• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.386-393
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• 2019

In this study, we investigated the cause of a voltage controller failure that occurred in the operation of a combat vehicle and attempted to establish a solution for the failure. The failure in the voltage controller was found to be related to thermal resistance, which could be identified by disassembly analysis and a high temperature operation test. Especially, in the disassembly analysis, there was damage caused by high temperature such as soot on the molding material and cracking of the resisters. In addition, in the high temperature operation test, the test results show that the internal temperature of the voltage controller was relatively higher than the external temperature. This means that the voltage controller failure could be attributed to the excessive heat and insufficient thermal resistance. In order to improve the thermal resistance of the voltage controller, several designs with changing circuits and structures were devised. Improvement of thermal resistance was verified by measuring reduction of internal temperatures in the high temperature comparison test.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.385-391
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• 2014

A wheeled armored vehicle is a military vehicle that has been developed to enhance combat capabilities and mobility for the army. The wheeled armored vehicle has a high center of gravity, and it operates on unpaved and sloped roads. Therefore, this vehicle has a high risk of rollover crashes. To design the interior of the military vehicle, the crew's safety during rollover crashes is an important factor. However, actual vehicle tests for design are extremely expensive. In this paper, nonlinear dynamic analysis is performed to simulate the rollover crashes and the passenger injury is assessed for a wheeled armored vehicle. The scope of this research is the rollover condition, FE modeling of the wheeled armored vehicle and the dummy, arrangement of dummies, assessment of passenger injuries, and simulation model for rollover crashes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.293-301
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• 2021

LTV(Light Tactical Vehicle) operating in our military requires higher levels of performance and durability to withstand harsher conditions than general vehicles, as they must travel on both rough-train and off-road as well as on public roads. Recently, LTV development is demanded a variety of test evaluations in order to satisfy ROC (Required Operational Capability) by the military requirement. However, there is no informations of driving test course for satisfying the durability performance of Korean tactical vehicle. Therefore, this study aims to provide basic data to establish reliable drive test conditions by analyzing the main maneuvering test site at the domestic and foreign country in order to select the representative drive course. These studies will provide a more scientific and systematic evaluation solution for the development of tactical vehicles, and can be effectively used to establish a certified system for military vehicle test evaluation in the future

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.79-86
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• 2010

The characteristics and classification of UAV power plants were studied. The energy source for electric generation and power source for internal combustion engine for UAVs were compared. The advantage and drawbacks of power plants were analyzed respectively and the performance demand condition was suggested for next generation UAV power plant finally.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.89-98
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• 2008

The vetronics is necessarily required for enhancement of the operational capability and optimization of the system architecture. In this paper, we presents the realtime control methods for the vetronics of the fighting vehicles. We proposed the data distribution based on standard bus and computer resource for realtime and integrated control of the system. Embedded computers are designed considering extensibility and reliability of the system. The integrated display improves the operator's capability. We applied the network centric battle management and digital power control with intelligent switching elements to increase cooperated combat efficiency and reliability. To show the feasibility of the presented design schemes, the vetronics has been implemented and applied to a real fighting vehicle.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.31-37
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• 2007

This paper presents a ballistic lead-computation method which utilizes automatic video tracking, tracking assistance and roll uncoupling. The method is able to improve the firing accuracy of army fighting vehicles such as main battle tanks. In the experiment, the efficiency of the proposed method is evaluated by an error analysis in real operating environment. The proposed method has been applied to the fire control system of a military vehicle and proved through the development test of the vehicle.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 2019

The military has developed and operated a variety of military vehicles. Among them, medium tactical vehicles are developed as vehicles suitable for transporting troops, replacing existing military trucks, which have a significant impact on infantry forces' combat capability. Applying technology to increase fuel efficiency to these critical weapons systems, medium tactical vehicles, increases the distance range, which can reduce effective operational performance and oil costs. In this study, a measure was taken to improve the distance range of Medium Tactical Vehicles by applying an oil temperature control strategy to increase fuel efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.34-38
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• 2007

There has been skeptical aspects for the robot to be effective in combat fields even though consensus of operational needs and some technological advancements. One of fundamental problems is difficulties in the autonomous technology applicable. This technology is not sufficient to be applied for heavy combat operation, therefore, developer first make open architecture, then, application is implemented on the condition that new functions or technologies will be developed later. It is also required to partition all the functions with common segments which are general to all platforms in order to operate together in the fields and to reduce the load of development to each platform respectively. In addition, common middleware based on the reference architecture is also developed to accommodate new technology evolution. This paper introduces the architecture and middleware applied in XAV(eXperimental Autonomous Vehicle) developed in ADD. In addition, the performance of autonomous navigation and system design characteristics are introduced briefly.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.1049-1059
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• 2017

After patrol corvett Cheonan was hit and sank on duty, the Republic of Korea Navy has tried to install hybrid propulsion system on naval ship to reduce vibration and noise problems during navigation. The hybrid propulsion system has advantage that propulsion motor can be propelled in low speed operation of the vessel. This can be a better quietness than a mechanical propulsion system which consists of a conventional internal combustion engines. And more economical operation is possible by using a propulsion motor in a low speed operation where a fuel efficiency of the internal combustion engine is poor. In this paper, we set up virtual ship on the basis of a combat support ship in the Republic of Korea Navy, economically compared and analyzed fuel consumption between conventional and hybrid propulsion system. As a result, it was confirmed that the fuel efficiency of hybrid propulsion system which use electric motor had been relatively improved.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.21-30
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• 2007

A practical method to design the input shaping which generates control command is proposed in this paper, We suggest an experimental technique considering human operator's target tracking error to improve aiming accuracy which significantly affects hit probability. It is known that stabilization performance is one of the most important factors for ground combat vehicle system. In particular, stabilization error of the manual target tracking system mounted on moving vehicle directly affects hit probability. To reduce this error, we applied input command shaping method using preprocessing filtering and functional curve fitting. First of all, we construct the human operator model to consider effects of human operator on our system. Input shaping curve is divided into several regions to get rid of the above problems and to improve the system performance. At example design part, we chose three steps of functional command curve and determine the parameters of the function by the proposed design method. In order to verify the proposed design method, we carried out the experiments with real plant of a fighting vehicle.