Patents Assigned to Agency for Defense Development
  • Publication number: 20210256866
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an avionics electronic warfare integration system capable of simulating avionics electronic warfare and a control method thereof. The avionics electronic warfare integration system includes a scenario generator configured to set a simulation situation simulating avionics electronic warfare and generate an encounter scenario in which a test object encounters at least one target in the simulation situation, a raw data generator configured to generate raw data corresponding to the encounter scenario, a mission equipment mounted on the test object and configured to to perform a mission corresponding to the encounter scenario and generate mission data, and a central control device configured to simulate the encounter scenario and verify the mission equipment using the raw data and the mission data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Dongcho SHIN, Unseob JEONG
  • Patent number: 11079365
    Abstract: Provided is a simulation spectrum apparatus including: a background image acquisition unit that acquires a background image of a target region and an infrared signal corresponding to each pixel of the background image; a spectrum acquisition unit that acquires a background radiation intensity spectrum from the infrared signal acquired for the each pixel; a simulation spectrum generation unit that generates a model of a linear combination of a radiation intensity spectrum of a contamination cloud and a background radiation intensity spectrum on the basis of a difference in radiation intensity; a controller that generates a simulation spectrum of the contamination cloud by applying the information on the at least one toxic substance and the atmosphere transmittance to the model of the linear combination; and an imaging unit that generates a spectrum image, combines the generated spectrum image and the background image, and thus generates a simulation contamination cloud image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Nam, Jongseon Kim, Hyeonjeong Kim, Youngjin Koh
  • Patent number: 11059584
    Abstract: This application relates to a method for detecting chemical pollution cloud which is performed by an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising. In one aspect, the method includes receiving, from a control device for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle, a control signal and generating a status signal indicating a state of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The method also includes determining an operation mode for detecting the chemical pollution cloud based on the control signal and the status signal. The method further includes detecting the chemical pollution cloud based on a pre-learned autonomous algorithm without the control of the control device when the determined operation mode is an automatic detection mode for detecting the chemical pollution cloud without control of the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Agency for Defense Development
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Nam, Myungkyu Park, Myeongjae Lee, Sangwon Do, Jinho Park
  • Publication number: 20210171171
    Abstract: An underwater vehicle having a hovering system using a tube type launcher. The underwater vehicle includes a streamlined body and a hovering system connected to a rear of the streamlined body to generate a kinetic force of the streamlined body. The hovering system includes an extension shaft extended to be connected to the rear, a connection assembly connected to the rear through the extension shaft, and an auxiliary propeller assembly connected to the connection assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Kun Chul HWANG, Dong Hoon LEE, Jun Ho LEE, Jae Moon YOON
  • Patent number: 10998583
    Abstract: A composite solid electrolyte where self-discharge at room temperature is fundamentally prevented by adding a molten salt powder, which is an electric insulator at room temperature, or applying a molten salt passivation layer. The composite solid electrolyte includes: molten salt powder particles having electrical insulating properties at room temperature; and solid electrolyte powder particles on which surfaces thereof the molten salt powder particles are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Hae-Won Cheong, Min-U Kim, Sung-Ho Kang, Jang-Hyeon Cho
  • Publication number: 20210126239
    Abstract: A lithium anode of a thermal battery may include a metal alloy foam in which a plurality of pores is formed and including nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), and aluminum (Al) mixed in a predetermined composition ratio, and lithium impregnated into the metal alloy foam in a molten state and accommodated in the pores, wherein the chromium in the composition ratio may facilitate the impregnation of the lithium into the pores and reduce the reactivity of the metal alloy foam to the lithium at an operating temperature of the thermal battery, and the aluminum in the composition ratio may facilitate the impregnation of the lithium into the pores and prevent the lithium from penetrating into a surface of the metal alloy foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Yu Song CHOI, Tae Young AHN, Jang Hyeon CHO
  • Publication number: 20210096118
