• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.740-745
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• 2023

This study proposes the development of an antenna tracker system using a satellite system to stabilize the communication status of drones and extend the communication distance. The location information of the drone and the ground station was used to maximize communication gain in the general fixed antenna method between the ground station and the drone. We developed a tracker system that can automatically and continuously aim the ground station's antenna at the drone. It is expected that the use of antenna trackers will improve the stabilization of communication conditions and expand the communication distance, thereby leading to the advancement of the drone industry.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.90-93
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 Sub-GHz band module을 Drone에 탑재하여 Drone과 전원공유로 Node(Drone)간 Low power and Long range Ad-hoc communication을 할 수 있는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 또한 이동성이 있는 Node(Drone)의 Low power and Long range communication을 위해서 Drone에 적합한 Asynchronous MAC (medium access control) protocol을 비교분석하여 적용하였다. 본 고에서는 무선 센서 네트워크의 응용 범위가 확대되면서 고정된 인프라 없이 Drone간에 실시간 정보를 통신 할 수 있게 하고 사람의 이동이 어렵고 위험한 재난지역, 방사선노출지역 또는 우천시 유인기와 사람의 접근이 불가능한 지역을 Drone이 대신 이동하여 인명피해를 줄이고 안전하게 필요한 데이터를 수집하여 상황관제실로 전송하는 서비스를 제공하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1220-1226
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic handover scheme for enhancing spectral efficiency in drone-based wireless communication systems. When a moving drone base station (DBS) provides the drone-based wireless communication service to a user equipment (UE) located on the ground, our proposed handover scheme considers the distance between DBS and UE and small scale fading. In addition, our proposed handover scheme considers a handover probability to mitigate the signalling overhead that may occur when performing frequent handovers. Through simulations for drone-based wireless communication systems, we evaluate the spectral efficiency and the handover probability of our proposed handover scheme and the conventional handover scheme. The simulation results show that our proposed handover scheme can achieve higher average spectral efficiency than the conventional handover scheme which considers only the distance between DBS and UE.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.583-584
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• 2022

Due to the development of drones, drone missions are performed in various fields, and BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line Of Sight) flight is performed in a wide area. Most drones operate through radio frequency (RF) communication and can only fly in a limited radius of about 1-2 km. To overcome this, in this paper, we propose a multi-communication protocol-based drone control system to control drones performing missions in BVLOS using RF and LTE (Long Term Evolution). The proposed system consists of a control unit and a drone unit. The control unit transmits one control signal generated from the remote controller through RF and LTE. The drone unit classifies the control signal transmitted through RF and LTE according to the priority of the communication protocol and delivers it to the FC (Flight Controller). Through the proposed control system, it is possible to overcome the RF communication distance limit and prevent the communication disconnection situation.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.915-920
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• 2015

Recently, many companies try to offer various services using drones. Especially, the drone delivery system is a good example. However, the drone delivery service has some problems since the heavy parcels flies over the people walking down streets, so many things must be considered such as dropping mails by collision of drones. To resolve the problem, in this paper, a inter-drone network communication will be used to design the topology and to simulate in the Opnet simulator for the performance evaluation. Additionally, the topology with random mobility of trajectory of drones is also designed and simulated for the result.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.969-974
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• 2021

South Korea is making efforts to select a drone industry, a type of unmanned aerial vehicle, as one of the 7 major industries in the country, to select a drone-specific liberalization zone and to establish and revise a drone-related bill. Through these efforts, drone delivery and drone taxis are expected to be operated in the future. Therefore, a multilateral collision avoidance system with existing aircraft such as drones, fixed-wing and rotary-wing should be established to prepare for possible drone and air-borne collisions.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.601-608
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• 2017

In the fourth industrial revolution, drones are an important element to lead the industry by converging with information technology. Drones are developing various technologies by combining with communication / navigation / traffic management technology, control and detection / avoidance technology, sensor technology, SW and application technology. However, there are various problems in order to settle the drone technology. In this paper, it will be examined the problems of application of drones through application fields of drones, domestic and foreign cases, and core technologies of drones. The growth of the drone market requires improvement of laws and institutions. This paper proposed security vulnerability, privacy and safety problem in wireless communication, and present technical and management problems for drone service in the Korean environment in particular.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.294-305
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• 2022

Recently, drones have been widely used to solve environmental problems such as environmental protection and natural disaster monitoring. This study focuses on the problem of the search altitude of drones when using drones to search for air pollution in order to maintain the urban air environment. In particular, when exploring air pollution in cities using drones, various experiments are conducted to determine the appropriate search altitude for each air pollution source and each communication module. Through the experiment, the maximum measurable altitude for the most common air pollutants, such as CO (carbon monoxide), NO₂ (nitrogen dioxide), O₃ (ozone), and P10, P2.5 (fine dust), was identified, and the effective search altitude for each air pollution source was determined. As a result of the experiment, three types of drone search altitudes including legally measurable altitudes were suggested. The communication module measurable altitude was 60m to 120m depending on the communication module, and the effective measurable altitude was analyzed from 10m to 100m.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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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.

• Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.43-47
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• 2016

In this paper, we report a work-in-progress about development of multi-drone system for smart agriculture. The multi-drone system is controlled via a haptic teleoperation by a human operator. The purpose of the multi-drone system is that let the human operator to easily handle the multiple drones which are maintaining a fixed formation using ZigBee communication network.