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Application of neural network for airship take-off and landing system by buoyancy change

  • Chang, Yong-Jin;Woo, Gui-Aee;Kim, Jong-Kwon;Cho, Kyeum-Rae
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.333-336
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    • 2003
  • For long time, the takeoff and landing control of airship was worked by human handling. With the development of the autonomous control system, the exact controls during the takeoff and landing were required and lots of methods and algorithms were suggested. This paper presents the result of airship take-off and landing by buoyancy control using air ballonet volume change and performance control of pitch angle for stable flight within the desired altitude. For the complexity of airship's dynamics, firstly, simple PID controller was applied. Due to the various atmospheric conditions, this controller didn’t give satisfactory results. Therefore, new control method was designed to reduce rapidly the error between designed trajectory and actual trajectory by learning algorithm using an artificial neural network. Generally, ANN has various weaknesses such as large training time, selection of neuron and hidden layer numbers required to deal with complex problem. To overcome these drawbacks, in this paper, the RBFN (radial basis function network) controller developed.

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Sliding Mode Control for an Intelligent Landing Gear Equipped with Magnetorheological Damper

  • Viet, Luong Quoc;Lee, Hyo-sang;Jang, Dae-sung;Hwang, Jai-hyuk
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.20-27
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    • 2020
  • Several uncertainties in the landing environment of an aircraft are not considered, such as the falling speed, ambient temperature, and sensor noise. These uncertainties negatively affect the performance of the controller applied to a landing gear. The sliding mode control (SMC) method, which maintains the optimal performance of a controller under uncertainties, is used in this study. The landing gear is equipped with a magnetorheological damper that changes the yield shear stress according to the applied magnetic field. The applied controller employs a hybrid control combining Skyhook control and force control. The SMC maintains the optimal performance of the hybrid control by minimizing the tracking error of the damper force, even in various landing environments where parameter uncertainties are applied. The effect of SMC is verified through co-simulation results from Simscape and Simulink.

Performance Comparison of Depth Map Based Landing Methods for a Quadrotor in Unknown Environment (미지 환경에서의 깊이지도를 이용한 쿼드로터 착륙방식 성능 비교)

  • Choi, Jong-Hyuck;Park, Jongho;Lim, Jaesung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.50 no.9
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    • pp.639-646
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    • 2022
  • Landing site searching algorithms are developed for a quadrotor using a depth map in unknown environment. Guidance and control system of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) consists of a trajectory planner, a position and an attitude controller. Landing site is selected based on the information of the depth map which is acquired by a stereo vision sensor attached on the gimbal system pointing downwards. Flatness information is obtained by the maximum depth difference of a predefined depth map region, and the distance from the UAV is also considered. This study proposes three landing methods and compares their performance using various indices such as UAV travel distance, map accuracy, obstacle response time etc.

A Preliminary Study on the Application of a Fuzzy Controller for the Automatic Landing System of Small Aircraft (소형항공기 자동착륙시스템의 퍼지제어기 적용에 관한 기초 연구)

  • Kim, Keun-Taek;Kim, Eung-Tai;Seong, Kiejeong;Ahn, Seok-min
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.86-93
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    • 2012
  • Fuzzy control has emerged as a practical alternative to classical control schemes in controlling certain time-varying, nonlinear, and ill-defined processes. As the current of this kind of a research paradigm, we concluded that there is a need for application study of a fuzzy control theory to the flight control systems of small aircraft being to be developed at KARI. And then, this preliminary study was carried out to the automatic landing system of the canard aircraft (Firefly) for the purpose of the preparation of extension of research contents and various application areas, in which FMRLC was chosen as the fuzzy controller of the system.

Study on Safe Set and Maneuverability Envelope Protection during Arresting Landing

  • Liu, Zidong;Zhan, Hao;Wang, Shuang
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2015
  • According to the characteristic of carrier-based aircraft, the method of solving safe set during arresting landing is discussed in this paper based on optimal control and invariant set theory. The safe sets of carrier aircraft are evaluated in different states on the characteristic of longitudinal augmented system by using the level set method. Then, the influence on the boundary of safe set under various factors is analyzed. At last, the maneuverability envelope protection is established based on the corresponding theory, and the validity of the system is verified through simulation. The results demonstrate preliminarily that: compared with mass and thrust, the elevator is the greatest influence factor for the boundary of safe set; the dynamic trajectory of carrier-based aircraft can be located at the interior of safe set effectively with the maneuverability envelope protection.

A study on the modulation method of Instrument Landing System (계기착륙방식(ILS)의 변조방식에 관한 고찰)

  • Yoon, Seok-Min;Cho, Eui-Joo;Shin, Hyun-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2007
  • From the announcement which sees discusses about the spatial modulation which is a basic principle of the induction signal which the instrument landing system provides to the aircraft with instrument landing system, depth made be and became the help which makes understand and character did. Explained the fundamental notions of spatial modulation with precedence, the signal which space is modulated with this together influenced to the aircraft receiver and the azimuth and angle of glide were indicated and until with the principle of operation of the aircraft receiver and the process which is general DDM(difference in depth of modulation) and they related they explained.

