Fabrication of 360 Degree Automatic Machine Gun Rover for Advanced Defence

Machine gun defence is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception, and destruction of attacking enemies. Automatic shooting system is normally constructed using GPS, radar and other form of inertial guidance mechanisms. The paper proposed a new method of shooting system that is purely based on a high speed camera and embedded image processing techniques running at extremely low power. The project aim is to design and develop a very low power embedded system for tracking and shooting moving enemies using a high speed video camera integrated with a high performance microcontroller. Higher velocities of the moving target and the interceptor missile demands higher data update rates from the sensors, processing elements and control system. Using the selected components a 10 Hz update rate (100 ms) is achievable. The microcontroller firmware is developed to handle the real-time needs of the embedded software for the onboard computer, which is designed to achieve deterministic response times for the accurate control and precise scheduling of firing mechanism.