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Prediction of Hot Gas Re-Ingestion of Helicopter by Numerical Method (CFD를 이용한 헬리콥터의 배기재순환 예측)

  • Shin, H.B.;Ryu, J.B.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.350-355
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    • 2011
  • The hot gas reingestion phenomenon of helicopter brings about the reduction of engine power available around in-ground. The phenomenon will vary for the conditions of ambient conditions and engine exhaust gas, the flow field associated with the downwash effect of main rotor. To verify the amount of hot gas reingestion to intake, Tests(Wind tunnel test, Flight test) or CFD could be available. At this study, the reingestion around in-ground would be predicted by numerical analysis(CFD).

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Static and dynamic characterization of a flexible scaled joined-wing flight test demonstrator

  • Carregado, Jose;Warwick, Stephen;Richards, Jenner;Engelsen, Frode;Suleman, Afzal
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.117-144
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    • 2019
  • High Altitude and Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft are capable of providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities over vast geographic areas when equipped with advanced sensor packages. As their use becomes more widespread, the demand for additional range, endurance and payload capability will increase and designers are exploring non-conventional configurations to meet the increasing demands. One such configuration is the joined-wing concept. A joined-wing aircraft is one that typically connects a front and aft wings in a diamond shaped planform. One such example is the Boeing SensorCraft configuration. While the joined-wing configuration offers potential benefits regarding aerodynamic efficiency, structural weight, and sensing capabilities, structural design requires careful consideration of elastic buckling resulting from the aft wing supporting, in compression, part of the forward wing structural loading. It has been shown already that this is a nonlinear phenomenon, involving geometric nonlinearities and follower forces that tend to flatten the entire configuration, leading to structural overload due to the loss of the aft wing's ability to support the forward wing load. Severe gusts are likely to be the critical design condition, with flight control system interaction in the form of Gust Load Alleviation (GLA) playing a key role in minimizing the structural loads. The University of Victoria Center for Aerospace Research (UVic-CfAR) has built a 3-meter span scaled and flexible wing UAV based on the Boeing SensorCraft design. The goal is to validate the nonlinear structural behavior in flight. The main objective of this research work is to perform Ground Vibration Tests (GVT) to characterize the dynamic properties of the scaled flight vehicle. Results from the experimental tests are used to characterize the modal dynamics of the aircraft, and to validate the numerical models. The GVT results are an important step towards a safe flight test program.

COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX)

  • Bong, Su-Chan;Kim, Yeon-Han;Choi, Seonghwan;Cho, Kyung-Suk;Newmark, Jeffrey S;Gopalswamy, Natchimuthuk;Gong, Qian;Reginald, Nelson L.;Cyr, Orville Chris St.;Viall, Nicholeen M.;Yashiro, Seiji;Thompson, Linda D.;Strachan, Leonard
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.82.2-82.3
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    • 2019
  • Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), in collaboration with the NASA Goddard Sparce Flight Center (GSFC), will develop a next generation coronagraph for the International Space Station (ISS). COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX) uses multiple filters to obtain simultaneous measurements of electron density, temperature, and velocity within a single instrument. CODEX's regular, systematic, comprehensive dataset will test theories of solar wind acceleration and source, as well as serve to validate and enable improvement of space-weather/operational models in the crucial source region of the solar wind. CODEX subsystems include the coronagraph, pointing system, command and data handling (C&DH) electronics, and power distribution unit. CODEX is integrated onto a standard interface which provides power and communication. All full resolution images are telemeters to the ground, where data from multiple images and sequences are co-added, spatially binned, and ratioed as needed for analysis.

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A Development of Pivoting Composite Wing for Mounting Kit (키트용 접이식 복합재 날개 개발)

  • Joo, Young-Sik;Jun, Woo-Chul;Byun, Kwan-Hwa;Cho, Chang-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.486-492
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    • 2013
  • The pivoting composite wing is developed for the kit to be mounted on the external stores. The wing has a pivoting structure for the installation to an aircraft and high aspect ratio to increase lift drag ratio. The wing needs to be light and have sufficient strength and stiffness to satisfy structural design requirements. The wing is designed with carbon fiber composite and the structural parts are integrated to reduce cost to manufacture. In order to verify the structural performances, the design load analysis and flight load survey, the static analysis and test, the ground vibration test and flutter analysis are performed. It is shown that the wing has sufficient structural strength and stiffness to satisfy the structural design requirements.

