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Effect of Weather, Flight, and Time Conditions on Anxiety and Time Perception of Helicopter Pilots in Flight (기상, 비행 및 시간 조건이 조종 중인 헬리콥터 조종사의 불안 및 시간지각에 미치는 영향)

  • MunSeong Kim;ShinWoo Kim;Hyung-Chul O. Li
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.65-78
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    • 2023
  • Aircraft are representative of human-machine systems. There is a delay between the human operation and the completion of the machine operation such as when the machine starts to operate and when the force is transmitted to the machine and completed. Time perception is an important component of timing tasks and is known to be affected by the anxiety associated with high arousal. This research verified the impact of weather, flight, and time conditions on the anxiety and time perception of in-service pilots in a virtual reality area. Weather conditions were divided into visual flight weather conditions and very low visibility conditions. Experiments 1 and 2 were performed with different flight and time conditions. In Experiment 1, time perception was measured by employing a button added to the control rod in the scenario of hovering and level flight with relatively little transformed in momentum and little delay. In Experiment 2, time perception was measured in the procedure of naturally taking off the helicopter by employing only the control stick in a takeoff scenario where there was a lot of transformation in momentum and a lot of delays. As a result of the experiment, it was reported that anxiety and heart rate increased in very low visibility conditions In particular, among all flight conditions in Experiments 1 and 2, it was reported that time was overestimated in the scenario of increased anxiety. This outcome can lead to overestimation of time under the impact of anxiety and failure of the timing task, which may lead to challenges in maneuvering and possibly lead to accidents.

Autonomous Flight Experiment of a Foldable Quadcopter with Airdrop Launching Function (고공 비행개시가 가능한 접이식 쿼더콥터 자율비행 실험)

  • Lee, Cheonghwa;Chu, Baeksuk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2018
  • The experimental results are presented of an autonomous flight algorithm of a foldable quadcopter with airdrop launching functions. A foldable wing structure enabled the quadcopter to be inserted into a rocket container with limited space. The foldable quadcopter was then separated from the rocket in the air. The flight pattern was tracked using a global positioning system (GPS) with various sensors, including an inertial measurement unit (IMU) module until a designated target position was reached. Extensive field tests were conducted through an international rocket competition, ARLISS 2017, which was held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA. The flight trajectory record of the experiments is stored in electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) embedded in the main control unit. The flight record confirmed that the quadcopter successfully separated from the rocket, executed flight toward the target for a certain length of time, and stably landed on the ground.

Scramjet Research at JAXA, Japan

  • Chinzei Nobuo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • v.y2005m4
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    • pp.1-1
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    • 2005
  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) has been conducting research and development of the Scramjet engines and their derivative combined cycle engines as hypersonic propulsion system for space access. Its history will be introduced first, and its recent advances, focusing on the engine performance progress, will follow. Finally, future plans for a flight test of scramjet and ground test of combined cycle engine will be introduced. Two types of test facilities for testing those hypersonic engines. namely, the 'Ramjet Engine Test Facility (RJTF)' and the 'High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel (HIEST)' were designed and fabricated during 1988 through 1996. These facilities can test engines under simulated flight Mach numbers up to 8 for the former, whereas beyond 8 for the latter, respectively. Several types of hydrogen-fueled scramjet engines have been designed, fabricated and tested under flight conditions of Mach 4, 6 and 8 in the RJTF since 1996. Initial test results showed that the thrust was insufficient because of occurrence of flow separation caused by combustion in the engines. These difficulty was later eliminated by boundary-layer bleeding and staged fuel injection. Their results were compared with theory to quantify achieved engine performances. The performances with regards to combustion, net thrust are discussed. We have reached the stage where positive net thrust can be attained for all the test coditions. Results of these engine tests will be discussed. We are also intensively attempting the improvement of thrust performance at high speed condition of Mach 8 to 15 in High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel (HIEST). Critical issues for this purposemay be air/fuel mixing enhancement, and temperature control of combustion gas to avoid thermal dissociation. To overcome these issues we developed the Hypermixier engine which applies stream-wise vortices for mixing enhancement, and the M12-engines which optimizes combustor entrance temperature. Moreover, we are going to conduct the flight experiment of the Hypermixer engine by utilizing flight test infrastructure (HyShot) provided by the University of Queensland in fall of 2005 for comparison with the HIEST result. The plan of the flight experiment is also presented.

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Dynamic Modeling-based Flight P-PD Controller Applied to a Quadrotor

  • Jin, Tae-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.25 no.4_1
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    • pp.513-519
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, we describe performances of P-PD controllers in the quadrotor system with steady-state error compensation by adding a corrective term to the system input. A decentralized control system using P-PD controllers was successfully implemented on a quadrotor platform. We also presented the results of a mathematical modeling analysis for control the quadrotor and experimental results for each response performance according to the heading reference value in accordance with the mathematical modeling and P-PD controller design. A control experiment with the real system was implemented for the test platform, and the results were evaluated and compared.

Implementation of Intra-Partition Communication in Layered ARINC 653 for Drone Flight-Control Program (드론 비행제어 프로그램을 위한 계층적 ARINC 653의 파티션 내 통신 구현)

  • Park, Joo-Kwang;Kim, Jooho;Jo, Hyun-Chul;Jin, Hyun-Wook
    • Journal of KIISE
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    • v.44 no.7
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    • pp.649-657
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    • 2017
  • As the type and purpose of drones become diverse and the number of additional functions is increasing, the role of the corresponding software has increased. Through partitioning and an efficient solving of SWaP(size, weight and power) problems, ARINC 653 can provide reliable software reuse and consolidation regarding avionic systems. ARINC 653 can be more effectively applied to drones, a small unmanned aerial vehicle, in addition to its application with large-scale aircraft. In this paper, to exploit ARINC 653 for a drone flight-control program, an intra-partition communication system is implemented through an extension of the layered ARINC 653 and applied to a real drone system. The experiment results show that the overheads of the intra-partition communication are low, while the resources that are assigned to the drone flight-control program are guaranteed through the partitioning.

