• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2016

Theoretical model of a variable thrust solid rocket motor with a pintle nozzle was derived. For the chamber pressure control, classical model linearization and proportional-intergral controller was used. And then two types of gain scheduling controller were suggested to imporve controller performance for the non-linear propulsion model. Considering characteristics of systems, control gains were scheduled by chamber pressure or free volume. Step responses of each controllers were compared. As a result, the proper control algorithm about characteristics of variable thrust rocket motor was suggested.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.167-174
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• 2011

Solid propulsion systems have simple structures compared to other propulsion systems and are suitable to long-term storage. However the systems generally have limits on control of thrust levels. In this paper we suggest control algorithms for combustion chamber pressure of variable thrust solid propulsion systems using special nozzles such as pintle valve. For this we use a simple pressure change model by considering only mass conservation within the combustion chamber, design a classical algorithm and also a nonlinear controller using feedback linearization technique. Derived thrust equation and designe a thrust control model. We design the proportion-integral controller for linearizing about operating point. We also demonstrate the performance of controller model through numerical simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.18-21
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• 2011

In this study, basic research on the pressure control using driven pintle of modulatable thruster is presented. For this purpose, pintle thruster and pintle shape was developed. The actuator model was selected by calculating pintle load using Fluent software. Preliminary unsteady experimental results show that huge pressure oscillation is occurred as the pintle approach toward nozzle wall. From the preliminary experimental results, we could see possibility of pressure control of the modulatable thruster.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.18-25
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• 2011

Solid propulsion systems have simple structures compared to other propulsion systems and are suitable for long-term storage. However the systems generally have limits on control of thrust levels. In this paper we suggest control algorithms for combustion chamber pressure of variable thrust solid propulsion systems using special nozzles such as pintle valve. For the pressure control within the chamber, we use a simple pressure change model by considering only mass conservation within the combustion chamber, design a classical algorithm and also a nonlinear controller using the feedback linearization technique. Also we derive the equation of the thrust for an under-expanded one-dimensional nozzle and then design a proportional-intergral controller after linearizing the thrust model for an operating point. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of the controller through a numerical simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.942-948
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• 2011

Solid propulsion systems have simple structures compared to other propulsion systems and are suitable for long-term storage. However the systems generally have limits on control of thrust levels. In this paper we introduce controllers for combustion chamber pressure using on-off control techniques which have been known for relatively easy implementation and energy efficiency. For this, we use a simple pressure change model by considering only mass conservation within the combustion chamber and we design a classical controllers and on-off controllers with are Pulse Width Modulation(PWM) and Pulse Width Pulse Frequency Modulation (PWPFM). Then we compare the performance results of the controllers through numerical simulations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.76-81
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• 2009

A nonlinear pressure controller to actively regulate the thrust of a solid propulsion system is presented. To compensate for the parametric uncertainties with respect to the chamber pressure induced by changing nozzle throat area, Lyapunov-based parameter adaptation method has been applied. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method, the experiments were carried out using the cold gas test equipment that can simulate the operating environment of variable thrust solid propulsion system. The experiment results show that the nonlinear pressure controller has better performance than conventional P and PI controller.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.262-267
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• 2012

For DACS system which controls pintle position to change nozzle throat area, one actuator has been used for each modulatable pintle thruster. This ten actuator system drove to complex system structure and complicated control mechanism. In order to overcome this shortcomings, international patents were reviewed, analysed and presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.91-92
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• 2010

다이어프램은 교류주파수에 의해 전후로 이동하는 진동판으로 공기의 압력을 조절하는 장치이다. 본 논문에서는 다이어프램의 공기 유량 및 유압을 제어하기 위해서 가변주파수의 전류 제어를 통해 다이어프램의 추력을 제어하고, 이를 통해 지령치가 요구하는 유량 및 유압의 제어가 이루어지도록 하였다. 다이어프램의 토출압력은 진동판의 주파수에 의해 조절이 가능하며, 진동 및 소음은 주파수에 반비례 하게 된다. 높은 주파수에서 충분한 추력을 내기위해서 본 논문에서는 가변주파수 전류제어 방식을 사용하였으며, 그 결과를 실험으로 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.14-15
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• 2002

기체역학 이론에 의하면, 노즐의 공급압력과 노즐의 상세형상이 주어지는 경우에 추진 노즐로부터 방출되는 제트유동의 추력을 예측할 수 있으며, 최대추력은 노즐 출구에서 유동이 적정팽창 상태로 될 때 얻어진다. 실제의 추진 로켓에서나 다른 비상체에서는 추력의 예측뿐만 아니라, 얻어지는 추력의 방향을 적절하게 조절하여 제어하는 것이 요구된다. 종래 추력벡터 제어를 위해서 많은 연구들이 수행되었다. 일례로 추진노즐 내부에 베인(vane) 등을 삽입하여, 추력벡터를 조절하거나, 추진 노즐을 가변(movable nozzle)으로 하는 방법, 그리고 노즐내부에 2차 유동을 분사(secondary flow injection)하여 평균 추력벡터를 제어하는 방법 등이 제안되어 응용되어 왔다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.388-391
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• 2017

In this study, heat transfer analysis of variable thrust control system have been conducted by using commercial CFD code and FEM code. We Carried out computational fluid dynamics analysis to obtain the temperature and convective heat transfer coefficient of hot gas of variable thrust control system. Data are used as boundary condition for heat transfer analysis using mapping method. Temperature of O-ring for sealing was predicted