• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.343-352
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• 2016

A multi-rotor vehicle is an unmanned vehicle consisting of multiple rotors. A multi-rotor vehicle can be categorized as tri-, quad-, hexa-, and octo-rotor depending on the number of the rotors. Multi-rotor vehicles have many advantages due to their agile flight capabilities such as the ability for vertical take-off, landing and hovering. Thus, they can be widely used for various applications including surveillance and monitoring in urban areas. Since multi-rotors are subject to uncertain environments and disturbances, it is required to implement robust attitude stabilization and flight control techniques to compensate for this uncertainty. In this research, an advanced nonlinear control algorithm, i.e. sliding mode control, was implemented. Flight experiments were carried out using an onboard flight control computer and various real-time autonomous attitude adjustments. The feasibility and robustness for flying in uncertain environments were also verified through real-time tests based on disturbances to the multi-rotor vehicle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.382-386
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• 2006

Three dimensional numerical analysis of the supersonic turbines with different rotor tip clearances was conducted to analyze the effect of the tip gap clearance variations on the turbine performance. The result showed that the turbine performance deteriorates and the tip leakage increases by the effect of the rotor tip clearance and the tip leakage affects turbine performance degradation dominantly.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.12
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• pp.1245-1255
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• 2012

There are various anti-jamming algorithms for the GNSS system which is vulnerable to jamming, and the methods using array antenna show the best performance. Among them, the DOA estimation algorithms to identify the location of the jammer is very important. However, in case of the rotorcraft, the wireless channel which amplitude and phase changes with time is generated by the rotation of the rotor and it affects the performance of existing anti-jamming algorithms. In this paper, we modeled the effect of the rotor in four scenarios according to the correlation of antennas and assured that the performance of DOA estimation algorithms are degraded and saturated regardless of JNR due to the rotor effect. When we use the averaging method to solve this problem, the performance is improved as increasing samples for estimating. And in case of using moving average method with averaging, it shows similar performance. In addition, it reduces the required memory and moderates the variation of DOA estimation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.149-152
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• 2010

It was investigated that effect of the supersonic impulse turbine rotor leading edge thickness which was the part of 75 ton open cycle liquid rocket engine turbopump. The test for turbine was performed that the rotor thickness to pitch ratio was 1.9 and 1.4 to 30 ton turbine. As a result of test, the rotor with lower thickness(1.4) had 1.5% efficiency gain to the higher thickness(1.9) and the pressure ratio with maximum efficiency was increased to the nozzle full expansion point.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.597-609
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• 2020

These days, the coaxial rotor system is used for various purposes like UAVs, Mars exploration helicopters, and the next-generation high-speed rotorcraft. A number of research projects on aerodynamic performance of rotor systems, including the coaxial configuration have been made previously. On the contrary, research on rotor blade deformation has been mainly carried out regarding the single rotor system, where such effort has not been enough on the coaxial system. Nonetheless, in case of the coaxial system, blade deformation analysis is much more important because of the complex air flow around the rotors, and that the distance between the two rotors is a key factor affects aerodynamic performance of the entire system. For these reasons, an experimental study on rotor blade deformation of the coaxial system was conducted using the Stereo Pattern Recognition(SPR) technique, one of the state-of-the-art of photogrammetry method. In this research, a small-scale coaxial rotor test stand designed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI) was used. With the same test stand, performance of the coaxial configuration had been studied before the experimental study on blade deformation, in order to find the relation between performance and blade deformation of the rotor system. Results of the performance test and the deformation study are presented in this article.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.631-638
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• 2017

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of a rotor design on the performance characteristics of a slurry pump using the tornado principle. The slurry pump differs considerably in terms of construction as well as operating principle when compared to the conventional centrifugal pump. The design parameters of the cross-shaped rotor included the diameter, thickness and height. The total head, shaft and water powers, and pump efficiency as a function of flow rate were compared with the design parameter. It was found that as the rotor diameter and height increase, the efficiency increases, whereas, an increase in the rotor thickness decreases the efficiency. In the rotor design condition of this study, the specific area and efficiency of the maximum height rotor were, respectively, smaller and higher than those of maximum diameter rotor.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.373-375
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• 2003

상반회전 풍력발전 시스템의 경우 전방에 위치한 로터의 후류 효과를 적절히 반영하여 설계에 이용해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 로터의 후류효과 및 블레이드의 실속후 모델을 고려하여 30kW급 상반회전시스템의 설계형상에 대한 검토연구를 수행하였다 기본공력이론은 모멘텀 이론과 2차원 준정상 공기력 이론을 통합한 형태를 사용하였다. 로터의 후류영향을 고려하기 위해 축소형 풍차 블레이드 모델에 대한 풍동시험 결과를 적절히 이용하며, 이로부터 보조로터를 지난 후류의 축속도 및 각속도 성분을 결정하였다. 최종적으로 상반회전 시스템의 로터 반경 및 상호 이격거리 등을 고려한 성능해석을 수행하고 이로부터 최적 설계형상에 대한 파라미터 연구결과를 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.621-627
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• 2008

Aerodynamic data measured in a wind tunnel has inevitable errors due to the presence of the wind tunnel walls. These unwanted interference effects must be corrected for the wall interference free aerodynamic data. Streamline curvature effects are caused by straightening of streamlines due to wind tunnel walls. Classical Glauert's correction method that is a standard method for fixed wing aircraft is not suitable for rotary wing aircraft. In this paper, Heyson's correction method of which wake model is compatible with rotors is used to correct the rotor shaft angle as well as the dynamic pressure. The results of Heyson's method are compared with Glauert's correction method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.78-86
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• 2006

This paper presents the performance test result of the 30-ton class turbopump turbine. Test has been conducted using high pressure cold air, The turbine overall performance has been measured for various pressure ratio and rotational speed settings. The nozzle-rotor clearance effect on turbine performance also has been tested for the four kinds of the nozzle-rotor clearance values. We found that turbine efficiency rated 51.1% at its design velocity ratio and pressure ratio of 13.5. We also found that turbine efficiency can be increased by 3.5% for approximately 1mm decrement of the nozzle-rotor clearance from its nominal value.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.164.2-164.2
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• 2011

지구온난화에 따른 대체에너지 자원확보가 국가적으로 중요한 과제로 대두되고 있고 여러 대체에너지원 중 국내의 해양에너지는 잠재량이 매우 높다. 여러 해양에너지 중에서 빠른 흐름을 이용하는 조류발전은 서해안과 남해안에 적용하기에 적합하며 해양환경을 보존하면서 많은 에너지를 생산할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 조류발전에서 1차적으로 에너지를 변환시키는 로터는 주요한 장치중의 하나로 여러 변수에 의해 그 성능이 결정된다. 로터의 블레이드 수, 형상, 단면적, 허브, 직경 등 여러 요소를 고려하여 설계되어야 한다. 또한 조류발전을 적용하는 해양환경에서 최대 출력을 생산할 수 있는 로터가 적용될 수 있도록 블레이드의 후류 영향을 고려해야한다. 본 논문에서는 날개요소이론을 바탕으로 수평축 조류발전 터빈을 설계하여 실험 및 유동해석을 통해 성능을 평가하고, 후류에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.