A Study for Signal Attenuation as splicing the output on LVDT (LVDT 출력 분기에 따른 신호 감쇠 현상 연구)

  • Kwon, Jong-Kwang;Kim, Whan-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.9 no.1 s.24
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    • pp.89-98
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    • 2006
  • This paper describes signal attenuation characteristics as splicing the output on LVDT for stability and reliability of switching mechanism, which is developed to use common signal between FLCC and EDFLCC, on T-50 aircraft. The method of test is classified a Pspice simulation and an actual hardware evaluation. The difference of error margin for two methods is 10times, the latter higher. The result in this experiment shows that the signal attenuation as splicing the output on LVDT doesn't affect and the static error margin is 53% for develope the EDFLCC.

Effects of Meteorological Conditions and Self-instruction on Anxiety and Performance of Helicopter Pilots in Flight (기상 조건과 자기 교시가 조종 중인 헬리콥터 조종사의 불안 및 수행에 미치는 영향)

  • MunSeong Kim;ShinWoo Kim;Hyung-Chul O. Li
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2023
  • Anxiety is known to upset the balance of the attentional system and prioritize the stimulus-driven system over the goal-directed system; however, self-instruction induces goal-directed behavior with the self-regulation effect. This study verified the effects of meteorological and self-instruction conditions on pilot anxiety and flight task performance for in-service pilots in a virtual reality environment. The meteorological conditions were divided into visual meteorological and very low visibility conditions, and the flight tasks were conducted by varying whether or not self-instruction was performed. The experiment results reveal that anxiety and heart rate were higher, and the performance of the flight task was lower in the very low visibility condition. However, anxiety and heart rate were lower, and the performance of the flight task was higher in the self-instruction condition. This result suggests that accidents due to difficulty in flight may increase because of anxiety, but such accidents may decrease because of flight performance improvement by self-instruction.

Experimental Framework for Controller Design of a Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Multi-Camera System

  • Oh, Hyon-Dong;Won, Dae-Yeon;Huh, Sung-Sik;Shim, David Hyun-Chul;Tahk, Min-Jea
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2010
  • This paper describes the experimental framework for the control system design and validation of a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Our approach follows the general procedure of nonlinear modeling, linear controller design, nonlinear simulation and flight test but uses an indoor-installed multi-camera system, which can provide full 6-degree of freedom (DOF) navigation information with high accuracy, to overcome the limitation of an outdoor flight experiment. In addition, a 3-DOF flying mill is used for the performance validation of the attitude control, which considers the characteristics of the multi-rotor type rotorcraft UAV. Our framework is applied to the design and mathematical modeling of the control system for a quad-rotor UAV, which was selected as the test-bed vehicle, and the controller design using the classical proportional-integral-derivative control method is explained. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach can be viewed as a successful tool in developing the controller of new rotorcraft UAVs with reduced cost and time.

A Captive Model Test on Hydrodynamic Force and Neutral Level Flight of BB2 Submarine in Straight Operation at Near Free Surface with Different Depths (자유수면 근처에서 직진하는 BB2 잠수함의 심도별 유체력과 중립운항에 대한 구속모형시험 연구)

  • Kwon, Chang-Seop;Kim, Dong-Jin;Yun, Kunhang;Kim, Yeon-Gyu
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.59 no.5
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    • pp.288-295
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    • 2022
  • In this study, the force and moment acting on a Joubert BB2 submarine model at depths near the free surface were measured through a captive model test with the scale ratio of 1/15. Based on the experiment, the pitch moment and heave force due to the "Tail suction effect", including the change in surge force with depth near the free surface, were quantitatively analyzed. The change of force and moment according to the relative position of the sail and the free surface was reviewed with the free surface waves generated for each depths. As a result, the angle of attack of the hull to counteract the pitch moment induced by the tail suction effect was derived. The effect of the hydrostatic moment component according to the angle of attack on the equilibrium of pitch moment was also taken into account. The control plane performance tests for the X-type rudder and sail plane were conducted in snorkel and surface depth conditions to figure out the control plane angles for the neutral level flight of the submarine at near free surface. The results of this study are expected to be used as a reference data for the neutral level flight of the submarine at near free surface operation in the free running model test as well as numerical studies.

Machine Learning Model of Gyro Sensor Data for Drone Flight Control (드론 비행 조종을 위한 자이로센서 데이터 기계학습 모델)

  • Ha, Hyunsoo;Hwang, Byung-Yeon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.927-934
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    • 2017
  • As the technology of drone develops, the use of drone is increasing, In addition, the types of sensors that are inside of smart phones are becoming various and the accuracy is enhancing day by day. Various of researches are being progressed. Therefore, we need to control drone by using smart phone's sensors. In this paper, we propose the most suitable machine learning model that matches the gyro sensor data with drone's moving. First, we classified drone by it's moving of the gyro sensor value of 4 and 8 degree of freedom. After that, we made it to study machine learning. For the method of machine learning, we applied the One-Rule, Neural Network, Decision Tree, and Navie Bayesian. According to the result of experiment that we designated the value from gyro sensor as the attribute, we had the 97.3 percent of highest accuracy that came out from Naive Bayesian method using 2 attributes in 4 degree of freedom. On and the same, in 8 degree of freedom, Naive Bayesian method using 2 attributes showed the highest accuracy of 93.1 percent.