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U-Camera User Manual - General System Introduction
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General System Introduction
General System Introduction
U-Camera is the Gimbal solution provided by Airelectronics, a state of the art, small form-
factor Gimbal designed for small and medium sized UAVs. U-Camera can be mounted on
fixed wing vehicles or rotary wing platforms such as multicopters or helicopters.
The system uses encoders, magnetometers and GPS information to calculate the pointing
with high precision. Four different operation modes are available. Mounted camera
provides a 10X optical zoom and an horizontal resolution of 530 TV Lines.
Based on the same FPGA technology as U-Pilot flight control system, U-Camera is capable
of precise pointing even when mounted on vehicles with high dynamics. As its twin system
U-Pilot, U-Camera is built using a two parallel microprocessor approach:
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One microprocessor takes care of the state estimation, pointing and control of the
gimbal, using hardware acceleration to calculate high speed algorithms.
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Another processor handles secondary tasks as managing the camera modules or
the communication with the UAV platform.
Due to the fact that those two processors are working in parallel and there is dedicated
electronics taking care of all the serial ports, sensors, inputs and outputs, the system is
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of recalculating the gimbal position and control faster than any other system,
providing an excellent video stabilization and pointing.
Using a standard RS-232 communication interface, U-Camera can be easily integrated with
a wide range of systems available on the market.
1.1 1.1 U-Camera Elements U-Camera Elements
A U-Camera system is composed by the following elements:
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U-Camera Board : is the electronic board that computes the gimbal position and
points and stabilizes it.
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U-Camera Gimbal : the proper gimbal, contains the video module, motors and
sensors.
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U-Camera Harness : connects U-Camera Board and U-Camera Gimbal and provides
the required connections such as power supply, command interface or video output.
Optionally, U-Camera system can include the following extra elements:
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GPS Antenna : if the embedded GPS chip is to be used, an external GPS antenna
must be connected. Otherwise, GPS velocities can be externally provided.
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Video transmitter : in order to send the video feed from the vehicle to the ground
station, a video transmitter and receiver is required.
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