The scope of the project is to develop a hybridized Inertial Navigation System for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
INS Monte Carlo Analysis
The objective of this project is to develop a high-speed Monte Carlo analysis of an Inertial Navigation System (INS). The project is to make use of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to accomplish this task.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
Computer System and Data Recorder for UAV
Development of a generic embedded computer system for a UAV. The system should be based on a single board computer or other embedded processor and will be used to perform the interfacing between the various subsystems on the UAV. It must be usable for the implementation of an autopilot system. One of the core functionalities of this system is that it must act as a data recording system.
The system should be generic, but as a guideline, it must be able to perform the data collection, interfacing and management to an RTK GPS system, a laser and an inertial measurement unit onboard the helicopter. Apart from this, interfacing to a datalink and/or an onboard video camera would also be required. It must also be usable to control the camera mounting on the helicopter.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
The system should be generic, but as a guideline, it must be able to perform the data collection, interfacing and management to an RTK GPS system, a laser and an inertial measurement unit onboard the helicopter. Apart from this, interfacing to a datalink and/or an onboard video camera would also be required. It must also be usable to control the camera mounting on the helicopter.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
Camera Tracking Platform
The objective of this project is to design and build the mechanical structure and design and implement a control system for a camera mounting to be used in optical tracking applications. The platform must have a standard camera mounting connector for mounting of a video camera. It must be possible to steer the system by means of a joystick controller and it must have the ability to store at least 8 separate viewing positions. The system must have the ability to autonomously rotate between stored pointing positions. In addition to this, the system must be usable as a platform for a closed-loop optical tracking application. The closed-loop control system must be implemented by means of a microprocessor.
As a growth option the optical tracking algorithms from former project investigation students are to be implented and tested in real-time.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
As a growth option the optical tracking algorithms from former project investigation students are to be implented and tested in real-time.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
Optical Tracking System
The objective of this project is to design and implement the optical tracking control system that can track a bouncing ball. The ball will only be observed with the camera and the position and motion of the ball must be extracted form the image sequence using image processing techniques. Previous students undertaking this project successfully implemented Kalman filter for the tracking problem. The tracking algorithms must be extended to include more complex methods such as Particles Filters. The robustness of the tracking algorithm must also be improved to ensure that the ball is still being tracked while undergoing occlusion. The results of the project must be presentable as demonstration video clips.This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
INS Alignment
The objective of this project is to implement the alignment algorithms for an Inertial Navigation System (INS). These algorithms are used to define the position and orientation of an aircraft or stabilized platform before take-off or operation. The algorithms to be implemented consist of the static alignment, transfer alignment and in-flight alignment of the INS. The algorithms are to be implemented on an embedded microprocessor and tested using industrial guidelines.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
Development of an embedded INS
The objective of the project is to develop an Inertial Navigation System (INS) using an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and a microprocessor. The main objective was to clarify all the design issues related to the realtime integration of the navigation equations and the associated implementation details of inertial navigation.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
This project will run as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project during 2008.
Modeling and Control of a Helicopter UAV
Description:
Develop a mathematical model for a model helicopter using the methods and techniques described in literature. The book of Valavanis "Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" are to be used as the basis for this project. The model must be applicable to the actual helicopter and are to be used for the design of a classical control system.
The project scope is therefore as follows:
- Helicopter model determination (understand structure)
- Heli characterization (parameter ID)
- Simulation of model
- Controller design based on the developed model
- Controller simulation with model
- Controller implementation
The XPDS sim environment written for the X-plane flight simulator can be used as as option.
The project will start out as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project in 2008.
Develop a mathematical model for a model helicopter using the methods and techniques described in literature. The book of Valavanis "Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" are to be used as the basis for this project. The model must be applicable to the actual helicopter and are to be used for the design of a classical control system.
The project scope is therefore as follows:
- Helicopter model determination (understand structure)
- Heli characterization (parameter ID)
- Simulation of model
- Controller design based on the developed model
- Controller simulation with model
- Controller implementation
The XPDS sim environment written for the X-plane flight simulator can be used as as option.
The project will start out as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project in 2008.
Fuzzy Controller Autopilot for Fixed-wing UAV
This project consists of the development of a fuzzy controller autopilot for a fixed-wing UAV. In 2008 the project will start out with a predominant simulation-based focus. The environment that will be used in the XPDS simulation environment that was developed at UJ as well as Matlab. The project will start out as a 4th year Electronic Engineering project.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
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