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Mount Design of Helicopter FLIR Sensor Using Experimental Dynamic Model (실험적 동적 모델을 이용한 헬기용 FLIR 센서의 마운트 설계)

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    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.1129-1136
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    • 2004
  • The structural modification to install a heavy sensor was made at the front extremities of the foreign-produced helicopter operated in the Korea Navy Mounting the sensor directly to the nose structure is unlikely to be practical because it lowers a dynamic mode of the airframe close to rotor blade passing frequencies, leading to increased helicopter vibration. Unfortunately we have no information on dynamic characteristics of the imported helicopter. So the experimental modal model derived from shake testing on the overall airframe of a working helicopter was used to solve the sensor Installation problems. The sensitivity analysis was done to evaluate what the best of modification woo)d be. Simple ID model and experimental modal data for mount system with sensor were Incorporated into overall dynamic model to assess the effects of the sensor installation on helicopter. Modal testing for the modified helicopter shows that the airframe modes are sufficiently displaced from rotor passing frequencies. The mount system has been proven fight to be sufficiently stable to meet vibration-level requirement for all required operational profiles.

NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR HOVERING ROTOR PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (호버링 로터 성능해석을 위한 수치기법 연구)

  • Kim, C.W.;Park, Y.M.;Jang, B.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.151-154
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    • 2006
  • In the present paper, hovering performance analyses of proprotor and helicopter rotor blades were performed by using FLUENT software. As a proprotor, TRAM(Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model) was selected and performance analysis was carried out with mesh adaptation for more elaborate solution. As a helicopter rotor blades, two bladed Caradonna and Tung's rotor and four-bladed BO-105 helicopter rotor blades were selected. In case of Caradonna and Tung's rotor, vortex trajectory was compared with experimental data to inspect the vortex convection capability of the present flow solver. For the final case, performance of BO-105 helicopter rotor blades was investigated and compared with experimental data. After performance analyses of proprotor and helicopter rotors, it was shown that the present solver showed reasonable vortex strength, wake geometry and thurst coefficient distributions. But power coefficient was somewhat overestimated about $10%{\sim}15%$ regard less of mesh adaptation.

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An Experimental Study for Material Properties of Elastomer Bearing Using Next Genration Helicopter rotor system (차세대 헬리콥터 로터용 탄성체베어링 소재 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 정정교;김영석;박건록;김두훈;이명규;김덕관
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.325-329
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    • 2003
  • Nowadays many peoples are using helicopter in various fields, not only military use but also common people applications such as air-measurement, photography, transportation of goods and persons, saving life and fire fighting etc. And it will be expected more popular than now. Most important part of helicopter to increasing performance and to reducing noise is rotor hub-system. Hub system consists of rotor-blade and rotor-hub. We participate to develop next-generation rotor hub system with elastomeric bearing, part of rotor hub. In this paper we introduce about the role and shape of elastomeric bearing in next-generation helicopter hub system. Then we study about bearing-material requirements and measuring methods. Finally we represent some experimental results.

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Fuzzy Model-Based Output-Tracking Control for 2 Degree-of-Freedom Helicopter

  • Chang, Wook;Moon, Ji Hyun;Lee, Ho Jae
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.1649-1656
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    • 2017
  • This paper addresses the control problem of a laboratory-level 2 degree-of-freedom helicopter. The exact fuzzy model in a Takagi - Sugeno form is constructed by the sector nonlinearity technique, and is then represented as a set of uncertain linear systems. Output-tracking controller is designed in terms of linear matrix inequalities and the closed-loop stability is rigorously analyzed. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed method is of benefit to many real industrial plants.

Control of Helicopter Training Simulator by Self-Tuning Control Method with Known Disturbance Rejection and Reference Tracking Characteristics (외란제거와 목표치 추종특성을 가진 자기동조법에 의한 헬리콥터 트레이닝 시뮬레이터의 제어)

  • Lee, Gun-You;Ahn, Hwi-Ung;Kim, Sang-Bong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.07d
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    • pp.2079-2081
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    • 2002
  • R/C helicopter has been used to several fields of military affairs, investigation searching and toys because it has small size hovering and vortical take-off characteristics etc. Therefore it needs more realizable control method. The paper introduces simulation and experimental results for control of a helicopter training simulator by self tuning control method. To realize the disturbance rejection and the given reference tracking, a least common multiple polynomial between the reference and disturbance model polynomials is operated to the plant model. The effectiveness of the method is shown by simulation and experimental results for a helicopter training simulator with two degree of freedom.

