[Studies in Computational Intelligence 481] Artur Babiarz, Robert Bieda, Karol Jędrasiak, Aleksander Nawrat (auth.), Aleksander Nawrat, Zygmunt Kuś (eds.) - Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications (2013, Sprin

Automatic Targeting Sentry Turret
for Distributed Systems
Piotr Demski, Tomasz Grzejszczak, Karol Jędrasiak, and Michał Mikulski
Abstract. Today most popular systems are constructed with the idea of collaboration.
In software we can see a drastic increase of cloud-oriented applications, in
electronics more devices are designed with CAN and Ethernet communications,
and in robotics and defense whole systems are linked as unmanned sensor and
agent networks. This paper describes the fundamental design principles of an automatic
sentry turret in a distributed multi-agent system. The work is focused on
the design of the turret system itself and the system architecture for distributed
robotic applications. The papers is divided into the following sections: introduction,
turret construction, system architecture, automatic target detection and aiming,
and summary. Module.
1 Introduction
Increased collaboration in applications, communications, electronics extends rapidly
to the field of robotics. Multi-agent networks can be used for sharing vital
information, either for control purposes or intelligence. This approach to the development
of specialized robots is essential if a more complex system can be
achieved. This article presents the construction, system architecture, and aiming
algorithms of a specialized robotic platform: a sentry turret, as a part of a bigger
and more complex robotics system that is being deployed at the Silesian University
of Technology. This article presents a thought process behind specialized units
as seen from an agent-network, but the principles presented here can be applied,
but not limited to: exoskeletons, UAVs [11],[9],[14] and mobile robots [3][1].
Piotr Demski ⋅ Tomasz Grzejszczak ⋅ Karol Jędrasiak ⋅ Michał Mikulski
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Automatic Control,
Akademicka 16, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland
e-mail: {michal.mikulski,tomasz.grzejszczak,piotr.demski,
karol.jedrasiak}@polsl.pl
A. Nawrat and Z. Kuś (Eds.): Vision Based Systems for UAV Applications, SCI 481, pp. 47–55.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00369-6_3 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013