• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1993년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); Seoul National University, Seoul; 20-22 Oct. 1993
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• pp.185-188
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• 1993

The goal of this paper is to develop an on-board controller for a model helicopter's hovering attitude control, using i8096 one-chip microcontroller. Required controller algorithm is programmed in ASM-96 assembly language and downloaded into an i8096 microcontroller. The performance of hovering flight using this system is verified by experiments with the model helicopter mounted on an instrumented flight stand where 3 potentiometers and an optical proximity sensor measure te attitude and main rotor speed of the helicopter.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.154-164
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• 2017

This work conducts a validation study for the XH-59A helicopter using a rigid coaxial rotor system in order to establish the techniques of the conceptual design and performance analysis for the lift-offset compound rotorcraft. As a tool for conceptual design and performance analysis, NDARC (NASA Design and Analysis of Rotorcraft) is used for the present study. An assumed mission profile is considered for the conceptual design of the XH-59A. As a validation result of the design, the dimensions and weight of the XH-59A are appropriately designed when compared to the target values since the relative error is less than 0.5%. Then, performance analyses are conducted for the designed XH-59A model with and without auxiliary propulsion in hover and forward flight conditions. The present analyses show good validity since the prediction results compare well with both the flight test and previous analyses. Therefore, the techniques for the conceptual design and performance analysis of the lift-offset compound helicopter are overall considered to be appropriately established. In addition, this study investigates the influence of the lift-offset on the rotor effective lift-to-drag ratio of the XH-59A helicopter with auxiliary propulsion. As a result, the improvement of the rotor effective lift-to-drag ratio can be obtained by appropriately increasing the lift-offset in high-speed flight.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2007

The Damage Tolerant Design is developed to help alleviate structural failure and cracking problems in aerospace structures. Recently, the Damage Tolerant Design is required and recommended for most of aircraft design. In this paper, the damage tolerant design is applied to tilt rotor UAV. First of all, the fatigue load spectrum for the tilt rotor UAV is developed and fatigue analysis is performed for the flaperon joint which has FCL (fatigue critical location). Tilt rotor UAV has two modes: helicopter mode when UAV is taking off and landing; fixed wing mode when the tilt rotor UAV is cruising. To make fatigue load spectrum, FELIX is used for helicopter mode. TWIST is used for fixed wing mode. Fatigue analysis of flaperon joint is performed using fatigue load spectrum. E-N curve approach is used for picking crack initiation point. The LEFM(Linear Elastic Fracture Method) is considered for analyzing crack growth or propagation. Finally, including the crack initiation and propagation, the fatigue life is evaluated. Therefore the Damage Tolerant Design can be done.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.881-887
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• 2015

The stiffness and natural frequencies for blades, flexbeam, and torque tube of bearingless rotor system are measured to determine the material input properties such as mass distributions and stiffness distribution for the rotor dynamics and load analysis. The flap stiffness, lag stiffness, and torsional stiffness are calculated by measuring section strain or twist angle, gages position, and applied loads through bending and twist tests. The modal tests are undertaken to find out the natural frequencies for flap, lag, torsion modes in non-rotating conditions. The stiffness values and mass properties are tuned and updated to match prediction frequencies to the measured frequencies. The rotorcraft comprehensive code(CAMRAD II) is used to analyze the natural frequencies of the specimens. The analysis results with the updated material properties agree well with the measured frequencies. The updated properties will be used to analyze the rotor stability, dynamic characteristics and loads for the rotor rotation test in a whirl tower.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 축소형실험을 통하여 제자리 비행하는 헬리콥터 주로터에서 발생하는 소음의 특성을 측정하는 실험을 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 구동장치에서의 발생소음이 적은 저소음 로터시험장치를 설계/제작하였으며, 아울러 로터의 공력특성을 측정하기 위하여 작동조건에서의 회전수, 추력 및 토크를 함께 계측하였고 이에 대한 문제점을 검토하였다. 사용된 하중 측정장치의 교정을 통하여 이의 정확도를 확인하였으며, 두개의 블레이드로 구성된 직경 1.2m의 축소형 로터를 이용한 실험에서 측정된 추력값이 이론적 계산값과 비교하여 비교적 잘 일치함을 알 수 있었으나 토크 측정값은 잘 일치하지 않음을 확인하였다. 소음 측정실험을 통하여 로터 구동장치로 인한 배경소음이 로터 소음에 비하여 현저히 작음을 확인하였고, 각 로터 발생소음원의 특성에 따라 날개끝 속도에 의하여 달리 무차원화 됨을 확인하였고 방향성 특성도 변화함을 확인하였다.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2010

