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A Investigation the Aircraft Pilots Licence Acquisition Standard Reference Material Providing (항공기조종사 자격증명취득 표준교재 제공에 관한 고찰)

  • Park, Wontae
    • 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.

A Study on Position Estimation for UAV using Line-of-sight Data-link System (가시선 데이터링크를 이용한 무인기 위치 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Soo;Song, Young-Hwan;Lee, Byoung-Hwa;Yoon, Chang-Bae
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.1031-1038
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    • 2016
  • In the UAVs, the position error of the inertial navigation system is constantly increased when global positioning system goes wrong due to interference. It makes impossible to ensure mission and flight safety. If the data-link system provide the position of the UAV for inertial navigation system periodically, then the UAV may operate normally under malfunction of the global positioning system. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for estimating the position of the UAV using the monopulse tracking and distance measurement of the line-of-sight data-link system. Also, we propose a method to improve the performance of position estimation. And we assured ourselves that this method can be applied in the UAVs.

Design and realization of the passenger ship's MSP service system using ASM2.0 : focusing on captain's mandatory reporting items (차세대 해상디지털통신기술 ASM2.0을 이용한 여객선 MSP서비스 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Kilyong;Kim, Do-yeon;Lee, Seojeong
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.871-882
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    • 2015
  • AIS-ASM is one of the studies to provide a variety of maritime safety information as well as the information on a ship's position that is their own function, and AIS-ASM has been implemented with adjustment of the relevant regulations since 2004. However, it was reported that the increased use of ASM message on the existing AIS channel affects the part of the existing AIS own function such as the transmission of the ship's position and safe-related information. Also, seamless MSP service is difficult to provide at a low transmission rate of the existing AIS channel. This study aims to reduce the marine officer's workload through automating captain's mandatory reporting items using the one of the next maritime digital communication technology (ASM2.0). For this purpose, we designed and realized the ASM2.0 protocol through analyzing domestic regulations about passenger flight and AIS-ASM message.

A COMPARISON STUDY OF SPACE RADIATION DOSE ANALYSIS PROGRAMS: SPENVIS SECTORING TOOL AND SIGMA II

  • Chae Jongwon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.347-350
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    • 2004
  • A space radiation analysis has been used to evaluate an ability of electronic equipment boxes or spacecrafts to endure various radiation effects, so it helps design thicknesses of structure and allocate components to meet the radiation requirements. A comparison study of space radiation dose analysis programs SPENVIS Sectoring Tool (SST) and SIGMA II is conducted through some structure cases, simple sphere shell, box and representative satellite configurations. The results and a discussion of comparison will be given. A general comparison will be shown for understanding those programs. The both programs use the same strategy, solid angle sectoring with ray-tracing method to produce an approximate dose at points in representative simple and complex models of spacecraft structures. Also the particle environment data corresponding to mission specification and radiation transport data are used as input data. But there are distinctions between them. The specification of geometry model and its input scheme, the assignment of dose point and the numbers, the prerequisite programs and ways of representing results will be discussed. SST is a web-based interactive program for sectoring analysis of complex geometries. It may be useful for a preliminary dose assessment with user-friendly interfaces and a package approach. SIGMA II is able to obtain from RSICC (Radiation Safety Information Computational Center) as a FOR-TRAN 77 source code. It may be suitable for either parametric preliminary design or detailed final design, e.g. a manned flight or radiation-sensitive component configuration design. It needs some debugs, recompiling and a tedious work to make geometrical quadric surfaces for actual spacecraft configuration, and has poor documentation. It is recommend to vist RSICC homepage and GEANT4/SSAT homepage.

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Evaluation of Composite Laminates for Aircraft Primary-Structure Applications Using Non-Linear Parameter of Ultrasonic Guided Wave (유도초음파의 비선형 파라미터를 이용한 항공기 구조체의 복합재료 적층판 열화 평가)

  • Cho, Youn-Ho;Kim, Do-Youn;Choi, Heung-Soap;Lee, Joon-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.126-131
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to assess the condition of composites used in aircraft under varying temperature environment with ultrasound guided wave technique. Investigation of crucial influential factor on the composite health monitoring related to aircraft operational environments such as the number of thermal cycles and temperature deviation between ground level and flight altitude has been of a great concern for aircraft safety issue. In this study, ultrasonic guided wave health monitoring scheme is proposed to evaluate composite specimens damaged with the thermal fatigue simulating aircraft operational condition. Guided wave dispersion curves are used to select right modes which show a promising sensitivity to each different thermal fatigue damage level. The present approach can be also implemented as one of on-lines health monitoring tools for aircraft.

