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Collective Navigation Through a Narrow Gap for a Swarm of UAVs Using Curriculum-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning (커리큘럼 기반 심층 강화학습을 이용한 좁은 틈을 통과하는 무인기 군집 내비게이션)

  • Myong-Yol Choi;Woojae Shin;Minwoo Kim;Hwi-Sung Park;Youngbin You;Min Lee;Hyondong Oh
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.117-129
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    • 2024
  • This paper introduces collective navigation through a narrow gap using a curriculum-based deep reinforcement learning algorithm for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Collective navigation in complex environments is essential for various applications such as search and rescue, environment monitoring and military tasks operations. Conventional methods, which are easily interpretable from an engineering perspective, divide the navigation tasks into mapping, planning, and control; however, they struggle with increased latency and unmodeled environmental factors. Recently, learning-based methods have addressed these problems by employing the end-to-end framework with neural networks. Nonetheless, most existing learning-based approaches face challenges in complex scenarios particularly for navigating through a narrow gap or when a leader or informed UAV is unavailable. Our approach uses the information of a certain number of nearest neighboring UAVs and incorporates a task-specific curriculum to reduce learning time and train a robust model. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified through an ablation study and quantitative metrics. Simulation results demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing methods.

Inkjet-printed narrow silver line on plastic substrate for high resolution flexible electronics

  • Chung, Seung-Jun;Hong, Yong-Taek
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.142-144
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    • 2009
  • We demonstrated narrow and good aspect-ratio inkjet-printed silver lines with multi-time over-printing methods. By using this strategy, narrow silver lines were obtained with 200 nm thickness and their width and gap between printed lines of uniform narrow silver lines were 30 ${\mu}m$ and 17 ${\mu}m$, respectively. It also had good conductivity, sheet resistacne of 0.36 ${\Omega}/{\square}$ and specific resistance of $8{\mu}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$. In current stress test, narrow silver line with 30 ${\mu}m$ width was able to a current flow up to 50 mA (2.1A/$cm^2$). Using surface treatment on poly-arylate substrate with $UVO_3$, we obtained clean-edge narrow line without any edge waviness.

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Weld Defect Formation Phenomena during High Frequency Electric Resistance Welding

  • Choi, Jae-Ho;Chang, Young-Seup;Kim, Yong-Seog
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.267-273
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    • 2001
  • In this study, welding phenomena involved in formation of penetrators during high frequency electric resistance welding were investigated. High speed cinematography of the process revealer that a molten bridge between neighboring skelp edges forms at apex point and travels along narrow gap toward to welding point at a speed ranging from 100 to 400 m/min. The bridge while moving along the narrow gap swept away oxide containing molten metal from the gap, providing oxide-free surface for a forge-welding at upsetting stand frequency of the budge formation, travel distance and speed of the bridge were affected by the heat input rate into strip. The travel distance and its standard deviation were found to have a strong relationship with the weld defect density. Based on the observation, a new mechanism of the penetrator formation during HF ERW process is proposed.

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First Principles Study of Mixed Inorganic-Organic Perovskites (HC(NH2)2PbI3-CH3NH3PbBr3) for Photovoltaic Applications

  • Noh, Min Jong
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2015.03a
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    • pp.378-381
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    • 2015
  • To produce low cost and efficient photovoltaic cells, inorganic-organic lead halide perovskite materials appear promising for most suitable solar cells owing to their high power conversion efficiency. Most recent research showes that formamidinium lead iodide ($FAPbI_3$) with methylammonium lead bromide ($MAPbBr_3$) improves the power conversion efficiency of the solar cell to more than 18 per cent under a standard illumination because incorporated $MAPbBr_3$ makes $FAPbI_3$-relatively unstable but comparatively narrow band gap-more stable composition. In respect to first principle study, we investigated band gap of $MAPbI_3$, $FAPbI_3$, $MAPbBr_3$, $(FAPbI_3)_{0.89}-(MAPbBr_3)_{0.11}$ and 0.615(eV), 0.466, 1.197, 0.518 respectively through EDISON DFT software. These results emphasize enhancing structure stability is important factor as well as finding narrow band gap.

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See-saw Type RF MEMS Switch with Narrow Gap Vertical Comb

  • Kang, Sung-Chan;Moon, Sung-Soo;Kim, Hyeon-Cheol;Chun, Kuk-Jin
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.177-182
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents the see-saw type RF MEMS switch based on a single crystalline silicon structure with narrow gap vertical comb. Low actuation voltage and high isolation are key features to be solved in electrostatic RF MEMS switch design. Since these parameters in conventional parallel plate RF MEMS switch designs are in trade-off relationship, both requirements cannot be met simultaneously. In the vertical comb design, however, the actuation voltage is independent of the vertical separation distance between the contact electrodes. Therefore, the large separation gap between contact electrodes is implemented to achieve high isolation. We have designed and fabricated RF MEMS switch which has 46dB isolation at 5GHz, 0.9dB insertion loss at 5GHz and 40V actuation voltage.

Flammability Limits Variation of Opposed Flow Diffusion Flames for Different Channel Gap (채널 간격에 따른 대향류 확산화염의 가연 영역의 변화)

  • Lee, Min Jung;Kim, Nam Il
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.323-324
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    • 2012
  • Flammability limits of opposed flow diffusion flame in a narrow channel was investigated experimentally and theoretically. There were three different extinction modes corresponding to high strain rate (HSR), low strain rate (LSR) and dilution ratio (DR) limits. To investigate these limits, a theoretical study was followed by focusing on flow and heat transfer characteristics. Consequently, a dead space concept that has been used for premixed flames was important to reveal the heat loss mechanism in a narrow channel especially for LSR conditions even in the case of diffusion flames.

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The Effect of Wall Condition on the Methane-air Premixed Flame Propagation between Narrow Two Walls (좁은 간격의 두 벽면 사이에서의 메탄-공기 예혼합 화염 전파에 벽면 상태가 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Won-Young;Kwon, Hyuck-Mo;Lee, Dae-Hoon;Kwon, Se-Jin
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.37-41
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    • 2004
  • Quenching phenomena is one of major concern in development of millimeter or sub-millimeter scale micro combustor for the size of the combustor is near extinction condition. In this work we focused on the effect of combustor wall condition that was parameterized by Perovskite LSC($La_{0.8}$$Sr_{0.2}$$CoO_3$) redox catalyst. The experiment was done by variable gap-width 2D wall equipment. The flame was produced by premixed methane-air jet issuing from millimeter-scale slot burner and it propagated through the narrow gap of the walls. By comparison of flame behaviour near catalyst-coated wall and simple glass wall, we investigated the effect of possible surface reaction on quenching phenomena. The flame between two plates was observed where the gap of the plates was reduced stepwise from 20mm to a distance of quenching occurrence. The two flames with and without surface modification were almost same by observation. But the gap for the occurrence of quenching was increased between catalyst-coated wall. So we concluded that surface reaction close to combustor wall has a negative effect on micro combustion.

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