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Military Issues to Overcome in the 4th Industrial Revolution and the 3rd Offset Strategy (제4차 산업혁명과 제3차 상쇄전략 추진 시 극복해야 될 군사적 이슈)

  • Han, Seung Jo;Shin, Jin
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.145-152
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    • 2019
  • In the era of the 3rd Offset Strategy led by the 4th Industrial Revolution, the use of robots with AI and autonomous abilities is becoming more active in military field. The 3rd Offset Strategy is based on the technology of the 4th Industrial Revolution, and S. Korea is heavily dependent on US military technology and is directly and indirectly influenced by the military revolutionary strategy and the alliance relationship. There are many issues that need to be addressed beyond technical maturity for both strategies to be successfully applied in the military. However, there are few discussions about these limitations in many studies and media reports in comparison with the advantages of the techniques. This research describes robot ethics & technology unbalance, problems of autonomous functions, display fatigue induced by VR/AR/MR, cyber/network security to be solved for successful strategies, also the solutions are addressed.

Reference Node Selection Scheme for Estimating Relative Locations of Mobile Robots (이동 로봇의 상대위치 추정을 위한 기준노드 선택 기법)

  • Ha, Taejin;Kim, Sunyong;Park, Sun Young;Kwon, Daehoon;Ham, Jaehyun;Lim, Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.508-516
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    • 2016
  • When GPS signals are not available, a relative localization can be alternatively used to represent the topological relationship between mobile nodes. A relative location map of a network can be constructed by using the distance information between all the pairs of nodes in the network. If a network is large, a number of small local maps are individually constructed and are merged to obtain the whole map. However, this approach may result in a high computation and communication overhead. In this paper, we propose a reference-node selection scheme for relative localization map construction, which chooses a subset of nodes as a reference node that is supposed to construct local maps. The scheme is a greedy algorithm that iteratively chooses nodes with high degree as a reference node until the chosen local maps are successfully merged with a sufficient number of common nodes between nearby local maps. The simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme achieves higher localization accuracy with a reduced computational overhead.

An Empirical Study on Future New Technology in Defense Unmanned Robot (국방 무인로봇 분야 미래 신기술에 관한 실증연구)

  • Kim, DoeHun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.611-616
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    • 2018
  • With the recent increase in awareness of the diversification of patterns of warfare and security, technological evolution is occurring in the field of autonomous defense robots. As defense science and technology develops with the development of the concept of military utilization focusing on human lives and economic operation, the importance of autonomous robots in the effect-oriented future battlefield is increasing. The major developed countries have developed core technologies, investment strategies, priorities, data securing strategies and infrastructure development related to the field of autonomous defense robots, and research activities such as technology planning and policy strategy for autonomous defense robots in Korea have already begun. In addition, the field of autonomous defense robots encompasses technologies that represent the fourth industrial revolution, such as artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality, and so the expectations for this future area of technology are very high. It is difficult to predict the path of technological development due to the increase in the demand for new rather than existing technology. Moreover, the selection and concentration of strategic R&D is required due to resource constraints. It is thought that a preemptive response is needed. This study attempts to derive 6 new technologies that will shape the future of autonomous defense robots and to obtain meaningful results through an empirical study.

Development of Path Generation and Following Simulator for a Simulation Test of a Moving Object (이동체 모의시험을 위한 경로 생성 및 추종 시뮬레이터 개발)

  • Han, Youngmin;Hong, Dongho;Jang, Taeksoo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.842-849
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    • 2018
  • This research suggests the development of simulator for a Simulation Test of a moving object's path generation and following. There are many kinds of moving objects in weapon systems, such as vehicles, missiles, robots and so on. So need tests of moving simulations during development process of weapon systems. To simulate a moving object, need an flexible path. So this report suggests a $B\acute{e}zier$ curve algorithm for generation of smooth curve path. And when new developments of weapon systems are started, many kinds of simulators are created. But, these simulators are not reused in other project because there are different kinds of development environment. So need to allow users to add specific features, And this report suggests using Dynamic Link Library(DLL).

Adaptive Mission Control Architecture with Flexible Levels of Autonomy (유연한 자율화 수준의 적응형 임무통제 아키텍처)

  • Wonik Park;Hojoo Lee;Joonsung Choi;Tokson Choe;Chonghui Kim
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.265-276
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    • 2024
  • The future battlefield operation concept does not focus on advanced and complete weapon systems, but requires a new battlefield operation concept that can effectively demonstrate offensive power by combining a large number of low-cost, miniaturized weapons. Recently, research on the autonomous application of major technologies that make up the mission control system is actively underway. However, since the mission control system is still dependent on the operator's operating ability when operating multiple robots, there are limitations to simply applying the automation technology of the existing mission control system. Therefore, we understand how changes in operator capabilities affect multi-robot operation and propose an adaptive mission control architecture design method that supports multi-robot integrated operation by adjusting the level of autonomy of the mission control system according to changes in operator capability.

