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Health Care Optimization by Maximizing the Air-Ambulance Operation Time

  • Melhim, Loai Kayed B.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.357-361
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    • 2022
  • Employing the available technologies and utilizing the advanced means to improve the level of health care provided to citizens in their various locations. Citizens have the right to get a proper health care services despite the location of their residency or the distance from the health care delivery centers, a goal that can be achieved by utilizing air ambulance systems. In such systems, aircrafts and their life spans are the essential component, the flight duration of the aircraft during its life span is determined by the maintenance schedule. This research, enhances the air ambulance systems by presenting a proposal that maximizes the aircraft flight duration during its life span. The enhancement will be reached by developing a set of algorithms that handles the aircraft maintenance problem. The objective of these algorithms is to minimize the maximum completion time of all maintenance tasks, thus increasing the aircraft operation time. Practical experiments performed to these algorithms showed the ability of these algorithms to achieve the desired goal. The developed algorithms will manage the maintenance scheduling problem to maximize the uptime of the air ambulance which can be achieved by maximizing the minimum life of spare parts. The developed algorithms showed good performance measures during experimental tests. The 3LSL algorithm showed a higher performance compared to other algorithms during all performed experiments.

Computational Investigations of Adverse Effects of Deploying Spoilers on Airfoil Aerodynamic Characteristics (스포일러 동적 작동에 따른 에어포일 공력특성 역전현상 연구)

  • Chung, Hyoung-Seog
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.335-342
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    • 2020
  • Tailless aircraft designed for stealth efficiency uses spoilers instead of rudders for the directional control. When the spoiler is rapidly deployed, highly nonlinear and unsteady aerodynamic characteristics can be generated, resulting in adverse effects on aircraft flight performance. This paper investigates the aerodynamic characteristics of an airfoil with moving spoiler using dynamic mesh CFD technique. The effects of spoiler operation speed, mounting location, and deployment scheduling are analyzed to reduce the adverse effects of the spoiler's dynamic operation. The results shows that the adverse effects of dynamic spoiler can be reduced by appropriate selection of the spoiler mounting location and deployment scheduling.

Air-traffic dispatching scheduling in terminal airspace (공항접근영역 항공교통 Dispatching 스케줄링 연구)

  • Jeong, Sun-Jo;Cho, Doo-Hyun;Choi, Han-Lim
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.973-980
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    • 2016
  • An air traffic management (ATM) has been studied in a variety of fields to utilize an air traffic capacity efficiently and solve a congested air traffic situation due to an increment of an air traffic demand. In this paper, an air traffic management, which is related with controlling and determining the sequencing of an aircraft approaching to an airport, in terminal control area is studied. This paper focuses on scheduling algorithms with a given problem for the air traffic management with operational constraints, such as a space separation, an overtaking on the same air-route, and a route merge point (a scheduling point). For a real-time calculation, the presented algorithms focus on dispatching heuristic rules which are able to assign tasks in a fast time period with an adequate performance, which can be demonstrated as a proper and realistic scheduling algorithm. A simulation result is presented to illustrate the validity and applicability of the proposed algorithm. Each scheduling rule is analyzed on the same static and dynamic air traffic flow scenario with the ATM Monte-Carlo simulation.

Tiltrotor Aircraft SCAS Design Using Neural Networks (신경회로망을 이용한 틸트로터 항공기 SCAS 설계)

  • Han, Kwang-Ho;Kim, Boo-Min;Kim, Byoung-Soo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.233-239
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the design and evaluation of a tiltrotor attitude controller. The implemented response type of the command augumentation system is Attitude Command Attitude Hold. The controller architecture can alleviate the need for extensive gain scheduling and thus has the potential to reduce development time. The control algorithm is constructed using the feedback linearization technique. And an on-line adaptive architecture that employs a neural network compensating the model inversion error caused by the deficiency of full knowledge tiltrotor aircraft dynamics is applied to augment the attitude control system. The use of Lyapunov stability analysis guarantees boundedness of the tracking error and network parameters. The performance of the controller is evaluated against ADS-33E criteria, using the nonlinear tiltrotor simulation code for Bell TR301 developed by KARI. (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)

Study on Optimized Machining of Duralumin using AFC (AFC를 이용한 두랄루민의 최적화 가공에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Min-Seog
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2020
  • Studies on the optimizations of machining processes use two different methods. The first is feed control in real-time by spindle load in a machine tool. The second is feed scheduling in NC code control by material removal rate using a CAD/CAM system. Each approach possesses its respective merits and issues compared to the other. That is, each method can be complementary to the other. The purpose of the study is to improve the productivity of the bulkhead, an aircraft Duralumin structure. In this paper, acceleration or deceleration of cutting tool by spindle load data is achieved using adaptive feed control macro programming in a machine tool.

