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An Application of Radio-Controlled Model Testing Techniques to Validation of Air-Vehicle Design Configuration (비행체 설계 형상 타당성 확인을 위한 무선조종 모형시험 기법 적용)

  • Chung, In-Jae;Kim, Myung-Seong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.66-72
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    • 2007
  • an approach to air-vehicle design, an application of the radio-controlled model flight test techniques has been presented. The approach presented in this study is to validate the air-vehicle design configuration by analyzing the flight test results of scale model with dynamic similarities, and then to apply the analyzed results to the aerodynamic design process in early stage of the air-vehicle development. To develop practically applicable similarity laws for the subscale flying model design, the air-vehicle motions are decoupled into rotational motions for stability & control similarities and translational motions for flight performance similarities. Also, detail techniques for radio-controlled model flight test have been developed. Based on the results obtained from the radio-controlled flight test, the present approach for air-vehicle design has shown to be useful to validate the air-vehicle design configuration.

A Study on Processor Monitoring for Integration Test of Flight Control Computer equipped with A Modern Processor (최신 프로세서 탑재 비행제어 컴퓨터의 통합시험을 위한 프로세서 모니터링 연구)

  • Lee, Cheol;Kim, Jae-Cheol;Cho, In-Jae
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.1081-1087
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    • 2008
  • This paper describes limitations and solutions of the existing processor-monitoring concept for a military supersonics aircraft Flight Control Computer (FLCC) equipped with modern architecture processor to perform the system integration test. Safecritical FLCC integration test, which requires automatic test for thousands of test cases and real-time input/output test condition generation, depends on the processor-monitoring device called Processor Interface (PI). The PI, which relies upon on the FLCC processor's external address and data-bus data, has some limitations due to multi-fetching capability of the modern sophisticated military processors, like C6000's VLIW (Very-Long Instruction Word) architecture and PowerPC's Superscalar architecture. Several techniques for limitations were developed and proper monitoring approach was presented for modem processor-adopted FLCC system integration test.

Application of Human Machine Interface and Augmented Reality Technology to Flight Operation (인간-기계 인터페이스 및 증강현실 기술의 항공운항 분야 적용)

  • Park, Hyeong Uk;Chung, Joon;Chang, Jo Won;Joo, Seonghyeon;Hwang, Young Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.54-69
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    • 2019
  • The primary objective of this paper is to introduce the application of Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies in flight operations. These include: self-check-in, baggage handling, airport security and surveillance, airport operations monitoring, In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC), cockpit design, and cabin crew support. This paper investigates the application status and development trends of HMI and AR technologies for airports and aircraft. These technologies can provide more efficient in-flight passenger service and experience by using AR devices. This paper also discusses the developments such as; the Integrated Control Application (ICA) for the IFEC interface, AR flight simulation training program using the fixed-based simulator, and the AR aircraft cabin interior concept test program. These applications present how HMI and AR techniques can be utilized in actual flight operations. The developed programs in this paper can be applied to their purpose within aircraft interiors and services to enhance efficiency, comfort, and experience.

MPC based path-following control of a quadcopter drone considering flight path and external disturbances in MATLAB/Simulink (MATLAB/Simulink 기반 주행 경로와 외란을 고려한 쿼드콥터 드론의 모델 예측 제어 기반 경로 주행 제어)

  • Soon-Jae Gwon;Gu-Min Jeong
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.472-477
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we proposes the use of Model Predictive Control (MPC) techniques to enable quadcopter drones to effectively follow paths and maintain flight safety even under dynamic external environments and disturbances. Through simulations conducted in MATLAB/Simulink, the performance of two controllers, PID and MPC, is compared in flight scenarios with disturbances. The proposed design method shows that the MPC controller, when compared to the PID controller, exhibits a difference in the Mean Squared Error between the intended flight path and the actual path of the quadcopter drone. This difference is 0.2 in performance under no disturbance, and it increases to 0.8 under disturbance, demonstrating the improved path following accuracy of the MPC controller.

Lateral Vehicle Control Based on Active Flight Control Technology

  • Seo Young-Bong;Choi Jae-Weon;Duan Guang Ren
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.981-992
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a lateral vehicle control using the concept of control configured vehicle (CCV) is presented. The control objectives for the lateral dynamics of a vehicle include the ability to follow a chosen variable without significant motion change in other specified variables. The analysis techniques for decoupling of the aircraft motions are utilized to develop vehicle lateral control with advanced mode. Vehicle lateral dynamic is determined to have the steering input and control torque input. The additional vehicle modes are also defined to using CCV concept. We use right eigenstructure assignment techniques and command generator tracker to design a control law for an lateral vehicle dynamics. The desired eigenvectors are chosen to achieve the desired decoupling (i.e., lateral direction speed and yaw rate). The command generator tracker is used to ensure steady-state tracking of the driver's command. Finally, the developed design is utilized by using the lateral vehicle dynamic with four wheel.

