• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.41-48
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• 2008

One of main functions of the firing control system applied to a rocket propulsion test has been to provide electric current for ignition of a solid rocket motor. This paper describes the design and implementation of an enhanced firing control system for ground propulsion test that can also control and verify various types of squib events and flight sequences.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.30-40
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• 2004

In the present study, a numerical method has been developed for the calculation of the gust response of an airship using unstructured meshes. A preconditioning method is incorporated for accurate and efficient computations of the Euler equations at the low Mach number range. A simple sharp-edged gust is used as a gust model. The accuracy of the present method is demonstrated through comparisons with an exact line theory. The numerical results show that the variation of lift is relatively larger than that of moment. It is also shown that the static stability of the airship is enhanced with the use of control fins.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.72-80
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• 2021

Albatross uses dynamic soaring technique to obtain energy from horizontal winds and fly long distances without flapping. These dynamic soaring technique can be applied to manned/unmanned aircraft to reduce the components required for the aircraft and achieve light weight and small volume to effectively perform a given task. In this paper, to simulate the dynamic soaring technique of Albatross, we defined the optimization problem and set each boundary condition to derive the optimal flight trajectory and carry out simulations to follow it. In particular, to model dynamic soaring simulations more closely with reality, we proposed a horizontal wind model that changes every moment. This identifies and analyzes the effect of the time-variable horizontal wind model on the dynamic soaring mission of unmanned aircraft.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.342-349
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• 2013

A damage imposed on an unmanned aerial vehicle changes the flight dynamic characteristics, and makes difficult for a conventional controller based on undamaged dynamics to stabilize the vehicle with damage. This paper presents a neural network based adaptive control method that guarantees stable control performance for an unmanned aerial vehicle even with damage on the main wing. Additionally, Pseudo Control Hedging (PCH) is combined to prevent control performance degradation by actuator characteristics. Asymmetric dynamic equations for an aircraft are chosen to describe motions of a vehicle with damage. Aerodynamic data from wind tunnel test for an undamaged model and a damaged model are used for numerical validation of the proposed control method. The numerical simulation has shown that the proposed control method has robust control performance in the presence of wing damage.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.965-972
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• 2016

This paper presents results of flight experiments on a navigation algorithm including multiplicative extended Kalman filter for estimating attitude of the guided munition. The filter describes orientation of aircraft by data fusion with low-cost sensors where measurement update is done by multiplication, rather than addition, which is suitable for quaternion representation. In determining attitude from vector observations, the existing approach utilizes a 3-axis accelerometer as a 2-axis inclinometer by measuring gravity to estimate pitch and roll angles, while GNSS velocity is used to derive heading of the vehicle. However, during accelerated maneuvers such as coordinated flight, the accelerometer provides inadequate inclinometer measurements. In this paper, the measurement update process is newly defined to complement the vulnerability by using different vector observations. The acceleration measurement is considered as a result of a centrifugal force and gravity during turning maneuvers and used to estimate roll angle. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through flight experiments.

• ICROS
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.31-37
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• 1997

본 연구로부터 최종적으로 얻을 수 있는 성과는 비행중 표적 포착과 인식을 위한 실시간 표적 인식 및 추적 기법에 대한 기반 기술과 차세대 호밍 유도탄 개발을 위한 기반 기술 확보라 할 수 있다. 단계별로는 제 1단계에서 2차원 인식/추적 기법과 이의 실시간 구현을 위한 기초 소프트웨어 및 하드웨어에 관한 연구결과를 기반으로 하여, 2단계에서는 가리워짐이 있는 상황에서의 2차원 인식, 3차원 모델에 기반한 인식 및 추적, 센서 퓨전, 그리고 3단계에서는 인식과 추적의 통합, 인공지능의 기초 기술에 관한 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.10
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• pp.842-850
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• 2014

This paper presents a trajectory tracking controller for rotorcraft UAVs to improve the tracking performances in the presence of various uncertainties. The proposed tracking method consists of a velocity guidance law based on the relative distance and L1 adaptive augmentation loop for tracking the velocity commands. In the proposed structure, the desired velocity generated by the guidance law is the reference value of the adaptive controller for accurate path tracking. In the guidance law, the desired acceleration is generated based on the relative distance and its derivatives, and then the velocity command of the inner control loop is calculated by integrating the accelerations. $L_1$ augmentation loop supplements the linear controller to guarantee the flight performances such as a tracking accuracy in the presence of the uncertainties. The proposed controller was validated in actual flight tests to successfully demonstrate its capability using a quadrotor UAV.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.147-156
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• 2001

In this paper, a robust attitude control scheme based on Eigenaxis rotation for the spacecraft is proposed. Eigenaxis rotation transforms the attitude of spacecraft to the shortest path and is represented by quaternion. The control law consists of PD-type control part for the nominal system and the robust control part for compensating inertia uncertainty. For the proposed controller, stability analysis is performed and the performance is shown via computer simulation.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.63-72
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• 2022

As interest in microsatellites increases, research has been actively conducted recently on the performance and use, as well as the orbital design and deployment techniques, for the microsatellite constellations. The purpose of this study was to investigate orbital deployment techniques using thrust and differential atmospheric drag control (DADC) for the Walker-delta constellation. When using thrust, the time and thrust required for orbital deployment vary, depending on the separation speed and direction of the satellite with respect to the launch vehicle. A control strategy to complete the orbital deployment with limited performance of the propulsion system is suggested and it was analyzed. As a result, the relationship between the deployment period and the total thrust consumption was derived. It takes a relatively longer deployment time using differential air drag rather than consuming thrusts. It was verified that the satellites can be deployed only with differential air drag at a general orbit of a microsatellite constellation. The conclusion of this study suggests that the deployment strategy in this paper can be used for the microsatellite constellation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.922-929
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• 2009

This paper deals with the State-Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) Technique for the design of helicopter nonlinear waypoint guidance controller. To generate the flight guidance through multiple waypoints, we use the trigonometric spline. The controller design and its validation is based upon a level 2 simulation helicopter model and the designed SDRE controller is applied to the trajectory tracking problems. To validate the designed SDRE controller, the simulation environment of high fidelity helicopter model is developed using three independent computers. This paper focuses on the validation the present SDRE controller through the helicopter waypoint guidance simulation.