• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2004

In this study, we analyze technical requirements for a 50m unmanned airship order to assure safety in the test flight operation. The 50m class unmanned airship developed by Airship Group in Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI). The 50m class unmanned airship was developed as a scale-down model of 200m class stratosphere unmanned airship. This study reviews specifications and characteristics of 50m class unmanned airship and develops Airworthiness Requirements on the basis of current effective Aviation Act, Airworthiness standards, and relevant international documents. The developed requirements can be applied to the safety assessment of the 200m class stratosphere unmanned airship.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.139-144
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• 2004

The flight control system designed for an unmanned airship, which is under development by KARI, is in reduced. First, the dynamic characteristics of the airship are addressed, which are fairly different from those of the nominal aircraft. In order to implement autonomous flight for the unmanned airship, flight control logic is designed including autopilot and guidance law. The autopilot is designed under consideration of the velocity region of the unmanned airship. The guidance laws are implemented in main operational modes such as point navigation, station keeping and spiral up/down for emergency return. Their simulation results are also presented in order to validate performances of the flight control system.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.82-94
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the static and dynamic stability-of the unmanned airship under development ; the target airship's over-all length of hull is 50m and the maximum diameter is 12.5m. For the analysis, the dynamic model of an airship was defined and both the nonlinear and linear dynamic equations of motion were derived. Two different configuration models (KA002Y and KA003Y) of the airship were used for the target model of the static stability analysis and the dynamic stability analysis. From the result of analyses, though the airship is unstable in static stability, dynamic characteristics of the airship can provide the stable dynamic stability. All of the results, airship models and dynamic flight equations will be an important basement and basic information for the next step of developing the automatic flight control system(AFCS) and the stability augmentation system(SAS) for the unmanned airship as well as for the stratospheric airship in the future.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.498-509
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• 2010

In this paper, a waypoint guidance law Line Tracking algorithm is designed for testing an Unmanned Airship. In order to verify, we develop an autonomous flight control and test system of unmanned airship. The flight test system is composed FCC (Flight Control Computer), GCS (Ground Control System), Autopilot & Guidance program, GUI (Graphic User Interface) based analysis program, and Test Log Sheet for the management of flight test data. It contains flight test results of single-path & multi-path following, one point continuation turn, LOS guidance, and safe mode for emergency.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2003년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.127-131
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• 2003

KARI developed 50m class unmanned airship. The airship employ the pressure envelope design principle. The envelope must be considered as a main structural element of the airship. The envelope ＆ three ballonets are fabricated by polyfiber composite laminates. Other structural components (gondola, tailwing, nosecone ＆ engine mounts) are manufactured by carbon fiber ＆ glass fiber laminates. In order to develop a big unmanned airship, a large amount of structural design, analysis and tests had to be made. The paper describes the structural configuration of the 50m class uumanned airship which are basic starting point of the structural development of an airship. The paper includes the various designing processes, components development tests and analysis results. Envelope ＆ ballonets development processes which are very different to conventional airplane design are given in details with actual analysis & test results. The paper also describes the structural design and analysis results for other composite made structures. Each components were tested by static design limit loads and structural safety were confirmed. The paper shows the manufactured structural components and assembled airship.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1709-1714
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• 2004

Pressurization system of a 50m unmanned airship was manufactured according to the detailed design. In this paper. the whole procedures including system design. simulation and fabrication were described. The fabricated part were ground tested to check compliances with design requirements. Ground tests include operational tests, leakage tests, endurace tests and low temperature environmental tests. Results shows pressurization system of a 50m unmanned airship meets design requirements. Currently. pressurization system is installed to the KARI airship, Via 50m and performance verification through the flight tests are being conducted.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.148.1-148
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• 2001

The airship is starting to receive new highlights as a stable floating platform. A floating platform can serve as a telecommunication relay station or an environmental outpost. Much of these operations require unmanned autonomous operation on the airship. Due to difficulties in modelling and identifying the airship, controlling the airship is not an easy task. Different from the normal aircraft, the airship is affected by "added mass" and buoyancy. The added mass is the additional mass felt required to move the object in a fluid. As we are searching for a stable floating platform, controlling the airship to keep station is critical. We use a simple airship model with added mass for simulation. Classical controller is used to find acceptable airship performances.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.46-55
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• 2006

비행체의 궤적 최적화를 위해서는 비행체의 특성을 반영한 3차원 운동방정식이 유도되어야 하며, 비행선과 같이 공기보다 가벼운 비행체의 경우는 일반 고정익 항공기와는 다른 특성들을 반영하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 중고도 무인비행선의 궤적 최적화를 위해 비행선의 운동방정식을 유도하고, 이를 이용한 최소시간 문제를 다루었다. 최적 궤적을 얻기 위하여 최적 궤적 문제를 제어입력 파라미터화를 이용한 비선형 프로그래밍 문제로 변환한 후 연속 2차 계획법을 이용하여 궤적을 산출하였으며, 이에 대한 수치결과를 나타내었다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.64-75
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• 2005

The Stratospheric Airship Platform (SAP) has a capability of performing the autonomous and guidance flight to satisfy given missions. To be used as the High Altitude Platforms (HAPs), the capabilities of controlling platform's accurate position and keeping the station point are the most important features. Under this circumstances Autonomous Flight Control System (AFCS) is a critical system and plays a key role in achieving the given requirements and succeeding in missions. In this paper, the design and analysis results of the AFCS algorithms and controller are presented. The brief summary of the AFCS hardware structure is also explained. The autopilot controller and guidance logics were designed based on the linear dynamics of the unmanned airship platform and the full nonlinear dynamics was considered to evaluate and verify their performances.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 무인비행선 비행제어시스템의 HILS(Hardware-In-the-Loop-Simulation) 시스템 개발 결과를 소개한다. HILS 시스템은 비행선 제어를 위해 설계된 비행제어컴퓨터의 지상시험을 위해 개발되었다. HILS 시스템을 구성하기 위해 각각 별도의 컴퓨터에서 작동하는 통신장비 모사 시스템, 탑재장치 모사 시스템, 비행선 운동 모사 시스템, 그리고 운동 가시화 시스템을 개발하였고, 이와 함께 3축 운동 시험대와 관성항법장치(Inertial Navigation Unit)도 포함하였다. 개발된 HILS 시스템을 이용한 단계적인 시험을 통해 비행 제어컴퓨터의 기능과 성능을 검증하였다.