• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2017

A new test bench for small multi-rotor type drones has been developed. Six degrees of freedom (DOF) motion is possible due to a ball bushing, wheels, and rotating plates. An FPGA (field programmable gate array) based controller, that supports realtime parallel processing, is used to measure attitude with an accelerometer and a gyro to adjust motor speed. Several tests were performed to check the operational properties of the test bench and the controller. The results show that this test bench is proper for verifying controllers and the control methods of small multi-rotor drones.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.397-403
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• 2024

North Korea's rapidly advancing drone development and operational capabilities have become a significant threat to South Korea's security. The drone incursions by North Korea in 2014, 2017, and 2022 demonstrate the technological advancement and provocative potential of North Korean drones. This study aims to closely analyze the military threats posed by North Korean drones and seek effective countermeasures. The research examines the development level of North Korean drone technology, its military applications, the characteristics and patterns of recent drone incursions, the adequacy and limitations of South Korea's current response systems, and future countermeasures. For this purpose, domestic and international research literature and media reports were reviewed, and specific North Korean drone incursion cases were analyzed. The results indicate that North Korea's small drones possess technological features such as small size, low altitude, low-speed flight, long-duration flight, and reconnaissance equipment. These drones pose threats that can be utilized for reconnaissance, surveillance, surprise attacks, and terrorism. Additionally, South Korea's current response systems reveal limitations such as inadequate detection and identification capabilities, low interception success rates, lack of an integrated response system, and insufficient specialized personnel and equipment. Therefore, this study suggests various technical, policy, and international cooperative countermeasures, including the development of drone detection and identification technologies, the utilization of diverse drone neutralization technologies, the establishment of legal and institutional foundations, the construction of a cooperative framework among relevant agencies, and the strengthening of international cooperation. The study particularly emphasizes the importance of raising awareness of the North Korean drone threat across South Korean society and unifying national efforts to respond to these threats.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.23-31
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• 2022

The development of innovative technology through the 4th Industrial Revolution is actively used in the defense field. In particular, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities using drones will be of great help to the development of military combat capabilities, such as preparing for future military personnel reductions and reinforcing alert capabilities. In this study, we analyze the combat efficiency of drones how helpful drones can be to the military operations through simulations. Drones and enemy move in the efficient shortest path within a two-dimensional space in which operational areas are mapped into number such as detection probability. Based on the detection probability of an enemy infiltrating along the path with the lowest detection probability, the detection probability change that occurs whenever a drone is additionally deployed is presented, and we analyze the combat efficiency according to the additional drone input. Simulation proves that the increase in combat efficiency decreases as more drones are added in small operational areas such as company-level operational areas. This study is expected to contribute to the efficient operation of a limited number of drones in company-level units and to help determine the most desirable quantity of drones for additional combat power improvement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.854-864
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• 2016

The use of small drone platform has become a popular topic in these days but its application for SAR operation has been little known due to the burden of the payload implementation. Drone platforms are distinguished from the conventional UAV system by the increased vulnerability to the turbulences, control-errors and poor motion stability. Consequently, sophisticated motion compensation may be required to guarantee the successful acquisition of high quality SAR imagery. Extremely limited power and mass budgets may prevent the use of additional hardwares for motion compensation and the difficulty of SAR focusing is further aggravated. In this paper, we have carried out a feasibility study of mico-SAR drone operation. We present the image acquisition results from the preliminary flight tests and a quality assessment is followed on the experimental SAR images. The in-flight motion errors derived from the unique drone movements are investigated and attempts have been made to compensate for the geometrical and phase errors caused by motions against the nominal trajectory. Finally, the successful operation of drone SAR system is validated through the focussed SAR images taken over test sites.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.195-202
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• 2017

Ortho images created by aerial photogrammetry have been used in large areas but they are uneconomical for small areas and continuous change observation. The drones have been developed for military purposes, and recently they are being used crop management and analysis, broadcast relay, meteorological observation and disaster investigation and so on. Also there were a lot of studies of expensive commercial drone. In this paper, lower price self-assembly drone usable for in small areas, Obtained images and produced Orthomosaic and DSM using mission planner which is a normal digital camera and open source program, and postprocessing was used Pix4d software. GCP errors are X-coordinate 3.4cm, Y-coordinate 2.4cm, Z-coordinate 4.2cm. It seems like the self-assembly drone can be used for various fields.

