New Product! To meet customer demands, today’s production and logistics environments are becoming increasingly automated. Whether it’s robots or machines, the various tools used must be faster and more flexible to maintain high efficiency. This requires them to be able to “see” more information. Two dimensions are no longer enough. They must perceive their surroundings in three dimensions, just like humans.
ifm’s revolutionary O3D smart sensor, aimed at the industrial automation sector, enables automated machines to perceive their surroundings in three dimensions, just like humans.
Innovative pmd imager
ifm’s patented pmd time-of-flight imager provides a 176 x 132 pixel array that can quickly and accurately measure the distance of 23,232 points within the field of view. The distance to each pixel is calculated by comparing the phase shift of the emitted and reflected infrared light. All measurements are captured synchronously and immediately processed into a fully calibrated 3D point cloud, which can be sent to a PC or controller via Ethernet. The technology also includes a patented background suppression illumination technique, making it immune to changing lighting conditions in the application environment.
Add a third-dimension application assistant!
The O3D smart sensor can act as an application assistant, providing a third-dimension field of vision for packaging and material handling machines. The smart sensor comes with 6 onboard pre-built applications: target object quantity completeness check; case dimensioning; 3D space material level detection; volume usage rate detection; robot-automated depalletizing guidance and robot-automated target object pick-up guidance. The possible applications are limitless. With its excellent price-performance ratio, ifm’s O3D sensor can be used in most areas within a factory.