• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2020

In this paper, we analyze the delay phenomenon that can occur when controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle using a camera and describe a solution to solve the phenomenon. The group of pictures (GOP) value is changed in order to reduce the delay according to the frame data size that can occur in the moving image data transmission. The appropriate GOP values were determined through experimental data accumulation and validated through camera self-test, system integration laboratory (SIL) verification test and system integration test.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.684-690
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• 2010

디지털화된 영상정보는 인간의 시각적인 능력을 대신하거나 보조하는 등 다양한 용도로 이용되고 있다. 재난, 위험요소, 감시등의 목적으로 많은 무인 감시카메라가 사용되고 있으나, 대부분 인간의 시각에 의존한 인식을 통해 추적감시가 행하여지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 특정 물체에 대한 정보가 주어지면 무인 공중카메라가 물체인식과 위치추적을 자율적으로 수행할 수 있도록 하는데 있다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기위해서 물체의 이동에 따른 형태의 변화와 빛의 굴절, 간섭, 산란 등으로 인한 색상, 명도 정보의 변화와 그리고 날씨와 같은 환경적 요인 등에 의해 발생되는 잡음과 같은 많은 문제점들을 해결해야한다. 그러나 본 연구에서는 공중무인감시 카메라를 사용하여 첫번째 단계로 단순화된 주변 환경에서 물체 인식 및 위치추적에 대한 연구와 실험을 통해 목표를 이루고자한다. 실험을 통해 구현된 물체의 위치인식과 추적이 잘 수행되어 졌다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제26권6_2호
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• pp.1063-1071
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• 2023

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, drones) are becoming increasingly useful in a variety of fields. Advances in UAV and camera technology have made it possible to equip them with ultra-high resolution sensors and capture images at low altitudes, which has improved the reliability and classification accuracy of object identification on the ground. The distinctive contribution of this study is the derivation of sensor-specific performance metrics (GRD/GSD), which shows that as the GSD increases with altitude, the GRD value also increases. In this study, we identified the characteristics of various onboard sensors and analysed the image quality (discrimination resolution) of aerial photography results using UAVs, and calculated the shooting conditions to obtain the discrimination resolution required for reading ground objects.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2015

Improving current pasture productivity by precision management requires practical tools to collect site specific pasture biomass data. Recent developments in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology provide cost effective and real time applications for site specific data collection. For the mapping of herbage biomass (BM) on a hill pasture, we tested a UAV system with digital cameras (visible and near-infrared (NIR) camera). The field measurements were conducted on the grazing hill pasture at Hanwoo Improvement Office, Seosan City, Chungcheongnam-do Province, Korea on May 17 and June 27, 2014. Plant samples were obtained from 28 sites. A UAV system was used to obtain aerial photos from a height of approximately 50 m (approximately 30 cm spatial resolution). Normalized digital number (DN) values of Red and NIR channels were extracted from the aerial photos and a normalized differential vegetation index using DN ($NDVI_{dn}$) was calculated. The results show that the correlation coefficient between BM and $NDVI_{dn}$ was 0.88. For the precision management of hilly grazing pastures, UAV monitoring systems can be a quick and cost effective tool to obtain site-specific herbage BM data.

• 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.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.349-356
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• 2016

This study investigates two camera self-calibration approaches, on-site self-calibration and laboratorial self-calibration, both of which are based on self-calibration theory and implemented by using a commercial photogrammetric solution, Agisoft PhotoScan. On-site self-calibration implements camera self-calibration and aerial triangulation by using the same aerial photos. Laboratorial self-calibration implements camera self-calibration by using photos captured onto a patterned target displayed on a digital panel, then conducts aerial triangulation by using the aerial photos. Aerial photos are captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle, and target photos are captured onto a 27in LCD monitor and a 47in LCD TV in two experiments. Calibration parameters are estimated by the two approaches and errors of aerial triangulation are analyzed. Results reveal that on-site self-calibration excels laboratorial self-calibration in terms of vertical accuracy. By contrast, laboratorial self-calibration obtains better horizontal accuracy if photos are captured at a greater distance from the target by using a larger display panel.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.1088-1098
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• 2020

This paper proposes an obstacle avoidance method using a depth polar grid. Depth information is a crucial factor for determining the safe path for collision-free navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as it can perceive the distance to the obstacles effectively. However, the existing depth-camera-based approaches for obstacle avoidance require computational y expensive path planning algorithms. We propose a simple navigation method using the polar-grid of the depth information obtained from the camera with narrow field-of-view(FOV). The effectiveness of the approach was validated by a series of experiments using software-in-the-loop simulation in a realistic outdoor environment. The experimental results show that the proposed approach successfully avoids obstacles using a single depth camera with limited FOV.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.76-80
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• 2017

소형 무인기(UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)가 급속히 대중화됨에 따라 최근의 UAV 시스템은 각각의 목적에 따라 다양한 분야에서 설계되고 활용되고 있다. 이는 UAV 조정과 관련하여 전자, 센서, 카메라, 소프트웨어 프로그램 등에 이르기까지 많은 새로운 기회를 열어 가고 있으며 저비용 및 혁신적 업무 수행 능력으로 UAV의 활용과 응용 영역의 확대는 새로운 기술 혁신을 주도하고 있다. 특히 소형 UAV는 저고도 상황에서 예측이 힘든 돌발 변화나 장애물 출현 발생 확률이 높은 환경에서 비행을 하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 소형 UAV 시스템의 자율 비행 기술에 관한 최근의 연구를 소개하고 적대적인 환경에서 소형 UAV의 저비용 센서들을 활용하여 경로 생성과 충돌 회피를 통해 안전하게 목표물에 도착을 유도하는 시험적 방안을 제안 한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.600-603
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• 2004

UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is an aerial vehicle that can accomplish the mission without pilot. UAV was developed for a military purpose such as a reconnaissance in an early stage. Nowadays usage of UAV expands into a various field of civil industry such as a drawing a map, broadcasting, observation of environment. These UAV, need vision system to offer accurate information to person who manages on ground and to control the UAV itself. Especially LOS(Line-of-Sight) system wants to precisely control direction of system which wants to tracking object using vision sensor like an CCD camera, so it is very important in vision system. In this paper, we propose a method to recognize object from image which is acquired from camera mounted on gimbals and offer information of displacement between center of monitor and center of object.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.491-498
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• 2018

드론(dron)은 무인항공기(UVA : Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)로 조종사가 탑승하지 않고 원격으로 조정하거나 사전에 프로그램으로 입력된 경로를 스스로 비행하는 비행물체를 의미한다. 처음 군사적 목적으로 개발된 드론은 현재 다양한 용도로 사용할 수 있도록 개발되어 농업 산업을 비롯하여 여가활용, 물류 서비스, 인명 구조 분야에 이르기 까지 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있다. 이러한 분야 중 드론에 카메라를 장착하여 개발된 촬영용 드론은 현재 영화나 방송분야를 넘어 다양한 영상콘텐츠 제작 분야에서 활발히 사용되고 있다. 본 논문은 촬영을 목적으로 하는 드론의 특징에 대하여 살펴보고 드론의 비행이나 드론을 활용한 촬영기법에 대하여 다룬다. 특히 영상콘텐츠 제작 분야에서 사용되는 촬영용 드론의 운용에 대하여 살펴본 후 기존의 영상촬영에서 사용되는 다양한 카메라 워킹을 드론을 사용하여 촬영하는 방법에 대하여 제안하고 논의하는데 그 목적을 둔다.