• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권11호
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• pp.2073-2082
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• 2010

The 4-th generation of mobile communication aims to realize global, fast and mobile communication service. The satellite communication charges a key role in this field. In this study, an OTM(On-The-Move) antenna which is mounted on ground vehicles and is used for mobile communication between vehicle and satellite was addressed. Since vehicles move during communication, active antenna line-of-sight stabilization is a core technology to guarantee high satellite communication quality. Stabilization of a satellite tracking antenna which consists of 2-DOF gimbals, an elevation gimbal over an azimuth gimbal, was considered in this study. Various disturbance torques such as static and dynamic mass imbalance torques, variation of moment of inertia according to elevation angle, friction torque related to vehicle motion, equivalent disturbance torque due to antenna roll motion, etc. were analyzed. As a robust stabilization control, rate feedback with sliding mode control and position feedback with proportional+integral control was suggested. To compensate antenna roll motion, a supplementary roll rate feed forward control was included beside of the feedback control loop. The feasibility of the analysis and the proposed control design were verified along with some simulation results.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.363-370
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• 2016

This paper proposes a Ku-band multi-mode coupler and its monopulse tracking system, which can be applied to a unmaned aircraft vehicle(UAV) platform. In general, the carrier-to-noise(C/N) level of the beacon signal from a Ku-band commercial satellite is relatively weak compared to that of a military satellite because the Ku-band satellite has been designed for commercial services. Therefore, this paper proposes a coupler and its multi-mode monopulse tracking system satisfying the tracking accuracy under a low C/N environment and analyzes the tracking accuracy. After that, we perform a real satellite tracking test and compare the accuracy of the test with the analysis result before validating the performance of the architecture of the proposed satellite tracking system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.774-782
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• 2008

An operational orbit determination (OD) and prediction system for the geostationary Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) mission requires accurate satellite positioning knowledge to accomplish image navigation registration on the ground. Ranging and tracking data from a single ground station is used for COMS OD in normal operation. However, the orbital longitude of the COMS is so close to that of satellite tracking sites that geometric singularity affects observability. A method to solve the azimuth bias of a single station in singularity is to periodically apply an estimated azimuth bias using the ranging and tracking data of two stations. Velocity increments of a wheel off-loading maneuver which is performed twice a day are fixed by planned values without considering maneuver efficiency during OD. Using only single-station data with the correction of the azimuth bias, OD can achieve three-sigma position accuracy on the order of 1.5 km root-sum-square.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.194-204
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• 2006

This contribution focuses on the maximum likelihood (ML) noncoherent synchronization of multi-antenna transceivers working in faded environments and employing ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) transmit technology. In particular, the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is derived for the general case of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) UWB-IR systems and used to compare the ultimate performance of three basic transmit schemes, thereinafter referred to as single input multiple output (SIMO), MIMO equal signaling (MIMO-ES), and MIMO orthogonal signaling (MIMO-OS) ones. Thus, the noncoherent ML synchronizer is developed for the better performing transmit scheme (i.e., the SIMO one) and its performance is evaluated under both signal acquisition and tracking operating conditions. The performance gain in the synchronization of UWB- IR signals arising by the utilization of the multi-antenna technology is also evaluated.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.12-19
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• 2000

Wireless communication systems using airship have been proposed in worldwide. The airship will be located at the stratosphere about $20{\sim}23\;km$ above the sea level. The position of airship will vary within the station keeping range with time due to the drag of the wind in the stratosphere. When the earth station antenna has a high gain without the tracking function, the antenna performance may be degraded by a small variation of the airship. This means that variation of airship location could result in serious degradation of the system performance. In this paper, degradation in earth station's Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) and Gain to noise Temperature ratio (G/T) due to the stratospheric platform movements has been derived by calculating the deviation angle of the main beam directions between the earth station and the platform antenna. In this case, the antenna of the earth station has been assumed circular and/or patch array antennas.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.27-41
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• 1994

A new mathematical model to predict the beam pointing instability of a nonconservative two-body satellite system in spinning injection mode has been developed by using Newton-Euler and projection methods. Since the on-axis and null axis of the omni antenna with toroidal pattern beam form a right angle, wobbling of the antenna on-axis is measured by determining the Euler angles which represent the orientation of the satellite's spin axis. Because of the complexity of the system which is a time varying, nonstationary, nonlinear dynamical system, a numerical method is used for the analysis. Computer simulation results present the effects of the mass distribution and internal mass motion on the antenna beam pointing.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.96-102
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• 2006