FUZZY CONTROL LAW OF HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT

  • Sul Cho;Park, Rai-Woong;Nam, Sae-Kyu;Lee, Man-Hyung
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.205-209
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    • 1998
  • A synthesis of fuzzy variable structure control is proposed to design a high-angle-of-attack flight system for a modification version of the F-18 aircraft. The knowledge of the proportional, integral, and derivative control is combined into the fuzzy control that addresses both the highly nonlinear aerodynamic characteristics of elevators and the control limit of thrust vectoring nozzles. A simple gain scheduling method with multi-layered fuzzy rules is adopted to obtain an appropriate blend of elevator and thrust vectoring commands in the wide operating range. Improving the computational efficiency, an accelerated kernel for on-line fuzzy reasoning is also proposed. The resulting control system achieves the good flying quantities during a high-angle-of- attack excursion. Thus the fuzzy logic can afford the control engineer a flexible means of deriving effective control laws in the nonlinear flight regime.

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An Improved Priority Application for Humanoid Robot in the Controller Area Network(CAN) (CAN내장 휴머노이드 로봇에 대한 진보된 우선순위 적용)

  • Ku Ja-bong;Huh Uk-youl;Kim Jin-geol;Kim Byung-yoon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.53 no.10
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    • pp.714-719
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    • 2004
  • The Controller Area Network (CAN) is being widely used in real-time control applications such as automobiles, aircraft, and automated factories. Unfortunately, CAN, in its current form, is not able to either share out the system bandwidth among the different devices fairly or to grant an upper bound on the transmission times experienced by the nodes connected to the communication medium as it happens, for instance, in the token-based networks. In this paper. we present the message scheduling for CAN, based on the distributed control scheme to integrate actuators and sensors in a humanoid robot. Besides introducing the new algorism, this paper also presents some performance figures obtained using a specially developed software simulator, while the behavior of the new algorism is compared with the traditional CAN systems, in order to see how effective they are.

Robust Gain Scheduling Based on Fuzzy Logic Control and LMI Methods (퍼지논리제어와 LMI기법을 이용한 강인 게인 스케줄링)

  • Chi, Hyo-Seon;Koo, Kuen-Mo;Lee, Hungu;Tahk, Min-Jea;Hong, Sung-Kyung
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1162-1170
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    • 2001
  • This paper proposes a practical gain-scheduling control law considering robust stability and performance of Linear Parameter Varying(LPV) systems in the presence of nonlinearities and uncertainties. The proposed method introduces LMI-based pole placement synthesis and also associates with a recently developed fuzzy control system based on Takagei-Sugenos fuzzy model. The sufficient conditions for robust controller design of linearized local dynamics and robust stabilization of fuzzy control systems are reduced to a finite set of Linear Matrix inequalities(LMIs) and solved by using co-evolutionary algorithms. The proposed method is applied to the longitudinal acceleration control of high performance aircraft with linear and nonlinear simulations.

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Design of Guidance and Control Algorithm for Autolanding In Windshear Environment Using Fuzzy Gain Scheduling (퍼지 게인스케듈링을 적용한 자동착륙 유도제어 알고리즘 설계 : 윈쉬어 환경에서의 착륙)

  • Ha, Cheol-Keun;Ahn, Sang-Woon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2008
  • This paper deals with the problem of autolanding for aircraft under windshear environment for which the landing trajectory is given. It is well known that the landing maneuver in windshear turbulence is very dangerous and hard for the pilot to control because windshear is unpredictable in when and where it happens and its aerodynamic characteristics are complicated. In order to accomplish satisfactory autolanding maneuver in this environment, we propose a gain-scheduled controller. The proposed controller consists of three parts: PID controller, called baseline controller, which is designed to satisfy requirements of stability and performance without considering windshear, gain scheduler based on fuzzy logic, and safety decision logic, which decides if the current autolanding maneuver needs to be aborted or not. The controller is applied to a 6-DOF simulation model of the associated airplane in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm. It is noted that a cross wind in the lateral direction is included to the simulation model. From the simulation results it is observed that the proposed gain scheduled controller shows superior performance than the case of controller without gain scheduling even in severe downburst and tailwind region of windshear. In addition, touchdown along centerline of the runway is more precise for the proposed controller than for the controller without gain scheduling in the cross wind and the tailwind.

Design and Performance Verification of L1 Adaptive Flight Control Law Considering the Change of Center of Gravity for Unmanned Tailless Aircraft (무인 무미익 항공기의 무게중심 변화를 고려한 L1 적응제어 비행제어 법칙 설계 및 성능 검증)

  • Ko, Dong-hyeon;Kang, Ji-soo;Choi, Keeyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.114-121
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    • 2019
  • Tailless aircraft have advantages of low visibility compared to conventional aircraft, but drawback of poor stability as well which makes designing controller difficult. The controller design is more difficult, especially when the center of gravity moves due to store release or fuel consumption during flight. In this paper, an L1 adaptive controller is proposed as a way to overcome these problems. The reliability and performance of the controllers were verified by non-linear simulations. RPV Flying Quality Design criteria were used for design criteria. Using the simulation, it is shown that the adaptive controller maintains stability of the unmanned aircraft for sudden large change in the inertial properties. It is also shown that the calculation burden can be reduced when it is used with the gain scheduling method.