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Performance Testing of Integrated Strapdwon INS and GPS

  • Lee, Sang-Joog;Yoo, Chang-Sun;Shim, Yo-Han;Kim, Jong-Chul
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2001
  • In recent navigation system, the profitable solution is to integrate the GPS and Stapdwon INS (SDINS) system and its integration allows compensation for shortcomings of each system. This paper describes the hardware preparation and presents the test results obtained from the automobile test of the developed system. The automobile tests was conducted with two kinds of inertial sensors and GPS receivers : short range and middle range test, to verify and evaluate the performance of the integrated navigation system. The reference of position is given by the Differential GPS(DGPS) which has cm-level accuracy to compare the accuracy of system. Kalman filtering is used for integrating GPS and SDINS and this filter effectively allows the long-term stability of GPS to correct and decrease the time deviation error of SDINS.

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Aircraft Waypoint Navigation Control with Neural Network-Based Altitude-Hold Control

  • Lee, Hyunjae;Bang, Hyochoong;Lee, Eunhee;Hong, Chang-Ho
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2001
  • Flight control design for the autonomous waypoint navigation of aircraft is presented in this study. The waypoints are defined in terms of desired longitude and latitude. The control design is conducted in longitudinal and lateral directions, respectively. The lateral control is based upon coordinated turn strategy for which no sideslip is allowed under the turning maneuver. The longitudinal control is mainly focused on altitude hold during navigation. Neural network control approach is applied to the altitude-hold mode control. Simulation of the proposed control strategy has been performed under various conditions. A graphical simulation tool was developed to visually demonstrate the control technique developed in this study. A method to simulate the gas turbine transient behavior is developed. The basic principles of the method.

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SA Review on Necessity to Calculate Navigation Errors in UTM Environments with SE Process (SE프로세스를 적용한 UTM 환경의 항법 오차 산출 필요성 검토)

  • Ku, SungKwan;Ahn, Hyojung;Kim, DoHyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2020
  • This study carries out a basic study of ways to calculate navigation errors for aircraft operating in the unmanned aerial system traffic management(UTM). Recently, research by UTM has been carried out both at home and abroad, along with the initial study of system definitions at the basic stage, operational techniques of the aircraft, and the practicality of the concept of necessary operations at the actual operational stage. This study presented after a review the factors that should be considered for the calculation of navigation errors among the factors that examine whether the actual low altitude aircraft can operate properly within UTM during its actual operation and the need to apply them in practice.

Influencing factors of low-altitude unmanned aircraft navigation using AHP

  • Ku, SungKwan;An, HyoJung;Lee, DongJin
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.173-181
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    • 2020
  • This study examines whether unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operated in the context of UAS traffic management (UTM) can be properly operated in its flight environment. In detail, this study examines the influencing navigation factors affecting UASs during flight and examines factors affecting the navigation of UASs under UTM. After deriving various factors affecting navigation, their importance are determined by applying the analytic hierarchy process technique, and the important influencing factors are examined. For low-altitude UAS navigation, errors are classified into navigation-system and flight-technical errors, and a hierarchy is constructed for their sub-factors affecting the influencers. Through this, influencing factors for precise navigation of low-altitude UAS are analyzed, and high importance items are identified.

A Study of the C-band Ground-based Radio Navigation System for UAM Cooperative Navigation (UAM 복합 항법을 위한 C 밴드 지상기반 전파 항법 시스템 연구)

  • Kyung-Soon Lee;Yong-Un Cho;Min-Jung Kim;Kyung Heon, Koo
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.374-381
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    • 2023
  • This study focuses on the implementation of C-band radio navigation in the 5.03 ~ 5.15 GHz terrestrial band to cooperate with GNSS navigation mainly used in existing UAMs. This is one of the navigation technologies that can fully satisfy the requirements of Title 14 of CFR-135.165. According to the FAA, the use of two or more independent navigation sources for aircraft is proposed for aircraft. This study proceeded with the link budget derivation through radio wave propagation path loss analysis, and antenna shape design for miniaturized Doppler VOR, and DME design with enhanced positional distance resolution compared to conventional aircraft. The ground navigation system which is the result of this study, consists of a VOR/DME ground station and a terminal that can be mounted on UAM. Significant performance was confirmed through the production and testing of each prototype.

