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A Study on Algorithm to Improve Accuracy of Initial Track Beam Steering Using Radar Radial Velocity Measurement (레이다 시선속도 측정치를 활용한 초기 추적 빔 조향 정확도 향상 알고리즘 연구)

  • Yoo, Dong-Gil;Hyun, Jun-Seok;Cho, In-Cheol;Sohn, Sung-Hwan
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 2021
  • The radar operated to detect/track aircraft targets is divided into a search radar that operates while the antenna rotating device rotates for the purpose of detecting the target according to the mission characteristics, and a tracking radar that periodically steers and tracks a beam to the predicted position of the target. The tracking radar has a shorter target information acquisition preiod than the search radar. Due to this characteristic, the tracking accuracy is better than that of the search radar, but as the prediction error increases due to the speed error at the beginning of the tracking, there are many cases in which tracking fails at the beginning of tracking due to failure to perform beam steering normally. In this paper, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, we propose an algorithm for improving the accuracy of track initiation using radial velocity measurements in addition to the position of the measured, and confirm the performance of the proposed algorithm by comparing with the two point differential algorithm

A Study on a Tracking Method of Telemetry Signal using Self-Slaving (Self-Slaving을 이용한 원격측정 신호추적 기법 연구)

  • Lee, Sung-Pil
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2008
  • A telemetry ground station has a highly directional, parabolic tracking antenna to receive a weak telemetry signal from a target at a distance. The tracking antenna with narrow beam-width normally uses the auto-track method for the target tracking. This paper presents several issues in the auto-track method and introduces a new tracking method using Self-Slaving technique. Self-Slaving means that the tracking antenna is slaved to not data measured by RADAR but GPS/INS informations received by the telemetry system for pointing. The Self-Slaving method shows good performance in comparison with auto-track method.

A study of effective filter algorithms for multi-target tracking (다중표적추적을 위한 효과적인 필터 알고리듬에 대한 연구)

  • 이동관;송택렬
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.99-99
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    • 2000
  • An effect ive filter algorithm that can manage radar beam pointing efficiently is needed to track multi-target in the air. For effective beam management the filter has lobe good enough to predict future position of target and based on this filter output radar beam is control led to point toward the predicted target position in the air. In this paper, we investigate the ${\alpha}$-${\beta}$ filter known for its brief filter structure with the steady-state Kalman filter gain, the ruv filter, and the coordinate-transformed filter that can decouple the measurement noise variance.

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The Technique of Satellite Tracking and Beam Forming for Mobile TT&C (이동형 위성 관제를 위한 위성 위치 파악 및 빔 성형 기법)

  • Lee, Yun-Soo;Chinn, Yong-Ohk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.1359-1369
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    • 2007
  • This paper describes the technique of satellite direction finding and main beam steering of the adaptive array antenna system which is used for mobile TT&C(Tracking Telemetry&Command) system. To be able to control the satellite on mobile vehicle while moving, the relative directional information of the satellite to the mobile vehicle is necessary to make main beam to the direction of satellite. To do this MUSIC, which is one of the super-resolution algorithm of wave direction finding, is used and then the performance analysis and quantization problem of phase shifter are addressed. This paper is valuable in the respect of showing feasibility of designing the moble TT&C using adative array antenna system.

Lateral Dynamics of Multi-span Web System for Roll-to-roll Continuous Process (Roll-to-roll 연속 공정을 위한 Multi-span Web 시스템의 횡방향 운동 해석)

  • Kang, Namcheol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.1103-1110
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    • 2013
  • Based on the string, Euler beam, and Timoshenko beam theories, the transfer functions of axially translating web system to predict the lateral tracking are introduced in this paper. In addition, total transfer function of a multi-span web handling system is developed by the combination of the transfer functions of each single span. Experiments and computations are carried out and the results obtained for the Timoshenko beam model are compared with those of other models. The comparison indicates that the predictions from the Timoshenko and Euler beam models are quite different from that of the classical string model in both the gain and phase response. The results are expected to help in the development of high fidelity models of web tracking systems within a general computational framework.

