Lazer: Laser Tracking System
Team members:
- Matt Aamold
- Jassim Alshamali
- Aja Armstrong
- Son Nguyen
Team Lazer's design objectives are to design and build a laser tracking system. This system will use an analog camera focusing on a laser against a plain white (or possibly some other colored) background. The background color will give easy differentiation for seeing the laser.
The system will have two different modes; dynamic tracking and acquire to shoot. Dynamic tracking will provide ability for the system to follow a moving laser target and keep the laser in the specified "hot-spot" of the video feed. Acquire to shoot mode will target the statically positioned laser and once acquired, will shoot a simple projectile at the laser target.
Initial proposals state that a PC will only be used for displaying the digitized feed and the rest of the calculations for tracking and motor control will all be done with the Spartan-3 Series FPGA by Xilinx.