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Analysis of Rice Field Drought Area Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Geographic Information System (GIS) Methods (무인항공기와 GIS를 이용한 논 가뭄 발생지역 분석)

  • Park, Jin Ki;Park, Jong Hwa
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2017
  • The main goal of this paper is to assess application of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) remote sensing and GIS based images in detection and measuring of rice field drought area in South Korea. Drought is recurring feature of the climatic events, which often hit South Korea, bringing significant water shortages, local economic losses and adverse social consequences. This paper describes the assesment of the near-realtime drought damage monitoring and reporting system for the agricultural drought region. The system is being developed using drought-related vegetation characteristics, which are derived from UAV remote sensing data. The study area is $3.07km^2$ of Wonbuk-myeon, Taean-gun, Chungnam in South Korea. UAV images were acquired three times from July 4 to October 29, 2015. Three images of the same test site have been analysed by object-based image classification technique. Drought damaged paddy rices reached $754,362m^2$, which is 47.1 %. The NongHyeop Agricultural Damage Insurance accepted agricultural land of 4.6 % ($34,932m^2$). For paddy rices by UAV investigation, the drought monitoring and crop productivity was effective in improving drought assessment method.

Thermal Structural Analysis of a Duct with Heat Resistant Metal Materials for Smart UAV (고온 내열재료를 사용한 스마트 무인기 덕트의 열 구조 해석)

  • Im, J.B.;Yoon, D.Y.;Lee, K.M.;Park, J.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.17-28
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    • 2004
  • In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the high temperature results from friction with the air, combustion of fuel and combustion gas of a nozzle etc. It causes serious problems in the UAV structure. The characteristic analysis of heat resistant metal and ceramic materials and creep analysis for the functionally graded material (FGM) is presented in this paper. FGM is composed of two constituent materials that are mixed up according to the specific volume fraction distribution in order to withstand high heat condition. In addition, the creep behavior of FGM applied in duct structure of an engine is analyzed.

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Design and Application of the Warfighting Experiment Process Using the Intelligent Maturity Model in Software Intensive Systems (지능형 성숙도 모델을 이용한 소프트웨어 집약 시스템의 전투실험 프로세스 설계 및 적용)

  • Kang, Dong-Su;Yoon, Hee-Byung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.668-673
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    • 2007
  • We propose the design of the warfighting experiment process for software intensive systems using the intelligent maturity model and suggest the application results of the target searching capability in smart UAV. For this, we design the intelligent maturity model to evaluate the intelligent degree of the software intensive systems considering the domain and intelligent level. Then we classify the IS0/1EC-12207 process and CMMI process as LITO domain for designing the warfighting experiment process, map the classifed process to the five factors of the warfighting experiment and derive the process as warfighting experiment element and phase. Based on the derived process, we design the warfighting experiment process using the IDEF0. Finally we apply the proposed process to the target search capability and suggest the results which are required to develop and acquire the smart UAV.

Fault-Tolerant Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Smart Actuators and Control Allocation (지능형 액추에이터와 제어면 재분배를 이용한 무인항공기 고장대처 제어시스템)

  • Yang, In-Seok;Kim, Ji-Yeon;Lee, Dong-Ik
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.17 no.10
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    • pp.967-982
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents a FTNCS (Fault-Tolerant Networked Control System) that can tolerate control surface failure and packet delay/loss in an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The proposed method utilizes the benefits of self-diagnosis by smart actuators along with the control allocation technique. A smart actuator is an intelligent actuation system combined with microprocessors to perform self-diagnosis and bi-directional communications. In the event of failure, the smart actuator provides the system supervisor with a set of actuator condition data. The system supervisor then compensate for the effect of faulty actuators by re-allocating redundant control surfaces based on the provided actuator condition data. In addition to the compensation of faulty actuators, the proposed FTNCS also includes an efficient algorithm to deal with network induced delay/packet loss. The proposed algorithm is based on a Lagrange polynomial interpolation method without any mathematical model of the system. Computer simulations with an UAV show that the proposed FTNCS can achieve a fast and accurate tracking performance even in the presence of actuator faults and network induced delays.

Crack Detection Technology Based on Ortho-image Using Convolutional Neural Network (합성곱 신경망을 이용한 정사사진 기반 균열 탐지 기법)

  • Jang, Arum;Jeong, Sanggi;Park, Jinhan;, Kang Chang-hoon;Ju, Young K.
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 2022
  • Visual inspection methods have limitations, such as reflecting the subjective opinions of workers. Moreover, additional equipment is required when inspecting the high-rise buildings because the height is limited during the inspection. Various methods have been studied to detect concrete cracks due to the disadvantage of existing visual inspection. In this study, a crack detection technology was proposed, and the technology was objectively and accurately through AI. In this study, an efficient method was proposed that automatically detects concrete cracks by using a Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with the Orthomosaic image, modeled with the help of UAV. The concrete cracks were predicted by three different CNN models: AlexNet, ResNet50, and ResNeXt. The models were verified by accuracy, recall, and F1 Score. The ResNeXt model had the high performance among the three models. Also, this study confirmed the reliability of the model designed by applying it to the experiment.

Fault Detection System Design and HILS Evaluation for the Smart UAV FCS

  • Nam, Yoon-Su;Jang, Hu-Yeong;Hong, Sung-Kyung;Park, Sung-Su
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 2007
  • This paper is about a redundancy management system design for the Smart UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle) which utilizes the tilt..rotor mechanism. In order to meet the safety requirement on the PLOC(probability of loss of control) of $1.7{\times}10^{-5}$ per flight hour for FCS (flight control system) failures, a digital FCS is mechanized with a dual redundant structure. A fault detection system which is composed of a CCM(cross channel monitor) and analytic redundancy using the Kalman filtering is designed, and its effectiveness is evaluated through experiments. A threshold level and persistence count for managing redundant sensors are designed based on the statistical analysis of the FCS sensors. To increase the survivability of the UAV after the loss of critical sensors in the SAS(stability augmentation system) and to provide reference information for a tie-breaking condition at which an ILM(in-line monitor) cannot distinguish the faulty channel between two operating ones, the Kalman filter approach is investigated.