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Automated Aerial Refueling Computer Vision Installation

My mechanical installation solution for an array of cameras that was mounted external to the aircraft. The system was used to collect training data for a convolutional neural network that will conduct automated aerial refueling of military aircraft.

This project began its life as a request from a Ph.D. researcher at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He was researching the use of convolutional neural networks in autonomous aerial refueling. The requirements requested were a pair of visual  and a pair of infrared cameras to be mounted underneath a C-12C aircraft pointing aft, oriented 25 degrees down from horizontal. 

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