• 제목/요약/키워드: Time of flight measurements

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Thrust - Performance Test of Ethylene-Oxygen Single-Tube Pulse Detonation Rocket

  • Hirano, Masao;Kasahara, Jiro;Matsuo, Akiko;Endo, Takuma;Murakami, Masahide
    • 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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    • pp.205-210
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    • 2004
  • The pulse detonation engine (PDE) has recently expected as a new aerospace propulsion system. The PDE system has high thermal efficiency because of its constant-volume combustion and its simple tube structure. We measured thrust of single-tube pulse detonation rocket (PDR) by two methods using the PDR-Engineering Model (full scale model) for ground testing. The first involved measuring the displacement of the PDR-EM by laser displacement meter, and the second involved measuring the time-averaged thrust by combining a load cell and a spring-damper system. From these two measurements, we obtained 130.1 N of time-averaged thrust, which corresponds to 321.2 sec of effective specific impulse (ISP). As well, we measured the heat flux in the wall of PDE tubes. The heat flux was approximately 400 ㎾/$m^2$. We constructed the PDR-Flight Mode] (PDR-FM). In the vertical flight test in a laboratory, the PDR-FM was flying and keeping its altitude almost constant during 0.3 sec.

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초음파를 이용한 배면웨지의 일방향 비파괴 특성평가 (One-Sided Nondestructive Evaluation of Back-Side Wedge By Using Ultrasonic Sound)

  • 정종안;;임광희
    • 한국생산제조학회지
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    • 제20권6호
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    • pp.773-777
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    • 2011
  • Conventional ultrasonic thickness measurement is to be considered as the assumption that the ultrasonic velocity is known. In actual applications the velocity is often not well known and access is often limited to one side. This paper aims at determining the ultrasonic velocity and thickness of plates with parallel or wedged surfaces using contact measurements made on one surface only. For wedged plates the thickness at one point and the wedge angle are determined. Equations are used for determining the ultrasonic velocity, thickness and wedge angle of the plate based on the times-of-flight measured by two contact transducers coupled to one surface. The time-of-flight of the obliquely reflected longitudinal wave echo was measured as a function of the separation between the two transducers. In addition, a simulation was made for comparing the experimental data and a FEM image. Experiments and simulations were performed on flat and wedged plates of aluminium materials; the calculated results for the unknown quantities are generally agreed with them to some degree.

벡터 예측 알고리즘과 칼만 필터를 이용한 다변측량법 개선 (Improvement of Multilateration using Vector Prediction Algorithm and Kalman Filter)

  • 김정하;주양익;이성근;박상국;서동환
    • 한국정보통신학회논문지
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    • 제16권12호
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    • pp.2792-2799
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    • 2012
  • 3개 혹은 그 이상의 고정노드로 구성된 다변측량법은 실내의 실시간 위치 인식 시스템 분야에서 현재 널리 사용되고 있다. 하지만 이 고정노드 중 일부가 장애물 및 고정노드의 불안정에 따라 통신도달성이 결여된 상황에서는 효율적 위치 정보를 획득하기가 어렵다. 이러한 환경에서 위치측정 결여 및 변동을 개선하기위하여 본 논문에서는 TOF(Time of Flight)기반으로 이동노드의 변위 추정을 위한 벡터예측알고리즘과 효율적인 거리평균을 위한 칼만필터를 이용하여 기존의 다변측량법에서 발생하는 내재적 위치측정오차를 줄일 수 있는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 보행자가 이동노드와 함께 이동하고 임의의 고정노드로부터 거리측정이 실패하더라도, 현재 및 이전 거리측정 값을 이용하는 제안한 알고리즘은 이동노드와 거리측정에 실패한 고정노드 사이의 거리를 예측할 수 있다. 실험결과 기존의 방법 대비 위치추정 성능과 효율이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

Visual Target Tracking and Relative Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a GPS-Denied Environment

  • Kim, Youngjoo;Jung, Wooyoung;Bang, Hyochoong
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.258-266
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    • 2014
  • We present a system for the real-time visual relative navigation of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle in a GPS-denied environment. An extended Kalman filter is used to construct a vision-aided navigation system by fusing the image processing results with barometer and inertial sensor measurements. Using a mean-shift object tracking algorithm, an onboard vision system provides pixel measurements to the navigation filter. The filter is slightly modified to deal with delayed measurements from the vision system. The image processing algorithm and the navigation filter are verified by flight tests. The results show that the proposed aerial system is able to maintain circling around a target without using GPS data.

Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Rotor Flow Using an Unstructured Overset Mesh Flow Solver

  • Jung, Mun-Seung;Kwon, Oh-Joon
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 2009
  • An unstructured overset mesh method has been developed for the simulation of unsteady flow fields around isolated rotors and rotor-fuselage configurations. The flow solver was parallelized for the efficient calculation of complicated flows requiring a large number of cells. A quasi-unsteady mesh adaptation technique was adopted to enhance the spatial accuracy of the solution and to better resolve the rotor wake. The method has been applied to calculate the flow fields around rotor-alone and rotor-fuselage configurations in forward flight. Validations were made by comparing the predicted results with those of measurements. It was demonstrated that the present method is efficient and robust for the prediction of unsteady time-accurate flow fields involving multiple bodies in relative motion.

