• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.451-459
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• 2011

Fundamentally, there are 5 systems are needed for autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicle: Localization, environment perception, path planning, motion planning and vehicle control. Path planning and motion planning are accomplished based on result of the environment perception process. Thus, high reliability of localization and the environment perception will be a criterion that makes a judgment overall autonomous navigation. In this paper, via map matching using vehicle dynamic model and LIDAR sensors, replace high price localization system to new one, and have researched an algorithm that lead to robust autonomous navigation. Finally, all results are verified via actual unmanned ground vehicle tests.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.5-13
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• 2005

The use of robot is no longer limited in the industrial scene, and becoming expanded toward many aspects of human life. Especially, military robot closely concerned with our lives seems to advance more and more in the future. As a need analysis for developing military robot, this project conducted a poll about Unmanned Reconnaissance Robot, and on the basis of the result, I suggested 3 directions of developing UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle) suitable to strategic environment of Korea.

• 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.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.105-117
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• 2020

현대합동작전의 기본 개념인 '효과중심의 동시·통합작전'에 부합하도록 신규 무기체계의 작전 요구 능력을 예측하기 위해서는 유·무인 무기체계 간의 전술적 협동 개념을 고려한 전투 효과분석이 요구된다. 그러나 수학적, 통계적 모형 등 해석적 기법으로는 비선형전 하에서의 복합체계 효과를 모의하기가 곤란한 실정이다. 이의 대안으로 실제 전장 상황과 유사하도록 시뮬레이션 환경을 조성하고 신규 무기체계가 작전에 미치는 영향을 분석할 수 있는 모의 분석 능력이 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 무선 통신을 기반으로 유·무인 전투개체 간의 협동 교전 개념을 모의할 수 있는 전투 모의 모델을 제안한다. 먼저 미래 지상 체계의 요구 능력을 고려하여 로봇, 드론 등 무인전투개체와 전투원, 야포 등 유인전투개체를 모델링한다. 그리고 각 개체들이 무선 통신을 통해 전장 상황 정보를 공유하며 전투를 수행하는 전술적 과업을 모의한다. 마지막으로 소부대 기갑수색정찰 시나리오 하에서 정찰용 지상로봇 운용 시 표적 획득률, 원격 통제 성공률, 수색 소요 시간, 작전간 생존율, 적 손실률 등의 전투효과를 모의실험을 통해 산출함으로써 개발된 모델의 활용 가능성을 확인한다. 향후 제안된 모델은 유·무인 지상무기의 효과 분석은 물론 각종 워게임 전투 실험 분야에서 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of an unmanned ground vehicle, called the TailGator at CIMAR (Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics) of the University of Florida. The TailGator is a gas powered, four-wheeled vehicle that was designed for the AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition and has been tested in the contest for 2 years. The vehicle control model and design of the sensory systems are described. The competition is comprised of two events called the Autonomous Challenge and the Navigation Challenge: For the autonomous challenge, line following, obstacle avoidance, and detection are required. Line following is accomplished with a camera system. Obstacle avoidance and detection are accomplished with a laser scanner. For the navigation challenge, waypoint following and obstacle detection are required. The waypoint navigation is implemented with a global positioning system. The TailGator has provided an educational test bed for not only the contest requirements but also other studies in developing artificial intelligence algorithms such as adaptive control, creative control, automatic calibration, and internet-base control. The significance of this effort is in helping engineering and technology students understand the transition from theory to practice.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12궈1호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2006

This paper describes UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) control system which employs PC104 modules. It is controlled by application program based on Linux OS. This application consists of both Linux device driver in kernel-space and user application in user-space. In order to get data required in the unmanned flight, external devices are connected to PC104 modules. We explain how Linux device drivers deal with data transmitted by external devices and we account for how the user application controls UAV on the basis of data processed in the device driver as well. Furthermore we look into the role of GCS (Ground Control Station) which is to monitor the state of UAV.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.129-138
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• 2023

Acquiring precise coordinates of ground targets can be regarded as the key mission of the tactical-level military UAS(Unmanned Aerial System) operations. The coordinates deviations for the ground targets estimated from UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images may depend on the sensor specifications and slant ranges between UAV and ground targets. It has an order of several tens to hundreds of meters for typical tactical UAV mission scenarios. In this paper, we propose a scheme that precisely acquires target coordinates from UAS by mapping image pixels to geographical coordinates based on GCP(Ground Control Points). This scheme was implemented and tested from ground control station for UAS. We took images of targets of which exact location is known and acquired the target coordinates using our proposed scheme. The experimental results showed that errors of the acquired coordinates remained within an order of several meters and the coordinates accuracy was significantly improved.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2022

This paper proposes a distributed model predictive formation control algorithm for a group of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) with guaranteeing collision avoidance between UGVs. Generally, the model predictive control based formation control has a disadvantage in that it takes a long time to compute control inputs when considering collision avoidance between UGVs. In this paper, in order to overcome this problem, the formation control algorithm is implemented in a distributed manner so that it could be individually controlled. Also, a collision-avoidance method considering real-time is proposed. The proposed formation control algorithm is implemented based on robot operating system (ROS), open source-based middleware. Through the various simulation tests, it is confirmed that the formation control of five UGVs is successfully performed while avoiding collisions between UGVs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권11B호
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• pp.1732-1737
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• 2010

현재 군에서 무인기를 운용하는 주목적 중 하나는 적에 대한 감시/정찰이다. 이를 위해 무인기는 정보감시/정찰(ISR) 장비들을 탑재하여, 감시/정찰 대상에 대한 영상 데이터를 획득한 후 지상통제소로 전송한다. 지상통제소는 전송된 영상 데이터를 수신한 후, 다양한 사용자에게 배포하게 되는 데, 이 때 품질 보장을 유지하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 DDS 표준 프로토콜을 사용하여 무인기의 영상전송 및 품질보장을 관리하는 방안을 제시하였다. 이에 대해 H.264 및 JPEG2000 영상 데이터를 이용하여 영상전송 실험결과 DDS 표준이 UAS 운용에 활용 가능함을 보였다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.643-653
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• 2014

High-capacity video, control and situation awareness data should be transmitted efficiently to control robots properly in the ground unmanned system, which requires the technology maximizing the communication range and the data transmission throughput. This technology is connected to the OFDMA(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access)-MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output) transmission technology under the limited bandwidth and transmission power. In this paper, we design MIMO communication system for ground unmanned systems, and investigate the data reception performance experimentally, comparing with SISO(Single Input Single Output) system. Experiment results show that the data reception performance of MIMO is significantly improved compared to that of SISO, e.g. 4dB gain of sensitivity and 5dB of SNR at the value MPR = 1, for the mobile stations with $2{\times}2$ STBC diversity.