1. Turret Based Defense System
Defender
Turret Based Defense System
Kirk Iler
Brian Bentz
Stephen Wolf
Fuhe Xu

5. Image Processing Input: Picture
Convert RGB to HSV, threshold over hue (color)
Remove noise on picture
Flood fill regions, choose largest
Calculate Centroid and axes of largest region
Calculate distance (Z) based on major axis size
Calculate X and Y based on distance and angle to centroid
Calculate firing parameters (Angle)
Progress: Written, Tested, fully functional, needs parameters

6. Ethernet Between Java GUI and C++ image processing
Packet capture libraries
C++ winpcap library
Java jnetpcap library
Progress: written, tested, functional, needs parameters

7. USB Communication between processor and microcontroller
PIC Family libraries
USB Embedded Host Stack
Progress: not yet begun

8. I2C Peripherals I2C Buses between control micro and components
Port Expansion to:
Firing Controls
Charging Controls
Photodiodes
Stepper Motors
Keypad
Signals encoded/decoded on micro
Progress: Not yet begun

9. I/O Keypad Camera User Input I2C/UART bus on Microcontroller
Sent by USB
Camera
Tied directly to image processing
On Atom board
User Input
Java GUI