• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.7
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• pp.562-567
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• 2016

Morphing wing which has a configuration optimized to flight speed and condition is faced to a lot of barriers to be overcome such as actuator technique, structural mechanization technique, flexible skin material, control law, and so on. As the first step for developing a morphing wing with rapid response, we designed and fabricated the morphing airfoil using a SMA(shape memory alloy) wire actuator and torsional bias springs. The design concept of the morphing airfoil was verified through operation test. The measured results show that the flap deflects smoothly and fast.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.232-237
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• 2004

영상 워핑 및 모핑은 영상 안에서 각 화소들 사이의 공간적인 관계를 재구성하는 영상처리와 컴퓨터 그래픽스 기술이 결합된 분야로서 메쉬 방식과 필드 방식 둥이 대표적이다. 이중에서 필드 방식은 상대적으로 많은 연산량을 요구하는 것에 반해 제어선 설정이 용이하며 설정된 제어선의 위치나 길이의 변화에 대해 비교적 덜 민감하다는 장점이 있다. 필드 방식은 사용자가 제어선을 지정하는 과정의 대부분을 수작업에 의존하기 때문에 작업 시간이 많이 소요될 뿐만 아니라 양질의 결과를 얻기 위해서는 숙련을 요하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문은 소스 영상과 목표 영상에서 워핑 대상체 쌍의 형상 정보를 획득한 상태에서 사용자가 수동으로 최소한의 특징점 쌍만을 지정하면 이렇게 지정된 특징점 쌍을 기준 삼아 다각형 기반 정점 탐색에 의해 소스 영상과 목표 영상에 상호 대응되는 제어선들을 자동적으로 설정한 후, 제어선 길이의 비율과 제어선으로부터의 이격 거리를 이용하여 영상 워핑과 모핑을 수행함으로써 영상 워핑 및 모핑의 반자동화를 실현할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에 따르면, 사용자가 제어선을 설정하는 시간을 단축할 수 있고 비숙련자도 최소의 제어선만을 지정하여 자연스러운 워핑 및 모핑의 결과를 획득할 수 있는 이점이 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.846-852
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• 2012

The present paper is the preliminary study of the development of a morphing aircraft wing and investigates experimently the aerodynamic characteristics of a base airfoil and a morphing airfoil. The wind tunnel tests are conducted for a base Clark-Y airfoil, an airfoil with a mechanical flap, and a morphing airfoil. Lifts, drags, and pitching moments are measured by using a three-axis load cell and they are calibrated by considering solid blockage and wake blockage. The wind tunnel tests are conducted for various air speeds, Reynolds' numbers, and angles of attack. The experimental results show that the aerodynamic characteristics of the morphing airfoil in lift-drag and lift-pitching moment are better than those of the airfoil with a mechanical flap.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.269-274
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• 2004

The field based morping requires the user to set most of the control lines manually which require much time and skill to get satisfactory results. This tjesis proposes a method to acquire semi-automation of image morphing through first acquiring shape information from the source image and the target image, than after the user manually designates the least amount of a pair of feature points, these are used as standards for polygon based vertex to set the appropriate control line to the source image and target image, and then using the ratio of control line lengths and space. Using the proposed method the user can reduce the time setting the control line and unskilled persons can get natural image morphing results while desingnating the least amount of control line.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.377-384
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• 2004

The field based morphing requires the user to set most of the control lines manually which requires much time and skill to get satisfactory results. This thesis proposes a method to acquire semi-automation of image morphing through first acquiring shape information from the source image and the target image, then after the user manually designates the least amount of a pair of feature points, these are used as standards for polygon based vertex search to set the appropriate control line to the source mage and target image, and then using the ratio of control line lengths and space. Using the proposed method, the user can reduce the time setting the control line and unskilled persons can get natural image morphing results while designating the least amount control line.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.160-170
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• 2008

Shape morphing is the process of transforming a source shape, through intermediate shapes, into a target shape. Two main problems to be considered in three dimensional shape morphing are vertex correspondence and path interpolation. In this paper, an approach which uses the linear interpolation of the Laplacian coordinates of the source and target meshes is introduced for the determination of more plausible path when two topologically identical shapes are morphed. When two shapes to be morphed are different in shape and topology, a new method which combines shape deformation theory based on Laplacian coordinate and mean value coordinate with distance field theory is proposed for the efficient treatment of vertex correspondence and path interpolation problems. The validity and effectiveness of the suggested method was demonstrated by using it to morph large and complex polygon models including male and female whole body models.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.821-826
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• 2011

