• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.78-83
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• 2018

Rapidity and accuracy are important considerations when a drone is employed in a wide surveillance area to detect a target. They are more important when the scope of application is a search and rescue operation or the monitoring of natural disasters, which may require prompt warnings and response. During the actual operation of a drone, rapidity and accuracy are associated with the change in the altitude of the drone. The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of drones at varying altitudes and prove that altitude is a relevant factor in the performance of drones. Herein, the characteristics of the drone at varying altitudes were analyzed through several search simulations. The results suggest that a high-altitude drone is relatively advantageous compared to a low-altitude drone in a probability-based target search, and that the search altitude is also a very important and fundamental factor in target search by drones.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.473-478
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• 2017

드론은 비행 목적을 달성하기 위해 고도 유지를 필요로 하는 경우가 많다. 일반적으로 드론의 고도 유지 기능은 현재 측정되는 고도 정보에 따라 드론을 상승시키거나 하강시키는 작업을 반복하는 것을 의미한다. 고도 유지 중에 모터 속도 차이로 인한 추력의 불균형이나 바람 등의 외적 요인으로 인해 드론의 고도가 계속 변한다. 그럼에도 불구하고 고도를 유지하기 위해서는 기본적으로 계속해서 변하는 드론의 고도를 정확하게 측정해야 한다. 드론의 고도 측정 방법은 일반적으로 가속도센서를 사용한다. 이 방법은 적분 오차 누적으로 인한 측정값이 발산하는 문제와 드론의 기체 진동조차 고도 변화로 인지하는 문제가 존재한다. 그래서 상용 드론이나 기존 연구에서는 가속도센서를 제외한 별도의 센서를 추가하여 고도 측정에 사용한다. 그러나 추가하는 센서 대부분은 측정거리에 제한이 있으며 여러 센서들을 같이 사용하는 경우 센서 값들의 연산 처리가 많아져 고도 측정 속도가 지연될 우려가 있다. 따라서 드론의 고도 유지, 고도 측정 성능에 영향을 주지 않으면서 정확한 고도를 측정할 수 있는 방안이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 가속도센서를 이용하는 일반적인 고도 측정 방법을 개선한 측정 알고리즘을 제안하고 본 알고리즘을 적용한 결과로 고도 유지와 고도 측정의 정확성이 향상됨을 보인다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.747-753
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• 2018

Currently, many companies have succeeded in logistics delivery experiments utilizing drone and report it. When a drone is used commercially, long-term flight is an important performance that a drone should have. However, unlike vehicles operated on the ground, drone is a vehicle that continues to consume energy when maintaining the current altitude or moving to the destination. Therefore, the drones can fly for a long time as the capacity of the battery is large, but the batteries with large capacity are restricted by heavy weight and it acts as a limiting factor in a commercial use. To address this issue, we attempt to compare how far we can fly than forward flight based on the flight pattern with the same energy consumption condition. In this paper, the comparison of energy consumption was performed in three flight pattern, forward flight without altitude change and forward flight with altitude change, by computer simulation and it shows the increasing of flight distances when the quadrotor fly with altitude change from high altitude to low altitude.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.25-39
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• 2016

The drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle which has no human pilot. Drones can be classified into military drones, commercial drones, and personal drones by usage. Also, drones can be classified from large-sized to nano-sized drone by size and autonomous, remote controlled drone by control type. Especially, military drones can be classified into low-altitude drones, medium-altitude, and high-altitude drones by altitude. Recently, the drone industry is one of the fast growing industries in the world. As drone technologies have become more advanced and cost-effective, Korean government has set its goal to become a top-level country in drone business. However, the government's strict regulation for drone operations is one of the biggest hurdles for the development of the related technologies in Korea and other countries. For example, critical problems for drone delivery can be classified into technical issues and institutional issues. Technical issues include durability, conditional awareness, grasp and release mechanisms, collision avoidance systems, drone operating system. Institutional issues include pilot and operator licensing, privacy rules, noise guidelines, security rules, education for drone police. This study analyzes the trends of the drone industry from the viewpoint of technology and regulation. Also, we define the business areas of drone utilization. Especially, the drone business types or models for public sector are proposed. Drone services or functions promoting public interests need to be aligned with the business reference model of Korean government. To define ten types of drone uses for public sector, we combine the business types of government with the future uses of drones that are proposed by futurists and business analysts. Future uses of drones can be divided into three sectors or services. First, drone services for public or military sectors include early warning systems, emergency services, news reporting, police drones, library drones, healthcare drones, travel drones. Second, drone services for commercial or industrial services include parcel delivery drones, gaming drones, sporting drones, farming and agriculture drones, ranching drones, robotic arm drones. Third, drone services for household sector include smart home drones.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.294-305
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• 2022