A Study on improvement of Korean aircraft system modification certification procedure (우리나라 항공기 시스템 개조 인증 절차 개선 연구)

  • Yoo, Beong-Seon;Lim, In-Kyu
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.185-193
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    • 2021
  • The system needs to be modified to improve the performance of the aircraft in operation or to satisfy the requirements of related laws. Appropriate standards are required for the technical skills for remodeling the aircraft system, design verification for airworthiness of the aircraft, and supplemental type certification (STC) certification procedures for type certification. This study analyzes the current status and demand of domestic aircraft remodeling, examines the current supplementary type certification procedure, and diagnoses the problem. In addition, as a result of researching measures to improve remodeling technology and certification capabilities to extend the life of the aircraft, improvements in the education system were derived to improve the domestic additional type certification process, such as approval of remodeling agencies and appointment of qualifications for each professional technician.

Virtual Ground Based Augmentation System

  • Core, Giuseppe Del;Gaglione, Salvatore;Vultaggio, Mario;Pacifico, Armando
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 2006
  • Since 1993, the civil aviation community through RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) and the ICAO (International Civil Air Navigation Organization) have been working on the definition of GNSS augmentation systems that will provide improved levels of accuracy and integrity. These augmentation systems have been classified into three distinct groups: Aircraft Based Augmentation Systems (ABAS), Space Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS). The last one is an implemented system to support Air Navigation in CAT-I approaching operation. It consists of three primary subsystems: the GNSS Satellite subsystem that produces the ranging signals and navigation messages; the GBAS ground subsystem, which uses two or more GNSS receivers. It collects pseudo ranges for all GNSS satellites in view and computes and broadcasts differential corrections and integrity-related information; the Aircraft subsystem. Within the area of coverage of the ground station, aircraft subsystems may use the broadcast corrections to compute their own measurements in line with the differential principle. After selection of the desired FAS for the landing runway, the differentially corrected position is used to generate navigation guidance signals. Those are lateral and vertical deviations as well as distance to the threshold crossing point of the selected FAS and integrity flags. The Department of Applied Science in Naples has create for its study a virtual GBAS Ground station. Starting from three GPS double frequency receivers, we collect data of 24h measures session and in post processing we generate the GC (GBAS Correction). For this goal we use the software Pegasus V4.1 developed from EUROCONTROL. Generating the GC we have the possibility to study and monitor GBAS performance and integrity starting from a virtual functional architecture. The latter allows us to collect data without the necessity to found us authorization for the access to restricted area in airport where there is one GBAS installation.

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Preliminary Design of GBAS Onboard Test Equipment

  • Jeong, Myeong-Sook;Ko, Wan-Jin;Bae, Joong Won;Jun, Hyang Sig
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2013
  • When the ground subsystem of Ground Based Augmentation System(GBAS) is installed at the airport, the functions and performance of subsystem should be evaluated through ground and flight testing at the pre-commissioning phase. In the case of GBAS flight testing, it can be conducted by the existing flight check aircraft, but the GBAS ground testing requires the development of specially customized equipment to perform the ground testing. Therefore, this paper describes the preliminary design of GBAS onboard test equipment which can be independently used for the GBAS ground testing and flight testing on a car and an aircraft.

A Study on Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for DME Pulse Design

  • Lee, Jungyeon;Kim, Euiho
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2021
  • The Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) is a ground-based aircraft navigation system and is considered as an infrastructure that ensures resilient aircraft navigation capability during the event of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) outage. The main problem of DME as a GNSS back up is a poor positioning accuracy that often reaches over 100 m. In this paper, a novel approach of applying deep reinforcement learning to a DME pulse design is introduced to improve the DME distance measuring accuracy. This method is designed to develop multipath-resistant DME pulses that comply with current DME specifications. In the research, a Markov Decision Process (MDP) for DME pulse design is set using pulse shape requirements and a timing error. Based on the designed MDP, we created an Environment called PulseEnv, which allows the agent representing a DME pulse shape to explore continuous space using the Soft Actor Critical (SAC) reinforcement learning algorithm.

Alignment of Inertial Navigation Sensor and Aircraft Fuselage Using an optical 3D Coordinate Measuring Device (광학식 3차원 좌표측정장치를 이용한 관성항법센서와 기체의 정렬기법)

  • Kim, Jeong-ho;Lee, Dae-woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2019
  • This paper deals with a method of aligning an aircraft fuselage and an inertial navigation sensor using three-dimensional coordinates obtained by an optical method. In order to verify the feasibility, we introduce the method to accurately align the coordinate system of the inertial navigation sensor and the aircraft reference coordinate system. It is verified through simulation that reflects the error level of the measuring device. In addition, optimization method based alignment algorithm is proposed for connection between optical sensor and inertial navigation sensor.