engineering design day 2012 - College of Engineering @ The ...

LoW-CoST GImBAL-LESS ImAGE STABILIZATIoN SYSTEm FoR AERIAL
SuRVEILLANCE Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Program
CLASS
ENGR 498A/B
SpoNSoR
Raytheon Missile Systems
SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR
Quenten Duden
Sean Keller
pRoJECT mENToR
Ivar Sanders
TEAm mEmBERS
Eric de Groot (CoE)
Garrett Vanhoy (EE)
Jeffrey Larson (ME)
Anthony Clutter (OSE)
Steven Glass (OSE)
Madeline Hack (OSE)
CoE = Computer Engineering
EE = Electrical Engineering
ME = Mechanical Engineering
OSE = Optical Sciences & Engineering
TEAm 4965: pRoJECT SummARY
Currently, UAV surveillance systems
are only available at extremely high
costs. Last year’s team, 4817,
provided proof that Risley Prisms can
be used to stabilize images. Raytheon
has chosen to continue the design
efforts into a functional system.
By achieving a low-cost design,
Raytheon would be able to provides
UAV surveillance systems in the
government and civilian markets. The
goal of this project was to design a
low-cost, gimbal-less system capable of providing a stabilized video from a UAV.
The team designed and built a system that operates in an aerial vehicle at a height
above ground level and provides a live video stream to a designated ground station.
The image is stabilized and provides on-command steering of the live image with the
use of a Risley Prism Assembly (RPA). A wireless data link is established between the
aircraft’s mounted subsystem and a ground-level command station. The wireless data
link is able to maintain a data rate capable of transmitting a constant live low-resolution
video stream, GPS data, and system status data.
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