Texas Instruments feels that the development of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) technology offers the potential for substantial performance improvements in future weapons systems. The ability to automatically find and launch weapons against targets in military environments will relieve attack aircraft or helicopter pilots of a demanding assignment in a high-stress environment, thereby improving their effectiveness and survivability. Future guided missiles can have ATRs aboard and thereby have the ability to autonomously find their own targets. In that case, launch platforms will be required only to transport a missile to a suitable launch position, and a pilot need not locate the target before launching the missiles. ATR implementation requires three areas of development: sensors, signal processing algorithms, and processing architectures. The number and type of sensors required to fulfill an ATR requirement are dictated by the mission to be performed. The processing architectures which will implement the signal processing algorithms will consist of numeric, parallel, and symbolic processing elements.


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    Title :

    ATRs - A Texas Instruments Perspective


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Infrared Systems and Components ; 1987 ; Los Angeles,CA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1987-09-10





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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