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The Sun Observed by Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph of the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at Big Bear

  • Chae, Jong-Chul;Park, Hyung-Min;Ahn, Kwang-Su;Yang, Hee-Su;Park, Young-Deuk;Nah, Ja-Kyoung;Jang, Bi-Ho;Cho, Kyung-Suk;Cao, Wenda;Gorceix, Nicholas;Goode, Philip R.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.25-25
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    • 2010
  • With the aim of resolving important physical problems in the chromosphere of the Sun, we developed the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph for several years, and at last successfully installed it in the Coude room of the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at Big Bear in 2010 May. The instrument is an Echelle spectrograph with imaging capability based on slit scan, and can record two spectral bands (e.g., H alpha band and Ca II 8542 band) simultaneously. The early runs of the instrument produced data of high quality that are suited for the study of quiet Sun, filaments on the disk, prominences outside the limb, active regions and sunspots. We are ready to do good solar sciences using our own instrument, and will be able to do best sciences with the coming improvement of spatial resolution.

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Coma Aberration Correction of Optical System by using a Robot Arm Type Coordinated Measuring Machine (로봇팔 타입 삼차원좌표측정기를 이용한 광학계의 비축수차 보정)

  • Chun, Ho Bin;Kim, Goeun;Song, In-Woong;Kang, Hyug-Mo;Rhee, Hyug-Gyo;Ghim, Young-Sik;Yang, Ho-Soon;Kwon, Jong Hoon
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.62-66
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    • 2016
  • Optical system needs to be aligned before its undergoing process, is usually shows coma aberrations, which occurred due to imperfection in the lens or other components results in off-axis point sources, appearing to have a tail like a comet. There are some methods to correct coma aberration. In this paper, to correct coma aberration in optical system, using a robot arm type coordinate measuring machine(CMM). CMMs are widely used to measure the form of accuracy of parts and positioning accuracy of systems. Among them, robot arm type CMM has more advantages than the others, such as its mobility and measuring range. However, robot arm type CMM has lower accuracy than cantilever type CMM. To prove robot arm type CMM's accuracy, several factors were suggested in this paper and the final measuring results were compared to a commercial cantilever type CMM. Based on this accuracy, a typical optical system was successfully aligned by using our robot arm type CMM.

Experimental Study of the Multi-Row Disk Inlet

  • Maru, Yusuke;Kobayashi, Hiroaki;Kojima, Takoyuki;Sato, Tetsuya;Tanatsugu, Nobuhiro
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.634-643
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    • 2004
  • In this paper are presented a concept of a new supersonic air inlet, which is designated a Multi-Row Disk (MRD) inlet, aiming at performance improvement under off-design conditions, and results of wind tunnel tests examined performance characteristics of the MRD inlet. The MRD inlet is frequently called ‘a skeleton inlet’ because of its appearance. The performance of a conventional axisymmetric inlet with a solid center body (spike) deteriorates under off-design Mach number conditions. It is due to the fact that total pressure recovery (TPR) governed by the throat area of inlet and mass capture ratio (MCR) governed by an incidence position of an oblique shock from the spike tip into the cowl can not be controlled independently in such air inlet. The MRD inlet has the spike that is composed of a tip cone and several disks arranged downstream of it, based on the experimental fact that several deep cavities on a conical surface have little negative effect on the boundary layer growth. The overall spike length of the MRD inlet is adjustable to the given flight speed by changing space between disks so that a spillage flow can be controlled independently from controlling the throat area. It could be made clear from the result of wind tunnel tests that the MRD inlet improves TPR by 10% compared with a conventional inlet with a solid spike under off-design conditions.

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Study on Deriving the Buckling Knockdown Factor of a Common Bulkhead Propellant Tank (공통격벽 추진제 탱크 구조의 좌굴 Knockdown Factor 도출 연구)

  • Lee, Sook;Son, Taek-joon;Choi, Sang-Min;Bae, Jin-Hyo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.10-21
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    • 2022
  • The propellant tank, which is a space launch vehicle structure, must have structural integrity as various static and dynamic loads are applied during ground transportation, launch standby, take-off and flight processes. Because of these characteristics, the propellant tank cylinder, the structural object of this study, has a thin thickness, so buckling due to compressive load is considered important in the cylinder design. However, the existing buckling design standards such as NASA and Europe are fairly conservative and do not reflect the latest design and manufacturing technologies. In this study, nonlinear buckling analysis is performed using various analysis models that reflect initial defects, and a method for establishing new buckling design standards for cylinder structures is presented. In conclusion, it was confirmed that an effective lightweight design of the cylinder structure for common bulkhead propulsion tank could be realized.

