Self-Tartgeting Automated Turret System (STATS) is a joint effort project comprised of two electrical engineering students and two computer engineering students who integrated computer programming and electronic hardware skills in order to create a working self-targeting autonomous turret system. STATS is a lightweight, mobile and self-contained turret that can be placed in a large room or outdoors to be used for defending an area from potential intruders without the need of a human for controller purposes. Using the Processing IDE open source libraries, the tracking method used by the turret is processed and implemented to quickly identify and fire upon all moving objects in the field of view.

The engineers of the STATS system would like to thank Boeing for their financial assistance which greatly helped in the funding for this project. Without their support, this project would not have reached its final potential.  Also the group would like to thank Dr. Samuel Richie for his motivation and guidance during the course of this class.