• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.890-896
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• 2022

In this paper, gimbal camera control through smart gloves was implemented to increase convenience and accessibility to the control of drones used in various fields. Smart gloves identify human gestures and transmit signals through Bluetooth. The received signal is converted into a signal suitable for the drone through a GCS (Gound Control Station). Signals from smart gloves are expressed in a quaternion method to prevent gimbal locks, but for gimbal cameras, conversion is required to use Roll, Pitch, and Yaw methods. The data conversion mission is performed in the GCS. The GCS transmits an input signal to the control board of the drone through Wi-Fi. The control board generates and outputs the transmitted signal in a PWM manner. The output signal is input to the gimbal camera through the SBUS method and controlled. The input signal of the smart glove averaged 0.093 s and up to 0.099 s to output to the gimbal camera, showing that there was no problem in real-time use.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.140-147
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a state feedback robust controller of 2-axis gimbal system which have bounded parametric uncertainty. The proposed controller is robust against dynamics variations of gimbal system and contains a dynamic compensator in order to improve a steady state error and a transient response. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved by Lyapunov approach. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated by simulation on a 2-axis gimbal system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.543-552
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• 2011

Control Moment Gyro(CMG) is one of the most efficient momentum exchange devices for satellite attitude control and CMG is very essential device for agile satellite. In this study, the essential dynamic equation for the design of gimbal motor and wheel motor is summarized. The development process of SGCMG hardware for agile small satellite system, the description of developed hardware and its performance test results are presented. Test result shows that the developed hardware model can produce an output torque more than 1.2Nm as designed. Other test items are max. torque, gimbal bandwidth, minimum torque, torque error, gimbal rate error.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.11a
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• pp.195-197
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• 1993

In this paper, a planar vibratory gyroscope is designed and fabricated in macro model. Elementary experiment and test are done for micro model. This gyroscope has a double gimbal structure with an active dimension $80{\times}120{\times}1\;mm^3$. Outer gimbal vibration is generated by electromagnetic force using ferrite E-core wounded by coil. Inner gimbal vibration is detected by inductive sensor. It is demonstrated' that mechanical and electrical symmetries are important for improvement of vibratory gyroscope.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.29 no.5 s.236
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• pp.743-753
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• 2005

The model of azimuth driving servo system with a flexible antenna in a prototype gimbal has been derived in this work. The validity of the model is verified by comparing the result of the model with that of experiment. It is found that one should consider an antenna as a flexible body in case of modeling the dynamics of the gimbal with an antenna. It is also known that the effect of reducing backlash magnitude for extending the bandwidth in the system with a flexible antenna is smaller than the system with a stiff antenna. It is thought that the model-based design optimization of the gimbal with an antenna will be possible by virtue of the derived model, when a weight reduction and a bandwidth extension are required.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.873-878
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• 2013

An EOTS (Electro-Optical Tracking System) provides stabilized images while tracking a moving target. This paper presents a novel concept of driving the outer gimbal first for improving the maneuverability of an EOTS, contrary to the conventional inner gimbal mode. It has the advantages of faster positioning performance and stable operation in Nadir-point. Analysis of frequency responses reveal that the present scheme results in a wider control bandwidth and larger gain margin, compared to those of the previous one. The actual experimental results confirm that the maneuvering is stable although the input command has a large angular acceleration.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1064-1069
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• 2015

Control Moment Gyro (CMG) has been used as an indirect actuator of a single-wheel robot system GYROBO, developed at Chungnam National University. The flip motion of the gimbal system produces the gyroscopic motion onto the body system while the body motion also produces the gyroscopic motion onto the gimbal system inversely. In this paper, the intuitive equation of the inverse gyroscopic effect is derived as the direct relation between the rate of the body system and the rate of the gimbal system. Experiments on the inverse gyroscopic effect under the chaotically generated disturbance are conducted. Experimental data are approximated by a linear equation using the least square method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.913-914
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.935-936
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• 2010

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.149-156
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• 2019

In the field of maintenance of power transmission lines, drones have been used for their patrol and inspection by KEPCO since 2017. This drone technology was originally developed by KEPCO Research Institute, and now workers from four regional offices of KEPCO have directly applied this technology to the drone patrol and inspection tasks. In the drone inspection system, a drone with an optical zooming camera and a thermal camera can fly automatically along the transmission lines by the ground control system developed by KEPCO Research Institute, but its camera gimbal has been remotely controlled by a field worker. Especially the drone patrol and inspection has been mainly applied for the transmission lines in the inaccessible areas such as regions with river-crossings, sea-crossings and mountains. There are often communication disruptions between the drone and its remote controller in such extreme fields of mountain areas with many barriers. This problem may cause the camera gimbal be out of control, even though the inspection drone flies along the flight path well. In addition, interference with the reception of real-time transmitted videos makes the field worker unable to operate it. To solve these problems, we have developed the auto-tracking camera gimbal system with deep learning method. The camera gimbal can track the transmission line automatically, even when the transmitted video on a remote controller is intermittently unavailable. To show the effectiveness of our camera gimbal system, its field test results will be presented in this paper.