Foxtech Seeker-30 AI-TIR User manual

Seeker-30 AI-TIR 50mm Thermal Sensor EO/
IR AI Recognition & Tracking Gimbal Camera
User Manual

Disclaimer and Warning
Congratulations on purchasing your new product. Please read this entire
document carefully. Failure to read or follow instructions and warnings in this
document may result in damage to your product. Disassemble the gimbal camera
by user is not permitted, as which may cause the camera does not work
normally.
We accepts no liability for damage, injury or any legal responsibility incurred
directly or indirectly from the use of this project. The user shall observe safe and
lawful practices including, but no limited to, those set forth in the manual.
Legends
Important NoteWarning
Precautions
1. Please keep the camera in a dry environment to avoid fogging of the lens due to
excessive humidity. If the lens is foggy, turn it on for a while and wait for the fog to
dissipate.
2. The camera uses an infrared thermal imaging lens, please do not aim it at strong
energy sources, such as the sun, laser beams, lava, etc. The temperature of the
object observed by the lens must be less than 800°C, otherwise the camera will be
burned and irreversible damage will be caused.
3. When cleaning the camera lens, be sure to use a soft and dry cleaning cloth to wipe
the lens surface.
4. Do not touch the coating on the surface of the infrared lens directly with your hands
or with hard objects, otherwise the coating will be damaged and the image will be
blurred.
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1.1 Introduction
1. Product Introduction
5. Do not plug or unplug the TF card when power on; after plugging and unplugging
the TF card, please make sure that the TF rubber plug is tightly covered to prevent the
power-on self-check from failing.
6. Please ensure that there isn’t any obstacle while the motor rotating.
7. The pin insertion interface of control box cannot be connected with power supply in
case the control board will be burned.
Seeker-30 AI-TIR is a 3-axis triple-sensor AI gimbal camera for long range
inspection and surveillance. It’s powered by 30x optical zoom SONY RGB camera,
50mm 640*512 12 μm IR thermal sensor.
Seeker-30 AI-TIR integrates powerful AI function, supports car and human auto
detection and stable tracking. The simultaneous detection quantity of objects is
more than 10. The RGB camera will perform auto-zoom to the ideal focal length for
stable tracking while tracking a moving target continuously.
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A. Standard Version
Gimbal Camera
X 1 pc
USB to TTL Cable
x1pc
TTL / S.BUS Control
Cable x 1 pc
TTL Connect Cable
x 3 pcs
USB to TTL Cable
x1pc
PWM Control Cable
x 1 pc
Power Cable
x 1 pc
M3 Screw
x 8 pcs
Gimbal Camera
B. Quich-detach Version
X 1 pc
Power Cable
x 1 pc
M3 Screw
x 8 pcs
Copper Cylinder
x 4 pcs
Copper Cylinder
x 4 pcs
Ethernet Cable x 1 pc
1.2 In the Box
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2.1 Overview
2.Installation Instruction
Control Box Back Side
(Standard Version)
Control Box
(quick-detach
Version)
Quick-detach module
[13]
[12]
[14]
[11]
[11]
[12]
[13]
P W M P O WER
E T HERNET
U A R T
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[1]
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[2]
[3]
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Don’t put the infrared thermal camera towards the sun, magma,
laser, etc. in case any burn to the camera.
2.2 Control Box Printing (Standard Version)
PITCH
Yellow Jumper Cap
TX RX GND
YAW
MODE
ZOOM
FOCUS
PIC/REC
MULTI
USB
AV
5V output
GND
1 2 3
[1] Upper damping board
[2] Damping ball
[3] Lower damping board
[4] Roll axis motor
[5] TF card slot
[6] Pitch axis motor
[7] Control box
[8] Yaw axis motor
[9] FHD zoom camera
[10] Infrared thermal camera
[11] 3S-6S power interface
[12] Micro HDMI interface
[13] Ethernet interface
[14] Quick-detach unlock
button
Please ensure that there isn’t any obstacle while the motor rotating.
Please remove the obstacle immediately if gimbal camera is blocked
during rotation.
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The input voltage cannot be higher than 6S.
The pin insertion interface cannot be connected with power supply.