    Abstract: Provided is a simulation spectrum apparatus including: a background image acquisition unit that acquires a background image of a target region and an infrared signal corresponding to each pixel of the background image; a spectrum acquisition unit that acquires a background radiation intensity spectrum from the infrared signal acquired for the each pixel; a simulation spectrum generation unit that generates a model of a linear combination of a radiation intensity spectrum of a contamination cloud and a background radiation intensity spectrum on the basis of a difference in radiation intensity; a controller that generates a simulation spectrum of the contamination cloud by applying the information on the at least one toxic substance and the atmosphere transmittance to the model of the linear combination; and an imaging unit that generates a spectrum image, combines the generated spectrum image and the background image, and thus generates a simulation contamination cloud image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Hyunwoo NAM, Jongseon KIM, Hyeonjeong KIM, Youngjin KOH
  • Patent number: 10961613
    Abstract: A method for controlling the microstructure and texture of tantalum is described. The method includes a first forging step for performing upset forging and come-back forging on a tantalum billet multiple times in different directions, the upset forging performed to press two surfaces of the tantalum billet in order to make the two surfaces close to each other and the come-back forging performed to restore the tantalum billet to a rectangular prism shape; and a second forging step for performing wedge forging and come-back forging on the tantalum billet multiple times in different directions, the wedge forging performed to press two edges located in a diagonal direction of the tantalum billet and parallel to each other in order to make the two edges close to each other, and the come-back forging performed to restore the tantalum billet to the rectangular prism shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Seong Lee, Seongho Yang, Sungho Lee, Hyotae Jeong, Yuyeon Jo
  • Patent number: 10931294
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for measuring a frequency of a broadband signal by using low-speed ADCs having sub-Nyquist sampling rates. A plurality of channels each including a low-speed ADC having a sub-Nyquist sampling rate (e.g. sampling frequency from several MHz to hundreds of MHz) are provided, and the frequency of an input signal corresponding to a combination of frequencies calculated through the respective channels is estimated. Therefore, as the number of channels increases, the range of measurable frequencies may be extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Sang Won Kim, Dong Keun Lee, Jeung Min Joo, Jung Hoon Kim, Sung Jin Jo, Un Seob Jeong
  • Publication number: 20210035466
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an avionics electronic warfare simulation apparatus and a control method thereof. The avionics electronic warfare simulation apparatus includes an electromagnetic wave generator that generates a virtual electromagnetic wave by using at least one of a plurality of electronic warfare threat models, an electronic warfare engagement simulation unit that simulates an operation of an aircraft according to a preset operation scenario to engage the electromagnetic wave and the aircraft based on the operation scenario, and a direction finding simulation unit that performs direction finding using the electromagnetic wave based on a plurality of antennas mounted on the aircraft to output direction finding result information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Dongcho SHIN, Jeungmin JOO, Jeongho RYU
  • Patent number: 10903927
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for estimating OVSF (orthogonal variable spreading factor) code, the method comprises setting an initial value of a spreading factor and an initial value of an index of the spreading factor; extracting a first reception symbol by dechannelizing a reception signal based on a candidate OVSF code corresponding to the set spreading factor and the set index; acquiring a first code domain power of the first reception symbol; acquiring, if the first code domain power is greater than or equal to a predetermined reference value, variance of power of the first reception symbol which is normalized by the first code domain power; and estimating a used OVSF code based on the variance of the normalized power of the first reception symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Cheolsun Park, Dongwoo Kim, Dongweon Yoon
  • Patent number: 10904766
    Abstract: Provided is a method of determining a node location in a cognitive radio network environment in which data is transmitted from a first node to a third node via a second node. The method includes information requesting wherein the first node transmits an information request signal to a plurality of second nodes in a preset segmented region; information receiving wherein the first node receives, from the second nodes, location information and frequency resource information for each second node corresponding to the transmitted information request signal; and segment determining wherein the first node determines one segment in the segmented region based on the received location information and frequency resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Sang Cheon Park, Young Taek Hong, Jee Min Kim, Seong Lyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10880464
