In this paper, we propose an algorithm that estimates the location of lunar rover using IMU and vision system instead of the dead-reckoning method using IMU and encoder, which is difficult to estimate the exact distance due to the accumulated error and slip. First, in the lunar environment, magnetic fields are not uniform, unlike the Earth, so only acceleration and gyro sensor data were used for the localization. These data were applied to extended kalman filter to estimate Roll, Pitch, Yaw Euler angles of the exploration rover. Also, the lunar module has special color which can not be seen in the lunar environment. Therefore, the lunar module were correctly recognized by applying the HSV color filter to the stereo image taken by lunar rover. Then, the distance between the exploration rover and the lunar module was estimated through SIFT feature point matching algorithm and geometry. Finally, the estimated Euler angles and distances were used to estimate the current position of the rover from the lunar module. The performance of the proposed algorithm was been compared to the conventional algorithm to show the superiority of the proposed algorithm.

본 연구는 복합센서를 활용한 무인지게차의 주행 시스템에 대한 것이다. 무인지게차가 화물 이 적재를 위해 랙에 진입할 시 필요한 주행기술로 무인지게차의 위치 및 방향을 정확하게 파악하기 위해 RFID, IMU센서 및 근접센서로 구성된 복합센서 시스템을 이용하였고, 각 센서의 성능실험을 통해 특성을 파악한다. 이를 직접 설계/제작한 실험용 차량에 부착하여 복합센서 시스템을 적용하는 실험을 수행하고 이를 통해 개발된 시스템의 성능을 검증하였다.