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Attitude Determination GPS/INS Integrated Navigation System with FDI Algorithm for a UAV

  • Oh Sang Heon;Hwang Dong-Hwan;Park Chansik;Lee Sang Jeong;Kim Se Hwan
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.1529-1543
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    • 2005
  • Recently an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely used for military and civil applications. The role of a navigation system in the UAV is to provide navigation data to the flight control computer (FCC) for guidance and control. Since performance of the FCC is highly reliant on the navigation data, a fault in the navigation system may lead to a disastrous failure of the whole UAV. Therefore, the navigation system should possess a fault detection and isolation (FDI) algorithm. This paper proposes an attitude determination GPS/INS integrated navigation system with an FDI algorithm for a UAV. Hardware for the proposed navigation system has been developed. The developed hardware comprises a commercial inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the integrated navigation package (INP) which includes an attitude determination GPS (ADGPS) receiver and a navigation computer unit (NCU). The navigation algorithm was implemented in a real-time operating system with a multi-tasking structure. To evaluate performance of the proposed navigation system, a flight test has been performed using a small aircraft. The test results show that the proposed navigation system can give accurate navigation results even in a high dynamic environment.

Measurement of Complex Odor from Industries and Regulated Odorous Substance in Public Complaint Areas of Changwon Industrial Complex, and Its Reduction Countermeasure (창원공단 주요 악취 민원 발생지역 주변 악취발생 현황조사 및 저감방안에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Il-Hwan;Seo, Jeoung-Yoon;Kim, Tae-Hyung
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.525-535
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    • 2008
  • 5 public complaint areas against odor in Changwon Industrial Complex were selected and investigated to clear up the cause of the complaint. 16 companies operated in public complaint areas were visited and had a grip of their situation about odor generation and treatment. Two samples at it's site boundary of each company were taken to measure complex odor unit. Complex odor unit at the site boundary of investigated companies in the public complaint areas, for the most part, exceeded standard(odor unit 20) in industrial area. It was due to that this area was not designated as odor control region and that there are also many problems in current laws of Odor Protection Act, Air Quality Act and regional legislation. Accordingly, It will be necessary to revise the related legislation, to organize governance, to financially support the improvement of environmental facilities and to enforce guidance and the regulation rigidly for the odor emission reduction in Changwon Industrial Complex.

Performance Effectiveness Case Study of the Machine Guidance System for Dozer Eartwrok Grading Work (도저 정지작업 시 머신 가이던스 시스템 적용에 따른 토공성과 향상 사례분석)

  • Moon, Sungwoo;Kim, Sangtae
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.78-86
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    • 2020
  • Dozer is an expensive construction equipment and has a significant performance impact on earthwork performance. A machine guidance system has been applied to dozer equipment as a solution that can improve the performance. The system can provide earthwork-related information to equipment operators so that earthworks can be carried out with minimum support from surveyors. Construction Equipment Machine guidance has the function of supporting earthwork according to an earthwork plan by providing excavation-related information to machine operators. The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance improvement of a machine guidance system for an dozer earthwork operation, and to compare the machine guidance method with the traditional method. The performance has been evaluated in two folds: 1) productivity and 2) accuracy. The productivity shows the quantity of earthwork for a given unit time. The accuracy shows the deviation of grading level from the designed level on the construction drawing for earthwork. The machine guidance system has been applied to a testing bed in a construction site. Data comparison analysis showed that the earth earthwork had 46.59% improvement in productivity as well as 46.96% improvement in accuracy, and is expected to provide a tool for applying smart constrction to the earthwork operation.

