• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.320-326
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• 2021

AVTE(Air Vehicle Test Equipment) is an equipment to inspect and check the status of on-board aircraft LRUs(Line Replacement Units) before and after flight for performing successful UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) missions. This paper suggests utilization of the AVTE as an operation support-equipment by implementing several critical functions for UAV-operation on the AVTE. The AVTE easily sets initialization(default) data and compensates for the installation and position errors of the LRUs which provide critical mission data and situation image with pilots without additional individual operation support-equipment. Major fault list and situation image data could be downloaded after flight using the AVTE in the event of UAV emergency situation or unusual occurrence on duty as well. We anticipate the suggested operational approach of the AVTE could dramatically reduce the cost and man power for design and manufacture of additional operation support equipment and effectively diminish workload of the operator.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

As the recent advancement of military equipment has been accelerated, it is becoming more important to act as an inspection device that verifies the performance of equipment in real time. Most of the inspection equipments were developed on the Windows OS based system. considering development convenience and development period. However, sice the data communication between these models occurs asynchronously, there is a problem that it is difficult to guarantee real-time performance of the window-based inspection equiment. To solve these problems, we use real-time commercial solutions to guarantee the real-time performance of Windows-based inspection equipment. In this paper, we propose a method of designing and implementing the inspection equipment software based on Real-Time implanted Kernel-Multi Processor (RTiK-MP) operating in Windows environment. In addition, real-time performance data accuracy was measured through a high-speed communication tool and interlocking test to verify the performance of the inspection device based on the real-time porting kernel.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.54-59
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• 2021

Flight data acquired through flight instrumentation equipment during aircraft development play an important role in aircraft development and performance improvement. Therefore, as the reliability of flight instruments is required, inspection systems to check the soundness of flight instruments are very important. In this paper, we analyze the existing test system for flight data instrumentation equipment and present improvements in the hardware and software aspects of the test system. Based on this, we design and implement a test system with improved performance and present test results. Test system with improved performance improves cost savings, flexible application, and maintenance compared to the existing test system. Therefore, the robustness of the instrumentation equipment can be obtained, which can be expected to improve the reliability of flight data.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.108-114
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• 2021

AVTE(Air Vehicle Test Equipment) is a device to check status of on-board aircraft equipment before and after flight for performing successful UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) missions. This paper describes software design and test sequence of the AVTE for enabling easy-manual check by the operator and convenient automatic check of on-board electric equipment respectively. The proposed AVTE inspects BIT(Built-In Test) results of on-board LRUs(Line Replacement Units) including avionics and sensor sub-system devices. Also, it monitors all the LRU status and check the normality of aircraft equipment by means of setting specific values of the LRUs and confirming the expected test results. The AVTE prints the test results as a form of report to easily check the normal conditions of the aircraft equipment and operates automatically without operator interaction, thus being thought to effectively reduce workload of the operator.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.4147-4157
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• 2015

The weapon system has developed by adding various functions because of the warfare change. And, an weapon system test set (WSTS) that is used to test and judge the condition of weapon system also deal with a lot of complex information. However, almost WSTS is developed on the basis of developer-centric. Because of it, it is hard to make a result by apprehending information on WSTS's display. Thus, I proposed a new display of WSTS by adapting the Ecological Interface Design(EID) Methodology to reduce operator's cognitive workload and assure safe testing. WSTS's Display is developed through Information Requirement and Work Domain Model as a result of Work Domain Analysis. The most powerful thing in the new display is that operator can identify his testing and status of WSTS directly. I expect that it reduces operator's cognitive workload and helps safe testing.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.217-230
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• 2012