Trade-off Study on the Performance of GPS/INS for Aviation Navigation

  • Changsun Yoo;leeki Ahn;Lee, Sangjeong
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.47.2-47
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    • 2002
  • $\textbullet$ Introduction of aviation navigation $\textbullet$ Integrated navigation algorithm $\textbullet$ Description of hardware system $\textbullet$ Ground test $\textbullet$ Flight test $\textbullet$ Conclusion

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Performance Enhancement of a Satellite's Onboard Antenna Tracking Profile using the Ground Station Searching Method

  • Song, Young-Joo;Lee, Jung-Ro;Kang, Jihoon;Jeon, Moon-Jin;Ahn, Sang-Il
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.391-400
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    • 2016
  • In satellite operations, stable maneuvering of a satellite's onboard antenna to prevent undesirable vibrations to the satellite body is required for high-quality high-resolution images. For this reason, the onboard antenna's angular rate is typically minimized while still satisfying the system requirement that limits the speed of the onboard antenna. In this study, a simple yet effective method, called the ground station searching method, is proposed to reduce the angular rate of a satellite's onboard antenna. The performance of the proposed method is tested using real flight data from the KOMPSAT-3 satellite. Approximately 83% of arbitrarily selected real flight scenarios from 66 test cases show reductions in the onboard antenna's azimuth angular rates. Additionally, reliable solutions were consistently obtained within a reasonably acceptable computation time while generating an onboard antenna tracking profile. The obtained results indicate that the proposed method can be used in real satellite operations and can reduce the operational loads on a ground operator. Although the current work only considers the KOMPSAT-3 satellite as a test case, the proposed method can be easily modified and applied to other satellites that have similar operational characteristics.

Ground Altitude Measurement Algorithm using Laser Altimeter and Ultrasonic Rangefinder for UAV (레이저 고도계와 초음파 거리계를 이용한 무인항공기 지면고도측정 알고리즘 설계)

  • Choi, Kyeung-Sik;Hyun, Jung-Wook;Jang, Jae-Won;Ahn, Dong-Man;Hong, Gyo-Young
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.749-756
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents an algorithm concerning the ground altitude measurement using a laser altimeter and an ultrasonic rangefinder for UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). A simple ground test conducted using the laser altimeter and ultrasonic rangefinder that are used for conducting the low altitude measurement of UAV and identify the characteristics of each sensor. Especially, the disadvantages of the laser altimeter were checked through the ground test. After that who those are participated in this paper planned the algorithm which is complemented by the ultrasonic rangefinder and the experiment was conducted. The laser altimeter and the ultrasonic rangefinder were fused by a loosely coupled method by Kalman filter. The paper shows that stable value of altitude complemented by the ultrasonic rangefinder that covers the laser altimeter's drawbacks can be measured through the ground test.

QFT application on force controller design for aircraft control surface load simulator (항공기 조종면 부하재현 구동장치의 force control)

  • 남윤수;이진영;이기두
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1684-1687
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    • 1997
  • A dynamic load simulator which can reproduce on-ground the hinge moment of aircraft control surface is and essential rig for the loaded performance test of aircraft test of aircraft acutation system. The hinge moment varies wide in the aricraft flight enveloped depending on specific flight condition and maneuvering status. To replicate the wide spectrum of this hinge moment variation within some accuracy bounds, a force controller is designed based on the Quantiative Feedback Theory (AFT). Through the analysis on hinge moment dynamics, a design specification for the force controller is suggested. The efficacy of QFT force controller is verivied by simulation, in which combined aricraft dynamics/flight control law and hydraulic actuation system dynamics of aircraft control surface are considered.

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Construction of Indoor Ground Station for Cubesat Communication Test (큐브위성 송수신시험을 위한 실내용 지상국 구축)

  • Han, Sanghyuck;Moon, Sangman;Shin, Dongyeop;Moon, SungTae;Gong, Hyeon Cheol;Choi, Gi-Hyuk
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2014
  • During developing cubesat flight software, Communication test between cubesat and ground station is needed. For this, we have constructed indoor ground station without outdoor antenna for decreasing total cost and time. In this time, if output power of ground station is high, it will affect for cubesat transceiver to be fail. For solving this problem, ground station must be designed for output power of it to be lower than input power of cubesat satellite, and it must be verified. In this paper, first, we describe cubesat indoor ground station using UHF and VHF. Second, we describe output power decreasing test for indoor operation of ground station by attaching attenuators in the end of the output connector.

A study on the burn-in test to accomplish high quality cockpit air of an ultra-sonic aircraft in the early stage of production (생산 초기 초음속 항공기 조종석의 고품질 공기 확보를 위한 burn-in test 연구)

  • Shin, Jae Hyuk;Park, Sung Jae;Seo, Dong Yeon;Jeong, Suheon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.10
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    • pp.871-876
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    • 2016
  • Abnormal odor similar with burning smell often appears at the cockpit in the beginning of ultra-sonic aircraft without air filter due to the heating of production materials remained at the bleed air duct. Sources of the odor should be removed by burn-in test before test flight in order to prevent pilot confuses order with emergency such as fire of engine. However, the present method cannot prevent abnormal odor completely at the high altitude flight because maximum temperature of flight is higher than it of burn-in-test. This paper suggests burn-in test improved based on the analysis of thermal conditions of high altitude flight. It is verified that the existing burn-in test cannot cover thermal conditions of high altitude flight due to the discontinuous flow control, high change rate of temperature per unit time and difference between limit temperature of condenser and turbine. In order to overcome the limitations of current methods, the new burn-in test with continuous flow control are suggested. The continuous flow control are achieved by ram air inlet control. The effect of suggested method are verified by ground tests and flight tests. The results show the bleed air temperature can cover the temperature of high altitude flight and prevent abnormal odor at the flight test.