• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.542-547
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• 2012

Until recently, most of GCS(Ground Control Software) has been required to visualize attitude, position, status of vehicle and to transmit control and mission commands for a single UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). However, the GCS needs to expand its functions to handle more complex situations. Simultaneous operation of multiple UAVs is emerging as a new practice. Hence, we set up requirements for operation of multiple UAVs and suggest the architecture of GCS that satisfy the requirements. In this study, we analyze the upper requirements and define the total structure of GCS at first. Then we design the inner structure for requirements in detail. Finally, we verify the functions of GCS on PILS(Processor In the Loop Simulation) System.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.443-449
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• 2017

Swarm of low-cost UAVs for search mission has benefit in the sense of rapid search compared to use of single high-end UAV. As the number of UAVs forming swarm increases, not only the time for the mission planning increases, but also the system to operate UAVs has excessive burden. This paper addresses a decentralized area search algorithm adequate for multiple UAVs which takes advantages of flexibility, robustness, and simplicity. To down the cost, it is assumed that each UAV has limited ability: close-communication, basic calculation, and limited memory. In close-communication, heath conditions and search information are shared. And collision avoidance and consensus of next search direction are then done. To increase weight on un-searched area and to provide overlapped search, the score function is introduced. Performance and operational characteristics of the proposed search algorithm and mission planning logic are verified via numerical simulations.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.29-39
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• 2015

When new inertial navigation systems for an unmanned aerial vehicles are being developed and tested, construction of a fault-tolerant system is required because of various types of hazards caused by S/W and H/W faults. In this paper, a new fault-tolerant flight system that can be deployed into one or more FCCs (Flight Control Computers) is introduced, based on a partition scheme wherein each OFP (Operational Flight Program) partition uses an independent CPU and memory slot. The new fault-tolerant navigation system utilizes one or two FCCs, and executes a primary navigation OFP under development and a stable shadow OFP partition on each node. The fault-tolerant navigation system based on a single FCC can be used for UAVs with small payloads. For larger UAVs, an additional FCC with two OFP partitions can be used to provide both H/W and S/W fault-tolerance. The developed fault-tolerant navigation system significantly removes various hazards in testing new navigation S/Ws for UAVs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.12
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• pp.1328-1336
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• 2012

Compared to terrestrial RF communications, underwater acoustic communications have several limitations such as limited bandwidth, high level of fading effects, and a large underwater propagation delay. In this paper, in order to tackle those limitations of underwater communications and to make it possible to form a large underwater monitoring systems, we propose a hierarchical underwater network architecture, which consists of underwater sensors, clusterheads, underwater/surface sink nodes, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In the proposed architecture, for the maximization of packet delivery ratio and the minimization of underwater sensor's energy consumption, a hybrid routing protocol is used. More specifically, cluster members use Tree based routing to transmit sensing data to clusterheads. AUVs on optimal trajectory movements collect the aggregated data from clusterhead and finally forward the data to the sink node. Also, in order to minimize the maximum travel distance of AUVs, an Integer Linear Programming based algorithm is employed. Performance analysis through simulations shows that the proposed architecture can achieve a higher data delivery ratio and lower energy consumption than existing routing schemes such as gradient based routing and geographical forwarding. Start after striking space key 2 times.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.169-173
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• 2001

무인 운반차 등의 주행괘적을 검출하기 위해서는, 일반적으로 순간적인 주행속도와 진행방향을 축차적으로 검출하여 이로부터 궤적을 측정하는 방법이 이용되어져 왔으며, 이를 위하여 종래에는 타코미터, 2차 상관법, 공간 필터법 등과 같은 속도 계측 수단과 스티어링 각도 검출기, 자이로등의 회전각 검출 수단을 병용하여야 했다. 본 논문에서는 복수개의 광 선 검출기 군과 이에 대응하는 고차의 상관처리를 이용한 단일계로서 차량의 임의의 궤적을 원호로 근사하여 검출함으로써 곡선 궤적인 경우에도 고정도의 궤적추정이 가능한 새로운 계측법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1209-1216
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• 2009

This paper presents the pose estimation of a small UAV utilizing visual information from low cost cameras installed indoor. To overcome the limitation of the outside flight experiment, the indoor flight test environment based on multi-camera systems is proposed. Computer vision algorithms for the proposed system include camera calibration, color marker detection, and pose estimation. The well-known extended Kalman filter is used to obtain an accurate position and pose estimation for the small UAV. This paper finishes with several experiment results illustrating the performance and properties of the proposed vision-based indoor flight test environment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.2541-2544
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• 2003

