Remote operated selective target treatment system

#This application claims priority to French Patent Application No. 1459011 filed Sep. 24, 2014, the entire disclosure of which is hereby explicitly incorporated by reference herein.

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present invention refers to a remote operated target processing system comprising a firing robot having a weapon and an optoelectronic sighting device producing an image of the target, a control device for directing the sighting device and controlling the weapon and a central processing unit managing the operation of the optoelectronic sighing device and the weapon.

#The above mentioned and other features and objects of this invention, and the manner of attaining them, will become more apparent and the invention itself will be better understood by reference to the following description of embodiments of the invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

#FIG. 1 is an overall diagram of the system according to the invention;

#FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the image preparation part of the invention system;

#Corresponding reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. Although the exemplifications set out herein illustrate embodiments of the invention, the embodiments disclosed below are not intended to be exhaustive or to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention to the precise forms disclosed.

#FIG. 1 shows a remote operated target processing system including a firing robot 1 with an optoelectronic sighting device 11 referred to in the following as the sighting device 11, and a weapon 12. Firing robot 1 is connected preferably by an aerial link (wireless link) such as an infrared link or a radio link to a central processing unit 2 itself connected to a display screen 3 and a control device 4 such as a keyboard and a mouse or a joystick or more generally an operating device. The target (the individual) to be neutralised M, situated in the environment F is stationary, that is immobile or almost immobile, or it is moving. The neutralisation of the target M consists in firing at the non-lethal part of the target M immediately after locating the target and/or after following it in order to neutralise it at the right time.

#Firing robot 1 is a fixed or mobile robot. Its equipment comprises means of movement and actuators, not described in detail, comprising a sighting device 11 controlled directly by the operator using the control device 4 through central processing unit 2 or automatically by central processing unit 2 in the event of the automatic tracking of target M.