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A Study on the Design and Validation of Automatic Pitch Rocker System for Altitude, Speed and Deep Stall Recovery (항공기의 고도, 속도 및 깊은 실속의 회복을 위한 자동회복장치 설계 및 검증에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chong-Sup
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.240-248
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    • 2009
  • Modem version of supersonic jet fighter aircraft must have been guaranteed appropriate controllability and stability in HAoA(High Angle of Attack). The HAoA flight control law have two parts, one is control law of departure prevention and the other is control law of departure recovery support. The control laws of departure prevention for advanced jet trainer consist of HAoA limiter, roll command limiter and rudder fader. The control laws of departure recovery support are consist of yaw-rate limiter and MPO(Manual Pitch Override) mode. The guideline of pitch rocking using MPO mode is simple, but operating skill of pitch rocking is very difficult by the pilot with inexperience of departure situation. Therefore, automatic deep stall recovery system is necessary. The system called the "Automatic Pitch Rocker System" or APRS, provided a pilot initiated automatic maneuver capable of an aircraft recoveries in situations of deep stall, speed and altitude. This paper addresses the design and validation for APRS to recovery of an deep stall without manual pitch rocking by the pilot. Also, this system is designed to recovery of speed, attitude and altitude after deep stall recovery using ATCS (Automatic Thrust Control System) and autopilot. Finally, this system is verified by real-time pilot evaluation using HQS (Handling Quality Simulator).

A Performance Characteristics of the Thruster Nozzle for Attitude Control of Space Vehicle According to Flight Altitude (우주비행체 자세제어용 추력기 노즐의 비행고도 변이별 추력성능 특성 해석)

  • Kam, Ho-Dong;Choi, Hyun-Ah;Kim, Jeong-Soo;Bae, Dae-Seok;Kim, In-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.167-171
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    • 2012
  • A computational analysis of nozzle flow is conducted to investigate effects of the flight altitude on thrust performance. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equation with k-${\omega}$ SST(Shear Stress Transport) turbulence model is employed to simulate the nozzle flow in various altitude conditions, where continuum mechanics is to be valid. Thrust performance of the nozzle is exceedingly poor upto 10 km of flight altitude because of the irreversible phenomena such as shock and/or flow separation occurring inside the nozzle, whereas it is restored to the nominal value as the altitude is attained higher than 30 km.

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Fuel Optimization for Low Earth Orbit Maintenance (최적화 기법을 이용한 초저고도 운용위성 연료량 분석)

  • Park, Yong-Jae;Park, Sang-Young;Kim, Young-Rok;Choi, Kyu-Hong
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.167-180
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    • 2008
  • The resolution of Earth images taken from a satellite has close relation with satellite's altitude. If a satellite has lower altitude, it gets a picture having better resolution. However the satellite will be exposed to heavier air drag and will spend more fuel to maintain its altitude for a desired mission. Therefore, in this study, the required fuel to maintain very low earth orbit(LEO) with severe air drag is analyzed using optimization method such as collocation method. The required fuel to maintain the low altitude has significantly increased as the mission altitude is lowered and the solar activity is maximized. This study also shows that the fuel reduced by increasing the period of the satellite maneuver is very small, and that slightly increasing the satellite's mission altitude is much effective in reducing the amount of fuel to maintain its altitude. The calculated fuel to maintain very low earth orbit in this study would give useful information in planning the budget of fuel and cost for LEO satellites.

Photovoltaic tracking system considered loss by shadow (음영에 의한 손실을 고려한 태양광 발전 추적 시스템)

  • Choi, Jung-Sik;Ko, Jae-Sub;Jung, Chul-Ho;Kim, Do-Yon;Jung, Byung-Jin;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2008
  • In this paper a novel tracking system is described, regarding the influence of shadow between array, aimed at improving the efficiency of PV tracking system. Comparing with a building site versus capacity power, domestic solar powers have a limited siting. Therefore, each array interferes with the shadow of other arrays. The loss by influence of those shadow can be compensated for by means of control algorithm of the tracking device. The paper suggests a method controlling an altitude for length which is received the shadow influence of PV array. By using an azimuth of current solar position and the length between arrays, the controller of tracking device is able to calculate the length between actual arrays and make a comparison of the shadow length at a specific time with the length between arrays. When the shadow length is longer than the length between arrays, the controller of tracking device can adjust a position by compensating error altitude of the length between arrays at an altitude of current solar position. In the paper, we develop the control algorithm able to minimize the loss caused by the influence of shadow on the PV tracking system, and compared this with conventional output system. The controller has been tested in the laboratory with proposed algorithm and shows excellent performance

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Control of a Novel PV Tracking System Considering the Shadow Influence (그림자 영향을 고려한 새로운 태양광 추적시스템 제어)

  • Park, Ki-Tae;Choi, Jung-Sik;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.994-1002
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    • 2008
  • In this paper a novel tracking system is described, regarding the influence of shadow between array, aimed at improving the efficiency of PV tracking system. Comparing with a building site versus capacity power, domestic solar powers have a limited siting. Therefore, each array interferes with the shadow of other arrays. The loss by influence of those shadow can be compensated for by means of control algorithm of the tracking device. The paper suggests a method controlling an altitude for length which is received the shadow influence of PV array. By using an azimuth of current solar position and the length between arrays, the controller of tracking device is able to calculate the length between actual arrays and make a comparison of the shadow length at a specific time with the length between arrays. When the shadow length is longer than the length between arrays, the controller of tracking device can adjust a position by compensating error altitude of the length between arrays at an altitude of current solar position. In the paper, we develop the control algorithm able to minimize the loss caused by the influence of shadow on the PV tracking system, and compared this with conventional output system. The controller has been tested in the laboratory with proposed algorithm and shows excellent performance.

