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Uncertainty Requirement Analysis for the Orbit, Attitude, and Burn Performance of the 1st Lunar Orbit Insertion Maneuver

  • Song, Young-Joo;Bae, Jonghee;Kim, Young-Rok;Kim, Bang-Yeop
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.323-333
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    • 2016
  • In this study, the uncertainty requirements for orbit, attitude, and burn performance were estimated and analyzed for the execution of the $1^{st}$ lunar orbit insertion (LOI) maneuver of the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) mission. During the early design phase of the system, associate analysis is an essential design factor as the $1^{st}$ LOI maneuver is the largest burn that utilizes the onboard propulsion system; the success of the lunar capture is directly affected by the performance achieved. For the analysis, the spacecraft is assumed to have already approached the periselene with a hyperbolic arrival trajectory around the moon. In addition, diverse arrival conditions and mission constraints were considered, such as varying periselene approach velocity, altitude, and orbital period of the capture orbit after execution of the $1^{st}$ LOI maneuver. The current analysis assumed an impulsive LOI maneuver, and two-body equations of motion were adapted to simplify the problem for a preliminary analysis. Monte Carlo simulations were performed for the statistical analysis to analyze diverse uncertainties that might arise at the moment when the maneuver is executed. As a result, three major requirements were analyzed and estimated for the early design phase. First, the minimum requirements were estimated for the burn performance to be captured around the moon. Second, the requirements for orbit, attitude, and maneuver burn performances were simultaneously estimated and analyzed to maintain the $1^{st}$ elliptical orbit achieved around the moon within the specified orbital period. Finally, the dispersion requirements on the B-plane aiming at target points to meet the target insertion goal were analyzed and can be utilized as reference target guidelines for a mid-course correction (MCC) maneuver during the transfer. More detailed system requirements for the KPLO mission, particularly for the spacecraft bus itself and for the flight dynamics subsystem at the ground control center, are expected to be prepared and established based on the current results, including a contingency trajectory design plan.

The OBC Reconfiguration Test on LEO Satellite (저궤도 위성에서 위성탑재컴퓨터의 재구성 시험)

  • Jeong, Jae-Yeop;Lee, Cheol-Hoon
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.103-107
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    • 2017
  • The Satellite OBC(On Board Computer) manages critical functionality such as satellite attitude control, fault management, payload management, command/telemetry processing etc. The OBC consist of various modules. Each module perform mission critical operation. So all modules designed as hot or cold redundancy architecture. The redundancy design gives a guarantee high reliability and it allows normal operation of satellite using reconfiguration capability. In this paper, introduces reconfiguration unit operation and describe the results of testing in the ETB.

A Study on airline pilot's satisfaction level of air traffic services provided by female air traffic controllers (여성 관제사에 대한 민간 조종사의 항공교통 서비스 만족도 조사연구)

  • Sin, Hyon-Sam;Yoo, Kwang-Eui;Ryu, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2009
  • This study was conducted in search of the acceptance level of air traffic services from domestic airlines pilot's perspective in comparison with male controllers and female controllers. Pilots responded to the questionnaire that female ATC controllers are of significance to male controllers in terms of pronunciation, accuracy of English grammar, attitude and kindness. Besides, The ICAO aviation English proficiency level four test revealed that female controllers were found superior to male controllers in terms of rating scales of holistic descriptors.

HW Matrix Multiplier Implementation & Performance Measurement for Low Earth Orbit Satellite (저궤도 위성을 위한 HW 행렬 곱셈기의 구현과 성능 측정)

  • Lee, Yunki;Kim, Jihoon
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 2015
  • Until now, AOCS SW has used FPU which is one of CPU resources for satellite attitude control. And most of the SW Throughput was consumed to calculate Matrix Multiply. As SW throughput margin is decreasing seriously with shorter control period and more computational burden at next satellite programs, a dedicated HW matrix multiplier is absolutely required. This paper represents results of HW implementation & performance measurement and mentions several techniques for performance improvement, further works.

