• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.536-541
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• 2012

An instrumented pod has been developed to measure the aeroacoustic environment as well as the conventional data such as load, vibration, and aerodynamic heating of fighters during flight tests, confirming to the recently developed external pod design for fighters. This study presents the development of the measurement system in detail, being the first indigenous effort in its kind. The pod was designed to meet the requirements of the MIL-HDBK-1763 and MIL-STD-810 Method 515, which are the base to determine the locations and range of sensors. The Endevco 8510B-2 was selected as the sensor to withstand the harsh environment during the flight tests. In order to assess the integrity of the fabricated pod design, a ground run-up test of a KF-16 has been conducted with the pod installed at Station 5. The test results show that the system works well but the sound level exceeds the predetermined sensor range. The sensor range has been readjusted for flight test performed later.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.268-277
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• 2019

Flight test systems should monitor various conditions in real time during flight tests and take safety measures in an emergency. The importance of ensuring test safety increases in more complicated and wider test environments. Also, due to the transition of wartime operational authority, many guided missile systems must be developed simultaneously. Early deployment and budget reduction by shortening the development and T&E periods are also necessary. Consequently, the risk of flight tests under the circumstance of inefficient test resources is increasing. To address this deficiency, a flight test system model using SysML was proposed in this study. The method of designing and verifying the test system is based on the agile shift left testing methodology of advanced T&E labs and utilizing a system reference model in the aerospace field. Through modeling and simulation analysis, early identification and correction of faults resulting from inconsistent test requirements can mitigate the risk of delays during the T&E phase of flight tests. Also, because the flight test system model was constructed using SysML, it can be applied to test various guided missile systems.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1209-1216
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• 2009

This paper presents the pose estimation of a small UAV utilizing visual information from low cost cameras installed indoor. To overcome the limitation of the outside flight experiment, the indoor flight test environment based on multi-camera systems is proposed. Computer vision algorithms for the proposed system include camera calibration, color marker detection, and pose estimation. The well-known extended Kalman filter is used to obtain an accurate position and pose estimation for the small UAV. This paper finishes with several experiment results illustrating the performance and properties of the proposed vision-based indoor flight test environment.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.64.2-64.2
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• 2011

MIRIS (Multi-purpose InfraRed Imaging System), 다목적 적외선 영상시스템은 한국천문연구원에서 개발하고 있는 과학위성 3호의 주 탑재체이다. MIRIS 우주관측카메라는 한국에서 최초로 발사되는 천문우주관측용 적외선 우주망원경이다. 그 유효 구경은 80mm 이고, 탑재되는 검출기는 Teledyne사의 PICNIC $256{\times}256$ Array 이며, 이 검출기를 적용한 관측 화각(FoV)은 $3.67 deg{\times}3.67 deg$, Pixel Scale은 51.6 arcsec/pixel 이다. MIRIS는 현재 비행모델의 납품을 앞두고 우주환경 시험을 준비 및 진행하고 있으며, 시스템의 최적화 작업을 함께 수행하고 있다. 최근에 과학기술위성 3호의 발사체가 러시아 Dnepr로 결정되면서 시험 조건이 변경된 시험 항목에 대해서 EQM의 Sine진동, 충격 시험이 Qualification level로 진행되었다. 그리고 MIRIS 비행모델의 열진공 환경 시험 및 진동시험에 대한 준비 현황을 보고한다. MIRIS 비행 모델의 환경시험은 실제 위성이 겪는 acceptance level로 진행되며, 모든 시험을 통과하면 최종 납품이 이뤄질 예정이다. 또한 시스템의 최적화를 위해 수행했던 조립의 수정 항목들도 함께 보고한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

In this paper, the instrument flight certification process and flight test results of Korean Utility Helicopter (KUH) are presented. For the instrument flight certification, the suitability of installed equipments and instruments have been reviewed and verified by ground and flight tests. Next, static and dynamic stability test are conducted in accordance with FAR-29 Appendix B. The static stability is determined by the change of speed and attitude according to control inputs. The dynamic stability is evaluated by how quickly the response of the helicopter due to long and short period control inputs are decreased. The pilot workload evaluation are also carried out by simulated IMC flight tests. This paper presents the workload assessment results when some failures are occurred at cockpit instruments, engine or flight control systems as well as the normal situation. After the simulated IMC flight test is completed, actual instrument flight test are conducted in a real IMC environment according to the air traffic controls.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.205.1-205.1
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• 2012

