• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.14-26
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• 2005

A tilt-rotor aircraft has various flight modes : helicopter, airplane, and conversion. Each of flight mode has unique and nonlinear flight characteristics. Therefore the gain schedules for whole flight envelope are required for effective flight performance. This paper proposes collective, flap, and nacelle angle scheduler for whole flight envelope of the Smart UAV(Unmanned Air Vehicle) based on CAMRAD(Comprehensive Analytical Model of Rotorcraft Aerodynamics and Dynamics) II analysis results. The scheduler designs are improved so that the pitch attitude angle of helicopter mode was minimized. The range of scheduler are reduced inside of engine performance limits. The conversion corridor and rotor governor are suggested also.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2005

In this study, structural vibration analyses of a composite smart unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have been conducted considering dynamic hub-loads of tilt-rotor. Practical computational structural dynamics technique based on the finite element method is applied using MSC/NASTRAN. The present smart UAV(TR-S2) structural model is constructed as full 3D configurations with both the helicopter flight mode and the airplane flight mode. Modal based transient response and frequency response analyses are used to efficiently investigate vibration characteristics of structure and installed electronic equipments. It is typically shown that the helicopter flight mode with the 90-deg tilting angle is the most critical case for the induced vibration of installed electronic equipments in the front.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 재난치안무인기 MC-1,2,3 대비 임무능력이 대폭 향상된 임무확장형 무인기 후보인 틸트로터 무인기의 공력형상설계와 성능향상을 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 기존 운영 중인 TR60 틸트로터 무인기의 형상을 근간으로 성능향상을 위하여 동체 및 꼬리날개 형상을 개선하고 나셀에 확장날개를 장착한 새로운 TR5X 개념형상을 설계하고 전산유체해석을 통해 기존 TR60과 공력성능을 비교하였다. 또한 TR5X 전기체 공력데이터를 구축하고 전기체 비행성능해석을 수행하여 목표로 설정된 주요 성능요구도가 만족됨을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.120-131
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• 2016

The full results of troubleshooting process related to the flight control system of a tilt-rotor type UAV in the flight tests are described. Flight tests were conducted in helicopter, conversion, and airplane modes. The vehicle was flown using automatic functions, which include speed-hold, altitude-hold, heading-hold, guidance modes, as well as automatic take-off and landing. Many unexpected problems occurred during the envelope expansion tests which were mostly under those automatic functions. The anomalies in helicopter mode include vortex ring state (VRS), long delay in the automatic take-off, and the initial overshoot in the automatic landing. In contrast, the anomalies in conversion mode are untrimmed AOS oscillation and the calibration errors of the air data sensors. The problems of low damping in rotor speed and roll rate responses are found in airplane mode. Once all of the known problems had been solved, the vehicle in airplane mode gradually reached the maximum design speed of 440km/h at the operation altitude of 3km. This paper also presents a comprehensive detailing of the control systems of the tilt-rotor unmanned air vehicle (UAV).

• 항공우주기술
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.277-286
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• 2004

스마트 사업단에서 비행체개념으로 적용하고 있는 틸트로터 형상의 설계 특성 및 주요 사이징 변수에 대해 그간에 선진 항공업체에서 진행된 방대한 연구 결과를 종합적으로 정리하고 다른 수직이착륙 비행체와 대별되는 틸트로터 비행체의 특성을 분석, 정리하였다. 또한 스마트무인기 개발 사업단 자체적으로 수행한 개념설계와 진행중인 기본설계 결과 확인된 틸트로터 비행체 설계의 특성 및 주요 고려사항들을 정리하였다. 이 논문은 틸트로터 비행체 설계특성과 기술적 고려사항에 대한 종합적인 이해를 갖고자 하는 이들에게 큰 도움이 될 것이다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.561-568
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• 2006

CFD simulation for one of tilt-rotor UAV configurations, TR-E2S1, was performed to investigate its aerodynamic characteristics. Control surfaces such as elevator and rudder were deflected and wing incidence angle was changed. Also aerodynamic stabilities were analyzed with the variation of pitch and yaw angles. The comparison of CFD with wind tunnel test results reveals the same trends in the aerodynamic characteristics and stabilities. However 12% scale wind tunnel test model is too small for accurate data collection and should build a high fidelity model for quantitative data comparison.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2011년도 제37회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.389-392
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 틸트로터 비행체인 스마트무인기의 비행시험에서 엔진성능 데이터를 추출하고 분석하였다. 비행시험은 프롭로터의 틸트각이 90도에서 0도로 변화하고 다시 0도에서 90도로 변환하는 천이비행 영역에서 이루어졌다. 비행시험으로부터 수집된 엔진성능 데이터로서 엔진 동력과 비연료 소모율은 엔진성능계산프로그램의 예측결과와 잘 일치하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2007

Tilt rotor aircraft can take off and land vertically and cruise faster than any other helicopter. A scaled flight demonstration model of a tilt rotor aircraft has been developed by KARI. Because the flight characteristics of tilt rotor are not well known, the developed scaled model would be helpful to evaluate flight control algorithm of a full scale aircraft. The tethered hover test has been performed in order to improve hover flight characteristics of tilt rotor aircraft prior to flight test of the small scaled model. During the tethered hover test, the performance of rotor speed governor, rate SAS (Stability Augmentation System) and control surface mixers have been evaluated. We expect that the results of real flight hover test would be quite same as tethered hover test. Therefore the tethered hover test results will reduce the risk of flight test properly by fixing some of hidden problems which might occur during the flight test. This paper presents the results of tethered hover test in detail and shows how it could be final ground test before flight test. The control mixer gain and rate SAS feedback gains were modified in order to get higher controllability and stability during the tethered hover flight. The rotor governor showed that it could keep rotor RPM constant with very small deviation even during severe pilot collective input change. The tethered hover test results gave pilot and engineers confirmation and experience about the scheduled flight test.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

The tilt rotor aircraft has the flight characteristics which takes off vertically like a helicopter and flies forward like an airplane. Especially, the transition process from a helicopter to an airplane mode requires not only the mixing of control inputs but also the stability and controllability augmentation system(SCAS) in order to keep the safe flight because there are compound flight dynamic characteristics of a helicopter and an airplane including non-linearity, uncertainty. This paper describes the design of SCAS in a lateral motion for the tilt rotor aircraft based on the $H_{\infty}$ control method, which was performed from mathematical model with weighting matrix based on the relationship between the $H_{\infty}$ norm and the sensitivity function. Through simulation analysis for the controller designed on the $H_{\infty}$ control theory, it was shown that this method may be applied to the control design of the tilt rotor aircraft.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.57-62
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• 2004

This paper deals with a waypoint trajectory following problem for the tilt-rotor UAV under development in Korea (TR-KUAV). In this problem, dynamic model inversion based on the linearized model and Sigma-Phi neural network with adaptive weight update are involved to realize the waypoint following algorithm for the vehicle in the helicopter flight mode (nacelle angle=0 deg). This algorithms consists of two main parts: outer-loop system as a command generator and inner-loop system as stabilizing controller. In this waypoint following problem, the position information in the inertial axis is given to the outer-loop system. From this information, Attitude Command/Attitude Hold logic in the longitudinal channel and Rate Command/Attitude Hold logic in the lateral channel are realized in the inner-loop part of the overall structure of the waypoint following algorithm. The nonlinear simulation based on the TR-KUAV is carried out to evaluate the stability and performance of the algorithm. From the numerical simulation results, the algorithm shows very good tracking performance of passing the waypoints given. Especially, it is observed that ACAH/RCAH logic in the inner-loop has the satisfactory performance due to adaptive neural network in spite of the model error coming from the linear model based inversion.