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Development of a Digital Mortar Aiming System

In this thesis, the plausibility of developing a portable light-weight artillery computer has been investigated. The main goal of the project has been to replace the traditional methods that the Swedish Armed Forces are using today to find firing solutions for their mortar, the GRK m/84. A computational core has been written in Java that simulates the trajectory of a shell using the model in NATO's STANAG 4355. The developed system finds firing solutions by using shooting methods and the multi-dimensional Newton Raphson's method. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) tailored to mobile computers has been designed in Android. The computational core along with the GUI has been installed on a rugged hand held computer and the whole unit has been tested at Markstridsskolan (MSS). The tests showed that the computational core delivers firing solutions that coincide very well with the actual firing solutions needed to hit the desired target.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-263182
Date January 2015
CreatorsWåglund, Oskar
PublisherUppsala universitet, Avdelningen för beräkningsvetenskap
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationUPTEC F, 1401-5757 ; 15061

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