autonomous weapon turret

High-Level Design

The AWT is a weapon system capable of two modes of operation: USER mode, in which the user directly controls the weapon using a joystick, and AUTONOMOUS mode, in which the turret is controlled by image processing software running on a laptop computer. In AUTONOMOUS mode, the system detects, tracks, and fires at any target moving in its field of vision.

Figure 1: A picture of the autonomous weapon turret.

In order to put the system into perspective, the following diagram shows a very high level view of the system components and how they communicate.

Figure 2: High level overview of system components.

The following diagram shows these same primary components as well as the other major system components divided into the software and hardware subsystems.

Figure 3: A system level diagram.

How It Works

Figure 4: A flowchart explaining how the system works.