• 풍력에너지저널
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.100-108
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• 2023

The aim of this study is to develop guidelines for predicting interference between drones and wakes during non-destructive blade inspections in wind power systems. The wake generated by wind towers and blades can affect the stability of drone flights, necessitating the establishment of guidelines to ensure safe and efficient inspections. In order to predict the interference between drones and blades, environmental variables must be considered, including quantification of turbulence intensity in the wake generated by the tower and blades, as well as determining the appropriate distance between the drone and the tower/blades for flight stability. To achieve this, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed using cross-sectional geometries corresponding to the main wind turbine blade and tower span locations. Based on the CFD analysis results, a safe flight path for drones is proposed, which minimizes the risk of collision and interference with towers and blades during maintenance operations of wind power systems. Implementation of the proposed guidelines is expected to enhance the safety and efficiency of maintenance work.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.110-115
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• 2018

This paper introduces Korea Airport Corporation's own research and development contents and plans for navigation aids check using drone which is actively research and developed mainly in advanced countries. The hardware, algorithm, operating program of the drone system, the drone flight trajectory setting, and real-time measurement results were analyzed and verified. By securing domestic technology for the latest technology utilizing drone, we plan to promote more thorough aviation safety and advanced technology in related field and commercialized it in domestic and overseas.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.289-296
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• 2018

Drone detection in FMCW radar system needs complex techniques because a drone beat frequency is highly dynamic and unpredictable. Therefore, the current static signal processing algorithms cannot show appropriate detection accuracy. With dynamic signal fluctuation and environmental clutters, it can fail to detect a drone or make false detection. It affects to the radar system integrity and safety. Constant false alarm rate (CFAR), one of famous static signal process algorithm is effective for static environment. But for drone detection, it shows low detection accuracy. In this paper, we suggest neural network based FMCW radar system for detecting a drone. We use recurrent neural network (RNN) because it is the effective neural network for signal processing. In our FMCW radar system, one transmitter emits FMCW signal and four-way fixed receivers detect reflected drone beat frequency. The coordinate of the drone can be calculated with four receivers information by triangulation. Therefore, RNN only learns and inferences reflected drone beat frequency. It helps higher learning and detection accuracy. With several drone flight experiments, RNN shows false detection rate and detection accuracy as 21.1% and 96.4%, respectively.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2023

Unmanned drone stations for automatic charging have been developed in order to overcome the flying time limitation of rotary wing drones. Since the drone stations is an unmanned operating system, each of the drones will be required to have a high degree of landing accuracy. Drone precision landing has been mainly studied depended on image processing technologies, but the image processing systems make several problems, such as the mission weight, the drone cost, and the development complexity increases, and the flight time decrease. Thus, this paper researched accuracy of precision landing based on RTK (real time kinetics) for rotary wing drones. For the experiments of RTK based precision landing, a drone repeatedly performed three missions. The survey accuracies of the RTK about missions respectively were set as 0.3, 0.2, and 0.1 meters. Each mission has one take-off point, two way-points and one landing-point, and was repeated ten times. The experiment results revealed landing error distance means of around 0.258, 0.12 and 0.057 meters on each of RTK setting.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권8호
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• pp.1080-1088
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• 2018

General methods of controlling a drone are divided into manual control and automatic control, which means a drone moves along the route. In case of manual control, a man should be able to figure out the location and status of a drone and have a controller to control it remotely. When people control a drone, they collect information about the location and position of a drone with the eyes and have its internal information such as the battery voltage and atmospheric pressure delivered through telemetry. They make a decision about the movement of a drone based on the gathered information and control it with a radio device. The automatic control method of a drone finding its route itself is not much different from manual control by man. The information about the position of a drone is collected with the gyro and accelerator sensor, and the internal information is delivered to the CPU digitally. The location information of a drone is collected with GPS, atmospheric pressure sensors, camera sensors, and ultrasound sensors. This paper presents an investigation into drone control by a remote computer. Instead of using the automatic control function of a drone, this approach involves a computer observing a drone, determining its movement based on the observation results, and controlling it with a radio device. The computer with a Depth camera collects information, makes a decision, and controls a drone in a similar way to human beings, which makes it applicable to various fields. Its usability is enhanced further since it can control common commercial drones instead of specially manufactured drones for swarm flight. It can also be used to prevent drones clashing each other, control access to a drone, and control drones with no permit.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2021

