• 품질경영학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.405-412
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• 2013

Purpose: In this paper, the improvement of the image quality is investigated. The image quality is degraded by the drift phenomenon of EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infrared) device on UAV. The drift phenomenon means that the image of EO/IR equipment on UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) moves to the unintended direction. This phenomenon should be improved for successful flight mission. Methods: To improve the drift phenomenon, the drift compensation method, the combination algorithm of FMC(Forward Motion Compensation) and AMC(Angular Motion Compensation) method, are introduced to calculate pitch and azimuth angle. Result values of pitch and azimuth angle are used for the improvement of image quality in EO/IR control logic. Results: The image quality is quantitatively improved more than 15 times through field test data of flight. Conclusion: Using the drift compensation technique, the image quality for EO/IR equipment is improved over 15 times than existing methods. This means the user of UAV with EO/IR device can perform a successful mission by keeping the line of sight for the target accurately.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.305-321
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• 2022

Bridge structural health monitoring with the aim of continuously assessing structural safety and reliability represents a topic of major importance for worldwide infrastructure managers. In the last two decades, due to their potential economic and operational advantages, drive-by approaches experienced growing consideration from researcher and engineers. This work addresses two technical topics regarding indirect frequency estimation methods: bridge and vehicle dynamics overlapping, and bridge expansion joints impact. The experimental campaign was conducted on a mixed multi-span bridge located in Lombardy using a Ford Galaxy instrumented with a mesh of wireless accelerometers. The onboard time series were acquired for a number of 10 passages over the bridge,performed at a travelling speed of 30 km/h, with no limitations imposed to traffic. Exploiting an ad-hoc sensors positioning, pitch vehicle motion was compensated, allowing to estimate the first two bridge bending frequencies from PSD functions; moreover, the herein adopted approach proved to be insensitive to joints disturbance. Conclusively, a sensitivity study has been conducted to trace the relationship between estimation accuracy and number of trips considered in the analysis. Promising results were found, pointing out a clear positive correlation especially for the first bending frequency.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2014

This study addresses the control problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the transition period when the flying mode changes from hovering to translational motion in the horizontal plane. First, we introduce a compensation algorithm that improves height stabilization and reduces altitude drop. The main principle is to incorporate pitch and roll measurements into the feedforward term of the altitude controller to provide a larger thrust force. To further improve altitude control, we propose the fuzzy logic controller that improves system behavior. Simulation results presented in the paper highlight the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.114-122
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• 2014

Sensor fusion is the one of the main research topics. It offers the highly reliable estimation of vehicle movement by processing and mixing several sensor outputs. But unfortunately, every sensor has drift which degrades the performance of sensor. It means a single degraded sensor output may affect whole sensor fusion system. Drift in most research is ideally assumed to be zero because it's usually a nonlinear model and has sample variation. Plus, it's very difficult for the acceleration to separate drift from the output signal since it contains many contributors such as vehicle acceleration, slope angle, pitch angle, surface condition and so on. In this paper, modified spline interpolation is introduced as a dynamic temperature compensation method covering sample variation. Using the last known output and the first initial output is suggested to build and update compensation factor. When the system has more compensation data, the system will have better performance of compensated output because of the regression compensation model. The performance of the dynamic temperature compensation system is evaluated by measuring offset drift between with and without the compensation.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제44권12호
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• pp.1043-1053
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 비선형성을 가지는 고정피치 프로펠러를 사용하는 회전익 시스템의 병렬분산보상제어기 적용에 대한 연구 내용을 다루고 있다. 틸트 형 무인기 등 발전된 시스템의 제어기 설계 시 요구되는 비선형 모델링을 위해 T-S 퍼지모델을 사용하였다. 병렬분산보상 제어기는 선형행렬부등식을 이용해 설계하였다. 병렬분산보상제어기 적용가능성 판단을 위한 실험은 시뮬레이션과 1축 자세제어장비를 이용해 수행하였다. Mathworks의 Simulink를 사용해 시뮬레이션을 진행하고 설계한 제어기의 전반적인 성능과 특성을 파악하였다. 이후 1축 자세제어장비와 기 개발된 제어기를 이용해 병렬분산보상기법을 적용한 제어기와 결과를 비교하고 성능을 검증하였다. 시뮬레이션 및 실험 결과를 토대로 고정피치 프로펠러를 사용하는 회전익 시스템에서 설계한 병렬분산보상제어기 적용가능성과 개선사항을 분석하였다.