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Economic Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Forest Pest Monitoring (산림 병해충의 모니터링을 위한 무인 항공기의 경제성 평가)

  • Lee, Keun-Wang;Park, Joon-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.440-446
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    • 2019
  • Pine wilt disease occurred for the first time in Busan in 1988 and the damage has since been increasing. In 2005, a special law was enacted for pine wilt disease by Korea Forest Service. Incidences relating to the forest pest had been frequent and chemical control as well as physical control techniques had been applied to control it. Therefore, there is a need to reduce the damage caused by the pine wilt disease through intensive management such as continuous monitoring, control, and monitoring based on active control as well as management measures. In this study, the UAV-based monitoring method was proposed as an economical way of monitoring the forest pest. The efficiency of the existing method and UAV method had been analyzed, and as a result the study suggested that UAV can be used for forest pest monitoring and indeed improve efficiency. The UAV-based forest pest monitoring method has a cost reduction of about 50% compared with the conventional method and will also help to reduce the area where the survey was omitted.

UAV Path Planning for ISR Mission and Survivability (무인항공기의 생존성을 고려한 감시정찰 임무 경로 계획)

  • Bae, Min-Ji
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.211-217
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    • 2019
  • In an complicated battlefield environment, information from enemy's camp is an important factor in carrying out military operations. For obtaining this information, the number of UAVs that can be deployed to the mission without our forces' loss and at low cost is increasing. Because the mission environment has anti-aircraft weapons, mission space is needed for UAV to guarantee survivability without being killed. The concept of Configuration Space is used to define the mission space considering with range of weapons and detect range of UAV. UAV must visit whole given area to obtain the information and perform Coverage Path Planning for this. Based on threats to UAV and importance of information that will be obtained, area that UAV should visit first is defined. Grid Map is generated and mapping threat information to each grid for UAV path planning. On this study, coverage conditions and path planning procedures are presented based on the threat information on Grid Map, and mission space is expanded to improve detection efficiency. Finally, simulations are performed, and results are presented using the suggested UAV path planning method in this study.

The system for UAV to approach to a ship and to monitor via AIS information (AIS 정보를 활용한 UAV의 효율적인 선박 접근 및 모니터링을 위한 시스템)

  • Kim, Byoung-Kug;Hong, Sung-Hwa;Kang, Jiheon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.25 no.8
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    • pp.1124-1129
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    • 2021
  • The application area based on UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is continuously increasing as time passing by. In particular the UAVs which consist of more than four horizontal propellers and the functionality of VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) are utilized in diverse platforms and the application products due to their safety and aerodynamically simpler design and architectures. The most UAV missions are controlled by GCSs (Ground Control System). The GCSs are generally connected to the internet and get electrical map and environmental information such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and so on. In this paper, we design a system for UAV system to have capability of approaching to a certain ship and monitoring her efficiently by using AIS (Auto Identification System) information. Furthermore we verify that adapting AIS on GCS side is more efficient through experiments.

The Method of precise landing operation for UAV's recharging system by using QR code (UAV의 근거리 무선충전을 위한 QR 코드를 활용한 정밀한 착륙 방안)

  • Kim, Byoung-Kug;Hong, Sung-Hwa;Kang, Jiheon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.519-521
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    • 2022
  • As appearance of diverse electric power supplies and fuel cells have been emerging, UAVs have capacity to prolong their flight missions. Nowadays, the rotary based UAVs that are commonly distributed on the open market, adapt rechargeable batteries and have around 50 centimeters in width and generally within 30 minutes in hovering flight capacities. UAV's flight time highly depends on the capacity and the weight of its batteries. To cope with the flight time, recharging methods are also being researched. their researches are mainly divided into coupled and decoupled in manner. In this article, we propose the method to refine the position more effectivly and precisely adapting QR Code and 3-D position estimation so that UAVs enable to land on the recharging system successfully.

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Automatic Registration of Point Cloud Data between MMS and UAV using ICP Method (ICP 기법을 이용한 MSS 및 UAV 간 점군 데이터 자동정합)

  • KIM, Jae-Hak;LEE, Chang-Min;KIM, Hyeong-Joon;LEE, Dong-Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.229-240
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    • 2019
  • 3D geo-spatial model have been widely used in the field of Civil Engineering, Medical, Computer Graphics, Urban Management and many other. Especially, the demand for high quality 3D spatial information such as precise road map construction has explosively increased, MMS and UAV techniques have been actively used to acquire them more easily and conveniently in surveying and geo-spatial field. However, in order to perform 3D modeling by integrating the two data set from MMS and UAV, its so needed an proper registration method is required to efficiently correct the difference between the raw data acquisition sensor, the point cloud data generation method, and the observation accuracy occurred when the two techniques are applied. In this study, we obtained UAV point colud data in Yeouido area as the study area in order to determine the automatic registration performance between MMS and UAV point cloud data using ICP(Iterative Closet Point) method. MMS observations was then performed in the study area by dividing 4 zones according to the level of overlap ratio and observation noise with based on UAV data. After we manually registered the MMS data to the UAV data, then compared the results which automatic registered using ICP method. In conclusion, the higher the overlap ratio and the lower the noise level, can bring the more accurate results in the automatic registration using ICP method.

The Detection of Heat Emission to Solar Cell using UAV-based Thermal Infrared Sensor (UAV 기반 열적외선 센서를 이용한 태양광 셀의 발열 검출)

  • Lee, Geun Sang;Lee, Jong Jo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2017
  • Many studies have been implemented to manage solar plant being supplied widely in recent years. This study analyzed heat emission of solar cell using unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-based thermal infrared sensor, and major conclusions are as belows. Firstly, orthomosaic image and digital surface model(DSM) data were acquired using UAV-based RGB sensor, and solar light module layer necessary to analyze the heat emission of solar cell was constructed by these data. Also as a result of horizontal error into validation points using virtual reference service(VRS) survey for evaluating the location accuracy of solar light module layer, higher location accuracy could be acquired like standard error of $dx={\pm}2.4cm$ and $dy={\pm}3.2cm$. And this study installed rubber patch to test the heat emission of solar cell and could analyzed efficiently the location of rubber patch being emitted heat using UAV-based thermal infrared sensor. Also standard error showd as ${\pm}3.5%$ in analysis between calculated cell ratio by rubber patch and analyzed cell ratio by UAV-based thermal infrared sensor. Therefore, it could be efficiently analyzed to heat emission of solar cell using UAV-based thermal infrared sensor. Also efficient maintenance of solar plant could be possible through extracting the code of solar light module being emitted of heat automatically.

Detecting and Avoiding Dangerous Area for UAVs Using Public Big Data (공공 빅데이터를 이용한 UAV 위험구역검출 및 회피방법)

  • Park, Kyung Seok;Kim, Min Jun;Kim, Sung Ho
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.243-250
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    • 2019
  • Because of a moving UAV has a lot of potential/kinetic energy, if the UAV falls to the ground, it may have a lot of impact. Because this can lead to human casualities, in this paper, the population density area on the UAV flight path is defined as a dangerous area. The conventional UAV path flight was a passive form in which a UAV moved in accordance with a path preset by a user before the flight. Some UAVs include safety features such as a obstacle avoidance system during flight. Still, it is difficult to respond to changes in the real-time flight environment. Using public Big Data for UAV path flight can improve response to real-time flight environment changes by enabling detection of dangerous areas and avoidance of the areas. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to detect and avoid dangerous areas for UAVs by utilizing the Big Data collected in real-time. If the routh is designated according to the destination by the proposed method, the dangerous area is determined in real-time and the flight is made to the optimal bypass path. In further research, we will study ways to increase the quality satisfaction of the images acquired by flying under the avoidance flight plan.

Replay Attack based Neutralization Method for DJI UAV Detection/Identification Systems (DJI UAV 탐지·식별 시스템 대상 재전송 공격 기반 무력화 방식)

  • Seungoh Seo;Yonggu Lee;Sehoon Lee;Seongyeol Oh;Junyoung Son
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.133-143
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    • 2023
  • As drones (also known as UAV) become popular with advanced information and communication technology (ICT), they have been utilized for various fields (agriculture, architecture, and so on). However, malicious attackers with advanced drones may pose a threat to critical national infrastructures. Thus, anti-drone systems have been developed to respond to drone threats. In particular, remote identification data (R-ID)-based UAV detection and identification systems that detect and identify illegal drones with R-ID broadcasted by drones have been developed, and are widely employed worldwide. However, this R-ID-based UAV detection/identification system is vulnerable to security due to wireless broadcast characteristics. In this paper, we analyze the security vulnerabilities of DJI Aeroscope, a representative example of the R-ID-based UAV detection and identification system, and propose a replay-attack-based neutralization method using the analyzed vulnerabilities. To validate the proposed method, it is implemented as a software program, and verified against four types of attacks in real test environments. The results demonstrate that the proposed neutralization method is an effective neutralization method for R-ID-based UAV detection and identification systems.

Challenges; Interoperability of UAV in the NAS (국가공역체계에서 무인항공기 통합운영에 대한 동향)

  • Kim, Joong-Wook;Kim, Do-Hyun
    • Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.136-144
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    • 2010
  • The utilization of UAV and the activities of diverse widening, now the challenge was how to operate and integrate UAV safely in the NAS. The purpose of this study is to look around the trend for interoperability of UAV in the NAS and to provide its implications and the future direction of integrated operating airspace focusing on U.S. where R&D and demand of UAV are the most in the world.

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The Development of Fatigue Load Spectrum and Fatigue Analysis for the Tilt Rotor UAV (틸트 로터 무인항공기의 피로하중 스펙트럼 생성 및 피로해석)

  • Im, Jong-Bin;Park, Young-Chul;Park, Jung-Sun;Lee, Jeong-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.654-659
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, the fatigue load spectrum for tilt rotor UAV is developed and fatigue analysis is achieved for flaperon joint. Tilt rotor UAV has two modes which are helicopter mode when UAV is taking off and landing and fixed wing mode when UAV is cruising. To make fatigue load spectrum, FELIX for helicopter mode and TWIST for fixed wing mode are used. And Fatigue analysis of flaperon joint is achieved using fatigue load spectrum we obtained. When S-N test data are analyzed, we use the Kriging meta model to get probability S-N curve for whole range of material life. The result which is life of flaperon joint obtained by suggested fatigue analysis procedure in this paper is compared with that obtained by MSC/Fatigue.

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