———-Sound Analyst Targeting System————

At Texas Tech my first electrical engineering project lab was to use an FPGA programmed in Verilog to control a track mounted robotic system for locating audible targets, in the 1-2.5 kHz range, and then targeting them with mechanical projectiles. My team used multiple sensors including a microphone, an ultrasonic sensor, and infrared sensors to create a system capable of identifying and locating specific audible frequencies and targeting them. A brief technical objective for the project is below: 

• Autonomous FPGA controlled track driven vehicle, designed to locate and target either a 1 kHz or a 2.5 kHz sound beacon and deploy multiple projectiles to hit the target sound source.

The SATS (Sound Analyst Targeting System) on a mostly empty chassis:

For analyzing audible signals we implemented filters for signals from the microphone. We used a double band-pass filter designed to pass 1 kHz to 2.5 kHz….

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