A Physiotherapy Program for Secondary School Teachers with Forward Head Posture Accompanied by Moderate to Severe Neck Pain: Comparison of the effects of cranio-cervical flexor training and general training (중등도 이상의 목 통증을 동반한 앞쪽 머리 자세를 가진 중·고등학교 교사들을 위한 물리치료적 프로그램: 머리-목뼈 굽힘근 훈련과 일반적 훈련의 효과 비교)

  • Hyeon-Su Kim;Yeon-Ki Choo
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.195-204
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    • 2023
  • Purpose : This study applied general training (control group) or cranio-cervical flexor training (experimental group) using a pressure biofeedback unit along with general training for 4 weeks to secondary school teachers with moderate to severe neck pain and forward head posture. After that, we tried to compare the effects through differences in neck pain intensity (using numberical rating scale), functional performance (using neck disability index), and cranio-vertebral angle change. Methods : All 50 subjects were randomly assigned to either the "experimental group (n= 25)" or the "control group (n= 25)", and the measurements were evaluated in the same way before the intervention (baseline) and after the intervention (4 weeks). During the intervention period, the subject visited the physiotherapy center and made a reservation three times a week at a fixed time as much as possible, and each training session was thoroughly conducted under the 1:1 guidance of the therapist in charge so that the correct movement and number of times could be performed without compensatory action. Results : As a result of the homogeneity analysis on the general characteristics of the subjects, there were no significant differences between the groups in all variables (p>.05). Compared to the "control group", the "experimental group" showed significant improvement after intervention in all measured variables of neck pain intensity, functional performance, and cranial-vertebral angle (p<.05). Conclusion : For secondary school teachers with forward head accompanied by neck pain, cranio-cervical flexor training using a compression biofeedback unit is an excellent method to show superior pain reduction and functional performance improvement compared to general training alone. In addition, it can be presented as a more effective intervention method that can promote recovery of forward head posture, which is an essential element of the solution.

Comparison between Fuzzy and Adaptive Controls for Automatic Steering of Agricultural Tractors (농용트랙터의 자동조향을 위한 퍼지제어와 적응제어의 비교)

  • 노광모
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.283-292
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    • 1996
  • Automatic guidance of farm tractors would improve productivity by reducing operator fatigue and increasing machine performance. To control tractors within $\pm$5cm of the desired path, fuzzy and adaptive steering controllers were developed to evaluate their characteristics and performance. Two input variables were position and yaw errors, and a steering command was fed to tractor model as controller output. Trapezoidal membership functions were used in the fuzzy controller, and a minimum-variance adaptive controller was implemented into the 2-DOF discrete-time input-output model. For unit-step and composite paths, a dynamic tractor simulator was used to test the controllers developed. The results showed that both controllers could control the tractor within $\pm$5cm error from the defined path and the position error of tractor by fuzzy controller was the bigger of the two. Through simulations, the output of self-tuning adaptive controller was relatively smooth, but the fuzzy controller was very sensitive by the change of gain and the shape of membership functions. Contrarily, modeling procedure of the fuzzy controller was simple, but the adaptive controller had very complex procedure of design and showed that control performance was affected greatly by the order of its model.

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An Influence of Unit-Water Content Distribution in Ready-Mixed Concrete on Strength and Durability of Concrete (레미콘 단위수량 산포가 콘크리트 강도 및 내구성에 미치는 영향)

  • Woo, Young-Je;Lee, Han-Seung;Jung, Sang-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.375-381
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    • 2008
  • Various problems such as durability degradation may happen when extra water is added to concrete. Because of these reasons, the change of water content is managed by using rapid evaluation method of unit water content such as electric capacity method, heat drying method making use of micro wave, unit capacity mass method among various methods. Especially, in Japan, guidance for the change of water content ($\pm$ 10, 15, 20 kg/$m^3$ etc.) were regulated and used. However, it is the real situation that the guidance which were regulated in South Korea evaluate suitability only considering production and measurement error under the circumstances which are not considering the degree of durability degradation. Therefore, this study tries to investigate the influence of addition of extra water in the concrete on the durability degradation of concrete when it was added by artificial manipulation or by management error. From the test results, a guideline of the contents of extra water for the quality control is suggested with the consideration of the degree of durability degradation and the probable error resulted from the addition of extra water. The contents of extra water for tests are set as 0, 15, 25, 35 kg/$m^3$. To examine the durability degradation of concrete, freezing and thawing, carbonation, chloride penetration and compressive strength are tested.