Transport Properties of Conversion Materials for Digital Radiography

  • Kim, Jae-Hyung;Park, Chang-Hee;Nam, Sang-Hee
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • 제8권6호
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    • pp.250-254
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    • 2007
  • Applying the moving photo-carrier grating(MPG) technique and time-of-flight(TOF) measurements, we studied the transport properties of stabilized amorphous selenium typical of the material used in direct conversion X-ray imaging devices. For MPG measurement, we obtained electron and hole mobility and the recombination lifetime of $\alpha-Se$ films with arsenic(As) additions. We found an apparent increase in hole drift mobility and recombination lifetime, especially when 0.3 % As was added into $\alpha-Se$ film, whereas electron mobility decreased with the addition of As due to the defect density. For TOF measurement, a laser beam with pulse duration of 5 ns and wavelength of 350 nm was illuminated on the surface of $\alpha-Se$ with a thickness of 400 ${\mu}m$. The measured hole and electron transit times were about 8.73 ${\mu}s$ and 229.17 ${\mu}s$, respectively.

Collision-free local planner for unknown subterranean navigation

  • Jung, Sunggoo;Lee, Hanseob;Shim, David Hyunchul;Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제43권4호
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    • pp.580-593
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    • 2021
  • When operating in confined spaces or near obstacles, collision-free path planning is an essential requirement for autonomous exploration in unknown environments. This study presents an autonomous exploration technique using a carefully designed collision-free local planner. Using LiDAR range measurements, a local end-point selection method is designed, and the path is generated from the current position to the selected end-point. The generated path showed the consistent collision-free path in real-time by adopting the Euclidean signed distance field-based grid-search method. The results consistently demonstrated the safety and reliability of the proposed path-planning method. Real-world experiments are conducted in three different mines, demonstrating successful autonomous exploration flights in environment with various structural conditions. The results showed the high capability of the proposed flight autonomy framework for lightweight aerial robot systems. In addition, our drone performed an autonomous mission in the tunnel circuit competition (Phase 1) of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.

A Fast Neutron Time-of-Flight Spectrometer with High Resolution

  • Cho, Mann
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.116-131
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    • 1972
  • Li$^{7}$ (p, n) Be$^{7}$ 원자핵반응에서 Li target의 두께와 입사양자의 에너지를 적절히 선정하므로써 1-n sec 파동 Van de Graaff 가속도로부터 keV 영역에서의 연속중성자spectrum을 발생시키고 92% 농축된 5mm 두께의 $B^{10}$ 판과 4개의 4"$\times$3" NaI (T1) 발광체로 이루어진 속중성자검출기를 이용 속중성자 비행시간법에 의한 중성자spectrometer 를 제작하였다. 장치의 에너지 분해능은 50 keV에서 0.3%보다 양호하며 신호대잡음비도 개량되었다. 이를 이용하여 몇가지 분석된 단일동위원소의 전단면적을 측정하고 R-matrix 전자계산 code로 분석하였다. 각 공명에 따르는 스핀식와 공명인수들을 찾아내었다.

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Channel Gap Measurements of Irradiated Plate Fuel and Comparison with Post-Irradiation Plate Thickness

  • James A. Smith;Casey J. Jesse;William A. Hanson;Clark L. Scott;David L. Cottle
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권6호
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    • pp.2195-2205
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    • 2023
  • One of the salient nuclear fuel performance parameters for new fuel types under development is changes in fuel thickness. To test the new commercially fabricated U-10Mo monolithic plate-type fuel, an irradiation experiment was designed that consisted of multiple mini-plate capsules distributed within the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) core, the mini-plate 1 (MP-1) experiment. Each capsule contains eight mini-plates that were either fueled or "dummy" plates. Fuel thickness changes within a fuel assembly can be characterized by measuring the gaps between the plates ultrasonically. The channel gap probe (CGP) system is designed to measure the gaps between the plates and will provide information that supports qualification of U-10Mo monolithic fuel. This study will discuss the design and the results from the use of a custom-designed CGP system for characterizing the gaps between mini-plates within the MP-1 capsules. To ensure accurate and repeatable data, acceptance and calibration procedures have been developed. Unfortunately, there is no "gold" standard measurement to compare to CGP measurements. An effort was made to use plate thickness obtained from post-irradiation measurements to derive channel gap estimates for comparison with the CGP characterization.

Acoustic Estimation of Phase Velocity of Closed-Cell Kelvin Structure based on Spectral Phase Analysis

  • Kim, Nohyu
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.339-345
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, the effect of porosity on the acoustic phase velocity of the 3D printed Kelvin closed-cell structure was investigated using the spectral phase analysis. Since Kelvin cells bring about the large amount of scattering, acoustic pulses in ultrasonic measurements undergoes a distortion of waveforms due to the dispersion effect. In order to take account on the dispersion, mathematical expressions for calculating the phase velocity of longitudinal waves propagating normal to the plane of the Kelvin structure are suggested by introducing a complex wave number based on Fourier transform. 3D Kelvin structure composed of identical unit-cells, a polyhedron of 14 faces with 6 quadrilateral and 8 hexagonal faces, was developed and fabricated by 3D CAD and 3D printer to represent the micro-structure of porous materials such as aluminum foam and cancellous bone. Total nine samples of 3D Kelvin structure with different porosity were made by changing the thickness of polyhedron. Ultrasonic pulse of 1MHz center frequency was applied to the Kelvin structures for the measurement of the phase velocity of ultrasound using the TOF(time-of-flight) and the phase spectral method. From the experimental results, it was found that the acoustic phase velocity decreased linearly with the porosity.