• ICROS
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.27-36
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• 2014

무인항공기 유도 및 제어기술의 급격한 발전은 군사용 목적을 넘어 민간분야에서의 활용과 관련된 연구 및 개발을 더욱 촉발시키고 있다. 특히 최근에는 물류수송을 위한 상업용 무인항공기 기술개발이 각광을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내외에서 개발되고 있는 물류수송용 무인항공기에 대한 기술동향과 국내 실정에 적합한 무인시스템을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.151-156
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• 2018

Military robots are expected to play an important role in the future battlefield, and will be actively engaged in dangerous, repetitive and difficult tasks. During the robots perform the tasks a human operator controls the robots in a supervisory way. The operator recognizes battlefield situations from remote robots through an interface of the operator control center, and controls them. In the meantime, operator workload, controller interface, robot automation level, and task complexity affect robot operability. In order to assess the robot operability, we have developed ROSim (Robot Operational Simulator) incorporating these operational factors. In this paper, we introduce the results of applying ROSim experimentally to the assessment of reconnaissance robot operability in a battle field. This experimental assessment shows three resulting measurements: operational control workload, operational control capability, mission success rate, and discuss its applicability to the defense robot research and development. It is expected that ROSim can contribute to the design of an operator control center and the design analysis of a human-robot team in the defense robot research and development.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.535-542
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• 2012

Recently, the study on small-sized reconnaissance robot has been progressed through grafting robot technology to military fields for minimizing the casualties. Especially, throwable robots have been focusing for their's efficiency in anti-terror operation. However, it is impossible to launch throwable robot to long range(approximately 100m) by hand. So we need another type of robots, so called launchable robots, which can launch farther and is more accurate by launcher. In this paper, we presented the process of developments of launchable robots('launchbot') which are available for remote launch from collection of user's opinions to field test. Based on the opinions of users, we established the goal of development, designed and manufactured the robots. Through the field test, we found that our launchable robot satisfied the performance requirements.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.92-101
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• 2015

미래 전장은 정보 지식 기반의 첨단 전력체계를 확충하기 위해 향후 전력구조를 통합, 지휘통제통신(C4I) 체계와 생존성과 통합성이 향상된 전장의 네트워크중심전(NCW) 수행능력을 향상시킬 것이다. 사이버물리시스템(Cyber-Physical Systems: CPS)은 함정전투체계에 적용되고 있는 DDS를 포함하여 국방 M&S의 근간인 Live, Virture, Constructive(L-V-C) 체계의 큰 축을 형성하고 있다. 사물인터넷(Internet of Things: IoT) 기술은 센서네트워크, 통신, Radio Frequency Identification(RFID), Ubiquitous Sensor Network(USN), Machine to Machine(M2M), D2D 기술 및 상황인지, 지능서비스를 위한 정보수집/가공/융합/분석/예측기술을 포괄적으로 포함한 기술로서 미래산업을 이끌어 갈 차세대 선도 기술이며, 특히 군사적으로도 감시정찰 센서네트워크(USN), 견마형로봇, 경전투로봇과 무인기 기술 및 전술정보통신망체계(TICN) 등 첨단 통신네트워크 기술의 전력화 추세는 IoT 기술의 적용영역을 넓혀주고 있다. 감시정찰체계(Sensor)에서는 감시정찰 분야 영상정보 처리, 표적탐지 등과 관련된 IoT 기술 소요와 지휘통제통신(C4I) 체계의 상호운용성, 데이터링크, 지능형 통신체계 등 C4I 관련 IoT 기술 소요 및 타격체계(Shooter)의 내장형 SW 등 유 무인 무기체계 관련 IoT 기술의 소요가 증대될 것으로 예상된다. 본고는 CPS 및 IoT 기술의 군사적 활용방안 및 획득전략에 대한 적용기술 및 발전방향을 살펴본다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.309-315
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• 2015

This paper presents a lower-limb exoskeleton testbed and its control method. An exoskeleton is a wearable robotic system that can enhance wearer's muscle power or assist human's movements. Among a variety of its applications, especially for military purpose, a wearable robot can be very useful for carrying heavy loads during locomotion by augmenting soldiers' mobility and endurance. The locomotion test on a treadmill was performed up to maximum 4km/h walking speed wearing the lower-limb exoskeleton testbed with a 45kg backpack load.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.189-200
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• 2015

This paper gives an overview on the some potential applications and key technologies of biomimetic underwater robot for naval operations. Unlike most manned underwater naval systems, biomimetic underwater robots can be especially useful in near-land or harbour areas due to their ability to operate in shallow water effectively. Biomimetic underwater robot provide advantages in reaching locations that would be difficult or too dangerous for a manned vehicle to reach, as well as providing a level of autonomy that can remove the requirement for dedicated human operator support. Using multiple or schools of underwater robots would provide increased flexibility for navigation, communication and surveillance ability. And it alleviate some of the restrictions associated with speed and endurance design constraints.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.606-616
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• 2022

Semantic segmentation in autonomous driving for unstructured environments is challenging due to the presence of uneven terrains, unstructured class boundaries, irregular features and strong textures. Current off-road datasets exhibit difficulties like class imbalance and understanding of varying environmental topography. To overcome these issues, we propose a deep learning framework for semantic segmentation that involves a pooled class semantic segmentation with five classes. The evaluation of the framework is carried out on two off-road driving datasets, RUGD and TAS500. The results show that our proposed method achieves high accuracy and real-time performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.01a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2012

현대전에서는 인명 손실을 최소화하는 동시에 타 전투체계와의 연계를 통해 부여된 임무를 성공적으로 이끌어 내기 위해 무인로봇을 활발하게 이용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 미래 전장에서 중심 역할을 수행할 것으로 기대되는 무인로봇과 통제장치의 기능을 제안한다. 통제장치는 디지털 지도를 기반으로 무인로봇의 위치를 전시하는 동시에 특정 위치로의 자율 이동 명령을 내리게 하는 인터페이스이다. 통제장치에서 무인로봇의 실시간 이동 간에 디지털 지도 기반 가시선(line of sight) 분석을 수행함으로써 통신 가능지역 식별 및 중계기를 통한 통신 가능 영역 식별을 용이하게 한다. 제안한 무인로봇과 통제장치를 통해 전장 환경에서 부여된 작전을 성공적으로 이끄는데 주된 역할을 수행할 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.55-56
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• 2007

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.633-638
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• 2017

The small unmanned robot developed in this paper can perform tasks such as surveillance and reconnaissance in the battle field. The noise generated during the operation of the robot may expose the operation area. Therefore, in this study, we developed a method to quantitatively measure the noise of the developed small unmanned ground robot. The criteria for noise measurement in indoor and outdoor are presented. It was used for statistical verification method to verify the reliability of the developed noise measurement method. The noise was measured at different places, and the correlation was analyzed. Thus, we proposed a method to predict the noise level in the operation area where the robot is operated by the noise test data measured during the development process.