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Feasibility Study on the Methodology of Test and Evaluation for UAV Positioning (무인항공기 위치정확도 시험평가 기법 연구)

  • Ju, Yo-han;Moon, Kyung-kwan;Kang, Bong-seok;Jeong, Jae-won;Son, Han-gi;Cho, Jeong-hyun
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.530-536
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    • 2018
  • Recently, many studies for interoperability of UAV in the NAS has been performed since the application range and demand of UAV are continuously increased. For the interoperation of UAV in the NAS, technical standards and certification system for UAV which is equivalent to the commercial aircraft are required and test and evaluation methodology must be presented by standards. In this paper, qualification test and evaluation methodology aboutfor the UAV navigation system is proposed. For the research, the mission profile and operation environment of UAV were analyzed. Thereafter the test criteria were derived and the test methodology were established. Finally, the simulation and demonstration using test-bed UAV were performed. As a result of the test, it was confirmed that the navigation system of test UAV has a position accuracy about 1.4 meters at 95% confidence level in the entire flight stage.

Open Skies Policy : A Study on the Alliance Performance and International Competition of FFP (항공자유화정책상 상용고객우대제도의 제휴성과와 국제경쟁에 관한 연구)

  • Suh, Myung-Sun;Cho, Ju-Eun
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.139-162
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    • 2010
  • In terms of the international air transport, the open skies policy implies freedom in the sky or opening the sky. In the normative respect, the open skies policy is a kind of open-door policy which gives various forms of traffic right to other countries, but on the other hand it is a policy of free competition in the international air transport. Since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the United States has signed an open skies agreement with many countries, starting with the Netherlands, so that competitive large airlines can compete in the international air transport market where there exist a lot of business opportunities. South Korea now has an open skies agreement with more than 20 countries. The frequent flyer program (FFP) is part of a broad-based marketing alliance which has been used as an airfare strategy since the U.S. government's airline deregulation. The membership-based program is an incentive plan that provides mileage points to customers for using airline services and rewards customer loyalty in tangible forms based on their accumulated points. In its early stages, the frequent flyer program was focused on marketing efforts to attract customers, but now in the environment of intense competition among airlines, the program is used as an important strategic marketing tool for enhancing business performance. Therefore, airline companies agree that they need to identify customer needs in order to secure loyal customers more effectively. The outcomes from an airline's frequent flyer program can have a variety of effects on international competition. First, the airline can obtain a more dominant position in the air flight market by expanding its air route networks. Second, the availability of flight products for customers can be improved with an increase in flight frequency. Third, the airline can preferentially expand into new markets and thus gain advantages over its competitors. However, there are few empirical studies on the airline frequent flyer program. Accordingly, this study aims to explore the effects of the program on international competition, after reviewing the types of strategic alliance between airlines. Making strategic airline alliances is a worldwide trend resulting from the open skies policy. South Korea also needs to be making open skies agreements more realistic to promote the growth and competition of domestic airlines. The present study is about the performance of the airline frequent flyer program and international competition under the open skies policy. With a sample of five global alliance groups (Star, Oneworld, Wings, Qualiflyer and Skyteam), the study was attempted as an empirical study of the effects that the resource structures and levels of information technology held by airlines in each group have on the type of alliance, and one-way analysis of variance and regression analysis were used to test hypotheses. The findings of this study suggest that both large airline companies and small/medium-size airlines in an alliance group with global networks and organizations are able to achieve high performance and secure international competitiveness. Airline passengers earn mileage points by using non-flight services through an alliance network with hotels, car-rental services, duty-free shops, travel agents and more and show high interests in and preferences for related service benefits. Therefore, Korean airline companies should develop more aggressive marketing programs based on multilateral alliances with other services including hotels, as well as with other airlines.

