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Design and Validation of a Fuel Cell System with a NaBH4 Hydrogen Generation System for Future Defense Unmanned Vehicles (미래 국방 무인 이동체를 위한 NaBH4 수소 발생 시스템 기반 연료전지 시스템 설계 및 검증)

  • SEONG MO YUN;MIN JAE KIM;CHAE MIN HWANG;TAE HOON LEE;SU SANG YU;TAEK HYUN OH
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.152-161
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    • 2024
  • In this study, a fuel cell system for future defense unmanned vehicles was designed and validated. A Co/Al2O3-Ni foam catalyst for NaBH4 hydrolysis was characterized using several analytical methods. A NaBH4 hydrogen generation system with the Co/Al2O3-Ni foam catalyst continuously generated hydrogen at elevated reaction temperatures. The fuel cell system with the NaBH4 hydrogen generation system was designed and tested. The performance of the fuel cell system was comparable to that of the fuel cell system using pure hydrogen. Therefore, the fuel cell system with the NaBH4 hydrogen generation system is a suitable power source for future defense unmanned vehicles owing to its easy refueling and simple system.

Development and Performance Compensation of the Extremely Stable Transceiver System for High Resolution Wideband Active Phased Array Synthetic Aperture Radar (고해상도 능동 위상 배열 영상 레이더를 위한 고안정 송수신 시스템 개발 및 성능 보정 연구)

  • Sung, Jin-Bong;Kim, Se-Young;Lee, Jong-Hwan;Jeon, Byeong-Tae
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.573-582
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, X-band transceiver for high resolution wideband SAR systems is designed and fabricated. Also as a technique for enhancing the performance, error compensation algorithm is presented. The transceiver for SAR system is composed of transmitter, receiver, switch matrix and frequency generator. The receiver especially has 2 channel mono-pulse structure for ground moving target indication. The transceiver is able to provide the deramping signal for high resolution mode and select the receive bandwidth for receiving according to the operation mode. The transceiver had over 300 MHz bandwidth in X-band and 13.3 dBm output power which is appropriate to drive the T/R module. The receiver gain and noise figure was 39 dB and 3.96 dB respectively. The receive dynamic range was 30 dB and amplitude imbalance and phase imbalance of I/Q channel was ${\pm}$0.38 dBm and ${\pm}$3.47 degree respectively. The transceiver meets the required electrical performances through the individual tests. This paper shows the pulse error term depending on SAR performance was analyzed and range IRF was enhanced by applying the compensation technique.

Ground Test & Evaluation of Conformal Load-bearing Antenna Structure for Communication and Navigation (통신 항법용 다중대역 안테나 내장 스킨구조의 지상시험평가)

  • Kim, Min-Sung;Park, Chan-Yik;Cho, Chang-Min;Jun, Seung-Moon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.11
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    • pp.891-899
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    • 2013
  • This paper suggests a test and evaluation procedure of conformal load-bearing antenna structure(CLAS) for high speed military jet application. A log periodic patch type antenna was designed for multi-band communication and navigation antenna. Carbon/Glass fiber reinforced polymer was used as a structure supporting aerodynamic loads and honeycomb layer was used to improve antenna performance. Multi-layers were stacked and cured in a hot temperature oven. Gain, VSWR and polarization pattern of CLAS were measured using anechoic chamber within 0.15~2.0 GHz frequency range. Tension, shear, fatigue and impact load test were performed to evaluate structural strength of CLAS. Antenna performance test after every structural strength test was conducted to check the effect of structural test to antenna performance. After the application of new test and evaluation procedure to validate a new CLAS, a design improvement was found.

Safety Techniques-Based Improvement of Task Execution Process Followed by Execution Maturity-Based Risk Management in Precedent Research Stage of Defense R&D Programs (국방 선행연구단계에서 안전분석 기법에 기반한 수행프로세스의 개선 및 수행성숙도 평가를 활용한 위험 관리)

  • Choi, Se Keun;Kim, Young-Min;Lee, Jae-Chon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.89-100
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    • 2018
  • The precedent study stage of defense programs is a project stage that is conducted to support the determination of an efficient acquisition method of the weapon system determined by the requirement. In this study, the FTA/FMEA technique was used in the safety analysis process to identify elements to be conducted in the precedent study stage and a methodology for deriving the key review elements through conceptualization and tailoring was suggested. To supplement the key elements derived from the existing research, it is necessary to analyze various events that may arise from key elements. To accomplish this, the HAZOP technique for safety analysis in other industrial fields was used to supplement the results of kdy element derivation. We analyzed and modeled the execution procedure by establishing input/output information and association with the key elements of the precedent study stage derived by linking HAZOP/FTA/FMEA techniques. In addition, performance maturity was evaluated for performance of precedent study, and a risk-based response manual was generated based on inter-working information with key elements with low maturity. Based on the results of this study, it is possible to meet the performance, cost, and schedule of the project implementation through application of the key elements and procedures and the risk management response manual in the precedent study stage of the defense program.

