Preamble on 3D options
If you aren’t yet doing 3D imaging – but wonder if you should consider it – consider our TechBrief: Which Type of 3D imaging is best for my application? 3D machine vision provides contactless measurement. Learn the key approaches and their capabilities, constraints, and comparative costs.
Types of 3D imagining covered in the TechBrief linked above include:
- Triangulation
- Structured light
- Time of Flight (ToF), and
- Stereo vision
Since triangulation is fast, accurate, and affordable – for a wide range of applications to which it’s ideally suited, let’s presume for the rest of this blog you are pursuing that approach.
AT Sensor families
AT Sensors 3D laser profilers feature cutting-edge 3D laser sensors with high-speed and high-precision resolution with IP54 or IP67 protection for industrial environments. AT Sensors’s 3D laser profilers are factory calibrated with profile speeds up to 200 kHz, and profile resolutions up to 4096 points/profile. All AT Sensors 3D sensors laser profilers support the latest GigE Vision/GenICam 3D standard.
The AT Sensors’ series of 3D sensors include high performance CS 3D sensors, modular MCS 3D sensors, high precision XCS 3D sensors, and ECS 3D sensors with an excellent price-performance ratio. These innovative 3D sensors are suitable for numerous industries such as, inspection, automotive, infrastructure, and food and beverage.
How to choose?
If you’d like a very high level overview of the 4 AT Sensors 3D product families, consider:
*Internal values. The actual usable profile speed may be limited by the 1 Gbit/s interface.
Field of View and Flexible configuration options:
IP protection class and suggested applications
How to choose? (in summary)
As you can see above, or by chasing the product detail pages, AT Sensors has a wide offering of 3D laser triangulation scanners, each of which builds a point cloud model of your targets. With four product families, and member breakouts within the families, there’s likely a model that meets your need for speed, resolution, IP class, and configurability.
At the risk of oversimplifying the AT Sensors 3D families:
ECS Series: Economical – fewer features but if it does the job low cost sounds nice
CS Series: Standard workhorse – high performance with several models available
XCS Series: High precision – think eXtra with the X – optional dual head sensors
MCS Series: Modular – also high performance but custom configurable too
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