• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.86-94
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• 2019

This paper describes the development of unmanned vehicle remote control system which is configured with steering and accelerating/braking hardware to improve the sense of reality and safety of control. Generally, in these case of the remote control system, a joystick-type device is used for steering and accelerating/braking control of unmanned vehicle in most cases. Other systems have been developing using simple steering wheel, but there is no function of that feedback the feeling of driving situation to users and it mostly doesn't include the accelerating/braking control hardware. The technology of feedback means that a reproducing the feeling of current driving situation through steering and accelerating/braking hardware when driving a vehicle in person. In addition to studying feedback technologies that reduce unfamiliarity in remote control of unmanned vehicles, it is necessary to develop the remote control system with hardware that can improve sense of reality. Therefore, in this study, the reliable remote control system is developed and required system specification is defined for applying force-feedback haptic control technology developed through previous research. The system consists of a steering-wheel module similar to a normal vehicle and an accelerating/braking pedal module with actuators to operate by feedback commands. In addition, the software environment configured by CAN communication to send feedback commands to each modules. To verify the reliability of the remote control system, the force-feedback haptic control algorithms developed through previous research were applied, to assess the behavior of the algorithms in each situation.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.68-73
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• 2020

This purpose of this paper was to review the development trend of the VTOL MAVs with a ducted propellant that can fly like the VTOL at intermediate and high speeds, hovering, landing, and lifting off vertically over urban areas, warships, bridges, and mountainous terrains. The MAV differs in flight characteristics from helicopters and fixed wings in many respects. In addition to enhancing thrust, the duct protects personnel from accidental contact with the spinning rotor. The purpose of the U.S. Army FCS and DARPA's OAV program is spurring development of a the VTOL ducted MAV. Today's MAVs are equipped with video/infrared cameras to hover-and-stare at enemies hidden behind forests and hills for approximately one hour surveillance and reconnaissance. Class-I is a VTOL ducted MAV developed in size and weight that individual soldiers can store in their backpacks. Class-II is the development of an organic VTOL ducted fan MAV with twice the operating time and a wider range of flight than Class-I. MAVs will need to develop to perch-and-stare technology for lengthy operation on the current hover-and-stare. The near future OAV's concept is to expand its mission capability and efficiency with a joint operation that automatically lifts-off, lands, refuels, and recharges on the vehicle's landing pad while the manned-unmanned ground vehicle is in operation. A ducted MAV needs the development of highly accurate relative position technology using low cost and small GPS for automatic lift-off and landing on the landing pad. There is also a need to develop a common command and control architecture that enables the cooperative operation of organisms between a VTOL ducted MAV and a manned-unmanned ground vehicle.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.760-767
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• 2011

To strategically select the technology priority based on the understanding of technology development trends and prospects is very important. To provide such guidance for autonomous driving technology in unmanned ground combat vehicles, this report deals with followings; 1) The core technologies for autonomous driving are reviewed. 2) And domestic and foreign policies for relevant technology development are investigated. 3) Then, to estimate the technology development trend, the published patents and research papers are analyzed. 4) Based on those analyses, domestic technology level and development prospects are expected.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.794-802
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• 2017

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been considered as valuable aerial reconnaissance systems and our army wants capability-enhanced UAVs installed in our territory, hoping that the UAVs will provide enemy information in detail. The enemy information acqcuired by UAVs would be shared by our army's legacy systems. In this article, we made a research on the interoperability between UAVs and Ground Fighting Vehicles (GFVs), laying emphasis on what kinds of tactical information could be exchanged by two different weapon systems. Also, it needs to be addressed that their upper-level commanding systems play a significant role in such operation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.781-789
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• 2021

In this paper, we quantitatively analyzed the required UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) failure rate of small UAV (≤25kg) based on the harm to human caused by UAV crash to fly over the populated area. We compute the number of harm to human when UAV falls to the ground at certain descent point by using population density, car traffic, building to land ratio, number of floors of building data of urban area and UAV descent trajectory modeling. Based on this, the maximum allowable UAV failure rate is calculated to satisfy the Target Level of Safety(TLS) for each UAV descent point. Then we can generate the failure rate requirement in the form of map. Finally, we divide UAV failure rate into few categories and analyze the possible flight area for each failure rate categories. Considering the Youngwol area, it is analyzed that the UAV failure rate of at least 10^-4 (failure/flight hour) is required to access the residential area.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.705-715
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• 2008