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experiment and its upgrade with the large silicon charge detector

  • Lee, Jik;Nam, Ji-Woo;Park, Il-Hung;Yang, Jong-Man;Lee, Hye-Young;Na, Go-Woon;Jeon, Jin-A;Suh, Jung-Eun;Lim, Sun-In;Lee, Moo-Hyun;Seo, Eun-Suk
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.20.2-20.2
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    • 2011
  • The NASA Antarctica balloon experiment CREAM has successfully collected the data of energetic cosmic rays during flights in past years. We will present the recent analysis results of the CREAM experiment. We will also report on the launch and recovery process of the latest flight. The silicon charge detector of the CREAM has played the key role in the precision measurement of the charge constitution of energetic cosmic rays. We proposed the upgrade of the CREAM experiment with the installment of a new large silicon charge detector on top of the CREAM instrument. The charge measurement of the large silicon detector with no material in front is expected to improve the accuracy of the CREAM charge measurement drastically when combined with the measurement of the existing double layer silicon detector. We will present the fabrication of the large silicon detector and its performance in the radiation source test as well as in the beam test.

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Implementation of Airborne Multi-Function Radar Including Attitude Maneuvering (자세 기동을 고려한 항공기 탑재 다기능 레이다 통합 시뮬레이터 구현)

  • Ko, Jae-Youl;Park, Soon-Seo;Choi, Han-Lim;Ahn, Jae-Myung;Lee, Sung-Won;Lee, Dong-Hui;Yoon, Jung-Suk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.225-236
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a simulation test bed is presented which operates to provide full-scale simulation of airborne multi-function phased array radars. This simulation test bed provides a capability to evaluate the target tracking performance. To realize aircraft operation scenario, we developed 6DOF aircraft dynamics model which can generate trajectories and attitude of an aircraft. This procedure includes steady state flight trim search, autopilot design, and aircraft guidance command design. Also, the radar-environment integrated simulator includes target detection/measurement model and tracking filter. Developed simulator is validated by creating an air-to-air scenario.

Thermal Analysis of MIRIS Space Observation Camera for Verification of Passive Cooling

  • Lee, Duk-Hang;Han, Won-Yong;Moon, Bong-Kon;Park, Young-Sik;Jeong, Woong-Seob;Park, Kwi-Jong;Lee, Dae-Hee;Pyo, Jeong-Hyun;Kim, Il-Joong;Kim, Min-Gyu;Matsumoto, Toshio
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.305-313
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    • 2012
  • We conducted thermal analyses and cooling tests of the space observation camera (SOC) of the multi-purpose infrared imaging system (MIRIS) to verify passive cooling. The thermal analyses were conducted with NX 7.0 TMG for two cases of attitude of the MIRIS: for the worst hot case and normal case. Through the thermal analyses of the flight model, it was found that even in the worst case the telescope could be cooled to less than $206^{\circ}K$. This is similar to the results of the passive cooling test (${\sim}200.2^{\circ}K$). For the normal attitude case of the analysis, on the other hand, the SOC telescope was cooled to about $160^{\circ}K$ in 10 days. Based on the results of these analyses and the test, it was determined that the telescope of the MIRIS SOC could be successfully cooled to below $200^{\circ}K$ with passive cooling. The SOC is, therefore, expected to have optimal performance under cooled conditions in orbit.

Centrifuge tests for simulating the behavior of CFRD with increasing water level (수위 상승에 따른 CFRD(콘크리트 표면차수벽형 석괴댐)의 거동 모사 원심모형시험)

  • Seo, Min-Woo;Im, Eun-Sang;Kim, Yong-Seong;Ha, Ik-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.784-793
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    • 2006
  • As the number of CFRD constructions increases, the necessity of an accurate assessment on its behavior also has been increasing accordingly. The performance of concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD) under different water levels is greatly concerned by dam engineers and designers in the world. However, domestic research on CFRD design and construction has yet been insignificant. This study deals with three centrifuge model tests, mainly investigates the deformation of the concrete faced slabs with different face slab stiffness under different water levels. The prototype of a centrifugal model dam is half size of domestic CFRD dam. Detailed material preparation, model design, model set-up, model instrumentation and testing procedures are presented. In order to simulate the prototype concrete faced slab, three kinds of thin fiberglass plates with different thickness was adopted in the three model tests. The water level control facility was specially designed for this experiment to control the water level rise and drawdown during centrifuge flight. Although most of the results from the three model tests are satisfactory, it is also required that the centrifuge test results should be compared with those of numerical analysis and field measurements to analyze the centrifuge test results more in detail.

