• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.779-787
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• 2016

A nonlinear control law for the quad-rotor of a low-complexity, global approximation-free from system uncertainties and external disturbances are described in this paper. The control law guarantees convergence to a small bounded error using a prescribed performance function. The stability of the proposed nonlinear control system is also proven by the Lyapunov stability theorem. The advantage of this technique is that it has a simpler form than any other nonlinear compensators and is applicable to any nonlinear systems without precise knowledge of the systems. In this paper, the proposed approach is applied to attitude/altitude control of a quad-rotor. Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the proposed nonlinear attitude control law by applying it to an uncertain quadcopter system with external disturbances.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.158-163
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• 2013

The fusion of the GPS (Global Positioning System) and DR (Dead Reckoning) is widely used for position and latitude estimation of vehicles such as a mobile robot, aerial vehicle and marine vehicle. Among the many types of aerial vehicles, grater focus is given on the quad-rotor and accuracy of the position information is becoming more important. In order to exactly estimate the position information, we propose the fusion method of GPS and Gyroscope sensor using the DEKF (Dual Extended Kalman Filter). The DEKF has an advantage of simultaneously estimating state value and a parameter of dynamical system. It can also be used even if state value is not available. In order to analyze the performance of DEKF, the computer simulation for estimating the position, the velocity and the angle in a circle trajectory of quad-rotor was done. As it can be seen from the simulation results using own proposed DEKF instead of EKF on own fusion method in the navigation of a quad-rotor gave better performance values.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.321-328
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• 2018

This paper presents an automatic target tracking flight system using a PID controller based on velocity command of a multirotor UAV. The automatic flight system includes marker based onboard target detection and an automatic velocity command generation replacing manual controller. A quad-rotor UAV is equipped with a camera and an image processing computer to detect the marker in real time and to estimate the relative distance from the target. The marker tracking system consists of PID controller and generates velocity command based on the relative distance. The generated velocity command is used as the input of the UAV's original flight controller. The operation of the proposed system was verified through actual flight tests using a marker on top of a moving vehicle and tracks it to successfully demonstrate its capability using a quad-rotor UAV.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.381-388
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• 2014

In this paper, the attitude of a quadrotor system is controlled by a time-delayed control method which uses the previous information to cancel out uncertainties in the system. Although the linear controller works for the attitude control, the robust performance against disturbance is relatively poor. Therefore, a time-delayed controller as a robust controller is used. Experimental studies are conducted to validate the performance by the time-delayed control method. The performances of both a linear controller and a time-delayed controller are compared.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.126-130
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• 2010

This paper presents the conceptual design of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on an axiomatic design. In most aerial vehicle design approaches, design configurations are affected by past and current design tendencies as well as an engineer's preferences. In order to design a systematic design framework and provide fruitful design configurations for a new type of rotorcraft, the axiomatic design theory is applied to the conceptual design process. Axiomatic design is a design methodology of a system that uses two design axioms by applying matrix methods to systematically analyze the transformation of customer needs into functional requirements (FRs), design parameters (DPs), and process variables. This paper deals with two conceptual rotary wing UAV designs, and the evaluations of tri-rotor and quad-rotor UAVs with proposed axiomatic approach. In this design methodology, design configurations are mainly affected by the selection of FRs, constraints, and DPs.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.473-483
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 1축 자세제어실험 장비를 제작하여 쿼드로터 형 무인항공기에 적용할 단일입력-단일출력 Cascade 제어기 실험을 수행하였다. 해당 장비는 두 개의 모터와 프로펠러에 의해 자세변화가 가능한 시소 형태로 구현하였고, 무게 추를 변경하여 회전축을 중심으로 상하 무게중심 이동이 가능하도록 제작하였다. 개발한 장비를 통해 Cascade 구조를 가지는 PID(각도)-PID(각속도) 제어기를 구성하여 실험을 수행하였으며, PID 이득의 조정을 용이하게 하는 SIMC 제어기 이득 조정 기법을 Cascade 제어에 접목하였다. 이를 위해 Matlab-Simulink 환경 하에 2차 시간 지연 모델을 구축하여 시스템 변수 추정을 수행하였다. 기존의 SIMC 조정 기법 적용 과정을 수행하여 그 특성을 파악하고, 적용 과정의 안정성 문제를 고려하여 수정된 방안을 제시하였으며, 이를 1축 자세제어실험 장비에 적용하여 기존의 과정과 수정된 과정을 비교 실험하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.580-585
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• 2005

