• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.46-55
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• 2006

In general, 3-dimensional point-mass equation has been widely used for the trajectory optimization of the fixed-wing aircraft and reentry vehicle. But it should be modified and represent target vehicle's own characteristics. For a lighter-than-air vehicle such as an airship, there exists different and peculiar flight characteristics compared with the aircraft. The first part of this paper is to derive the dynamic equation of motion for the mid-altitude unmanned airship and the second part is to obtain the optimal trajectories under the minimal time flight given constraints. The trajectory optimization problem is converted into the nonlinear programming problem using Sequential Quadratic Programming approach. Finally numerical solutions are presented in the last part of the paper.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.45-54
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• 2006

General unmaned airship, in use of aviation photography, needs both airship -controller and camera-controller who work together in harmony. In oder to reduce this manpower and get the good Geographical Information Systems(GIS) data, it is necessary to use a autopilot controller which guides a exact path lines. This paper presents the autopilot control law base on classical PID control. Moreover, this paper shows the result of flight test, the procedure of gain tuning and LOS guidance algorism that is reduce a tracking error.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.87-99
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• 2008

High Altitude Platform network systems utilize Unmanned Aerial Vehicle as routers for ground node communication. For this purpose, geographical clustering of ground nodes must be required. In this paper, we assume mobile ground nodes over wide area and the clusters composed of ground nodes are identified. UAVs can be positioned at the point of centroid of clusters. The number of UAVs are derived from the area size and the number of ground nodes deployed in that area. From the simulation and application of clustering algorithms, we showed visual clustering results with dynamic variance of number of ground nodes.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.620-626
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• 2019

With the development of robot technology, the expectation of autonomous mission operations has increased, and the research on robot control architectures and mission planners has continued. A scalable and robust control architecture is required for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform a variety of tasks, such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and search and rescue operations, in unstructured and time-varying maritime environments. In this paper, we propose a robot control architecture along with a new utility function that can be extended to various applications for USVs. Also, an additional structure is proposed to reflect the operator's command and improve the performance of the autonomous mission. The proposed architecture was developed using a robot operating system (ROS), and the performance and feasibility of the architecture were verified through simulations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.442-442
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• 2012

농업용저수지 수질측정 현황은 17,600여 개소 농업용저수지 중 농업용수 수질측정망 조사시설은 저수지 800개소이며, 농업용 호소로서 환경부 조사 시행 호소수질측정망시설 26개소(저수지 16개소, 담수호 10개소)를 포함한 826개소를 대상으로 농업용수 수질을 분석 평가하고 있다. 저수지 자율항법 자동수질측정을 위하여 개발한 운영시스템은 내용적측정 무인탐사선과의 연계운항 제어모듈 개발 및 저수지 수질측정을 위한 최적항로 운항모듈을 개발하였다. 자율항법 무인탐사선의 자동수질 측정을 위한 운항 제어 알고리즘 설계를 위하여 기존의 자율항법 탐사선의 운항 알고리즘과 수질자동 측정장치 제어 알고리즘을 분석하여 연계 제어모듈을 설계하고 프로그래밍 하였다. 운영과정은 선박운영 프로그램에서 수질모니터링 프로그램으로 Operation Start 명령을 전송하면 수질모니터링 프로그램에서 이 명령을 수신한 이후에 윈치제어 및 수질측정, 각 해당 수심에서 시료채수를 수행한 이후에 Opeartion End 신호를 선박운영 프로그램에 전송하면 다음 지점으로 이동할 수 있도록 하였다. 이를 통하여 효율적인 농업용저수지의 무인자동 수질측정 및 채수기술을 개발 제공하도록 하겠다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.43-54
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• 2012

This paper presents a new localization technique of an UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle) by matching ortho-edge images generated from a DSM (Digital Surface Map) which represents the 3D geometric information of an outdoor navigation environment and 3D range data which is obtained from a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor mounted at the UGV. Recent UGV localization techniques mostly try to combine positioning sensors such as GPS (Global Positioning System), IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), and LIDAR. Especially, ICP (Iterative Closest Point)-based geometric registration techniques have been developed for UGV localization. However, the ICP-based geometric registration techniques are subject to fail to register 3D range data between LIDAR and DSM because the sensing directions of the two data are too different. In this paper, we introduce and match ortho-edge images between two different sensor data, 3D LIDAR and DSM, for the localization of the UGV. Details of new techniques to generating and matching ortho-edge images between LIDAR and DSM are presented which are followed by experimental results from four different navigation paths. The performance of the proposed technique is compared to a conventional ICP-based technique.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 2017

Recently, electric propulsion systems are used for unmanned surface vehicle, fish finder boat, etc. Some of these propulsion systems can be constructed of two electric motors and propellers for advanced impellent force. In this case, the speed difference generated between two propellers, namely, the synchronous error has a bad influence on the energy efficiency and course error. In this study, a synchronous control system is designed to restrain synchronous error caused by disturbance and mismatched dynamic characteristics. The control system is composed of the reference model, pre-filters, speed controllers, and synchronous controllers. The reference model is used for calculating the decoupled synchronous error and control input for each propulsion system. The pre-filters and speed controllers are designed in order that the propulsion system may follow the reference signal without overshoot and input saturation. And the synchronous controllers are designed from the viewpoint of stable and quick synchronization through root locus mothed approach. Finally, the simulation results show that the designed control system is effective for the disturbance.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.5_1
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• pp.1071-1081
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• 2021

Remote Sensing using unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV) can acquire images with higher time resolution and spatial resolution than aerial and satellite remote sensing. However, UAV images are photographed at low altitude and the area covered by one image isrelatively narrow. Therefore multiple images must be processed to monitor large area. Since UAV images are photographed under different exposure conditions, there is difference in brightness values between adjacent images. When images are mosaicked, unnatural seamlines are generated because of the brightness difference. Therefore, in order to generate seamless mosaic image, a radiometric processing for correcting difference in brightness value between images is essential. This paper proposes a relative radiometric calibration and image blending technique. In order to analyze performance of the proposed method, mosaic images of UAV images in agricultural and mountainous areas were generated. As a result, mosaic images with mean brightness difference of 5 and root mean square difference of 7 were avchieved.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.65-69
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• 2008

This study is aimed to develope a remote control ship for acquisition of various underwater information. Remote control ship equipped with GPS, echosounder, sidescan sonar, subbottom profiler. Remote control ship is an automatic system for acquisition of inland water and coast information. For the development of remote control ship, underwater information acquisition of reservoir, dam, polluted area is expected. Also, multibeam echosounder, image sensor, water analysis sensor, etc. could be equipped in one ship. So robot-ship will be applied for the most part of industry managing water resources and preventing the flood by making bed topographic map and estimating water volumes.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.71-77
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• 2005

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is generally flied via a pre-planned flight path or real-time commands by an operator. To succeed in an assigned mission, analysis such as the line-of-sight analysis for communication between UAV and a ground data terminal should be performed. In this paper, various analysis algorithms which are performed by a ground control station in pre-flight and in-flight phases, are proposed for the safe flight of UAV. Note that the proposed algorithms can be applied to most UAV systems.