• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.76-80
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• 2017

With the fast growing popularity of small UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), recent UAV systems have been designed and utilized for the various field with their own specific purposes. UAVs are opening up many new opportunities in the fields of electronics, sensors, camera, and software for pilots. Increase in awareness and mission capabilities of UAVs are driving innovations and new applications driven with the help of low cost and its capability in undertaking high threat task. In particular, small unmanned aerial vehicles should fly in environments with high probability of unexpected sudden change or obstacle appearance in low altitude situations. In this paper, current researches regarding techniques of autonomous flight of smal UAV systems are introduced and we propose a draft idea for planning paths for small unmanned aerial vehicles in adversarial environments to arrive at the given target safely with low cost sensors.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.182-191
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• 2015

The automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast (ADS-B) system which is a core system of aviation system block upgrade is designed and implemented. The ADS-B system consists of the 4 blocks and 10 units, and filtering algorithm is applied to the implemented ADS-B system. To evaluate a performance of the implemented ADS-B system, real aircraft position data is used and compared reliable radar data. The comparison results show that average position difference of 99.57 m. In addition, comparisons of aircraft position data between the implemented ADS-B system employing filtering algorithm and the conventional ADS-B system under various situations are carried out, such as aircraft turning, taking off, landing, and cruising. The comparison results show that average position difference of 8.02 m.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.580-587
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• 2016

In the purpose of suggesting the necessity and proper method of providing the standard reference material for acquiring the aircraft pilot license, this study provides the FAA and ROKAF case study, and positively analyzes the materials of 178 pilots and student pilots who acquired the aircraft pilot license. The result of case study shows that compared to the case of Korea which the restriction on the standard reference material providing exists, the FAA(Federal Aviation Administration) and ROKAF are currently providing the standard reference material. Additionally, the result of positive analysis indicates the fact that the necessity of standard reference material providing is well recognized and its importance also found to be remarkably high. These results represent that the standard reference material providing is necessary for training competent aircraft pilots. Also, this will mitigate the current shortage of aircraft pilots due to the rapid growth of air transportation industry, and this will play an important role in preventing diverse aircraft-related accidents.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2016

Republic of Korea has established its performance-based navigation (PBN) implementation plan in 2010 for ensuring a smooth transition to PBN operations and relevant new flight procedures are being developed in accordance with the roadmap. Various Navigation aids (NAVAIDs) like global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), distance measuring equipment (DME), VHF omnidirectional range (VOR), inertial navigation system (INS) are used to support PBN procedures. Among them, GNSS would play a central role in PBN implementation. However, vulnerability of satellite navigation signals to artificial and natural interferences has been discovered and various alternative positioning, navigation and timing (APNT) technologies are under development in many countries. In this paper, we study whether continuous PBN operations can be achievable without GNSS signals. As a result, it shows that some of the domestic airports require the construction of APNT in the approach area.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.536-544
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• 2012

Digital signage provides flight and airport information to the airport visitors and passengers. However, the digital signage has efficiency problem by displaying one type of advertisement to every customers regardless of their personality. We may solvel the inefficiency problem by using a smart digital signage which can recognize the characteristics of the customer We presents a smart digital signage with sex recognition function. The smart digital signage can recognize the sex of the customer to display the custom-made advertisement in realtime so that we can increase the satisfaction level of the airport passengers and visitors.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.526-535
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• 2012

Digital signage in airport is used to provide the flight and airport information to the airport passenger. However, the current digital signage displays one type of contents to all of the airport customers without considering the type of the customer. Thus, the digital signage suffer from the inefficiency problem resulting in lower customer satisfaction. This problem can be solved if we adopt a smart digital signage which can recognize the type of the customer and provide the tailored contents. In this study, we report a smart digital signage using age recognition. Our smart digital signage can recognize the age of the customer in real-time, and provide the tailored contents to the customer. The smart digital signage can improve the airport customer satisfaction and the airport work efficiency by providing the information that is needed by the airport customers.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.687-696
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• 2012

Recently, despite of the development of aviation safety, there has not been any significant decline of the aviation accident rate. Therefore, in the international society, it is more focused on removing risk factors based on data collected and analyzed, in order to improve the aviation safety. This research introduces ECCAIRS, which is a program developed by European Union to collect and analyze data regarding risk factors. This is used in Korea since 2010. Moreover, using national aviation accident data collected through ECCAIRS, this research analyzes the distribution of the aviation accidents/incidents, annual and monthly aviation accident rate, flight phase, and division system. The analyzation regarding the tendency of aviation accident/incident will give the direction to approach the quantitative safety management.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.412-418
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• 2011

In the airport, digital signage is used to provide the flight-related information for the passengers. Because the current digital signage is based on wired networking or storage medium, its use is limited in terms of the location and the usage of the digital signage. In order to overcome these limitation, we present a WiBro-based digital signage for the wireless broadband networking and the mobility of the digital signage. We perform comparative experiments with the WiBro-based digital signage and WLAN-based digital signage under various locations, datarate, advertisement contents. The experimental results showed that the WiBro-based digital signage is preferred when the mobility is required, while the WLAN-based digital signage has advantage in datarate.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO) adopted VOR(Very high frequency Omni-Range) as an international standard air navigation system in 1949 and recommended every country to make use of it in formulating air route and guiding take-off and landing of an aircraft. VOR is quite a useful navigation system so that more than 2,000 VORs have been installed all over the world including 39 in Korea: however, VOR signal could be easily affected by its circumstance like a mountainous area because it provides navigation information through AM and FM of VHF carrier. Therefore this study intends to investigate how much VOR performance is affected by its circumstances. For this purpose, the performance of the 10 VORs influenced by 24 obstacles are measured and analyzed by using an aircraft equipped with measuring instruments. This study may give us a feasible solution of problems related to the VOR siting in the future.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.377-385
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• 2013

Since the late 1950s, concerted efforts to reduce the accident rate in aviation have yielded unprecedented levels of safety. Although, the overall accident rate has declined considerably over the years, unfortunately reductions in human error-related accidents in aviation have failed to keep pace with the reduction of accidents due to environmental and mechanical factors. Today, a very large percentage of all aviation are attributable, directly or indirectly, to some form of human error. As a result of many study, a range of prevention of human error have been developed. but each of kind is lack of a precision, effectiveness and seem to be considered for aspect of deficiency as an systematic accessibility. So, we're going to analysis the most effective and systematic prevention of human error and study on consolidating method for human error and aviation safety. In this study, several alternatives for the prevention of human errors a priority to understand and solve problems by identifying the implications for human error to be presented.