• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1123-1131
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• 1993

A robust controller is proposed to design a flight autopilot for lateral motion control. The control system has two control loops in order to meet the performance and to maintain the stability-robustness for a nonsquare flight system with uncertain aerodynamic variations and disturbance. One is designed via linear quadratic Gaussian with loop transfer recovery(LQG/LTR) design methodology for the inner loop. The other is designed via proportional controller design method for the outer loop. To show the effectiveness of this control system, it is compared with the LQG/LTR control system for a square flight system and is analyzed for the performance/stability-robustness to model uncertainties and disturbance via wind gusts. It is found that the proposed control system has good heading command-following performance under allowable sideslip angle in spite of model uncertainties and disturbance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.979-984
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• 2005

In this study, we suggest a tilt rotor aircraft and attempt to apply a nonlinear model matching control method for its maneuver. The proposed method is very simple and useful to construct the control law for the complicated nonlinear system such as aircraft motion.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.12
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• pp.1039-1047
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• 2017

This paper presents a test development of a Fly-By-Wireless flight control system for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Fly-By-Wireless system (FBWLS) refers to a system that uses a wireless network instead of a wired network to connect sensors and actuators with a flight control computer (FCC), reducing considerable amount of wires. FBWLS enables to design a much lighter aircraft along with decreased maintenance time and cost. In this research we developed a Zigbee-based FWBLS UAV in which sensors (GPS and AHRS) are wirelessly connected via a FCC to aileron and elevator servo motors. In order to see the effect of time delay due to wireless signal on the flight stability of the UAV, several flight tests were conducted. From the tests, it was confirmed that the effect is minor by comparing the flight response of the FBWLS with the corresponding Fly-By-Wire system.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2024

Recently, the concept of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has expanded to Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). A tilt rotor type of vertical take-off and landing aircraft has been actively studied and developed. A tilt-rotor aircraft can perform a transition flight between vertical and horizontal flights. A blade pitch angle control system can be used for flight stability during transition flight time. In addition, Individual Blade Control (IBC) can reduce noise and vibration generated in transition flight. This paper proposed Disturbance Observer Based Control (DOBC) and Time Delay Control (TDC) for individual blade control of an Electro-Mechanical Actuator (EMA) based blade pitch angle control system. To compare and analyze proposed controllers, numerical simulations were conducted with DOBC and TDC.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.75-84
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• 2021

A novel robot-operating-system-based flight and mission state communication node for X-Plane 11 flight control simulation environments and its simulation results were discussed. Although the proposed communication method requires considerable implementation steps compared with the conventional MATLAB/Simulink-based User Datagram Protocol (UDP) block utilization method, the proposed method enables a direct comparison of cockpit-view images captured during flight with the flight data. This comparison is useful for data acquisition under virtual environments and for the development of flight control systems. The fixed/rotary-wing and ground terrain elements simulated in virtual environments exhibited excellent visualization outputs, which can overcome time and space constraints on flight experiments and validation of missionary algorithms with complex logic.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1386-1391
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• 2004

It is known that an aircraft with delta-wings which are attached to the body at a large angle like a kite or a hang glider has a measure of maneuverability and stability. Aircrafts of this kind can fly stably. Even if engine trouble occurs, it will not fall and might be able to land. In this paper, one of the conventional control methods, PID control, is applied to the aircraft with LQ local control block. This is based on an idea that the aircraft flies so stably that the automatic control system might be realized by a simple controller. The proposed PID controller consists of several sub-controllers which are constructed to each system neglecting the interference. In addition, the LQ control is involved as a local loop of the aileron and rudder control in order to increase stability of the attitude when circling. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown through 3D computer simulations and experiments of the flight path control.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1375-1379
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• 2004

Unmanned Helicopter has several abilities such as vertical Take off, hovering, low speed flight at low altitude. Such vehicles are becoming popular in actual applications such as search and rescue, aerial reconnaissance and surveillance. These vehicles also used under risky environments without threatening the life of a pilot. Since a small aerial vehicle is very sensitive to environmental conditions, it is generally known that the flight control is very difficult problems. In this paper, a flight control system was designed for an unmanned helicopter. This paper was concentrated on describing the mechanical design, electronic equipments and their interconnections for acquiring autonomous flight. The design methodologies and performance of the helicopter were illustrated and verified with a linearized equation of motion. The LQG based estimator and controller was designed and tested for this unmanned helicopter.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.968-973
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• 2014

Optionally Piloted Vehicle is one of the UAV development technology and method, which can provide the economic and efficient unmanned system. Existing manned aircraft is evaluated through much flight operations and it can supply the reliable aircraft platform, engine and subsystems for operation. In addition, OPV can be operated both manned and unmanned vehicle to satisfy the mission requirement. under the certain flight conditions. This paper describes main development procedures for automatic flight control system of OPV and summarizes the technical issues and results.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.676-682
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• 1999

A study which develops a controller design methodology that has flexibility of eigenstructure assignment within the stability-robustness contraints of LQR is requried and has been performed. The previously developd control design methodology, namely, EALQR(Eigenstructure Assignment/LQR) has better performance than that of conventional LQR or eigenstructure assignment but has a constraint for the weitgting matrix in LQR, which could be indefinite for high-order system. In this paper, the effects of the indefinite Q in EALQR on the frequency domain properties are analyzed. The robustness criterion and quantitative frequency domain properties are also resented. Finally, the frequency domain properties of EALQR has been analyzed by applying to a flight control system design example.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.41-45
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• 2017

Drones can be manipulated in a variety of ways. One of the most common controller is joystick method. But joystick controller uses both hands and takes a long time to learn. Particularly, in the case of 8-character flight, it is necessary to use both front and rear flight (pitch), left and right flight (Roll), and body rotation (Yaw). Joystick controller has limitations to intuitively control it. In particular, when the main body rotates, the viewpoint of the forward direction is changed between the drones and the user, thereby causing a mental rotation problem in which the user must control the rotating state of the drones. Therefore, we developed a motion matching controller that matches the motion of the drones and the controller. That is, the movement of the drone and the movement of the controller are the same. In this study, we used a gyro sensor and an acceleration sensor to map the controller's forward / backward, left / right and body rotation movements to drone's forward / backward, left / right, and rotational flight motion. The motor output is controlled by the throttle dial at the center of the controller. As the motions coincide with each other, it is expected that the first drone operator will be able to control more intuitively than the joystick manipulator with less learning.