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Airborne aiming pod is mainly used for searching, capturing and tracking the target indicated by the laser, and then dropping the laser-guided weapons precisely to complete the close-range support attack or dual-aircraft cooperative instruction/attack. High-precision laser beam pointing technology is the core of the airborne aiming pod, and the accuracy of it is fatal for the realization of the final tactical index. In this paper, the factors affecting the beam pointing accuracy based on the research of airborne aiming pod platform are analyzed. At first, the composition of the pod system and the motion coupling of the composite axis pod are introduced; and then the beam pointing algorithm under the external guidance combined with aircraft disturbance and the effects of atmospheric turbulence and atmospheric attenuation on beam quality, including optical axis drift, beam spread and intensity distribution variation are discussed. Finally, the performance of the pod servo system is simulated and verified in Simulink. The simulation result of the real flight situation with disturbance moment shows that the pointing accuracy of the airborne aiming pod can reach 0.0075 degrees. The data analyzed in this paper can provide technical reference for other aiming photoelectric platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The vehicle theodolite has been the trend of the optical shooting range survey. While tracking and imaging of the long-distance dim targets have not been solved perfectly in this field, so this paper presents one active polarization imaging technology to find a way to deal with it. Firstly, we put forward a new active polarization imaging system with the lighting mode of circularly polarized laser and receives the reflected light by the mode of range-gating technique; secondly, deduces the pulse laser beam pointing algorithm; thirdly, describes the extended Kalman filtering algorithm to compensate the delay in the process and the calculation of the polarization angle, the attitude angle of flight target using single station cosine method and the depolarization of the circularly polarized laser. Finally, the result of this active polarization imaging technology which is simulated and analyzed in Simulink shows that the pointing precision can reach 0.0075 degrees. Then the analysis in this paper provide a theoretical basis for the application of the active polarization imaging technology in the field of the optical shooting range survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For realizing the engineering application of key technologies in the long-range active polarization imaging system, an experimental platform is built to study the static active polarization imaging technology and related image fusion algorithm in the smoke and dust environment. In the experiments, 532 nm CW laser is used as illumination source after collimation and beam expansion, metal bullet model is used as detection target, smoke environment is created through smoke generator in organic glass hood, polarization direction can be rotated by the polarizer, the images are collected by Lumerera-LM135 camera. The analysis and handling on the images are conducted by the use of the MATLAB software. In the aspects of image information entropy, average gradient, spatial frequency and standard deviation, the polarization imaging effects in various environments are quantitatively compared and analyzed, and the imaging advantages of laser illumination and polarization imaging technology in smoke and dust environment and dim conditions are verified. In order to further improve the imaging quality of active polarization imaging technology, a polarization image fusion algorithm based on fuzzy adaptive is proposed after analyzing a large number of data acquired in the experiment. The experimental results show that the active polarization imaging technology and the improved image fusion algorithm can improve the detection distance of optical system and image contrast, expand the digestible information of images for the long-range dim target imaging in low visibility environment, and provide important data reference and technology support for the application of this technology in shooting range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]