A Novel Intelligence-Based Pan-Tilt Platform System for Measuring the Trajectories of Parachute

We design a pan-tilt platform system for measuring the trajectories of multiple targets automatically, aiming at obtaining the trajectories of multi-targets in the airdrop test, such as the trajectories of the airplane, the pilot chute and the main chute. We also design a multi-targets switch tracking algorithm, or MTST, which based on YOLO and SiamRPN++ tracking algorithm for this pan-tilt platform system. Unlike the existing Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) that tracks several targets simultaneously, the proposed MTST tracks target one by one. As in an airdrop test, the airplane in the scene will be tracked first, then the tracking target will be switched to pilot chute when it is ejected from the airplane. The main chute will be the tracking target when it is thrown from the pilot chute. A large number of experiments prove that the proposed MTST has high anti-jamming capability and high reliability.