The yellow jumper cap cannot be removed
2.2.2 Control Box Printing (Quick-detach Version)
HDMI
RX-
GND 5V S.BUS TTX GND RXD TXD
RX+ TX- TX+
CVBS GND OUT MULTI FOCUS / PPM ZOOM MODE
YAW
PITCH
GND 3S~6S
PIC / REC
Front Side
Left Side
Right Side
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Unit: mm
2.3 Device Dimensions (Standard Version)
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2.3 Device Dimensions (Quick-detach Version)
Unit: mm
Control Box
46.2
56.2 51.2
P W M P O WER
E T HERNET
U A R T
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2.4 Install Mounting Part
(1) Find out the arrow on the gimbal which indicating the yaw heading of the payload
(i.e. the lens direction when the camera power on), and synchronize with the
direction specified by the UAV.
(2) Fix one end of the copper cylinder on the screw hole of lower damping board, and
use M3 screw to fasten it.
(3) According to the provided screw hole dimension you can make suitable mounting
holes on the UAV mounting board, and fixes the other end of the copper cylinder
on the mounting board of the UAV (quick-detach version is the same).
Front
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2.5 Quick-detach Release Instruction
×
1. Make sure the two white stripes indicated in above picture are aligned with each
other. (If the stripes are not aligned to each other, please pinch the connector part
and turn it to left manually)
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2. Align the white dot (unlock icon) to the red triangle (below unlock button), push the
gimbal into the quick-detach module completely and then rotate the gimbal camera
anticlock-
wise.
3. When you hear "click" sound (when red dot is aligned to the red triangle) means the
gimbal camera and quick-detach module has been locked.
4. To unlock the quick-detach module, you need to press on unlock button and rotate the
gimbal
camera clockwise till the white dot align to the red triangle. Then pull the gimbal out
from the quick-detach module.
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TF (Micro SD card):
2.6 Install TF Card
2.7 Image Output Interface
Install the TF card to the card slot (Re. 2.1 Overview). Support max 128GB. Request
Class 10 (10m/s) transmission speed or higher and FAT32 or exFAT format.
HDMI: Micro HDMI output, HD 1080P 60/30fps, 1080P 60fps as default. (Optional)
Ethernet: Ethernet/IP output interface, support RTSP/RTMP/UDP/ONVIF video
streaming. Default: RTSP output, IP address: RTSP: //192.168.2.119:554, output
resolution: 720P, frame rate: 30fps, bit rate: 2M. (Optional)
AV: no AV output
Make sure device is power off when inserting the TF card, hot
plugging is not supported.
When using user interface software Viewlink for network connection,
the network of external device (computer) should be the IP address:
192.168.2.2 (choose the last byte among 2~254, can not be 119 same
as the gimbal), subnet mask: 255.255.255.0, Default gateway:
192.168.2.1, and all firewalls of the computer must be closed. Then
enter the IP address of the gimbal camera, Open Video, the video
stream can be outputted.
Above output mode is optional. Please subject to your actual product.
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3.1.1 PWM Connection Diagram (Connect pitch channel as an example)
3.1 PWM Control
Remote Controller Connection Diagram
(Standard Version)
Receiver
Connection Diagram
(Quick-detach Version)
Remote Controller Receiver
Control the gimbal camera functions by the multiplex pulse width modulation signal
outputted by PWM channel of the remote control receiver. The camera needs up to 6
control channels of PWM (to expand tracking function use up to 7 PWM channels). You
can choose needed functions according to actual usage to reduce the required
number of PWM channels.
MUL
TI
PIC/REC
FOCUS
ZOOM
MODE
Y
AW
PITCH
PWM IN
GND
5V OUTPUT
3. Signal Control
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Position 1
3.1.2 PWM Control Operation Instruction
1) Pitch (PWM Pitch channel in to control Pitch. Joystick, rotary knob or 3-gear switch
on remote control are optional. 3-gear switch as example.)
2) Yaw (PWM Yaw channel in to control Yaw. Joystick, rotary knob or 3-gear switch on
remote control are optional. 3-gear switch as example.)
3) Mode (PWM Mode channel in to adjust speed control/one key to Home position etc
functions. Rotary knob or 3-gear switch on remote control are optional. 3-gear switch
as example.)
