Description

Karat develops and manufactures gyro – stabilized guided weapon homing heads (GHH). Gyro stabilized homing heads detect targets and provide precise guided weapon guidance at target using optical – electronic units. Gyro – stabilization significantly increases guidance accuracy and protects an optical unit against vibrations and shocks.

GHH Components

Guided weapon homing head includes the following components:
  • Gyro – Stabilized Suspension System
  • Optical unit (TV camera, thermal imaging cameras, laser target designation devices, etc.).
  • Video image analysis system

Gyro – stabilized suspension system functions: GHH

  • Change in angular position of optical – electronic units.
  • Optical – electronic unit position control in automatic target tracking mode.
  • Optical – electronic unit gyro – stabilization in inertial coordinate system with no control signals.
  • Determination and output of data to the guided weapon control system on angular position of sight axis relative to the base coordinate system.

Video Image Analysis System Functions

  • Automatic detection and acquisition of targets;
  • Automatic tracking of targets.

Image Processing

Karat incorporates a Centre for Image Processing in Special Purpose Systems. The Centre has a vast experience in processing of complex mathematical models, algorithms and software products implemented in the systems for analysis, processing, and correction of images obtained from various sources.

Software products created by the Centre work in various opto eletronic systems manufactured by Karat.

Technical Specifications

Algorithms and programs for automatic detection and recognition of objects by their images in different spectral bands,
based on:

1.Correlation methods;
2.Use of an aggregate of integral attributes of objects;
3.Neural network methods;
4.Linguistic methods;

  • Combination algorithms and programs for automatic detection and recognition of objects by their images in different spectral bands;
  • Methods, algorithms and programs for automatic tracking of objects of various type.
  • Methods, algorithms and programs for single image generation on the basis of video data from multi – channel observation systems in the visible and infrared spectral regions.

Methods, algorithms and programs for improvement of:

1.Image colour quality;
2.Global and local contrast of images;
3.Noticeability of camouflaged objects on images

  • Methods, algorithms and programs for image texture analysis.
  • Methods, algorithms and programs for detection and classification of artificial water turbulences on images.
  • Methods, algorithms and programs for identification of signatures and stamp prints on documents.