• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.874-886
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• 2023

A joint resource-optimization scheme is investigated for nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enhanced scalable video coding (SVC) multicast in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted radio-access networks (RANs). This scheme allows a ground base station and UAVs to simultaneously multicast successive video layers in SVC with successive interference cancellation in NOMA. A video quality-maximization problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem to determine the UAV deployment and association, RAN spectrum allocation for multicast groups, and UAV transmit power. The optimization problem is decoupled into the UAV deployment-association, spectrum-partition, and UAV transmit-power-control subproblems. A heuristic strategy is designed to determine the UAV deployment and association patterns. An upgraded knapsack algorithm is developed to solve spectrum partition, followed by fast UAV power fine-tuning to further boost the performance. The simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme improves the average peak signal-to-noise ratio, aggregate videoreception rate, and spectrum utilization over various baselines.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.830-836
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• 2012

According to increasing the importance of underwater environments, the needs of UUV are growing. This paper represents the mechanism and algorithm of UUV docking system with 21-inch torpedo tubes for military submarines as a docking station. To improve the reliability of the docking, torpedo tubes launch a wired ROV and next the ROV combined with UUV is retrieved. For estimating the relative position between the ROV and UUV, in this paper, combining RF sensors and vision system is proposed. The RSSI method of RF sensors is used to estimate the distance and the optical image is combined for the directional information.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 4차 산업혁명의 대표 기술 중 하나인 드론(무인항공)이 공항 안전 및 사생활 침해를 위협하는 사례를 제시 하고 문제를 해결하기 위해 드론 관제 시스템 제안을 기술하였다. 최근 (드론) 무인항공이 심각한 문제를 만들고 있다. 국내의 경우 19년 5월 21일 제주지방항공청에 따르면 같은 달 두 차례에 걸쳐 제주 정석비행장 상공에 드론이 비행하여 항공기 운행에 문제가 발생했고 해외 사례의 경우 영국 개트윅 국제공항 활주로 부근에 출현한 드론 때문에 항공기의 이착륙이 잠시 멈추는 소동이 발생하였으며, 또한 드론을 활용하여 개인의 사생활을 도촬 하는 등 여러 문제가 발생되고 있다. 본 논문은 드론(무인항공)에 Access Point(이하 AP) 트랜스폰더를 장착하여 드론의 비행정보(좌표, 고도, 장애 상태)를 원하는 불특정 다수가 드론 AP에 접근하여 드론의 비행정보를 수신 받고, 수신 받은 불특정 다수의 드론 AP 비행정보를 수집, 취합하여 유저 인터페이스 화면에 현 시점에 운행 중인 드론의 정보를 제공한다. 안전한 드론(무인항공)을 운행하기 위해 AP 트랜스폰더를 제안하고 드론의 비행 정보 송, 수신 및 데이터 수집 및 취합 실험을 수행한다[1-3].

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.195-204
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• 2017

Mobile robots are used for years as a valuable research and educational tool in form of available open-platform designs and Do-It-Yourself kits. Rapid development and costs reduction of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) and ground based mobile robots in recent years allowed researchers to utilize them as an affordable research platform. Despite of recent developments in the area of ground and airborne robotics, only few examples of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) platforms targeted for research purposes can be found. Aim of this paper is to present the development of open-design USV drone with integrated multi-level control hardware architecture. Proposed catamaran - type water surface drone enables direct control over wireless radio link, separate development of algorithms for optimal propulsion control, navigation and communication with the ground-based control station. Whole design is highly modular, where each component can be replaced or modified according to desired task, payload or environmental conditions. Developed USV is planned to be utilized as a part of the system for detection and identification of marine and lake waste. Cameras mounted to the USV would record sea or lake surfaces, and recorded video sequences and images would be processed by state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning algorithms in order to identify and classify marine and lake waste.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 무인헬기에 적합한 새로운 형태의 점항법 유도법칙을 소개한다. 본 점항법 유도법칙은 미래의 예측 위치에 기반하여 자동제어부에서 사용할 속도와 방위각 명령을 생성해낸다. 무인기의 뱅크각을 통해 간접적으로 비행방향을 변경하는 기존의 점항법 유도법칙과 달리 본 유도법칙은 무인헬기의 속도벡터를 직접 변경하도록 속도 명령을 생성해낸다. 제안된 유도법칙의 검증을 위해 소형 무인헬기용 비행제어시스템을 개발해 비행 시험을 수행하였으며, 개발된 비행제어시스템은 비행제어 컴퓨터와 항법센서, 그리고 지상관제국으로 구성되어 있다. 비행시험을 통해 제안된 유도법칙이 성공적으로 작동함을 확인하였으며, 향후 경로추종 비행에 확장.적용할 계획이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.148.1-148
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• 2001

