• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.141-150
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• 2004

Dose rate characteristics of cosmic radiation field at flight altitudes were analyzed and the route doses to the personnels on board due to cosmic-ray were calculated for Korean-based commercial international airline routes using CARI-6. Annual individual doses to aircrew and the collective effective dose of passengers were estimated by applying the calculated route doses to the flight schedules of aircrew and the air travel statistics of Korea. The result shows that the annual doses to aircrew, around 2.62 mSv, exceed the annual dose limit of public and are comparable to doses of the group of workers occupationally exposed. Therefore it is necessary to consider the frequent flyers as well as the aircrew as the occupational exposure group. The annual collective dose to 11 million Korean passengers in 2001 appeared to be 136 man-Sv. The results should be modified when the dose rates of cosmic radiation at high altitude are revised by taking into account the changes in the radiation weighting factors for protons and neutrons as given in ICRP 92.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.149-156
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• 2019

In the field of maintenance of power transmission lines, drones have been used for their patrol and inspection by KEPCO since 2017. This drone technology was originally developed by KEPCO Research Institute, and now workers from four regional offices of KEPCO have directly applied this technology to the drone patrol and inspection tasks. In the drone inspection system, a drone with an optical zooming camera and a thermal camera can fly automatically along the transmission lines by the ground control system developed by KEPCO Research Institute, but its camera gimbal has been remotely controlled by a field worker. Especially the drone patrol and inspection has been mainly applied for the transmission lines in the inaccessible areas such as regions with river-crossings, sea-crossings and mountains. There are often communication disruptions between the drone and its remote controller in such extreme fields of mountain areas with many barriers. This problem may cause the camera gimbal be out of control, even though the inspection drone flies along the flight path well. In addition, interference with the reception of real-time transmitted videos makes the field worker unable to operate it. To solve these problems, we have developed the auto-tracking camera gimbal system with deep learning method. The camera gimbal can track the transmission line automatically, even when the transmitted video on a remote controller is intermittently unavailable. To show the effectiveness of our camera gimbal system, its field test results will be presented in this paper.

• 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.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.96-103
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• 2010

The propulsion systems such as upper stages of launch vehicles, orbiters, spacecrafts have to operate in the zero gravity environment. Because the flight condition where the vehicle undergoes is different from the normal gravity state, many studies have been being in progress. Fluid behavior in the zero gravity condition is differently shown in the normal gravity state because the importance of the intermolecular force, such as adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension is enlarged. In this paper, we investigate the characteristic of fluid behavior and describe effects and problems on the liquid propulsion system due to these fluid behavior. We also check which studies are in progress in order to solve these problems.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.240-247
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• 2006

Tilt rotor aircraft is a multi-configuration airplane which has three independent flight modes; helicopter, conversion, and aiplane. The control surface mixer resign is reqctired to generate and distribute efficient control forces and moments in each flight mode. In the conversion mode, the thrust vector is changed from helicopter mode to airplane, therefore the thrust vector makes undesired forces and moments which affect on pitch, roll and yaw dynamics. This paper describes the design results of control surface mixer design which minimize the undesired forces and moments due to nacelles tilting angle change for 4O% scaled model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.573-576
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• 2010

The propulsion systems such as upper stages of launch vehicles, orbiters, spacecrafts have to operate in the zero gravity environment. Because the flight condition where the vehicle undergoes is different from the normal gravity state, many studies have been being in progress. Fluid behavior in the zero gravity condition is differently shown in the normal gravity state because the importance of the intermolecular force, such as adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension is enlarged. In this paper, we investigate the characteristic of fluid behavior and describe effects and problems on the liquid propulsion system due to these fluid behavior. We also check which studies are in progress in order to solve these problems.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.60-60
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• 2004

인공위성 편대 비행은 하나의 대형 위성을 쏘아 올리는 것보다 비용면에서 절약효과를 볼 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 우주 공간상에서 간섭계의 구현이 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 우주 간섭계의 구현은 위성 편대의 재배치 기동(Reconfiguration maneuver)을 통하여, 원하는 관측대상으로의 지향을 자유로이 할 수 있으며, 기저선의 크기에 제약을 받지 않으므로 간섭계의 효과를 극대화시키는 것이 가능하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2000

최근 초고속 멀티 미디어 통신망을 경제적으로 구성할 수 있는 하나의 방안으로서 성층권 통신시스템에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 성층권 통신 시스템이란 대류권(Troposphere, 지상 10-20 Km) 위에 존재하는 성층권(Stratosphere, 지상 20-50 Km)에 통신 탑재체를 싣고 있는 비행선을 체공시켜 각종 무선 통신 서비스를 제공하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 실측 데이터를 이용한 채널 모델을 적용하여 성층권 통신 채널을 섀도우잉이 포함된 라이시안 채널로 모델링하였으며, 이러한 채널에서의 BPSK시스템의 성능을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2000

This paper represented the analytic results of outage probability, considering the effect of Rician fading, Interference and Interference-reduction techniques and simulated, when cellular system was constructed by using Stratospheric platform, one of the next generation wireless communication infras which provides high speed multimedia services.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.42-54
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• 2009

Contrast to the 6-DOF nonlinear dynamic modeling of nonlinear tracking problem, 3-DOF point-mass modeling of flight mechanics is efficient and adequate for applying the trajectory optimization problem. There exist limitations to apply an optimal trajectory from point-mass modeling as a reference trajectory directly to conduct the nonlinear tracking control, In this paper, new matching trajectory optimization scheme is proposed to compensate those differences of mismatching. To verify performance of proposed method, full ascent three-dimensional flight trajectories are obtained by reflecting the real constraints of flight conditions and airship performance with and without jet stream condition. Then, they are compared with the optimal trajectories obtained from conventional method.