• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.112-119
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• 2014

In this paper, the authors consider a gimbal system in which a camera is installed to reconnoiter the objects or targets. The issue for this considered system is to obtain information with good quality always. To achieve given objective, it is necessary to control the gimbal system with accurate rotation angle and speed. In this paper, the authors design a robust control system based on $H_{\infty}$ control framework. The controller is designed using a plant model obtained by experiment and simulation. And the experiment result with good control performance is presented.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.680-687
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• 2012

One of the frequent problems in the stabilized gimbal system is the rejection of disturbances associated with moving components. Very often such disturbances have non-linear characteristics. In a typical gimbal system, each gimbal and platform are connected by a mutual bearing which induces inevitable friction. Particularly, the non-linear Coulomb friction causes position errors as well as slow responses that lead to unfavorable performance. In this paper, a modified PID controller that is augmented by Coulomb friction estimator is presented. Through constantly estimating the Coulomb friction torque, it is applied to the output of the existing PID controller. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is evaluated through a series of experiments.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.341-342
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• 2013

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.262-269
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• 2016

Flight of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) generally consists of four steps; take-off, ascent, descent, and finally landing. Among them, autonomous landing is a challenging task due to high risks and reliability problem. In case the landing site where the UAV is supposed to land is moving or oscillating, the situation becomes more unpredictable and it is far more difficult than landing on a stationary site. For these reasons, the accurate and precise control is required for an autonomous landing system of a UAV on top of a moving vehicle which is rolling or oscillating while moving. In this paper, a vision-only based landing algorithm using dynamic gimbal control is proposed. The conventional camera systems which are applied to the previous studies are fixed as downward facing or forward facing. The main disadvantage of these system is a narrow field of view (FOV). By controlling the gimbal to track the target dynamically, this problem can be ameliorated. Furthermore, the system helps the UAV follow the target faster than using only a fixed camera. With the artificial tag on a landing pad, the relative position and orientation of the UAV are acquired, and those estimated poses are used for gimbal control and UAV control for safe and stable landing on a moving vehicle. The outdoor experimental results show that this vision-based algorithm performs fairly well and can be applied to real situations.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.291-305
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• 2003

원격탐사는 각종 상업용 위성과 항공사진을 바탕으로 연구된다. 그러나 이러한 자료는 연구자들이 원하는 시기와 장소에서 촬영하는데 기상조건 및 경제적 이유로 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하는 작은 방안의 하나로 본 연구에서는 소형비행기 및 초경량 비행기에 탈 부착이 가능한 소형 다중분광 자동 항공촬영시스템을 개발하였다. 본 항공촬영시스템은 연구실 자체에서 보유한 고해상도 다중분광카메라(가시대역, 적외선대역)와 열 적외선 카메라, 자체 제작한 자동카메라 정밀자세조정장치, 촬영관제 소형컴퓨터, gimbal, GPS수신기, 기상센서 등으로 구성되어 있다. 이에 대한 성능평가 및 분석을 경북 칠포지역에서 2회, 낙동강지역에서 3회, 경안천 지역에서 2회 실시하였다 그 결과, 다양한 항공사진, 기상자료 및 GPS자료를 획득할 수 있었고, 환경감시등에 유용성이 매우 높음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.646-652
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• 2013

PRA(Position Reporting Accuracy) for EO/IR(Electro-Optic/Infrared) airborne camera is an important factor in geo-pointing accuracy. Generally, rate table is used to measure PRA of gimbal actuated camera like EO/IR. However, it is not always possible to fix an EUT(Equipment for Under Test) to rate table due to capacity limit of the table on the size and weight of the object(EUT). Our EO/IR is too big and heavy to emplace on it. Therefore, we propose a new verification method of PRA for airborne camera and assess the validity of our proposition. In this method we use collimator, angle measuring instrument, 6 dof motion simulator, optical surface plate, leveling laser, inclinometer and poster(for alignment).

