• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

This paper presents a new point navigation guidance law which is useful for unmanned helicopters. Predicting the future position, the guidance law generates velocity and heading commands, which are used as input to autopilot. This method differs from conventional guidance law in that it reorients the direction of flight velocity vector directly, not by bank angle indirectly. For flight tests, we have developed a flight control system for a R/C helicopters. The system consists of a flight control computer, navigation sensors, and a ground station The results of the test show that the proposed law guides a unmanned helicopter along a line path within a given area. In the future, we are planning to extend the guidance law to the mission of path following. i.e., waypoint navigation.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.50-55
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• 2017

The objective of this study was to use the Lanchester equation to predict the outcome of our engagement between our unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (Blue Group) and enemy UAV (Red Group). Lanchester's law states that the power of corps is proportional to the number of combatants. A second law states that the power of corps is proportional to the square of the number of combatants. The first law is a suitable law for guerrilla warfare while the second law is known as the law suitable for all-out war. Therefore, the second law is commonly used. The second law of Lanchester's was used in this study to predict engagement results. We estimated the battle loss rate value to win the battle as well as the required power number. We also predicted power number to make the damage of our group less than one. The battle loss rate to reliably receive victory when the enemy's UAV and the ally's UAV are equal in number of combat units must be 1: 1.5 or more.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.476-482
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a robust path tracking control method for autonomous underwater vehicle with variable speed. The proposed path tracking controller consists of a kinematic controller and a dynamic controller. First, the kinematic controller computes the surge speed and yaw rate to follow the reference path with variable speed. Then the dynamic controller controls the thrust force and yaw torque to move the AUV actually. In the dynamic control, we assume that the sway speed is a disturbance. In addition the dynamic controller is designed based on sliding mode conrol. We also demonstrate the stability of the proposed control method by Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, simulation results illustrate the performance of the proposed control method.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

The development of effective design allowable values for unmanned composite aircraft is an issue of paramount concern for the industry. The application of conventional manned aircraft structural certification methods to unmanned aircraft such as prototype and technology demonstrators, can lead to excessively long development time and costs. In this paper, the determining method of composite structure design allowable values for light composite unmanned aircraft is presented to reduce to the structural weight. This paper seeks to show the applicability of composite B-basis material values as a design allowable of light composite unmanned aircraft structures. A review of different civil and UAV targets failure probability is given. From the results, the researchers can know that the requirements of light composite unmanned aircraft design allowable should be alleviated, compared to manned composite aircrafts.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2018

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been used for various purposes in multiple fields, such as observation, communication relaying, and information acquisition. Nowadays, UAVs must have high performance in order to acquire more precise information in larger amounts than is now possible while performing for long periods. At present, domestically, a high-altitude long-endurance UAV (HALE UAV) for long-term flight in the stratosphere has been developed in order to replace some functions of the satellite. In this study, as a part of structural soundness evaluation of the aircraft structure developed for the HALE UAV, the structural soundness of the fasteners of the fuselage and tail is evaluated by calculating the margin of safety(M.S). The result confirms the validity of the design of the fasteners in the aircraft structure of the UAV.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-41
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• 2023

As seen in the case of the Boeing 737 Max accident, the proportion of aircraft software is rapidly increasing. However, it is vulnerable to safety issues. In case of domestic aircraft software, to operate a Light Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (LUAV) less than an empty weight of 150 kg, safety certification is required for an Ultra-Light Vehicle (ULV). However, software certification procedure is not included. Since the use of LUAVs has increased recently, software verification is required. This paper proposed a checklist of LUAV software that could be applied to LUAV referring DO-178C, an aviation software certification standard. A case study of applying the proposed checklist to the Model-based Development-based Helicopter Flight Control Computer (FCC) project currently used by domestic and foreign advanced companies and institutions was conducted.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.497-499
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• 1998

비젼 시스템을 바탕으로 한 무인 주행 시스템은 카메라로부터 입력된 영사에서 도로와 비 도로를 적절히 인식하여 그것을 바탕으로 주행을 위한 여러 장치들을 제어하는 시스템이라 할 수 있다. 한편 이와 같이 영상의 인식 결과가 핸들 제어나 속도 제어의 성능을 결정할 때 무엇보다 도로의 환경 변화에 강건한 비젼 시스템의 구현이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 비젼 시스템과 핸들 제어 시스템 두 부분을 구현하였는데, 비젼 시스템에서는 입력 영상에 대해 학습이 가능한 Multilayer Perceptron(MLP)을 이용하여 도로와 비 도로를 적절한 신뢰도로 나눈 후 피라미드 알고리즘을 거쳐 최종 도로 영역을 추출해 낸다. 핸들 제어를 위해 도로 영역의 외곽선을 모델링한 후 차량의 주행 방향 벡터를 구한다. 그 값이 핸들 제어 시스템에서의 MLP의 입력이 되어 차량의 핸들 각도를 결정하게 된다. 끝으로 옥외 차량 시뮬레이션을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘의 유용성을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.383-387
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 신속하고 정확한 산불감지를 위해 센서 네트워크 기술 및 무인 항공 기술을 접목한 새로운 형태의 화재 감지 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 광범위한 영역에 설치되는 다수의 센서 노드들과 이 영역위에서 자유로이 비행하면서 실시간으로 센서 노드에서 계측된 데이터를 수집하는 헬리콥터 및 헬리콥터에 장착되어 화재발생지점의 화상정보를 취득하고 이를 원격의 서버로 데이터를 무선 전송할 수 있는 임베디드 시스템으로 구성된다. 또한 산불 감지용 테스트베드를 제작하여 설계 제작된 시스템의 실제 적용을 통해 제안된 시스템의 유용성을 확인하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.381-382
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• 2019

본논문에서는 산업용 드론개발을 위한 안정성 향상에 대하여 연구하였다. 기존의 비행체의 경우 고신뢰도 대용량의 제어시스템을 이용하여 비행제어시스템을 구성하지만 무인 비행체는 소형 내장형시스템을 이용한다. 본 연구에서는 소형 무인 비행체에서 사용하는 소형 내장형 비행제어시스템에서 안정성을 개선하기 위한 방법으로 비행제어신호와 모터의 제어신호를 측정하여 안정상태와 이상상태를 구별한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 비행제어시스템을 수정하지 않고 비행제어시스템의 감시가 가능 할 것으로 예상한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.1043-1046
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• 2021

인공지능 무인 감독 시스템을 이용하여 코로나 시대에 다수의 인원이 한 공간에서 시험을 볼 수 없는 상황을 극복하고, 전염병의 확산을 피해 언제 어디서든 시험을 볼 수 있는 시대를 도래한다. 미리 학습된 이미지를 바탕으로 얼굴을 판별하고, Motion recognition 기능을 이용하여 얼굴, 동공, 자세 등의 움직임을 인식하여 분석한다. 이처럼 인공지능 시스템을 이용한다면, 실시간 수업 학생 관리, 범죄 예방 등 타 분야에서 다양한 서비스를 실용화할 수 있다.