본 논문은 비행시험 전 수직 이착륙 드론용 배터리 시스템 설계 및 지상 성능 평가에 대하여 다룬다. 배터리를 포함한 드론의 무게는 약 45 kg이며, 4개의 모터를 이용하여 추력을 발생 시키고 방향도 전환할 수 있는 드론이다. 30분 동안 비행임무에 필요한 전력을 시뮬레이션 하였고 그 결과 총 2.4 kWh의 전력이 필요하였다. 전압 운영 범위는 54 V ~ 44 V이며 13셀로 구성된 두 개의 배터리팩을 (4 C-rate) 제작하였다. 그리고 배터리 관리시스템을 장착하여 과전압, 저전압 및 과전류를 방지할 수 있는 기능을 추가하여 무인기 운용 안전성을 높였다. 최종적인 배터리 성능 검증을 위해 -10 ℃, 25 ℃, 40 ℃에서 시뮬레이션 방전 시험을 수행하여 비행 임무를 위한 필요 전력이 충족됨을 확인 하였다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.891-898
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• 2022

세계적 관심과 함께 드론은 물품 수송, 산림 보호, 안전 관리 등 활용 분야의 저변을 확대해 나가고 있으며 드론은 활용 분야 확대 및 규모 확장에 따라 군사 작전, 환경 감시 등 다양한 분야에서 군집 비행이 응용되고 있다. 현재 국내에서는 특정 산업 분야의 서비스를 위한 이음 5G와 같은 특화망을 구축해 나가고 있다. 이와 관련하여 드론 시스템 또한 AI와 자율비행 등과 융합된 서비스를 제공하기 위해 특화망을 구축하려는 움직임이 보이고 있다. 드론이 여러 서비스와 융합됨에 따라 다양한 환경에서의 다양한 보안 위협 또한 종속되고 있으며, 이에 대응하여 국내에서는 드론 보안에 대한 요구사항과 가이드라인을 마련하고 있는 추세이다. 본 논문에서는 드론 시스템 중 드론의 군집 비행 시스템과 이를 위한 이음 5G와 같은 이동통신 특화망에서 무선랜과 양자 엔트로피 기반 난수 발생기를 탑재한 암호모듈을 활용하여 군집 비행 드론 간 피아식별 및 안전한 정보 제공 기술 방법을 제안하고, 구현에 참고할 수 있는 테스트 벡터를 제공한다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1049-1055
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• 2023

농업용 드론을 이용한 방제 작업의 경우 그 경제적 효율성으로 인해 활용도가 증가하고 있으나, 작업자의 숙련도에 따라 효과의 차이가 발생한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 스마트 운영 모드를 적용하여, 수동 비행 모드에서 제어의 단점을 보완하고 이에 대한 수치적 모델을 제안하고, 선행 연구와 비교 검증을 통해 실험적 검증을 수행하였다. 그 결과 농업용 방제 드론들의 분사 시간 및 방제면적을 도출하였고, 수치적 모델과 유사성이 높은 방제용 드론을 선정하여 실험적으로 검증하였다. 이를 통해 수동 비행 모드보다 스마트 운영 모드 적용 시 살포 면적 및 작업(살포 균일도 및 작업 효율)이 상대적으로 효과적인 것을 확인하였다.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2019

In drone-assisted wireless sensor networks, drones collect data from sensors in an energy-efficient manner and quickly distribute urgent information to sensor nodes. This article introduces recent communication and security schemes for drone-assisted wireless sensor networks. For the communication schemes, we introduce data collection optimization schemes, drone position and movement optimization schemes, and drone flight path optimization schemes. For the security schemes, we introduce authentication and key management schemes, cluster formation schemes, and cluster head election schemes. Then, we present some enhancement methodologies for these communication and security schemes. As a conclusion, we present some interesting future work items.

• 공학기술논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.273-277
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• 2018

In the field of forest disaster prevention, drones are expected to save higher human resources than the existing manpower has, and produce high-efficiency results over time. However, operational limitations brought by short flight times have brought the environment of limited use of the various capabilities of the drone, and the existing development systems operating the multi-drone are mainly for performance purpose, so it is a difficult to use for forest disaster prevention. The purpose of this paper is to design the concept based on multi-drone operation procedure through analysis of mission of ground control system for forest disaster prevention.