A SDINS Error Compensation Scheme Using Star Tracker

  • Yim, Jong-Bin;Lyou, Joon;Lim, You-Chol
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.888-893
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    • 2005
  • Since inertial sensor errors which increase with time are caused by initial orientation error and sensor errors(accelerometer bias and gyro drift bias), the accuracy of these devices, while still improving, is not adequate for many of today's high-precision, long-duration sea, aircraft, and long-range flight missions. This paper presents a navigation error compensation scheme for Strap-Down Inertial Navigation System(SDINS) using star tracker. To be specific, SDINS error model and measurement equation are derived, and Kalman filter is implemented. Simulation results show the boundedness of position and attitude errors.

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Development of 100, 250 N Commercial $H_2O_2$ Monopropellant Thruster for Space Launch Vehicles (발사체 자세제어를 위한 100, 250 N 급 상용 과산화수소 단일추진제 추력기 개발)

  • An, Sung-Yong;Kim, Jong-Hak;Yoon, Ho-Seung;Kwon, Se-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.19-22
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    • 2009
  • Design and performance evaluation of $H_2O_2$ monopropellant thrusters to be used at attitude control of space launch vehicles were presented in this paper. Flight model thrusters were designed after two reactors for 100, 250 Newton were conformed at engineering model. Each thruster was evaluated by measurement of characteristic velocity, thrust, specific impulse, and pulse response times.

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Optimal Path Planning for UAVs to Reduce Radar Cross Section

  • Kim, Boo-Sung;Bang, Hyo-Choong
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.54-65
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    • 2007
  • Parameter optimization technique is applied to planning UAVs(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) path under artificial enemy radar threats. The ground enemy radar threats are characterized in terms of RCS(Radar Cross Section) parameter which is a measure of exposure to the radar threats. Mathematical model of the RCS parameter is constructed by a simple mathematical function in the three-dimensional space. The RCS model is directly linked to the UAVs attitude angles in generating a desired trajectory by reducing the RCS parameter. The RCS parameter is explicitly included in a performance index for optimization. The resultant UAVs trajectory satisfies geometrical boundary conditions while minimizing a weighted combination of the flight time and the measure of ground radar threat expressed in RCS.

Development of Aircraft 2-Stage Differential GRA (항공기용 2단 차동 GRA 개발)

  • Lee, Kang-Hee;Im, Dae-Jin;Lee, Sun-Hong;Park, Seul-Ki;Choi, Jin-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2016
  • The aircraft flight control system controls an aircraft's direction and flying attitude, and actuators are key components of control systems. Actuators can be classified as Geared Rotary Actuator (GRA) and Ball Screw Actuator (BSA). GRA is used in mid-sized aircraft, and BSA is used in larger aircraft. A two-stage differential GRA model was suggested in this paper, and structural analysis and performance tests were performed. According to the analysis and experiment, the stiffness of the two-stage differential GRA was 17.57% higher than that of the conventional GRA, and the structural safety was improved.

Trajectory Optimization and Optimal Explicit Guidance Algorithm Design for a Satellite Launch Vehicle (위성발사체의 궤적최적화와 최적 유도 알고리듬 설계)

  • Roh, Woong-Rae;Kim, Yodan;Song, Taek-Lyul
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.173-182
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    • 2001
  • Ascent trajectory optimization and optimal explicit guidance problems for a satellite launch vehicle in a 2-dimensional pitch plane are studied. The trajectory optimization problem with boundary conditions is formulated as a nonlinear programming problem by parameterizing the pitch attitude control variable, and is solved by using the SQP algorithm. The flight constraints such as gravity-turn are imposed. An optimal explicit guidance algorithm in the exoatmospheric phase is also presented, the guidance algorithm provides steering command and time-to-go value directly using the current states of the vehicle and the desired orbit insertion conditions. To verify the optimality and accuracy of the algorithm simulations are performed.

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Static Structural Analysis of 75 tonf-class Engine with TVC actuation force (TVC 구동력을 고려한 75톤급 엔진 정적 구조 해석)

  • Yoo, Jaehan;Gwak, Junyoung;Kim, Okgu;Jeon, Seongmin;Jeong, Eunhwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.913-914
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    • 2017
  • Structural analyses of a engine system is required in development stage for increasing structural reliability and reducing weight. Attitude of a launch vehicle during flight is controlled by combustion chamber rotation varying with TVC (thrust vector control) actuator displacements. In this study nonlinear static analysis is performed for a 75 tonf-class liquid rocket engine using before and after the TVC actuation.

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