• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.529-538
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• 2006

Separating a reentry vehicle into warhead and body is a conventional and efficient means of producing a huge decoy and increasing the kinetic energy of the warhead. This procedure causes the radar to track the body, whose radar cross section is larger, and ignore the warhead, which is the most important part of the reentry vehicle. However, the procedure is difficult to perform using standard tracking criteria. This study presents a novel tracking algorithm by integrating input estimation and modified probabilistic data association filter to solve this difficulty in a clear environment. The proposed algorithm with a new defined association probability in this filter provides a good tracking capability for the warhead ignoring the radar cross section. The simulation results indicate that the errors between the estimated and the warhead trajectories are reduced to a small interval in a short time. Therefore, the radar can produce a beam to illuminate to the right area and keep tracking the warhead all the way. In conclusion, this algorithm is worthy of further study and application.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.487-501
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• 2017

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze effect of geometrical parameters of the reentry capsules such as radius of the spherical cap, shoulder radius, back shell inclination angle and overall length on the flow field characteristics. The numerical simulation with viscous flow past ARD (Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator), Soyuz (Russian) and OREX (Orbital Reentry EXperimental) reentry capsules for freestream Mach numbers range of 2.0-5.0 is carried out by solving time-dependent, axisymmetric, compressible laminar Navier-Stokes equations. These reentry capsules appear as bell, head light and saucer in shape. The flow field features around the reentry capsules such as bow shock wave, sonic line, expansion fan and recirculating flow region are well captured by the present numerical simulations. A low pressure is observed immediately downstream of the base region of the capsule which can be attributed to fill-up in the growing space between the shock wave and the reentry module. The back shell angle and the radius of the shoulder over the capsule are having a significant effect on the wall pressure distribution. The effects of geometrical parameters of the reentry capsules will useful input for the calculation of ballistic coefficient of the reentry module.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.156-165
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• 2015

궤도 속도에 근접하거나 궤도운동을 하고 있는 발사체 상단의 지구 재진입에 따른 지상피해 분석에 이용하기 위하여 지구 재진입 물체의 생존성 분석 프로그램(SAPAR: Survivability Analysis Program for Atmospheric Reentry)을 개발하였다. 3자유도 파편 낙하시뮬레이션 과정에 파편이 낙하하는 도중에 받게 되는 공력 열하중, 열하중에 의한 파편의 온도변화, 녹는점에 도달한 후 물체의 상변화 여부 등을 포함하여 최종적으로 지상에 낙하하는 파편의 크기와 무게를 분석하였다. 개발된 코드의 검증을 위하여 단순한 형태의 파편에 대한 생존성 분석을 수행하여 미항공우주국(NASA)과 유럽우주국(ESA)의 코드 결과와 비교하였다. 또한 실제 재진입 파편에 대한 분석을 수행하여 측정된 결과와 비교하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.23-34
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• 2012

우주 발사체는 치밀한 비행 계획에 따라 사전에 결정된 경로를 비행하도록 설계된다. 그러나 비정상으로 추력이 종료되거나 계획된 비행경로를 이탈한 경우, 또는 자유 낙하 중인 대기권 재진입 발사체에 대한 추적 과정에서 추적 센서의 측정이 불가하게 된 경우 등에는 별도의 추적 장비를 이용한 추적 또는 신속한 낙하지점 추정이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 클러터 환경에서 무추력 탄도 비행 중인 발사체에 대한 위치 정보를 획득하고 트랙을 생성 및 유지하기 위하여 Integrated Track Splitting(ITS) 알고리듬과 Extended Kalman Filter(EKF)를 결합한 ITS-EKF 알고리듬 적용을 제안한다. 따라서 대기권 재진입 발사체에 대하여 ITS-EKF 알고리듬을 적용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 추적 성능 확인 및 지상 낙하지점을 추정한다. ITS-EKF 알고리듬 적용 결과의 적절성을 확인하기 위하여 ITS와 Particle Filter를 결합한 ITS-PF 알고리듬을 적용하여 구한 추적 성능 및 낙하지점 분포 결과와 비교하여 제시된 알고리듬이 효과적인 실시간 On-line 낙하지점 추정에 사용이 가능함을 확인한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1998년도 제13차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.47-52
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• 1998