A Study on Reliability and Shelf-Life of DELAY M9 (DELAY M9 탄약의 신뢰도 및 저장수명 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Ho;Choi, Jae-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.64-72
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    • 2020
  • DELAY M9 is an ammunition used in combination with the fuse M904 and M905 of aviation drop-off ammunitions. Due to the properties of the ammunition, the performance or safety of the ammunition cannot be verified until it is used, because of its one-time function, no reproduction and is finally destroyed at the same time. Long-term storage of ammunition in use by the army is inevitable due to its operational characteristics, and a test evaluation is required to maintain and verify the performance of stored ammunition for immediate use in case of emergency. This paper estimates the reliability and shelf life of the DELAY M9 ammunition by using the test data obtained through ASRP performed from the past to the present. The result of the performance evaluation test for the currently stored DELAY M9 ammunition is analyzed, and the reliability and shelf-life of the stored ammunition are assessed by examining the number of defects according to the storage time and production year. This research result can be used to manage the stored ammunition, such as ASRP planning and evaluation test, result analysis and munition state decision.

Radio Frequency-based Drone Detection and Classification Using Discrete Fourier Transform and LightGBM

  • Ki-Hyeon Sung;Soo-Jin Lee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.29 no.10
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2024
  • In this study, we proposed an efficient model that can detect and classify the drones and related devices based on radio frequency signals. In order to increase the applicability in the battlefield, proposed model was designed to be lightweight, to ensure rapid detection and high detection accuracy. Data preprocessing was performed by applying a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) that is faster than Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT). We adopted the LightGBM model as the learning model, which can be easily used by non-professionals and guarantees excellent performance in terms of classification speed and accuracy. CardRF dataset was used to verify the performance of the proposed model. As a result of the experiment, the accuracy of 3 classes classification for detecting and classifying drones, WiFi, and Bluetooth device was 99.63% when the number of sample points was set to 100k and 99.40% when set to 500k during the data preprocessing with DFT. And, in the 10 classes classification for 6 drones, 2 Bluetooth devices, and 2 WiFi devices, the accuracy was 95.65% for 100k and 96.83% for 500k, confirming significantly improved detection performance compared to previous studies.

A Study on the Establishment of Comparison System between the Statement of Military Reports and Related Laws (군(軍) 보고서 등장 문장과 관련 법령 간 비교 시스템 구축 방안 연구)

  • Jung, Jiin;Kim, Mintae;Kim, Wooju
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.109-125
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    • 2020
  • The Ministry of National Defense is pushing for the Defense Acquisition Program to build strong defense capabilities, and it spends more than 10 trillion won annually on defense improvement. As the Defense Acquisition Program is directly related to the security of the nation as well as the lives and property of the people, it must be carried out very transparently and efficiently by experts. However, the excessive diversification of laws and regulations related to the Defense Acquisition Program has made it challenging for many working-level officials to carry out the Defense Acquisition Program smoothly. It is even known that many people realize that there are related regulations that they were unaware of until they push ahead with their work. In addition, the statutory statements related to the Defense Acquisition Program have the tendency to cause serious issues even if only a single expression is wrong within the sentence. Despite this, efforts to establish a sentence comparison system to correct this issue in real time have been minimal. Therefore, this paper tries to propose a "Comparison System between the Statement of Military Reports and Related Laws" implementation plan that uses the Siamese Network-based artificial neural network, a model in the field of natural language processing (NLP), to observe the similarity between sentences that are likely to appear in the Defense Acquisition Program related documents and those from related statutory provisions to determine and classify the risk of illegality and to make users aware of the consequences. Various artificial neural network models (Bi-LSTM, Self-Attention, D_Bi-LSTM) were studied using 3,442 pairs of "Original Sentence"(described in actual statutes) and "Edited Sentence"(edited sentences derived from "Original Sentence"). Among many Defense Acquisition Program related statutes, DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAM ACT, ENFORCEMENT RULE OF THE DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAM ACT, and ENFORCEMENT DECREE OF THE DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAM ACT were selected. Furthermore, "Original Sentence" has the 83 provisions that actually appear in the Act. "Original Sentence" has the main 83 clauses most accessible to working-level officials in their work. "Edited Sentence" is comprised of 30 to 50 similar sentences that are likely to appear modified in the county report for each clause("Original Sentence"). During the creation of the edited sentences, the original sentences were modified using 12 certain rules, and these sentences were produced in proportion to the number of such rules, as it was the case for the original sentences. After conducting 1 : 1 sentence similarity performance evaluation experiments, it was possible to classify each "Edited Sentence" as legal or illegal with considerable accuracy. In addition, the "Edited Sentence" dataset used to train the neural network models contains a variety of actual statutory statements("Original Sentence"), which are characterized by the 12 rules. On the other hand, the models are not able to effectively classify other sentences, which appear in actual military reports, when only the "Original Sentence" and "Edited Sentence" dataset have been fed to them. The dataset is not ample enough for the model to recognize other incoming new sentences. Hence, the performance of the model was reassessed by writing an additional 120 new sentences that have better resemblance to those in the actual military report and still have association with the original sentences. Thereafter, we were able to check that the models' performances surpassed a certain level even when they were trained merely with "Original Sentence" and "Edited Sentence" data. If sufficient model learning is achieved through the improvement and expansion of the full set of learning data with the addition of the actual report appearance sentences, the models will be able to better classify other sentences coming from military reports as legal or illegal. Based on the experimental results, this study confirms the possibility and value of building "Real-Time Automated Comparison System Between Military Documents and Related Laws". The research conducted in this experiment can verify which specific clause, of several that appear in related law clause is most similar to the sentence that appears in the Defense Acquisition Program-related military reports. This helps determine whether the contents in the military report sentences are at the risk of illegality when they are compared with those in the law clauses.