CAE-based structural optimization techniques are applied for the design of a lightweight crane. The boom of the crane is designed by shape optimization with the shape of the cross section of the boom as the design variable. The design objective is mass minimization, and the static strength and dynamic stiffness of the system are set as the design constraints. Hyperworks, a commercial analysis and optimization software, is used for shape and topology optimization. In order to consistently change the shape of the elements of the boom with respect to the change in the shape of its cross section, the morphing function in Hyperworks is used. The support of the boom of the original model is simplified to model the design domain for topology optimization, which is discretized by using three-dimensional solid elements. The final result after shape and topology optimization is 19% and 17% reduction in the masses of the boom and support, respectively, without a deterioration in the system stiffness.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

Birds and insect in nature morph their mean camberline shapes to obtain both lift and thrust simultaneously. Previous unsteady thin airfoil theories were derived mainly for a rigid flapping airfoil. An extended unsteady thin airfoil theory for a deformable airfoil is required to analyze the unsteady two-dimensional aerodynamic characteristics of a biomorphing wing. Theodorsen's approach is extended to calculate the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a biomorphing airfoil. The mean camberline of the airfoil is represented as a polynomial. The unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the morphing airfoil are represented as noncirculatory and circulatory terms. Present theory can be applied to the unsteady aerodynamic analysis of a flapping biomorphing airfoil and the aeroelastic analysis of a morphing wing.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.147-156
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• 2008

A new approach based on cone prism intersection method combined with sorting algorithm is proposed for the fast and robust signed distance field computation. In the method, the space bounding the geometric model composed of triangular net is divided into multiple smaller cells. For the efficient calculation of distance fields, valid points among the triangular net which will generate minimum distances with current cell are selected by checking the intersection between current cell and cone prism generated at each point. The method is simple to implement and able to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in the computation time as compared to earlier approaches. Further the method is robust in handling the traditional sign problems. The validity of the suggested method was demonstrated by providing numerous examples including Boolean operation, shape deformation and morphing of complex geometric models.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2008

컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통한 자연스러운 가상 성형은 컴퓨터 그래픽스와 애니메이션 분야의 오래된 연구 주제이다. 본 논문은 2D 가상 성형 시스템 용도의 가변 워핑 마스크를 이용한 시그모이드 블렌딩 방법을 제안함으로써 가상 성형의 품질 만족도와 편의성 및 실용성을 제고함에 그 목적이 있다. 제안된 2D 가상 성형 시스템은 마우스로 스머지 필터를 조작하여 얼굴 구성 요소의 윤곽 형상을 원하는 형태로 변형할 수 있는 직관적인 사용자 인터페이스를 제공한다. 얼굴 구성 요소의 스머징 전후의 윤곽선을 대상으로 다각형 근사화에 기반한 계층적 제어선 매핑을 통해 획득한 제어선 쌍들을 이용하여 반자동 필드 워핑을 수행함으로써 소스 제어선으로부터 목표 제어선까지 점진적으로 변해가는 다수의 중간 프레임들을 생성한다. 또한 이 반자동 필드 워핑을 수행할 시, 성형 부위의 변형을 따라 단계적으로 모양이 변하는 가변 워핑 마스크를 사용함으로써 변형 부위 이외의 얼굴 구성 요소들에 대해서는 왜곡을 최소화하는 지역적 변형 특성을 제고하고, 이렇게 생성된 성형 부위를 가변 모핑 마스크의 경계 영역에서 시그모이드 함수에 기반한 블렌딩을 수행하는 것이 특징이다. 제안된 2D 가상 성형 시스템은 직관적이고 편리한 사용자 인터페이스를 제공할 수 있기 때문에 시간이 적게 소요되고 작업 피로도가 낮아 실용성이 높다. 특히 짧은 시간 내에 성형의와 고객이 만족하는 직관적인 상담을 가능케 하는 것이 장점이다.