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Block Adjustment with GPS/INS in Aerial Photogrammetry (GPS/INS에 의한 항공사진측량의 블럭조정)

  • Park Woon Yong;Lee Kang Won;Lee Jae One;Jeong Gong Uhn
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.285-291
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    • 2004
  • GPS photogrammetry or the GPS/INS photogrammetry, which are based on the direct measurement of the projection centers and attitude at the moment of camera exposure time through loading the GPS receiver or INS in aircraft. Both photogrammetric methods can offer us to acquire the exterior orientation parameters with only minimum ground control points, even the ground control process could be completely skipped. Consequently, we can drastically reduce the time and cost for the mapping process. In this thesis, test flight was conducted in Suwon area to evaluate the performance of accuracy and efficiency through the analysis of results among the three photogrammetric methods, that is, traditional photogrammetry, GPS photogrammetry and GPS/INS photogrammetry. Test results shows that a large variety of advantages of GPS photogrammetry and GPS/INS photogrammetry against traditional photogrammetry is to be verified. Especially, the number of ground control points for the exterior orientation could be saved more than 70~80%, respectively.

High Speed Propulsion System Test Research Using a Shock Tunnel (충격파 터널을 이용한 고속추진기관 시험 연구)

  • Park, Gisu;Byun, Jongryul;Choi, Hojin;Jin, Yuin;Park, Chul;Hwang, Kiyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2014
  • Shock tunnels are known to be capable of simulating flow-field environments of supersonic and hypersonic flights. They have been operated successfully world-wide for almost half a century. As a consequence of the strong interest in hypersonic vehicles in Korea, attention has been given on this type of facility and so an intermediate-sized shock tunnel has lately been built at KAIST. In the light of this, this paper presents our tunnel performance and some of the model scramjet test data. The freestream flow used in this work replicates a supersonic combustor environment for a Mach 5.7 flight speed.

Qualification Process of T700/701K Engine for KUH (한국형 기동헬기 엔진 (T700/701K) 인증 과정)

  • Jung, Yong-Wun;Kim, Jae-Hwan;Ahn, Iee-Ki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.344-347
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents qualification process of the T700/701K turbo-shaft engine for Korean Utility Helicopter(KUH). The T700/701K is the rear-drive variant of the GE's T700-701C/D engine which was qualified for military applications in the world. The main scope of the development is the modification from a front-drive engine to a rear-drive one, the performance enhancement of the power turbine and the incorporation of two channel FADEC(Full Authority Digital Engine Control) system for more reliable operation. Therefore, T700/701K engine must be qualified by Korean government in order to perform a flight in the country. Reflecting the influence of developing scope, the main requirements including performance and control are verified by test and analysis, while the requirement for module or component that is same to that of T700-701C/D are verified by similarity.

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A Research on the Static Discharger Installation Design and Test for Air Vehicle (항공기 외표면 정전기 방출기 장착설계 및 시험에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Hee-Chae;Kim, Yong-Tae;Kim, Bong-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.45 no.7
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    • pp.574-580
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    • 2017
  • Static dischargers should be installed on air vehicle to emit a static electricity during flight. Especially, If static electricity is not removed by static discharger on the air vehicle, it makes ionization and corona effect on the edge of antenna and wing. Those phenomenon bring about performance degradation for radio communication and equipment operation. In this paper, the conditions such as climate, air vehicle's speed and frontal area were analyzed to design static dischargers. As a result, the static dischargers would be optimally designed for air vehicles and the performance of the static dischargers can verify according to the functional experiment. Therefore the result of this research will be used to make static discharger installation design for new air vehicle that have different size and mission.