A Numerical Study on Transient Performance Behavior of a Turbofan Engine with Variable Inlet Guide Vane and Bleed Air Schedules (가변 입구 안내익과 블리드 공기 스케줄에 따른 터보팬 엔진에서의 천이 성능특성에 관한 수치연구)

  • Kim, Sangjo;Son, Changmin;Kim, Kuisoon;Kim, Myungho;Min, Seongki
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.52-61
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    • 2015
  • This paper performed a numerical study to analyse the transient performance behavior of a turbofan engine with variable inlet guide vane (IGV) and bleed air schedules. The low bypass ratio mixed flow turbofan engine was considered in this study. For modeling the compressor performance with IGV, the performance maps were generated by using a one-dimensional meanline analysis and feed to the engine simulation program. The IGV and bleed air according to the rotating speed were scheduled to satisfy 10% of surge margin at steady-state condition. The transient engine performance analysis was conducted with the schedules. The engine with IGV schedule showed a higher surge margin and lower turbine inlet temperature than the engine with bleed air schedule during the transient period.

Performance evaluation method of homogeneous stereo camera system for full-field structural deformation estimation

  • Yun, Jong-Min;Kim, Ho-Young;Han, Jae-Hung;Kim, Hong-Il;Kwon, Hyuk-Jun
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.380-393
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    • 2015
  • This study presents how we can evaluate stereo camera systems for the structural deformation monitoring. A stereo camera system, consisting of a set of stereo cameras and reflective markers attached on the structure, is introduced for the measurement and the stereo pattern recognition (SPR) method is utilized for the full-field structural deformation estimation. Performance of this measurement system depends on many parameters including types and specifications of the cameras, locations and orientations of them, and sizes and positions of markers; it is difficult to experimentally identify the effects of each parameter on the measurement performance. In this study, a simulation framework for evaluating performance of the stereo camera systems with various parameters has been developed. The maximum normalized root-mean-square (RMS) error is defined as a representative index of stereo camera system performance. A plate structure is chosen for an introductory example. Its several modal harmonic vibrations are generated and estimated in the simulation framework. Two cases of simulations are conducted to see the effects of camera locations and the resolutions of the cameras. An experimental validation is carried out for a few selected cases from the simulations. Using the simultaneous laser displacement sensor (LDS) measurements as the reference, the measurement errors are obtained and compared with the simulations.

A Study on Receiving Beam Pointing Error and MTI(Moving Target Indication) Performance in a Bistatic Radar Using Pulse Chasing (펄스 체이싱을 이용한 바이스태틱 레이더에서 수신 빔 조향 오차와 MTI(Moving Target Indication) 성능에 대한 연구)

  • Yang, Jin-Mo;Lee, Min-Joon;Kim, Whan-Woo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.1412-1422
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    • 2010
  • A bistatic radar using the pulse chasing can detect a target to track successive transmitted pulses using a receive beam for effectively scanning the cosite search area. When tracking a transmitted pulse with the receive beam, some beam pointing errors within pulse-to-pulse can cause the timing error in received pulse and the variation of the signal strength. In this paper, we have proposed that some errors due to the receive beam pointing error could limit the MTI filter's performance and derived that the relationship between the MTI performance and the geometric factors which are the inherent properties in bistatic configuration. Through the simulation, we have considered the limitations of the improvement performance restricted by the receiving beam pointing error and confirmed the contribution to the performance improvement in maintaining the receiving beam pointing error of under 0.5 degrees.