• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2020

It is essential to estimate the vehicle localization for an autonomous safety driving. In particular, since LIDAR provides precise scan data, many studies carried out to estimate the vehicle localization using LIDAR and pre-generated map. The road marking always exists on the road because of provides driving information. Therefore, it is often used for map information. In this paper, we propose to generate the Gaussian mixture map based on road-marking information and localization method using this map. Generally, the probability distributions map stores the single Gaussian distribution for each grid. However, single resolution probability distributions map cannot express complex shapes when grid resolution is large. In addition, when grid resolution is small, map size is bigger and process time is longer. Therefore, it is difficult to apply the road marking. On the other hand, Gaussian mixture distribution can effectively express the road marking by several probability distributions. In this paper, we generate Gaussian mixture map and perform vehicle localization using Gaussian mixture map. Localization performance is analyzed through the experimental result.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2017

This paper presents the development of laser scanner based static obstacle detection algorithm for vehicle localization on lane lost section. On urban autonomous driving, vehicle localization is based on lane information, GPS and digital map is required to ensure. However, in actual urban roads, the lane data may not come in due to traffic jams, intersections, weather conditions, faint lanes and so on. For lane lost section, lane based localization is limited or impossible. The proposed algorithm is designed to determine the lane existence by using reliability of front vision data and can be utilized on lane lost section. For the localization, the laser scanner is used to distinguish the static object through estimation and fusion process based on the speed information on radar data. Then, the laser scanner data are clustered to determine if the object is a static obstacle such as a fence, pole, curb and traffic light. The road boundary is extracted and localization is performed to determine the location of the ego vehicle by comparing with digital map by detection algorithm. It is shown that the localization using the proposed algorithm can contribute effectively to safe autonomous driving.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.968-978
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• 2014

Autonomous vehicle technology based on information technology and software will lead the automotive industry in the near future. Vehicle localization technology is a core expertise geared toward developing autonomous vehicles and will provide location information for control and decision. This paper proposes an effective vision-based localization technology to be applied to autonomous vehicles. In particular, the proposed technology makes use of numerical maps that are widely used in the field of geographic information systems and that have already been built in advance. Optimum vehicle ego-motion estimation and road marking feature extraction techniques are adopted and then combined by an extended Kalman filter and particle filter to make up the localization technology. The implementation results of this paper show remarkable results; namely, an 18 ms mean processing time and 10 cm location error. In addition, autonomous driving and parking are successfully completed with an unmanned vehicle within a $300m{\times}500m$ space.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.451-459
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• 2011

Fundamentally, there are 5 systems are needed for autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicle: Localization, environment perception, path planning, motion planning and vehicle control. Path planning and motion planning are accomplished based on result of the environment perception process. Thus, high reliability of localization and the environment perception will be a criterion that makes a judgment overall autonomous navigation. In this paper, via map matching using vehicle dynamic model and LIDAR sensors, replace high price localization system to new one, and have researched an algorithm that lead to robust autonomous navigation. Finally, all results are verified via actual unmanned ground vehicle tests.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2013

This paper proposes a vision-based indoor localization method for autonomous vehicles. A single upward-facing digital camera was mounted on an autonomous vehicle and used as a vision sensor to identify artificial landmarks and any natural corner features. An interest point detector was used to find the natural features. Using an optical flow detection algorithm, information related to the direction and vehicle translation was defined. This information was used to track the vehicle movements. Random noise related to uneven light disrupted the calculation of the vehicle translation. Thus, to estimate the vehicle translation, a Kalman filter was used to calculate the vehicle position. These algorithms were tested on a vehicle in a real environment. The image processing method could recognize the landmarks precisely, while the Kalman filter algorithm could estimate the vehicle's position accurately. The experimental results confirmed that the proposed approaches can be implemented in practical situations.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.132-151
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• 2022

