A Time-Division Position-Sensitive Detector Image System for High-Speed Multitarget Trajectory Tracking

High-speed trajectory tracking with real-time processing capability is particularly important in the fields of pilotless automobiles, guidance systems, robotics, and filmmaking. The conventional optical approach to high-speed trajectory tracking involves charge coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors, which suffer from trade-offs between resolution and framerates, complexity of the system, and enormous data-analysis processes. Here, a high-speed trajectory tracking system is designed by using a time-division position-sensitive detector (TD-PSD) based on a graphene-silicon Schottky heterojunction. Benefiting from the high-speed optoelectronic response and sub-micrometer positional accuracy of the TD-PSD, multitarget real-time trajectory tracking is realized, with a maximum image output framerate of up to 62 000 frames per second. Moreover, multichannel trajectory tracking and image-distortion correction functionalities are realized by TD-PSD systems through frequencyrelated image preprocessing, which significantly improves the capacity of real-time information processing and image quality in complicated light environments.

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This paper presents a high-speed trajectory tracking system based on TD-PSD, which achieves multitarget real-time trajectory tracking using its high-speed optoelectronic response and sub-micrometer positional accuracy. The system also includes functionalities for multichannel trajectory tracking and image-distortion correction through frequency-related image preprocessing.