• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.103-110
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• 2020

Bio-inspired underwater robots have been studied to improve the dynamic performance of fins, such as swimming speed and efficiency, which is the most basic performance. Among them, bio-inspired soft robots with a compliant tail fin can have high degrees of freedom. On the other hand, to improve the driving efficiency of the compliant fins, the stiffness of the tail fin should be changed with the driving frequency. Therefore, a new type of variable stiffness mechanism has been developed and verified. This study, which was inspired by the anatomy of a real dolphin, assessed a process of designing and manufacturing a robotic dolphin with a variable stiffness mechanism. By mimicking the vertebrae of a dolphin, the variable stiffness driving part was manufactured using subtractive and additive manufacturing. A driving tendon was placed considering the location of the tendon in the actual dolphin, and the additional tendon was installed to change its stiffness. A robotic dolphin was designed and manufactured in a streamlined shape, and the swimming speed was measured by varying the stiffness. When the stiffness of the tail fin was varied at the same driving frequency, the swimming speed and thrust changed by approximately 1.24 and 1.5 times, respectively.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.1373-1381
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• 2010

Current flight maneuver diagram used by pilots is based on 2D spatial presentation, so it has limitation on display 3D flight information and hard to understand it instinctively. Flight animation authoring tools for this diagram are complex to use and lack useful features like non-linear editing of flight path and real-time interactivity on multiple aircrafts. This research focuses on 3D flight path generation method in the animation system for flight maneuver education. This research combines initial sketch input on 2D diagram with the thrust of an aircraft to generate 3D linear spline as close as to real flight. Using suggested linear spline creation method, the flight path can be visualized, edited, and animated in real-time at the flight maneuver briefing and debriefing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2009

Vacuum facility is required for high altitude space environment test to develop small thruster to be applied for micro-satellite. After selecting vacuum equipment and integrating the chamber to simulate 100-120km attitude with max, $10^{-5}\;torr$. We tested the performance of high vacuum chamber. We designed, fabricated the knudsen pump and analyzed pressure gradient efficiency of membrane according to Knudsen number under vacuum conditions. We described the upgrade plan to a thermal vacuum chamber.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.345-349
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• 2009

This test cell is developed to the institutes or laboratories research and study gas turbine engine for academic purpose with this test data to provide the fundamentals of operational mechanism and structural configuration, and further to verify thermodynamic calculation The test cell is installed to monitor and compare real-time data with reference engine model performance simulation data. using by NI DAQ(Data acquisition)device and LabVIEW program based on 30lbf-micro turbojet engine.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2011

Mathematical modelling for liquid rocket engine(LRE) main components were conducted to predict the dynamic characteristics when the LRE operates at the transient condition, which include engine start up, shut down, or thrust control. Propellant feeding system is composed of fuel and oxidizer feeding components except for regenerative cooling channel for the fuel circuit. Components modeling of pump, pipe, orifice, control valve, regenerative cooling channel and injector was serially made. Hydraulic tests of scale down component were made in order to validate modelling components. The mathematical models of engine components were integrated into LRE transient simulation program in concomitant with experimental validation.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.34-43
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• 2006

헬기는 비행에 필요한 추력, 모멘트 및 조종력을 회전하는 로터시스템에서 발생시키기 때문에 근본적으로 진동이 많이 생기는 항공기이다. 로터시스템의 회전에 의해 발생되는 진동소스를 제어함으로써 헬기 동체에 전달되는 진동을 감소시키고자 하는 연구들이 지금까지 수많이 진행되었다. 이러한 연구들을 크게 두 가지로 분류하면, 수동적 진동제어 방법과 능동적 진동제어 방법으로 나눌 수 있다. 수동적 진동제어 방법은 그간 오랫동안 연구되어 현재 운용 헬기에 실제적으로 적용되고 있으나 능동적 진동제어 방법은 최근까지 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있는 상태이다. 본 논문의 서론에서는 헬기 진동제어를 위한 일반적인 방법에 대한 개요를 소개하였다. 본문은 로터시스템 진동제어 기술 중 최근까지 연구가 진행되고 있는 능동적 진동제어 방법을 중심으로 기술하였다. 특히 최근 비행시험에 성공하여 거의 실용화 단계에 이르고 있는 PZT를 이용한 Trailing Edge Flap 기술, Active Twist Rotor 등을 중점적으로 소개하였다. 마지막으로 유로콥터 BK117의 ADASYS 로터 시스템 성공사례 및 향후 해결해야 할 기술적 제한사항 등을 간략하게 기술하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

In this study, design of hull and test of model boat were carried out with electric propulsion small boat driven by photo-voltaic energy. The shape of boat was made with catamaran type by considering the ship's stability, the light-receiving area from solar. According to calculation, when speed of model boat is 5 knots, it was estimated the available power for propulsion with 1.1[hp]. However, the natural energy such as solar energy is strictly dependent upon the climate conditions so the real boat speed is slightly lower than the estimated value.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.126-133
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• 2006

This paper deals with technological and design skills for all pneumatical, hydraulical, mechanical and electrical parts related to control valve. Especially, a variety of dynamic characteristics, which are not easily extracted from field tests using control valves, are studied by system-simulation code, AMESim. The simulated results are also compared and examined with actual testing results in terms of physical dynamic characteristics. In addition, this paper contains the simulated system characteristics including dynamic characteristics in component level of valve itself. Based on the results, it is applied to control system of propellant feeding system in liquid-propellant engine of satellite launcher.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.495-498
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• 2010

This test cell is developed to the institutes or laboratories research and study gas turbine engine for academic purpose with this test data to provide the fundamentals of operational mechanism and structural configuration, and further to verify thermodynamic calculation The test cell is installed to monitor and compare real-time data with reference engine model performance simulation data. using by NI DAQ(Data acquisition)device and LabVIEW program based on 80 lbf-micro turbojet engine.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.19-28
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• 2000

In general the data such as thrust, pressure, temperature and combustion time are measured in developing the propulsion system of solid rocket motor through static firing test. But in the case of personal surface to air missile there are required a severe safety specifications in order to eliminate gunner hazard from the exhaust plume of motors. The safety requirements lead to the design of separation device and safety igniter device. The dynamic firing test for the designed two devices should be conducted under the flight environmental conditions to verify the requirements compliance. In this study the technique for dynamic firing test of propulsion system of personal surface to air missile is proposed and the method to design the dynamic test bench is also studied.