Lateral Vehicle Control Based on Active Flight Control (능동비행제어기술에 기반한 자동차 횡방향 제어)

  • Seo Young-Bong;Duan Guang Ren;Choi Jae-Weon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.1002-1011
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a lateral vehicle control using the concept of control configured vehicle(CCV) is presented. The control objectives for the lateral dynamics of a vehicle include the ability to commend a chosen variable without significant motion change in other specified variables. The analysis techniques fur decoupling of the aircraft motions are utilized to develop vehicle lateral control with advanced mode. Vehicle lateral dynamic is determined to have the steering input and control torque input. The additional vehicle modes are also defined to using CCV concept. We use right eigenstructure assignment techniques and command generator tracker to design a control law for an lateral vehicle dynamics. The desired eigenvectors are chosen to achieve the desired decoupling(i.e., lateral direction speed and yaw rate). The command generator tracker is used to ensure steady-state tracking of the driver's command. Finally, the developed design is utilized by using the lateral vehicle dynamic with four wheel.

The NF-l6D VISTA Simulation System

  • Siouris, George M.
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.114-123
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    • 2002
  • Called VISTA (Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), the one-of-a-kind NF-l6D has a simulation system that can mimic several aircraft. Though housed in an F-l6 Fighting Falcon airframe, VISTA can also act like the F-15 Eagle or the Navy's F-14 Tomcat. More importantly, such flexibility allows for improved training and consolidation of some sorties. Consequently USAF Test Pilot School students will have an opportunity to learn how to test future integrated cockpits. In this paper we will use the multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) and the multiple model adaptive controller (MMAC) techniques to model the aircraft's flight control system containing the longitudinal and lateral-directional axes. Single and dual actuator and sensor failures will also be included in the simulation. White Gaussian noise will be included to simulate the effects of atmospheric disturbances.

On the loop-shaping techniques for the LQG/LTR control (LQG/LTR 제어를 위한 루프형성기법에 관한 연구)

  • 한성익;김종식
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10a
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    • pp.1028-1033
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    • 1992
  • Loop shaping techniques are developed for the LQG/LTR controller design of singular multivariable sytems. One approach is to use the mode form of plant and the other is to replace the eigenvalues at 0 by ones at .epsilon.(.rarw.0). These two concepts for the target filter loop design are applied to a flight autopilot. And it is shown that these techniques are effective ones for the desired loop-shaping of singular multivariable systems.

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Real-Time Flight Testing for Developing an Autonomous Indoor Navigation System for a Multi-Rotor Flying Vehicle (실내 자율비행 멀티로터 비행체를 위한 실시간 비행시험 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeon;Lee, Deok Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.343-352
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    • 2016
  • A multi-rotor vehicle is an unmanned vehicle consisting of multiple rotors. A multi-rotor vehicle can be categorized as tri-, quad-, hexa-, and octo-rotor depending on the number of the rotors. Multi-rotor vehicles have many advantages due to their agile flight capabilities such as the ability for vertical take-off, landing and hovering. Thus, they can be widely used for various applications including surveillance and monitoring in urban areas. Since multi-rotors are subject to uncertain environments and disturbances, it is required to implement robust attitude stabilization and flight control techniques to compensate for this uncertainty. In this research, an advanced nonlinear control algorithm, i.e. sliding mode control, was implemented. Flight experiments were carried out using an onboard flight control computer and various real-time autonomous attitude adjustments. The feasibility and robustness for flying in uncertain environments were also verified through real-time tests based on disturbances to the multi-rotor vehicle.

The hovering Flight Attitude Control of a Helicopter using Mixed $H_2/H_{\infty}$ Control Techniques ($H_2/H_{\infty}$ 혼합 제어 기법을 이용한 헬리콥터의 정지 비행 자세 제어에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Myung-Wook;Ko, Kang-Woong;Min, Deuk-Gi;Park, Ki-Heon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.07d
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    • pp.2599-2601
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    • 2000
  • A helicopter control problem has been researched with many control theory. Especially, study of the hovering flight attitude control of a helicopter has been brisked since 60s with multivariable control theory. In this paper, the modeling is interpreted through the 6-freedom equation. To getting a entire equation, species of parameters and charts are adapted. The $H_2/H_{\infty}$ controller is acquired by mixing the $H_2$ control theory and the $H_{\infty}$ control theory. The $H_2$ control theory is reasonable one to increase the performance of a plant, and the $H_{\infty}$ control theory secures the robust stability. The simulation shows that the helicopter system is being controlled while maintaining performance and robust stability against perturbation.

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