 동작하는 음향 트랜스듀서, 전단증폭기, $\pi/4 QPSK$ 변복조 방식, JPEG 기술을 사용한 영상 압축방식과 수정된 Stop & Wait 프로토콜로 구성한다. 실험 결과는 수조 테스트에서 고효율의 수중영상 전송이 가능하였고, 또한 그 결과는 기존에 개발된 시스템과 타당한 전송성능을 비교 입증하였고 해양에서 실용 가능성을 연구 검토하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.58-68
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• 2009

The increased use of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) has led to the development of alternative navigational methods that do not employ acoustic beacons and dead reckoning sensors. This paper describes a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) scheme that uses range sonars mounted on a small UUV. A SLAM scheme is an alternative navigation method for measuring the environment through which the vehicle is passing and providing the relative position of the UUV. A technique for a SLAM algorithm that uses several ranging sonars is presented. This technique utilizes an unscented Kalman filter to estimate the locations of the UUV and surrounding objects. In order to work efficiently, the nearest neighbor standard filter is introduced as the data association algorithm in the SLAM for associating the stored targets returned by the sonar at each time step. The proposed SLAM algorithm was tested by experiments under various three degrees of freedom motion conditions. The results of these experiments showed that the proposed SLAM algorithm was capable of estimating the position of the UUV and the surrounding objects and demonstrated that the algorithm will perform well in various environments.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.511-518
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• 2023

수중 이동체의 시험평가 과정에서 정확한 거리 추정은 중요한 요소 가운데 하나이다. 특히, 도달 시간 값을 이용하여 거리를 추정하는 경우 상관 특성 등으로 인해 처프 신호인 Linear Frequency Modulation(LFM)과 같은 신호의 적용성이 높다. 하지만 이동성이 있는 도플러 천이 환경에서는 거리-도플러 커플링 효과로 인하여 측정 오류가 발생할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 거리-도플러 커플링 효과를 보상하여 도달 시간 값의 측정 오류를 감소시키는 신호를 제시한다. 제안된 신호는 2종류의 LFM 신호를 중첩하여 구성하였으며, 거리-도플러 커플링 효과를 최소화할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 신호가 수중 이동체의 거리 추정에 있어서 거리-도플러 커플링 효과를 보상하여 도달 시간 값의 측정 오류를 줄이는 방법임을 확인하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2007

Maritime and Ocean Engineering Research Institute (MOERI), a branch of KORDI, has designed and manufactured a model of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named ISiMI (Integrated Submergible for Intelligent Mission Implementation). ISiMI is an AUV platform to satisfy the various needs of experimental test required for development of challenging technologies newly investigated in the field of underwater robot; control and navigational algorithms and software architectures. The main design goal of ISiMI AUV is downsizing which will reduce substantially the operating cost compared to other vehicles previously developed in KORDI such as VORAM or DUSAUV. As a result of design and manufacturing process, ISiMI is implemented to be 1.2 m in length, 0.17 m in diameter and weigh 20 kg in air. A series of tank test is conducted to verify the basic functions of ISiMI in the Ocean Engineering Basin of MOERI, which includes manual control with R/F link, auto depth, auto heading control and a final approach control for underwater docking. This paper describes the implementation of ISiMI system and the experimental results to verify the function of ISiMI as a test-bed AUV platform.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권11호
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• pp.1868-1878
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• 2016

This paper proposes a novel velocity estimator for long-term underwater navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles(AUVs). Provided that an external position fix is not given, a viable goal in designing a underwater navigation algorithm is to reduce the divergence rate of position error only using the sporadic velocity information obtained from Doppler velocity log(DVL). For such case, the performance of underwater navigation eventually depends on accuracy and reliability of external velocity information. This motivates us to devise a velocity estimator which can drastically enhance the navigation performance even when the DVL measurement is unavailable. Incorporating the Gertler-Hagen hydrodynamics model of an AUV with the measurement models of velocity and depth sensors, the velocity estimator design problem is resolved using the extended Kalman filter. Different from the existing methods in which an AUV simulator is regarded as a virtual sensor, our approach is less sensitive to the model uncertainty often encountered in practice. This is because our velocity filter estimates the simulator errors with sensor aids and furthermore compensates these errors based on the indirect feedforward manner. Through the simulations for typical AUV navigation scenarios, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2005