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권7호
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• pp.1056-1063
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• 2015

In this paper, we develop an interface for aerial photograph platform which consists of a quadrotor and a gimbal using the human body and the head posture. As quadrotors have been widely adopted in many industries such as aerial photography, remote surveillance, and maintenance of infrastructures, the demand of aerial video and photograph has been increasing remarkably. Stick type remote controllers are widely used to control a quadrotor, but this method is not an intuitive way of controlling the aerial vehicle and the camera simultaneously. Therefore, a new interface which controls the serial photograph platform is presented. The presented interface uses the human head movement measured by head-mounted display as a reference for controlling the camera angle, and the human body posture measured from Kinect for controlling the attitude of the quadrotor. As the image captured by the camera is displayed on the head-mounted display simultaneously, the user can feel flying experience and intuitively control the quadrotor and the camera. Finally, the performance of the developed system shown to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the presented interface.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.174-181
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• 2011

An airborne sensor is developed for remote sensing on an aerial vehicle (UV). The sensor is an optical payload for an eletro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) dual band camera that combines visible and IR imaging capabilities in a compact and lightweight package. It adopts a Ritchey-Chr$\'{e}$tien telescope for the common front end optics with several relay optics that divide and deliver EO and IR bands to a charge-coupled-device (CCD) and an IR detector, respectively. The EO/IR camera for dual bands is mounted on a two-axis gimbal that provides stabilized imaging and precision pointing in both the along and cross-track directions. We first investigate the mechanical deformations, displacements and stress of the EO/IR camera through finite element analysis (FEA) for five cases: three gravitational effects and two thermal conditions. For investigating gravitational effects, one gravitational acceleration (1 g) is given along each of the +x, +y and +z directions. The two thermal conditions are the overall temperature change to $30^{\circ}C$ from $20^{\circ}C$ and the temperature gradient across the primary mirror pupil from $-5^{\circ}C$ to $+5^{\circ}C$. Optical performance, represented by the modulation transfer function (MTF), is then predicted by integrating the FEA results into optics design/analysis software. This analysis shows the IR channel can sustain imaging performance as good as designed, i.e., MTF 38% at 13 line-pairs-per-mm (lpm), with refocus capability. Similarly, the EO channel can keep the designed performance (MTF 73% at 27.3 lpm) except in the case of the overall temperature change, in which the EO channel experiences slight performance degradation (MTF 16% drop) for $20^{\circ}C$ overall temperate change.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.307-314
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• 2011

본 연구는 무인 항공사진 촬영을 이용하여 해안에 산재한 해안표착물을 탐지하는 새로운 방법을 제시하였다. 이동성과 신속성, 경제성이 우수한 소형 무선 조정 헬리콥터의 기체와 헬리콥터의 진동에 관계없이 연직 상태를 유지할 수 있는 짐벌 장치에 디지털카메라를 장착하여 항공사진 촬영을 시행하였다. 또한, 촬영된 영상으로부터 해안표착물을 탐지하기 위해 Matlab program을 이용한 디지털 영상처리 알고리즘을 고안하였다. 특히 고안된 알고리즘은 배경 차감 기법(Background subtraction method)을 적용하여 연구 대상 해안의 각기 다른 모래 상태로 인해 발생하는 물체 추출 오차를 감소시킴으로써 다양한 형태의 해안표착물을 안정적으로 탐지하는 결과를 보여주었다. 향후, 이 연구 방법을 적용한 해안표착물 모니터링이 이루어질 경우 모니터링 대상 구역 설정의 대표성 문제 해결 및 발생량 추정에 크게 기여할 수 있으며, 해양환경 감시 분야에 활용가능성이 클 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2020

본 연구는 제방 균열의 탐지를 위해 드론 기반의 초분광 영상을 활용하여 균열의 분광정보 및 반사율을 분석하는 것이 목적이다. 초분광 센서는 드론에 탑재된 Nano-Hyperspec을 사용하였으며 안동댐 하류 제방 균열을 대상으로 조도별 초분광 영상을 촬영하였다. 조도와 최대강도에 대한 분석 결과 상관관계를 보였으며 비균열 영역과 균열 영역의 결정계수는 각각 0.9864, 0.9851로 계산되었다. 각 영역별 같은 포인트의 반사율은 조도에 상관없이 유사한 값과 패턴을 보였으며 반사율 계산 시 기준이 되는 백색판이 조도에 따라 변하기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 균열 영역에서 반사율은 비균열 영역에 비해 가시광선에서는 5.65%, 근적외선에서는 4.58% 낮게 나타났다. 향후 드론 촬영을 위한 짐벌 방향과 카메라 각도 등이 보정되면 좀더 정확한 균열 탐지가 가능하며 특히 초분광 영상은 일반 RGB 영상으로 확인이 어려운 균열 심도, 점토광물 종류 등에 대한 탐지가 가능하기 때문에 제방 안정성 평가를 위한 선제적 대응방법이 될 것으로 판단된다.