• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.159-167
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• 2009

To obtain the gravity data with consistent quality and good distribution over Korea, to overcome the difficulties in constructing precision geoid from biased distribution of ground data, to resolve the discrepancy between the ground and ocean gravity data, an airborne gravity survey was conducted from Dec. 2008 to Jan. 2009. The data was measured at the average flying height of 3,000m and the data with cross-over error of 2.21mGal is obtained. The geoid constructed using this airborne gravity data shows the range of 9.34 $\sim$ 33.88m. Comparing the geoid with respect to the GPS/levelling data, a precision of 0.145m is obtained. After fitting, the degree of fit to GPS/levelling data was calculated about 5cm. It was found that there exists large biases in the area of south-western and northern part of the peninsular which is considered to be the effect of distorted vertical datum in Korea. Thus, more investigation on vertical datum would be needed in near future.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.483-490
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• 2005

Mass resolution of the time of flight aerosol mass spectrometer for an aerosol component analysis depends on the initial direction and the initial energy of the ions. We have found that the shape of the optimum post focusing electric field is not linear. The maximum electric potential should be applied to the ions whose initial direction is 90 degree. To check on the post focusing effects, we have installed a laser ablation mass spectrometer. By using this LA-MS, we have found that the average energy distribution of the laser ablated ions is 8 eV. To establish the optimum mass resolution, a time delay and a high voltage are needed, and the results of the study show that 1500 nsec, and 3.7 kV are the optimum parameters for our system respectively. The isotope mass signals of copper show a good resolution.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.307-313
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• 2009

In general, pyroshock is generated from the actuation of separation devices for several stage, fairing, and satellite separation in the flight of a launch vehicle. During these events, transient vibration phenomenon called pyroshock, which shows large acceleration in the high frequency range, occurs and it can result in the malfunction of electronic components which is equipped inside the launch vehicle or satellite. In this paper, mesh washer isolators made out of SMA were introduced for the isolation of pyroshock. One type of isolator primarily used pseudoelastic characteristics of SMA and the other type of isolator used shape memory effect of SMA. For the study of basic load-displacement relationship of each SMA isolator, compressive loading tests were performed and the results showed the capability of the isolator itself. Pyroshock isolation tests were followed and verified the outstanding isolation performance of isolator. In addition, random vibration tests were also performed and checked the dynamic characteristics of each SMA isolator.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.600-607
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• 2008

Reliable wireless transmission of data generated by the flight critical subsystems or mission equipments of the unmanned aerial system is critical for mission success. As the UAS system becomes more sophisticated, its dependency on a reliable high rate radio communication system also increases. This requirement is applied not only during the operation phase but also in the early development test phase. This paper introduces a practical cost-effective communication system for a UAS. The downlink module combines analog NTSC video signal with onboard data, and send them using 2.4 GHz carrier wave. The uplink system has less a severe requirement on the bandwidth, and thus uses 430 MHz signal. This paper also presents a sample packet structure which can be adopted for many UAS of similar class.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.126-131
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to assess the condition of composites used in aircraft under varying temperature environment with ultrasound guided wave technique. Investigation of crucial influential factor on the composite health monitoring related to aircraft operational environments such as the number of thermal cycles and temperature deviation between ground level and flight altitude has been of a great concern for aircraft safety issue. In this study, ultrasonic guided wave health monitoring scheme is proposed to evaluate composite specimens damaged with the thermal fatigue simulating aircraft operational condition. Guided wave dispersion curves are used to select right modes which show a promising sensitivity to each different thermal fatigue damage level. The present approach can be also implemented as one of on-lines health monitoring tools for aircraft.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.31-39
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• 2020

According to lessons learned from an accident of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it is advisable to make a comprehensive radiation survey by the accident phase for efficient response and risk management using diverse survey platforms. This study focuses on the technical status of environmental radiation monitoring using a UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) and the performance test of developed aerial survey system based on two detectors with an high energy resolution through the field application to contaminated areas. Finally, the performance of aerial survey at diverse flight heights was successfully achieved by introducing the correction factor to represent the results into ambient dose rate at 1m above the ground.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.295-301
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• 2018

Recently, GPS(Global Positioning System) array antenna technology is generally used and widely adopted as a national infrastructure structure and aero-vehicles for protection the GPS signal reception. Until now, the 2-dimensional planar array is universally used for its applications in the array antenna signal processing, however relatively higher altitude air vehicles such as UAV experiences additional null zones induced by low altitude GPS interferences which is located in a symmetry zone of antenna horizontal plane and this could make the receiving antenna pattern coverage reduction. In this paper, we improved 20% of the beam pattern receiving performance and 13 dB correlation value improvement by eliminating the interference mirror images.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.101-107
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• 2019