최근 드론은 환경보호와 자연재해감시 등 환경문제 해결에 많이 활용되고 있다. 본 연구는 도심의 대기환경을 유지하기 위하여 대기오염을 탐색하는데 드론을 활용하고자 할 때 드론의 탐색고도 문제에 초점을 둔다. 특히, 드론을 활용하여 도시의 대기오염을 탐색할 때 대기오염원 별 그리고 통신모듈 별 적정한 탐색고도를 파악하기 위한 다양한 실험을 진행한다. 실험을 통해 가장 일반적인 대기오염원인 CO(일산화탄소), NO₂(이산화질소), O₃(오존), P10, P2.5(미세먼지)를 위한 최대측정가능고도를 파악하고, 각 대기오염원 별 유효한 탐색고도를 도출한다. 실험 결과 법적 측정가능고도 등 세 가지 유형의 드론 탐색고도가 제시되었다. 통신모듈 측정가능고도는 통신모듈에 따라 60m에서 120m로 나타났으며, 유효 측정가능고도는 10m에서 100m로 분석되었다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.81-91
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• 2021

Drone related research has been increasing recently due to the development and distribution of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles. However, most of the previous studies focused on the accuracy and utility of drone surveying. For drones, the resolution of the result is determined according to the flight altitude, but since 70% of Korea is mountainous, it is necessary to analyze the quality of the drone image according to the flight plan. In this study, the quality of drone photogrammetry results according to flight plans was analyzed. The flight plan was established by fixed altitude and considering the height of the terrain. Images were acquired for both cases and data was processed to generate ortho images. As a result of evaluating the accuracy of the generated ortho image, the accuracy was found to be -0.07 ~ 0.09m. The accuracy of Case I and Case II did not show a significant difference, but for RMSE, Case I showed a good value. These results indicate that the drone flight plan affects the quality of the results. Also, when flying at a fixed altitude, II showed a lower value than the originally set overlap according to the altitude of the object. In future surveys using drones, flight planning taking into account the height of the object will contribute to the improvement of the quality of the results.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1538-1551
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• 2021

The current drone flight plan creation creates a flight path point of two-dimensional coordinates on the map and sets an arbitrary altitude value considering the altitude of the terrain and the possible flight altitude. If the created flight path is a simple terrain such as a mountain or field, or if the user is familiar with the terrain, setting the flight altitude will not be difficult. However, for drone flight in a city where buildings are dense, a safer and more precise flight path generation method is needed. In this study, using high-precision spatial information, we construct a drone safety flight map with a 3D grid map structure and propose a flight path search algorithm based on it. The safety of the flight path is checked through the virtual drone flight simulation extracted by searching for the flight path based on the 3D grid map created by setting weights on the properties of obstacles and terrain such as buildings.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2019

Drones will evolve from military to personal or social purposes. How can people socially interact with a drone that is familiar to them? This study explored the social proximity of human drone interaction with safety glass wall between participants and drone. The experiment results showed that drone's altitude, size and gender factor did not significantly affect social proxemics as to what extent participants got closer to hovering drones by the limitation of the distance from the safety wall. However, it shows a tendency that participants more closely approached an eye-level drone compared with an overhead drone, and females tended to approach more closely males. This study consequently demonstrated that most participants are nearly ready to allow a near field operation of social drone under safe conditions.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.164-174
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• 2019

This article presents low altitude small drone identification trends at home and abroad. To reduce the dysfunction caused by the proliferation of drones worldwide, there is a growing interest in remote identification technologies that can identify the basic information of the drone. First, this article introduces policy trends in major countries. US, Europe, and China have recently provided recommendations regarding technologies available for the remote identification and tracking of a drone. Next, standardization activities on identification communications and identification systems are introduced. For this, standards organizations for the small drone identification, such as the International Organization for Standardization, IEEE 802, Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, International Civil Aviation Organization, and $3^{rd}$ Generation Partnership Project, are investigated. Finally, drone identification technology trends are introduced. In the US and Europe, various drone identification technologies have been studied to identify a drone owner and drone registration information with a drone identifier. In South Korea, drone identification technology is still in its infancy, whereas drone detection and physical counterattack technologies are somewhat more developed. As such, major drone manufacturers are also currently studying and developing drone identification systems.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.486-492
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• 2018

Black carbon concentrations were measured along the altitude at various locations using a drone coupled with a small black carbon detector. The measurement locations are Eunseok Mountain, downtown, four places in KOREATECH campus, Byeongcheon, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, and Chungbu Expressway in Ochang-eup, Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do. The average concentration of black carbon measured in Eunseok Mountain was $1.64{\mu}g/m^3$ and the average concentration near the Chungbu Expressway was measured to be $3.86{\mu}g/m^3$. The average concentrations of four places inside campus ranged from 1.37 to $2.67{\mu}g/m^3$. The concentration of black carbon at all places tended to be slightly decreased according to the altitude, but the influence of pollution source, geometry, wind speed, and wind direction are thought to be larger than the effect of altitude. Effect of air flow caused by drone flight on the measurement of black carbon were investigated and it resulted in that the measurement of BC concentration was affected by less than 5%.