The airship is starting to receive new highlights as a stable floating platform. A floating platform can serve as a telecommunication relay station or an environmental outpost. Much of these operations require unmanned autonomous operation on the airship. Due to difficulties in modelling and identifying the airship, controlling the airship is not an easy task. Different from the normal aircraft, the airship is affected by "added mass" and buoyancy. The added mass is the additional mass felt required to move the object in a fluid. As we are searching for a stable floating platform, controlling the airship to keep station is critical. We use a simple airship model with added mass for simulation. Classical controller is used to find acceptable airship performances.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.495-519
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• 2023

The drone serves the customers not served by vans. At the same time, considering the safety, policy and terrain as well as the need to replace the battery, the drone needs to be transported by truck to the identified station along with the parcel. From each such station, the drone serves a subset of customers according to a direct assignment pattern, i.e., every time the drone is launched, it serves one demand node and returns to the station to collect another parcel. Similarly, the truck is used to transport the drone and cargo between stations. This is somewhat different from the research of other scholars. In terms of the joint distribution of the drone and road vehicle, most scholars will choose the combination of two transportation tools, while we use three. The drone and vans are responsible for distribution services, and the trucks are responsible for transporting the goods and drone to the station. The goal is to optimize the total delivery cost which includes the transportation costs for the vans and the delivery cost for the drone. A fixed cost is also considered for each drone parking site corresponding to the cost of positioning the drone and using the drone station. A discrete optimization model is presented for the problem in addition to a two-phase heuristic algorithm. The results of a series of computational tests performed to assess the applicability of the model and the efficiency of the heuristic are reported. The results obtained show that nearly 10% of the cost can be saved by combining the traditional delivery mode with the use of a drone and drone stations.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.490-498
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 소형 무인항공기에 영상 획득용 카메라를 장착하여 지상의 이동물체를 자동으로 추적하고 지상으로 영상정보를 지속적으로 전송하는 기술 및 관련 이론에 대한 연구를 다루고 있다. 본 연구에 사용된 회전익 무인항공기에는 소형 고성능의 영상획득 장치와 지상표적에 대한 식별 지향 자동추적 알고리즘이 탑재되었고 더욱 안정된 영상추적을 위해 영상 안정화 기법을 추가적으로 적용하였다. 최종적으로 모든 연구내용에 대해 비행시험을 수행하여 그 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2015

무인로봇체계는 미래전이라 불리우는 네트워크 중심전의 핵심기술이라 할 수 있다. 그러나, 인프라 기반의 무선통신시스템과는 다른 야전 환경에서 안정된 통신을 유지하는 것은 상당한 링크 버짓을 요구한다. 따라서, 기지국과 단말 사이의 불안정한 채널이 형성될 경우 무선링크의 장애를 최소화하기 위한 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 야전 환경에 투입되는 무인로봇 체계를 통해 확보되는 전장에서의 정보를 효과적으로 송수신하도록 하며 통신환경이 열악한 상태에서도 무인로봇의 제어권을 잃지 않도록 하는 즉, 통신생존성을 보장하도록 하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템의 성능분석을 위해 실제 국내의 산악지방, 개활지 등과 유사한 채널을 적용하였으며, 향후 무인로봇체계에 활용할 수 있도록 한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.897-908
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a security framework for a cluster drones network using the MAVLink (Micro Air Vehicle Link) application protocol based on FANET (Flying Ad-hoc Network), which is composed of ad-hoc networks with multiple drones for IoT services such as remote sensing or disaster monitoring. Here, the drones belonging to the cluster construct a FANET network acting as WTRP (Wireless Token Ring Protocol) MAC protocol. Under this network environment, we propose an efficient algorithm applying the Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) to the CTR (Counter) operation mode of WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access 2) to encrypt the transmitted data through the MAVLink application. And we study how to apply LEA based on CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) operation mode used in WPA2 for message security tag generation. In addition, a modified Diffie-Hellman key exchange method is approached to generate a new key used for encryption and security tag generation. The proposed method and similar methods are compared and analyzed in terms of efficiency.