• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.287-295
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• 2012

Purpose: Some of the most representative approaches are to apply next generation technologies to save energy consumption, fully automated control system to appropriately maintain environmental conditions, and autonomous assistance system to reduce labor load and ensure operator's safety. Nevertheless, improvement of upcoming method for soil cultured greenhouse has not been sufficiently achieved. Geometrical complexity of ground in protected crop cultivation might be one of the most dominant factors in design of autonomous vehicle. While there is a practical solution fairly enough to promise an accurate travelling, such as autonomous sprayer guided by rail or induction coil, for various reasons including the limitation of producer's budget, the previously developed sprayer has not been widely distributed to market. Methods: In this study, we developed an autonomous sprayer considering travelling performance on geometrical complexity of ground in soil cultured greenhouse. To maintain a stable travelling and to acquire a real time feedback, common wire with 80 mm thick and body frame and sprayer boom. To evaluate performance of the prototype, tracking performance, climbing performance and spraying boom's uniform leveling performance were individually evaluated by corresponding experimental tests. Results: The autonomous guidance system was proved to be sufficiently suitable for accurate linear traveling with RMS as lower than approximately 10 cm from designated path. Also the prototype could climb $10^{\circ}$ of ground's slope angle with 40 kg of water weight. Uniform leveling of spraying boom was successfully performed within $0.5^{\circ}$ of sprayer boom's slope. Conclusions: Considering more complex pathways and coarse ground conditions, evaluations and improvements of the prototype should be performed for promising reliability to commercialization.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2013

Small mobile robots which use round wheels are suitable for driving on a flat surface, but it cannot climb the obstacle whose height is greater than the radius of wheels. As an alternative, legged-wheels have been proposed by many researchers due to its better climbing performance. However, driving and climbing performances have a trade-off relationship so that their driving performance should be sacrificed. In this study, in order to achieve both driving and climbing performances, a new transformable wheel was developed. The developed transformable wheel can have a round shape on a flat surface and change its shape into legged-wheel when it makes a contact with an obstacle. For design of the transformable wheel, the performance of legged-wheel was analyzed with respect to the number and curvature of the leg, and then the new transformable wheel was designed based on the analysis. Contrary to the existing transformable wheels that contain additional actuators for the transformation, the developed transformable wheel can be unfolded without any additional actuator. In this study, in order to validate the transformable wheel, a simple robot platform was fabricated. Consequently, it climbed the obstacle whose height is 2.6 times greater than the wheel radius.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.651-659
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• 2018

A multi-level overtopping wave energy converter was designed according to the large tidal range and small wave heights in China. It consists of two reservoirs with sloping walls at different levels. The reservoirs share a common outflow duct and a low-head axial turbine. The experimental study was carried out in a laboratory wave-flume to investigate the overtopping performance of the device. The depth-gauges were used to measure the variation of the water level in the reservoirs. The data was processed to derive the time-averaged overtopping discharges. It was found that the lower reservoir can store wave waters at the low water level and break the waves which try to climb up to the upper reservoir. The upper sloping angle and the opening width of the lower reservoir both have significant effects on the overtopping discharges, which can provide more information to the design and optimization of this type of device.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2013

This paper shows the development of a snake robot (KAEROT-snake V) which consists of 16 1-DOF actuator modules and head module. The modules are connected serially and the joint axis of each module is rotated by $90^{\circ}$ with respect to the previous joint so that the snake robot can move in the 3D space. A tail actuator module includes slip-ring and metal connector. KAEROT-snake IV developed in prior research could move in the 3D space and climb up in a narrow pipe. But its design was not appropriate to the unstructured tough environment and its speed was somewhat slow. A new actuator module is designed to enclose all parts of the module so that any wire is not exposed. The size and weight of the new module was slightly reduced. And the rotation speed and torque of the joint was increased by about twice when compared with pre-module. An embedded controller was developed so small that it can be mounted inside the module. The performance of the developed robot was demonstrated through various locomotion experiments.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.70-75
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• 2021

We developed a platform that was capable of autonomous steering in a furrow environment. It was developed to autonomously control steering by recognizing the furrow using a laser distance, three-axis tilt, and temperature sensor. The performance evaluation indicated that the autonomous steering success rate was 99.17%, and it was possible to climb up to 5° on the slope. The usage time was approximately 40 h, and the maximum speed was 6.7 km/h.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.520-529
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 중고도-장기체공 무인기의 성능을 역설계를 통해 분석하는 것이며, 역설계를 위한 모델로 RQ-1 Predator를 선정하였다. CATIA 프로그램을 사용하여 RQ-1 Predator의 외형에 대한 형상과 중량 분포를 생성하였다. RQ-1 Predator의 공력특성은 주로 와류격자법과 경험식을 조합하여 수행하였으며, 추진 성능은 Howe의 경험식을 통해 수행되었다. 상승률, 실용상승한도, 항속 거리, 그리고 체공 시간에 대한 역설계를 수행하였으며, 역설계 결과가 참고문헌과 잘 일치함을 확인하였다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2013

