• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

As sensors such as Inertial Measurement Unit, cameras, and Light Detection and Rangings have become cheaper and smaller, research has been actively conducted to implement functions automating micro aerial vehicles such as multirotor type drones. This would fully enable the autonomous flight of drones in the real world without human intervention. In this article, we present a survey of state-of-the-art development on autonomous drones. To build an autonomous drone, the essential components can be classified into pose estimation, environmental perception, and obstacle-free trajectory generation. To describe the trend, we selected three leading research groups-University of Pennsylvania, ETH Zurich, and Carnegie Mellon University-which have demonstrated impressive experiment results on automating drones using their estimation, perception, and trajectory generation techniques. For each group, we summarize the core of their algorithm and describe how they implemented those in such small-sized drones. Finally, we present our up to date research status on developing an autonomous drone.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2019

Currently, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is spreading from recreational purposes to the public- and commercial-use product areas. Various efforts are being made worldwide to ensure the safety of UAVs and expand their service applications and convenience, because autonomous flights are becoming increasingly popular. In order for a UAV to perform autonomous flight and mission without operator assistance, environmental perception technology, path planning technology, and flight control technology are needed. In this article, we present recent trends in these technologies.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2023

In this study, the status of global advanced air mobility (AAM) was investigated to derive information and communications technologies (ICTs) that should be prepared according to directions of domestic AAM development. AAM is an urban air traffic system for moving from city to city by electric vertical take-off and landing or personal aircraft. It is expected to establish a three-dimensional air traffic system that can solve ground traffic congestion caused by the rapid global urbanization. With the full-scale commercialization of AAM solutions, high-density air traffic is expected, and with the advent of the personal air vehicle (PAV), the flight space usage is expected to expand. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a safe AAM service through early research on core ICTs for autonomous flight.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.463-467
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• 2005

In this paper, the guidance law applicable to formation flight of UAV in three-dimensional space is proposed. The concept of miss distance, which is commonly used in the missile guidance laws, and Lyapunov stability theorem are effectively combined to obtain the guidance commands of the wingmen. The propose guidance law is easily integrated into the existing flight control system because the guidance commands are given in terms of velocity, flight path angle and heading angle to form the prescribed formation. In this guidance law, communication is required between the leader and the wingmen to achieve autonomous formation. The wingmen are only required the current position and velocity information of the leader vehicle. The performance of the proposed guidance law is evaluated using the complete nonlinear 6-DOF aircraft system. This system is integrated with nonlinear aerodynamic and engine characteristics, actuator servo limitations for control surfaces, various stability and control augmentation system, and autopilots. From the nonlinear simulation results, the new guidance law for formation flight shows that the vehicles involved in formation flight are perfectly formed the prescribed formation satisfying the several constraints such as final velocity, flight path angle, and heading angle.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.740-756
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• 2017

This paper proposes a feedback-linearization-based control algorithm for multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The feedback linearization scheme is highly efficient for considering nonlinearity between the rotational and translational motion of multirotor UAVs. We also propose a dynamic equation that reflects the aerodynamic effects of the vehicles; the equation's parameters can be determined through curve fitting using actual flight data. We derive the feedback linearization controller from the proposed dynamic equation, and propose a Luenberger observer to attenuate measurement noises. The proposed algorithm is implemented using our in-house flight control computer, and we describe its implementation in detail. To investigate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we carry out two flight scenarios: the first scenario, an autonomous landing on a moving platform, is a test of maneuverability; the second, picking up and replacing an object, test the algorithm's accuracy. In these scenarios, the proposed algorithm precisely controls multirotor UAVs, and we confirm that it can be successfully applied to real flight environments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.833-842
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• 2011

The objectives of this research are development of guidance, navigation and control system for RUAV on virtual instrumentation and real flight test. For this research, the system is divided to DAQ (data acquisition) section, actuator section and controller section. And the hardware and software on each sections are realized on LabVIEW base. Waypoint guidance and control of auto flight are realized using PID gain tuning and waypoint vector tracking guidance algorism. For safe flight test, auto/manual switching module isolated from FCS (Flight Control System) is developed. By using the switch module, swift mode change was achieved during emergency flight case. Consequently, a meter level error of flight performance is achieved.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.259-260
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• 2012

본 논문은 저탄소사회 구현을 위해, 신재생에너지원에 관심을 갖고 있는 요즘에, 고공풍력을 이용하여 발전을 할 수 있는 Kite 자동비행에 대한 연구내용이다. 기존의 Kite Sport와 비행기술의 원리를 응용하여, 우선적으로 시제품을 설계/제작하여 시험비행 중이다. 첫 단계로는 RC 조종을 기반으로 한 수동비행제어에서도 Kite의 비행제어가 가능한지의 여부판단이 목적이고, 이를 통한 향 후, 자동비행제어 조건의 설계를 위해 필요로 하는 시험데이터 확보에 초점을 두었다. 현 시제품의 Kite 비행체 내부 구성과 시험내용을 보여주고 있으며, 향 후, 진행방향과 Kite를 통한 에너지활용 측면에서, 해양산업 및 생태문화 보존을 위한 도서지역의 전원공급에 대한 언급을 서술하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.1012-1020
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• 2018

한국항공우주연구원에서 개발된 틸트로터 무인기의 임무비행 능력을 높이기 위하여, 무인기의 자율화 기술 5단계 수준의 편대비행에 대한 연구가 수행되었다. 편대비행은 선행기와 추종기로 구성된 중앙 집중형 방식이 적용되었다. 편대비행 제어기는 3대의 추종기를 이용한 수치 시뮬레이션과 1대의 추종기를 이용한 하드웨어 기반 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증되었다. 본 논문에서는 제어기 설계 방법, 하드웨어 기반 시뮬레이션 시험, 그리고 시뮬레이션을 통한 성능 검증에 대해서 기술하였다.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 고고도 장기체공 무인항공기의 임무 비행을 위한 방향축 유도, 제어 알고리즘에 대해 기술 하였다. 먼저 방향축 제어 알고리즘은 임무 기간 중 무인항공기가 전진비행을 할 수 없을 맞바람에 대해 제어 변수를 전환하는 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 유도법칙은 항로점 비행을 위해 Fly-over, Fly-by, Hold 속성에 대한 각각의 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 무인항공기의 비선형 시뮬레이션을 통해 각 유도, 제어 알고리즘의 설계 결과를 확인하였다. 본 연구는 설계 결과를 토대로 실제 임무 비행을 수행하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 따라서 본 연구 내용을 기반으로 비행 시험을 통해 설계한 유도 제어 알고리즘의 비행 운용성을 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.243-248
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• 2005

The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems like unmanned autonomous helicopters are used in various missions of flight navigation and used to collect the environmental information of the surroundings. To realize the full functionalities of the UAV, the software part becomes a challenging problem. In this paper embedded real-time software architecture for unmanned autonomous helicopter is proposed that guarantee real-time performance of hard-real time tasks and re-configurability of soft-real time and non-real time tasks. The proposed software architecture has four layers: hardware, execution, service agent and remote user interface layer according to the reactiveness level for external events. In addition, the layered separation of concurrent tasks makes different kinds of mission reconfiguration possible in the system. An Unmanned autonomous helicopter system was implemented (Kyosho RC Helicopter) in our lab to test and evaluate the performance of the proposed system.