Performance Improvement of RRT* Family Algorithms by Limiting Sampling Range in Circular and Spherical Obstacle Environments (샘플링 범위 제한을 이용한 원 및 구 장애물 환경에서의 RRT* 계열 알고리즘 성능 개량)

  • Lee, Sangil;Park, Jongho;Lim, Jaesung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.50 no.11
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    • pp.809-817
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    • 2022
  • The development of unmanned robots and UAVs has increased the need for path planning methods such as RRT* algorithm. It mostly works well in various environments and is utilized in many fields. A lot of research has been conducted to obtain a better path in terms of efficiency through various modifications to the RRT* algorithm, and the performance of the algorithm is continuously improved thanks to these efforts. In this study, a method using the limitation of sampling range is proposed as an extension of these efforts. Based on the idea that a path passing close to obstacles is similar to the optimal path in obstacle environments, nodes are produced around the obstacle. Also, rewiring algorithm is modified to quickly obtain the path. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated by comparative analysis of the previous basic algorithm and the generated path is tracked by a UAV's kinematic model for further verification.

Study of small mobile robot actuated by PZT using vibration (진동을 이용한 PZT 구동의 소형 이동 로봇에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Sung-Joon;Kim, Sung-Hyun;Yang, Hyun-Seok;Park, Young-Pil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.883-889
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    • 2005
  • Micro robots have been developed for many applications: medical, industrial, military, and so on. A small mobile robot was built and it has three legs made of bimorph piezoelectric actuators. It proceeds by vibrating the rear leg and it rotates by vibrating one of the front legs. The locomotion of the robot is described by relative position of mass center and the friction between the legs and the floor. This paper describes the principles of locomotion and modeling of the robot Modeling was simulated to investigate the dynamics of its mobility. The simulation results verified the modeling by showing similar movement of the robot as measured. It remained, however, several problems through experiments such as crooked direction of forward movement and proceeding speed.

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Experimental Study on Motion Generation and Control of Quadruped Robot (4 족 견마형 로봇의 동작 생성 및 제어에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Ko, Kwang-Jin;Yu, Seung-Nam;Lee, Hee-Don;Han, Chang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.843-848
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    • 2007
  • Quadruped robot is very useful mechanism for a various area. Recently, home entertainment and military robots adapted quadruped platform and useful function have been introduced. Our goal is the development of quadruped robot locomotion for any type of ground included to sloping one and irregular terrain. This paper, as a first step, deals with design and construction of quadruped robot walking on the flat ground. The most important factor of quadruped robot is stability of locomotion. At first, we introduce the developed quadruped robot based on dynamic simulation and experimental study of general gait algorithm. Finally, propose unique locomotion proper to our mechanism. Future work of this study is the performance test and analysis on the ground of various conditions and proposes the improved mechanism and gait algorithm.

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Ground Test & Evaluation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Kim, Jinhyoung;Jinyoung Suk;Kim, Ilsik
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.47.6-47
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    • 2002
  • UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) has become one of the most popular military/commercial aerial robots in the new millenium. In spite of all the advantages that UAVs inherently have, it is not an easy job to develop a UAV because it requires very systematic and complete approaches in full development envelop. The ground test & evaluation phase has the utmost importance in the sense that a well developed system can be best verified on the ground. In addition, many of the aircraft crashes in the flight tests were resulted from the incomplete development procedure. In this research, a verification procedure of the whole airborne integrated system was conducted including the flight management sys...

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Segmentation of a moving object using binary phase extraction joint transform correlator technology (BPEJTC 기술을 이용한 이동 표적 영역화)

  • 원종권;차진우;이상이;류충상;김은수
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.34D no.7
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    • pp.88-96
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    • 1997
  • As the need of automatized system has been increased recently together with the development of industrial and military technologies, the adaptive real-time target detection technologies that can be embedded on vehicles, planes, ships, robots and so on, are hgihly demanded. Accordingly, this paper proposes a novel approach to detect and segment the moving targets using the binary phase extraction joint transform correlator (BPEJTC), the advanced image subtraction filter and convex hull processing. The BPEJTC which was used as a target detection unit mainly for target tracking compensating the camera movement. The target region has been detected by processing the successful three frames using the advanced image subtraction filter, and has become more accurate by applying the developed convex hull filter. As shown by some experimental results, it is expected that the proposed approaches for compensation of the camera movement and segmentationof of target region, can be used for th emissile guiddance, aero surveillance, automatic inspectin system as well as the target detection unit of automatic target recognition system that request adaptive real-time processing.

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