The Effect of an Installation Angle of IMFP sensors on Estimation of Altitude of T-50 Aircraft in the Transonic Region (IMFP 장착각도가 T-50 초음속 고도정보에 미치는 영향)

  • Nam, Yong-seog;Kim, Yeon-hi;Song, Seok-bong;Kim, Seong-jun
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2009
  • The flight control of the T-50 advanced trainer is conducted by the digital FBW (Flight-by-Wire) control system. The system input data consist of flight conditions such as altitude, airspeed, and angle of attack. And the flight conditions of the aircraft are obtained from IMFP (Integrated Multi-Function Probe). The T-50 aircraft equip three IMFP sensors. To ensure reliability in flight condition data obtained from each IMFP sensor, the mean value of flight conditions is used as the input of the control system. In this study, the effect of an installation angle of IMFP sensors on estimation of flight altitude was investigated by flight test results in the supersonic region.

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A Study on Aircraft Sensitivity Analysis for Supersonic Air-Data Error at Low Altitude (공기정보 오차에 의한 저고도 초음속 영역에서의 민감도 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chong-Sup;Hwang, Byung-Moon;Kim, Seong-Youl;Kim, Seong-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.11
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    • pp.80-87
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    • 2005
  • T-50 supersonic jet trainer aircraft using digital flight-by-wire flight control system receives aircraft flight conditions such as altitude, VCAS(Calibrated Airspeed) and Angle of Attack from IMFP(Integrated Multi-Function Probe). IMFP sensors information have triplex structure using three IMFP sensors. Air-data selection logic is mid-value selection in three information from three IMFP sensors in order to have more reliability. From supersonic flight test at high altitude, air-data information is dropped simultaneously because of supersonic shock wave effect. This error information may affect to aircraft stability and safety in supersonic area at low altitude. This paper propose that sensitivity analysis and HQS(Handling Quality Simulator) pilot simulation in order to analyze flight stability and controllability in supersonic area at low altitude when these information is applied to flight control law.

Development of Test Stand for Altitude Test of Reciprocating Engine (왕복동 엔진의 고도성능시험을 위한 시험장치 개발)

  • Lee, Kyung-Jae;Yang, Inyoung;Kim, Chun Taek;Kim, Dongsik;Baek, Cheulwoo;Yang, Gyaebyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.119-127
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    • 2018
  • A test stand for an altitude test of reciprocating engine was designed, manufactured and validated by preliminary tests and simple calculations. The test stand was designed to interface with the altitude turbo-shaft engine test facility of Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Many limiting conditions for altitude test of reciprocating engine were assumed and the test stand was developed to satisfy these limitations. The test stand design was focused especially on the altitude, Mach number and fuel temperature control for reciprocating engine altitude tests with smaller air and fuel flow than those of turbo shaft engines.

Development of Test Stand for Altitude Engine Test of Reciprocating Engine (왕복동 엔진의 고도성능시험을 위한 시험장치 개발)

  • Lee, KyungJae;Yang, InYoung;Kim, ChunTaek;Kim, DongSik;Baek, Cheulwoo;Yang, GyaeByung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.563-571
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    • 2017
  • Test stand for altitude engine test of reciprocating engine was designed, manufactured and validated by preliminary test and simple calculation. These test stand designed to interface with Altitude turbo-shaft engine test facility of Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Many limiting condition for altitude test of reciprocating engine are assumed and test stand was developed to satisfy those limits. Test stand design specially focused on a altitude, Mach number and fuel temperature control for reciprocating engine altitude test with smaller air and fuel flow than turbo-shaft engine.

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Jet Interaction Flow Analysis of Lateral Jet Controlled Interceptor Operating at Medium Altitude (중고도에서 운용되는 측 추력 제어 요격체에 대한 제트 간섭 유동 분석)

  • Choi, Kyungjun;Lee, Seonguk;Oh, Kwangseok;Kim, Chongam
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.46 no.12
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    • pp.986-993
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    • 2018
  • Lateral thrust jet has better maneuverability performance than the control surface like the conventional fin for attitude control or orbital transition of guided weapons. However, in the supersonic region, a jet interaction flow occurs due to the lateral thrust jet during flight, and a complicated flow structure is exhibited by the interaction of the shock wave, boundary layer flow, and the vortex flow. Especially, hit-to-kill interceptors require precise control and maneuvering, so it is necessary to analyze the effect of jet interaction flow. Conventional jet interaction analyses were performed under low altitude conditions, but there are not many cases in the case of medium altitude condition, which has different flow characteristics. In this study, jet interaction flow analysis is performed on the lateral jet controlled interceptor operating at medium altitude. Based on the results, the structural characteristics of the flow field and the changes of aerodynamic coefficient are analyzed.