Learn About Sensors
Warehouse Automation and Sensors
Post date: 2 years 8 months ago
Warehouse Automation and Sensors
How can you automate your warehouses? Should you automate your manufacturing? This article is an extension of our Hokuyo and Yujin post, and goes into more depth about warehouse automation.
Why Automate Warehouses?
Let's address the elephant in the room. Are...
Sensors for Robotics - 5 Common Types
Post date: 2 years 10 months ago
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types of sensors FOR robotics
From low to high-complexity applications, robots depend on robotic sensors for efficiency, safety, and performance.
Table of Contents
What is a robotic sensor?
Why do robots use sensors?
How does a robot sensor work?
What types of sensors are used...
The History of LIDAR
Post date: 4 years 10 months ago
UNDERSTANDING LIDAR
Humans are arguably the most dominant creatures on Earth in no small part due to our amazing senses. In particular, sight and our visual perception ability are key to our understanding of the world around us. And for centuries, humans have been inventing tools to help them...
Selecting a Sensor Technology
Post date: 7 years 2 months ago
How to Choose the Right Sensor Technology
Advances in LiDAR and sensor technology are driving size and cost of sensors down rapidly, while improving performance dramatically.
The Acroname team has put together this short guide to help make some sense of the technologies available today:
Laser...
LightWare LW20 LiDAR - half the size, twice the performance, infinitely better.
Post date: 8 years 1 month ago
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Resetting IP Address of Hokuyo UST-10LX and UST-20LX Sensors
Post date: 8 years 4 months ago
Hokuyo Factory Reset Procedure
A few customers have mentioned that, when trying to reset the Hokuyo UST-10LX or UST-20LX sensors to the factory default IP address, the reset procedure found in the product specification may not reset the IP address properly.
Per the UST-20LX Product Specification...
LightWare Product Comparison Chart
Post date: 8 years 10 months ago
Below is a handy chart comparing the LightWare sensors that Acroname stocks.
If you are interested in a model not listed here, just let us know - we can order anything in the LightWare catalog for you.
Model
Application
Range (m)
Update rate (per second)
Outputs
Weight...
