• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2022

Flight control systems installed on unmanned aircraft require thorough verification from the design stage. This verification is made through the integrated flight control test environment. Typically, a debugger is used to monitor the internal state of a flight control computer in real time. Emulator with a real-time memory monitor and trace is relatively expensive. The JTAG Emulator is unable to operate in real time and has limitations that cannot be caught up with the processing speed of latest high-speed processors. In this paper, we describe the results of the development of internal monitoring software for drone flight control computer processors based on NUTTX/PIXHAWK. The results of this study show that the functions provided compared to commercial debugger are limited, but it can be sufficiently used to verify the flight control system using this system under limited budget.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.251-262
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• 2017

The system of magnetic exploration with a drone flight was constructed and applied to the iron mine site. The magnetic probe system installed on the drone used a sensor as Bartington's fluxgate type magnetometer, Mag639 and the A/D converter to collect magnetic intensity values on the tablet PC. The drone flight control module is a highly expandable Pixhawk with allowing 15 minutes of flight by loading 3kg. Experiments on the magnetic field interference range were performed to remove the erroneous effect from the drone with applying RTK GPS to obtain the magnetic intensity value at the accurate position. The accurate location information enabled to obtain the gradient measurement of magnetic field by measuring twice at different altitudes. Also, by using the terrain information, we could eliminate the terrain effect by setting the flight path to fly along the terrain. These results are in line with the field experiments using the nuclear proton magnetometer G-858 of Geometrics Co., Ltd, which adds to the reliability of the drone based aeromagnetic survey system we constructed.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.522-525
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• 2019

To overcome the limitation of ground inspection for Navigational Aid, Korea Airport Corporation (KAC) developed a drone system for Navigational Aid inspection. This drone system has the advantage that they can inspect the air radio signal at the perspective of user (aircraft). Since drones have more free flight paths and easier control of flight speeds compared to aircrafts, drones can check sections of suspected airborne radio wave distortions at desired paths and speeds. Recently, with the acceleration of the development around the airport, there is a concern about the deterioration of the quality of radio signal of Navigational Aid. In order to analyze radio distortion of Navigational Aid, a radio wave environmental survey was conducted using drones. When the signal received by each flight path of the drone was measured, the origin of the reflected wave was identified by analyzing the section in which the radio signal was distorted.

• Smart Media Journal
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.38-45
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• 2019

When there is a spray flow such as from a pesticide nozzle, winds affect the droplet flow of a rotary-wing drone accompanied by a strong wake, with a severe oscillation. Especially, during forwarding flights or when winds come from the side, compare to a simple hovering flight as the droplet is in the effect of aerodynamic drag force, the effect of spraying region becomes even larger. For this reason, the spraying of pesticides using drones may cause a greater risk of scattering or a difference in droplet dispersion between locations, resulting in a decrease in efficiency. Therefore, through proper numerical modeling and its applied simulation, an indication tool is required applicable for the various flight and atmospheric conditions. In this research, we completed both experiment and numerical analysis for the strong downwash from the rotor and flight velocity of the drone by comparing the probability density function of droplet distribution to build a spraying system that can improve the efficiency when spraying droplets in the pesticide spray drone.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.74-80
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• 2022

The utilisation of small drones is becoming increasingly widespread particularly in the military sector. In this study, STANAG 4586, a standard interface for military unmanned aerial vehicles, was applied to a multicopter-type small drone to examine the suitability of the military system. To accomplish this, a small multi-copter vehicle was designed and manufactured, integrating a flight control computer, ground control system, and data link. Furthermore, flight control and ground control equipment software were developed by applying the STANAG 4586 interface, followed by HILS and flight tests.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2023

In this study, we conducted a research on optimizing the spraying performance of agricultural drones and predicted the spraying performance in various flight conditions using the multi-layer perceptron (MLP). Data was collected using a test device for pesticide spraying performance according to the water sensitive paper (WSP) evaluation. MLP training involved supervised learning to achieve a coefficient of variation (CV), which indicates the degree of uniform spraying. The performance evaluation was conducted using R-squared (R²), the test samples showed an R² of 0.80. The results of this study showed that drone spraying performance can be predicted under various flight environments. In addition, the correlation analysis between flight conditions and predicted spraying performance will be useful for further research on optimizing the spraying performance of agricultural drones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2019년도 제60차 하계학술대회논문집 27권2호
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• pp.259-260
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• 2019

4차산업이 본격화되면서 드론의 경제적 활용에 대하여 많은 관심이 집중되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 드론의 효율적 제어를 위하여 비행제어시스템의 운용프로그램인 비행제어 프로그램에 대하여 분석한다. 현재 오픈소스 비행 스택들을 다양한 비행제어기에 적용하기 위하여 다양한 기능들을 포함하고 있어 그 크기가 방대하다. 본 연구에서는 공개된 비행제어시스템을 분석하여 소형 무인 비행체인 드론에서 사용할 비행제어프로그램을 설계하고 구현하고자 한다. 제안한 비행제어프로그램은 구조가 간단하여 제어주기에 해당하는 루프타임을 줄일 수 있고, 특정 기능의 추가와 변경이 용이할 것으로 예상한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2023년도 제68차 하계학술대회논문집 31권2호
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• pp.95-97
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 임베디드 기반의 다양한 센서를 활용한 드론의 비행기록장치 시스템 개발에 대한 새로운 아이디어를 제시한다. 이 시스템은 오픈소스 기반의 개발 보드인 라즈베리파이를 중심으로, 온도, 습도, 조도, 미세먼지 센서, 이산화탄소, 일산화탄소, 산소, 이산화질소, 아황산가스, 메탄가스, GPS, 고도 측정, IR 카메라, 카메라 모듈 센서 등 다양한 센서를 탑재하여 구성한다. 기존 드론은 주로 방역 및 방제 활동에 활용되었으나, 그 활동의 효과를 정밀하게 측정하고 분석하는 데에는 한계가 있었다. 그러나 이 논문에서 제안하는 임베디드 기반의 센서 구성은 이러한 한계를 극복할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2023

This study was conducted to evaluate the spraying performance according to the flight conditions of agricultural drones for the development of a variable control system. The analyzed flight conditions comprised six factors: spraying direction, flight speed, altitude, wind speed, wind direction, and rotor rotational speed. The ratio of the area sprayed on the water-sensitive paper was used as the coverage, and the distribution and amount of the coverage were evaluated. The coverage distribution based on the distance from the drone was used to evaluate a spray pattern, and the distribution was expressed as a Gaussian function approximation. In addition, the probability distribution based on coverage was expressed as the cumulative probability via Gamma function approximation to analyze the spraying efficiency in the target area. The results showed that the averaged coverage decreased significantly as the flight speed and wind speed increased, and the wind direction changed the spray pattern without a coverage decrease. This study contributes to the development of a control technique for the precision control system of agricultural drones.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2017

In this paper, A heightened interest in the latest drone, yet steady increase in the field to exploit them. The next market is expected to be vastly improved, and use drone also increasingly will be strengthened. But also not a few side effects of him. In order to use safer and more commonly a drone safety and privacy protection, and there are many issues that need to be considered. Violating privacy laws, such as relations caused by the drone flight and review this study ways to resolve the breach. The flight due to a draw at peace with human life and behavior and enjoy it, but this problem created by new outbreak.