A miniature remote surveillance land vehicle was developed for experimental real-time video/audio data acquisition in air defence live-fire training. A mobile sensing platform was needed to acquire the video/audio data at a close proximity to the gunners, without breaching safety requirements. The platform was designed to be small, conforming to the need to transport it as a passenger luggage on a commercial airline. A commercially available ready-made largest 1/10 scale Radio Control (R/C) hobby vehicle with 4 wheel drive system was chosen as the platform. It incorporated pre-built drive, suspension and steering systems. The chassis was fitted with 4 kg payload for a total weight of 8 kg. It was very stable after adding damping shocks and extending the chassis. It was capable of climbing 15 cm sidewalk curbs, driving down off 20 em ledges, climbing 10 to 200 slopes and through about 10 cm of light to medium snow with its original rubber tires. Its total travel range was shown to be over 800 m. The control function for the vehicle and its sensing system was achieved using an R/C unit whereby a channel-select plus channel signal multiplexing system was developed to operate one selected channel of 7 possible at a time using only two radio channels. The sensing capability of the vehicle involved a digital video/ audio recorder positioned at the front of the platform and a miniature camera and microphone assembly placed on the top of a telescoping mast with an ultralight pan-tilt unit based on a micro R/C servos. The video and audio signals from the mast-mounted package were transmitted to the control station using a repackaged commercial transmitter. Testing and use of the vehicle determined operational limits of its performance and led to its modifications and enhancements.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff über TIB

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Miniature Remote Eye/Ear Land Vehicle


    Beteiligte:
    B. Hall (Autor:in) / J. J. Grodski (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1999


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Miniature Remote Deadweight Calibrator

    Supplee, Frank H., Jr. / Tcheng, Ping | NTRS | 1988


    Electric miniature vehicle

    SCHUSTER GUENTER / BOBINGER ROBERT / KARG JEFFREY et al. | Europäisches Patentamt | 2023

    Freier Zugriff

    Miniature, Remotely Controlled Land and Water Vehicles

    W. S. Pope / D. C. Doerschuk / J. M. Tierney | NTIS | 1972


    Miniature battery replacing platform, miniature logistics vehicle and miniature battery replacing system

    ZHENG FURONG / SHI BIAO | Europäisches Patentamt | 2023

    Freier Zugriff

    Miniature amphibious fighting vehicle

    YANG YIHUA | Europäisches Patentamt | 2015

    Freier Zugriff