• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.240-253
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• 2023

Spatial information is geometrical information combined with the properties of an object. In city areas where unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage demand is high, it is necessary to determine the appropriate driving altitude considering the height of buildings for safe driving. In this study, we propose a data-provision method that generates the driving altitude of UAVs with a pseudo-3D building model. The pseudo-3D building model is developed using high-precision spatial information provided by the National Geographic Information Institute. The proposed method generates the driving altitude of the UAV in terms of tile information, including the UAV's starting and arrival points and a straight line between the two points, and provides the data to users. To evaluate the efficacy of the proposed method, UAV driving altitude information was generated using data of 763 551 pseudo-3D buildings in Seoul. Subsequently, the generated driving altitude data of the UAV was verified in AirSim. In addition, the execution time of the proposed method and the calculated driving altitude were analyzed.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.794-802
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• 2017

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been considered as valuable aerial reconnaissance systems and our army wants capability-enhanced UAVs installed in our territory, hoping that the UAVs will provide enemy information in detail. The enemy information acqcuired by UAVs would be shared by our army's legacy systems. In this article, we made a research on the interoperability between UAVs and Ground Fighting Vehicles (GFVs), laying emphasis on what kinds of tactical information could be exchanged by two different weapon systems. Also, it needs to be addressed that their upper-level commanding systems play a significant role in such operation.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.103-113
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• 2023

최근 몇 년 동안 무인비행체는 다양한 산업 분야에서 널리 사용되고 있다. 그러나, 무인비행체에 대한 의존도가 급격하게 높아짐에 따라 무인비행체의 보안과 안전에 대한 우려가 커지고 있다. 현재 무인비행체의 제어권을 탈취하거나 웹 애플리케이션에서 무인비행체와 통신할 수 있는 권한을 탈취하는 등 다양한 취약점들이 공개되고 있다. 하지만, 무인비행체의 보안과 관련된 연구가 많이 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실제 환경과 유사한 HITL 시뮬레이션 환경에서 무인비행체의 패킷 데이터를 수집하여 패킷 데이터가 정상 데이터인지 비정상 데이터인지 판단하는 연구를 진행하였다. 또한, 본 논문에서는 모델링 과정에서 Computation Cost를 줄이고 데이터 해석의 용이성을 높이는 방법과 정상 데이터만을 학습하여 비정상 데이터를 탐지하는 기계 학습 기반 이상 탐지 모델 및 최적화된 하이퍼 파라미터값을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.595-609
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• 2020

In this study, we propose a decentralized mathematical model for predictive control of a system of multi-autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones. Being decentralized and autonomous implies that all members make their own decisions and fly depending on the dynamic information received from other unmanned aircraft in the area. We consider a variety of realistic characteristics, including time delay and communication locality. For this flocking flight, we do not possess control for central data processing or control over each UAV, as each UAV runs its collision avoidance algorithm by itself. The main contribution of this work is a mathematical model for stable group flight even in adverse weather conditions (e.g., heavy wind, rain, etc.) by adding Gaussian noise. Two of our proposed variance control algorithms are presented in this work. One is based on a simple biological imitation from statistical physical modeling, which mimics animal group behavior; the other is an algorithm for cooperatively tracking an object, which aligns the velocities of neighboring agents corresponding to each other. We demonstrate the stability of the control algorithm and its applicability in autonomous multi-drone systems using numerical simulations.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.343-350
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• 2021

Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV) photogrammetry provides a cost-effective option for collecting high-resolution 3D point clouds compared with UAV LiDAR and aerial photogrammetry. The main objectives of this study were to (1) validate the accuracy of 3D site model generated, and (2) determine the differences between Digital Elevation Model(DEM) and Digital Surface Model(DSM). In this study, DEM and DSM were shown to have varying degree of accuracy from observed data. The results indicated that the model predictions were considered tend to over- and under-estimated. The range of RMSE of DSM predicted was from 8.2 and 21.3 when compared with the observation. In addition, RMSE values were ranged from 10.2 and 25.8 to compare between DEM predicted and field data. The predict values resulting from the DSM were in agreement with the observed data compared to DEM calculation. In other words, it was determined that the DSM was a better suitable model than DEM. There is potential for enabling automated topography evaluation of the prior-harvest areas by using UAV technology.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.463-474
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• 2015

Future Ground Control Stations (GCSs) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) teleoperation targets better situational awareness by providing extra motion cues to stimulate the vestibular system. This paper proposes a new virtual environment for long range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control via Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) communications, which is based on motion platforms. It generates motion cues for the teleoperator for extra sensory stimulation to enhance the guidance performance. The proposed environment employs the distributed component simulation over GSM network as a simulation platform. GSM communications are utilized as a multi-hop communication network, which is similar to global satellite communications. It considers a UAV mathematical model and wind turbulence effects to simulate a realistic UAV dynamics. Moreover, the proposed virtual environment simulates a Multiple Axis Rotating Device (MARD) as Human Machine Interface (HMI) device to provide a complete delay analysis. The demonstrated measurements cover Graphical User Interface (GUI) capabilities, NLoS GSM communications delay, MARD performance, and different software workload. The proposed virtual environment succeeded to provide visual and vestibular feedbacks for teleoperators via GSM networks. The overall system performance is acceptable relative to other Line-of-Sight (LoS) systems, which promises a good potential for future long range, medium altitude UAV teleoperation researches.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2015

