PhillDubya
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Does anyone here, by any crazy chance have any experience with, or ever worked with missile guidance systems?
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Lol...Bweeeep! Bweeep! You better hide Phill, the FBI is coming for you! Slightly odd question to be asking, mainly because putting a guidance system on just about anything that flys is illegal in the US.
speakerguy79 said:There are a lot of defense contractors here in Texas, and lots of gov't research grants for places developing military equipment. I wouldn't be surprised if the OP is in something like that. I used to work at a place here in Texas that did fuel cells for UAV's for the Air Force.
I have done digital image processing (upper division course in college getting my BSEE), is there a particular thing you need help with?
When I was in college I did a term project involving terrain classification using hyperspectral images and neural networks. It was for a neural networks class and didn't have anything to do with DSP. It was for determining changes in wetlands and marshes and surrounding areas based solely on aerial hyperspectral images so you could monitor environmental changes on a large scale from the air.1. What would some different DSP techniques used when scanning terrain, or buildings?
Didn't mean to be a nag Phil =) DSP image processing is way out of my league though, that stuff is like black magic to me, I can't even wrap my head around half that stuff.
I do know that as far as terrain mapping goes stereo cameras are better. I don't know what the military uses, but I imagine they use some sophisticated edge detection algorithms first and seeing as how you're moving compare current points with previous points trying to filter out all the noise.
For things like small robots laser scanners are pretty popular the camera only needs to be senative to a single color of light and with a known line path you can calculate the distance of the perceived beam.
Papabravo said:I worked for Martin Marietta, in Orlando, just out of school in 1970 on the Pershing II. This was before the microprocessor and digital techniques so what I remember probably won't help much. I can tell you that working for a job shop is a great way to get hired full time.
Speakerguy said:When I was in college I did a term project involving terrain classification using hyperspectral images and neural networks. It was for a neural networks class and didn't have anything to do with DSP. It was for determining changes in wetlands and marshes and surrounding areas based solely on aerial hyperspectral images so you could monitor environmental changes on a large scale from the air.
The basic tool you want to understand is going to be the DFT of an image. Go find a hacked copy of Matlab with the image processing library and play around with it.
Raytheon is the big one, but there are several other ones. Dallas has a lot of that stuff, but aside from Raytheon I don't know who all is up there. Boeing is one I think. I'd just go to every website for every name I could think of and see if they have Tx locations. Lots of stuff will turn up for Dallas and Houston.
Your experience is not dissimilar to working for a nimble startup that burns through the VC's cash in 22 months, or the large company that is too ossified to realize that its markets are shifting, moving, and changing. In the words of William Wallace's Irish friend from the movie Braveheart, "We're all fooked!" Just got laid of last Thursday because the machine tool business is in the crapper and there "...are no new orders conin' in". So like all good contractors I need to find a new client while I concentrate on client #2.Government contract companies like Raytheon are not the best places to work for. I worked for a few like Allied Bendix. The work hours are long, the pay is low, and they are contract based so many layoffs at the end of the contract. Many times the companies spend very little on equipment so very little to go around amongst the design group, so sharing and waiting are common. My experience may be isolated but I suspect not.