• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2015

The Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) systems are indispensable tools of air surveillance and reconnaissance nowadays. Via this systems, hazardous end risky intelligence gathering activities are handled easily. Although they are named as "Unmanned" the UAV systems are commanded by pilots/operators. So, because of weather conditions, enemy attacks etc. as well as pilot error it is possible to face with sudden Round per Minute (RPM) drops and subsequently engine cut/stop during a mission flight at high altitudes. In this case, there are some very urgent decisions to make and rapid "emergency procedure" steps to take in a very short time before Line of Sight (LOS) is lost. The time before crash and the distance to landing air base need to be calculated, the Return Home route need to be checked and the landing/crash side need to be determined. Therefore it is a vital necessity that UAV pilots have some extra qualifications like being determined, well instructed and trained, experienced apart from operating ability. Within this scope, for an education process of a UAV pilot experience sharing and lessons learned are as important as simulators even more. By means of lessons learned it is possible to find out the reasons, mistakes and prevent the likely UAV accidents. In this study it is told about a real UAV crash, experienced of the pilot, the dos and don'ts and the difficulties. Thus it is aimed to help the people who can experience the same or similar situations in future.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.620-626
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• 2019

With the development of robot technology, the expectation of autonomous mission operations has increased, and the research on robot control architectures and mission planners has continued. A scalable and robust control architecture is required for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform a variety of tasks, such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and search and rescue operations, in unstructured and time-varying maritime environments. In this paper, we propose a robot control architecture along with a new utility function that can be extended to various applications for USVs. Also, an additional structure is proposed to reflect the operator's command and improve the performance of the autonomous mission. The proposed architecture was developed using a robot operating system (ROS), and the performance and feasibility of the architecture were verified through simulations.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2011

RIB(Rigid Inflatable Boat) is widely used for coastal transportation in the commercial use and for ISR(Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) in the military use. Since RIB is around 10 meters in length and over 30 knots in speed, its motion characteristics in waves is quite different from a large scale ship. When it turns, large roll occurs and heeling direction is opposite to the large ship's case. Currently, many countries are developing USV(Unmanned Surface Vehicle) of which type is RIB. In order to develop high performance autopilot and way point controller, it is very important to identify RIB's motion characteristics. In this paper, sea trial test results of a 7-meter RIB such as speed, turning, zig-zag, and way point control tests were represented and its resistance and propulsion model was identified by using sea trial data and Savitsky's formula. In addition, the state space model which will be used in the identification of the four-degree-of-freedom dynamics in the next step was formulated and the identification procedure was proposed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권7호
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• pp.1225-1230
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• 2016

Since a flash light produces enormous amount of photon energy in short time, not only electro-optic and infrared(EO/IR) systems utilized for Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and reconnaissance(ISTAR) activities but also the people of a combat field can be severely influenced by a high flash light bursting in front of them. The people who bumped into a flash could not escape such enormous amount of photon energy, resulting in being blind temporarily or even permanently. In order to investigate the effect of a high flash source on a human eye, it is essential to know how much photon energy be incident into an eye from the flash source. In this paper, the model of irradiated photon energy to individuals from some flashes is proposed. The proposed irradiated photon energy per unit area of retina is based on taking the situation to be modeled as a simple EO system in front of a flash light. The validity of proposed model was proved by the application of the model to human on the surface of the earth with the well known light source, the Sun. The model of this study can be utilized to simulate the retinal intensity and energy of a flash for various conditions such as the illumination levels, the distance from a flash busting site, luminous intensity and time of a flash.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2021

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which were used for military purposes, are gradually expanding their application fields under the influence of electrification and digitalization. Starting from the field of aerial imaging and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission, nowadays the possibility of Urban Air Mobility (UAM), which transports passengers and cargo with drones, is widely under discussion. In order to occupy the rapidly growing global unmanned aerial vehicle market in advance, it is necessary to secure core technologies and develop key UAVs components based on the new technologies. In the navigation field, it is necessary to secure a precise position with guaranteed reliability and continuity, unrelated to the operating environments. The reliability and continuity should be secured in the algorithm level and in the H/W component levels also. In order to achieve this technical goal, the Ministry of Science and ICT has launched the 'Unmanned Vehicle Core Technology Research and Development Program' in 2019 to support the R&D on the unmanned vehicle technologies. In this paper, authors introduce the unmanned vehicle core technology research and development program to the related researchers. The authors summarize the backgrounds of the program and show the technological tasks and objectives on the sub-programs in the unmanned vehicle navigation program. We present the program schedules especially focused on the test and evaluation of the developed technologies and components.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권3호
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• pp.209-222
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• 2014

