• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.86-95
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• 2014

For the accomplishment of satellite's own missions, complicated control procedures and commands are required. Although absolute-Time Command and Command Sequences have been applied for controlling satellite and its operation historically, these command system only has a capability to manage sequential control process and has a limitation that cannot deal with decision and branch for corresponding to the condition of the time. To resolve above limitation, KARI has designed RTCSC which is mainly based on the existing RTCS but adopts a one-byte Op Code for supporting decision making and conditional branch. This paper introduces the design and implementation of RTCSC as On-Board Control System like OBCP, VML and IP.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.49-57
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• 2020

군사 등의 특수 목적으로만 사용되었던 무인비행체 드론이 최근 상용 수준의 간결한 구조와 저가화가 가능해지면서 여러 제조업체를 통하여 민간분야의 다양한 응용에 활용 가능함을 증명하고 있다. 그러나 제조업체들 간의 시장 우위 선점을 위한 과열 경쟁으로 인하여 보안 안전성 검증 단계를 거치지 않은 드론과 이에 수반되는 애플리케이션이 시장에 바로 출시되면서 이들이 우리 사회를 향한 공격도구로 활용될 수 있다는 새로운 잠재적 위협이 우려되고 있다, 이와 관련하여 현재 드론과 애플리케이션과의 연결 및 데이터 통신 과정에서 완성도가 낮은 접근제어 기술이나 암호화되지 않은 통신방식을 비롯하여 드론 내부 소프트웨어의 코딩 상의 문제점 등에 의하여 다양한 취약점이 노출되고 있는 상태이다. 이러한 취약점들로 인하여 드론의 인증 해제 및 하이재킹을 통한 불법 영상촬영이나 개인정보의 유출 등을 비롯하여 특정 목표물을 향한 드론의 고의적 추락 등이 발생할 경우 재산 피해뿐만 아니라 인명 피해까지 발생할 수 있다. 특히, 현재의 드론 응용은 초기단계여서 향후 다양한 응용과 유관 기술들이 폭넓게 전개되어야 하는 시점에서 이러한 사고 가능성은 매우 심각하게 인식되어야 할 것이다. 더구나 제4차 산업혁명 시대의 드론은 비상시를 위한 다이나믹 모바일 게이트웨이 역할까지도 수행하여야 하는 환경에서 악의적인 행위는 전체 사회로 확산될 우려도 있으므로 미래 사회의 드론을 위한 안전문제는 매우 시급하고 중대하다고 할 수 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 현재까지 발표된 드론에 대한 다양한 보안위협을 조사하고 이러한 보안 위협을 요소별로 분류하여 정리하였다. 본 기고가 간단하게나마 정리한 내용을 통하여 다양한 보안위협에 대한 대응기술을 준비하기 위한 시발점이 되었으면 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.235-242
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• 2017

A driving controller for active destruction protections can be applied to machinery, aerospace and military fields. In particular, this controller can be used to track and attack enemy flying objects through the active control. It is important to ensure reliability of the driving controller since its operation should be kept with precision to the target point. The temperature of the environment where the driving controller is used is about -32 C ~ 50 C (241~323 ). Heat generated in the driving controller should be maintained below a certain threshold (85 C (358 )) to ensure reliability; therefore, the study and analysis of the heat flow characteristics in the driving controller are required. In this research, commercial software Solid-Works Flow Simulation was used for the numerical simulation assuming a low Reynolds number turbulence model and an incompressible viscous flow. The goal of this paper is to design the driving controller safely by analyzing the characteristics of the heat flow inside of the controller composed of chips or boards. Our analysis shows temperature distributions for boards and chips below a certain threshold.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.91-100
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• 2015

We developed a micro UAV based rapid mapping system that provides geospatial information of target areas in a rapid and automatic way. Users can operate the system easily although they are inexperienced in UAV operation and photogrammetric processes. For the aerial data acquisition, we constructed a micro UAV system mounted with a digital camera, a GPS/IMU, and a control board for the sensor integration and synchronization. We also developed a flight planning software and data processing software for the generation of geo-spatial information. The processing software operates automatically with a high speed to perform data quality control, image matching, georeferencing, and orthoimage generation. With the system, we have generated individual ortho-images within 30 minutes from 57 images of 3cm resolution acquired from a target area of $400m{\times}300m$.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.55-64
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• 2013

In this paper, the HILS (Hardware In-the-Loop Simulation) system to analyze and to verify the performance of the targeting pod is addressed. The main functions of the targeting pod is acquiring and tracking targets to guide a LGB (Laser Guided Bomb) to the targets. For the analysis of targeting pod, the real time simulate images generation of IR and daylight cameras, sever control technology, and the analysis of laser transfer characteristics are necessary. For the real time image generation and the laser transfer characteristics analysis, off-the-shelf SDK(Software Development Kit) OKTAL-SE is used. For the servo controller, well-proven mechanism in the previous program is applied to increase servo control accuracy. To analyze the performance of a targeting pod in a realistic environment, 1553B, ARINK818 interface and etc. which are actually implemented in real combat aircrafts are applied in the system. By using the developed HILS system, the performance of currently operating targeting pods in real combat aircrafts can be analyzed and predicted. Additionally, the relationship between overall system performance and each module performance can be analyzed, the currently developed HILS system is expected to be a very useful tool to generate system development requirements of targeting pods and to reduce any possible future development risks.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.357-365
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• 2015

Recently, embedded systems such as aircraft and automobilie, are developed as modular architecture instead of federated architecture because of SWaP(Size, Weight and Power) issues. In addition, partition operating system that support multiple logical node based on partition concept were recently appeared. Distributed recovery block is fault tolerance design scheme that applicable to mission critical real-time system to support real-time take over via real-time synchronization between participated nodes. Because of real-time synchronization, single-core based computer is not suitable for partition based distributed recovery block design scheme. Multi-core and AMP(Asymmetric Multi-Processing) based partition architecture is required to apply distributed recovery block design scheme. In this paper, we proposed design scheme of distributed recovery block on the multi-core based supervised-AMP architecture partition operating system. This paper implements flight control simulator for avionics to check feasibility of our design scheme.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.208-214
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• 2020

In this study, we have developed a drone magnetic exploration system (proto-type) using a fluxgate magnetic sensor. Hardware of the system consists of a fluxgate magnetometer, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a GPS, and a communication module. And we have developed monitoring software, which enables it to transmit the measured data to the ground control system (GCS) in real time. The measured magnetic data are finally saved as 1 Hz data after passing through a notch filter and a band-pass filter. For verification of this system, a preliminary test was conducted to check the magnetic responses of a magnetic object first, then the field test was carried out in two iron mines. We tested the developed system on the field test in Pocheon, Gyeonggi and Jeongseon, Gangwon. The magnetic data from the developed drone system was very similar to those from unmanned airship system developed by Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). As a result, preliminary experiment and field test have demonstrated that this system is applicable for outdoor aeromagnetic exploration. It requires more studies to improve filter function and instrument performance to minimize noise in the future.

• 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.