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Flow Control of Smart UAV Airfoil Using Synthetic Jet Part 2 : Flow control in Transition Mode Using Synthetic Jet (Synthetic jet을 이용한 스마트 무인기(SUAV) 유동제어 Part 2 : 천이 비행 모드에서 synthetic jet을 이용한 유동제어)

  • Kim, Min-Hee;Kim, Sang-Hoon;Kim, Woo-Re;Kim, Chong-Am;Kim, Yu-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.12
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    • pp.1184-1191
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    • 2009
  • In order to reduce the download around the Smart UAV(SUAV) at Transition mode, flow control using synthetic jet has been performed. Many of the complex tilt rotor flow features are captured including the leading and trailing edge separation, and the large region of separated flow beneath the wing. Based on the results of part 1 of the present work, synthetic jet is located at 0.01c, $0.95c_{flap}$ and it is operated with the non-dimensional frequency of 0.5, 5 to control the leading edge and trailing edge separation. Consequently, download is substantially reduced compared to with no control case at transition mode using leading edge jet only. The present results show that the overall flight performance and stability of the SUAV can be remarkably improved by applying the active flow control strategy based on synthetic jet.

Understanding and Reducing Performance Variation in New Product Development Using Paper Helicopter Experiment (종이 헬리콥터 실험을 통한 개발단계 성능변동의 이해와 개선)

  • Shin, Byung-Cheol;Kim, Si-Ung;Jeong, Sun Min;Byun, Jai-Hyun;Nam, Yong-Seog
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.589-606
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: In developing new products, reducing performance variation is important for competitiveness factors such as quality, cost, and delivery. This paper aims at evaluating three performance variations; measurement, performance evaluation, and manufacturing variations, and then improving product and process design, focused on paper helicopter making case study. Methods: For measurement system analysis, gage R&R (repeatability and reproducibility), linearity, stability are evaluated. Since gage R&R are not satisfactory, the measurement system is improved by adopting voice memos application of iPhone and providing standard measurement procedure. To evaluate performance variation, product deterioration and environment factor (wind speed) is considered. Since the existing design is sensitive to these noise factors, a new product design is developed, which is proven to be robust to the noise factors. Finally, manufacturing variations are evaluated with five factors which can cause variation in flight time. To reduce the impact of three significant factors, three improvement methods are applied. Results: Three performance variations are evaluated and robust paper helicopter design is presented. Conclusion: To reduce measurement and process variations, improved measurement method and paper helicopter making procedure are proposed. A new product design is also presented which is robust to deterioration and environmental variation. This paper is expected to benefit students and practitioners who want to have hands-on knowledge on new product quality improvement.

An Experiment Study on Sideslip Angle Effect of Lambda Wing Configuration (람다 날개 형상의 옆미끄럼각 효과에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Shim, HoJoon;Park, Seung-O;Oh, Se-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.224-231
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    • 2015
  • An experimental study on aerodynamic coefficients of a lambda wing configuration was performed at the low speed wind tunnel of Agency for Defense Development. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of sideslip angle on various aerodynamic coefficients. In the case of $0^{\circ}C$ sideslip angle, nose-up pitching moment rapidly increases at a specific angle of attack. This unstable pitching moment characteristic is referred to as pitch break or pitch up. As the sideslip angle increases, the pitch break is found to be generated at a higher angle of attack. Rolling moment is found to show similar behavior pattern to 'pitch break' style with angle of attack at non-zero sideslip angles. This trend gets severer at greater sideslip angles. Yawing moment also shows substantial variation of the slope and the unstable directional stability with sideslip angles at higher angles of attack. These characteristics of the three moments clearly implies the difficulty of the flight control which requires efficient control augmentation system.

Design of Deep Learning-Based Automatic Drone Landing Technique Using Google Maps API (구글 맵 API를 이용한 딥러닝 기반의 드론 자동 착륙 기법 설계)

  • Lee, Ji-Eun;Mun, Hyung-Jin
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2020
  • Recently, the RPAS(Remote Piloted Aircraft System), by remote control and autonomous navigation, has been increasing in interest and utilization in various industries and public organizations along with delivery drones, fire drones, ambulances, agricultural drones, and others. The problems of the stability of unmanned drones, which can be self-controlled, are also the biggest challenge to be solved along the development of the drone industry. drones should be able to fly in the specified path the autonomous flight control system sets, and perform automatically an accurate landing at the destination. This study proposes a technique to check arrival by landing point images and control landing at the correct point, compensating for errors in location data of the drone sensors and GPS. Receiving from the Google Map API and learning from the destination video, taking images of the landing point with a drone equipped with a NAVIO2 and Raspberry Pi, camera, sending them to the server, adjusting the location of the drone in line with threshold, Drones can automatically land at the landing point.

RESEARCH FOR ROBUSTNESS OF THE MIRIS OPTICAL COMPONENTS IN THE SHOCK ENVIRONMENT TEST (MIRIS 충격시험에서의 광학계 안정성 확보를 위한 연구)

  • Moon, B.K.;Kanai, Yoshikazu;Park, S.J.;Park, K.J.;Lee, D.H.;Jeong, W.S.;Park, Y.S.;Pyo, J.H.;Nam, U.W.;Lee, D.H.;Ree, S.W.;Matsumoto, Toshio;Han, W.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2012
  • MIRIS, Multi-purpose Infra-Red Imaging System, is the main payload of STSAT-3 (Korea Science & Technology Satellite 3), which will be launched in the end of 2012 (the exact date to be determined) by a Russian Dnepr rocket. MIRIS consists of two camera systems, SOC (Space Observation Camera) and EOC (Earth Observation Camera). During a shock test for the flight model stability in the launching environment, some lenses of SOC EQM (Engineering Qualification Model) were broken. In order to resolve the lens failure, analyses for cause were performed with visual inspections for lenses and opto-mechanical parts. After modifications of SOC opto-mechanical parts, the shock test was performed again and passed. In this paper, we introduce the solution for lens safety and report the test results.