차량 측위 기술은 차량의 정확한 위치 정보를 제공한다는 점에서 자율주행을 위한 핵심 기술 중 하나로 평가되고 있다. 이미지 기반의 측위 기술은 위치 정보를 효율적으로 제공할 수 있을 것으로 판단되어 다양한 관련 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만, 기존 특징점 또는 차선 정보를 이용한 이미지 기반 측위 방법론은 도로 및 운행 환경에 측위 정확도가 큰 영향을 받을 수 있다는 한계가 있다. 선분 매칭은 특징점에 비하여 텍스쳐 반복에 강건하고 주변 환경 전체에서 추출된 선분을 활용하기 때문에 기존 방법론의 단점을 해결할 수 있다. 하지만, 차량 운행환경을 대상으로 한 선분 매칭 방법론을 다루는 연구는 거의 진행된 바 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 정확한 차량 측위 지원을 위한 선분 매칭 프레임워크를 제안한다. 또한 도로 주행 환경에서의 알고리즘 성능 비교 분석을 통하여 최적 선분 매칭 알고리즘을 결정하였다. 최종적으로 제안된 프레임워크는 선분 추출, 병합, 중첩 영역 탐지 및 MSLD 기반 선분 매칭의 4단계로 구성되었다. 제안된 프레임워크는 차량의 속도, 운행 방식, 주변 환경에 상관없이 차량 측위에 충분한 수준의 선분 매칭을 안정적으로 수행하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.430-435
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 상대위치인식과 자계기반 안내를 결합한 무인주행 차량의 주행기법을 제안한다. 자계기반 주행은 이동하는 경로에 자계가 항상 계측되면 안정적인 자율주행이 가능하다. 하지만 외부요인으로 인해 자계가 검출되지 않으면 예측 불가능한 상황이 발생하는 단점이 있다. 따라서 상대위치인식을 이용한 무인주행을 통해 자계가 검출되지 않는 구간을 극복하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법의 유용함을 검증하기 위하여 차량을 개발하고 자계기반 주행 실험하였다. 또한 자계가 없는 구간에서의 상대항법을 이용한 무인주행 실험을 실시하고 결과를 분석하여 문제점 극복의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2017

GPS provides the positioning solution in most areas of the world. However, the position error largely occurs in the urban area due to signal attenuation, signal blockage, and multipath. Although many studies have been carried out to solve this problem, a definite solution has not yet been proposed. Therefore, research is being conducted to solve the vehicle localization problem in the urban environment by converging sensors such as cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR). In this paper, the precise vehicle localization using 3D LIDAR (Velodyne HDL-32E) is performed in the urban area. As there are many tall buildings in the urban area and the outer walls of urban buildings consist of planes generally perpendicular to the earth's surface, the outer wall of the building meets at a vertical corner and this vertical corner can be accurately extracted using 3D LIDAR. In this paper, we describe the vertical corner extraction method using 3D LIDAR and perform the precise localization by combining the extracted corner position and GPS/DR information. The driving test was carried out in an about 4.5 km-long section near Teheran-ro, Gangnam. The lateral and longitudinal RMS position errors were 0.146 m and 0.286 m, respectively and showed very accurate localization performance.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.795-800
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• 2008

The paper presents research for the established experiment environment of multi vehicle robot, localization algorithm that is based on vehicle control, and path tracking. The established experiment environment consists of ultrasonic positioning system, vehicle robot, server and wireless module. Ultrasonic positioning system measures positioning for using ultrasonic sensor and generates many errors because of the influence of environment such as a reflection of wall. For a solution of this fact, localization algorithm is proposed to determine a location using vehicle kinematics and selection of a reliable location data. And path tracking algorithm is proposed to apply localization algorithm and LOS, finally, that algorithms are verified via simulation and experimental

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2015

Automated driving systems require a high level of performance regarding environmental perception, especially in urban environments. Today's on-board sensors such as radars or cameras do not reach a satisfying level of development from the point of view of robustness and availability. Thus, map data is often used as an additional data input to support these systems. An accurate digital map is used as a powerful additional sensor. In this paper, we propose a new approach for vehicle localization using a lane map and a single-layer LiDAR. The maps are created beforehand using a highly accurate DGPS and a single-layer LiDAR. A pose estimation of the vehicle was derived from an iterative closest point (ICP) match of LiDAR's intensity data to the lane map, and the estimated pose was used as an observation inside a Kalmanfilter framework. The achieved accuracy of the proposed localization algorithm is evaluated with a highly accurate DGPS to investigate the performance with respect to lateral vehicle control.