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The Study on Structures and Contents for Flight Information Service of Light Aircraft and Ultra-light Aircraft (경량항공기 및 초경량비행장치 비행정보서비스를 위한 구성체계 연구)

  • Choi, Hyunsik;Moon, Woochoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2014
  • The base of leisure air activities are consistently expanding and its demand is expected to increase attributed to GDP growth and people's interest in its activity. Utilizing Visual Flight Rule, light sport aircrafts and ultra-light aircrafts are not under the effect of air traffic control center, which resulted in passenger injury due to emergency landing for adverse weather conditions and technical issues after pulling into mountain area, ocean and even urban area. Such events encouraged safety consciousness toward leisure aircraft activities and developing a measure to prevent a recurrence of the accident. This research focuses on suggesting compositive system for preventive safety management system by providing user based Flight information service and operating effective system, necessary for leisure aircraft activities.

A Fault-tolerant Inertial Navigation System for UAVs Based on Partition Computing (파티션 컴퓨팅 기반의 무인기 고장 감내 관성 항법 시스템)

  • Jung, Byeongyong;Kim, Jungguk
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.29-39
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    • 2015
  • When new inertial navigation systems for an unmanned aerial vehicles are being developed and tested, construction of a fault-tolerant system is required because of various types of hazards caused by S/W and H/W faults. In this paper, a new fault-tolerant flight system that can be deployed into one or more FCCs (Flight Control Computers) is introduced, based on a partition scheme wherein each OFP (Operational Flight Program) partition uses an independent CPU and memory slot. The new fault-tolerant navigation system utilizes one or two FCCs, and executes a primary navigation OFP under development and a stable shadow OFP partition on each node. The fault-tolerant navigation system based on a single FCC can be used for UAVs with small payloads. For larger UAVs, an additional FCC with two OFP partitions can be used to provide both H/W and S/W fault-tolerance. The developed fault-tolerant navigation system significantly removes various hazards in testing new navigation S/Ws for UAVs.

Reconfigurable Flight Control Law based on Model Following Scheme and Parameter Estimation (매개변수 추정 및 모델추종 적응제어기법을 이용한재형상 비행제어시스템 연구)

  • Mun, Gwan-Yeong;Kim, Yu-Dan;Lee, Han-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a reconfigurable model following flight control method is proposed based on direct adaptive scheme using parameter estimation. Adaptive control scheme updates the control gains to make the system output follow the reference output even when fault occurs. By adopting the frequency domain parameter estimation method, system changes by the fault can be estimated. Recursive Fourier transformation is used for system identification. Using recursive Fourier transform, the proposed adaptive control algorithm guarantees the system stability and improves the system characteristics. To evaluate the performance of proposed control method, numerical simulations are performed.

A Study on UAV Flight Control System HILS Test Environment (무인항공기 비행제어 HILS 시험환경 연구)

  • Byun, Jinku;Hur, Gi-Bong;Lee, KwangHyun;Suk, Jinyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.316-323
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    • 2016
  • A UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) flies along pre-programed navigation points(in-flight, take-off, or landing) automatically without pilot input. Even though UAVs fly differently from general piloted aircraft as the pilot controls the aircraft from a ground station through means of a data-link system. Occasionally, the data-link connection can be lost for any number of reasons, in which case, the FLCC(Flight control Computer) must automatically switch to autopilot to continue flying. Hence, the FLCC is a flight-critical component that must be throughly tested and validated. This paper discusses the development of a HILS(Hardware in the Loop Simulation) test environment designed to simulate real flight conditions to verify the FLCC satisfies flying quality requirements and maintains robustness despite any potential malfunctions or emergency situations.

Development of Simulation Environment for Proximity Flight Using Simulink and X-Plane (Simulink와 X-Plane을 이용한 모의 근접비행 시뮬레이션 환경 개발연구)

  • Lee, Sanghoon;Park, Chanhwi;Park, Younghoo;Lee, Daewoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.465-472
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    • 2021
  • Prior to the actual flight test of the separation-reintegration situation of fixed-wing mother and child UAVs in the air, it is necessary to verify the flight control system of child UAV through simulations. In this paper, we build a simulation environment for the development of a child UAV flight control system in a lab environment based on the wake turbulence of X-Plane. To this end, the aerodynamics analysis of child UAV was performed, and Simulink was used to simulate aircraft, and X-Plane was utilized to implement visualization, wind, gusts, and mother UAV movements. The simulation environment built by performing simulated proximity flights was verified by applying the guidance and control algorithm to the child UAV model within Simulink. Furthermore, the flight results confirm the area in which the child UAV can safely fly from the rear of the mother UAV.