Wind Tunnel Test Study on the Wings of WIG Ship (WIG선의 날개에 대한 풍동실험 고찰)

  • Kim, S.K.;Suh, S.B.;Lee, D.H.;Kim, K.E.
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 1997
  • This paper presents the results of 3rd wind tunnel test for the wings of WIG R/C test models, 'Hanjin-1' & 'Hanjin-2'. We made 'Hanjin-1' in last May 1995 and had a success in test flight. And in order to grasp the aerodynamic characteristics of wings in ground effect, the measurements of lift and drag were carried out for the various kinds of wing. It was shown that lift and lift-drag ratio increase with decrease of the clearance, but the feature was considerably depended on the shape of wing section. In this case we select the three kind of wing. section, and then compare their characteristics especially for a stability in longitudinal motion. They are NACA6409 for 'Hanjin-1' and the two kinds of DHMTU for ekranoplans of Russia. Experimental results show that the pitching moments of DHMTU wing sections are smaller than NACA6409.

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Aerodynamic Analysis of an Arbitrary Three-Dimensional Blended Wing Body Aircraft using Panel Method (패널법을 이용한 임의의 3차원 BWB 형상 항공기에 대한 공력해석)

  • Lee, Sea-Wook;Yang, Jin-Yeol;Cho, Jin-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.11
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    • pp.1066-1072
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    • 2009
  • A panel method based on potential flow theory is developed for the steady/unsteady aerodynamic analysis of arbitrary three-dimensional Blended Wing Body aircraft. The panel method uses the piecewise constant source and doublet singularities as a solution. This potential based panel method is founded on the Dirichlet boundary condition and coupled with the time-stepping method. The present method uses the time-stepping loop to simulate the unsteady motion of the aircraft. The present method can solve the three-dimensional flow over the complex bodies with less computing time and provide various aerodynamic derivatives to secure the stability of Blended Wing Body aircraft. That will do much for practical applications such as aerodynamic designs and analysis of aircraft configurations and flight simulation.

Research for improving vulnerability of unmanned aerial vehicles (무인항공기 보안 취약점 개선을 위한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyung-Hwan;Ryu, Gab-Sang
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.64-71
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    • 2018
  • Utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly expanding to various fields ranging from defense, industry, entertainment and personal hobbies. Due to the increased activities of unmanned airplanes, many security problems have emerged, including flight path errors to undesired destinations, secondary threats due to exposed securities caused by the capture of unmanned airplanes in hostile countries. In this paper, we find security vulnerabilities in UAVs such as GPS spoofing, hacking captured video information, malfunction due to signal attenuation through jamming, and exposure of personal information due to image shooting. In order to solve this problem, the stability of the unstructured data is secured by setting the encryption of the video shooting information section using the virtual private network (VPN) to prevent the GPS spoofing attack. In addition, data integrity was ensured by applying personal information encryption and masking techniques to minimize the secondary damage caused by exposure of the UAV and to secure safety. It is expected that it will contribute to the safe use and stimulation of industry in the application field of UAV currently growing.

An Experimental Study on Effect of Angle of Attack on Elevator Control Force for Underwater Vehicle with Separate Fixed Fins (별도의 고정타를 갖는 수중운동체 승강타의 제어력에 미치는 받음각의 영향에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Park, CJeong-Hoon;Shin, Myung-Sub;Choi, Jae-Yeop;Hwang, Jong-Hyun;Shin, Young-Hun;Kim, Yeon-Gyu
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.243-252
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    • 2016
  • Conventionally, the static angle of attack and static elevator tests are carried out separately to estimate hydrodynamic stability derivatives of underwater vehicles. However, it is difficult to verify the interaction between the angle of attack and elevator angle in such cases. In this study, we perform a static elevator with angle of attack test where both the angle of attack and elevator angle are varied simultaneously. The experimental results show that the angle of attack has an influence on the elevator control force and that this tendency is dependent on the sense in which the angle of attack and elevator angle are varied. We predict level flight performance using hydrodynamic derivatives estimated through this experiment. The predictions considering the effect of angle of attack show good agreement with trials conducted in the open sea.

Remote Fault Detection in Conveyor System Using Drone Based on Audio FFT Analysis (드론을 활용하고 음성 FFT분석에 기반을 둔 컨베이어 시스템의 원격 고장 검출)

  • Yeom, Dong-Joo;Lee, Bo-Hee
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2019
  • This paper proposes a method for detecting faults in conveyor systems used for transportation of raw materials needed in the thermal power plant and cement industries. A small drone was designed in consideration of the difficulty in accessing the industrial site and the need to use it in wide industrial site. In order to apply the system to the embedded microprocessor, hardware and algorithms considering limited memory and execution time have been proposed. At this time, the failure determination method measures the peak frequency through the measurement, detects the continuity of the high frequency, and performs the failure diagnosis with the high frequency components of noise. The proposed system consists of experimental environment based on the data obtained from the actual thermal power plant, and it is confirmed that the proposed system is useful by conducting virtual environment experiments with the drone designed system. In the future, further research is needed to improve the drone's flight stability and to improve discrimination performance by using more intelligent methods of fault frequency.