• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.243-251
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• 2021

Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) is a phase-based differential GNSS technique and uses additional observations from permanent reference stations to mitigate or eliminate effects like atmospheric delays or satellite clocks and orbit errors. In particular, as the position accuracy required in the fields of autonomous vehicles and drones is gradually increasing, the demand for RTK-based precise navigation that can provide cm-level position is increasing. Recently, with the rapid growth of the open-source software market, the use of open-source software for building navigation system of unmanned vehicles, which is difficult to mount an expensive GNSS receivers, is gradually increasing. RTKLIB is an open-source software package that can perform RTK positioning and is widely used for research and education purposes. However, since the performance and stability of RTK algorithm of RTKLIB is inevitably inferior to that of commercial GNSS receivers, users need to verify whether RTKLIB can satisfy the navigation performance requirements of unmanned vehicles. Therefore, in this paper, the performance evaluation of the RTK positioning algorithm of RTKLIB was performed using GNSS observation data acquired in a dynamic environment. Therefore, in this paper, the RTK positioning performance of RTKLIB was evaluated using GNSS observation data acquired in a dynamic environment. Our results show that the current RTK algorithm of RTKLIB is not suitable for precise navigation of unmanned vehicles.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.145-154
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• 2006

Many kinds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed for a few decades and some of them are now in operational use. Although each UAV as well as a piloted aircraft might have restrictions to execute some tasks simultaneously or to carry some payloads, one with an automatic chase aircraft might have the potential of multi-capabilities to conduct a variety of missions or to carry more storages. This paper introduces a chase UAV control system to enhance a leader (reference) aircraft capability which has storage restriction. The automatic chase guidance and control system will be introduced with the pure pursuit guidance law combined with relative velocity error corrections, and a dynamic inversion technique in order to generate the guidance forces.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2013

An application of adaptive flight controller is required for the non-linear and high uncertain system that configuration of tiltrotor aircraft is dramatically changed from rotary wing mode to fixed wing mode. In this paper, the applicable adaptive controller for the tiltrotor aircraft was designed using Neural Networks and DMI (Dynamic Model Inversion). The performance of the SCAS (Stability and Control Augmentation System) was simulated against manned military specification, using the fullscale model of 'Smart UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)' developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute. And Neural Networks based adaptive controller was verified through its whole operating envelope using the established HQ (Handling Quality) criteria.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2015

Global market of unmanned aircraft(UA) is rapidly expending based on the versatile and efficient utility of the UA. Domestically many industries, universities and research institutes are trying to do research and development of the UA in various angle of aspect. In spite of these effort, all the participants of research and development of the UA has been suffering the difficulty of acquiring the airspace around vicinity of Goheung airfield for the flight test of UA. Although the current procedure of execution of the flight test of UA is set after acquiring the airspace by applying the NOTAM(Notice To Air Man) to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport(MLIT) at least 7 days before the flight test and commencing with the publication of the NOTAM by MLIT, if the flight test is carried out as planned, changing or reapplying the NOTAM expends mort time and makes difficulty often. Therefore it is needed that a restricted airspace for the flight test of UA is established and make all the executioner of flight test uses the exclusive airspace without limitation. This research proposes the restricted airspace with short term and long term establish requirement of airspace separately. The short term requirement has been established with the airspace of 10 nm radius and 8,000 ft altitude in which the requirements of flight test can be carried out more than 90% without needs of supplement of the additional airspace. The long term has been established within the airspace of 30 nm radius which is the maximum Radio Line Of Sight(RLOS) and 8,000 ft altitude with exclusion of current air way, airport control area, approaching corridor to the airport, existing restricted area(RA) and Military Operating Area(MOA) for the purpose of minimizing inconvenience of the other airspace user. Once establishing the exclusive airspace for the flight test of UA, research and development of industries, universities and research institutes will be more vigorous and contributes to the national economy.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1103-1111
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• 2014

The results of control law design for a tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle that has a nacelle mounted wing extension (WE) are presented in this paper. It consists of a control surface mixer, stability and control augmentation system (SCAS), hold mode for altitude / speed / heading, and a guidance mode for preprogram and point navigation which includes automatic take-off and landing. The conversion corridor and the control moments derivatives between the original tilt-rotor and its variant of the nacelle mounted WE were compared to show the effectiveness of the WE. The nacelle conversion of the original tilt-rotor starts when the airspeed is greater than 30 km/h but its WE variant starts at 0 km/h in order to reduce the drag caused by the high incidence angle of the WE. The stability margins of the inner loop are presented with the optimization approach. The outer loops for the hold mode are designed with trial and error methods with linear and nonlinear simulation. The main control parameter for altitude control of the helicopter mode is thrust command and it is transferred to the pitch attitude command in airplane mode. Otherwise, the control parameter for the speed of the helicopter mode is the pitch attitude command and it is transferred to the thrust command in airplane mode. Therefore the speed and altitude hold mode are coupled to each other and are engaged at the same time when an internal pilot engages any of the altitude or speed hold modes. The nonlinear simulation results of the guidance control for the preprogrammed mode and point navigation are also presented including automatic take-off and landing in order to prove the full control law.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제42권9호
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• pp.731-738
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• 2014

