iKAPP: an intelligent kite aerial photography platform

该项目旨在开发一种利用风筝升降平台进行航拍数码照片的智能平台。这个智能风筝航拍平台(IKAPP)将使用一台机载计算机和两个不同分辨率(细节级别)的相机。平台将悬挂在风筝下方的风筝线上，并将有一个稳定系统来控制更高分辨率的相机指向的方向。这种稳定将由轻型固态陀螺仪控制，并通过使用两个摄像头的视图来决定平台如何移动，以及如何补偿移动。这很困难，因为平台必须足够轻，可以被风筝抬起，并且有一台足够快的计算机，能够以比平台移动更快的速度处理图像。完成iKAPP及其软件将在风筝下进行测试，当它工作正常时，它将被用于勘测考古遗址(可能是铁器时代的山堡)。IKAPP捕获的图像将与使用常规航空摄影技术(使用飞机)获得的图像进行比较。如果iKAPP工作正常，它将用于许多不同的测量任务，包括环境调查、考古调查、作物监测和其他勘察活动。

This project aims to develop an intelligent platform for taking aerial digital photographs using a kite to lift the platform. Thisintelligent kite aerial photography platform (iKAPP) will use an onboard computer and two cameras with different resolutions (levels of detail). The platform will hang from the kite line below the kite and will have a stabilization system to control the direction that thehigher resolution camera points in. This stabilization will be controlled both by lightweight solid-state gyroscopes and by using the views of the two cameras to decide how the platform is moving, and how to compensate for the movement. This is difficult because the platform must be light enough to be lifted by the kite as well as have a fast enough computer to be able to process the images faster than the platform moves.The completes iKAPP and its software will be test flown beneath a kite and when it works properly it will be used to survey an archaeological site (probably an iron age hillfort). The images that the iKAPP captures will then be compared with images obtained using normal aerial photography techniques (using an aeroplane).If the iKAPP works properly it will be useful for lots of different surveying tasks including environmental surveys, archaeological surveys, crop monitoring and other recconaissance activities.