새로운 원리에 의한 원격 거리 및 각도측정 시스템［1］［2］(이하 TS, Total Station)을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 마이크로 터널링 공법의 굴진기의 후미 또는 임의의 기준점에 원격으로 점멸할 수 있는 십자형의 발광체를 부착하고, 추진관에 고정시킨 상하좌우 각도측정 및 비접촉식 레이저 거리측정기가 부착된 무인 원격 제어장치에 의하여 십자형 발광체의 중심을 자동으로 검출한다. 또한. 회전각과 CCD 라인 스캔 센서의 조합에 의하여 각도를 정밀하게 원격 측정하게 된다. 한편 본 시스템을 이용하면 마이크로 터널링 공법에 의한 추진관내의 측정 가능한 범위를 연결하는 위치에 복수의 TS를 배치하여 서로의 위치를 자동으로 계측하고 그들 데이터를 컴퓨터에 의하여 계산함으로써, 맨홀의 임의의 기준점으로부터 굴진기의 현재 좌표를 신속하고 정확하게 계산할 수 있다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.442-449
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• 2013

In this paper, a simulation system based on X-Plane and MATLAB/Simulink for multiple UAVs is presented. For the conceptual design of this proposed system, a hierarchical system architecture for multiple UAVs is presented. This architecture has object-oriented data structure which consists of three objects (UAV status, mission and task, and environment) and a hierarchy consisting of four layers (decision making layer, task assignment layer, path and motion planning layer, and collision avoidance layer) is also proposed. In addition, this paper shows a implementation of simulation system based on the proposed system architecture using X-Plane and MATLAB/Simulink. The result of simulation from the developed system in this paper validate capability of application for multiple UAVs in real environment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.385-391
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• 2022

This paper presents to develop a path planning algorithm combining gradient descent-based path planning (GBPP) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) for considering prohibited flight areas, terrain information, and characteristics of fixed-wing unmmaned aerial vehicle (UAV) in 3D space. Path can be generated fast using GBPP, but it is often happened that an unsafe path can be generated by converging to a local minimum depending on the initial path. Bio-inspired swarm intelligence algorithms, such as Genetic algorithm (GA) and PSO, can avoid the local minima problem by sampling several paths. However, if the number of optimal variable increases due to an increase in the number of UAVs and waypoints, it requires heavy computation time and efforts due to increasing the number of particles accordingly. To solve the disadvantages of the two algorithms, hierarchical path planning algorithm associated with hierarchical particle swarm optimization (HPSO) is developed by defining the initial path, which is the input of GBPP, as two variables including particles variables. Feasibility of the proposed algorithm is verified by software-in-the-loop simulation (SILS) of flight control computer (FCC) for UAVs.

• JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORLD
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• s.282
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• pp.67-71
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• 2000

일본, 유럽 및 미국 등의 선진국에서는 전력인프라가 거의 정비되어, 새로운 전력설비에 대한 투자보다 설비의 유지 보수$\cdot$점검비용의 비율이 더 커져가고 있다. 이러한 환경 하에 정기적인 유지보수$\cdot$점검에 요하는 비용, 사고시의 복구에 소요되는 비용 및 정전으로 인한 손실 등을 포함하여 라이프사이클 코스트의 최적화가 논의되고 있다. 유지보수$\cdot$점검에 대하여는 종래의 정기적인 유지보수(Time Based Maintenance : TBM)에서 상태대응 유지보수(Condition Based Maintenance : CBM)에로의 이행으로 비용을 삭감하려는 시도도 진전되고 있다. 이 때문에 전력설비의 상태를 파악할 수 있는 적절한 센서의 설치와 저가격의 가반형 센서의 도입도 추진되고 있다. 또한 설비의 진단장치를 차에 실은 이동진단차의 도입도 시작되고 있어, 복수의 전력소를 순회하며 효율 좋은 유지보수$\cdot$점검을 할 수 있게 되었다. EH 변전소의 무인화에 따라 정전시간 단축을 위해 사고 시에 원방복구조작이 가능한 고장점 표정장치도 도입되고 있다. 최근에는 SF${_6}$가스의 환경문제도 화제가 되어 가스를 대기 중에 방출하는 일 없이 고장구분을 표정할 수 있는 분해가스센서도 개발되었다.