• 전기의세계
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• v.67 no.11
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• pp.7-12
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• 2018

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.802-812
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• 2019

With the rapid development in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) and drones, higher request to development of a surveillance system for a drone is putting forward. Since surveillance systems with fixed cameras have a limited range, a development of surveillance systems with a moving camera applicable to PTZ(Pan-Tilt-Zoom) cameras is required. Selecting the features for object plays a critical role in tracking, and the object has to be represented by their shapes or appearances. Considering these conditions, in this paper, an object tracking method with optical flow is introduced to track a tiny drone with a moving camera. In addition, a tracking method combined with kalman filter is proposed to track continuously even when tracking is failed. Experiments are tested on sequences which have a target from the minimal 12 pixels to the maximal 56337 pixels, the proposed method achieves average precision of 175% improvement. Also, experimental results show the proposed method tracks a target which has a size of 12pixels.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2017

In order to satisfy the graduation requirements, the graduation work should be presented as an engineering dissertation system of the produced work and an outline of the procedure made by the major unit in accordance with the graduation thesis submission rules, and suggests necessary matters for improvement. The design content relates to a small unmanned aerial vehicle configuration for detecting personnel or objects in a disaster area. It is equipped with an infrared sensor and a GPS in the drone, the drone is control by using Blutooth communications. The drones detect the target and use the GPS to determine the location. As a result of the experiment, it was possible to detect the structure object within the range of 3~4 m, confirm the transmission of the position value in real time, and increase the communication distance by using RF communication.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.342-342
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• 2020

최근 소형 무인비행장치(UAV; unmaned aerial vehicle)인 드론을 이용한 신산업 육성 및 지원에 관한 관심도가 높아지고 있다. 국외에서는 이미 드론을 이용한 농업관리와 물류배송, 공공부문 모니터링 등 다양한 산업 분야의 드론 이용을 적극 장려하고 있다. 드론 이용에 관한 관심도가 높아짐에 따라 국내외적으로 드론 응용 관련 기술 개발과 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있지만, 국내에서는 환경모니터링과 시설물 점검 등 일부 제한적으로 활용되고 있다. 국내에서는 2024년까지 드론 응용서비스로 확장되는 산업 변화에 대응, DNA(Data, Network, AI) 기술을 접목한 새로운 개방형 플랫폼 구축을 목표로 기술개발 및 산업 육성을 촉진하고 있다. 이러한 국내 기술 개발 방향에 맞추어 드론과 첨단기술을 이용한 하천조사와 관련해 드론을 연계한 하천관리 플랫폼 개발의 필요성이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 드론 기반 하천조사 및 모니터링 수행을 위한 하천관리 운영플랫폼 개발을 목표로 국내외 요소기술을 분석하고 기술수준을 조사했다. 특히, 드론 기반 하천관리에 필요한 임무를 영역별로 분리해 요소기술 기반의 플랫폼 서비스를 정의하고 하천관리 부문 개방형 플랫폼 구축을 위한 시스템 구성 및 운영에 필요한 요소기술을 선정했다. 최종적으로 선정된 플랫폼 서비스와 요소기술을 기초로 시스템 적용방안을 검토하고 하천관리 운영플랫폼 구축을 위한 시스템 아키텍처를 정의 및 설계했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.259-260
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• 2019

4차산업이 본격화되면서 드론의 경제적 활용에 대하여 많은 관심이 집중되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 드론의 효율적 제어를 위하여 비행제어시스템의 운용프로그램인 비행제어 프로그램에 대하여 분석한다. 현재 오픈소스 비행 스택들을 다양한 비행제어기에 적용하기 위하여 다양한 기능들을 포함하고 있어 그 크기가 방대하다. 본 연구에서는 공개된 비행제어시스템을 분석하여 소형 무인 비행체인 드론에서 사용할 비행제어프로그램을 설계하고 구현하고자 한다. 제안한 비행제어프로그램은 구조가 간단하여 제어주기에 해당하는 루프타임을 줄일 수 있고, 특정 기능의 추가와 변경이 용이할 것으로 예상한다.