오늘날 무인기는 기술 발전을 통해 육해상의 다양한 분야에서 이용되고 있다. 한국항공우주연구원(KARI)에서는 육상용 수직이착륙기로 개발된 틸트로터 무인기를 해상에서 운용할 수 있도록 임무영역 확장을 고려하고 있다. 틸트로터 무인기의 효과적인 해상운용을 위해서는 함상이착륙이 필요하지만 해상은 지상에 비해 염분, 연무, 바람등 기상영향을 많이 받는다. 또한 지상과는 달리 선박 운동으로 인한 착륙지점의 운동이 발생하며, 자동 함상착륙을 어렵게 만든다. 이러한 무인기 함상이착륙을 위하여 본 논문에서는 파고에 따른 선박 운동을 모델링 하고, 무인기 시뮬레이터를 통해 시험평가한 결과를 제시하고 있다.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2019

여러 종류의 항공기가 운용되고 있는 훈련 비행장에서 항공기의 소음을 실제 측정하여 분석하는 것은 어렵다. 이러한 실제적인 한계를 극복하고 적절한 소음 대책을 수립하기 위해서 FAA에서 사용하는 INM 7.0(Integrated Noise Model Version 7.0)을 사용하여 소음 지도를 작성하였다. 터보프롭 항공기 (C90GT)가 이륙 경로, 착륙 경로 및 장주경로를 비행하면서 발생하는 소음을 측정하였고 법적으로 소음의 피해가 되는 70 WECPNL 이상인 지역을 조사하였다. 터보프롭 항공기가 운용되고 있는 모든 경로에서 70 WECPNL을 초과하는 지역은 발견되지 않았다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.618-638
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• 2020

An unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) refers to an aircraft that has all or part of its functions to autonomously fly by grasping the surrounding environment by remote control on the ground without a pilot on board. With the development of unmanned aerial technology, civil/military forces are developing unmanned aerial vehicles for various purposes. In order to control unmanned aerial vehicles from the ground, communication protocols between unmanned aerial vehicles and ground control equipment are required, and civil/military forces have developed and used a photocall for different purposes. In this study, the characteristics of the MAVLink protocol used in the private sector and the STANAG 4586 protocol used in the military are compared/analyzed in detail to find elements to complement each other and to draw improvement measures for protocol unification.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.118-124
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• 2019

무인항공기의 기술이 많이 보급화 되면서 다양한 종류의 무인항공기 및 임무 다변화에 따라 다양한 종류의 임무 장비가 개발되고 있다. 그중에서도 국내에서는 소형 무인항공기가 활발히 개발되고 있으며 소형 무인기의 효과적인 조정을 위한 비행제어 시스템과 임무 장비의 연동 시스템이 필요하고, 또한 데이터를 처리하여 지상 운용시스템으로 전송을 위한 효율적인 통신장비의 구성 및 운용이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소형 무인항공기의 임무 및 제어를 위하여 비행제어 시스템과 임무 장비 제어 시스템을 이용한 임무 장비의 확장, 데이터 링크 통합 및 통신장비 운용에 대하여 서술하였으며 이를 통하여 효과적인 소형 무인항공기의 운용에 대하여 정리하였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.302-312
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• 2023

This paper describes the analysis of lightning strike zoning, the indirect lightning data simulation and the protection design for lightning indirect effects of equipment by lightning strike for unmanned aircraft consisting of composite wings. Through the analysis of lightning strike zoning according to the external shape of unmanned aerial vehicles, the structure areas that should be protected during lightning strike is derived, and the protection requirements of lightning indirect effects for flight critical equipments and equipment that must be operated upon lightning strike was derived. Lightning protection levels according to the location of mounting equipment and surrounding structure materials for each equipment was derived, and the protection design of the unmanned aerial vehicle with composite structures was also proposed from direct effect of lightning. Later, the lightning protection technology will be verified by the ground test of lightning direct and indirect effects.