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

TARGET SENSoR SYSTEm FoR CoASTAL pATRoL BoAT
Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Program
CLASS
ENGR 498A/B
SpoNSoR
Raytheon Missile Systems
SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR
Gary Yanamura
pRoJECT mENToR
Ivar Sanders
TEAm mEmBERS
Austin Cynecki (EE)
David Lester (EE)
Renee Mckernan (EE)
Tyler Steeb (SE)
Mohammed Al-Duwayhis (SE)
EE = Electrical Engineering
SE = Systems Engineering
TEAm 4967: pRoJECT SummARY
The goal of this project was to
design a Combat Management
System (CMS) to be used on
coastal patrol boats. The purpose
of this system is to be able to
connect to an already present
commercial radar system that can
track air and surface targets.
Along with tracking, our system also uses an algorithm to rank the different
targets in order of potential threat based on the different attributes of the targets
(e.g. range, speed, elevation, bearing). The ranked targets are then displayed onto
a graphical user interface (GUI) known as our Combat Control Panel (CCP). This CCP
allows ease of use for any user to be able to observe each of the targets and their
respective attributes as they traverse the world within the radar’s range.
In order to bypass purchasing an expensive radar system, we simulated the world
and targets through software as well. The world in which the targets roam is our
server and all the vehicles connecting to the server (using a form of ports and sockets)
are the clients. Using this method the clients can be terminated individually, making
the process of eliminating hostiles from the simulated world a simple process within
the code.
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