This paper describes depth, heading and speed control of an underwater vehicle that has four stern thrusters of which forces are coupled in the diving and, steering motion, as well as the speed of the vehicle. The optimal linear quadratic controller is designed based on a linearized- state space model, developed by combining the dynamic equations of speed, steering and diving motion. The designed controller gives provides an optimal thrust distribution, minimizing the given performance index to control speed, depth and heading simultaneously. To validate the performance of the controller, a simulation and tank-test are carried out with DUSAUV (Dual Use Semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle), developed by KORDI as a test-bed for testing new underwater technologies. Optimal gains of the controller are tuned, using a computer simulation environment with a nonlinear 6-DOF numerical DUSAUV model, developed by PMM (Planner Motion Mechanism) test. To verify the performance of the presented controller in experiment, a tank-test with DUSAUV is carried out in the ocean engineering basin in KORDI. The experimental results are also compared with the simulation results to investigate the accordance of the numerical and the real mode.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2006년 창립20주년기념 정기학술대회 및 국제워크샵
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• pp.347-350
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• 2006

Maritime and Ocean Engineering Research Institute (MOERI), a branch of KORDI, has designed and manufactured a model of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named ISiMI(Integrated Submergible for Intelligent Mission Implementation). ISiMI is an AUV platform to satisfy the various needs of experimental test required for development of challenging technologies newly investigated in the field of underwater robot; control and navigational algorithms and software architectures. The main design goal of ISiMI AUV is downsizing which will reduce substantially the operating cost compared to other vehicles previously developed in KORDI such as VORAM or DUSAUV. As a result of design and manufacturing process, ISiMI is implemented to be 1.2m in length, 0.17m in diameter and weigh 20 kg in air. A series of tank test is conducted to verify the basic functions of ISiMI in the Ocean Engineering Basin of MOERI, which includes manual control with R/F link, auto depth, auto heading control and a final approach control for underwater docking. This paper describes the implementation of ISiMI system and the experimental results to verify the function of ISiMi as a test-bed AUV platform.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.488-498
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• 2015

This paper presents the dynamic model of an AUV called HW200 for underwater surveillance. The mathematical model of HW200 is briefly introduced, considering its shape. The maneuvering coefficients were initially estimated using empirical formulas and a database of vehicles with similar shapes. A motion simulator, based on Simulink of Mathworks, was developed to evaluate the mathematical model of the vehicle and to tune the maneuvering coefficients. The parameters were finely tuned by comparing the experimental results and simulated responses generated with the simulator by applying the same control inputs as the experiment. The velocity of HW200 in the tuning process was fixed at a constant forward speed of 1.83 m/s. Simulations with variable speed commands were conducted, and the results showed good consistency in the motion response, attitude, and velocity of the vehicle, which were similar to those of the experiment even under the speed variation. This paper also discusses the feasibility of its application to a model-based integrated navigation system (INS) using the auxiliary information on the velocities generated by the model.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.464-473
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 자율무인잠수정에 사용되는 UHF-GPS 안테나의 성능을 만족하는 경량화 설계에 대해 제안하였다. 설계 프로세스에 사용된 구조해석, 수밀외압시험 그리고 비파괴 검사는 수중운용 환경에서 발생하는 외력에 대한 구조 안전성을 고려하여 결정하였다. 먼저 수상에서 모함과 통신을 위한 UHF-GPS 안테나 성능과 수중 운용 시 발생하는 20 bar 압력을 고려한 레이돔 재질을 선정하였으며, 전자기장해석 및 구조해석을 수행하여 무게 대비 강도 및 강성이 높고 유전율이 우수한 PA-GF 소재를 선정하였다. 그리고 UHF-GPS 안테나의 요구 중량을 만족하기 위한 레이돔 두께별 전자기장해석 및 구조해석을 추가 수행하였으며, 최종 모델 선정 후 수밀외압시험 및 비파괴 검사를 통해 구조 안전성을 검증하였다.