UAV ground station.
Building the hardware behind a wider detection system.
Camera rotation mount during ground-station assembly.
THE CHALLENGE
Connect the parts to the system.
Support a counter-UAV system for geofence-breach detection and flight-path analysis. The ground-station work considered synchronous operation between linked stations over an adjustable coverage area.
THE ENGINEERING PROCESS
From components to system.
A closer look at
the work in between.
01 / Components
A system starts with its physical parts.
The project imagery records the housing, electronics and camera mount that form part of the ground-station build. Mechanical packaging and wiring sit alongside the wider system architecture.
Housing concept for the Raspberry Pi.
02 / Build
Bring the components into one assembly.
The build photographs show GPIO wiring and the camera rotation mount. They document the integration work around the ground station.
Electronics and GPIO wiring during the ground-station build.
03 / System
Think beyond a single station.
I designed architecture for synchronous operation between linked ground stations, and evaluated radar- and ADS-B-independent detection approaches for low-signature aircraft. This work shortlisted two scalable field approaches.
CAD prototype concept for the ground-station assembly.
04 / Field considerations
Connect the build to its intended environment.
The intended application is a linked counter-UAV detection system. The development hardware connects this system-level work with the practical questions of packaging and integration.
Camera rotation mount in the development assembly.
REFLECTION / BEYOND THE MODEL
Integration is a design problem.
Ground-station engineering connects component-level decisions with a larger architecture. My contribution centred on how linked stations could operate together, while the project build made the physical integration visible.
PROJECT NOTEBOOK
The work, up close.
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