러시아 발사체 드네프르에 의해 발사될 과학기술위성 3호의 주탑재체 다목적적외선영상시스템, MIRIS (Multipurpose InfraRed Imaging System)는 한국천문연구원에서 주관하여 개발되었다. 그 구성 카메라인 EOC (Earth Observation Camera)는 한반도재난감시를 수행하고, SOC (Space Observation Camera)는 우리 은하 평면의 근적외선 서베이 관측을 통해 $360^{\circ}{\times}6^{\circ}$ Paschen-${\alpha}$ 방출선 지도를 작성하고 I, H 밴드 필터를 이용해서 황도 남북극에 대한 적외선우주배경복사를 관측한다. MIRIS 비행모델이 제작 완료되었고, 그 구성 기기인 SOC, EOC, 전장박스에 대한 최종 우주환경시험을 수행하였다. 과학기술위성 3호의 비행모델 우주환경시험은 진동시험과 열진공시험으로 이뤄지며, 그 시험 규격은 문서에 규정된 Acceptance Level로 수행된다. 충격시험은 공학인증모델을 통해 검증되었다. 열진공시험은 한국천문연구원에서 수행되었으며, 진동시험은 한국과학기술원 인공위성센터에서 수행되었다. 또한 전체 위성이 조립된 후 과학기술위성 3호의 열진공시험은 한국항공우주연구원에서 수행되었다. 이 발표에서는 MIRIS 비행모델에 대한 환경시험과정 및 결과를 보고하고, 과학기술위성이 전체적으로 조립된 후의 MIRIS 진동 및 열진공 시험 결과도 함께 논의한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.9
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• pp.907-913
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• 2010

In this paper, we have described a development of the external instrumentation system of a fighter aircraft for flight test. The external instrumentation system consists of the instrumentation pod and the image pod. The instrumentation pod measures a flight data(attitude, velocity, altitude, etc) of the fighter aircraft by using GPS/AHRS sensor. The image pod takes high-speed images for the separation trajectory of a smart bomb with 2 high-speed cameras and video signal for it with one general camera. We have verified the performance of the external instrumentation system through the ground test, the environment test and the flight test.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.spc
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• pp.39-48
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• 2020

This paper deals with the process of estimating the environmental noise generated from the actual flying aircraft using the noise measurement results obtained through the wind tunnel test and verifying it through flight tests. In order to evaluate the environmental noise of an aircraft, noise tests and evaluations are generally conducted according to the procedures prescribed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). In this paper, we introduced environmental noise evaluation method that can be applied to composite both fixed-wing aircraft and multi-copter, and introduced the evaluation method by experiment. This paper introduces the process of simulating the noise test results measured in the wind tunnel test using real flight test results. In addition, in consideration of flight operating conditions and noise measurement methods proposed by the ICAO, the effective perceived noise level (EPNL) was predicted by performing both the wind tunnel test and the aircraft flight test.

• 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.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.343-352
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• 2016

A multi-rotor vehicle is an unmanned vehicle consisting of multiple rotors. A multi-rotor vehicle can be categorized as tri-, quad-, hexa-, and octo-rotor depending on the number of the rotors. Multi-rotor vehicles have many advantages due to their agile flight capabilities such as the ability for vertical take-off, landing and hovering. Thus, they can be widely used for various applications including surveillance and monitoring in urban areas. Since multi-rotors are subject to uncertain environments and disturbances, it is required to implement robust attitude stabilization and flight control techniques to compensate for this uncertainty. In this research, an advanced nonlinear control algorithm, i.e. sliding mode control, was implemented. Flight experiments were carried out using an onboard flight control computer and various real-time autonomous attitude adjustments. The feasibility and robustness for flying in uncertain environments were also verified through real-time tests based on disturbances to the multi-rotor vehicle.