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Three-Dimensional Location Tracking System for Automatic Landing of an Unmanned Helicopter (무인 헬기 자동 착륙을 위한 3차원 위치 추적 시스템)

  • Choo, Young-Yeol;Kang, Seong-Ho
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.608-614
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    • 2008
  • This paper describes a location tracking system to guide landing process of an Unmanned Helicopter(UMH) exploiting MIT Cricket nodes. For automatic landing of a UMH, a precise positioning system is indispensable. However, GPS(Global Positioning System) is inadequate for tracking the three dimensional position of a UMH because of large positioning errors. The Cricket systems use Time-Difference-of-Arrival(TDoA) method with ultrasonic and RF(Radio Frequency) signals to measure distances. They operate in passive mode in that a listener attached to a moving device receives distance signals from several beacons located at fixed points on ground. Inevitably, this passive type of implementation causes large disturbances in measuring distances between beacons and the listener due to wind blow from propeller and turbulence of UMH body. To cope with this problem, we proposed active type of implementation for positioning a UMH. In this implementation, a beacon is set up at UMH body and four listeners are located at ground area at least where the UMH will land. A pair of Ultrasonic and RF signals from the beacon arrives at several listeners to calculate the position of the UMH. The distance signals among listeners are synchronized with a counter value appended to each distance signals from the beacon.

The Biomechanical Properties of the Shock Absorption Phase during Drop Landing According to Landing Types (드롭랜딩 시 착지형태에 따른 충격흡수구간의 운동역학적 특성)

  • Park, Gu-Tae;Yoo, Kyoung-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2015
  • Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate the biomechanical properties of shock absorption strategy and postural stability during the drop landing for each types. Methods : The motions were captured with Vicon Motion Capture System, with the fourteen infra-red cameras (100Hz) and synchronized with GRF(ground reaction force) data(1000Hz). Ten male soccer players performed a drop landing with single-leg and bi-legs on the 30cm height box. Dependent variables were the CoM trajectory and the Joint Moment. Statistical computations were performed using the paired t-test and ANOVA with Turkey HSD as post-hoc. Results : The dominant leg was confirmed to show a significant difference between the left leg and right leg as the inverted pendulum model during Drop Landing(Phase 1 & Phase 2). One-leg drop landing type had the higher CoM displacement, the peak of joint moment with the shock absorption than Bi-leg landing type. As a lower extremity joint kinetics analysis, the knee joint showed a function of shock absorption in the anterior-posterior, and the hip joint showed a function of the stability and shock absorption in the medial-lateral directions. Conclusion : These findings indicate that the instant equilibrium of posture balance(phase 1) was assessed by the passive phase as Class 1 leverage on the effect of the stability of shock absorption(phase 2) assessed by the active phase on the effect of Class 2 leverage. Application : This study shows that the cause of musculo-skeletal injuries estimated to be focused on the passive phase of landing and this findings could help the prevention of lower damage from loads involving landing related to the game of sports.

Analysis of the Differences of the Shock Absorption Strategy between Drop-Landing and Countermovement-Jump (드롭 착지와 착지 후 점프 시 충격흡수 기전의 차이 분석)

  • Cho, Joon-Haeng;Kim, Kyoung-Hun;Koh, Young-Chul
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.379-386
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this study was to investigate and identify the differences in lower extremity energy dissipation strategies between drop-landing and countermovement-jump maneuvers. Fourteen recreational athletes(Age : $23.3{\pm}2.1years$, Height : $172.3{\pm}4.0cm$, Weight : $69.2{\pm}4.7kg$) were recruited and instructed to perform drop-landing from 45 cm height and countermovement-jump from 45 cm to 20 cm height. The landing phase was taken as the time between initial contact and peak knee flexion. A motion-capture system consisting of eight infra-red cameras was employed to collect kinematics data at a sampling rate of 200 Hz and a force-plate was used to collect GRF data at a sampling rate of 2000 Hz. Paired t-test was performed to determine the difference in kinematics and kinetics variables between each task. During the countermovement-jump task, all of lower extremity joint ROM and the hip joint eccentric moment were decreased and the ankle joint plantarflexion moment was increased than drop-landing task. In the eccentric work during countermovement-jump task, the ankle joint displayed greater while knee and hip joint showed lesser than drop-landing. Therefore, the knee joint acted as the key energy dissipater during drop-landing while the ankle joint contributed the most energy dissipation during countermovement-jump. Our findings collectively indicated that different energy dissipation strategies were adopted for drop-landing and countermovement-jump.

Fuzzy FMEA for Rotorcraft Landing System (회전익 항공기 착륙장치에 대한 퍼지 FMEA)

  • Na, Seong-Hyeon;Lee, Gwang-Eun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.751-758
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    • 2021
  • Munitions must be analyzed to identify any risks for quality assurance in development and mass production. Risk identification for parts, compositions, and systems is carried out through failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) as one of the most reliable methods. FMEA is a design tool for the failure mode of risk identification and relies on the RPN (risk priority number). FMEA has disadvantages because its severity, occurrence, and detectability are rated at the same level. Fuzzy FMEA applies fuzzy logic to compensate for the shortcomings of FMEA. The fuzzy logic of Fuzzy FMEA is to express uncertainties about the phenomenon and provides quantitative values. In this paper, Fuzzy FMEA is applied to the failure mode of a rotorcraft landing system. The Fuzzy rule and membership functions were conducted in the Fuzzy model to study the RPN in the failure mode of a landing system. This method was selected to demonstrate crisp values of severity, occurrence, and detectability. In addition, the RPN was obtained. The results of Fuzzy FMEA for the landing system were analyzed for the RPN and ranking by fuzzy logic. Finally, Fuzzy FMEA confirmed that it could use the data in quality assurance activities for rotorcraft.