• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.47.6-47
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• 2002

UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) has become one of the most popular military/commercial aerial robots in the new millenium. In spite of all the advantages that UAVs inherently have, it is not an easy job to develop a UAV because it requires very systematic and complete approaches in full development envelop. The ground test & evaluation phase has the utmost importance in the sense 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 incomplete development procedure. In this research, a verification procedure of the whole airborne integrated system was conducted including the flight management sys...

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2009

KARI SUAV (Smart Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) program is currently on the phase of ground and flight test. SUAV is a tilt rotor aircraft having the capability of vertical take-off/landing and high speed forward flight. The SUAV rotor system is 3-bladed, gimbaled hub type, which is not common for conventional helicopter configuration. In this paper, detailed procedure and method of rotor pitch rigging, tracking and balancing were described based on the experience of SUAV ground test.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2004

Automatic flight control system (AFCS) for a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle is described in this paper. Development process and block diagram of the AFCS are introduced. The flight control law for longitudinal and lateral channel autopilot is designed using optimization process. In this procedure, the performance index is composed of desired location of closed loop system poles and H$_2$norm of the resultant flight control system. This procedure is applied to the autopilot design of an unmanned target vehicle. Performance of the AFCS is evaluated by processor-in-the-loop simulation test and flight test. These results show that the AFCS has acceptable performance fur low cost UAV.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2005

This paper presents the brief generation process of system requirements for Smart UAV from a development objective. The current Smat UAV requirements deal with the restricted life cycle from development to test and verification exclusive of full life cycle because of the new technology demonstration research program funded by governments. The Smart UAV system consists of flight vehicle, avionics, communication link, payload, ground control station and ground supporting system. In this paper, top-down flown requirements are introduced how to allocate to each sub-system.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.571-577
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 소형 무인항공기에 대한 비행제어 시스템을 동적 보상기를 이용하여 설계하였다. 제안된 제어 시스템은 정상상태 오차를 줄이면서 과도응답 특성을 개선하여 고도 변화 및 목표점 통과 명령에 대해 비행 안정성을 확보하고자 하였다. 제안된 비행 제어기는 내부 루프와 외부 루프의 이중 구조로 구성되며, 내부 루프는 PD 제어기를 사용하여 과도응답을 개선하도록 하며 외부 루프는 동적 보상기를 사용하여 과도 응답 및 정상 상태 오차를 개선하도록 하였다. 고도 추종 및 목표점을 통과하도록 하는 비행실험을 통하여 제안된 기법의 성능을 평가하였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2010

This paper describes the experimental framework for the control system design and validation of a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Our approach follows the general procedure of nonlinear modeling, linear controller design, nonlinear simulation and flight test but uses an indoor-installed multi-camera system, which can provide full 6-degree of freedom (DOF) navigation information with high accuracy, to overcome the limitation of an outdoor flight experiment. In addition, a 3-DOF flying mill is used for the performance validation of the attitude control, which considers the characteristics of the multi-rotor type rotorcraft UAV. Our framework is applied to the design and mathematical modeling of the control system for a quad-rotor UAV, which was selected as the test-bed vehicle, and the controller design using the classical proportional-integral-derivative control method is explained. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach can be viewed as a successful tool in developing the controller of new rotorcraft UAVs with reduced cost and time.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.300-309
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• 2012

Long endurance is a key issue in the application of unmanned aerial vehicles. This study presents feasibility test results when fuel cell system as an alternative to the conventional engine is applied for the power of the UAV after the 150W fuel cell system is developed and packaged to the 1/4 scale super cub airplane. Fuel cell system is operated by dead-end method in the anode part and periodically purged to remove the water droplet in flow field during the operation. Oxygen in the air is supplied to the stack by the two air blowers. And fuel cell stack is water cooled by cooling circuit to dissipate the heat generated during the fuel cell operation. Weight balance is considered to integrate the stack and balance of plant (BOP) in package layout. In flight performance test, we demonstrated 4 times standalone take-off and landing. In the laboratory test simulating the flight condition to quantify the energy flow, the system is analyzed in detail. Sankey diagram shows that electric efficiency of the fuel cell system is 39.2%, heat loss 50.1%, parasitic loss 8.96%, and unreacted purged gas 1.67%, respectively compared to the total hydrogen input energy. Feasibility test results show that fuel cell system is high efficient and appropriate for the power of UAV.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

There are several methods to improve the flight efficiency of HALE(High Altitude Long Endurance) UAV(Unmaned Aerial Vehicle). Airframe structural point of view, weight reduction of the airframe structure is the most important method to improve the flight efficiency. In order to reduce the weight of airframe structures, new concepts which are different from traditional airframe structure design such as the mylar wing skin should be introduced. The spar is the most important component in a mylar skin wing structure, so the spar weight reduction is the key point for reduction of the wing structural weight. In this study, design trade-off study for the front spar of the HALE UAV wing is conducted in order to reduce the weight. Design and analysis procedure of high aspect ratio wing spar are introduced. Several front spar structures are designed and trade-off study regarding the weight and strength for the each spar are performed. Spar design configurations are verified by the static strength test. Finally, optimal front spar design is decided and applied to the HALE UAV wing design.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.253-259
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• 2007

다양하게 개발되고 있는 무인항공기 탑재 시스템의 신뢰도 확보를 위해 규격화된 설계와 적절한 환경시험 방법이 적용되어야 한다. 국내에서 개발되고 있는 무인항공기용 탑재 시스템은 다양한 기능을 구현할 수 있는 충분한 능력을 갖고 있다. 하지만, 대부분의 시스템은 상호 호환성이 없고, 환경에 대한 적응성도 보장되어 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 유인항공기에 사용되는 ATR(Air Transport Rack) 규격을 설명하고 이를 바탕으로 무인항공기에 적용 가능한 탑재시스템의 ATR 규격을 제시하였다. 특히 COTS(Commercial off-the-shelf) 부품을 사용한 설계 방법을 제시하였다. 시스템이 전자/기계적 환경과 기상 환경에 적응 가능하도록 하기 위해 다양한 설계 방법을 적용하였다. 미국의 군사표준서(Military Standard)를 참고하여 실험실 단위에서 수행할 수 있는 시험 방법을 계획하고, 기준을 정하여 시험을 수행하였다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.563-575
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• 2023

Trajectory planning is a key technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve complex flight missions. In this paper, a terminal constraints conversion-based Gauss pseudospectral trajectory planning optimization method is proposed. Firstly, the UAV trajectory planning mathematical model is established with considering the boundary conditions and dynamic constraints of UAV. Then, a terminal constraint handling strategy is presented to tackle terminal constraints by introducing new penalty parameters so as to improve the performance index. Combined with Gauss-Legendre collocation discretization, the improved Gauss pseudospectral method is given in detail. Finally, simulation tests are carried out on a four-quadrotor UAV model with different terminal constraints to verify the performance of the proposed method. Test studies indicate that the proposed method performances well in handling complex terminal constraints and the improvements are efficient to obtain better performance indexes when compared with the traditional Gauss pseudospectral method.