• 품질경영학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.591-606
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to design an experimental simulation model for evaluating the UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle) effectiveness in a small unit combat scenario. Methods: We design and build a simulation model to evaluate the combat effectiveness of UGV in a small unit combat scenario. In order to build a simulation model, we used AnyLogic software tool which has functional advantages to describe agent-based simulation model. As for the combat scenario, we applied the typical engagement of mechanized unit equal or lower than battalion level. Analysis process follows the three phases. 1) Design an agent based conceptual medel in a small unit combat scenario. 2) Build a simulation medel using AnyLogic tool. 3) Analyze the simulation results and evaluate the UGV effectiveness. Results: The UGV effectiveness was measured and presented as a numeric values. Those numeric values were represented as a MOE(Measure of Effectiveness) which was the blue survival ratio. Conclusion: We developed an agent based simulation model which can provide a pattern of change how UGV effectiveness varied depending upon the number of UGV in a small unit combat scenario. We also found that the UGV effectiveness grows in the given scenario as the number of UGV increases.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2015

In modern warfare, the number of unmanned systems grow faster than any other weapon systems. Therefore, it is very important to predict and measure the combat effectiveness (CE) of unmanned weapon systems in battlefield for deciding defense budget to acquire those systems. In general, quantitative calculation of weapon effectiveness under complicated battlefield is difficult based on the future network centric warfare. Hence, many papers studied how to measure the combat effectiveness and tried to study a lot of related issues about it. However, there are few papers dealing with the relationship between the UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle)'s performance and CE in a ground battlefield. In this paper, we do the sensitivity analysis based on a given scenario in a small unit battle. In order to do that, we developed simulation model using AnyLogic and changed the input parameters such as detection and hitting probabilities. We also assess the simulation outputs according to the variation of input parameters. The MOE used in this simulation model output is survival ratio for Blue force. We hope that this paper will be useful to find which input variable is more effective to increase combat effectiveness in a small unit ground battlefield.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.1166-1173
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• 2011

There have been many researches about SUGV (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle) mechanism regarding off-road mobility and obstacle negotiation. This paper introduces an analysis of geometry parameters to enhance the vertical obstacle negotiation ability for the SUGV. Moreover, this paper proposes an anti-shock structure analysis of wheels to protect the main body of the SUGV when it falls off a vertical obstacle. Major system geometry parameters will be determined under certain constraints. The constraints and optimization problem for maximizing the ability of vertical obstacle negotiation will be presented and discussed. Dynamic simulation results and experiments with manufactured platform will also be presented to validate the analysis. Several types of wheel materials and structures will be compared to determine the best anti-shock wheel design through FEM (Finite Element Method) simulations.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.45-46
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• 2010

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.1285-1294
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• 2010

무인 차량의 야지 자율 주행을 위한 목적으로 수풀 뒤쪽에 가려져 있는 장애물을 탐지하고 회피하기 위해 수풀을 투과하여 차량의 전방을 고해상도로 영상화 할 수 있는 근거리 초광대역 영상 레이다를 설계한다. 광대역 특성에 적합하고 배열 구성이 용이한 소형 평판형 비발디 안테나를 설계하고 방사 패턴 및 정재파비를 측정한다. 영상의 거리 해상도를 기준으로 대역폭을 분석하고, 방위각 해상도를 기준으로 수신용 배열 안테나를 설계한다. 수신용 배열 안테나의 간격과 영상 해상도 및 표적의 신호 중첩 관계를 분석한다. 수풀로 부터 반사되는 신호를 수신하기 위해 회로망 분석기를 이용하여 계단 주파수 파형을 사용하는 합성 개구면 레이다를 구성한다. 제안한 방법은 수풀에서 코너 반사기를 위치시키고 이것의 반사 신호를 영상화함으로써 수풀의 투과 특성 및 레이다 영상의 해상도를 분석하여 무인 차량에 적용가능성을 보인다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.425-433
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• 2022

This paper studies the method of delivering munitions using both drones and UGVs that are developing along with the 4th Industrial Revolution. While drones are more mobile than UGVs, their loading capacity is small, and UGVs have relatively less mobility than drones, but their loading capacity is better. Therefore, by simultaneously operating these two delivery means, each other's shortcomings may be compensated. In addition, on actual battlefields, time constraints are an important factor in delivering munitions. Therefore, assuming an actual battlefield environment with a time limit, we establish delivery routes that minimize delivery time by operating both drones and UGVs with different capacities and speeds. If the delivery is not completed within the time limit, penalties are imposed. We devised the hybrid genetic algorithm to find solutions to the proposed model, and as results of the experiment, we showed the algorithm we presented solved the actual size problems in a short time.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2011

In this paper, an effective path generation algorithm for obstacle avoidance producing small amount of steering action as possible is proposed. The proposed path generation algorithm can reduce unnecessary steering because of the small lateral changes in generated waypoints when UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) encounters obstacles during its waypoint navigation. To verify this, the proposed algorithm and $A^*$ algorithm are analyzed through the simulation. The proposed algorithm shows good performance in terms of lateral changes in the generated waypoint, steering changes of the vehicle while driving and execution speed of the algorithm. Especially, due to the fast execution speed of the algorithm, the obstacles that encounter suddenly in front of the vehicle within short range can be avoided. This algorithm consider the waypoint navigation only. Therefore, in certain situations, the algorithm may generate the wrong path. In this case, a general path generation algorithm like $A^*$ is used instead. However, these special cases happen very rare during the vehicle waypoint navigation, so the proposed algorithm can be applied to most of the waypoint navigation for the unmanned ground vehicle.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2010

A preliminary study on a length-variable rotor blade for a small unmanned helicopter has been conducted. After surveys on previous researches, and examining requirements for application to a small unmanned helicopter, a length-variable rotor blade was designed and manufactured to be driven by centrifugal force from rotor revolution with no mechanical actuator. The rotor blade was divided into a fixed inboard section and an outboard section sliding in span-wise direction. In order to determine the operating conditions of the length-variable rotor during revolution, and to derive the design variables of extension spring and rotor weight, a series of analyses from multi-body dynamics solution were conducted. The manufactured prototype was verified of its length-varying mechanism from a rotor stand, the results and required future improvements are discussed.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2020

본 논문은 산악 지형, 도심, 함정, 교량 등에서 수직 이·착륙 비행, 제자리 비행, 고정익기처럼 저속 및 고속비행을 할 수 있는 덕티드 추진체를 사용한 수직 이·착륙 초소형 무인 항공기 개발 동향을 기술한다. 이 항공기는 여러 측면에서 헬리콥터와 고정익기와는 비행 특성이 다르다. 미육군 미래 전투 체계와 DARPA의 OAV 프로그램의 목적은 운용자에 안전하고 낮은 음향 특성을 갖는 수직 이·착륙 덕티드 팬 초소형 무인 항공기 개발이다. 현재의 초소형 무인 항공기에 영상/적외선 카메라를 탑재하고 숲이나 언덕 뒤에 숨어 있는 적을 정지비행과 응시로 약 1 시간 동안 감시 및 정찰을 한다. OAV의 Class-I은 개인 병사가 배낭에 담아 운반할 수 있는 크기와 무게의 수직 이·착륙 덕티드 MAV 개발이다. Class-II는 Class-I보다 두 배의 운용 시간과 더 넓은 범위의 비행이 가능한 유기체의 수직 이·착륙 덕티드 팬 초소형 무인 항공기 개발이다. 초소형 무인기는 장시간 운용을 위해 현재의 '호버 및 응시'에서 '퍼치-앤-응시'으로 기술을 발전시켜야 한다. 근 미래의 OAV 개념은 유·무인 지상 차량이 주행하는 동안에 차량의 상부에 자동 이착륙하고, 탑재된 상태로 이동하고, 재급유, 재충전, 재이륙하는 합동 운용으로 임무 능력과 효율성을 확장하는 것이다. 덕티드 MAV는 지상 차량의 착륙 패드에서 자동으로 이착륙하기 위해 저렴한 초소형 GPS를 활용한 고정밀 상대 위치 기술 개발이 필요하다. 또한, VTOL 덕티드 MAV와 유·무인 지상 차량 간에 유기체의 협업 동작이 가능케하는 공통 명령과 제어 아키텍처를 개발할 필요가 있다.