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A Study of Method and Algorithm for Stable Flight of Drone (드론의 안정화 비행을 위한 방법 및 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • Cha, Gyeong Hyeon;Sim, Isaac;Hong, Seung Gwan;Jung, Jun Hee;Kim, Jin Young
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2015
  • Unmaned Aerial Vehical(UAV) is a flight which is automatically flying by remote control on th ground. However UAV has an advantage of control that is easy, but has an disadvantage of not hovering. By comparison, quadcopter which is one of the UAV is easily operated. Also quadcopter has hovering function and high stability. In this paper, we propose stable flight algorithm associated PID(proportional-integral-derivative) control with fuzzy contorl to implement stable quadcopter system. After getting a positioning information of the drone, This proposed system is implemented for stable flight through flight attitude control using gyro and acceleration sensor. We also propose the flight mode system to hover drone with GPS sensor.

Drones flying and violations of privacy laws, such as riskon (드론비행과 사생활침해 등 법률위반 위험성 연구)

  • Jeong, Soonchae;Mfitumukiza, Joseph;Cha, Jaesang
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, A heightened interest in the latest drone, yet steady increase in the field to exploit them. The next market is expected to be vastly improved, and use drone also increasingly will be strengthened. But also not a few side effects of him. In order to use safer and more commonly a drone safety and privacy protection, and there are many issues that need to be considered. Violating privacy laws, such as relations caused by the drone flight and review this study ways to resolve the breach. The flight due to a draw at peace with human life and behavior and enjoy it, but this problem created by new outbreak.

A Heuristic for Drone-Utilized Blood Inventory and Delivery Planning (드론 활용 혈액 재고/배송계획 휴리스틱)

  • Jang, Jin-Myeong;Kim, Hwa-Joong;Son, Dong-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.106-116
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    • 2021
  • This paper considers a joint problem for blood inventory planning at hospitals and blood delivery planning from blood centers to hospitals, in order to alleviate the blood service imbalance between big and small hospitals being occurred in practice. The joint problem is to determine delivery timing, delivery quantity, delivery means such as medical drones and legacy blood vehicles, and inventory level to minimize inventory and delivery costs while satisfying hospitals' blood demand over a planning horizon. This problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming model by considering practical constraints such as blood lifespan and drone specification. To solve the problem, this paper employs a Lagrangian relaxation technique and suggests a time efficient Lagrangian heuristic algorithm. The performance of the suggested heuristic is evaluated by conducting computational experiments on randomly-generated problem instances, which are generated by mimicking the real data of Korean Red Cross in Seoul and other reliable sources. The results of computational experiments show that the suggested heuristic obtains near-optimal solutions in a shorter amount of time. In addition, we discuss the effect of changes in the length of blood lifespan, the number of planning periods, the number of hospitals, and drone specifications on the performance of the suggested Lagrangian heuristic.

Transmission Lines Rights-of-Way Mapping Using a Low-cost Drone Photogrammetry

  • Oh, Jae Hong;Lee, Chang No
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2019
  • Electric transmission towers are facilities to transport electrical power from a plant to an electrical substation. The towers are connected using wires considering the wire tension and the clearance from the ground or nearby objects. The wires are installed on a rights-of-way that is a strip of land used by electrical utilities to maintain the transmission line facilities. Trees and plants around transmission lines must be managed to keep the operation of these lines safe and reliable. This study proposed the use of a low-cost drone photogrammetry for the transmission line rights-of-way mapping. Aerial photogrammetry is carried out to generate a dense point cloud around the transmission lines from which a DSM (Digital Surface Model) and DTM (Digital Terrain Model) are created. The lines and nearby objects are separated using nDSM (normalized Digital Surface Model) and the noises are suppressed in the multiple image space for the geospatial analysis. The experimental result with drone images over two spans of transmission lines on a mountain area showed that the proposed method successfully generate the rights-of-way map with hazard nearby objects.