A Study OR the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Special Bomb (특수폭탄의 비용대 효과분석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ching-Hoon
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.119-134
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    • 1977
  • The goal of this study is to determine which is the better bomb; a general purpose bomb or a special bomb, from the point of view of cost-effectiveness of air munitions. What we call the special bomb is a laser guided bomb which adds a guidance control unit on the head of a general purpose bomb. Althrough their characteristics of explosion are the same, their effectivenesses are very defferent due to their probability of hitting the targets. Now, in order to measure their relative a effectiveness, we could select various enemy targets such as runway, radar, and then Ive could also calculate requirments of both bombs and firghter aircraft sorties according to the desired damage level of each target, Following above steps, we can derive the total costs and compare effectiveness. As a results of this study, when the attrition rate of aircraft is under $1.1\%$, the general purpose bomb is better than the laser guided bomb. Above $1.1\%$ attrition rate, we could say that luser guided bomb is the most economical bomb.

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A Study on the HWIL Simulation System of the Flight Object including Inertial Navigation System (관성항법장치가 포함된 비행체의 HWIL 시뮬레이션 시스템 개발 연구)

  • Lee, Ayeong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.349-360
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    • 2018
  • This paper proposes various methods for constructing a HWIL simulation system including Inertial Navigation System(INS) and Guidance Control Unit(GCU) under the assumption that the INS identifies the initial attitude of an aviation body through its own alignment and that it is a package consisting of an inertial sensor and a navigation computation module. This paper also presents a real-time computing technology and a way to calculate the command of the Flight Motion System(FMS) analogous to the acutal flight environment. The proposed HWIL simulation system is constructed by applying the above-mentioned methods and the results of running a series of simulations confirm high effectiveness and usefulness of the system. Finally, minor error factors that could be acquired only in HWIL simulation Environment are analyzed.

Effects of Clinical Practicum Reinforcement Program on Nursing Student's Clinical Competency and Satisfaction in the ICU (중환자실의 현장실무 강화교육 프로그램이 간호학생의 임상수행능력과 임상실습교육 만족도에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Eun Sook;Kim, Jung Sook;Kim, Ah Young
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.262-274
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: To identify the effects of clinical practicum reinforcement program on nursing student's clinical competency and satisfaction in the ICU. Methods: The study utilized a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest research design. The participant was 76 senior nursing students, who were engaged in two week-long clinical practicum in ICU at the C university hospital in a G city, Korea. The clinical practicum reinforcement program was applied to the experimental group (n=39), while the control group (n=37) was involved in the conventional practicum program. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, $x^2$/Fisher's exact test, and t-test, ANCOVA with SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. Results: After 2 weeks' clinical practicum, the experimental group showed a statistically significant increase in the clinical performance abilities by self evaluation, when compared to the control group. Clinical instructor's evaluation on the student's clinical performance revealed that the experimental group showed higher level in nursing activity than that of the control group (p<.001). However, there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of the satisfaction on the clinical practicum program except the learning guidance and the evaluation. Conclusion: The clinical practicum reinforcement program is an effective one for improving the student's clinical competency.

Investigation of Transient Performance of An Auxiliary Power Unit Microturbine Engine (보조동력용 마이크로터빈 엔진에 대한 과도성능 해석)

  • Son, Ho-Jae;Kim, Soo-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.20-28
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    • 2007
  • The easiest way to see the phenomena of compressor surge is to show the static and dynamic operation characteristic on the map. Its operation zone will be restricted by the surge limit and, static and transient process must have some margin for it. Effect of rotor moment of inertia, air/gas volumes and heat transfer are factors to cause the transition from the static line. In case a large volume such as heat exchanger exists in the system it will exert a substantial influence to dynamic characteristics. In the present paper, influence of air volume bled from the compressor exit on transient process is investigated with an example of an auxiliary power unit micro-turbine engine. Turbine mass, pressure ratio, rotation speed, power and moment are calculated based on mass and work conservation. Result from the present study can give guidance to design the control system. A computer program is developed to calculate the dynamic process using the MathCAD commercial software.