Implementation and Evaluation of the World's Largest Outdoor Optical Motion-Capture System

Abstract

The US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory Guidance Technologies Branch has implemented a one-of-a-kind outdoor motion-capture system for multi-agent unmanned aerial system testing. This system consists of 96 cameras housed within 16 tracking pods positioned around the perimeter of the desired capture volume. The cameras track actively illuminated LED marker strobes attached to test articles moving throughout the volume. Recent evaluation of this system demonstrated accurate marker tracking within a 460- x 110- x 70-m volume at a measurement rate of 100 Hz.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 02, 2020
Accession Number
AD1096719

Entities

People

  • Barry Kline
  • Daniel Everson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Circuit Boards
  • Computer Stereo Vision
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Motion Capture
  • Navigation
  • Network Topology
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy