• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.35-41
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• 2019

Contrail is a kind of cloud that is formed during the flight by vapor condensation of engine exhaust in a cold atmospheric condition. Owing to the negative effects of contrails on the environment and in military applications, several studies for contrail mitigation had been performed in developed countries. The goal of this research is to design a lab-scale contrail generator, and to validate the contrail mitigation technology suggested by previous studies. The contrail generator was made using superheated vapor and a low temperature wind tunnel. Using this generator, the ineffectiveness of ethanol and surfactant suggested in the previous paper on contrail mitigation was found experimentally.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.11-19
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• 2021

Contrails are line-shaped clouds formed by the condensation of water vapor from the interaction of exhaust gas from aircraft engines and the high-altitude atmosphere. Contrails are known to aggravate global warming by creating a greenhouse effect by absorbing or reflecting radiation emitted from the Earth. In this study, development of a model that can quantitatively predict the contrail occurrence was conducted for the reduction of contrail, which is likely to form an aircraft certification category in the future. Based on prior research results, a model that can predict the occurrence of contrail between Tokyo and Qingdao was developed, in addition to proposing improved flight altitude that can minimize the occurrence of contrail.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.23-29
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• 2018

Contrail is type of clouds which are formed by a condensation of water vapour from the aircraft exhaust when the aircraft is flying the cold atmosphere. Since contrails have considerable effect on greenhouse-effect and military stealth efficiency, researches about contrail avoidance technology has been conducted for decades. However, none of the previous researches concerning contrail avoidance was carried out in Korea. Thus, review of the previous study regarding contrail reduction is absolutely needed. In this paper, researches conducted by several countries are categorically introduced, and practicabilities of their methods are analyzed. This paper also suggests some practical and systematized way to conduct future researches about contrail avoidance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.85-86
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 무인비행체를 위한 듀얼 카메라 영상처리 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템에서는 무인비행체에서 카메라 시스템을 운용함에 있어서 효율성을 극대화하기 위해 두 개의 카메라를 이용한 영상정보의 습득 및 처리 방법을 제안하였다. 영상의 습득과 프로세싱 과정에서는 OpenCV와 FF-MPEG을 활용한 영상의 분석과 압축을 구현하였다. 무인비행체에서의 데이터 전송은 디지털 광대역 통신인 와이브로를 이용하였다. 또한 지상스테이션은 데이터를 전송받아 영상을 확인하고 무인비행체조작과 카메라조작 명령을 내리는 역할을 담당하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.857-866
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• 2022

Fixed-wing UAVs have long endurance and range capabilities compared to other aerial platforms. These advantages led fixed-wing UAVs to become a popular platform for reconnaissance missions in the military. In this research, we modeled fixed-wing UAVs, including the landing gear model and developed a guidance and control system for flight control computers to construct a HILS environment. We also developed an autopilot system that includes automated take-off, cruise, and landing control for UAVs. We also retrived the Aerodynamic coefficients an UAV using Datcom and AVL software and used them for 6 degrees of freedom modeling. The Flight control computer calculates guidance commands using the Carrot chasing guidance law after distinguishing the condition of the UAV based on 16 pre-defined flight modes and calculates control inputs using Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (NDI) control scheme. We used RTNngine to integrate the Simulink model and flight control computer for HILS environment formulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.213-221
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• 2011

Avionics system tends to be designed to have the integrated architecture, and it is getting difficult and complex to verify the flight-critical function because of sophisticated structure. In Korean Utility Helicopter, mission computer acts as the MUX Bus Controller to handle the data from both communication, identification, mission/display and survivability equipment inside Mission Equipment Package and aircraft subsystems such as fuel system and electrical system while it is interfacing with Automatic Flight Control System and Full-Authority Digital Engine Control via ARINC-429 bus. The Flight Displays which is classified as flight-critical function in aircraft is implemented on Primary Flight Display after mission computer processes data from AFCS in order to generate graphics. This paper defines the flight-critical function implemented in mission computer for KUH, and presents the static and dynamic test procedures which is performed on System Integration Laboratory along with Playback Recorder prior to flight test.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.56-65
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• 2024

Fuel cell powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are globally being developed for various application according to hydrogen roadmap. However, safety standards for hydrogen fuel cell for UAV have not been established. Therefore, in this study, we derive safety data based on risk assessment to develop safety standards for fuel cells for UAV. We use fault tree analysis method which is broadly used in hydrogen facilities as a risk assessment tool. We set hydrogen leaks and fires as top events and derived the basic events. Safety data for the basic events were derived by quoting overseas safety standards related to fuel cells. The safety data will be used for developing fuel cell inspection standard according to Act on Hydrogen Economy Promotion and Hydrogen Safety Management.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.987-993
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• 2013

Korean Utility Helicopter(KUH) is the first korean-developed helicopter. Its first flight was performed in March 2010 and then its development was completed successfully by June 2012. During flight test phase, KUH faced various vibration problems and appropriate vibration-reduction devices were designed and applied to solve the problems. The vibration-reduction devices were applied to main rotor blades, main gear box(MGB) supporting structure, cockpit, cabin and pilot seats to reduce rotor-induced 4/rev vibration. Also, dome-fairing was introduced in order to reduce the tail-shake vibration. This paper shows design technique and flight test results for vibration-reduction devices that have been incorporated into KUH.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.323-328
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• 2011

In real system application, the 3-D obstacle avoidance system for the autonomous control of the underwater flight vehicle (UFV) operates with the following problems: the sonar offers the range/bearing information of obstacles in a local detection area, it requires the system that has reduced acoustic noise and power consumption in terms of the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), it has the UFV operation constraints such as maximum pitch and depth, and it requires an easy design procedure in terms of its structures and parameters. To solve these problems, an intelligent 3-D obstacle avoidance algorithm using the evolution strategy (ES) and the fuzzy logic controller (FLC), is proposed. To verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, the 3-D obstacle avoidance of UFV is performed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm effectively solves the problems in the real system application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.245-246
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 GUI(Graphical User Interface)를 이용하여 다수의 드론을 동시 제어하는 시스템 구현 결과를 보인다. 네트워크 소켓(Network Socket) 응용 프로그램인 Packet Sender를 이용하여 다수의 드론을 AP(Wireless Access Point)에 연결하였다. Python 응용 프로그램으로 UDP(User Datagram Protocol) 소켓을 통해 AP에 연동된 드론으로 명령을 전송하여 제어한다. Python GUI 모듈인 Tkinter를 이용하여 사용자에게 GUI를 제공함으로써 접근성(Accessibility)을 높인 시스템을 개발하였다.