LiDAR sensors unlock highly accurate data-enabling detailed three-dimensional mapping and model building with remarkable precision.
But understanding the technology for drones is not as easy, and it's essential to cover the main elements and their various applications.
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Terabee recently released a game-changing thermal camera called the Evo Thermal 90.
This unit is technically an IR camera with a 32x32 resolution. So you’re not going to get high-quality images, but instead, it allows you to have a powerful, programmable camera that can serve as a sensor to monitor temperatures.
The table below shows some of the basic features and prices of the Hokuyo units tested and compared in this article. They are, the UTM-30LX-EW, the UST-10LX, and the URG-04LX-UG01.
From low to high-complexity applications, robots depend on robotic sensors for efficiency, safety, and performance.
How can you automate your warehouses? Learn about two of the best sensors for factory automation and automated guided vehicles (AGV), Hokuyo and Yujin.
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.
Let's address the elephant in the room. Are robots going to steal human jobs? No. In fact, many manufacturing and warehouse managers are "employing" robots to improve human employee retention.
From low to high-complexity applications, robots depend on robotic sensors for efficiency, safety, and performance.
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 see more of the world around them. Beyond simply seeing the world, we have pushed to add precision to our sight by making systems to measure distances and ranges to the objects around us.
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: