• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

Mission autonomy system should be embedded on UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for mosaic warfare where UAVs autonomously assign tasks to themselves. UxAS (Unmanned x-systems Autonomy Service) proposed by Air Force Research Laboratory is mission autonomy system for unmanned platforms. UxAS has extensible structure composed of numerous module services. However, UxAS can conduct mission autonomy process only when an operator sends an autonomy request. In this paper, We analyze the process of mission autonomy in UxAS, and propose an improved structure of UxAS where mission autonomy process is autonomously triggered by situation awareness service without the request of the operator. The proposed process was validated by simulation.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.111-121
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• 2024

Recently, thanks to the development of artificial intelligence technologies such as image recognition, research on unmanned aerial vehicles is being actively conducted. In particular, related research is increasing in the field of military drones, which costs a lot to foster professional pilot personnel, and one of them is the study of an intelligent framework for autonomous mission performance of reconnaissance drones. In this study, we tried to design an intelligent framework for unmanned aerial vehicles using the methodology of designing an intelligent framework for service robots. For the autonomous mission performance of unmanned aerial vehicles, the intelligent framework and unmanned aerial vehicle module must be smoothly linked. However, it was difficult to provide interworking for drones using periodic message protocols with model-based interfaces of intelligent frameworks for existing service robots. First, the message model lacked expressive power for periodic message protocols, followed by the problem that interoperability of asynchronous data exchange methods of periodic message protocols and intelligent frameworks was not provided. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a message model extension method for message periodic description to secure the model's expressive power for the periodic message model, and proposes periodic and asynchronous data exchange methods using the extended model to provide interoperability of different data exchange methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.12
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• pp.1012-1020
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• 2018

In order to improve the capability of mission flight of tiltrotor UAV that has been developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute, a simulation study on the formation flight of autonomous control 5 level has been performed. The formation flight is based on the centralized method with leader and follower airplanes. The formation flight controller was verified through numerical simulation with 3 followers and hardware-in-the loop simulation with 1 follower. This paper describes controller design methods, hardware-in-the-looped simulation test, and performance verification using simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.447-448
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• 2012

현대 정보기술의 지속적인 발전은 무인화 및 자율화를 기반으로 한 모의 환경의 급격한 패러다임의 변화를 야기했으며 이로 인해 실 운용을 대비한 새로운 개념의 전장 환경 시뮬레이션 기술과 장치가 요구되고 있다. 그러나 무인체계 개발은 타 개발과는 차별적으로 다양하고 복잡한 기능을 고려해야함과 동시에 검증 과정이 어렵다는 특징을 가진다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 무인체계 개발을 위한 효과적인 시뮬레이터 및 데이터 생성기를 개발한다. 다양한 실 운용을 통해 개발된 시뮬레이터 및 데이터 생성기가 효과적임을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.865-873
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• 2017

사람의 역할을 대신하기 위해 등장한 무인기는 최근 취미용 드론의 발달과 함께 다양한 분야로 확산되어, 기계가 인간을 대체하는 4차 산업혁명의 한 축을 담당하고 있다. 그리고 4차 산업 혁명에 따른 지능화, 자율화는 드론의 능력과 확장성을 향상시켜 다시 드론의 발달과 확산을 강화하고 있다. 전자 및 SW 등 드론 산업 외부에서 진행된 기술혁신의 결과가 드론의 자율비행 및 자료 분석, 활용 등 드론의 발전을 선도하고 있다. 따라서 드론 분야의 발전을 위해서 타 산업 분야의 혁신 결과가 쉽고 빠르게 반영될 수 있도록 보다 개방적이고 유연한 연구개발/산업화 구조를 구축할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.211-216
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• 2021

Multiple UAV System has been used for various purposes such as reconnaissance, networking and aerial photography. In such systems, it is essential to form and maintain the formation of multiple UAVs. This paper proposes the algorithm that produces an autonomous distributed control for each vehicle for a flexible formation. This command is a repulsive force in the form of the second-order system by the nearest UAV or mission area. The algorithm uses the relative position/speed through sensing and communication for calculating the command without external intervention. The command allows each UAV to follow the reference distance and fill the mission area as densely as possible without overlapping. We determine the reference distance via optimization technique solving the packing problem. The mission area comprises the desired formation outline and can be set flexibly depending on the mission. Numerical simulation is carried out to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm under a complex and flexible environment. The formation is formed in 26.94 seconds and has a packing density of 71.91%.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.829-839
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• 2021

Autonomous system for UAVs has a capability to decide an appropriate current action to achieve the goal based on the ultimate mission goal, context of mission, and the current state of the UAV. We propose a decision-making system that has an ability to operate ISR mission autonomously under the realistic limitation such as low altitude operation with high risk of terrain collision, a set of way points without change of visit sequence not allowed, and position uncertainties of the objects for the mission. The proposed decision-making system is loaded to a Hardware-In-the-loop Simulation environment, then tested and verified using three representative scenarios with a realistic mission environment. The flight trajectories of the UAV and selected actions via the proposed decision-making system are presented as the simulation results with discussion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.250-251
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• 2022

4차 산업혁명 기반의 자율화, 무인화 등 선박기술의 새로운 패러다임이 지속적으로 제시되고 있으며, 이는 자율운항선박울 둘러싼 주변 환경에도 큰 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상되고 있다. 이 중 항만 및 연안 수역의 선박교통 안전 및 효율성의 확보와 해양환경 보호를 위하여 시행되고 있는 해상교통관제 서비스의 경우에도 자율운항선박의 출현에 대비한 사전 준비가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 현행 해상교통관제업무 분석 및 현직 관제사를 대상으로 한 설문조사를 통하여 자율운항선박에 대한 관제업무 절차 마련을 위한 기초 연구를 수행하였다. 연구의결과로 무인 자율운항선박을 고려한 디지털 정보교환 체계 기반 해상교통관제 시스템에 대한 개념을 제시하였다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.167-172
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• 2024

In major wars of the 21st century, drones are expanding beyond surveillance and reconnaissance to include land and air as well as sea and underwater for purposes such as precision strikes, suicide attacks, and cognitive warfare. These drones will perform multi-domain operations, and to this end, they will continue to develop by improving the level of autonomy and strengthening scalability based on the High-Low Mix concept. Recently, drones have been used as a major means in major wars around the world, and there seems to be a good chance that they will evolve into game changers in the future. North Korea has also been making significant efforts to operate reconnaissance and attack drones for a long time. North Korea has recently continued to engage in provocations using drones, and its capabilities are gradually becoming more sophisticated. In addition, with the recent emergence of new strategic Drones, wartime and peacetime threats such as North Korea's use of these to secure surveillance, reconnaissance and early warning capabilities against South Korea and new types of provocations are expected to be strengthened. Through this study, we hope to provide implications by analyzing the capabilities of North Korea's strategic Drones, predicting their operation patterns, and conducting active follow-up research on the establishment of a comprehensive strategy, such as our military's drone deployment and counter-drone system solutions.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.299-304
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• 2023

Recently, drones have been used as a major means of attack drones in major wars around the world, and it seems likely that they will evolve into game changers in the future. Recently, drones have been used as a major means of attack drones in major wars around the world, and it seems likely that they will evolve into game changers in the future. In the major wars of the 21century, attack drones are used for precision fire-guided or self-destruct attacks, For the purpose of cognitive warfare, its territory is expanding not only to land and air, but also to sea and water. These attack drones will perform multi-domain operations, and for this purpose, the level of autonomy will be improved and High-Low Mix We will continue to develop by strengthening concept-based scalability. North Korea has also been making considerable efforts to operate attack drones for a long time, and activities such as third-country-level self-explosive drones, artificial intelligence-based clustered self-explosive drones, and self-destructive stealth unmanned semi-submersible are expected. In addition to North Korea's provocations and attacks, it is hoped that there will be a need for active follow-up research on our military's countermeasures and utilization plans.