High Power Laser Tracking and Targeting System

The digital image processing domain has a great importance due to the number of applications, having a direct influence on certain automated processes. The development of certain targeting systems using image acquisition and processing represents a trend of evolution regarding to the previous industrial processes involving continuous manual operation. Hence, the work presented here involves the development of a targeting system using a high power laser. It also uses a webcam, two servomotors to guide the high power laser on its target, one microcontroller to send the command signals towards the servomotors and a computer used to process the output video sequence. The entire system is able to run continuously by using a temperature regulator in order to keep the temperature of the laser diode constant.