• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.55-60
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• 2006

헬리콥터와 같은 전통적인 수직이착륙항공기는 이착륙시 활주로가 필요로 하지 않는 장점이 있으나 고 속비행 및 고고도 성능에 있어서는 고정익기에 뒤떨어진다. 고효율의 엔진개발에 따라 고정익 항공기가 최 대속도 및 성능이 비약적으로 발전한대 비해, 헬리콥터의 최대속도는 160 ~170 kts (300~315 km/h) 수 준으로 제한되어왔고 장거리 운항에서 필수적인 고고도 운항능력에 있어서도 4km 이상의 고도에서 효율 적인 비행을 수행하는 데에는 한계가 있다. 이를 극복하기 위해 지난 반세기 동안 다양한 신개념 비행체 연 구가 수행되었다. 스마트무인기기술개발사업단에서는 항공선진국의 이러한 연구개발동향 및 그 결과를 종 합하여 미래적 신개념 비행체 대안을 모색하였고, 그 결과 틸트로터 개념을 선정하여 상세설계를 종료한 상태이다. 이러한 경과에 대한 요약과 현재 활발히 진행중인 항공선진국의 미래형 수직이착륙 항공기 개발 기종의 현황, 성능비교를 통해 고속, 고고도 수직이착륙 항공기 개발에 관한 세계적 추세와 본 사업의 연관 성을 고찰해 보았다.

• Aerospace Industry
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• s.108
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• pp.66-67
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• 2010

수직이착륙, 영어로는 VTOL(Vertical Take-Off and Landing)이라 불리는 기술은 공기역학을 거부한 첨단 항공우주기술이다. 일반적으로 고정익 항공기는 날개에서 발생하는 양력으로 하늘을 날지만 VTOL 항공기는 순수한 엔진 추력만으로 수직으로 이착륙하거나 단거리에서 이륙할 수 있다. 다만 높은 기술적 완성도를 요구하는 만큼 현재까지 실전 배치된 군용기 중 이 기술이 적용된 군용기는 해리어(Harrier)와 V-22 오스프리(Osprey), Yak-38 정도가 고작이다. 수직이착륙 기술에 대해 소개한다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.44-53
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• 2020

In conjunction with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the unmanned aerial vehicle industry is being developed to a new paradigm by combining advanced technologies such as AI, Big Data and the IoT. Aeronautical developed countries such as the U.S. are focusing their efforts on the development of the safer unmanned aerial vehicles. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute, as part of the national R&D project in 2011, had succeeded in developing the first vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAS, called Smart-UAV. However, although the development technology of the VTOL UAS is possessed, developing and operating of the VTOL UAS for commercial or military use are limited. The type certification procedure of the VTOL UAS developed by domestic technology is stipulated in the Korean Aviation Safety Act, but the Korean VTOL UAS airworthiness standards (KAS) hsve not been established. Thus, this study investigated the development trends of the VTOL UAS in Korea and abroad and national certification systems and procedures, and benchmarked the special conditions for the VTOL aircraft, announced by the EASA on July 2, 2019, to establish standards for type certificate of the VTOL UAS in Korea.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.16-23
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• 2021

Domestic and foreign manufacturers are developing VTOL UASs in various shapes in line with demand for future technologies. UASs have been developed in a shape classified as fixed/rotary wing, and verified by appropriate certification standards. However, airworthiness certification of recent VTOL UASs is strict with the absence of VTOL-specific certification standards. In this paper, criteria applicable to VTOL UAS were presented through analysis of STANAG-4671 and STANAG-4702, which are certification standards for fixed/rotary wing UAS of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Special Condition for VTOL Aircraft (SC-VTOL) of European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). For this, the categorization criteria of general/fixed-wing/VTOL characteristics were established for each standard item and utilized for analysis.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.40-51
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• 2021