A QRT(Quad-Rotor Type) hovering robot system is developed for quick detection and observation of the circumstances under calamity environment such as indoor fire spots. The UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is equipped with four propellers driven by each electric motor, an embedded controller using a DSP, INS(Inertial Navigation System) using 3-axis rate gyros, a CCD camera with wireless communication transmitter for observation, and an ultrasonic range sensor for height control. The developed hovering robot shows stable flying performances under the adoption of RIC(Robust Internal-loop Compensator) based disturbance compensation and the vision based localization method. The UAV can also avoid obstacles using eight IR and four ultrasonic range sensors. The VTOL(Vertical Take-Off and Landing) flying object flies into indoor fire spots and sends the images captured by the CCD camera to the operator. This kind of small-sized UAV can be widely used in various calamity observation fields without danger of human beings under harmful environment.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.343-352
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• 2016

멀티로터 비행체는 여러 개의 로터로 이루어진 무인 비행로봇으로서, 로터의 개수에 따라서 트라이로터, 쿼드로터, 헥사로터, 옥토로터 등으로 나누어 진다. 멀티로터는 수직이착륙 및 정지비행과 같은 높은 기동성으로 인하여 다른 무인 비행로봇에 비하여 험준한 산학지역 및 건물이 밀집되어 있는 도심과 같은 지역의 정찰 및 감시 등 여러 응용분야에 유용하게 활용될 수 있다. 하지만, 멀티로터는 불확실한 외부 환경 및 외란의 영향에 쉽게 노출될 수 있어 강건한 자세 및 비행제어 기법의 적용을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 강인제어기법 중 하나인 슬라이딩 모드제어기를 설계 및 임베디드 알고리듬을 구현을 통하여 실시간 실내 비행실험을 위한 시스템을 구성하고, 실시간 위치제어 및 자세 안정화에 대한 실내 비행실험을 수행하였다. 특히, 불확실한 외부환경에 대한 강건한 비행특성을 검증하기 위하여 외란을 삽입하여 비행시험을 통해 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 쿼드로터형 비행체 개발을 위한 선행연구로서 1축 자세 제어장비를 개발하고, 시뮬레이션과 실험을 수행하였다. 두 개의 모터와 프로펠러로 구성된 시소형 1축 자세 제어장비가 제작되었고, 추력 시험을 통해 공력 파라메터를 도출하였다. Matlab/Simulink를 이용하여 시스템의 응답을 추정하였고, 자세 센서와 자세 제어 컴퓨터를 탑재하여 실험을 수행하였다. 시뮬레이션과 실험 데이터를 비교하여 실험 시 발생하는 정상상태 오차에 대한 원인을 파악하고, 사용된 자세알고리즘과 자세 제어 컴퓨터에 대한 성능 검증하였다. 본 과정을 통해, 쿼드로터형 무인항공기 자세 제어를 위한 선행 필수 기초자료를 획득하였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.274-282
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• 2011

This paper is focused on dynamic modeling and control system design as well as vision based collision avoidance for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Multi-rotor UAVs are defined as rotary-winged UAVs with multiple rotors. These multi-rotor UAVs can be utilized in various military situations such as surveillance and reconnaissance. They can also be used for obtaining visual information from steep terrains or disaster sites. In this paper, a quad-rotor model is introduced as well as its control system, which is designed based on a proportional-integral-derivative controller and vision-based collision avoidance control system. Additionally, in order for a UAV to navigate safely in areas such as buildings and offices with a number of obstacles, there must be a collision avoidance algorithm installed in the UAV's hardware, which should include the detection of obstacles, avoidance maneuvering, etc. In this paper, the optical flow method, one of the vision-based collision avoidance techniques, is introduced, and multi-rotor UAV's collision avoidance simulations are described in various virtual environments in order to demonstrate its avoidance performance.