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A Hovering Control of an Unmanned Helicopter Using Fuzzy Rules (Fuzzy규칙을 사용한 무인헬리콥터 호버링 제어)

  • Chae, H.S.;Chon, J.C.;Kim, B.S.;Kim, H.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07b
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    • pp.525-527
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    • 1998
  • The fuzzy-based autonomous position control system for hovering of an unmanned helicopter has been developed. An unmanned helicopter Is flying vehicle which can aviate freely even at narrow or hazardous space. The bottleneck of the full utilization of the unmanned helicopter is mainly on the control difficulty caused from its nonlinear and unstable characteristics. This paper presents a Fuzzy control technique to have the unmanned helicopter perform hovering. Experimental results of real unmanned helicopter control are included.

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Cooperation of Heterogeneous Robot Team for Localization and Map Building (이종 로봇팀의 협업을 통한 맵 빌딩과 위치추정)

  • Jeong, Jin-Su;Lim, Yun-Won;Kang, Soo-Hyek;Kim, Dong-Han
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.102-107
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    • 2011
  • In this paper we present cooperation of heterogeneous robot team, composed of a wheeled robot and a helicopter for localization and map building. This heterogeneous robot team can successfully fulfill task by combining the abilities of both robots than single robot because wheeled robot and helicopter have complementing ability. The scenario describes a tightly cooperative task, where the wheeled robot move carrying the helicopter and detect obstacles, if there are obstacles, helicopter take off for map building and land, then robot team move destination avoiding obstacles. We present PID controller for position control of helicopter and transformation algorithm to global coordinate from image pixel coordinate. Experimental result show that the proposed method is valid.

An Experimental Study of Fuselage Drag and Stability Characteristics of a Helicopter Configuration (회전익 항공기 형상의 기체공력 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Oh, Se-Yoon;Park, Keum-Yong;Lee, Jong-Geon;Ahn, Seung-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.9
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes the test carried out on an experimental study of fuselage drag and stability characteristics of a helicopter configuration and the test techniques developed for the testing and the lessons learned in the Agency for Defense Development Low Speed Wind Tunnel(ADD-LSWT). The main objective of this test is to determine the drag and stability characteristics of helicopter configurations according to the various configuration changes. The fuselage model with a highly modular structure is a representation of 1:8 scale of the external contour of the conceptual design helicopter configuration with rotating main rotor hub including blade stubs capable of rotating up to 500 rpm. The test results are compared with the available similar data and fair to good agreement is obtained.

Adoptability Review of a Rotor Airfoil (SW05) to an Agricultural Unmanned Helicopter Using CFD Analysis (CFD 분석을 통한 농용 무인헬리콥터 로터익형(SW05)의 적용성 검토)

  • Jung, Han-Kyung;Koo, Young-Mo
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.289-295
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    • 2008
  • The task of chemical spraying has been seriously considered as an irritating and annoying job for Korean rice farmers. An agricultural unmanned helicopter was suggested to solve this problem so as the farmers to have more decent farming condition. The objectives of this study were to analyze the adoptability of an experimental rotor blade (SW05) using the CFD simulation and also to compare the simulation results with experimental results. The simulation results showed that the induced power of this rotor reached to $57{\sim}63%$ of total power and the profile power was about $37{\sim}43%$ of total power. Therefore it can be concluded that this rotor's performance characteristics were not so efficient for the size of unmanned helicopter due to the low induced power and high profile power relatively compared with ones of conventional rotors. The comparison with experimental results showed that the tested lifts were less than 70% of simulated ones at the grip pitch of $12^{\circ}$ and decreased to 40% at the $18^{\circ}$ grip pitch. Therefore, it can be concluded that the rotor was too oversized to be used for a 15.4 kW (21 PS) engine.

A Decentralized Fuzzy Controller for Experimental Nonlinear Helicopter Systems (헬리콥터 시스템의 퍼지 분산 제어기 설계)

  • 김문환;이호재;박진배;차대범;주영훈
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2001.12a
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    • pp.141-144
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    • 2001
  • This paper proposes a decentralized control technique for 2-dimensional experimental helicopter systems. The decentralized control technique is especially suitable in large-scale control systems. We derive the stabilization condition for the interconnected Takagi-Sugeno (75) fuzzy system using the rigorous tool - Lyapunov stability criterion and formulate the controller design condition in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method, we include the experiment result as well as a computer simulation one, which strongly convinces us the applicability to the industry.

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