틸트로터 항공기인 스마트무인기의 회전익모드, 천이모드, 고정익 모드 비행시험을 수행하여 전체 비행영역에 대한 비행제어법칙 검증을 완료하였다. 회전익모드에서는 자동이륙과 자동착륙, 자동호버 비행 및 자동회귀모드 비행을 수행하였다. 천이모드에서는 틸트각 10도 간격으로 속도, 고도, 롤/방위 유지명령을 이용하여 상승, 하강, 좌선회 및 우선회 비행을 수행하고, 자율천이비행을 수행하였다. 회전익모드와 천이모드에서의 로터속도는 98%를 유지하였고, 고정익 모드 비행은 260 km/h 속도에서 로터 회전수를 82%로 감속하여 최대속도까지 점진적으로 영역확장비행을 수행하였다. 최종적으로 대기고도 3 km에서 최고속도 440 km/h까지 도달하였다. 본 논문에서는 스마트무인기의 전체 비행영역에 대해 비행영역 확장시험을 수행하는 동안 획득된 데이터의 분석결과를 제시하고, 규격서의 비행제어 요구조건과 비교하여 비행성이 요구성능을 만족함을 검증하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.55-56
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• 2006

This paper describes a new concept of the robot that can climb on the vertical plane. The engineering design problem of the main structure is presented and the experimental results regarding a new mechanism of climbing on the vertical wall are discussed. The locomotive motion of the robot is realized by using a series chain of two caterpillar wheels on which 24-suction pads are installed. White each caterpillar wheel rotates on the vertical plane surface, the vacuum pads are activated in sequence based on the sequential opening by specially designed mechanical valves. The detail design feature of the valve is also described in this paper. The overall size of the robot is around 460 mm in width and length, respectively, and 200 mm in height. Its mass is slightly over 14 kg. The main mechanical structure of the robot consists of driving motors, vacuum caterpillar system, steering part, vacuum pump and battery. The performance of the robot is verified on the vertical wall.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.493-501
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 급곡선과 급구배가 많은 산악 도로 상의 궤도에서 운행할 수 있는 산악트램의 추진시스템 핵심 기술을 개발하였다. 국내 산악 관광지는 겨울철 폭설과 결빙에 의해 교통이 통제되고 있어 지형 조건 뿐만 아니라 기후 조건에도 무관한 산악철도가 필요하다. 먼저, 일반적인 120‰ 구배 등반에 소요되는 견인전동기 출력을 고려하여 추진시스템을 설계하였으며, 추진장치 설치 공간을 고려하여 동력 전달 계통을 설계하고 감속기 및 동력 전달축을 개발하였다. 급구배 상승을 위해 필요한 랙앤피니언 추진장치의 강체 접촉에 의한 진동 소음을 줄이기 위해 탄성 피니언을 개발하여 적용하였으며, 충격 비교 시험을 통해 기존 강체 피니언에 비해 진동이 1/3이하로 감소됨을 확인하였다. 반경 10m의 급곡선을 운행할 수 있도록 개별 회전 차륜 차축을 개발하였다. 또한 급구배 주행중 제동력 향상을 위해 밴드 제동장치를 개발하였으며, 제동력 시험을 통해 요구 제동력을 발휘할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 개발된 주요 부품은 시험을 통해 성능을 검증하였고, 최종적으로 급구배 및 급곡선 운행 대차시스템에 적용된다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2021

무인항공기의 운항에 필수적인 탐지 회피 시스템은 침입기를 감지하여 위험을 벗어나는 데에 필요한 선회 또는 상승/하강 기동의 범위를 제시하여 준다. 본 연구에서는 탐지 회피 알고리즘으로 NASA에서 개발한 DAIDALUS (detect and avoid alerting logic for unmanned systems)를 활용하였다. DAIDALUS는 회피 기동의 범위만을 보여주기 때문에, 실제로 기동의 정도와 방향, 그리고 회피 후 원래 경로나 임무로 복귀하는 시점은 무인항공기 조종사의 결정 사항이다. 이는 실제로 조종사가 개입하는 실시간 HiTL(human-in-the loop) 시뮬레이션에서는 유용하나, 조종사의 개입 없이 시뮬레이션을 진행해야 하는 배속 시뮬레이션에서는 조종사의 의사결정 모델이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 DAIDALUS 결과를 바탕으로 기동하는 조종사의 의사결정 모델을 제시하고 이를 RTCA (radio technical commission for aeronautics) MOPS (minimum operational performance standards)에서 제시하는 표준 조우 벡터를 이용하여 검증하였다. 조우 형상에 따라 최대 위험도가 달라지지만, loss of well clear 상황은 발생하지 않았다. 이러한 모델은 무인항공기가 포함된 대규모 교통량에 대한 배속 시뮬레이션에서 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것이다.