Tuesday, January 21, 2014

New eyes for robots – Fraunhofer IPMS presents camera system at Photonics West 2014

New eyes for robots – Fraunhofer IPMS presents camera system at Photonics West 2014
Dresden, Jan 20, 2014
 
For three-and-a-half years, five research institutions and two industrial companies have been working with in the scope of the European joint research project »TACO« on the development of a new kind of 3D-camera system that should allow robots to perform more demanding tasks. The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden hereby contributed a novel MEMS scan technology as a key hardware component. This allows »relevant« objects in the surroundings to be detected with a higher resolution, similar to human vision , without having to increase the volume of data. At the Photonics West in San Francisco from the fourth to the sixth of February 2014, the Fraunhofer IPMS will be presenting the complete camera system for the first time as a fully-functional prototype to a broad professional public.
 

 
Optical scan head of a 3D TOF camera with integrated MEMS scanning mirror array.

More information on the TACO Project you can find in the IPMS Press Release.

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