• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.343-348
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• 2010

Recently, unmanned electric vehicles are increasingly interested among all of the world since they can provide low exhaust gas, high efficiency and high mobility. To exploit their silent maneuver and high mobility, unmanned electric vehicles have been developed since early 1980's for military. However, it is not easy to design and control a power system satisfying operating duration and mobility performance requirements based on various mission profiles for military use under the conditions of limited space and weight. Moreover it is also necessary to prevent over-charge, over-discharge and voltage unbalance between cells of battery to secure high voltage battery which is serially connected with muti-cells. In this paper, we presents power control and optimal management method for the dog-horse robot which adopts a electric power system and suggests a guide-line to manage and control to secure high voltage battery.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1192-1197
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• 2011

Recent developments of small-size unmanned or manned mobile systems such as autonomous robots, exoskeleton or armored suits, micro air vehicles, and unmanned armored vehicles require long-lasting independent power sources of high energy and power density to support the systems' operation for up to 72 hours in the fields. Chemical batteries such as Ni-MH, Li-Ion, the current primary power sources for mobile devices, however, are not capable of providing enough power and energy density for the next generation high power mobile machines. For this reason, KIMM along with KERI and KIMS has been carrying out a 500W MTG development project under the DAPA's "Next generation military power source R&D program" since 2009. In this paper, a design process for a 500W MTG system currently being developed at KIMM is briefly described and the technical issues related to its development are addressed.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.59-68
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• 2004

Unmanned surface vehicles(USVs) have been developed for special operations in foreign navies. These will be employed to conduct critical missions including inspection, coast guard, ISR, fire protection, precision strike, mine interception warfare and antisubmarine warfare. It is also known the USVs will be deployed at the front line of the network-centric warfare to replace the manned naval operations. The unmanned operation can, thus, minimize unnecessary risk to personnel and enhance the success probability for the imposed mission. In this research, the USVs which are under operation and development in foreign navies are investigated. Based on this, an USV with $7\~10m$ of length and 10ton of weight for the Korean Navy which can be deployed near the Northern Limit Line(NLL), is proposed.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.6-15
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• 2023

This paper develops scenarios to evaluate the safety performance of Unmanned Ground Vehicle on military circumstances. The scenarios were created using Pegasus Project 6-layer format. These scenarios consist of straight road, curved road, merging road and crossroad. We adapt these scenarios to unpaved road. The characteristics of unpaved roads were divided into roughness, friction coefficient and road frequency. This adaption is validated via computer simulation. We observe the scan lines of vehicle become tangled of the straight road that make the cognitive abilities of the vehicle low and the lane-keeping is unable when vehicles entering curved off-roads over 40 km/h. The developed scenarios will contribute to enhancing stability from the perspective of introducing autonomous driving technology to Korean military.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.36-44
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• 2021

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly needed as they can replace manned aircrafts in dangerous military missions. However, because of their low autonomy, current UAVs can execute missions only under continuous operator control. To overcome this limitation, higher autonomy levels of UAVs based on autonomous situational awareness is required. In this paper, we propose an autonomous situational awareness software consisting of situation awareness management, threat recognition, threat identification, and threat space analysis to detect dynamic situational change by external threats. We implemented the proposed software in real mission computer hardware and evaluated the performance of situational awareness toward dynamic radar threats in flight simulations.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.633-638
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• 2017

The small unmanned robot developed in this paper can perform tasks such as surveillance and reconnaissance in the battle field. The noise generated during the operation of the robot may expose the operation area. Therefore, in this study, we developed a method to quantitatively measure the noise of the developed small unmanned ground robot. The criteria for noise measurement in indoor and outdoor are presented. It was used for statistical verification method to verify the reliability of the developed noise measurement method. The noise was measured at different places, and the correlation was analyzed. Thus, we proposed a method to predict the noise level in the operation area where the robot is operated by the noise test data measured during the development process.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.810-820
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• 2014

Recently many studies of Radar systems mounted on ground vehicles for autonomous driving, SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) and collision avoidance are reported. In near field, several hits per an object are generated after signal processing of Radar data. Hence, clustering is an essential technique to estimate their shapes and positions precisely. This paper proposes a method of grouping hits in range-doppler domains into clusters which represent each object, according to the pre-defined rules. The rules are based on the perceptual cues to separate hits by object. The morphological connectedness between hits and the characteristics of SNR distribution of hits are adopted as the perceptual cues for clustering. In various simulations for the performance assessment, the proposed method yielded more effective performance than other techniques.

• 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.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2020

4차 산업혁명과 함께 새롭게 등장한 무인항공기는 국내는 물론 전 세계의 이목을 끌면서 그 활용과 시장의 규모는 점점 확대되어 가고 있는 현실에 있다. 최초 군사용으로 그 활용의 소극적인 면을 보였지만 현재는 운송, 조사, 감시, 농업 등에 활용되고 있어 원래의 목적인 군사 분야의 활용은 비교적 소극적인 것으로 평가된다. 미국, 유럽 등 전통적인 기술 강국과 더불어 중국이 상업용 무인항공기 시장의 선두주자로 부상하고 있으며, 관련 분야 세계 7위의 기술력을 갖춘 우리나라 또한 무인항공기와 관련한 각종 기술개발 정책의 추진과 제도개선을 위한 노력을 하고 있다. 군사용 드론은 미래전의 양상에 따라 네트워크 중심전 및 효과중심작전 등의 이론에 기반을 둔 무인체계라는 전쟁수단을 이용하여 전쟁수단의 혁명적 전환이 이루어질 것이다. 드론을 포함한 기동장비는 지형과 기상이라는 환경요소와 해당 분야 기술 발전 및 관심에 따라 많은 영향을 받는다. 이제 드론의 활용은 많은 분야에서 활발하게 이루어지고 있으며 특히 군사분야에서는 발전된 드론의 활용이 새로운 국방 환경조성과 전쟁의 새로운 패러다임을 제공할 것으로 예상된다.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2019

니콜라 테슬라에 의해 항공기의 무선제어 가능성이 제시되면서 출현한 무인항공기는 제 1, 2차 세계대전을 통해 항공력의 급속한 발전과 함께 군사, 방산용으로 사용하게 되었다. 2000년대, 무인항공기의 분야가 촬영, 배송, 통신 등 민간분야까지 확대됨에 따라 여러 서비스와 융합되어 활용되고 있다. 하지만, 최근 무인항공기 시스템에서의 통신이나 무인항공기 자체의 보안 취약점을 이용하여 GPS 스푸핑, 전파 교란 공격 등을 시도하는 보안사고가 발생하고 있다. 이에, 안전한 무인항공기의 도입을 위하여 국내에서는 자체 무인항공기 검증 제도인 감항 인증 제도가 마련되었다. 그러나 감항 인증 제도는 무인항공기의 보안성보다는 시험 비행, 설계 및 물리적 구조의 안전성과 인증하는 쪽에 초점이 맞추어져 있다. 보안성 높은 안전한 무인항공기의 도입을 위해 본 논문에서는 무인항공기 시스템 모델을 제안하고 데이터 흐름도를 작성하였다. 작성한 데이터 흐름도를 바탕으로 무인항공기 시스템에서의 위협을 도출하였고, 도출한 위협을 방지할 수 있는 보안기능요구사항을 개발하였다. 제안한 보안기능요구사항을 통해 향후 무인항공기의 안전한 도입을 위한 앞으로의 평가, 검증 기술의 발전 방향을 제시한다.