A brick-architecture-based mobile under-vehicle inspection system

Cheng Qian; David Page; Andreas Koschan; Mongi Abidi

doi:10.1117/12.602979

27 May 2005 A brick-architecture-based mobile under-vehicle inspection system

Cheng Qian, David Page, Andreas Koschan, Mongi Abidi

Proceedings Volume 5804, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602979
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper, a mobile scanning system for real-time under-vehicle inspection is presented, which is founded on a "Brick" architecture. In this "Brick" architecture, the inspection system is basically decomposed into bricks of three kinds: sensing, mobility, and computing. These bricks are physically and logically independent and communicate with each other by wireless communication. Each brick is mainly composed by five modules: data acquisition, data processing, data transmission, power, and self-management. These five modules can be further decomposed into submodules where the function and the interface are well-defined. Based on this architecture, the system is built by four bricks: two sensing bricks consisting of a range scanner and a line CCD, one mobility brick, and one computing brick. The sensing bricks capture geometric data and texture data of the under-vehicle scene, while the mobility brick provides positioning data along the motion path. Data of these three modalities are transmitted to the computing brick where they are fused and reconstruct a 3D under-vehicle model for visualization and danger inspection. This system has been successfully used in several military applications and proved to be an effective safer method for national security.

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Cheng Qian, David Page, Andreas Koschan, and Mongi Abidi "A brick-architecture-based mobile under-vehicle inspection system", Proc. SPIE 5804, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII, (27 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602979

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