This paper proposes a method for detecting faults in conveyor systems used for transportation of raw materials needed in the thermal power plant and cement industries. A small drone was designed in consideration of the difficulty in accessing the industrial site and the need to use it in wide industrial site. In order to apply the system to the embedded microprocessor, hardware and algorithms considering limited memory and execution time have been proposed. At this time, the failure determination method measures the peak frequency through the measurement, detects the continuity of the high frequency, and performs the failure diagnosis with the high frequency components of noise. The proposed system consists of experimental environment based on the data obtained from the actual thermal power plant, and it is confirmed that the proposed system is useful by conducting virtual environment experiments with the drone designed system. In the future, further research is needed to improve the drone's flight stability and to improve discrimination performance by using more intelligent methods of fault frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.76-76
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• 2019

최근 기후변화로 인해 퇴적 및 세굴이 심화되었고, 4대강 사업으로 인해 급격한 하천 지형 변화가 발생하였다. 특히, 4대강 사업 이후 하상변동 모니터링에 대한 지속적인 수요가 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 개정된 하천법에 따르면 하상변동조사를 기본 10년 주기로 정기적으로 실시하되, 퇴적 및 세굴 발생 구간에 대해서는 기본 2년을 기준으로 하상변동이 큰 곳에 대해서는 1년 주기로, 하상변동이 작은 곳에 대해서는 5년 주기로 실시해야 한다. 하지만 기술 및 예산의 한계로 인해 하상변동조사의 경우 현장 유사량 및 하상토 입도 측정과 유량-총유사량 관계식을 활용하여 모델링을 통해 하상변동을 예측하고 있는 실정이다. 하상변동은 기본적으로 하천 수심을 기본으로 하고 있으며, 사람이 직접 투입하여 임의의 지점에 대한 수심 계측을 실시하고 있다. 하지만 직접 수심 계측의 경우 낮은 자료의 밀도로 인해 많은 인력과 예산, 시간이 소요되며 무엇보다도 관측 대상인 물이라는 작업환경에서는 인명피해가 발생할 수 있는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 최근에는 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위해 초음파 센서가 탑재된 이동식 보트를 활용하여 경로형 수심 계측을 실시하고 있으나, 초음파 센서가 가지는 기기적 한계로 인해 약 50cm 이하에 대한 수심은 측정이 어려운 실정이다. 특히, 국내 하천의 경우는 홍수기를 제외하면 수심이 얕기 때문에 얕은 수심에 대한 자료 확보가 어려워 공간적 정밀도 확보가 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 기존의 하천계측의 패러다임을 지점, 선형 계측이 아닌 면 측량을 실시를 통해 높은 밀도의 자료를 확보해야 한다. 이러한 측량이 가능한 기술로 하천원격탐사가 대안으로 제시되고 있다. 하천원격탐사는 직접 접촉하지 않고, 대상체의 광학적 특성을 통해 물리적 특성을 파악하는 기술로서 적은 시간에 높은 밀도의 자료의 확보와 저예산의 고효율 방법으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 하천원격탐사에서 활용한 고비용, 저해상도의 시공간 스케일에 해당하는 위성 및 유인항공기가 아닌 하천의 흐름방향으로 비행이 가능하고 상대적으로 저비용, 고해상도의 시공간 스케일의 측정이 가능한 드론을 활용하여 하천원격탐사를 수행하는 방법에 대해 논하고자 한다. 특히, 기술적 한계가 존재하는 청색, 녹색, 적색에 해당하는 RGB 영상을 활용한 하천원격탐사를 극복하기 위한 대안으로 초분광 영상을 수집하고 활용하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.60-71
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• 2021

Propeller performance measurement system for commercial propeller was designed and applied to the wind tunnel test for 3 commercial propeller models with diameters of 30 inch. The thrust and torque of the propeller was directly measured by using 6-components balance installed on the rotating axis. The measurement system was validated by using wind tunnel balance calibration equipment. Propeller test stand including measurement and rotating system was validated by using QTP propeller. In the hovering condition, we compared the performance test results and the specifications of the commercial propeller provided by the manufacturer and confirmed that there are differences in the thrust and the torque. We measured the propeller performance with various wind speeds, propeller models and angles of attack and was summarized by thrust coefficients. We confirmed that the trend of the thrust coefficients was different in the low angle of attack and high angle of attack. An aerodynamics database that can be used for future aerodynamic design of an unmanned aerial vehicle was secured.