• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2013

Numerical simulation was performed for the rotor blade with fixed tab in hover using an unstructured mesh Navier-Stokes flow solver. The inflow and outflow boundary conditions using 1D momentum and 3D sink theory were applied to reduce computational time. Calculations were performed at several operating conditions of varying collective pitch angle and fixed tab length. The aerodynamic effect of fixed tab length was investigated for hovering efficiency, pitching moment and flapping moment of the rotor blade. The results show that it affects linearly increasing on the pitching moment of the rotor blade but does not affect on the flapping moment. The required power is less than 45kw for ground rotating test in hover. Numerical simulations also show that the vortex generate not only from the tip of the rotor blade but also from the fixed tab on the rotor blade.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.574-579
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• 2016

쿼드로터는 일반 무인항공기와 달리 구조가 단순하고 그 활용 가치가 매우 높아 많은 사람들의 관심을 받고 있다. 하지만 드론에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 항공 안전사고 또는 분실에 대비한 비행체의 안정성과 위치파악의 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 쿼드로터의 모델링을 수식적으로 유도하여 이를 선형화시켜 간단한 제어기로 모델을 안정화시키고 다양한 센서로부터 얻은 데이터를 필터를 거쳐 기울어진 정도를 파악하여 보다 안정한 호버링이 가능한 추적 시스템을 제안하였다. 개발된 추적시스템은 비행 중인 쿼드로터의 위치를 컴퓨터로 전송해 이를 경로로 나타내어 비행경로를 파악할 수 있고 비행속도, 고도 등의 다양한 정보를 동시에 확인할 수 있게 하였다. 그리고 실제 쿼드로터에 사용되는 센서는 외란과 진동에 의해 정확한 센서 값을 측정할 수 없기 때문에 칼만필터와 상보필터를 통한 센서 결합으로 이를 극복하여 쿼드로터 호버링의 안정성을 PID 제어를 통해 구현하였다. 이를 모의 실험을 통하여 쿼드로터의 속도, 위치, 고도 등의 다양한 정보를 실시간으로 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2007

A coaxial rotor flying robot is developed for surveying and reconnoitering various circumstances under calamity environment. The robot has two contrarotating rotors on a common axis, an embedded microcontroller, an IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), an IR sensor for height control, a micro camera for surveillance, ultrasonic position sensors and wireless communication devices. A bell-bar mounted on the top of the upper rotor hub increases stability and improves flight performance. In this paper, we present a dynamic model of a coaxial rotor flying robot and design an embedded controller far the robot, and implement them to control the developed flying robot. Experimental results show that the proposed controller is valid for autonomous hovering and position control.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2007년도 춘계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.116-119
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• 2007

In this study the unsteady aerodynamic analysis of a hovering helicopter rotor is performed. For the accurate flow field analysis Euler equations and the free wake method are coupled. The Euler equations are solved to find the pressure distribution around the rotor, and free wake method is used to give the boundary condition for the solution of Euler equations. Also, vortex strength and wake motion after the rotor are simulated by the free wake method. The accuracy of the present method is compared with the source sink model. The present method is applied to the hovering Caradonna-Tung rotor and compared with experimental results.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.302-309
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• 2010

Aerial application using an unmanned agricultural helicopter would allow precise and timely spraying. The attitude of a helicopter depends on a number of dynamic variables for roll-balanced flight. Laterally tilting behavior of a helicopter is a physically intrinsic phenomenon while hovering and forwarding. In order to balance the fuselage, the rotor should be counter-tilted, resulting in the biased down-wash. The biased spraying toward right side causes uneven spray pattern. In this study, a raised tail rotor system for the roll-balanced helicopter was studied. Thrust of the tail rotor system was measured and theoretically estimated for the fundamental database of the roll-balanced helicopter design. The estimated tail thrust and roll-moment would be used to design the raising height of tail rotor and roll balancing dynamics. The unmanned agricultural helicopter required the tail rotor thrust of about 39.2 N (4.0 kgf) during hovering with a payload of 235.4 N (24 kgf). A raised tail rotor system would compensate for the physical tilt phenomena. A further attitude control system of helicopter would assist roll-balanced aerial spray application.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.215-223
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 헬리콥터 로터 블레이드의 움직임을 모사하기 위해 중첩 격자 기법을 적용하여 헬리콥터 로터의 전진 및 제자리 비행을 모사하였다. 제자리 및 무양력 전진 비행은 Caradonna & Tung의 로터 블레이드를 적용하였으며 전진 비행은 AH-1G 로터 블레이드를 적용하여 수치해석 하였다. 전진 비행 시 cyclic pitch각에 대해서 Newton-Raphson 수렴 방법으로 수치 트림을 수행하였으며 수치 트림에 의한 결과를 실험 및 다른 수치해석 결과와 비교하였을 때 실험값과 유사한 결과를 얻었다. 또한 수치 트림에 의한 결과는 로터 전진면에서 나타나는 BVI 현상을 잘 모사하였다. 지배 방정식은 3차원 비정상 오일러 방정식을 사용하였으며 원방 경계 조건으로 리만 불변치 경계조건을 적용하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2007년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.77-81
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• 2007

In this paper, helicopter aerodynamics is simulated in hovering and forwarding flighst. The governing equation is the unsteady Euler equation. To consider the blade motion and moving effects, an overset grid technique is applied in this simulation. At the boundary, the Riemann invariants condition is used for inflow and outflow. To validate this method, the result is compared with Caradonna-Tung's experimental data.

• 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.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 학술대회
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• pp.166-170
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• 2008

The changing process from hovering mode to transition one is of importance to determine a stability of tilt-rotor aircraft, which is utilized in UAV(Unmaned Aerial Vehicle). The analysis on fluid flows and aerodynamic characteristics according to variation of tilting angle of rotor is essential step in development of tilt-rotor. In the present study, the computation domain is divided into the rotating and stationary regions in order to consider the rotating blades. For the convenient realization of various tilting angle as well as application of boundary condition, the whole computation region is constructed into sphere domain. The near farfield boundary condition is adopted. The airfoil used in computation is NACA 0012. The computation results for the hovering mode are validated by comparing with previously conducted experimental results. From the results, the flow fields around rotor blade and the aerodynamic characteristics in transition mode are observed. The computational result will provide the basis for development and performance evaluation of tilt-type aircraft.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.580-585
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• 2005

A QRT(Quad-Rotor Type) hovering robot system is developed for quick detection and observation of the circumstances under calamity environment such as indoor fire spots. The UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is equipped with four propellers driven by each electric motor, an embedded controller using a DSP, INS(Inertial Navigation System) using 3-axis rate gyros, a CCD camera with wireless communication transmitter for observation, and an ultrasonic range sensor for height control. The developed hovering robot shows stable flying performances under the adoption of RIC(Robust Internal-loop Compensator) based disturbance compensation and the vision based localization method. The UAV can also avoid obstacles using eight IR and four ultrasonic range sensors. The VTOL(Vertical Take-Off and Landing) flying object flies into indoor fire spots and sends the images captured by the CCD camera to the operator. This kind of small-sized UAV can be widely used in various calamity observation fields without danger of human beings under harmful environment.