Sieg Defense Platform

Michael Dougherty, Gary Look & Gene Ma


Abstract
 

    The Sieg Defense Platform (SDP) is an embedded system that controls an air hose mounted on two stepper motors.  These two stepper motors are placed at right angles to each other, so that one motor rotates the air hose in a left-to-right fashion while the other motor rotates the air hose in an up-down fashion.  This setup allows the air hose to be aimed at anything in its environment.

    A CMOS camera is placed behind the two stepper motors and the image from the camera is sent to a VGA monitor.  The image that is displayed on the VGA monitor represents the targeting scope of the SDP.  To allow a user to maneuver the air hose to target an item that he sees on the VGA monitor, a touch screen is placed over the monitor.  This allows the user to simply point to his target of choice, and the SDP will position the air hose appropriately.