• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.154-159
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• 2014

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used to aid the navigation of aerial vehicles. However, the GPS cannot be used indoors, so alternative navigation methods are needed to be developed for micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) flying in GPS-denied environments. In this paper, a real-time three-dimensional (3-D) indoor navigation system and closed-loop control of a quad-rotor aerial vehicle equipped with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a low-cost light detection and ranging (LIDAR) is presented. In order to estimate the pose of the vehicle equipped with the two-dimensional LIDAR, an octree-based grid map and Monte-Carlo Localization (MCL) are adopted. The navigation results using the MCL are then evaluated by making a comparison with a motion capture system. Finally, the results are used for closed-loop control in order to validate its positioning accuracy during procedures for stable hovering and waypoint-following.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2010년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.32-36
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• 2010

This paper dealt with the flow simulation for the optimum designed propeller for Micro Aerial Vehicle, using a commercial CFD program(FLUENT). The propeller was modeled by the Multiple Reference Frame(MRF) method. For the validation of the computational method, the flow field analysis results for the propeller were compared with the flow analysis results, which are using Xfoil, for the optimum design, and with the wind tunnel data of a similar propeller model. By these validation processes, the reliability of MRF method was confirmed.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2004

The existing antenna that equipped with Micro Aerial Vehicle, microstrip antenna only can send and receive image signal because of limited bandwidth. But, proposed antenna that equipped with Micro Aerial Vehicle flight introduces tapered type patch antenna, also improves bandwidth then can transfer present location, altitude, movement speed. Furthermore, as a result of introduce stacked type, it transfers more quality of image signal, and represents most suitable performance in Korean peninsula that has many mountain peaks. In this paper, to transmit and receive the wideband signals with a antenna system, the wideband microstrip antenna is proposed and designed. This antenna operates at 2.4GHz. In this thesis, the resonance frequency of 2.4GHz and the reflective loss of the antenna of -22dB were calculated by measuring the fabricated Tapered Microstrip Patch Antenna which was designed with the resonance of 2.4GHz. The calculated gain and efficiency of antenna were 6.7dB and $60\%$ respectively. The characteristic of the bandwidth shows with $50\~60MHz$ which is $6.02\%$ at the basis of -l5dB reflective loss. The experimental results can be used in the characteristic of the resonators and this antenna produces a greatly enhanced bandwidth.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1377-1399
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• 2020

In search and rescue mission, micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are typically used to capture image and video from an aerial perspective and transfer the data to the ground station. Because of the power limitation, a cluster of MAVs are required for a large search area, hence an ad-hoc wireless network must be maintained to transfer data more conveniently and fast. However, the unstable link and the intermittent connectivity between the MAVs caused by MAVs' movement may challenge the packet forwarding. This paper proposes a delay tolerant packet forwarding algorithm based on location estimation for MAV networks, called DTN_est algorithm. In the algorithm, ferrying MAVs are used to transmit data between MAVs and the ground station, and the locations of both searching MAVs and ferrying MAVs are estimated to compute the distances between the MAVs and destination. The MAV that is closest to the destination is selected greedy to forward packet. If a MAV cannot find the next hop MAV using the greedy strategy, the packets will be stored and re-forwarded once again in the next time slot. The experiment results show that the proposed DTN_est algorithm outperforms the typical DTN_geo algorithm in terms of packet delivery ratio and average routing hops.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제23권2_1호
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• pp.125-137
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• 2020

Tracking micro-sized insects is one of the challenges of protecting ecosystems and biodiversity. In this study, we propose an approach for the autonomous tracking of micro-sized flying insects, and develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based robotic system. The Kalman filter is applied to the received signal strength emitted from radio telemetry to estimate the position while reducing the measurement error and noise. The autonomous tracking strategy is a method in which the UAV rotates at one point to measure the signal strength and control its position in the strongest direction of the signal. We also design a system architecture comprising a tracking sensor system and a UAV system for micro-sized insects. The estimation and autonomous tracking of the target position by the proposed system are verified and evaluated through dynamic simulation. Therefore, in this study, we propose and validate a UAV-based tracking system for micro-sized flying insects, which has not been proposed in studies conducted thus far.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.351-366
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• 2014

