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.