Analysis of Flight Performance and Efficiency according tothe Number of Consecutive Flight of Navy Pilots (해군 고정익조종사의 비행 훈련 주기에 따른 비행 효과 분석)

  • JungBong Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2023
  • In the case of the Navy, if some of the co-pilots are included in the long-term promotion process due to the limited number of co-pilots, operational flight and administrative tasks will be added to the co-pilots not included in the rest of the Pilot in commander process. Therefore, to solve this problem, the co-pilot who has passed the PQS step-by-step process minimizes the personnel gap in the flight operation unit through a system that evaluates whether it is possible to perform its duties as a co-pilot through actual flight after entering the school. The advantage of the PQS course is that you can control flight plans on your own and minimize gaps in flight and ground work while carrying out the curriculum, but you can't focus on education or improve your skills due to irregular training flight cycles. Therefore, in this study, after collecting opinions on effective flight cycles through a survey of pilots of P-3C, the Navy's fixed-wing aircraft representative, we will analyze the association of aircraft volume performance by flight cycle to derive the optimal flight cycle of the P-3C pilot course.

Intelligent 3-D Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Autonomous Control of Underwater Flight Vehicle (수중비행체의 자율제어를 위한 지능형 3-D 장애물회피 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Hyun-Sik;Jin, Tae-Seok;Sur, Joo-No
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.323-328
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    • 2011
  • In real system application, the 3-D obstacle avoidance system for the autonomous control of the underwater flight vehicle (UFV) operates with the following problems: the sonar offers the range/bearing information of obstacles in a local detection area, it requires the system that has reduced acoustic noise and power consumption in terms of the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), it has the UFV operation constraints such as maximum pitch and depth, and it requires an easy design procedure in terms of its structures and parameters. To solve these problems, an intelligent 3-D obstacle avoidance algorithm using the evolution strategy (ES) and the fuzzy logic controller (FLC), is proposed. To verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, the 3-D obstacle avoidance of UFV is performed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm effectively solves the problems in the real system application.

Design and Implementation of UAV's Autopilot Controller

  • Lee, Jeong-Hwan;Lee, Ki-Sung;Jeong, Tae-Won
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.52-56
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    • 2004
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are remotely piloted or self-piloted aircraft by inputted program in advance or artificial intelligence. In this study Aileron and Elevator are used to control the movement of airplane for horizontal and vertical flights about its longitudinal and lateral axis. In an introduction, the drone was linearly modeled by extracting aerodynamic parameter through flight test and simulation, lift and drag coefficient corresponding to angle of attack, changes of pitching moment coefficient. In the main subject, the flight simulation was performed after constructing hardware using TMS320F2812 from TI company and PID with lateral and longitudinal controller for horizontal and vertical flights. Flying characteristics of two system were estimated and compared through real flight test with hardware equipped algorithm and adaptive algorithm that was applied to consider external factors such as turbulence. In conclusion the control performance of the controller with proposed algorithm was streamlined at lateral and longitudinal controller respectively, we will discuss guidance command to pass way point.

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A Study on Hovering Flight Control for a Model Helicopter (모형 헬리콥터 정지비행제어에 관한 연구)

  • 심현철;이은호;이교일
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1399-1411
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    • 1994
  • A model helicopter has more versatile flight capability than the fixed-wing aircraft and it can be used as an unmaned vehicle in hazardous area. A helicopter, similar to other aircrafts, is an unstable, multi-input multi-output nonlinear system exposed to strong disturbance. So it should be controlled by robust control theories that can be applied to multivariable systems. In this study, motion equations of hovering are established, linearized and transformed into a state equation form. Various parameters are measured and calculated in other to obtain the stability derivatives in the state equation. Hovering flight controller is designed using the digital LQG/LTR(Linear Quadratic Gaussian/Loop Transfer Recovery) control theory. The designed controller is tested by the nonlinear simulations and implemented on an IBM-PC/386. Experiments were carried out on a model helicopter attached to the 3-DOF gimbal. The designed controller showed satisfactory hovering capability to maintain the hovering for more than 40 seconds.

Design Verification of ECS Condenser Icing Protection System by Flight Test of T-50 Advanced Trainer (T-50 비행시험을 통한 환경제어계통 콘덴서 빙결방지 설계 검증)

  • Nam, Yong-Seog;Kim, Yeonhi;Song, Seok-Bong;Seo, Dong-Yun;Son, Won-Ik;Park, Sung-Soon
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.40-44
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    • 2008
  • T-50 ECS(environment control system) was designed to have freezing protection for the condenser. However during the ground and flight test, the freezing problem was occurred. This paper deals with the analysis of the freezing problem and introduces anti-freezing design using ADI(Active De-Icing) logic to solve the condenser freezing problem of T-50 ECS

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