Fatigue properties of composite materials are extremely important to design durable and reliable helicopter rotor blades. However, it is very difficult to apply conventional fatigue test loads in short period. Therefore, accelerating test speed and facilitating spectrum load realization are required. In this study, we have developed a fatigue testing method that uses a resonance of simply supported beam type blade specimen. This test consists in exciting the blade specimen with a frequency that corresponds to its natural frequency. In that case, the test specimen similar to a beam fixed between two pivot points starts vibrating and is significantly deformed. Resonant fatigue tests were performed by changing exciting vertical amplitude and frequency, and S-N curves of each composite materials were successfully obtained.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.398-404
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 관성측정장치를 기반으로 블루투스 환경에서의 자율비행을 위한 멀티 로터형 헬리콥터에 대한 설계 및 성능을 제시하였다. 멀티 로터관련 다양한 연구가 진행되어오고 있긴 하지만 최근에는 다양한 서비스를 목적으로 짐벌이 장착된 헥사로터형의 헬리콥터에 대한 관심이 모아지고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 지상의 원격조정 PC나 고성능의 원격제어장치나 영상시스템과 같은 외부보조 시스템 없이 연구와 구조활동, 모니터링 활동을 수행할 수 있는 컴팩트하고 자율비행을 위한 헥사로터(hexa rotor)형 헬리콥터에 대한 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어를 소개하고자 한다. 제안한 시스템은 헥사로터 헬리콥터의 구조와 관성측정장치 관련 하드웨어 구성과 수학적 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 결과를 각각 제시하였다. 또한, IMU 구현을 위하여 MCU(ARM-cortex) 보드를 장착하여 각 로터의 회전과 관성 측정장치의 입력신호에 대한 상태를 제어할 수 있도록 하였다. 그리고 시스템 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통한 시스템의 성능을 각각 검증하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2008

본 논문은 헬리콥터 기동비행문제를 비선형 최적제어기법으로 정식화 하고 이를 indirect method를 적용하여 해석하는 기법에 대한 연구결과이다. 주어진 기동비행 경로에 대한 오차를 벌칙함수 형태의 가격함수로 채택하고 이를 최소화하도록 정식화하면 기동비행은 구속조건이 없는 최적제어문제로 정식화 된다. 정식화 결과로 얻어지는 이점 경계값 문제는 Multiple Shooting Method (MSM)를 적용하여 해석하였다. 본 논문은 high fidelity 헬리콥터 모델링을 적용할 경우 수치해의 불안정성과 과도한 계산시간에 따른 해석의 어려움을 해소하는 방안을 찾는데 초점을 두고 있다. 이를 위해 2가지의 선형모델과 로터의 비선형 모델링을 포함한 2개의 비선형 모델을 정의하였다. 각 모델링 방법의 적용에 따른 수치해석결과를 상대적인 계산시간과 함수계산 횟수 등을 비교하여 헬리콥터 모델 선정 시 활용할 수 있도록 하였다.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2015

In helicopter bearingless rotor design, the flexbeam is the key component of rotor system, which plays an importantrole in the blade flapping, lead-lag movement, torsion, and load transfer. Flexbeam must have the minimum torsion stiffness with enough tension strength. In this paper, we first investigated the torsion stiffness of different cross section configurations of the flexbeam through some simple experiments. Then we analyzed a rotor's dynamical characteristics with finite element method and got the rotor's fan plot. After that, we studied the relationship between the frequency changes with the spanwise distribution of mass and stiffness in bearingless rotor. Finally, we analyzed the influence of the flexbeam on dynamical characteristics of the bearingless rotor system, and completed the design of this type of rotor flexbeam.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.916-924
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• 2008

In this paper dynamic modeling parameters were estimated using a frequency domain estimation method. A systematic flight test method was employed using preprogrammed multistep excitation of the swashplate control input. In addition when one axis is excited, the autopilot is engaged in the other axis, thereby obtaining high-quality flight data. A dynamic model was derived for a small scale unmanned helicopter (CNUHELI-020, developed by Chungnam National University) equipped with a Bell-Hiller stabilizer bar. Six degree of freedom equations of motion were derived using the total forces and moments acting on the small scale helicopter. The dynamics of the main rotor is simplified by the first order tip-path plane, and the aerodynamic effects of fuselage, tail rotor, engine, and horizontal/vertical stabilizer were considered. Trim analysis and linearized model were used as a basic model for the parameter estimation. Doublet and multistep inputs are used to excite dynamic motions of the helicopter. The system and input matrices were estimated in the frequency domain using the equation error method in order to match the data of flight test with those of the dynamic modeling. The dynamic modeling and the flight test show similar time responses, which validates the consequence of analytic modeling and the procedures of parameter estimation.