This paper propose interacting test programming methods between test equipment and hardware unit to verify function and performance of the hardware unit under test. Proposed test program can minimizes the risk of failures when the unit is mounted on the aircraft by testing and verifying the unit under the worst stress condition. Also, Object oriented design using UML make it easy to apply in other equipments. Test program consists of architecture package and hardware package. Architecture package is in a role for system management, log analysis, message receiving and message analysis. Messages that are used by system management define messages for testing and defined messages is sent and received to test equipment through Ethernet. Hardware package is in a role for hardware management that is needed to be tested and is related to a system. Hardware to be tested is divided into internal test and transmission test. Internal test inspects hardware itself and reports the test results to the test equipment. Transmission test inspects communication device by sending or receiving data. All kinds of test is done in the worst condition of the test unit executing in parallel. Each device is tested at least 482 times and at most 15,003 times about one hour. Test program is utilized in hardware reliability test like as environmental test or EMI test.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.55-56
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• 2012

과학기술이 발전함에 따라 신무기들의 기술 집약도가 발전하여 개체 하나하나의 단가와 가치가 상승하고 있다. 이렇게 개발된 무기를 사용하기 앞서 수락시험을 위해 점검장비를 사용하고 있다. 이러한 점검장비는 신무기의 성능 및 기능의 검증을 위해 데이터의 수집 및 처리를 하기 위한 실시간성을 필요로 한다. 그러나 점검장비에서 많이 사용되고 있는 범용 운영체제인 윈도우의 경우 실시간성을 지원하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 윈도우에 실시간성을 제공하기 위한 상용솔루션인 RTX 및 INtime을 사용하여 실시간성을 제공해야 한다. 하지만 RTX와 INtime은 고가의 구입비 및 경상 사용료로 인해 개발 비용을 증가시키는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 멀티코어 기반 윈도우 환경의 점검장비에 실시간성을 지원하기 위한 실시간 이식 커널(RTiK-MP)을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 개발된 RTiK-MP를 다양한 분야에 적용시키고, 개발자에게 보다 나은 편의성을 제공하기 위해 Export Driver를 통한 RTiK-MP 접근 방안에 대한 연구를 하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.251-260
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• 2020

Unlike manned aerial vehicles, because an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a limitation which allows only remote test during flights, it is very important to maintain the high reliability of the vehicle through pre- and post-flight tests. To this end, this paper designed an air vehicle test equipment (AVTE) for UAV which meets the derived hardware and software requirements. Based on this design, the AVTE was implemented in accordance with the actual test scenario. The implemented AVTE has the advantage of reducing the time and cost required for the test of UAV by allowing the operator to perform automatic or manual tests for necessary parts in various situations such as before and after starting engine and pre- and post-flight tests. Furthermore, this study is expected to help with the design and implementation of AVTE for other UAVs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.26-27
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• 2022

과거에는 바다와 해안가의 특수한 환경 때문에 항로표지시설을 점검하기 위해서 항로표지선을 이용하여 직접 시설물을 점검하였다. 최근에는 드론을 활용하여 다양한 분야에서 시설물을 점검하고 있지만 해양 분야에서는 바람과 염분, 비행시간 문제로 드론을 활용허기 어려웠다. 이에 본 기관은 해양에 특화된 드론을 활용하여 포항신항 내 고정된 위치의 등부표 장비들을 지정된 순서로 이동하며 장비의 정상작동 여부와 상태를 점검하였다. 본 논문에서는 드론을 활용하여 항로표지시설을 점검하기 위한 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.64-69
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• 2018

Automatic test equipment for field maintenance of aircraft mounted equipment is effective for integrated design when operating a small number of aircraft for special purposes. The integrated automatic test equipment identifies commonly used interfaces and is used for branching or generating routes for each unit under test specific inspection. High-precision signals such as RTD, TC, and analog voltage can cause measurement errors due to conduction resistance during signal branching and connection when generating branches and paths. The measurement error caused by the resistance of the wire leads to a lot of restrictions in designing the equipment to be inspected. In this paper, we propose a method of calibrating highly accurate signals of an integrated automatic inspection equipment that minimizes measurement errors of analog voltage and high - precision signals.