• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2017

eLoran refers to a terrestrial navigation system using high-power low-frequency signals. Thus, it can be regarded as a positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system to back up a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) or an alternative to GNSS. South Korea is vulnerable to interference such as GNSS jamming in particular. Therefore, South Korea has made an effort to develop an independent navigation system through eLoran system. More particularly, an eLoran testbed has been developed to be used in the northwest sea area and research on applicability of eLoran in South Korea has been underway. The present study analyzes expected performance of eLoran according to locations of newly built eLoran transmitting stations as part of the eLoran testbed research. The performance of eLoran is analyzed in terms of horizontal position accuracy, and horizontal dilution of precision (HDOP) information was used since it affects accuracy significantly. The target service areas of the eLoran testbed are Incheon and Pyeongtaek Ports, and the required target performance is positioning accuracy of 20 m position within 30 km coverage of the target service area.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집(제2권)
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• pp.163-166
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 지상송신국 기반의 로란-C 전파항법시스템이 위성항법시스템(GNSS)의 등장이후 급속한 이용자 감소로 운영의 효율성이 떨어짐에 따라 다양한 각도의 로란-C 성능평가를 실시하여 활용능률 향상방안을 제안하였으며, 국가항법시스템의체계인 관리를 위해 DGPS시스템과 로란-C를 연계한 GNSS 정보센터를 운영하여 GPS는 물론 Galileo, GLONASS 등 위성항법시템 전반의 상황을 모니터링하고 GNSS 불능 시 로란-C를 BACK-UP시스템으로 활용한다면 GNSS 장애로 인한 국가적대혼란의 예방함께 체계적인 전파항법시스템 관리가 가능할 것으로 결론하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.602-611
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• 2015

Even though GNSS provides highly accurate navigation information all over the world, it is vulnerable to jamming in the electronic warfare due to its weak signal power. The United States and Korea have plans to use terrestrial navigation systems as back-up systems during outage of GNSS. In order to develop back-up systems of GNSS, an M&S software platform is necessary for performance evaluation of various vehicle trajectories and integrated navigation systems. In this paper a design method of an M&S software is proposed for evaluation of multiple radio positioning integration systems. The proposed M&S software consists of a navigation environment generation part, a navigation algorithm part, a GUI part and a coverage analysis part. Effectiveness of the proposed design method is shown by implementing an M&S software for the GPS, DME and eLoran navigation systems.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.6-11
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• 2002

A term of GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) is widely used to represent a navigation method for global area using satellite in space orbit 1his system can provide accurate and continuous position, and timing sources synchronized to UTC. There are, however, certain disadvantage that system can not operate without line of sight environment to satellite, or system failure of either satellite or control station. It is the pseduolite technology for using indoor and also for back-up equipment of foreign system failure. Especially, ocean applications widely use the GNSS system for navigation, surveying, timing, and management of traffic, so, system failure of GNSS will be very critical problem to affect many aspects of ocean field. In this paper, we experimented the pseudolite technology for several application field to compare the result in different environment. We used the common CDGPS algorithm for in-door navigation and experimented in ocean engineering basin with metallic wall and gymnasiums with concrete wall. We also investigated the comparison result and considerations for ocean applications of pseudolite technology.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2021

The Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) is a ground-based aircraft navigation system and is considered as an infrastructure that ensures resilient aircraft navigation capability during the event of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) outage. The main problem of DME as a GNSS back up is a poor positioning accuracy that often reaches over 100 m. In this paper, a novel approach of applying deep reinforcement learning to a DME pulse design is introduced to improve the DME distance measuring accuracy. This method is designed to develop multipath-resistant DME pulses that comply with current DME specifications. In the research, a Markov Decision Process (MDP) for DME pulse design is set using pulse shape requirements and a timing error. Based on the designed MDP, we created an Environment called PulseEnv, which allows the agent representing a DME pulse shape to explore continuous space using the Soft Actor Critical (SAC) reinforcement learning algorithm.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2011

Precise point positioning (PPP) is increasingly used in several parts such as monitoring of crustal movement and maintaining an international terrestrial reference frame using global positioning system (GPS) measurements. An accuracy of PPP data processing has been increased due to the use of the more precise satellite orbit/clock products. In this study we developed PPP algorithm that utilizes data collected by a GPS receiver. The measurement error modelling including the tropospheric error and the tidal model in data processing was considered to improve the positioning accuracy. The extended Kalman filter has been also employed to estimate the state parameters such as positioning information and float ambiguities. For the verification, we compared our results to other of International GNSS Service analysis center. As a result, the mean errors of the estimated position on the East-West, North-South and Up-Down direction for the five days were 0.9 cm, 0.32 cm, and 1.14 cm in 95% confidence level.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.385-390
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• 2016

eLoran은 측위, 항법, 시각 분야에서 요구 정확도에 따라 GPS의 대체 또는 백업시스템으로 사용될 수 있다. eLoran 송신국들은 UTC에 동기 되어 있으므로 TOA를 근거로 한 all-in-view 수신이 가능하여 높은 정확도의 시각 동기와 항법이 가능하다. 또한 LDC를 통해 송신국 및 dLoran 보정 정보 등을 방송함으로써 향상된 PNT를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 eLoran을 이용한 정밀 시각비교 측정에 필수적인 eLoran 타이밍 수신기의 지연 시간에 관련된 것들을 측정하여 보정값으로 반영하는 기술을 제시하였다. 송신기 종단의 전류 결합기로부터 로란 신호를 추출하여 3 번째 사이클과 교차하는 지점에서 펄스를 생성하는 장치를 구성하고 그 펄스를 기준으로 지연 시간을 측정하는 장치를 구현하였다. 수신기 지연은 상용 eLoran 수신기와 능동형 자기장, 전기장 안테나와 수동형 루프 안테나를 사용하여 각각의 안테나를 연결하였을 때의 지연시간을 측정하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 교정된 eLoran 타이밍 수신기를 공통시계 비교법에 이용하면 GNSS 이용 시각비교의 백업 시스템으로서 정밀한 시각비교가 필요한 분야에 활용할 수 있다.