FEASIBILITY STUDY OF TERRAIN SENSORS AND TERRAIN SENSING

Abstract

Optical techniques were studied for application in a terrain sensor which measures the profile and consistency of the terrain ahead of a cross country military vehicle and provides information for the actuation of an active vehicle suspension system. Automatic optical ranging techniques were found to be suitable for terrain profile sensing. Optical methods of spatial and spectral analysis of an image of the terrain were shown to have considerable promise for consistency determination. Preliminary designs for equipment for terrain profile and consistency sensing are used as a basis for performance evaluation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 28, 1962
Accession Number
AD0407584

Entities

People

  • Harry F. Gilmore
  • Richard C. Ramsey
  • Thomas R. Fahy

Organizations

  • Emerson Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Military Vehicles
  • Modulation
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optics
  • Phototubes
  • Range Finders
  • Range Finding
  • Reflectance

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Statistical inference.