Today raises its head on the issue of interoperability caused by the complexity of the embedded software and the diverse development environment about SUGV(Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle). So, we propose to adopt the original MDA mechanism for this heterogeneous embedded development. To solve this problem, we apply for developing SUGV with MDA(Model Driven Architecture) using the original UML profile mechanism. Through this method, it can be semi-automatically transformed into TSM(Target specific model) after modeling TIM(Target Independent Model). Then we can also automatically generate the heterogeneous source codes. Therefore it will be reduced the development cycle and effort of the heterogeneous systems. We verify the benefits of our proposed approach and the reliability through analyzing the generated codes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.59-67
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• 2008

In the next near future, the human would like to use the small unmanned ground vehicle(SUGV) on the diverse fields. Specially the world of today is tried to apply with operating the task on very difficult working environments such as some dangerous or unreachable area. To work this task, this vehicle should be guaranteed with the high level of reliability, safety, and performance. In this paper, we propose to focus on not only the functional requirements, but also the non-functional requirements based on software architecture at the design stage for developing the embedded system. Through focusing on the non-functional requirements on this software architecture, we can obtain the design goal of the target system and also show the enhancement of reliability, safety and performance with 'Vtune' performance analysis tool.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.47-60
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• 2018

Today's unmanned technology, which is being used in various industries, is expected to be able to make autonomous judgements as autonomous technology matures, in the long run aspects. In order to improve the usability of unmanned system in the military field, it is necessary to develop a technique for systematically and quantitatively analyzing the efficiency and effectiveness of the unmanned system by means of a substitute for the tasks performed by humans. In this paper, we propose the method of representing rule-based tactical behavior and modeling manned and unmanned reconnaissance agents that can effectively analyze the path alternatives which is required for the future armored cavalry to establish a reconnaissance mission plan. First, we model the unmanned ground vehicle, small tactical vehicle, and combatant as an agent concept. Next, we implement the proposed agent behavior rules, e.g., maneuver, detection, route determination, and combatant's dismount point selection, by NetLogo. Considering the conditions of maneuver, enemy threat elements, reconnaissance assets, appropriate routes are automatically selected on the operation area. It is expected that it will be useful in analyzing unmanned ground system effects by calculating reconnaissance conducted area, time, and combat contribution ratio on the route.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

This paper presents an autonomous detection and aiming point computation of a battle tank by using RGB images. Maximally stable extremal regions algorithm was implemented to find features of the tank, which are matched with images extracted from streaming video to figure out the region of interest where the tank is present. The median filter was applied to remove noises in the region of interest and decrease camouflage effects of the tank. For the tank segmentation, k-mean clustering was used to autonomously distinguish the tank from its background. Also, both erosion and dilation algorithms of morphology techniques were applied to extract the tank shape without noises and generate the binary image with 1 for the tank and 0 for the background. After that, Sobel's edge detection was used to measure the outline of the tank by which the aiming point at the center of the tank was calculated. For performance measurement, accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure were analyzed by confusion matrix, resulting in 91.6%, 90.4%, 85.8%, and 88.1%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.05b
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• pp.818-820
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 도로 지하에 매설되어 있는 2m${\times}$2m 정도 규격의 박스형태 암거의 좁은 공간에서 원활하게 준설작업을 할 수 있는 준설시스템의 개발을 하고자 한다. 준설시스템의 작업과정은 지하에 매설된 암거의 내부를 �렵罹만� 원격 조정하여, 오염된 슬러지 준설 작업을 수행하는 준설기와 슬러지를 지상으로 반출하는 유압식 듀얼 이송스크류 슬러지 배출 차량 및 지상으로 반출된 슬러지의 수분을 제거하는 슬러지 탈수 처리 장치로 구성되어 있다.