    Abstract: Provided is a remote active camera including an image capture unit; a gimbal unit that changes a direction in which the image capture unit is directed; a memory in which images having an identification number are stored; a communication unit that transmits acquired images to a remote control apparatus and receives target designation information from the remote control apparatus; a tracking unit that includes a first tracking unit which tracks a position of a preset reference target from a first image, and a second tracking unit which tracks positions of the designation target and the reference target from a second image; and a controller that compares identification numbers of the first and second images, estimates or detects a position value of the designation target on the basis of positions of the designation target and the reference target, and a position of the reference target, and controls the gimbal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Daeyeon Kim, Eunjin Koh, Jaekyu Lee, Junghyun Park, Jaewan Lim
  • Patent number: 10826190
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber includes a first layer and a second layer disposed on the first layer. The first layer may include a first reinforcing fiber impregnated in a first matrix. The second layer may include a second reinforcing fiber impregnated in a second matrix. The second reinforcing fiber may be plated with a metal magnetic coating layer. The electromagnetic wave absorber may provide electromagnetic wave absorbing ability with a low uncertainty without reducing mechanical properties due to the metal magnetic coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Chun-Gon Kim, Young-Woo Nam, Jae-Hun Choi
  • Patent number: 10823116
    Abstract: The proposed technology relates to a thrust control apparatus of a propulsion system, and more particularly, to a thrust control apparatus of a solid propulsion system equipped with an aerospike pintle nozzle. The present invention is to simultaneously control the magnitude and direction of thrust by installing a pintle and a thrust vectoring unit at the rear end of a combustion tube of a solid propulsion system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Jeong-Jin Kim, Seok-Jin Oh, Jun-Young Heo
  • Patent number: 10823521
    Abstract: An apparatus for designing a rifling rate to increase a lifespan of a gun barrel includes: a node selection module selecting and distributing the predetermined number of node points according to preset constraints between preselected starting and end rifling angles; a sorting module sorting distributed node points; and a profile generation module calculating a rifling rate curve using sorted node points, and generating a rifling rate profile using the rifling rate curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Seil An, Yunjung Oh, Ki-Up Cha
  • Patent number: 10790935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for efficiently transmitting error-tolerant traffic in low power and lossy networks (LLNs). The method for transmitting an error-tolerant traffic includes when a packet is received, modifying a medium access control (MAC) layer of a receiving device to perform received signal strength indication (RSSI) sampling at a symbol rate and estimating a symbol error rate of the packet in the MAC layer based on the sampled RSSI value, and when the estimated symbol error rate is lower than a specific value, transmitting the received packet to a higher layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Bongsoo Roh, Myungsup Lee, Saewoong Bahk
  • Patent number: 10738740
    Abstract: Provided is a thrust control apparatus having a plug area variable spike pintle nozzle, in which an aerospike-shaped pintle can be used in a pintle nozzle for precise thrust control. The thrust control apparatus includes a combustion chamber, a motor housing, and an outer pintle nozzle. The motor housing has a driving motor within the combustion chamber. The outer pintle nozzle is moved in a lateral direction by the driving motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Jun-Young Heo, Jeong-Jin Kim, Seok-Jin Oh
  • Publication number: 20200195379
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for efficiently transmitting error-tolerant traffic in low power and lossy networks (LLNs). The method for transmitting an error-tolerant traffic includes when a packet is received, modifying a medium access control (MAC) layer of a receiving device to perform received signal strength indication (RSSI) sampling at a symbol rate and estimating a symbol error rate of the packet in the MAC layer based on the sampled RSSI value, and when the estimated symbol error rate is lower than a specific value, transmitting the received packet to a higher layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Bongsoo ROH, Myungsup LEE, Saewoong BAHK
  • Publication number: 20200177104
    Abstract: A triboelectric nanogenerator according to the present invention includes an electrode layer, a storage layer disposed to be in contact with a top of the electrode layer, a contact layer disposed to be in contact with a top of the storage layer, and a counterpart layer disposed above the contact layer in a spaced manner to face the contact layer and brought into contact with the contact layer by an external force, wherein the storage layer is formed by an electrochemical reaction of the electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Insang SONG, Woonbong HWANG, Dongsung KIM, Jeongwon LEE, Dowan KIM