• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1095-1102
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• 2016

This paper presents the results of the design, fabrication and tether test for a gross weight 20 kg tilt-duct VTOL aerial robot. The tilt-duct vehicle, a tri-ducts air-vehicle, which composed of two main tilt ducts for thrust and an aft-fan for pitch attitude control, has been developed as an aerial platform. The research on the air vehicle has been focused on the hover characteristics and controllability to improve the thrust and stability. The tether test for measuring various performance of vehicle and evaluating controllability have been carried out to figure out effects of modified main-prop linkage, actuator, duct configuration and control surfaces.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.233-240
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• 2016

This paper describes a three-dimensional reference trajectory generation method for giving commands to an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The trajectory is a set of consecutive curves with constant acceleration during each interval and passing through via-points at specified times or speeds. The functional inputs are three-dimensional positions and times (or speeds) at via-points, and velocities at both boundaries. Its output is the time series of position values satisfying the piecewise constant acceleration condition. To be specific, the shape of the trajectory, known as the path, is first represented by splines using third degree polynomials. A numeric algorithm is then suggested, which can overcome the demerits of cubic spline method and promptly generate a piecewise constant acceleration trajectory from the given path. To show the effectiveness of the present scheme, trajectory generation cases were treated, and their speed calculation errors were evaluated.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.758-766
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• 2023

Multi-copter of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was initially developed as strategic technology in the only military field, but it is developing into an industrial field with a wide range of applications in the civil sector based on the development and convergence of aviation technology and information and communication technology. Currently, the degree of utilization of multi-copter is increasing in various industries for the purpose of performing classic tactical missions, logistics transportation, farm management, internet supply, video filming, weather management, life-saving, etc, and active technology development responding to market demand. Existing commercial multi-copter mainly use an electric energy propulsion system consisting of an electric battery and a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor. It is the limitations for usage in the flying time (up to 20 minutes) and payload (less than 20 kg). this study aims to overcome these limitations and expand the commercialization of engine-powered multi-copter of UAV in various industries in the futures.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.250-260
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• 2018

In order to control the quadcopter using reinforcement learning, hovering of 1-axial drones prototype is implemented through reinforcement learning. A complementary filter is used to measure the correct angle, and the range of angles is from -180 degrees to +180 degrees using modified complementary filter. The policy gradient method is used together with the REINFORCE algorithm for reinforcement learning. The prototype learned in this way confirmed the difference in performance depending on the length of the episode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.335-337
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• 2016

리얼리티 예능 TV 프로그램이나 다큐멘터리, 스포츠 중계, 인터넷 개인 방송 등 다양한 방송 프로그램에서 기존의 촬영시스템과 다른 새로운 기기와 방법을 도입하고 있다. 특히 드론을 활용한 항공 촬영시스템으로 사람이나 지미짚 카메라로 촬영이 불가능했던 높은 구도에서 촬영하고, 액션 캠을 활용한 촬영시스템으로 사용자가 직접 휴대하거나 신체에 부착하여 역동적인 영상을 촬영하고 있다. 하지만 현재까지 개발 및 도입되고 있는 시스템들은 실내 촬영에 어려움과 영상 가장자리 왜곡 발생, 배터리 수명 문제로 장시간 촬영에 한계점이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 실시간으로 사용자를 검출하고 추적하면서 주변 환경과 사용자의 모습을 촬영하는 이동형 촬영 로봇 시스템을 제안하였다. 사용자의 제어 없이 실시간 촬영 및 저장 서비스를 제공하기 위해 로봇 스스로 카메라 영상을 통해 사용자를 검출, 위치 정보를 획득하고 이동하여 추적함으로써 근거리 영역을 유지한 상태로 새로운 기법과 구도에서 촬영하는 시스템을 구성하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.159-162
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 쿼드로터의 자동 호버링을 구현하기위해 다종 센서를 융합하여 자세 및 고도제어, 위치홀딩 시스템 기술을 직접 제작한 기체에 적용해 방법을 제시한다. 개발된 기술은 민간, 산업, 국방 등 다양한 분야의 드론에 적용시켜, 높은 안정성과 신뢰성을 확보한 비행 능력을 제공하는데 초점을 맞추고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.333-334
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• 2018

This is a study on controlling a drone (DJI Mavic Air) with simple hand gesture using Leap Motion controller. Four component involve are MacBook, Leap Motion controller, Android device, and DJI Mavic Air. All of this component are connected through USB, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology. The studies main purpose are to show that by controlling a drone through Leap Motion, drone amateur user can easily learn how to control a drone, and because of longer drone control range can be archived things such as search and rescue mission will be possible.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1353-1358
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• 2021

IoT (Internet of Things) emerges from various technologies such as communications, micro processors and embedded system and so on. The IoT has also been used to UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) system. In manned aircraft, a pilot and co-pilot should control FCS (Flight Control System) with FBW(Fly By Wire) system for flight operation. In contrast, the flight operation in UAV system is remotely and fully managed by GCS (Ground Control System) almost in real time. To make it possible the communication channel should be necessary between the UAV and the GCS. There are many protocols between two systems. Amongst them, MAVLink (Macro Air Vehicle Link) protocol is representatively used due to its open architecture. MAVLink does not define any securities itself, which results in high vulnerability from external attacks. This paper proposes the method to enhance data security in GCS network by applying cryptographic methods to the MAVLink messages in order to support safe UAV operations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.971-980
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• 2021

Recently popularized drone technologies have revealed that low-cost small unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) can be a significant threat to prevailing power by operating in group or in swarms. Researchers in many countries have tried to utilize integrated swarm unmanned aerial system(SUAS) in the battlefield. Agency for Defense Development also identified four core technologies in developing SUAS: swarm control, swarm network, swarm information, and swarm collaboration, and the authors started researches on swarm control and network technologies in order to be able to operate vehicle platforms as the first stage. This paper introduces design and integration of SUAS consisting of small fixed-wing UAVs, swarm control and network algorithms, a ground control system, and a launcher, with which swarm control and network technologies have been verified by flight tests. 19 fixed-wing UAVs succeeded in swarm flight in the final flight test for the first time as a domestic research.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.99-113
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• 2020

In the future, robots and drones for the convenience of our lives in everyday life will increase. As a method for controlling this, a remote control or a human voice method is most commonly used. However, the remote control needs to be operated by a person and can not ignore ambient noise in the case of voice. In this paper, we propose an economical attitude information acquisition method to accurately acquire the posture information of the arm in real time under the assumption that the surround drones or robots can be controlled wirelessly with the posture information of the arm. For this purpose, the extended Kalman filter was used to eliminate the noise of the arm position information. in order to detect the arm movement, a low cost MEMS type sensor was applied to secure the economical efficiency of the apparatus. To increase the wear ability of the arm, We developed a compact and lightweight attitude information acquisition system by integrating all functions into one chip as much as possible. As a result, the real-time performance of 1 ms was secured and the extended Kalman filter was applied to acquire the accurate attitude information of the arm with noise removed and display the attitude information of the arm in real time. This provides a basis for generating commands using real-time attitude information of the arm.