현대전의 전쟁 개념은 정보 통신 기술의 발전과 함께 지휘 통제 과정을 네트워크로 연계하여 전투 수행 능력을 향상시키는 네트워크 중심전 (NCW, Network Centric Warfare)으로 변화하고 있다. 이에 따라, 네트워크를 통한 정보의 우위를 점유하는 NCW의 구현에 있어, 감시 정찰 체계로부터 획득한 정보정찰감시 (ISR, Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) 정보의 고속 전송을 위해 개발된 공용데이터링크 (CDL, Common Data Link) 기술이 핵심 요소로 고려되고 있다. 세계 각국에서는 CDL의 전송속도 및 네트워킹 기능을 향상시키기 위한 기술 개발에 주력하고 있으며, 우리 군도 자립적인 CDL 기술 개발의 필요성을 인식하고 MPI-CDL (Multi-Platform Image and Intelligence Common Data Link)을 개발하였다. 하지만 다수 체계 간 대용량 ISR 정보를 신속하게 수집 제공하기에는 최대 전송속도 및 네트워킹 기능 성능이 해외 장비 대비 미흡한 상황으로, 전체적인 성능을 향상시킨 차세대 CDL 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 차세대 한국형 CDL 개발을 위해, 현재까지의 CDL 개발 흐름과 해외 선행 장비의 기술 동향을 살펴보고, 향후 지향해야 할 차세대 CDL 개발 방향에 대해 제시한다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2023

Surveillance and reconnaissance intelligence in the space domain will become increasingly important in future battlefield environments. Moreover, to assimilate the military provocations and trends of hostile countries, imagery intelligence of the highest possible resolution is required. There are many methods for improving the resolution of optical satellites when observing the ground, such as designing satellite optical systems with a larger diameter and lowering the operating altitude. In this paper, we propose a method for improving ground observation resolution by using an optical system for a previously designed low orbit satellite and lowering the operating altitude of the satellite. When the altitude of a satellite is reduced in a circular orbit, a large amount of thrust fuel is required to maintain altitude because the satellite's altitude can decrease rapidly due to atmospheric drag. However, by using the critical inclination, which can fix the position of the perigee in an elliptical orbit to the observation area, the operating altitude of the satellite can be reduced using less fuel compared to a circular orbit. This method makes it possible to obtain a similar observational resolution of a medium-sized satellite with the same weight and volume as a small satellite. In addition, this method has the advantage of reducing development and launch costs to that of a small-sized satellite. As a result, we designed an elliptical orbit. The perigee of the orbit is 300 km, the apogee is 8,366.52 km, and the critical inclination is 116.56°. This orbit remains at its lowest altitude to the Korean peninsula constantly with much less orbit maintenance fuel compared to the 300 km circular orbit.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.54-62
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• 2017

ISR(Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) 임무를 위한 관측위성의 경우 임무운용개념이 요구되는 동시에 특정 관심영역을 주기적으로 탐지 가능한지에 대한 임무 효용성 분석이 필요하다. 이를 위해서는 군집궤도 형상에 대한 최적설계가 수행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 위성군집 형성방법으로 Walker-Delta 방식을 적용하여 특정 관심영역을 탐지하기 위한 군집형상에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 임무수행의 효용성을 평가하기 위해 재방문주기 성능을 핵심 요구조건으로 선정하였다. 본 연구에서는 4기 SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 위성군집을 적용한 임무분석 과정을 보여주고, 요구조건을 만족시키는 궤도배치 형상결과를 제시하였다. 군집궤도의 성능지수 분석은 개발된 분석 알고리즘을 기반으로 수행하였으며, ISR 임무를 위한 군집궤도 형상은 한 궤도면에 한 기의 위성이 배치되는 4개 궤도면의 형상이 적합한 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.181-190
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• 2014

무인항공기(UAV)를 이용하여 효율적인 감시정찰을 수행하기 위해서는 센서의 고성능, 다중화와 함께 운용상황에 맞는 최적화된 비행경로계획이 요구된다. 이뿐만 아니라 시스템 개발 또는 임무운용 전 임무 효용성 평가, 평시와 전시에 빠른 작전 결정을 위해서는 임무를 가시화할 수 있는 가시화 도구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 STK(Systems Tool Kit)와 MATLAB을 통합한 임무 가시화 및 분석 도구를 개발하고 이를 통하여 UAV 감시정보정찰(ISR; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) 임무분석을 수행하였다. 개발된 임무분석 도구에는 비행최적화 뿐만 아니라 장애물 회피 알고리즘, FoM(Figure of Merit) 분석 알고리즘이 적용되어 최적의 임무계획이 가능하도록 하였다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2020

사이버공간의 확대로 인하여 전쟁양상 또한 재래전에서 사이버전을 포함한 형태로 바뀌어가고 있다. 사이버전이란 국가나 조직의 활동을 방해하기 위해 컴퓨터 기술을 사용하는 것으로 특히 국방 분야에서는 적 사이버 공격에 대해 체계적으로 대응할 필요성이 있다. 하지만 사이버 위협 환경에서 효과적으로 방어하기 위한 방어체계는 많이 미비하다. 이를 보완하기 위한 새로운 사이버전 운영개념이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 방어 중심의 사이버작전을 수행함에 있어 사이버작전 수행절차에 따라 요구되는 사이버 정보감시정찰, 능동적 방어 및 대응, 전투피해평가, 지휘통제 개념들을 효과적인 사이버작전 수행을 위해 통합적인 운용개념을 연구하고 이를 발전시켜 사이버전장에서 지속적인 전략적 우위를 달성할 수 있는 사이버전 운영 개념을 제시하고자 한다.