Enhancement of Tracking Performance of Laser Tracking System for Measuring Position Accuracy of Robots

  • Hwang, Sung-Ho;Choi, Gyeong-Rak;Lee, Ho-Gil;Shon, Woong-Hee;Kim, Jin-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.61.5-61
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    • 2001
  • The laser tracking system(LTS) presents the most promising technique for dynamic position measurement of industrial robots. This system combine the advantage of high accuracy with a contactless measurement technique. It is the measurement system of position in three dimensions using distance data obtained by laser interferometer and real time angle by tracking mirror assembly. After measuring the tracking error of the beam projected on the center of retroreflector in robot end effector, this system tracks the end effector continuously by adjusting tracking mirror angle to minimize this error ...

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Real-Time Seam Tracking System Using a Visual Device with Vertical Projection of Laser Beam (레이저빔 수직투사 구조의 시각장치를 이용한 실시간 용접선추적 시스템)

  • Kim, Jin-Dae;Lee, Jeh-Won;Shin, Chan-Bai
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.24 no.10
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    • pp.64-74
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    • 2007
  • Because of the size and environment in the shipbuilding process, the portable type robot is required for the automatic seam tracking. For this reason, the structure of laser sensor should be considered in the initial design step and the coordinate transformation between welding robot and laser sensor, which is joint finder, must be identified exactly and the real time tracking algorithm based on these consideration could be developed. In this research, laser displacement sensor in which its structure is laser beam's vertical projection, is developed to recognize the location of weld joint. In practical applications, however, images of weld joints are often degraded because of the surface specularity or spatter. To overcome the problem, the constrained joint finding algorithm is proposed. In the approach of coordinate conversion rule for the visual feedback control among welding torch, robot body and laser sensor is applied by the same reference point method. In the real time seam tracking algorithms we propose constrained sampling method which uses look ahead distance. The RLS(Recursive Least Square) filter is applied to obtain the smooth tracking path from the sensitive edge data. From the experimental results, we could see the possibility that the developed laser sensor with proposed processing algorithm and real time seam tracking method can be used as a welding under the shipbuilding condition.

Robust Tracking Control of a Ball and Beam System using Optimal Bang-Bang Input (최적의 Bang-Bang 입력을 이용한 볼-빔 시스템의 강인한 추적 제어)

  • Lee, Kyung-Tae;Choi, Ho-Lim
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.110-120
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we apply the input-output linearization technique to tracking the follow-up trajectory r(t) in the ball-beam system. There exist system disturbance and various uncertainties, the conventional input-output linearization based control yields some noticeable errors in tracking performance. As a result, a new robust control technique for the uncertainty of the system was proposed and its improved performance verified through simulation and experimental results. So, more realistic system model is obtained with unmatched uncertainties and disturbance. Then, in order to improve the control performance, a new optimal bang-bang control input is additionally added.

Beam Tracking Technique for Communication with Multiple Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles(UAVs) (다중 무인 항공기 통신을 위한 빔 추적 기법)

  • Maeng, Sung Joon;Park, Haein;Cho, Yong-Soo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.41 no.11
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    • pp.1539-1548
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    • 2016
  • Beamforming technique at the ground station is known to be effective in obtaining coverage extension or SNR gain for communication with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). When a UAV moves, periodic beam tracking is necessary to maintain beam gain. In order to track beams for multiple UAVs, the ground station needs to receive different preamble sequences from multiple UAVs. In this paper, a preamble sequence design technique is proposed for beam tracking in a GMSK-based communication system with multiple UAVs. Hadamard sequence is considered for the design of preamble sequence due to its ideal cross-correlation property. A preamble sequence appropriate for a GMSK communication system with multiple UAVs is proposed after analyzing the properties of received signal in a GMSK system with the input of Hadamard sequence.

A Study on Optimization of Single-Channel Monopulse Tracking System using Phased Array Antenna (위상배열안테나를 이용한 단일 채널 모노펄스 추적 시스템의 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Jin-Woo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.705-712
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    • 2018
  • The radiation characteristics of a phased array antenna is changed according to the beam steering angle. The monopulse tracking system calculates the prediction angle using the radiation characteristics of antenna. Therefore, the monopulse ratio curve is changed according to the beam steering angle for the monopulse tracking system using a phase array antenna, and the tracking accuracy goes down. In the case of a single-channel monopulse system, the monopulse rate curve is controlled by the configuration variables of the system. In this paper, a simplified formula was presented for adaptive control of monopulse system configuration variables on beam steering angle. The presented formula can induce a uniform monopulse ratio curve for the beam steering angle as well as the phased array antenna design parameters.