Keystone Functionality on Board ST Airborne and Unibap platforms

Important results from the project

The project aimed to demonstrate that ST Airborne Systems´s airborne sensor data acquisition system can be combined with Unibap´s on-board computers and Spacemetric´s image data processing system. On-board tests showed that the system can: - capture production system video streams - store data as video files with image geometries - process data in real time. The project has increased the competitiveness of Spacemetric and Unibap as suppliers to aerial surveillance system integrators, UAV manufacturers, and UAV systems operators, and strengthened the Swedish aviation industry.

Expected long term effects

The project showed that it is possible to combine ST Airborne Systems´s (ST´s) flight system for acquiring sensor data with Unibap´s on-board computers and Spacemetrics´ system for image data processing. The project showed that it is possible to, on board,: - capture video streams in a production system - store data as video files with image geometries - process data in real time. The project partners´ collaboration has led to new jont projects, e.g. the ongoing Innovair project "Bluestone on board", where the project partners develop a joint concept to be offered to ST´s customers.

Approach and implementation

After requirements work with a user scenario, methods and software were developed and adapted to the requirements and to ST´s on-board environment. Unibap developed and adapted SW components for the SpaceCloud OS operating system and the SpaceCloud Framework user interface. Spacemetric developed and adapted its image management SW Bluestone for the project. Unibap´s on-board computer was integrated with ST´s airborne system. Spacemetric´s software was adapted to ST´s video data and validated against Unibap´s hardware. Lastly, functional tests on board were executed.