Research for improving vulnerability of unmanned aerial vehicles (무인항공기 보안 취약점 개선을 위한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyung-Hwan;Ryu, Gab-Sang
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.64-71
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    • 2018
  • Utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly expanding to various fields ranging from defense, industry, entertainment and personal hobbies. Due to the increased activities of unmanned airplanes, many security problems have emerged, including flight path errors to undesired destinations, secondary threats due to exposed securities caused by the capture of unmanned airplanes in hostile countries. In this paper, we find security vulnerabilities in UAVs such as GPS spoofing, hacking captured video information, malfunction due to signal attenuation through jamming, and exposure of personal information due to image shooting. In order to solve this problem, the stability of the unstructured data is secured by setting the encryption of the video shooting information section using the virtual private network (VPN) to prevent the GPS spoofing attack. In addition, data integrity was ensured by applying personal information encryption and masking techniques to minimize the secondary damage caused by exposure of the UAV and to secure safety. It is expected that it will contribute to the safe use and stimulation of industry in the application field of UAV currently growing.

Design of an Optical System for a Medium Luminous-Intensity Aircraft-Warning Light Using a LED Light Source and a Fresnel Lens (LED 광원과 프레넬 렌즈를 이용한 중광도 항공장애등 광학계 설계)

  • Park, Hyeon Joon;Choi, Seong Won;Kim, Jong Tae
    • New Physics: Sae Mulli
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    • v.68 no.11
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    • pp.1268-1274
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    • 2018
  • Aircraft-warning lights are lights that are used to inform pilots in flight about the presence of buildings or dangerous objects. Currently, the light sources of most aircraft-warning lights have been replaced by light-emitting diodes (LEDs). However, the aircraft-warning lights that are installed do not meet the optical performance standards and may cause airplane collisions. Therefore, the use of such light poses a risk to aviation safety. In order to solve this problem, we designed a Fresnel lens with the same luminous intensity distribution ovef $360^{\circ}$ direction; thus, we collimated the light beam from the LED light source with a narrow beam divergence angle in the form of an array of aspheric pieces. After that, we designed and simulated an aircraft-warning-light optical system with a center luminous intensity of 20,000 cd and a vertical divergence angle of $3^{\circ}$ or more by optimizing the lens' tilt and the distance between the LED and the Fresnel lens.

Preliminary Perfomances Anlaysis of 1.5-m Scale Multi-Purpose Laser Ranging System (1.5m급 다목적형 레이저 추적 시스템 예비 성능 분석)

  • Son, Seok-Hyeon;Lim, Jae-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.49 no.9
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    • pp.771-780
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    • 2021
  • The space Debris laser ranging system is called to be a definite type of satellite laser ranging system that measures the distance to satellites. It is a system that performs POD (Precise Orbit Determination) by measuring time of flight by firing a laser. Distance precision can be measured in mm-level units, and it is the most precise system among existing systems. Currently, KASI has built SLR in Sejong and Geochang, and utilized SLR data to verify the precise orbits of the STSAT-2C and KOMASAT-5. In recent years, due to the fall or collision of space debris, its satellites have been threatened, and in terms of security, laser tracking of space objects is receiving great interest in order to protect their own space assets and protect the safety of the people. In this paper, a 1.5m-class main mirror was applied for the system design of a multipurpose laser tracking system that considers satellite laser ranging and space object laser tracking. System preliminary performance analysis was performed based on Link Budget analysis considering specifications of major components.

A Study on the Verification of Crashworthiness for Fuel System of Military Rotorcraft (군용 회전익항공기 연료계통 내추락성 입증에 관한 연구)

  • Sangsoo Park;Junmo Yang;Munguk Kim;Jaechul Kim
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2023
  • The aircraft fuel system performs a number of functions such as supplying fuel, transferring fuel between fuel tanks, and measuring the amount of residual fuel in each fuel tank. Since it is a direct cause of fire hazard in crash incident, it is a must to improve survivability of crew members by designing the airframe to tolerate expected crash impact. The civil aviation authority requires intensive verification of the fuel system design to determine precise application of the airworthiness requirement. Research activity on airworthiness certification criteria and verification scheme is still insufficient, although it has a significant importance. In this paper, as part of a study to improve flight safety by developing guidelines for demonstrating fuel system crash resistance, analysis results of fuel system crash-related airworthiness certification standards, verification scheme, and cases study applicable to military rotorcraft have been reviewed.

Extracting Patterns of Airport Approach Using Gaussian Mixture Models and Analyzing the Overshoot Probabilities (가우시안 혼합모델을 이용한 공항 접근 패턴 추출 및 패턴 별 과이탈 확률 분석)

  • Jaeyoung Ryu;Seong-Min Han;Hak-Tae Lee
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.888-896
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    • 2023
  • When an aircraft is landing, it is expected that the aircraft will follow a specified approach procedure and then land at the airport. However, depending on the airport situation, neighbouring aircraft or the instructions of the air traffic controller, there can be a deviation from the specified approach. Detecting aircraft approach patterns is necessary for traffic flow and flight safety, and this paper suggests clustering techniques to identify aircraft patterns in the approach segment. The Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), one of the machine learning techniques, is used to cluster the trajectories of aircraft, and ADS-B data from aircraft landing at the Gimhae airport in 2019 are used. The aircraft trajectories are clustered on the plane, and a total of 86 approach trajectory patterns are extracted using the centroid value of each cluster. Considering the correlation between the approach procedure pattern and overshoots, the distribution of overshoots is calculated.