In this paper, the design, construction and basic characteristics of an electronically adaptive array antenna for the GPS receiver is described. The susceptibility of the GPS signals to the interference is of concern to the GPS user community. Because of the low received power of the GPS signals, outages can easily occur due to the unintentional interference and the easily obtainable low cost GPS jammer denying access to the GPS signals. We propose a technique of the adaptive array antenna that detects the GPS interference sources and controls the null beam pattern only toward the jamming sources to acquire GPS navigation data after acquisition and tracking of the GPS signals.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.132-137
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• 2003

연안을 항해하는 소형선박에 탑재하여 위성방송을 수신할 수 있는 Az(Azimuth: 방위각) 1축 마운트의 추적시스템을 구현하여 추적성능을 분석하였다. 소형선박용 위성방송 수신시스템은 소형, 경량, 단순조작, 저가형으로 실현되어야 하기 때문에 1축 Az 마운트가 적합하다. 안테나는 패치어레이의 평판형을 사용하였고 마운트는 스텝모터로 구동되도록 설계하였다. 알고리즘은 위성의 포인트를 추적을 위한 스텝트랙과 선박의 동요성분을 역으로 보상하는 동요보정이 병행되도록 작성하였다. 동요성분을 검출하기 위하여 자이로형 각속도센서를 활용하였고, 비교기, ADC 둥의 인터페이스회로와 마이크로프로세서를 사용하여 시스템을 구현하였다. 연안여객선에 시제품을 탑재하여 선회 및 동요의 정도에 따른 수신입력 레벨의 변동을 그래프로 기록하여 추적 성능을 분석하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1130-1137
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• 2003

연안을 항해하는 소형선박에 탑재하여 위성방송을 수신할 수 있는 Az(Azimuth: 방위각 ) 1축 마운트의 추적시스템을 구현하여 추적성능을 분석하였다. 소형선박용 위성방송 수신시스템은 소형, 경량, 단순조작, 저가형으로 실현되어야 하기 때문에 l축 Ak 마운트가 적합하다. 안테나는 패치어레이의 평판형을 사용하였고 마운트는 스텝모터로 구동되도록 설계하였다. 알고리즘은 위성의 포인트를 추적을 위한 스텝트랙과 선박의 동요성분을 역으로 보상하는 동요보정이 병행되도록 작성하였다. 동요성분을 검출하기 위하여 자이로형 각 속도센서를 활용하였고, 비교기, ADC 등의 인터페이스회로와 마이크로프로세서를 사용하여 시스템을 구현하였다. 연안여객선에 시제품을 탑재하여 선회 및 동요의 정도에 따른 수신입력 레벨의 변동을 그래프로 기록하여 추적 성능을 분석하였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.184-188
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• 2006

본 논문은 협대역의 위성통신 수신신호 전력을 측정하여 이동형 위성통신 안테나를 추적제어하기 위한 DSP 기반의 협대역 위성통신 신호전력 검출기를 제안한다. 기존의 아날로그 검출방식에 의한 협대역 위성통신 신호전력 검출기는 위성 전파경로 상에서 발생되는 반송파의 중심주파수 천이로 인해 고정된 아날로그 필터대역을 통과하여 검출되는 신호 전력의 오차가 심하고 전송 신호의 대역폭 가변에 따른 아날로그 필터의 대역폭을 변경하기가 용이하지 않다. 따라서 이러한 반송파 주파수 천이에 영향 받지 않고 가변 하는 신호 대역폭에 대응하는 필터를 실시간으로 프로그래머블하게 지원하기 위하여 DSP 기반의 협대역 디지털 위성통신 신호전력 검출기를 제안하였다. 제안된 협대역 위성통신 신호전력 검출 알고리즘은 FFT를 이용하여 주파수 천이된 협대역 위성통신 신호의 주파수를 탐색하고 프로그래머블한 디지털 필터를 선택하여 필터링한 다음, 일정구간 주기로 신호전력을 계산하여 12비트 해상도로 출력하는 기능을 가진다. TMS320C5402 DSP 칩을 기반으로 설계 제작된 신호전력 검출기의 실제 시험을 통하여 제시된 요구기능과 규격을 만족하면서 동작함을 검증하였고 실용성을 확인하였다.