Designing an Armour Vehicle Active Protection System

Project Title

Designing an Armour Vehicle Active Protection System

Project Area of Specialization Artificial IntelligenceProject Summary

The project is aimed at modeling, simulating and testing an efficient, highly accurate, intelligent and automatic armour vehicle fire control system using Matlab tools in a virtual environment. The developed software will be delivered on an electronic device for possible real testing.

A fire controlling system is a system in which number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director , a LIDAR (Light imaging, detection and ranging/light and RADAR) and number of sensors which are design to assist a weapon system in targeting, tracking and hitting its target. The Main components of the tank fire control system are: Main gun or cannon, Fume extractor, Co-axial gun, Gun mantlet, Optical periscope, Hatch, Turret, hull, Gunners control and display unit, fire control computer, sensors like laser range finder, thermometers, anemometer to adjust the weather effects, meteorological sensor, muzzle reference system for gun barrel temperature, infrared search and track, Remote weapon station, Initial navigation unit, thermocouples, etc.

The good fire control system of a tank has wide range, able to operate in day as well as at night, with high first round hit probability against moving targets. In fire controlling system of the main battle tank, we have to detect and identify the target in all the surrounding by using RADAR/LIDAR in which a beam of electromagnetic waves from RADAR or a beam of laser light from LIDAR is sent in surrounding areas which comes back after reflection from the materials in the surroundings and then the sensors receive the waves that helps us to identify our target. After detecting and identifying the target, the next is to locate the target which is done by using commanders panoramic telescope which can observe and locate target that may be unseen or behind some obstacles (mountains or trees, etc ). Then fire control system tracks or locks the target. If the target is moving then system locks the target by using its tracking system, i.e., finds the position, speed and range of target in the future. Now the next step of fire control system is to hit the target. For this laser guided projectile trajectory is used to hit the target. In this a laser beam makes a projectile path and this path of beam is followed by ammunition or missile fired by the tank and hits the target accurately. The factors affecting the projectile trajectory are wind, air resistance, gravity, earth motion and jump effect. In the automatic fire control system a large amount of information detected by sensors, radars, cameras which are being adjusted in tank is shared every moment with commander sitting in control room. By getting this information, he will be able to order or send messages or commands the system to respond to enemy. For this we use telecommunications to connect FCS with the control room. All the activities identified above will be programmed in the form of integrated modules.

Project Objectives

To model, simulate and test an efficient, highly accurate, intelligent and automatic armour vehicle fire control system using Matlab tools in a virtual environment and possibly design a deliverable electronic device containing this system.

Project Implementation Method

We will use mathematical methods and  MATLAB tools like Simulink to model, simulate and test an efficient, highly accurate, intelligent and automatic armour vehicle fire control system using Matlab tools in a virtual environment and possibly design a deliverable electronic device containing this system.

Benefits of the Project

The fire control system will be based on Artificial intelligence. AI will make the system more accurate, efficent, automatic and manfree.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

It will be a software system developed in MATLAB.

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemType of Industry Security Technologies Artificial Intelligence(AI), Augmented & Virtual RealitySustainable Development Goals Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	159000
3.5 Inch HDMI LCD Touch Display Screen for Raspberry Pi 3	Equipment	1	4500	4500
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with Casing, Accessories Or Starter Kit	Equipment	1	20000	20000
Sensors (IR, Proximity, Pressure, Ultrasonic, Touch, Level, Smoke, Gas	Equipment	20	1000	20000
PCBs	Equipment	2	10000	20000
Batteries	Equipment	2	2500	5000
Stationary, Report typing, etc	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000
3.5 Inch HDMI LCD Touch Display Screen for Raspberry Pi 3	Equipment	1	4500	4500
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with Casing, Accessories Or Starter Kit	Equipment	1	20000	20000
Sensors (IR, Proximity, Pressure, Ultrasonic, Touch, Level, Smoke, Gas	Equipment	20	1000	20000
PCBs	Equipment	2	10000	20000
Batteries	Equipment	2	2500	5000
Stationary, Report typing, etc	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000