This study deals with guidance and control laws for an optimal reentry trajectory of a vertical landing reusable launch vehicle (RLV) in the future. First, a guidance law is designed to create the reference trajectory which minimizes propellant consumption. Then, a nonlinear feedback controller based on a linear quadratic regulator is designed to make the vehicle follow the predetermined reference trajectory, The proposed method is simulated for the first stage of the H-II scale rocket.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2013

The flight control of re-entry vehicles poses a challenge to conventional gain-scheduled flight controllers due to the widely spread aerodynamic coefficients. In addition, a wide range of uncertainties in disturbances must be accommodated by the control system. This paper presents the design of a roll channel controller for a non-axisymmetric reentry vehicle model using the trajectory linearization control (TLC) method. The dynamic equations of a moving mass system and roll control model are established using the Lagrange method. Nonlinear tracking and decoupling control by trajectory linearization can be viewed as the ideal gain-scheduling controller designed at every point along the flight trajectory. It provides robust stability and performance at all stages of the flight without adjusting controller gains. It is this "plug-and-play" feature that is highly preferred for developing, testing and routine operating of the re-entry vehicles. Although the controller is designed only for nominal aerodynamic coefficients, excellent performance is verified by simulation for wind disturbances and variations from -30% to +30% of the aerodynamic coefficients.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.437-448
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• 2017

The problem of flow through the vent is formulated as an unsteady, nonlinear, ordinary differential equation and solved using Runge-Kutta method to obtain pressure inside payload faring. An inverse problem for prediction of the discharge coefficient is presented employing measured internal pressure of the payload fairing during the ascent phase of a satellite launch vehicle. A controlled random search method is used to estimate the discharge coefficient from the measured transient pressure history during the ascent period of the launch vehicle. The algorithm predicts the discharge coefficient stepwise with function of Mach number. The estimated values of the discharge coefficients are in good agreement with differential pressure measured during the flight of typical satellite launch vehicle.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.46-55
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• 2005

A rocket-powered vehicle is designed conceptually which uses an engine running on methane and oxygen and delivering 10 tons of thrust. The aerodynamic coefficients of the vehicle are taken to be those of the Japan's HOPE-X, and the weight of this vehicle is estimated using a method developed by NASA. The resulting vehicle will be about 9 meters long, 5.8 meters in wing span, weigh about 2 tons empty, carry a maximum of 5.6 tons of propellant, and endure a g-load of 4.5. The craft will be able to carry five passengers, in addition to a pilot, and fly for space tourism between a northern and a southern airport with a maximum g-load varying from 3g to 4g depending on the route flown.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제49권12호
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• pp.997-1010
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• 2021

본 연구는 스페이스 X사의 팔컨 9 발사체의 비행 데이터를 수집하였고 분석하였다. 모든 임무는 극궤도, SSO, ISS, LEO, GTO와 같은 궤도의 종류에 따라 분류하였다. 1단 발사체의 메인 엔진 종료, 역추진, 재진입, 착륙 연소의 특징적인 기동에서 속도, 고도, 동압, 가속도 등의 물리 변수의 변화를 조사하였다. 상세한 기동 분석으로부터 가이드라인을 제안하였고 이는 재사용 발사체 개발을 위한 설계 및 평가 기준으로 사용될 수 있다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.109-124
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• 2015

This paper deals with the aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic trade-off analysis of a hypersonic flying test bed. Such vehicle will have to be launched with an expendable launcher and shall re-enter the Earth atmosphere allowing to perform several experiments on critical re-entry phenomena. The demonstrator under study is a re-entry space glider characterized by a relatively simple vehicle architecture able to validate hypersonic aerothermodynamic design database and passenger experiments, including thermal shield and hot structures. A summary review of the aerodynamic characteristics of two flying test bed concepts, compliant with a phase-A design level, has been provided hereinafter. Several design results, based both on engineering approach and computational fluid dynamics, are reported and discussed in the paper.