We have developed a robotic unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that performs reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition. THis vehicle has been used in a number of tactical training exercises at Fort Hood, TX with US Army scouts from the 1st Armored Cavalry Division. The UGV, built around a high- mobility, multi-purpose, wheeled vehicle, is designed to be supervised by an operator at a control station located 10 km or more away from the UGV. The UGV's real-time automatic target acquisition system uses an infrared sensor to automatically detect and track moving ground vehicles out to a range of 5 km. When commanded by the operator, the UGV will engage a particular target with a laser designator. The ATA system is the topic of this paper. We describe the requirements of the ATA system, the algorithms used, their implementation, and the system's performance.


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    Title :

    Real-time target acquisition for the Army's scout mission


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing X ; 1996 ; Orlando,FL,United States


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 2739 ; 324


    Publication date :

    1996-06-07





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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