In this paper, the design requirements was produced by analyzing domestic and foreign regulations of the vertical takeoff and landing site required to operate the urban air mobility (UAM) system in Korea and the size of the take-off and landing pads were defined, and the configuration of vertiport was proposed. First, for the metropolitan area with high population density, pilot locations of the vertical take-off and landing site were selected based on the demonstration routes suggested by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and analyzed the characteristics of each location and determined the number of possible installations of vertiport by measuring each site. After that, variables necessary for the operation of the vertical takeoff and landing area were set, and the hourly, daily, monthly aircraft operating cycle, the number of acceptable people, and efficiency were calculated according to the number of simultaneous operation and the number of stand. Finally, using CATIA, the configurations of the virtual vertiport was created by applying the design requirements.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.283-284
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• 2018

최근 4차 산업 혁명의 시대가 시작되면서 IT, 사물 인터넷(IOT), 자율 주행 자동차, 드론 등 많은 분야에 있어서 일상생활의 편리함이 증가 하고 있는 추세이다. 하지만 긴박한 상황 시 사고 현장에 대한 빠른 출동 등과 같은 응급 상황에 필요한 분야의 개발은 제한적이다. 본 과제는 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 드론과 구급차를 결합하여 수직이착륙이 가능한 구급차를 제작할 것이다. 수직 이착륙이 가능한 구급차를 도입함으로써 도로 위 교통에 대한 문제점과 차로 이동이 어려운 환경에서 보다 빠르게 사고현장에 투입하여 인명 구조와 사고 현장을 수습하여 피해를 감소시키고자 한다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.20-29
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• 2021

As the feasibility of urban air mobility (UAM) service using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft increases due to aircraft electrification, distributed propulsion, and artificial intelligence technologies, the U.S. and European aeronautical societies have been improving their certification system and regulations for the type certification of eVTOL. The improved certification system is expected to be ready in the near future, after the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) proposed the VTOL Special Condition, SC-VTOL in 2019. However, the current domestic certification system is still insufficient to properly respond to eVTOL. This study investigated the development trends of foreign eVTOL and certification systems, identified considerations to improve the domestic certification system, and proposed the measures for type certificates and type certificates validation of eVTOL based on the comparison between SC-VTOL and Korea airworthiness standards (KAS).

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2004

The performance analysis code has been developed for vertical take-off and landing(VTOL) UAV which can be utilized as a trade analysis tool in the pre-conceptual design phase. The UAV requires VTOL capability and high speed cruise performance. The main logic of this performance analysis code is to estimate performance parameters of each mission segment by mission fuel weight iteration. The reliability of this performance analysis code is discussed by comparing the data of existing dual flight mode VTOL UAVs such as Boeing CRW and Bell Tilt Rotor.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.8-16
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• 2021

In this paper, locations of vertiports were selected and evaluated to operate urban air mobility (UAM) in the Seoul metropolitan area. Demand data were analyzed using the data from the survey of commuting population and were marked on a map using MATLAB. To cluster the data, the K-means algorithm function built in MATLAB was used to identify the center of the cluster to as the location of vertiports, and using the silhouette technique, the accuracy and reliability of the clustering were evaluated. The locations of the selected vertiports were also identified using satellite maps to ensure that the locations of the selected vertiports were suitable for the actual vertiport location, and, if the location was not appropriate, final vertiports were selected through the repositioning process.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.48 no.12
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• pp.969-976
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• 2020

Urban Air Mobility is attracting attention as a future innovation industry around the world, and leading industries are considering the application of composite materials for structural robustness and lightening in the designing and manufacturing new concept eVTOL aircraft. To apply composite materials to the new concept of eVTO aircraft, this paper was analyzed about composite material qualification system of FAA & EASA and institutionalized by Korea Government, including the procedures and methods, the organization to carry out the material verification for domestic conditions. The domestic composite material qualification system will not only make it easier for manufacturers of eVTOL aircraft with a new concept to apply composite materials to domestic aircraft through pre-material qualification, but also reduce the burden of material qualification within the period of type certification. In addition, domestic manufacturers of composite materials with qualified material quality and performance will be easy to enter for domestic aircraft applications and composite material manufacturers with experience in applying to aircraft will have a positive impact on overseas exports. This system will be able to promote the development eVTOL aircraft industry of a new concept and enhance international credibility of made aircraft in Korea.