See Through Armor

The strategic environment in which armoured vehicles operate is ever changing and the future combat vehicle must be equipped with smart systems that award it continuous awareness of its surroundings, all-terrain agility, and high mobility irrespective of light and weather conditions.

Tonbo’s panoramic See Through Armour (STAR) solution significantly improves the armoured combat vehicle’s all-round survivability, eliminating the crew’s need to look out of the hatch for situational awareness and enhances its capability to respond first and rapidly inflict damage.

The See Through Armour solution comprises of two sub-systems – The Wolfpack sensor system, mounted on the tank and the head mounted display, worn by the crew.

Wolfpack – Wolfpack is a multi-aperture, multi-spectral, real-time panoramic imaging system comprising of multiple camera heads interconnected to display a single seamless panoramic video feed. Each camera head consists of six imaging sensors – three day and uncooled thermal cameras each, with field of view of up to 120 degrees.

The compact setup of STAR (recommended) consists of 3 camera heads, i.e. 18 camera sensors to ensure no surrounding information slips by. Paired with pixel level fusion of thermal and day camera feed, it bolsters the system’s capability and improves Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) accuracy; allowing the system to operate in all weather and lighting condition.

HMD – The head mounted display (HMD) is a high-definition, mixed-reality eyepiece mounted on a heads-up display. It displays images of the tank’s surroundings in a holographic form as if superimposed to the insides of the tank, thereby enabling the ‘see-through armour’ capability.

It improves the crew’s spatial awareness by integrating a magnetic tracker that senses the head movement of the wearer and displays video from the same direction. The HMD is also configured to display additional role specific information, for instance, the driver’s HMD can interface with the GPS system to display location specific information for easier manoeuvring and situational assessment.

The system has a built-in inertial sensor with 3-axis gyro, inclinometer and compass that enables real-time horizon stabilization and ensure the video streams horizon corrected feed, irrespective of the vehicle’s orientation.  The built-in AI algorithms help auto-detect and track multiple targets until the crew commander sets priority.

The system can be retrofitted on most vehicle platforms and it can seamlessly integrate with sensors like radars and other onboard electro-optical systems.

CAPABILITIES

• Distributed Networked Scalable Architecture
• nVidia Inside
• Wide All around 360deg Realtime Day / Night Imaging
• Sensors
• Many High Resolution 640×480 LWIR
• Many 1/3” 2MP Low Lux CMOS
• IMU for Navigation & Orientation
• Realtime Digital sensor fusion
• Integrated with Hololens with head tracking
• Target Recognition using AI
• Threat Analysis
• Counter UAV
• Sentry Mode
• CoT and ATAK Ready