The aim of this study was to develop software for beach litter detection that includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and uses images taken by a micro-unmanned aerial vehicle. Videos were taken over Doomo pebble beach, Sogye pebble beach, and Heungnam sand beach on the northeast coast of Geojedo (Geoje Island), Korea. Still images of actual beach litter were obtained from the videos. The image processing involved preprocessing, morphological image processing, and image recognition. Comparison with still images showing beach litter demonstrated that the software could generally detect litter larger than 50 cm in size such as Styrofoam buoys and circular fish traps (excluding small pixel-size ropes). Combining the proposed method with the conventional surveying approach is expected to enhance the accuracy of beach litter detection. The new technique will also aid in predicting the amount of beach litter generated along coastlines, which is currently difficult to monitor.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.8-16
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• 2003

3차원 비정상, 비압축성 Navier-Stokes 방정식 해석코드를 이용하여, 초소형 비행체 주위에 형성되는 저 레이놀즈수 유동장의 공력 특성을 연구하였다. 비정상 유동장의 효율적인 계산을 위하여, 개발된 코드는 MPI 프로그래밍 기법을 이용하여 병렬처리 하였으며, single partitioning 방법을 적용하여 3차원 형상에 대한 multi-block 격자계를 효율적으로 해석 하였다. 비교적 형상이 복잡하지 않은 초소형 비행체 주위 날개에 대해 해석한 후 초소형 비행체 전 형상에 대해 받음각을 변화시키며 공력계수 및 정안정성을 살펴보았다. 해석 결과, 서울대학교 미소공기역학실험실에서 수행한 아음속 풍동 실험데이터와 비교하여 보았을 때 대체로 잘 일치하였으며, 개념 설계한 비행체가 공기역학적으로 정안정성을 갖고 있음을 보일 수 있었다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2006

초소형 비행체는 초소형, 초경량이기 때문에 매우 작고 가벼운 MEMS형 센서만이 초소형 비행체 자동 비행 장치에 적용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 MEMS 형 관성센서의 항법 성능을 향상시키기 위해 가속도계와 자이로를 혼합하는 알고리즘으로 자세 비교 보상을 이용한 혼합 방법을 제시하고 기존의 퍼지 추정을 이용한 혼합 방법과 시뮬레이션을 통해 성능을 비교한다. 이를 통하여 자세 비교 보상 방법을 이용한 혼합 방법이 기존의 퍼지를 기반으로 하는 혼합 방법보다 초소형 비행체 자세 추정에 보다 더 우수한 성능을 가짐을 보인다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)을 이용하여 목표물을 찾은 후 기지국까지 통신 네트워크를 제공하기 위해 UAV 집단을 제어하는 방안을 제안한다. 기존의 통신 시설을 이용하지 않고 UAV들 간에만 무선 랜 통신이 가능하다고 가정한다. 제안 방안은 UAV들이 탐색지역 내에 위치한 목표물을 찾기 위해 기지국으로부터 선형 형태로 출발하고 목표물을 찾은 후에, 목표물에 대한 정보를 기지국까지 전달하기 위하여 UAV 그룹을 이동시킨다. 이 때, 목표물을 발견한 최소 하나의 UAV는 그 위치에 머무른다. 본 논문은 기지국으로의 이동하는 과정에서 안정적인 연결성을 유지하기 위한 방법을 설명한다. NS-2를 사용한 모의실험을 통하여 제안되는 기법을 검증하고 성능을 평가한다. 제안 기법은 기존의 통신 시설을 이용할 수 없는 재난 상황이나 전시 상황과 같이 UAV가 사람을 대신하여 목표물을 감지하며 기지국으로 신속히 전달하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.897-908
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a security framework for a cluster drones network using the MAVLink (Micro Air Vehicle Link) application protocol based on FANET (Flying Ad-hoc Network), which is composed of ad-hoc networks with multiple drones for IoT services such as remote sensing or disaster monitoring. Here, the drones belonging to the cluster construct a FANET network acting as WTRP (Wireless Token Ring Protocol) MAC protocol. Under this network environment, we propose an efficient algorithm applying the Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) to the CTR (Counter) operation mode of WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access 2) to encrypt the transmitted data through the MAVLink application. And we study how to apply LEA based on CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) operation mode used in WPA2 for message security tag generation. In addition, a modified Diffie-Hellman key exchange method is approached to generate a new key used for encryption and security tag generation. The proposed method and similar methods are compared and analyzed in terms of efficiency.