• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2020

Underwater operating platforms face difficulties regarding power supply and communications. To overcome these difficulties, this study proposes a hybrid surface and underwater vehicle (HSUV) and presents the development of the platform, control algorithms, and results of field tests. The HSUV is capable of supplying reliable power to the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) and obtaining data in real time by using a tether cable between the UUV and the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The HSUV uses global positioning system (GPS) and ultra-short base line sensors to determine the relative location of the UUV. Way point (WP) and dynamic positioning (DP) algorithms were developed to enable the HSUV to perform unmanned exploration. After reaching the target point using the WP algorithm, the DP algorithm enables USV to maintain position while withstanding environmental disturbances. To ensure the navigation performance at sea, performance tests of GPS, attitude/heading reference system, and side scan sonar were conducted. Based on these results, manual operation, WP, and DP tests were conducted at sea. WP and DP test results and side scan sonar images during the sea trials are presented.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.165-170
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• 2011

In this paper, for the accurate estimation of the position and orientation of the UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle), an AHRS (Attitude Heading Reference System) was developed using the IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensor which provides information on acceleration and orientation in the object coordinate and the initial alignment algorithm and the E-KF (extended Kalman Filter). The initial position and orientation of the UUV are estimated using the initial alignment algorithm with 3-axis acceleration and geomagnetic information of the IMU sensor. The position and orientation of the UUV are estimated using the AHRS composed of 3-axis acceleration, velocity, and geomagnetic information and the E-KF. For the performance test of the orientation estimation of the AHRS, a testbed using IMU sensor(ADIS16405) and DSP28335 coded with an E-KF algorithm was developed and its performance was verified through tests.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.493-500
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• 2018

This paper addresses a decentralized observer-based output-feedback formation control problem for multiple unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The complex nonlinear model for a UUV is feedback-linearized. It is assumed that each UUV in the formation exploits only the information regarding itself and the immediate predecessor, which imposes structural constraints on the formation controller gain matrices. The design condition is presented as a two-stage linear matrix inequalities problem. The synthesized controller demonstrates its own advantages through a numerical example.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.830-836
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• 2012

According to increasing the importance of underwater environments, the needs of UUV are growing. This paper represents the mechanism and algorithm of UUV docking system with 21-inch torpedo tubes for military submarines as a docking station. To improve the reliability of the docking, torpedo tubes launch a wired ROV and next the ROV combined with UUV is retrieved. For estimating the relative position between the ROV and UUV, in this paper, combining RF sensors and vision system is proposed. The RSSI method of RF sensors is used to estimate the distance and the optical image is combined for the directional information.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.579-589
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• 2011

One of the most significant UUV(Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) applications is MCM(Mine Countermeasure), which makes good use of UUV characteristics to provide covert, rapid, controlled and efficient survey of a potential minefield without risking a human operator. In this paper, a survey of the today's MCM missions where UUVs will play a role, the vehicle systems that are either under development or planned in the future are presented. And examines principal technical challenges and outline new enabling technologies. Particularly, this paper analyses current approaches to tacking these technologies and technological limitation of UUVs as a MCM platform, and research efforts to develop the technology necessary to meet the domestic MCM mission needs.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.328-334
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• 2012

Power flow finite element method(PFFEM) combining power flow analysis(PFA) with finite element method is efficient for vibration analysis of a built-up structure, and power flow boundary element method(PFBEM) combining PFA with boundary element method is useful for predicting the noise level of a vibrating complex structure. In this paper, the coupled PFFE/PFBE method is used to investigate the vibration and radiated noise of the unmanned underwater vehicle(UUV) in water. PFFEM is employed to analyze the vibrational responses of the UUV, and PFBEM is applied to analyze the underwater radiation noise. The vibrational energy of the structure is treated as an acoustic intensity boundary condition of PFBEM to calculate underwater radiation noise. Numerical simulations are presented for the UUV in water, and reliable results have been obtained.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.644-652
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• 2013

본 논문은 만타형 무인잠수정의 개발과 실해역 성능시험에 관한 내용을 다룬다. 먼저 만타형 무인 잠수정의 운동성능을 예측하기 위한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해서 만타형 잠수정의 운동성능을 검증하였으며 결과를 바탕으로 테스트베드인 만타형 무인잠수정을 설계하였다. 만타 잠수정은 자세 및 경로의 계측을 위하여 DVL (Doppler Velocity Log), Gyrocompass, GPS, 압력센서 등을 탑재하였으며 운항제어를 위한 추진기와 1개의 수직타 4개의 수평타를 장착하여 3자유도 운동이 가능하다. 실해역에서 운동성능시험과 자율운항 성능시험을 통해 만타형 무인잠수정 시스템을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.751-760
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• 2014

무인잠수정은 한정된 탑재공간으로 인해 에너지 밀도가 높은 에너지원이 적용되어야 하며, 특히 장시간 운행을 목표로 하는 무인잠수정의 경우 요구되는 총 전력에 대한 에너지원의 탑재 가능 여부를 가장 우선적으로 검토하여야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 무인잠수정의 필요에너지에 따른 에너지원의 탑재가능성에 대해 분석하였고, 특히 에너지밀도가 높은 연료전지 시스템에 대한 연료 및 산화제의 필요량을 산출하여 내부 탑재가능성에 대한 배치성을 분석하였다. 또한 수중환경에서의 운용에 따른 밀폐형 연료전지 시스템에 대한 구성 방안을 도출하여 1kW급 고분자 전해질 연료전지 시스템을 이용하여 실험을 통해 적용 가능성을 검토하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.522-526
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• 2015

Generally, underwater unmanned vehicle have adopted an inertial navigation system (INS), dead reckoning (DR), acoustic navigation and geophysical navigation techniques as the navigation method because GPS does not work in deep underwater environment. Even if the tactical inertial sensor can provide very detail measurement during long operation time, it is not suitable to use the tactical inertial sensor for small size and low cost UUV because the tactical inertial sensor is expensive and large. One alternative to INS is attitude heading reference system (AHRS) with the micro-machined electro mechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensor because of MEMS inertial sensor's small size and low power requirement. A cost effective and small size attitude heading reference system (AHRS) which incorporates measurements from 3-axis micro-machined electro mechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes, accelerometers, and 3-axis magnetometers has been developed to provide a complete attitude solution for UUV. The AHRS based MEMS overcome many problems that have inhibited the adoption of inertial system for small UUV such as cost, size and power consumption. Several evaluation experiments were carried out for the validation of the developed AHRS's function and these experiments results are presented. Experiments results prove the fact that the developed MEMS AHRS satisfied the required specification.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.243-250
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• 2002

According to Ocean Korea 21, a basic plan established by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MOMAF) of Korea in May 2000, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO) proposed a program for the development of a deep-sea unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to explore deep sea for scientific purpose. KRISO has launched a project in May 2001 under the support of MOMAF. The deep-sea unmanned underwater vehicle will be applied to scientific researches in deep-sea as well as in shallow water. For operation of underwater vehicles in shallow water near the Korean Peninsula, a special design is required because of strong tidal current. In addition, MOMAF requires the vehicle to be designed for the purpose of long range survey, a long-term observation, and precise works in a specific area. Thus, KRISO has planned to design the system with the functional combination of both ROV and AUV. This paper presents the design of the deep-sea unmanned underwater vehicle.