KARI - Korea Aerospace Research institute

KARI’s Unmanned Vehicle Project Group led the project to develop core technologies for unmanned vehicles, carrying out various activities including research project management, technology verification, performance management, project PR, and international exchange/cooperation as well as support for policymaking by the government. Its activities resulted in 110 patents pending, 28 patents registered, 368 papers published including 60 papers of SCI journals, 64 prototypes manufactured, and 6 technology implementation agreements.

As a follow-up project, the unmanned vehicle original source proprietary technology development project commenced in 2020, and supports six research groups for common original technology and three research groups for technology demonstrator vehicles.

Moreover, it has conducted Korea’s first annual survey of the unmanned vehicle industry since 2017. The survey covers a wide range of items such as industry composition, sales, regional distribution, human resources, investment, and intellectual property rights to support government policy establishment. This survey is published and provided to the relevant agencies. Additionally, the “Unmanned Vehicle Enterprise Directory” has been published annually, and distributed .in free of charge at exhibitions and conferences. These directory books have been playing a role as an information center by collecting and sharing the valuable information between the relevant industries.