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[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

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52 P. Demski et al.<br />

4 Automatic Target Detection and Aim<strong>in</strong>g<br />

The turret aim<strong>in</strong>g motors are capable of mov<strong>in</strong>g the gun and its sight vertically<br />

and horizontally. Depend<strong>in</strong>g on the accuracy of mechanisms, it is possible to<br />

create a coord<strong>in</strong>ate system, where x and y axes corresponds to motors adjustments<br />

or <strong>in</strong>directly to angles of barrel deflection or sight position.<br />

The field of all possible sight positions is similar to image from mounted or stationary<br />

camera. After proper system calibration it is possible to get the adjustment<br />

of motors from the wanted sight position, which corresponds to position of object<br />

on image. By the assumption of mount<strong>in</strong>g camera directly on barrel or mount<strong>in</strong>g<br />

stationary camera with the same field of view and orientation as gun it is possible<br />

to easily correlate the image coord<strong>in</strong>ates with simple construction of two motors<br />

work<strong>in</strong>g horizontally and vertically <strong>in</strong> two dimensions.<br />

As it was mentioned previously, it is possible to handle two approaches. The<br />

camera can be mounted on gun or it can be set stationary with the same field of<br />

view. In case of stationary camera, the calibration process beg<strong>in</strong>s with gun aim<strong>in</strong>g<br />

at certa<strong>in</strong> po<strong>in</strong>ts and user <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g those po<strong>in</strong>ts on camera field of view. Then by<br />

means of l<strong>in</strong>ear <strong>in</strong>terpolation the correlation between motors adjustment and detected<br />

object position on image is set.<br />

In case of camera mounted on gun, there no need of software calibration. There<br />

is only a need to properly mount the camera, so the gun is aim<strong>in</strong>g directly to the<br />

center of image. In this case, the position of detected objects and their displacement<br />

from center of image would be treated as correction to motors position. If the<br />

object is detected to the right of image center, there is an order send to move gun<br />

to the right. The algorithm previously was prototyped <strong>in</strong> simulation environment<br />

[8] and implemented <strong>in</strong> opto-electronic gimbal [10]. Depend<strong>in</strong>g on how far the<br />

object is from the center of image, the correction presets are chosen with use of<br />

fuzzy logic. Example of camera mounted on gun is presented <strong>in</strong> Fig. 6.<br />

Fig. 6. Camera mounted on the gun

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