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have several advantages over conventional RS techniques. They can acquire high-resolution images quickly and repeatedly. And with a comparatively lower flight altitude i.e. 80~400 m, they can obtain good quality images even in cloudy weather. Therefore, they are ideal for acquiring spatial data in cases of small agricultural field with mixed crop, abundant in South Korea. This paper discuss the use of low cost UAV based remote sensing for classifying crops. The study area, Gochang is produced by several crops such as red pepper, radish, Chinese cabbage, rubus coreanus, welsh onion, bean in South Korea. This study acquired images using fixed wing UAV on September 23, 2014. An object-based technique is used for classification of crops. The results showed that scale 250, shape 0.1, color 0.9, compactness 0.5 and smoothness 0.5 were the optimum parameter values in image segmentation. As a result, the kappa coefficient was 0.82 and the overall accuracy of classification was 85.0 %. The result of the present study validate our attempts for crop classification using high resolution UAV image as well as established the possibility of using such remote sensing techniques widely to resolve the difficulty of remote sensing data acquisition in agricultural sector.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.84-90
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• 2019

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the military environment have become popular because they require minimum human contribution and can avoid accidents during missions. UAVs are employed in various missions such as reconnaissance, observation, aggression, and protection. Consequently, counter-measures, known as anti-drone technologies, have been developed as well. In order to protect against threats from anti-drone technologies and enhance the survivability of UAVs, this study proposes an evasive measure. The proposed bio-inspired evasive maneuver of a UAV mimics a dragonfly's irregular flight. The unpredictable UAV movement is able to confuse enemies and avoid threats, thereby enhancing the UAV's survivability. The proposed system has been implemented on a commercial UAV platform (AR Drone 2.0) and tested in a real environment. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed flight pattern has larger displacement values compared to a regular flight maneuver, thus making the UAV's position is difficult to predict.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2017

최근 군수 산업, 해양수산업, 농업, 공업, 서비스 등의 거의 모든 산업 분야에서는 소형 무인항공기를 사람이 접근하기 힘들거나 CCTV가 설치되지 않은 영역에 대해 공중 촬영이나 근접 비행 등에 활용하고 있다. 또한 소형 무인기 촬영 정보를 토대로 감시나 통제, 또는 관리를 효율적으로 수행하기 위한 응용 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 일련의 설정된 작업을 부여하고 자동으로 그 임무를 수행하도록 하는 임무 기반 형태의 작업을 수행하기 위해서는 소형 무인항공기가 안정적으로 비행해야 할 뿐만 아니라 일정시간마다 에너지를 충전할 수 있어야 하며, 또한 무인항공기가 임무 종료 후에는 특정 지점에 자동으로 그리고 정밀하게 착륙해야 할 필요가 있다. 이를 위해서는 소형 무인항공기 자체에서 촬영하는 동영상으로부터 착륙 지점에 설치되어 있는 마커를 탐지하고 인식하는 과정을 통해 착륙을 유도하는 자동 정밀 착륙 방법이 필요하며, 본 논문에서는 저가의 범용 소형 무인비행체를 사용함에 있어서 고 사양을 요구하는 다른 여러 가지 인식 기법들을 사용하지 않고 단순한 탬플릿 매칭 기법을 적용하여서도 정밀하고 안정된 자동 착륙이 가능함을 나타내고, 시뮬레이션과 실제 실험을 통해서 수 센티미터 이내의 오차를 보이는 정밀 착륙이 가능하며, 이는 산업 현장에 유용하게 활용될 수 있음을 보이고자 한다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1245-1258
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• 2023

산림자원의 효율적인 관리를 위한 정보획득을 위해서는 서로 다른 센서를 장착한 다수의 무인항공기가 동시에 운영되어야 한다. 이에 따라 지상제어국 안테나는 지속적으로 대국에 대한 추적을 수행해야 할 뿐만 아니라 타 무인항공기에 대한 전파간섭 영향을 억제해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 위상배열안테나 시스템을 기반으로 구축된 지상제어국에 있어, VPR 알고리즘을 기반으로 지속적인 추적 및 전파간섭 억제를 위한 빔 형성 기법에 관하여 연구하였다. 다양한 무인항공기 운영 환경에 대한 모의실험 결과, 제시된 기법을 기반으로 운항중인 무인항공국에 대한 지속적인 추적을 할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 다수의 전파간섭원에 대해 지속적인 패턴 널을 형성하여 전파간섭을 억제할 수 있음을 확인하였다.