Abstract for group Hera

Our project team will be working with a Mechanical Engineering senior design
group to incorporate a 360* surveillance camera onto a remote operated
robot.  The embedded systems aspect of the project is the integration of a
360* camera onto an FPGA board.  The video stream captured by the camera
will be transmitted to the board using an off the shelf transmitter/receiver
kit.  The goal of the project is to be able to display a view extracted from
the 360* scene onto a monitor.

There are numerous challenges that must be overcome to successfully complete
this project.  The first challenge is to handle the raw data transmitted
from the camera itself.  Depending on the memory capabilities of the board,
we will store the images line by line or frame by frame.  The next challenge
will be the image manipulation required to unwarp the 360* image from
memory.  This unwarping will be accomplished using a standard algorithm
implemented in the hardware itself.  The final challenge will be to display
an unwarped image scene onto a monitor and to control this view using a
keyboard or joystick.