• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.367-371
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• 2004

This paper describes development of automatic flight control system for an unmanned target drone which is operated by Korean army as for anti-air gun shooting training. Current target drone is operated by pilot control of on-board servo motor via remote control system. Automatic flight control system for the target drone greatly reduces work load of ground pilot and can increase application area of the drone. Most UAVs being operated now days use high-priced sensors as AHRS and IMU to measure the attitude, but those are costly. This paper introduces the development of low-cost automatic flight control system with low-cost sensors. The integrated automatic flight control system has been developed by integrating combining power module, switching module, monitoring module and RC receiver as an one module. The performance of automatic flight control system is verified by flight test.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.163-169
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• 2021

In this paper, we implemented a deep learning-based automatic object tracking and handy motion control drone system and analyzed the performance of the proposed system. The drone system automatically detects and tracks targets by analyzing images obtained from the drone's camera using deep learning algorithms, consisting of the YOLO, the MobileNet, and the deepSORT. Such deep learning-based detection and tracking algorithms have both higher target detection accuracy and processing speed than the conventional color-based algorithm, the CAMShift. In addition, in order to facilitate the drone control by hand from the ground control station, we classified handy motions and generated flight control commands through motion recognition using the YOLO algorithm. It was confirmed that such a deep learning-based target tracking and drone handy motion control system stably track the target and can easily control the drone.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.536-541
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• 2015

본 논문은 실내에서 미니드론의 영상기반 자동 비행 및 이 착륙 제어시스템을 제안한다. 천정 카메라와 지면에 마커가 있는 환경에서 미니드론의 자동 비행 제어시스템을 구성하였다. 천장에 설치된 카메라영상을 기반으로 착륙 위치와 드론을 인식할 뿐만 아니라 드론의 움직임을 추적한다. PC서버는 드론의 위치를 계산하여 드론에 제어 명령을 전송한다. 드론의 비행 제어기는 상태 머신 기법, PID 제어와 웨이포인트-위치 제어기법을 사용하여 구현하였다. 실제 미니드론을 사용하여 제안한 자동제어시스템을 검증하였다. 바닥의 마커를 인식하여 ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅁ자 등의 특정 형상의 궤적을 따라 비행하는 것을 실험으로 확인하였으며, 높이의 차이가 있는 두 개의 착륙지점에도 착륙하는 실험에서도 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다.

• 공학기술논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.273-277
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• 2018

In the field of forest disaster prevention, drones are expected to save higher human resources than the existing manpower has, and produce high-efficiency results over time. However, operational limitations brought by short flight times have brought the environment of limited use of the various capabilities of the drone, and the existing development systems operating the multi-drone are mainly for performance purpose, so it is a difficult to use for forest disaster prevention. The purpose of this paper is to design the concept based on multi-drone operation procedure through analysis of mission of ground control system for forest disaster prevention.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2019

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) controls as a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) is growing rapidly and its flight controller stick disposition is required standardization. We should standardize RPA drone flight control disposition because the flight pilot of RPA is hard to be trained so the flight controller stick differences impairs safety and wastes time and effort of flight controller industry. So this study researches the on-going standardization of RPA drone flight control disposition in Korea and foreign countries. Also this paper analyzes and researches of expert about RPA drone flight controller function and application of flight control mode. I accomplished expert research about standardization plan of unmanned flight control mode and confirm the necessity. Nowadays mode1 and 2 are mostly used in Korea so I carried out preference investigation for two modes. There were 4 preferences choices of RPA drone control mode necessity (importance) and recommendation of standardization modes. They answered that necessity of standardization is important considering pilot training, flight safety and positive development of drone industry. The result of standardization mode preference is that they prefer mode 2 (drone maker 86%, training facilities and research facilities 58%, government bureau 60%). Overall preference result shows that mode 1 24%, mode 1&2 16%, mode 2 60%. So they preferred mode 2 by 60%. The differences between two modes are the direction of throttle and pitch. Direction of throttle and pitch operate opposite way. They prefer mode 2 because mode 2 has similarities of manned flight control mode. Significance of this study is that it showed the necessity of standardization and flight control preference in a quantitative way. It will help drone standardization in related industries and development direction near future.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권1호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2017

Communication technologies hold a significant place in the swarm flight of drones for surveillance, inspection of disasters and calamities, entertainment performances, and drone collaborations. A GCS(ground control station) for the control of drone swarms needs its devoted communication method to control a large number of drones at the same time. General drone controllers control drones by connecting transmitters and drones in 1:1. When such an old communication method is employed to control many drones simultaneously, problems can emerge with the control of many transmitter modules connected to a GCS and frequency interference among them. This study implemented a transmitter controller to control many drones simultaneously with a communication chip of 2.4GHz ISM band and a Cortex M4-based board. It also designed a GCS to control many transmitter controllers via a network. The hierarchical method made it possible to control many more drones. In addition, the problem with frequency interference was resolved by implementing a time- and frequency-sharing method, controlling many drones simultaneously, and adding the frequency hopping feature. If PPM and S.BUS protocol features are added to it, it will be compatible with more diverse transmitters and drones.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2018