New Fuzzy Inference System Using a Kernel-based Method

  • Kim, Jong-Cheol;Won, Sang-Chul;Suga, Yasuo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2393-2398
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we proposes a new fuzzy inference system for modeling nonlinear systems given input and output data. In the suggested fuzzy inference system, the number of fuzzy rules and parameter values of membership functions are automatically decided by using the kernel-based method. The kernel-based method individually performs linear transformation and kernel mapping. Linear transformation projects input space into linearly transformed input space. Kernel mapping projects linearly transformed input space into high dimensional feature space. The structure of the proposed fuzzy inference system is equal to a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model whose input variables are weighted linear combinations of input variables. In addition, the number of fuzzy rules can be reduced under the condition of optimizing a given criterion by adjusting linear transformation matrix and parameter values of kernel functions using the gradient descent method. Once a structure is selected, coefficients in consequent part are determined by the least square method. Simulated result illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

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Integrated Guidance and Control Design for the Near Space Interceptor

  • WANG, Fei;LIU, Gang;LIANG, Xiao-Geng
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.278-294
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    • 2015
  • Considering the guidance and control problem of the near space interceptor (NSI) during the terminal course, this paper proposes a three-channel independent integrated guidance and control (IGC) scheme based on the backstepping sliding mode and finite time disturbance observer (FTDO). Initially, the three-channel independent IGC model is constructed based on the interceptor-target relative motion and nonlinear dynamic model of the interceptor, in which the channel coupling term and external disturbance are regarded as the total disturbances of the corresponding channel. Then, the FTDO is introduced to estimate the target acceleration and control system loop disturbances, and the feed-forward compensation term based on the estimated values is employed to effectively remove the effect of disturbances in finite time. Subsequently, the IGC algorithm based on the backstepping sliding mode is also given to obtain the virtual control moment. Furthermore, a robust least-squares weighted control allocation (RLSWCA) algorithm is employed to distribute the previous virtual control moment among the corresponding aerodynamic fins and reaction jets, which also takes into account the uncertainty in the control effectiveness matrix. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed IGC method can obtain the small miss distance and smooth interceptor trajectories.

Analysis of dynamic performance of redundant manipulators using the concept of aspects

  • Chung, W.J.;Chung, W.K.;Youm, Y.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1991.10b
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    • pp.1664-1670
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    • 1991
  • For kinematically redundant manipulators, conventional dynamic control methods of local torque optimization showed the instability which resulted in physically unachievable torque requirements. In order to guarantee stability of the null space vector method which resolves redundancy at the acceleration level, Maciejewski[1] analyzed the kinetic behavior of homogeneous solution component and proposed the condition to identify regions of stability and instability for this method. 'In this paper, a modified null space vector method is first presented based on the Maciejewski's condition which is a function of a manipulator's configuration. Secondly, a new control method which is based on the concept of aspects is proposed. It was shown by computer simulations that the modified null space vector method and the proposed method have a common property that a preferred aspect is preserved during the execution of a task. It was also illustrated that both methods demonstrate a drastic reduction of torque loadings at the joints in the tracking motion of a long trajectory when compared with the null space vector method, and thus guarantee the stability of joint torque.

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Design of Gateway for In-vehicle Sensor Network

  • Kim, Tae-Hwan;Lee, Seung-Il;Hong, Won-Kee
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.73-76
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    • 2005
  • The advanced information and communication technology gives vehicles another role of the third digital space, merging a physical space with a virtual space in a ubiquitous society. In the ubiquitous environment, the vehicle becomes a sensor node, which has a computing and communication capability in the digital space of wired and wireless network. An intelligent vehicle information system with a remote control and diagnosis is one of the future vehicle systems that we can expect in the ubiquitous environment. However, for the intelligent vehicle system, many issues such as vehicle mobility, in-vehicle communication, service platform and network convergence should be resolved. In this paper, an in-vehicle gateway is presented for an intelligent vehicle information system to make an access to heterogeneous networks. It gives an access to the server systems on the internet via CDMA-based hierarchical module architecture. Some experiments was made to find out how long it takes to communicate between a vehicle's intelligent information system and an external server in the various environment. The results show that the average response time amounts to 776ms at fixec place, 707ms at rural area and 910ms at urban area.

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Thermal Analysis on a Satellite Box during Launch Stage by Analytical Solution

  • Choi, Joon-Min;Kim, Hui-Kyung;Hyun, Bum-Seok
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2003
  • Simple methods are developed to predict temperatures of a satellite box during launch stage. The box is mounted on outer surface of satellite and directly exposed to space thermal environment for the time period from fairing jettison to separation. These simple methods are to solve a 1st order ordinary differential equation (ODE) which is simplified from the governing equation after applying several assumptions. The existence of analytical solution for the 1st order ODE is determined depending on treatment of time-dependent molecular heating term. Even for the case that the analytical solution is not available due to the time dependent term, the 1st order ODE can be solved by relatively simple numerical techniques. The temperature difference between two different approaches (analytical and numerical solutions) is relatively small (Jess than $1^{\circ}C$ along the time line) when they are applied to STSAT-I launch scenario. The present methods can be generally used as tools to quickly check whether a satellite box is safe against space environment during the launch stage for the case that the detailed thermal analysis is not available.

A Study on Ubiquitous technology Convergence by Public Use of Physical Space and Function Unification of Physical Facilities (물리적 공간의 공용사용과 물리적 시설의 기능 통합에 의한 유비쿼터스 기술의 융합에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Chang-Sun;Chin, Yong-Ohk
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.231-237
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    • 2009
  • According to the enforcement of various laws for the ubiquitous city, the convergence technologies for the ubiquitous in the industry has been emerging. In this paper, we propose a method for the ubiquitous convergence technology by a functional integration of the public employment of the physical space and physical facilities, as the related laws are enforced and the city development plan is processed in the situation which constructs the ubiquitous and eco-city. We also present a scheme for the establishment to prepare the foundation of systematization, standardization, and information-oriented by providing an application example for the common-use-channel and unification IP pool based on the proposed method.

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