Low Gear
Pitch Up
Position 2
Middle Gear
Pitch Stop
Position 3
High Gear
Pitch Down
Position 1
Low Gear
Yaw Left
Position 2
Middle Gear
Yaw Stop
Position 3
High Gear
Yaw Ri ght
Position 1
Low Gear
Position 2
Middle Gear
Position 3
High Gear
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Position 1: Low speed mode, control pitch / yaw with this mode at lowest speed
Position 2: Middle speed mode, control pitch / yaw with this mode at middle speed
Position 3: High speed mode, control pitch / yaw with this mode at highest speed
(If it is controlled by rotary knob, the speed will change according to switch position)
4) Zoom (PWM Zoom channel in to control Zoom. Joystick, rotary knob or 3-gear
switch on remote control are optional. 3-gear switch as example.)
Function of continuous switching:
Position 1
Low Gear
Zoom Out
Position 2
Middle Gear
Stop Zoom
Position 3
High Gear
Zoom In
1) Operate 1 time continuously and quickly, from position 2 - 3, to Home position.
2) Operate 2 times continuously and quickly, from position 2 - 3 - 2 - 3, the camera lens
looks vertically down.
3) Operate 3 times continuously and quickly, from position 2 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3, to disable
Follow Yaw Mode (gimbal yaw not follows by frame)
4) Operate 4 times continuously and quickly, from position 2 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3, to
enable Follow Yaw Mode (gimbal yaw follows by frame)
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5) Focus (PWM Focus channel is to control PIP, IR color palette switch, 3-gear switch
as example.)
Switch from Position 2 to 1: Picture in Picture. EO+IR , IR+EO, EO only, IR only.
Switch from Position 2 to 3: IR color switching: white hot, black hot, pseudo color
Low Gear
PIP switch
Position 1
Middle
Gear
Position 2
High Gear
IR color palette switch
Position 3
Switch from Position 2 to 1: Take a picture
OSD display “ IMG PHOTOING ” a second.
Switch from Position 2 to 3: Start record / repeat operation to stop record
Start record, the OSD display rec hh:mm:ss.
Stop record, the OSD display STBY.
6) Pic/Rec (PWM Pic/Rec channel in to control take picture and record. Joystick,
rotary knob or 3-gear switch on remote control are optional. 3-gear switch as
example.)
Position 1
Low Gear
Position 2
Middle Gear
Position 3
High Gear
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Switch from Position 2 to 1: (Reserved)
Switch from Position 2 to 3:
Exit the tracking, display the cross cursor. Adjust the cross cursor to lock
target object and start tracking
7) Multi: tracking control
Position 1
Low Gear
Position 2
Middle Gear
Position 3
High Gear
Switch from Position 3 to 2:
Cancel tracking
3.2 Serial Port / TTL Control
Control Box PC
USB to TTL Cable
RX GND TX
Connection Diagram Standard Version
TTL communication requirements: TTL signal is 3.3V, baud rate: 115200, data bit 8,
stop bit 1, no parity, HEX send and receive.
Connection Diagram (PC - USB to TTL Cable- Gimbal Camera as example):
Gimbal Camera Cable
RX (White)
TX
RX
GND
TX (Green)
GND (Black)
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Control Box PC
USB to TTL Cable
5V
GND
S.BUS
TTX
RXD
GND
TXD
RX-
RX+
TX+
TX-
Connection Diagram Quick-detach Version
The default baud rate of serial port is 115200, which can be changed
according to the docking equipment.
Connect serial port of gimbal to pins, DO NOT connect with power
supply.
Connect the camera to the upper computer by USB to TTL cable (Adopt connection
method of TX to RX, RX to TX, GNG to GND at Dupont ends of the provided USB to
TTL cable, connect to the specified TTL of the gimbal, and the USB end of the cable
connect to computer).
Install Viewlink control software to test the functions directly. Users may choose to
develop their own software, please contact technical support for TTL control protocol
file.
Diagram of USB to TTL Cable:
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Remote Control Receiver
GND
5V
S.BUS
TTX
RXD
GND
TXD
Wiring Diagram
Quick-detach
Version
Remote Control Receiver
Wiring Diagram
Standard Version
S.BUS
5V OUTPUT
GND
3.3 S.BUS Control
Control the gimbal camera functions by one combining signals. Connect the external
S.Bus to S.Bus port on the control box, and the external S.bus signal GND connect to
the GND interface of the control box.
Wiring Diagram (Take Futaba remote control for example):
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