본 논문에서는 국내 선박해양플랜트연구소에 구축된 빙해수조의 빙특성 중에서 모형빙의 두께와 유효탄성계수 산출과정이 소개되었다. 수조에서 결빙되는 빙판은 크기가 가로 세로각각 30 m 정도에 두께는 40mm정도이다. 모형선의 실험결과를 쇄빙선 설계에 사용하기 위하여 빙 특성 정보가 필요하다. 사람이 빙판을 일부 절개하고 일일이 손으로 두께를 측정하는 것을 지양하기 위하여 초음파 기기를 사용하였는데 저주파 장비를 사용하여 작은 샘플 모형빙에 대한 두께는 계측되었다. 하지만 완벽한 계측을 위해서는 송수신 일체형 저주파 센서나 정확한 위치가 설정된 분리형 센서 혹은 고가의 특수 장치가 필요함을 확인하게 되었다. 한편 빙판의 처짐량을 간이식 LVDT로 계측하고 이를 탄성체 위에 놓인 무한 판의 특성길이 관계식에 대입하여 빙의 유효탄성계수를 산출하였는데 외국의 결과와 유사함이 입증되었다.

The ice tank is important facility to check the performance of the ship and offshore in ice condition before the construction. MOERI(Maritime & Ocean Engineering Research Institute) constructed ice model basin on the end of 2010. The ice technology to know the phenomena of ice near the ship and to estimate power of the ship in model scale is the main characteristic of the ice model basin. To achieve this goal in one ice sheet, making of test plan and feasibility check of test possibility have to review in the beginning stage of the every test. This paper describes the number of maximum resistance and self propulsion test in a sheet of level ice and proposes the methodology to optimize pack ice, rubble ice, brash ice and ice ridge test in MOERI ice tank. The feasibility of free running test to know maneuvering performance in ice field and some specific idea to measuring ice thickness and ice ridge shape was proposed.

This paper introduces a graphical user interface design that is aimed to apply to the surveillance and security robot, which is the pilot program for the army unmanned light combat vehicle. It is essential to consider the activities of robot users under the changing security environment in order to design the efficient graphical user interface between user and robot to accomplish the designated mission. The proposed design approach firstly identifies the user activities to accomplish the mission in the standardized scenarios of military surveillance and security operation and then develops the hierarchy of the interface elements that are required to execute the tasks in the surveillance and security scenarios. The developed graphical user interface includes input control component, navigation component, information display component, and accordion and verified by the potential users from the various skilled levels with the military background. The assessment said that the newly developed user interface includes all the critical elements to execute the mission and is simpler and more intuitive compared to the legacy interface design that was more focused on the technical and functional information and informative to the system developing engineers rather than field users.

This paper briefly reviews the path planning methods that are applicable to the autonomous mobile robots for the military. Two distinct path search algorithms, A* and D* that are most popular and flexible in public applications, among those reviewed are coded and analyzed in terms of combat environment assessment factors called METT+TC for the area of operations. The results imply that it is important to consider the characteristics of defense acquisition process and the specific requirements of defense operation so that the successful technology development of the Robot products is directly linked to the defense procurement of Robot products.