• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.633-643
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• 2005

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft controlled by .emote commands from ground station and/o. pre-programmed onboard autopilot system. A navigation system in the UAV provides a navigation data for a flight control computer(FCC). The FCC requires accurate and reliable position, velocity and attitude information for guidance and control. This paper proposes an ADGPS/INS integrated navigation system for a UAV. The proposed navigation system comprises an attitude determination GPS (ADGPS) receive., a navigation computer unit, and a low-cost commercial MEMS inertial measurement unit(IMU). The navigation algorithm contains a fault detection and isolation (FDI) function fur integrity. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed navigation system, two flight tests were preformed using a small aircraft. The first flight test was carried out to confirm fundamental operation of the proposed navigation system and to check the effectiveness of the FDI algorithm. In the second flight test, the navigation performance and the benefit of the GPS attitude information were checked in a high dynamic environment. The flight test results show that the proposed ADGPS/INS integrated navigation system gives a reliable performance even when anomalous GPS data is provided and better navigation performance than a conventional GPS/INS integration unit.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2013

한국항공우주연구원 (이하 항우연)에서 개발중인 중형 전기동력 무인기 EAV2의 추진시스템에 대한 비행시험결과에 대하여 기술 하였다. EAV2는 날개 길이 6.9 m, 무게 18 kg의 저속 장기 체공형 무인기이다. 전기 동력원으로는 태양전지, 연료전지, 배터리의 세 가지를 동시에 사용한다. EAV2는 2012년 6월에 22시간 이상 체공 비행에 성공하였다. 시험 결과, 전기추진 시스템은 비행 중 일어나는 여러 상황에서 필요한 동력을 성공적으로 공급하였으며, 각 동력원들은 설계된 목적에 부합하게 작동되었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.927-932
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• 2007

The sophisticated mathematical model is required for the design and the database construction of the advanced flight control system of UAV. In this paper, flight test of KARI's research UAV, often called DURUMI-II, is implemented for the data acquisition from the maneuver flight. The flight path reconstruction is implemented to ensure that the measured data is consistent and error free. The nonlinear system identification for the refined mathematical modeling is implemented with the verified measurements from the flight path reconstruction. The simulation with the identified results have a good validation when the simulated responses were compared to the flight tested data.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

스마트무인기의 비행시험에 앞서 비행제어시스템을 포함한 전체 무인기 체계의 건전성을 검증하기위한 지상통합시험을 수행하였다. 지상통합시험은 비행체 인터페이스 시험, 비행체 HILS시험, 지상파워시험, 4자유도 치구시험, 안전줄 호버시험 순서로 진행되었으며, 각각의 시험을 통해 전체 무인기 시스템의 안전성을 입증하였다. 본 논문에서는 국내 최초로 개발된 틸트로터인 스마트무인기의 지상시험 절차와 각 시험에서 획득한 데이터 분석결과를 제시하였다. 지상시험 결과 비행제어시스템의 안전성이 충분히 입증되었으며, 비행시험이 수행가능하다고 판단되었다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제41권11호
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• pp.908-914
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 소형 태양광 무인항공기를 개발하여 비행시험을 수행하였다. 태양광 무인기는 날개에 설치된 태양전지로부터 전력을 생산하고, 생산된 전력의 일부를 비행동력으로 사용하며, 나머지를 일몰 후 비행을 위해 배터리에 저장을 한다. 태양광 무인항공기는 공기역학적으로 매우 효율이 높아야 하며, 구조적으로 경량이면서 고강도를 가져야 한다. 또한, 태양광 무인기의 전기추진시스템과 태양광 발전시스템도 높은 효율을 가져야 한다. 본 연구에서는 12시간 이상의 연속 비행을 위한 태양광 무인항공기 및 태양광 시스템을 개발하고, 그 성능을 파악하기 위해 비행시험을 수행하였다. 가을과 겨울철의 비행시험 결과 본 연구에서 개발한 태양광 무인항공기의 사계절 모두 12시간 이상의 연속비행이 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2004

UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) has become one of the most popularmilitary/commercial aerial robots in the new millennium. In spite of all theadvantages that UAVs inherently have, it is not an easv job to develop a UAVbecause it requires very systematic and complete approaches in full developmentenvelop. The ground test and evaluation phase has the utmost importance in thesense that a well-developed system can be best verified on the ground. In addition,many of the aircraft crashes in the flight tests were resulted from the incompletedevelopment procedure. In this research, a verification procedure of the wholeairbome integrated system was conducted including the flight management system.An airbome flight control computer(FCC) senses the extemal environment from thepehpheral devices and sends the control signal to the actuating system using theassigned control logic and flight test strategy. A ground test station controls themission during the test while the downlink data are transferred from the flightmanagement computer using the serial communication interface. The pilot controlbox also applies additional manual actuating commands. The whole system wastested/verified on the wind-tunnel system, which gave a good pitch controlperformance with a preUspecified flight test procedure. The ground test systemguarantees the performance of fundamental functions of airbome electronic systemfor the future flight tests.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1529-1543
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• 2005

Recently an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely used for military and civil applications. The role of a navigation system in the UAV is to provide navigation data to the flight control computer (FCC) for guidance and control. Since performance of the FCC is highly reliant on the navigation data, a fault in the navigation system may lead to a disastrous failure of the whole UAV. Therefore, the navigation system should possess a fault detection and isolation (FDI) algorithm. This paper proposes an attitude determination GPS/INS integrated navigation system with an FDI algorithm for a UAV. Hardware for the proposed navigation system has been developed. The developed hardware comprises a commercial inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the integrated navigation package (INP) which includes an attitude determination GPS (ADGPS) receiver and a navigation computer unit (NCU). The navigation algorithm was implemented in a real-time operating system with a multi-tasking structure. To evaluate performance of the proposed navigation system, a flight test has been performed using a small aircraft. The test results show that the proposed navigation system can give accurate navigation results even in a high dynamic environment.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 고고도 장기체공 무인항공기의 임무 비행을 위한 방향축 유도, 제어 알고리즘에 대해 기술 하였다. 먼저 방향축 제어 알고리즘은 임무 기간 중 무인항공기가 전진비행을 할 수 없을 맞바람에 대해 제어 변수를 전환하는 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 유도법칙은 항로점 비행을 위해 Fly-over, Fly-by, Hold 속성에 대한 각각의 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 무인항공기의 비선형 시뮬레이션을 통해 각 유도, 제어 알고리즘의 설계 결과를 확인하였다. 본 연구는 설계 결과를 토대로 실제 임무 비행을 수행하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 따라서 본 연구 내용을 기반으로 비행 시험을 통해 설계한 유도 제어 알고리즘의 비행 운용성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2015

In the case of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a GNSS sensor, a boundary line where the vehicle can actually exist can be calculated using a navigation error model, and safe navigation (e.g., precise landing and collision prevention) can be supported based on this boundary line. Therefore, for the safe operation of UAV, a model for the position error of UAV needs to be established in advance. In this study, the multipath error of a GNSS sensor installed at UAV was modeled through a flight test, and this was analyzed and compared with the error model of an existing manned aircraft. The flight test was conducted based on a scenario in which UAV performs hovering at an altitude of 40 m, and it was found that the multipath error value was well bound by the error model of an existing manned aircraft. This result indicates that the error model of an existing manned aircraft can be used in operation environments similar to the scenario for the flight test. Also, in this study, a scenario for the operation of multiple UAVs was considered, and the correlation between the multipath errors of the UAVs was analyzed. The result of the analysis showed that the correlation between the multipath errors of the UAVs was not large, indicating that the multipath errors of the UAVs cannot be canceled out.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2016

Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) are increasingly used in civilian areas as well as in military areas due to the technological advancement of UAVs. In response to the increasing demand in UAVs, many studies are under way to integrate the airspace between manned aircraft and UAV. The development of flight test can secure the performance and flight characteristics of the designed aircraft. And the capability of research and development can be expanded through the accumulation of technical data. It is also essential to verify the correct performance and characteristics of development aircraft themselves. In this paper, we propose development flight test procedures and items for civilian UAVs.