Analysis of Cluster-based Truck-Drone Delivery Routing Models (군집 기반 트럭-드론 배송경로 모형의 효과분석)

  • Chang, Yong Sik
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the fast delivery route that several drones return a truck again after departing from it for delivery locations at each cluster while the truck goes through the cluster composed of several delivery locations. The main issue is to reduce the total delivery time composed of the delivery time by relatively slow trucks via clusters and the sum of maximum delivery times by relatively fast drones in each cluster. To solve this problem, we use a three-step heuristic approach. First, we cluster the nearby delivery locations with minimal number of clusters satisfying a constraint of drone flight distance to set delivery paths for drones in each cluster. Second, we set an optimal delivery route for a truck through centers of the clusters using the TSP model. Finally, we find out the moved centers of clusters while maintaining the delivery paths for the truck and drones and satisfying the constraint of drone flight. distance in the two-dimensional region to reduce the total delivery time. In order to analyze the effect of this study model according to the change of the number of delivery locations, we developed a R-based simulation prototype and compared the relative efficiency, and performed paired t-test between TSP model and the cluster-based models. This study showed its excellence through this experimentation.

Unmanned Drones flying device and the Aviation Act and other local law to limit problems (무인비행장치 드론과 항공법 등 국내 설정법에 대한 문제점 고찰)

  • Jeong, Soonchae;Mariappan, Vinayagam;Cha, Jaesang
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.58-63
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, Easily the nation's rapidly expanding and the popularization of unmanned aerial vehicle drone can fly. But in Korea, divided country to cameras lately, and national characteristics and constraints in many relevant laws and in particular, address public concerns.Appears, along with many. Unmanned aircraft drone called industrial revolution in the sky and pitfalls to look at the domestic law in relation to the situation and to find a way to resolve them.

Prototype Design for unmanned aerial vehicle-based BigData Processing (무인항공기 기반 빅데이터 처리 시스템의 프로토타입 설계)

  • Kim, Sa Woong
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2016
  • Recently, the unmanned aerial vehicle Drone technology is attracting new interest around the world. The versatilities in science, military, marketing, sports, and entertainment fields are the driving force of the drone fever. Thus, the potential power of future industrial is expected as the application range is extensive. In this paper, we design and propose the prototype of unmanned aerial vehicle-based bigdata processing system.

Mechanism Development and Heading Control of Catamaran-type Sail Drone

  • Man, Dong-Woo;Kim, Hyun-Sik
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.360-368
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    • 2021
  • The need for energy harvesting in marine environments is gradually increasing owing to the energy limitation of marine robots. To address this problem, a catamaran-type sail drone (CSD), which can harvest marine energies such as wind and solar, was proposed in a previous study. However, it was designed and manufactured without considering the stability, optimal hull-form, and maintenance. To resolve these problems, a CSD with two keels, a performance estimator, V-shape hulls, and modularized components is proposed and its mechanism is developed in this study. To verify the performance of the CSD, the performance estimation using smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the heading control using fuzzy logic controller (FLC) are performed. Simulation results show the attitude stability of the CSD and the experimental results show the straight path of the CSD according to wind conditions. Therefore, the CSD has potential applications as an energy harvesting system.

Ground Vehicle and Drone Collaborative Delivery Planning using Genetic Algorithm

  • Song, Kyowon;Moon, Jung-Ho
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2020
  • Global e-commerce and delivery companies are actively pursuing last-mile delivery service using drones, and various delivery schedule planning studies have been conducted. In this study, separate individual route networks were constructed to reflect drone route constraints such as prohibited airspace and truck route constraints such as rivers, which previous studies did not incorporate. The A* algorithm was used to calculate the shortest path distance matrix between the starting point and destinations. In addition, we proposed an optimal delivery schedule plan using genetic algorithms and applied it to compare the efficiency with that of vehicle-only delivery.

Novel Reward Function for Autonomous Drone Navigating in Indoor Environment

  • Khuong G. T. Diep;Viet-Tuan Le;Tae-Seok Kim;Anh H. Vo;Yong-Guk Kim
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2023.11a
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    • pp.624-627
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    • 2023
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles are gaining in popularity with the development of science and technology, and are being used for a wide range of purposes, including surveillance, rescue, delivery of goods, and data collection. In particular, the ability to avoid obstacles during navigation without human oversight is one of the essential capabilities that a drone must possess. Many works currently have solved this problem by implementing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) model. The essential core of a DRL model is reward function. Therefore, this paper proposes a new reward function with appropriate action space and employs dueling double deep Q-Networks to train a drone to navigate in indoor environment without collision.