Advanced Target Tracking System for Armoured Vehicles

Advanced Target Tracking System for Armoured Vehicles---a standalone system working in a closed loop visual feedback control system. In the Fire Control System (FCS) of armoured vehicle for the view of field there are only Panaromic sights and Thermal Imager (TI) sights. For both the Gunne

Project Title

Advanced Target Tracking System for Armoured Vehicles

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

Advanced Target Tracking System for Armoured Vehicles---a standalone system working in a closed loop visual feedback control system. In the Fire Control System (FCS) of armoured vehicle for the view of field there are only Panaromic sights and Thermal Imager (TI) sights. For both the Gunner and Commander it is very difficult to manually track and hit the target effectively because of jolting motion of armoured vehicle and psychology of human in the scenario of war in the battle field. To accomplish this task, Operation Unit having a camera along with laser mounted on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) acting as an armoured vehicle and Control Unit having Auto-Tracker and joy stick for the control of UGV have been designed. The video from UGV is recieved on the Control Unit, where algorithms for tracking are performed by Auto-Tracker using Digital Image Processing on MATLAB and an error signal generated, which is sent to Operation Unit and camera along with laser tracks the target locked by the user. The feature of real-time Auto-Tracking the target in the armoured vehicle increases the probability of hit and destroy the target.

Acknowledgement___This Industrial Project is officially recommended by Advanced System Rebuild Factory(ASRF), Heavey Industries Taxila (HIT), for the Ministry of Defence, Government of Pakistan vide letter number 5901/Internship/ASRF dated Sep12, 2018.

Project Objectives

Automate the Target Tracking System in Armoured Vehicles instead of Mannual Tracking

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In the Fire Control System (FCS) of armoured vehicles, the Vision System (VS) of armoured vehicles consists of only Panoramic sights and Thermal Imager (TI) sights usually utilizes CCD (charge-coupled device) images and FLIR (forward-looking infrared) images for the view of field. Therefore, it is very difficult to fire manually and damage the target effectively. The feature of real time Auto-Tracking the target in the armoured vehicles (i.e. AL-Khalid Tank) increases the probability of hit and destroy the target.

  

Project Implementation Method

Digital Image Processing

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Proposed Algorithm

     procedure Anomalous Object Detection

1    Input: Prior frame(fp) and current frame(fc)

2    Subtraction: S = fp - fc

3    Binarization of S      B    

4    Morphological Operations: dilation, erosion etc.

5    Moving target detected in current frame (fc) located  by a red bounding box

6    Target object cropped: T

       end procedure

     procedure Target Tracking

7      Input: Target Object(T) and next frame(fn)

8      Feature Extraction of target(T) and next frame(fn)

9      Feature matching in both images

10    Recognizes target in next frame(fn) and located by a green

         bounding box patch

        end procedure

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Digital Signal Processing

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 Proposed Algorithm

   procedure Error Signal Generation

1   input : center of detected target and center of frame

2   Subtraction = Error Signal

3   Wirelessly Transmit Error Signal to Operation Unit

   end procedure

   procedure Error Correction and Tracking Control

4   Error Correction by Servo Controller of Operation Unit

5   Tracking Control Signal generated

6   Servo Movement to keep target in scene

   end procedure  

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Benefits of the Project

In Military and Defence, the advantages of the Advanced Target Tracking System feature in Armoured Vehicle i.e. Al-Khalid Tank are:

•  Automate Target Tracking
•  High Hit Probability
•  Fast Range Determination
•  Accurate Velocity

       

This system can be used with some modifications perspective to the application like:

• Avionics systems and Drones
• Security and Surveillance
• Robotics and Automation
• Traffic Monitoring

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

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Operational Architecture of Vision Controlled Motion

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Closed loop visual feedback Control System for Automatic Tracking

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Final Project HW/SW Integrated System Layout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Results

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Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Type of Industry

Others , Security

Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI), Robotics

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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