• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.349-357
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• 2022

Since the flight control computer of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a flight critical equipment, it is necessary to ensure reliability and safety from the development step, and a redundancy-based fault management design is required in order to operate normally even a failure occurs. To reduce cost, weight and power consumption, the dual-redundant flight control system design is considered in UAV. However, there are various restrictions on the fault management design. In this paper, we propose the fault detection and isolation designs for the dual-redundant flight control computer to satisfy the safety requirements of an UAV. In addition, the flight control computer developed by applying the fault management design performed functional tests in the integrated test environment, and after performing FMET in the HILS, its reliability was verified through flight tests.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.600-609
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• 2017

We designed a target management integration system that enables us to select the final target manually or automatically from seeker's sensor image. The integrated system was developed separately for the air vehicle system and the ground system. The air vehicle system simulates the motion dynamics and the sensor image of the air vehicle, and the ground system is composed of the target template image module and the ground control center module. The flight maneuver of the air vehicle is based on pseudo 6-degree of freedom motion equation and the proportional navigation guidance. The sensor image module was developed using the known infrared(IR) image rendering method, and was verified by comparing the rendered image to that of a commercial software. The ground control center module includes an user interface that can display as much information to meet user needs. Finally, we verified the integrated system with simulated impact target mission of the air vehicle, by confirming the final target change and the shot down result of the user's intervention.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.31-38
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• 2017

As demand for best practices relative to flight test safety management operations and processes in the aviation industry grows, standards for such aspects of the industry in Korea should be examined. Therefore, in this paper, we conducted flight test operation processes and safety management program development studies based on documents related to flight tests of the Korean civil aviation KC-100, the military aircraft T-50, the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), and CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) for performance validation, test evaluation and safety certification for aircraft under development and remodeling. In addition, we introduced and analyzed best practices of the FTSC (Flight Test Safety Committee) applicable to aircraft flight test processes.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.830-835
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• 2016

With the relaxation of regulations on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the USA, the development of related industries is expected. Hence, it is anticipated that the number the UAVs will reach approximately 600,000 in the USA in 2017. However, automated flights of commercial UAVs are restricted owing to concerns about accidents. To deal with the possibility of collisions, several studies on collision prevention and the routing of UAVs have been conducted. However, these studies do not deal with various situations dynamically or provide efficient solutions. Therefore, we propose a centralized routing method for the UAV that uses vehicular networks. In the proposed scheme, vehicular networks regard UAVs as data packets to be routed. Accordingly, the proposed method reduces UAV processing power required for route searches. In addition, the routing efficiency for UAV flight paths can be improved since congestion can be minimized by using a vehicular network.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.564-566
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• 2017

무인 비행체와 함께 사용되는 지상관제 시스템은 이용 영역에 따라 수많은 응용 서비스를 제공할 수 있기 때문에 해당 응용 성격에 맞게 디자인 되어야 하는 사안을 가지고 있다. 무인 비행체로부터 수집된 이미지를 활용하여 수계 관리 시스템 구축에 대한 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있는 시점에서 이를 위해 최적화 된 지상관제 시스템의 구축은 필수적이다. 기존의 지상관제 시스템은 영상 정보를 수집하기 위한 내용이 부족하기 때문에, 본 연구에서는 기존의 지상관제 시스템을 이루는 구조에서 영상 정보 수집을 위한 내용을 보완하여 수계 관리 시스템을 위한 지상관제 시스템의 기초 연구에 대한 내용을 기술하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.685-692
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• 2009

This paper dealt with the development of the Framework for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for the rotorcraft design concept and the building process of KHP(Korea Helicopter Project) - SDM(Simulation Data Management) system to manage various analysis data, which are used in the rotorcraft development phase. KHP-SDM RMDO(Rotorcraft Multidisciplinary Design Optimization) framework, which applied optimization modules of KHP-SDM and integrated the developed Multidisciplinary analysis modules, was constructed in the KHP-SDM. The results of the rotorcraft conceptual design using KHP-SDM RMDO showed that the framework was evaluated to be successfully constructed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.979-986
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• 2011

In this paper, an embedded program of a flight control system for a small high performance UAV is introduced. The program consists of modules for device management and guidance and control. The device management system handles navigation sensors and mission equipments. The program for the guidance and control system is used to accomplish various kinds of missions and realize automation of flight control. Driver programs embedded in the device management system for operation of sensors and external devices are based on Texas Instrument's DSP/BIOS RTOS(realtime operating system). The on-board programs for the guidance and control system is obtained by using the model-based auto code generation technology.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 1994

오늘날과 같이 시스템의 복잡화에 따른 고가의 시스템 구입비, 크기 및 중량의 허용한계 등과 같은 여러 제한요인 때문에 고도의 신뢰성 있는 무기체계 개발을 위해서는 무기체계 개발과정의 전 순기 동안에 시스템 안전(system safety)분야의 적용이 불가피하게 되었다. 시스템 안전에 관한 연구는 매년 증가하는 사고로부터 발생하는 엄청난 손실을 줄여보자는 필요하에 1960년 경부터 미국의 군대에서 시작되었다. 1969년 7월 미국 군사표준서MIL-STD-882(시스템 및 관련 부시스템에 대한 시스템 안전 프로그램 요구조건)가 제정된 이후 요즈음 미군의 방산물자 조달 및 획득시 시스템 안전분야 적용이 의무화되어있다. 시스템 안전분야는 개발중인 시스템의 설계, 개발, 운용과 관련된 여러 분야, 즉 품질보증, 인간공학, 시스템공학, 형상관리분야 등과 상호 밀접하게 연관되어 있으므로 이 분야에 대한 상호 이해와 끊임없는 정보교환이 요청되고 있다. 시스템 구성분야별, 무기체계 개발단계별로 조직적으로 분석된 시스템 안전결과를 토대로 프로 젝트 관리자(PM)는 개발중인 무기체계 시스템에 내재된 시스템 위험을 어느 수준까지 수용할 수 있을 것인가에 대한 현명한 판단을 내릴 수가 있게 되는데 항공기개발 프로그램의 경우 시스템 안전의 궁극적인 목표는 성공적인 초도 비행이라고 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.75-82
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• 2017

Recently, as the roles and utilization fields of UAV become more diverse, demand for high - level mission has been increasing. To solve this issue, researches on the operation of multiple small UAVs and related systems have been actively carried out. The multiple small UAVs based application system has a problem that the task complexity of control personnel increases because the control personnel must continuously control and manage several small UAVs. Hence, it is necessary to develop a software platform that can perform efficient control in order to employ a multiple small UAVs based application system successfully. In this paper, we propose an effective ground control software platform for application systems using multiple small UAVs. We first analyze the requirements for the software platform, and design and implement software based on the analysis. Simulation using the X-plane flight simulator shows that multiple flight data are effectively displayed and that the image data transmitted from many small UAVs are simultaneously displayed in real time.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.537-544
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• 2018

A national comprehensive aviation test center is being constructed for the purpose of flight tests for development and modification of aircraft or flight inspections for the development of navaids. Flight testing is a high-risk task, so strict risk management processes are required prior to operation. In addition, since the flight test center is subject to the airdrome regulations under the current law, the introduction of the safety management system will enhance safety as usual in ordinary airports. The establishment of a safety management system based on ICAO criteria is an optimal means of ensuring safe and effective operation of the test center and may mitigate the risks that may arise during flight testing. This paper focuses on risk assessment and mitigation required for safety management at the flight test center. We conducted risk assessments on the flight hazards identified in the previous study. Then the high risk group of hazards were selected and risk mitigation techniques such as avoidance, reduction, acceptance, and control were applied.