Drones are controlled by the remote pilot from the ground stations using the radio control or autonomously following the pre-programmed flight plans. In this paper, we develop a method and an optimal path search system for providing 3D augmented reality flight (ARF) images for safe and efficient flight control of drones. The developed system consisted of the drone, the ground station and user terminals, and the optimal path search server. We use the Dijkstra algorithm to find the optimal path considering the drone information, flight information, environmental information, and flight mission. We generate a 3D augmented reality flight (ARF) image overlaid with the path information as well as the drone information and the flight information on the flight image received from the drone. The ARF image for adjusting the drone is generated by overlaying route information, drone information, flight information, and the like on the image captured by the drone.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2005

본 논문은 군에서 운용중인 대공포 사격 훈련용으로 개발한 무인 표적기용 자동비행시스템 개발에 관한 논문이다. 조종사에 의해 수동으로 운용중인 표적기를 자동화함으로써 조종사 측면에서는 비행업무를 경감시키고, 군 측면에서는 사격훈련 예산절감이라는 장점을 가지게 된다. 현재까지 개발된 대부분의 UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)는 항공기 자세를 측정하기 위해 AHRS(Attitude & Heading Reference System)와 IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit)등의 고가의 센서를 장착하고 있지만 이를 장착하고 무인기를 사격훈련용으로 사용하기에는 비용절감이라는 목적에 적합하지 않다. 이에 본 논문은 저가의 센서를 장착하고 자동비행이 가능하도록 저가형 자동비행시스템을 개발하였으며, 비행시험을 통하여 자동비행시스템 성능을 입증하였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2018

The floating sculptures in the form of ad-ballon commonly used ropes in order to hold on. Relatively air flow is much less indoor than outdoor. Users of buoyancy sculptures hope to be able to maintain their desired posture without being fixed. This study applied drone technology to buoyancy sculptures. The drones can be moved vertically and horizontally, and the posture can be maintained, so buoyancy sculptures are easy to apply. Therefore, we have studied the control system of buoyancy sculpture using drone technology. Also, a control system that can maintain the desired posture at a constant height was studied. The overall shape was a light fiber material and helium gas for zero buoyancy to support the sculpture. The system configuration was STM32F103CB from ARM. In addition, the gyro and acceleration, geomagnetic sensors and motors are composed of small and medium size BLDC motors. The scheduling of the control system in the configuration of the control device was carefully considered. Because the role of the whole component becomes very important. The communication between the components is divided into the sensor fusion and the interface communication with the whole controller. Each communication technology is designed to expand. This study was implemented to actively respond from the viewpoint of posture control using the drone technology.

• 한국차세대컴퓨팅학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.124-131
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• 2017

최근 드론은 배송, 농업, 공업, 엔터테인먼트 등 다양한 분야에 적용되어 사용 영역을 넓히고 있다. 실제 드론을 제어하기 위해선 많은 경험이 필요하지만 이를 위해선 드론 분실, 파손 등 여러 위험한 상황에 노출되기 쉽다. 가상 드론 시스템은 이러한 위험성을 피하여 드론을 학습 할 수 있는 배경을 제공할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 드론 학습을 위한 가상 드론 시스템 구축을 위한 요구기술들에 대해 논한다. 먼저, 다양한 형태를 가질 수 있는 드론을 가상의 환경에서 조립할 수 있는 저작도구가 필요하다. 가상의 저작도구는 실제 드론의 물리적 특성을 반영할 수 있어야 한다. 이에 실제 비행에 큰 영향을 비치는 로터의 위치나 배선의 간섭 등을 고려할 수 있는 가상 드론 저작 도구를 제안한다. 다음으로는 만들어진 가상의 드론을 실제 비행환경과 흡사한 물리적 조건하에서 구동 해 볼 수 있는 가상 드론 시뮬레이터가 필요하다. 이 시뮬레이터는 실제와 근접한 렌더링 품질을 보장할 수 있어야 하며 기체 역학에 근거한 물리적 환경 하에 구동이 되어야 한다. 여기에 가상 드론의 동역학적 특징이 움직임에 반영 될 수 있도록 SILS(Software in the loop simulation) 기반의 검증 기법을 추가하여 사실성을 높인다. 마지막으로 실제 드론 컨트롤러 기반으로 가상의 드론을 구동할 수 있는 환경이 필요하다. 범용으로 사용되는 드론 컨트롤러의 신호를 시뮬레이터에서 받아 사용할 수 있는 가상 드론 컨트롤러 기술을 제안한다. 완성된 가상드론 저작도구, 시뮬레이터, 및 컨트롤러 연동 기술을 포함한 가상 드론 시스템은 100명의 사용자 대상 만족도 조사 결과 10점 기준 7.64의 만족도를 나타내었다.